Chapter 591: Good Minister
Maybe Yelong Basheng doesn't understand, Wang Ju is referring to the battle for the upper position, and it officially started from this moment.
If you want to make money in harmony, that's impossible.
Either the east wind overpowers the west wind, or the west wind overpowers the east wind, and there is no room for compromise.
In fact, the war of public opinion has already begun.
Just like a few months ago, when the prisoners went to the capital, the people rumored at the beginning that the court did not issue a reward, but Wang Ju secretly sent people to distribute it. As for the later rumors, it has nothing to do with Wang Ju. Whether it was Zeng Bu, or Zhao Ziji and others secretly distributed, or Wang Anshi also participated, Wang Ju didn't know.
However, Wang Anshi reformed the imperial examination, first, to abolish the poetry that did not help officials much, so that the scholars could care about the current politics and national policies.
The second is also to be able to pass Neo-Confucianism as a test question and brainwash scholars.
It's a pity that Wang Anshi also thought wrongly, in the opposition of most elites, even if this brainwashing is done, the effect is very slow.
Maybe after 20 years of peace, Wang Anshi really succeeded.
Guan Jianna may give him twenty years. Besides, in doing so, Wang Anshi violated one of the biggest taboos, he wanted to be a saint, so where did he put Zhao Ji?
So don't be a saint, just like Wang Ju made it clear, I am the so-called villain, don't touch me, that will work better.
Thinking of this, Wang Ju said again: "When it is passed on to the people, it must be emphasized that I am not in favor of changing the law. ”
"The Jiefu Guild is even more angry."
"It doesn't matter. There is no such rumor, and Jiefu Gong also knows that I do not support his change. Wang Ju said.
Wang Anshi's change of law is still good in nature. The Song Dynasty remains unchanged, and it will rot like Zhao Shu. You don't have to wait for the golden man to come. That's it.
But because of the excessive wealth. It is true that the folk rumors are not very good.
If Wang Anshi can listen to other people's opinions, maybe Wang Ju will be his right-hand man to help Wang Anshi change the law, and he can also take the position in advance. Guan Jian is Wang Anshi couldn't listen to it, and he couldn't even listen to Xue Xiang's words. Let Wang Ju take refuge.
Therefore, Wang Ju wants to take the throne, there are only two strategies, one strategy to wait slowly, and wait until Zhao Xu is in power. That day?
There is another strategy, that is, Yuanfeng is on the top.
At that time, the national finances should also be better.
This is important.
Like now, even if Zhao Ju makes an exception to the throne, Wang Ju will be forced to fill in the black hole, which will still make money.
This is also where Wang Juluo sympathizes with Wang Anshi.
Don't underestimate this accumulation of wealth, before the reform, the Song Dynasty's finances were only 120 million. At its peak, it was more than 180 million.
Nearly seven million in exempt money cannot be counted.
Although Fangchang Hedu was stolen by Wang Ju, it is indeed a good government, and it cannot be counted, and there are four or five million a year. After Wang Ju's improvement, it seems that it reached nearly six million last year.
Then there are nearly 50 million left. In the middle, there are two taxes added by the farmland water conservancy law and the square field law. There are more than 10 million.
In addition, there are 4 million surplus money, nearly 4 million income from Qingmiao loan, Xue Xiang is in charge of the southern dispatch, and the invisible income brought by Xue Xiang is more than 10 million, and there are millions of dollars in the city law, and other means, and millions more.
Therefore, the direct collection of finance is more than 20 million, and this real price ratio is very high, all of which are matched and coherent, not stones and bundles.
That's why I quickly filled in the black hole.
At this time, whoever is the prime minister will either not act and make Zhao Ji angry, or he will be hated by the world.
There is another example, Fan Chunren engaged in ancient farming.
In the future, Fan Chunren knew about Gyeongju, Chonggu arrested several Tibetan people on the charge of robbers and exiled them to the south, when passing through Gyeongju City, the Tibetan people shouted grievances to Fan Chunren, Fan Chunren forcibly stopped, after interrogation, Fan Chunren learned that several Tibetan people were subordinate officials of Chonggu, not robbers, and that Chonggu wanted to avoid crime and let the insider away.
Therefore, Fan Chunren released several Tibetan people and sent them home and wrote to the imperial court, which immediately issued an edict to belittle the ancient people for framing them.
If you don't read it carefully, you may not be able to see the problem, but if you read it carefully, there are actually a lot of problems.
If the governor of Gyeongju does not have an errand post of appeasement envoy, he can only be regarded as the nominal boss of the governor of Huanzhou, and he cannot really interfere in all of them. At the very least, if Fan Chunren had doubts, he could go to the imperial court, and he had no right to really correct the judgment of Chonggu.
Secondly, is it worth framing a few people in order to avoid crime? What crime to avoid, haven't the robbers been caught? If that's the case, at that time, the Murong tribes were unruly, wouldn't countless Gyeongju officials be downcast one by one?
Therefore, there are many doubts in this case, and Fan Chunren did this to anger Chonggu, who wrote a letter to fight back, saying that Fan Chunren issued Changping grain loans without authorization and bought the hearts of the people.
This year, there seemed to be a famine in Shaanxi, Fan Chunren distributed Changping to store grain for relief, and the officials persuaded Fan Chunren to write to the court to give relief. Fan Chunren said that he couldn't wait, so he directly opened a position for loans.
However, Fan Chunren did this and did not exceed his authority, and besides, where is the Zhongshu placed, didn't the imperial court even save the victims? Therefore, there is no wrongdoing in the ancient world.
The imperial court sent a lieutenant envoy down to investigate, and once there was indeed such a thing, then arrest it first. However, when the common people came, more than 10,000 people blocked the road, tears to stop them, and some even jumped into the river to discuss. Therefore, the imperial court judgment came down quickly, Chonggu continued to make false accusations and denounces, and Fan Chunren deposed the Xinyang Army for other faults, and then soon turned into Zhiqi Prefecture. Qizhou is Jinan, and it was also a first-class state in the Song Dynasty.
This is the power of public opinion.
And it is the highest force of public opinion, that is, the desire of the people.
Therefore, Wang Ju's plan is the later stage of Yuanfeng, to see if there is a chance to go up, but if he can't go up at that time, Wang Ju will be disheartened. After the Yuanyou Rebellion, did the Song Dynasty still want to get better?
But at that time, if I wanted to go up, I wanted to improve Wang Anshi's change, and I wanted to consolidate my position, so I couldn't have anything to do with the change for the time being, and Wang Ju was convincing.
Wang Ju will not say it to Wild Dragon Baasheng, but Wild Dragon Baa Sheng will also carry it out loyally.
Qian Dongchun took the guards down to investigate.
However, after a few days in Gyeongju, I was surprised.
When Wang Ju used to know Huachi County, he was a poor hanger and didn't know how to be an official. Run every day. The people were moved. But that is Huachi County, the area is not large, and after a few days of riding a horse, the entire county will be turned down. You can't do that in Gyeongju.
But now Wang Ju also has experience as an official, he has not learned what Sima Qian said about "ruling by inaction", but just trying not to toss the people.
But also in order to, for example, try to be as fair as possible when enforcing the law, both rich and poor. Impartiality is this, and it is actually difficult to do.
The second is to support industry and commerce.
With the savings of those people, low-interest loans were issued, and more than 30 workshops were supported.
Then he secretly instigated the people to trade with the Tanguts on the edge of Ningqiang, Guidebao, and Qingping Pass.
Of course, Wang Ju could not publicly order this, after all, the imperial court only acquiesced to two mutual markets, both of which had nothing to do with Gyeongju.
Therefore, the people were allowed to go to trade spontaneously, and then secretly ordered the officers and soldiers and officials not to stop them.
The wealth of the Song Dynasty was thanks to Chai Rong, because Chai Rong went to business in his early years to make money for his father-in-law. Knowing the meaning of business, the national policy has become more important to business. Zhao Kuangyin almost took Chai Rong's national policy over. This led to the commercial prosperity of the Song Dynasty.
However, no one has really figured out what business means yet.
These workshops flourished and commerce flourished, bringing not only a lot of tax revenue to the Gyeongju government, but also many people.
In particular, some ceramic workshops, as well as related instrument workshops, were sold to the Western Xia in a steady stream of the utensils they produced because Wang Ju openly acquiesced to the existence of three mutual markets on the border, and then exchanged them for furs, livestock, and other items from the Western Xia merchants. Of course, the Tangut people also welcomed this, after all, these materials were rarely produced in the Tangut, and their arrival complemented each other, which was also helpful to the development of the Tangut.
In addition, there are some favorable policies, such as large livestock are not included in the wealth to divide households.
As well as removing the monk and Taoist households, and increasing the number of good households.
That is, monks and Taoist households still have to be apportioned, but those who usually have a good reputation in the countryside and do good deeds have no apportionment below the fourth-class households, and there is some support for the third-class households and above. This has also helped to improve people's customs.
Of course, the two most important ones, one is that the front line is no longer in the area of Huai'an Town, but has been pushed to the Hengshan area, and the people in the rear can live and work in peace and contentment, go to farming, grazing, and doing business......
Secondly, the salt transportation also brought a lot of income to all the people.
Therefore, the stability and happiness of the people of Gyeongju was almost unimaginable before Qian Dongchun came.
He even suspected that Gyeongju was about to enter the realm of Daetong described by the master.
As for Wang Ju's status in the hearts of the people, that's not to mention.
Qian Dongchun also saw a scene that shocked him, that morning he was about to go out of the city, there was a tea shed at the gate of the city, an old woman carried a load of fruits to sell in the city, about also tired, so he ate a bowl of tea in the tea shed, and then took out a copper plate to pay. The owner of the tea shed doesn't want money, saying that you are so old, and you still carry fruits to sell, the situation at home must be very bad, and I can't ask for this tea money.
The old woman had no choice but to say thank you again and again, and got up to continue to pick up the fruit, but a young man came out and rushed to pick it for her, saying, "Auntie, I'll pick it for you in the market." The old woman pulled again, but she couldn't pull it, so she had to let this young man pick it up in the market. The old woman said thank you again, and the young man said no thanks, next time I have trouble finding Huang Xiaosan from Gyeongju Derenfang, that's me, and I will try my best to help you.
Qian Dongchun followed all the way, looking stupid, and then talked to the old woman, why did she come out to sell fruits at such an old age? The old woman said that her son had died in battle.
Isn't that a bereavement pension?
The old woman also said that there is a pension, but there are several grandchildren, and fortunately, the government is exempt from taxes, otherwise life will be difficult.
Qian Dongchun asked tentatively again, then do you hate Zhizhou?
The old woman immediately became angry, what are you talking about, if I had a second son, I would have let him go to war. Then the Buddha blessed Ming Gong to stay in Gyeongju for a few more years, and the people of Gyeongju would have great creation.
How can the people be prostrated like this......
Qian Dongchun stood there in a daze.
But behind this he doesn't know, what is a good household, build bridges and pave roads, help the weak, see righteousness and courage, respect the old and love the young, promote learning and education, as long as it is a subordinate category, there are a number of deeds, usually in the township reputation and good, then you can report to the ranks of good households, once the government verifies, there is no apportionment below the fourth-class households, and even taxes are gone. Those who are in the third class or above will also have various benefits.
And Wang Ju himself also took the lead, occasionally going out to help the people.
So there was a strange scene in Gyeongju, where many people were doing good deeds, but after doing good deeds, they liked to leave their names again.
However, where has Qian Dongchun seen such a scene.
He walked around, and the more he turned, the more frightened he became. Obedient Dongdong, how is this governed? No wonder this small Zhizhou has arrogance, saying that I have also benefited many people.
Seeing that it was almost over, he rode back.
Of course, after watching all the things, he couldn't talk nonsense without conscience, so he told him and Wang Ju again, anyway, Wang Ju also wrote it in the chapter. Then he told his investigation and what he saw and heard in Gyeongju, including that even the people of Yanju were crying loudly in front of the border fort and reciting the benefits of Wang Ju.
In fact, he only saw one side later, and the people who came naturally benefited from Wang Ju, but they did not represent all the people in Yanzhou. But Qian Dongchun doesn't know, he can't figure it out if he doesn't know. The people of Gyeongju can still explain, but the people of Yanzhou are Tangut people, how many Tangut people did Wang Ju kill, how can they miss Wang Ju? It drove him crazy.
After finishing speaking one by one, Qian Dongchun said again: "Your Majesty, the good minister of the Great Song Dynasty, Wen Neng Anbang, Wu Neng Dingguo, is called this son." ”
This is Qian Dongchun's evaluation of Wang Ju, but it is only an evaluation, with Wang Ju's recital coming up and Yang Hui's confession, even he doesn't know how much turmoil it will cause...... (To be continued......)