Chapter 445: The Two Kings (Part II)
Wang Ju continues to be neutral, but Zhang Ruoshui will be wrong, who wants to commit suicide slowly? In addition, Zhao Ji sent him down to inspect, which is about the general trend, and the emperor also changed his original mind. Besides, under the auspices of Wang Ju, the reform of the Ordnance Supervisor, the promotion of new carbide steel, hydrostatic cold forging, tiger cannons, and large fire thistle terrestris balls, as well as the divine arm bow, as well as various new knives and guns being developed, it seems that the Ordnance Supervisor is about to appear The strongest cold weapon in history, this is a great achievement.
With this thought, Zhang Ruoshui hurriedly went down to take a look, came back to report, and said that it was good.
It is true that the Qingmiao Law has produced some drawbacks, but to reform, there are always some bad ones, but the good side outweighs the bad side, why do they make trouble, the main thing is to lend money to first-class households, which is actually equivalent to taxing them in disguise, these people have power, so there are so many people who make trouble. This is like the original time when Liu E, Lü Yijian presided over the reform of tea administration, and even Song Renzong's teacher, the Great Confucian Sun Zheng, was in this opposition ranks.
But later it turned out that Lu Yijian was right.
Lu Yijian is a conservative, right, he has skills, no matter the power or family background, how many people can be opposed?
But it is a disguised tax increase, and a geometric tax?
This is Zhang Ruoshui's report.
In fact, Wang Ju has also said a lot about this interest before.
However, Zhang Lan's report may not be true, which involves another issue in the Song Dynasty, that is, the rights of eunuchs.
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On the surface, the ministers needed some eunuchs who were attached or befriended to provide information about the inner palace. Not only Wang Anshi, but also Wen Yanbo, including Wang Ju. However, the status of eunuchs in the Song Dynasty was relatively low. Only in the history books. You can see at least a hundred top eunuchs falling on the prime ministers or ministers of the two provinces. Forced to exile to Luoyang or other places to "retire", so the eunuchs in the Song Dynasty palace can provide information for some ministers, but they also need some ministers to protect them, this relationship is a relationship between the ministers and the eunuchs. Even if it was Tong Guan, he couldn't be above Cai Jing.
Usually, they don't necessarily need to stand in line, but when it's time to choose, for example, Zhao Ji asked Lan Zhang and the others to go down to take a look. They have to stand in line, so it doesn't matter how the Seedlings Method is, what matters is whether the chosen object can gain the upper hand.
It seems that Wang Anshi is going to have the upper hand, so this report is completely biased towards Wang Anshi, and even its reference value is not as good as Li Ding's report.
Zhao Ji didn't think so much, after all, he was only in his twenties, so where did he think so much.
Lan Zhang and the others are the great eunuchs in the palace, and the information they report should be reliable.
So he immediately sent an edict to Wang Anshi to look at the government.
Wang Anshi received the edict and couldn't handle it anymore. Immediate governance.
Well, the hard work of Wen Yanbo, Han Qi, Sima Guang and others was all in vain.
Han Qi received the news. Taken aback, he hurriedly went to the book, and he didn't hear the Qingmiao Law, so he asked for the relief of Hebei, and he played the middle book, and there were Zeng Gongliang and Chen Shengzhi on the official position Wang Anshi. However, although Zeng Gongliang has scheming, he is not a reformer, not a conservative, nor a neutral faction, but a fuzzy faction. Chen Shengzhi is even more duplicitous and opportunistic. Wang Anshi came back, and the two of them stopped eating. The person in charge has become Wang Anshi again.
Wang Anshi won't buy Han Qi's account, if you want to return this Hebei envoy, then return it.
Sima Guang was in a hurry this time, so he wrote two long letters to Wang Anshi in a row. The first letter was when Wang Anshi asked to go to Luoyang, the tone of the letter was very sarcastic, and when it came to the second letter, Sima Guang saw that the general trend had gone, and his tone immediately became gentle, so the opening chapter was: Sima Guang, a bachelor and bachelor of Hanlin and a bachelor of waiting, and Sima Guang, the right counselor, was afraid to visit Jiefu again to participate in the political consultation (An Shi used the left counselor to participate in the governor's affairs) Your Excellency: The light residence is always fine, and he does not dare to get involved in the gate of the two mansions, so he has not been able to be known to the general for a long time. The spring is warm, Fu Wei has a lot of time, and he is blessed!
Sima Guang's attitude was gentle, and Wang Anshi also took a step back, but in fact, with the persecution of Han Qi and others, Wang Anshi soon made another step back, canceling the Three Divisions Regulation Division, and placing the function of the Three Divisions Regulation Division in the Zhongshu Regulation Division.
Then Wang Anshi wrote a letter, which is not like some people slandered, Wang Anshi disdained Sima Guang's three letters, this letter is "Answer to Sima Guang's Advice", in this letter Wang Anshi refuted Sima Guang's criticism, denied Sima Guang's words of invasion of officials, troubles, profits, refusal to admonish, etc. Some of these accusations were written by Sima Guang in the first letter, but Sima Guang's tone was too bad in the first letter, so Wang Anshi did not reply.
Then he said that the two of them have been traveling for a long time, but the deliberations are not in agreement, which is the trick of the two people. Then Wang Anshi wisely admitted that once the reform was carried out, it would inevitably attract resentment, such as the Shang Dynasty's relocation of the capital to Pangeng, which was opposed not only by the ministers, but also by the common people. However, it later turned out that the relocation of the Shang Dynasty was a wise move, suggesting that Sima Guang was not right to be conservative, conformist, and reluctant.
After receiving the letter, Sima Guang could not refute it, so he also replied with a short admonition, saying that the country had been disturbed by the new policy.
If you change the law, there will always be turmoil, so Wang Anshi didn't reply again.
This is the truth of the confrontation between Sima Guang and Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing, Sima Guang actually had the upper hand in the two confrontations, but does it matter if he has the upper hand? There will be people who try to tamper with the truth.
Sima Guang saw that things could not be done, except for patting his thigh with regret, he was silent. Wen Yanbo had no choice but to go into battle shirtless, saying that the Qingmiao Law was harmful, Zhao Ji said, I have sent the second envoy to ask the people in person, and it is very convenient.
Wen Yanbo said, Han Qi and the prime ministers of the three dynasties don't believe it, but those who believe in the two eunuchs?
Zhao Ji said in his heart, Lao Tzu believes in Han Qi, it is better to believe in Su Dongpo! Of course, this time Wen Yanbo's small report was also fruitless.
Just when these conservatives were in a hurry, another incident happened.
Shi Jie's student and Ouyang Xiu's friend Jiang Qian served as Chen Liuzhi County.
The imperial court asked Jiang Qian to apportion Chen Liuxian's Qingmiao money, Ouyang Xiu's good friend, can he still support the change? However, although he has made high achievements in Confucianism, he has not obtained the Jinshi, so the official is humble and cannot refuse directly. So he adopted the method of yang and yin, deliberately hung the amount of green seedling money on the county gate, and then publicized the green seedling money with great fanfare. I'm doing a good job, let's support the Seedlings Method.
Actually, he just thundered and didn't rain. Only publicity. Come and take out a loan. And then there was nothing to be done.
Let's ask in this way, can the seedlings money still be issued?
Chenliu County is a big county in the capital, his trouble, the impact is not trivial, Wang Anshi sent someone to ask, Jiang Qian said, I am so powerful, what should I do if the people are unwilling to lend me. Did you ask me to forcibly apportion? After prevaricating a few times, Jiang Qian saw that his trick would definitely not work, and sooner or later he would be dismissed, so he simply called himself sick and abandoned the official and left, anyway, I have hundreds of acres of land at home, so I don't have to worry about my food and clothing.
As for the pros and cons of the green loan loans, it is true that there are many phenomena of forced apportionment, but its benefits are not to crack down on usury, nor to increase state revenue.
The advantage is that it was advanced by almost seven hundred years, and credit loans appeared. And Wang Anshi vaguely felt that this credit loan would stimulate economic growth.
Its failure was not that it was too advanced to the economy of the Song Dynasty. It's totally possible to launch this line of credit.
It's just that Wang Anshi's thinking can't keep up, so his measures are not perfect.
Even in Wang Ju's mind, he still faces many problems, and the biggest problem is the lack of currency. Therefore, it cannot be said how good Wang Anshi's Qingmiao method is, nor can it be said how noble Jiang Qian's behavior is.
However, Jiang Qian's trouble, the problem came, and the opposition was set off again.
Fan Zhen, who knew that he had entered the Yintai Division, brought a group of ministers to make trouble, and coerced him with his resignation, so let's resign.
Then to the imperial examination, Ye Zuqia wrote a sentence in the policy, the ancestors mostly followed the simple government, His Majesty Xià ascended the throne, and the revolution was new.
The chief examiner Lu Huiqing dialed him to be the first, and the deputy examiner Liu Chu disagreed, and then made trouble where Li Dalin and Su Dongpo were, and the three of them dialed Shangguan as the first, and the four examiners quarreled. Zhao Ji was helpless, so he sent Chen Shengzhi to read a few people to try the strategy, so he once again made Ye Zuqia the first.
Su Dongpo was not convinced, and Wang Anshi said angrily: "Although Shi is talented, what he has learned is not correct, and because he can't succeed, his words fall like this."
This offended Su Dongpo ruthlessly, and then there was Li Ding's case.
Li Ding's half-brother is the great monk Buddha Yin, this Buddha Yin is very talented, so there are many elegant things about him and Su Dongpo in later generations. But unlike the rumors of later generations, this Buddha seal was not made by Su Dongpo when he went to Hangzhou, and the Buddha seal itself is a flower monk, eating wine and drinking meat, being chic, and traveling around, so he met Su Dongpo very early.
But compared to his elder brother, Li Dingren is indeed meaner, so the brothers are very discordant.
Then Foyin said one thing to Su Dongpo, when their half-mother Qiu died, Li Ding was the lord of Jing County and did not keep filial piety.
This statement is not entirely true, nor is it completely wrong, Qiu's remarriage is because Li Ding's father's family is in a downturn, when Qiu died, Li Ding's father was still alive, and the little wife ran away with others, of course Li's father was not happy, so he wrote a letter to Li Ding to come back and mourn, that is, he did not wear filial piety clothes to mourn, but he also guarded for three years before Li Ding returned as an official.
Li Ding originally had no grudge against Su Dongpo, because he hated Wang Anshi, and when he heard that the Qingmiao Law had not been abolished, Wang Anshi took the throne again, and he had a lot of Li Ding's contributions, so he released this past. However, he was not a minister, so he began to reveal it to Yushi Chen, and Zhao Ji issued an edict to let the Jiangdong Huaizhejiang transfer envoy inquire why it became a three-way, and the Qiu family remarried three times, not in one place, so he had to let the three-way investigate.
The result of the investigation was that Li Ding had begged to be supported by his father because he was old, but he did not say that he would keep his mother's clothes, that is, he would mourn his heart.
Li Ding explained, my father did not tell me that I was born by the Qiu family, but my father is alive, how can I wear mourning clothes casually? As a result, when he arrived in the capital, Chen Shengzhi was noncommittal about Li Ding's filial piety and unfilial piety, and Zeng Gongliang thought that Li Ding would make up for the funeral.
It's not a big problem to make up for the funeral, it's a big deal to take a love, and it's only a hundred days.
But after making up for the funeral, Li Ding was completely accused of unfilial piety, and in ancient times, the hat was big. Wang Anshi immediately came forward, he said two things, the first thing Li Ding really didn't know, and the second thing was that in ancient times, when a woman remarried, she was no longer a family member.
Li Ding can keep filial piety for him, or he may not keep filial piety for him.
There is another basis for Wang Anshi not to say, with Li Ding's mother's personality, is she still like a mother? Why let Li Ding keep filial piety, after three years of mourning, he is already worthy of her.
Therefore, Chen Jian is vexatious and disgusting. However, the impeachment came out, and Wang Anshi originally appointed Li Ding as the supervisor of the imperial history, but he had no choice but to change it to Chongwen Hall to tell the story.
However, Yushi Lindan, Xue Changchao and Fan Yu were not convinced, and impeached again, Li Ding had no choice but to ask for dismissal, and then demoted, and changed it to the official affairs of the clerk's room in the middle of the Jixian School.
But Li Ding is strange, my mother is dead, and even I don't know, where did Chen Jian hear about it.
He didn't think of his elder brother, but after three or four months, Su Dongpo showed his feet, and Tianchang had a jinshi named Zhu Shouchang, whose mother was expelled from the house by his father two years after giving birth to Zhu Shouchang.
Zhu Shouchang didn't know the truth until later, and vowed not to be an official until he found his mother. It took decades to find his mother in Tongzhou, which also shows the mobility of the population in the Song Dynasty, and he was displaced from Anhui to Shaanxi. At this time, his mother was over 70 years old and gave birth to two sons, so Zhu Shouchang welcomed them back.
This was when the turmoil in the Li An case had not passed, so it was a trivial matter, a small official, but it was a sensation, first recommended by Qian Mingyi, and then Su Dongpo wrote poems and sang harmony.
Li Ding then shifted his attention to Su Dongpo, and then inquired about the relationship between Su Dongpo and his brother, and immediately understood.
That is, the two protagonists of the Wutai poetry case did not have the right place, and they both did villains.
Wang Ju originally knew nothing about this matter, but only then did he know the truth.
But Wang Ju was also embarrassed. Do I also want to take the cheap mother of the security army and the younger brother of the Jiang family to the capital to enjoy the blessings, and even take the Jiang family to the capital to continue to be a "grandmother".
The reason is very simple, compared to Li Ding's mother, his cheap mother is undoubtedly an angel. Besides, Wang Ju's mother remarried after her father's death, no matter how she raised it, she always raised it for a few years.
So after Wang Ju heard the news, he thought about what happened, and immediately spent hundreds of dollars to buy some clothing gifts and sent them to the security army.
I'm so scared.
In this era, if people are accused of unfilial piety, they will die!
Su Dongpo was only two hundred and five at this time, but there were many high-ranking people behind him, including the great scientist Comrade Shen Kuo, and that one was a simple role.
However, this is not an embarrassment, and soon the real embarrassment comes. (To be continued......) R1292