The reality is much better than what the ministers impeached.

In the court, Zhang Dian did his best, and there was Cheng Shimeng in the place.

There are also examples made by Ge Shaohua under the guidance of Wang Ju, such as the ten-year contract, the treatment and resettlement of immigrants, and even let some people go back to publicize. These are all good things, but in the face of huge resistance, they still have a limited effect.

The simplest, not adapted. This is inevitable, and it is inevitable that people will die, but in their hometown, there is no birth, old age, sickness and disability? However, when it is applied to immigration and expanded, the effect is the same.

What's worse is that Wang Ju heard a piece of news that the imperial court was about to transfer Cheng Shimeng back to the capital as the deputy envoy of the Third Division, so who would preside over the cotton planting in Liangguang? Moreover, the planting area is getting larger and larger, and there are more and more immigrants, and once the presiding official is not of good character or talented, it will cause even greater problems.

Wang Ju thought for a long time, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

"Zi'an, is there a good plan?" Zhang Dian asked happily.

History has a very low evaluation of him, saying that he is a traitor, but in fact, Wang Ju attaches great importance to him, he can be civil and martial, compared with Lu Huiqing Zeng Bu, he has less selfishness, and compared with Wang Anshi, he has less stubbornness, it can only be said that he has a hard style, but there are a few prime ministers with a style, and his style is not rigid?

Wang Ju said slowly: "The postal system ......"

The postal system of the Song Dynasty was the various post stations and the Jinjuyuan.

¤ The Jinsoin is the top, and most of the performances of officials in various places are handed to the Jinsoin by the post station, and then sent by the Jinsoin to various ministries and departments, and the ordinary edicts of the imperial court or the edicts of the two governments are also handed over to the Jinsoin, and then distributed to each post station by the Jinsoin. Delivered to the hands of various officials. Therefore, there are also a series of institutional regulations. Including before the edict reached the officials. It must not be leaked, and important government decrees must not be leaked, even if they are in the hands of various officials.

This is on.

There are also the following, such as the letters from the front-line soldiers and the letters exchanged by various officials, most of which are delivered by post stations.

However, what is more advanced than the Tang Dynasty is that the Tang Dynasty is a servant. The Song Dynasty did not use the people, but used tens of thousands of troops as post soldiers.

In addition, unlike later generations, this is not a "fee item".

There is no charge, and resources are limited, so it is difficult for ordinary people to use post stations to convey family letters, including front-line soldiers, and it is impossible to regularly exchange letters with family members.

In order to ensure that emergencies were delivered to the imperial court in a timely manner, the Song Dynasty set up a post station or water shop every ten or twenty miles on each main road, and so many post stations and water shops cost a lot of money. It took a lot of money to feed so many post men. As a result, each post station became a place to entertain officials or merchants.

In the Tang Dynasty, this system was sufficient. Anyway, the imperial court forbade the movement of the people. But in the Song Dynasty, this system was clearly backward.

But it's been like this for many years, so everyone doesn't notice it.

It is this postal reform proposed by Wang Ju.

The imperial court can print and distribute "stamps", each post station is open to the people, according to the distance and the weight of the burden, the people buy stamps, and the post station passes the family letters, money and silk and goods for the people.

It is equivalent to a miniature version of the post office and the courier company.

And now is a good time to promote, the population is dense, and there are more mobile people, which is not good at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, sparsely populated, unable to make ends meet, or must increase the charging price, so that the people are daunted.

Wang Ju said simply.

"That's a good idea." Zeng Buzan said.

Once this reform is implemented, first of all, half of the post soldiers will be able to feed, and all the post soldiers in areas with a large floating population will be able to feed them, and the rest will also increase their income to a greater or lesser extent.

These post guards don't want to be supported by the imperial court, and they invisibly save a lot of money for the imperial court. I plan to save 30,000 post soldiers, and I will save 1 million in that year! That's not a small number.

The people can exchange letters, those immigrants are not the whole family migrated, in the original area of residence, there are still family members, there are still relatives, letters come, money and silk goods come, no matter how the local squires instigate, the rumors are self-defeating, and even without the forced action of the imperial court, more people will spontaneously flock to Lingnan.

So what the court does, as long as these people are settled, they will no longer worry about the relocation, and it will be difficult for opposition to appear in the court. It not only benefited the country, but also helped the reformers.

This is what Zeng Bu saw, and what he did not see, once this policy is introduced, it will speed up the flow of population, and the benefits brought by population flow are unimaginable, further stimulating economic development, solving the problem of labor shortage in some areas, and enlightening the people's understanding. A simple example, for example, in the area west of Xiangshui now, there are mostly slash-and-burn farming, and the officials have seen it, but the local area is dominated by barbarians, and the following officials have the ability to execute, the ideas of the barbarians, the local customs, and other factors, and want to make a difference, but if they don't do it well, it will cause turmoil, so they have to "be quiet and do nothing". But when the population moves and sees the advanced planting technology from the outside, some of these people must bring these planting techniques back to the local area, so the local situation will change from the bottom up.

And its cost is very small, as long as there are hundreds of post stations on the original basis, it can basically meet the needs. As for some particularly backward and sealed areas, is it necessary to set them up for the time being?

The Song Dynasty rarely had a big project, and Zheng Baiqu was a huge project even now, but the basic road condition was relatively good, and it was impossible to have the kind of express in later generations, but did the current Song Dynasty have that concept, a letter from Lingnan to Yanzhou could be delivered to the people within three months, and the people would be very happy.

Even as the business increases and expands, it may be possible to feed all the pawns and make a profit.

In addition, it will not deprive many businessmen and magnates of their interests, and the opposition will be relatively small, unless there are special considerations, such as once it is implemented, the large landlords in the areas with many people will definitely not be happy, and will still spread rumors.

"Zi'an, you can be Jiefugong's assistant." Zeng Bu sighed again.

"Yes, I'm too young and have a bad temper, if I really become Jiefugong's assistant, it won't help Jiefugong, but it will ruin Jiefugong's plan to change the law." Wang Judao.

The two naturally heard Wang Ju's prevarication. I can't help but feel sorry in my heart.

But they didn't persuade again. Zeng Bu said again: "Zi'an." One more thing. ”

This incident was quite unexpected by Wang Ju, that is, Wang Shao.

Wang Shao is in Qinzhou, just to open the border.

Now he has an army in his hands, and he has the support of Yu Longke, and Tuntian has brought a lot of grain and grass, but everything is ready, but he owes Dongfeng, that is, money. Once the war starts, it will require a lot of military spending.

This opened the border for the Song Dynasty, and it stands to reason that the imperial court will pay this fee. But in fact, if you want to ask the imperial court for military expenses for the opening of the border, I am afraid it is very difficult, and even if it is allocated, it will not be much, and it may cause a lot of commotion.

So Wang Shao thought of a way, that is, the city is easy, using the state machine. He traded with the Tibetans and asked the imperial court for a soju workshop.

It's not that Wang Shao is greedy. Under the leadership of several merchants in Yanzhou, it lost the support of the government, and the trading volume was limited, once it was placed in the hands of the imperial court, the trading volume immediately surged, and the profit would also double, anyway, the profits of Wang Ju's workshop were not in the pocket.

After thinking about it, he wrote a note and handed it to the capital.

But now that Wang Anshi is "sick" at home, the officials of the Chinese Book and Regulations Department dare not make decisions, so this sparse performance is left there.

Zeng Bu thought it was a trivial matter, and at most there would be some criticism, but when he got into the soju workshop, he happened to come to visit the Wang family, so he said it.

In fact, it is not a trivial matter, because there is a real market law behind it, Wang Ju dislikes it the most, and I am afraid it is also the most problematic law in Wang Anshi's law change!

But Wang Shao was successful in Qinzhou, because it was different from the mainland, and the Song Dynasty also had a lot of trade with Tibet in the past, which had nothing to do with the government.

However, the Han merchants were afraid of the barbarism of the Tibetan people and did not dare to trade in the territory of Tibet, and the Tibetan people were afraid of the treachery of the Han merchants and did not dare to trade in the territory of the Han people, which restricted the volume of trade. Once officially organized, there is no such problem.

It may hurt the interests of some businessmen, but on the whole, it is a supplement to the shortcomings of trade between the two sides, and it is also more convenient for the people of the two countries.

And there is also a precedent, Chong Shiheng is in Qingjian City, the amount is a bit small, the object is only the Fan people in the north of Yanzhou, but the nature is similar, it is precisely because of the participation of Chong Shiheng that the trade volume has increased, which has also brought convenience to the Yanzhou Fan people, and also brought activity funds to Chong Shiheng.

The difference is that Chong Shiheng did not say that I would take the lead directly. Wang Ju is the same, in the name of a businessman's donation. But now that Wang Shao is shouting out publicly, I don't have to cover my ears and steal the bell.

In addition, the radiation area is also different, Wang Shao's city is very large, not only the river Huang, but even the radiation to the Western Regions, as long as the business is good, it will obtain a large amount of finance, so Wang Shao said after the war, we did not ask the court for a penny, a pound of grain and grass, all of which I operated.

This credit couldn't be greater, you must know that Wang Shao's battles, if the imperial court provided food and money, the number may be calculated in tens of millions. Let's not talk about the work of opening the edge.

But if he utters it, he is guilty. Why, you have soldiers, food, money and power in your hands, what do you want to do, isn't it developing towards the second An Lushan. It was the first time Wang Shao left Qinzhou, and it was not until the deterioration of the river that he went to Qinzhou again.

This is precisely where the Song Dynasty is unreasonable, although Wang Shao did not spend money and grain to fight those battles, but the soldiers' salaries and weapons are inseparable from the support of the imperial court, Wang Shao can not say that I did not ask the court for a penny, but Wang Shao will also not become the second An Lushan, as long as the imperial court cuts off the military salary and does not provide weapons, even if Wang Shao wants to rebel, he is only dumbfounded. Don't talk about Wang Shao, even the later Yue Jiajun.

Later, Wang Shao entered Xifu, and Wang Anshi levied a river tax, but Wang Shao did not agree. This reason is also simple, two taxes, how much can be collected, it is better to operate this "market" with peace of mind, but if it is levied, it will only cause resentment among the people of Xihe. Wang Anshi didn't listen and demoted Wang Shao from the court. It was because of this market change that Wang Shao urged twice, and finally died of a backlash in anger.

"It turns out that the City Law is a ...... initiated by Wang Shao"

"But we can't let that history happen again." Wang Ju said silently in his heart.

If Wang Shao does not leave the court and dies, if Zhang Qi grows up, and the two are reused by the court, maybe the five roads will be successful.

But now Wang Ju didn't say much, let alone remind the limitations of the city's easy law, after listening to Zeng Bu, he said: "I don't participate in this, Wang Shao wants to operate soju, I also agree, but I can't take away the shochu workshop. If the imperial court agreed, the shochu workshop could give priority to Wang Shao in providing shochu on a preferential basis. ”

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"Official, this Wang Shao is so unreasonable." Qiong Niang said after waiting for Zhang Zeng and the two to leave.

"Wrong," Wang Ju said.

Wang Shao's plan is far away, not Qiongniang can see, once the edge is opened, the money spent does not know how much, so he hit the idea on the shochu workshop.

In fact, Wang Juzhen doesn't care now, compared to the future profits of sucrose, soju is almost negligible.

But this head can't be opened, just like the story of Zilu being rejected by Niu and Zigong, opening this head, Wang Anshi may be able to take it as a "story" in the future, and then force many people to hand over various workshops to the imperial court.

When the time comes, there will be more trouble, and then the people of the world will not only scold Wang Anshi, but also Wang Ju.

Unless the change is over, no matter what Wang Ju does, no one will care.

Moreover, if you want fame, what Wang Ju lacks is not fame, nor merit, but qualifications and age, why bother.

"That Wang Jiefu is even more unreasonable."

Qiong Niang refers to Wang Ju's reform of the Ordnance Prison last year, and when he encountered difficulties, Wang Anshi did not support him. Now Wang Anshi is in a dilemma, but he sent two younger brothers to the door for help.

"You think wrong again, this time Zhang Zihou and Zeng Zixuan came here, and it has nothing to do with Jiefu Gong, Jiefu Gong is confident. However, Jiefu Gong is not the former Jiefu Gong. ”

I think that when Wang Ju went to Beijing to report on his work and inspect the river work, Wang Anshi asked Wang Yan to meet him, and he also had a good intention, but then his attitude became completely different, of course, because Wang Ju did not vigorously support Wang Anshi's change, but it was also related to Wang Anshi's ascension.

So at this moment, Wang Ju was also a little confused...... (To be continued......) R752