Chapter 429: The Way
The previous chapter was seven taels of silver, and several seven taels of silver were written, Khan.
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Although the weather was cold, the weather was very good on this day, and Zhao Jizheng's yellow dragon robe was shining brightly in the sun. But at this time, the dragon robe trembled gently, as if the anger in Zhao Ji's heart was about to jump out of his chest.
But does this matter?
"It seems that there is a time to say something." Wang Ju thought to himself.
He thought about it, looked at Zhao Xu, who was still angry, and said, "Your Majesty, did you think of the method of exemption?" ”
Zhao Ji nodded.
The harm of errand service is definitely not the first thing Wang Ju is talking about, but exemption, or recruitment, Wang Ju talked about it earlier than Wang Anshi. But Zhao Ji threw out this seven-dollar silver, but it must have nothing to do with Wang Ju, it seems that Wang Anshi has put the exemption law on the agenda.
Then Zhao Ji took advantage of this summons to learn from Wang Ju's thoughts, after all, Wang Ju is the "ancestor".
Exemption Law, Wang Ju settled his mind and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen will say something." ”
"Dao?" Zhao asked strangely.
This is not the Taoist Tao, it is more encompassing, it may be the Taoist Tao, the Confucian Tao, the Buddhist Tao, the Taoist Dao......
"Let's talk about it."
"Your Majesty, when the minister first came to the capital, he discussed with his teacher about Confucianism today, and he deliberately talked about human nature, some people think that people are born evil, but they are acquired to be good, and some people think that people are born good, but they are acquired to learn evil."
"Mencius and Xunzi?"
"Pretty much."
"What do you think?"
"Wechen believes that people are born with good and evil."
"Tell me why."
"For example, when a baby is born, he knows that he asks for breast milk with crying and laughing, and he needs adults to take care of him. Cuddle. ”
"It's human nature."
But this nature is different in the eyes of Meng Xun and the others. For example, a poor family. My mother was already malnourished. How much breast milk is there? Or how much time does a mother have to do a lot of heavy work every day to earn a living and support the family, and how much time is spent caring for her children. Therefore, Xunzi believes that human nature is selfish and evil. However, in Mencius's eyes, it may be believed that when a child is born, parents care for and educate them, so that they can grow up healthily. When parents are old, their children kneel at the bedside and serve seriously, this kind of kindness and filial piety is the most glorious side of human nature. ”
"That's ......"
But that's actually the good side. The evil side. ”
"Even so, what does it have to do with the Tao?"
"Your Majesty, the minister and the teacher deliberately said that Wang Mang, in fact, because of the population expansion in the late Western Han Dynasty, there have been many contradictions."
"I understand," Zhao Wei frowned, the awareness of the population crisis in ancient times was very vague, and some people realized it, for example, Bao Zheng said in the book that the dense population of the Song Dynasty was unimaginable, which may be a good side. The population can grow, which is a good manifestation of internal governance. But it is also the bad side, human needs are unlimited, but the land is limited, especially in this era of low productivity, the Song Dynasty is the smallest large unified dynasty, unable to feed too many people. However, these ministers did not think about it seriously, and said that it was not clear. Until Wang Ju, he deliberately talked to Zhao Ji about this population problem during the imperial examination. Said it a few more times later.
Anyway, if there are more lice, I'm not afraid of itching, but when I think of this species, Zhao Ji is a little worried.
"Your Majesty, considering this demographic crisis, think about Wang Mang's new policy...... But he did it too quickly, and his name was not right, and there was no righteousness, so the world was full of smoke, the Eastern Han Dynasty had Zhang Jiao, the rebellion at the end of the Sui Dynasty was even more so, and the Tang Dynasty had Huangchao, so the main reason for the collapse of these dynasties was precisely because of the annexation of Yan zhòng, the division between the rich and the poor, and the poor people at the bottom were not able to make a living. Therefore, Lao Tzu said that the way of heaven is like a bow and a bow! The higher ones suppress it, the lower ones lift it, the surplus loses it, the insufficient ones are with it, and the way of heaven loses more than enough to make up for the shortcomings. The master also said that Qiu also heard that those who have a country and a family do not suffer from widowhood but inequality, and do not suffer from poverty but suffer from anxiety. There is no poverty, no widowhood, and no inclination. It's just that the difference between the two is that the master has an optimistic attitude, and Lao Tzu has a pessimistic attitude, so he says later that humanity is not, the damage is insufficient, and the dedication is more than enough! ”
"Qi people?"
"It's not as simple as Qi people, Your Majesty, you are the king of a country and the co-lord of the world, but can you directly control every people?"
"I can't."
"Yes and can't, Your Majesty definitely can't directly control the people, but there is a way to control it. His Majesty chooses loyal and capable officials of the Zaizhi, Taiwan, and the two systems, and then jointly selects good ministers with them as officials of various ministries and departments, various transit envoys, and officials of various prefectures and counties, and then they pass through guòxu officials and gentry, issue edicts to the people, manage the people, and then control the world. Here, His Majesty is the highest level of widows, and then to the important ministers of the capital, to the local officials, to the local squires, and then to the common people. Beijing officials, local officials, and squires are important intermediate components, and if they are disloyal to His Majesty, His Majesty's will will cannot reach the hands of the people at the grassroots level. If you want them to be faithful, you must give them more rights, so the Master proposes to respect them to clarify this relationship. ”
"How can we be 'even' and 'safe'?"
This is the Tao, so the Master never explicitly commented on the good and evil of human nature, but used a lot of thought to note the "Yi", which is the way of regulation, not the fortune-telling technique of cheating money. This Tao is the Confucian mean, the Taoist Taiji. ”
Confucius cultivated Yi back then, although it can't be said that it was completely for divination, but there was some intention of divination, Wang Ju beautified it, and Zhao Ji didn't raise the bar, but just asked again: "Tai Chi?" ”
"There is yang in yin, and there is yin in yang. There is evil in good, and good in evil. There are Qi people in the honor, and there are respects in the Qi people. But this Tai Chi is fluid, so the wise man has to regulate it according to the changes in the situation. ”
"The hexagram in Yi?"
"Exactly, in fact it is the Tao. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were endless wars, so Lao Tzu hoped that everyone would be quiet and inaction, which became the true meaning of Taoism. The master hoped that the Zhou family would be strong, and that he would sort it out from top to bottom to reduce the wars in the kingdoms, so he proposed respect. However, it is not enough to rely on respect, so benevolence, righteousness, and etiquette are proposed. In our dynasty, at the beginning of the founding of the country, there were only 3 million households. The land is not tight. Lack of soil for annexation. Therefore, at the beginning of the founding of the country, there was no market for usury. But with the passage of time, the population has more than quadrupled, the land is scarce, and the soil for annexation has become terrible, and the livelihood of the poor people has become more difficult than at the beginning of the founding of the country. So it's wise to do that at this point. It is even more necessary to promote the art of Qi people and give the poor people a chance ......"
"What does it have to do with exemption?"
"It's okay to be exempted from military service, but you must remember one thing, the exempt money raised can meet the recruitment expenses, and you must not use it as a tool to collect money, let alone apportionment of exemption fees to households below the fifth grade."
Is the Seedlings Method good?
Its intentions are good, but because it has started from above with the idea of accumulating wealth and profit, it has produced many ugly phenomena.
For example, some people in the third class and above also need to borrow money, such as emergency relief. For example, there is a shortage of business funds, but this BIBS loan cannot meet their needs. Therefore, this seedling loan has actually become a tool for robbing the wealth.
If it's really robbing the rich and helping the poor, it's fine. However, it is not.
Then starting from the fourth-class households, the fourth-class households also have a shortage of funds, but they lack funds for about once in ten years. Although the usury interest in the Song Dynasty was very strong at this time, the situation of 300 annual interest and rolling interest was less, more than six cents of interest and eight cents of interest. Ten years and eight cents. However, at the beginning of the Seedlings Method, there is a double interest every year, and ten years is twice the interest! That's even more cheating!
and then to the extremely poor households below the fifth grade, these people are the group that really want to borrow green seedlings loans, but Wang Anshi is flexible and changeable, and has added a guarantor policy, clearly in order to reduce the disputes arising from debt recovery, in fact, with this guarantor, who will guarantee the extremely poor households? Therefore, in practice, these extremely poor households will not be able to borrow the green seedlings loan. Then they still borrow usury from the squire, and sell their sons and daughters at the top, and mortgage their wives!
After the implementation of the Green Seedlings Law, it did suppress some of the powerful usury behaviors and also relieved some of the people. But just like Meng Xun's dispute over human nature, the starting point and position are different from the beginning, so the morality must be different, so the result of the implementation is a mixture of disadvantages and benefits, but the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, and it has become a weapon for the people to accumulate wealth!
After the implementation of the exemption law, it is even more cheating, not only has the money leftover, but also adds the exemption money later!
Not only was it apportioned to third-class households and above, but even the extremely poor households were not spared!
Therefore, Wang Ju said this.
In fact, Wang Ju said before that the suppression of hereditary, Wen Hanfu, Lu Hanfan, and this Tao are the same reason.
"It's hard......" Zhao sighed.
The problem is also on that big black hole, if there is no big black hole, who wants to make money?
This is also an unavoidable topic, you must know that in history, Wang Anshi was so wealthy, and in the seventh year of Xining, the black hole was not filled. Therefore, Wang Ju couldn't help sighing.
"Slowly," Zhao Ji said comfortingly.
However, both of them smiled wryly at the same time.
Zhao Ji said the third thing.
Zhao Yu spread the news to the capital, Zhao Yan was shocked and asked Wen Yanbo, I don't know if Suizhou can survive?
Wen Yanbo couldn't answer.
Then summoned Wang Ju to Yanhe Hall to ask, Wang Ju only replied, maybe Guo Kui would not be fooled. But if Guo Kui is also fooled, Wang Ju will have no choice.
Zhao Ji had no choice but to immediately issue an edict informing Guo Kui that he could not be replaced.
Guo Kui's subordinate staff were shocked when they saw the edict and asked, when will the capital issue the edict to change land?
Guo Kui showed everyone the edict, and the capital issued an edict, but let Guo Kui deduct it privately, and everyone didn't even see this edict, let alone change the land. Zhao Yu sighed, this is something that others dare not do. Then Guo Kui played, saying that Suizhou was safe, and impeached himself for violating the edict.
Zhao Ji is too late to be happy, where can he blame Guo Kui for violating the edict? So he ordered the city of Suizhou, no longer Yi Erzhai, and rewarded Guo Kui with a sentence: Yuan plotted secrets, and learned about the situation. There are ministers like this, I don't have to worry about the west!
"With Qing and Guo Qing, I am at ease." Zhao said.
found out that he was deceived, and the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were at a loss, including Zhao Yu, who was so shrewd and capable, did not prepare in advance, only Guo Kui noticed that something was wrong in advance, otherwise this time the Song Dynasty was in a big mess, and the entire Yanzhou might be in danger. Fortunately, there is Guo Kui.
But a few days ago, only Wang Ju "saw" Guo Kui!
Wang Ju laughed and laughed, thinking of Guo Kui, he thought about the war a few years later, and also thought of a person, Pan Mei!
Maybe a few hundred years later, Yuanmeng also failed, but can the current Jiaozhi be compared with the Jiaozhi a few hundred years later? Besides, use the Yuanmeng cavalry to fight in the rainforest, that ......
A few years later, although Guo Kui greatly shocked Jiaozhi, the mistakes he made were not small.
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Zhao Ji only said three things in this summons, but revealed a lot of news.
even let Wang Ju see the shadow of the party struggle rising fiercely on the horizon.
But Wang Ju is also in trouble.
Back in the ordnance prison, a small official named Ye Mo came in to report something.
Wang Ju continued to select craftsmen in Jane.
This number is too large, Wang Ju can only use the written test, oral test, hand test method to select and eliminate, the written test is the exam, through the guò exam to test each person's skills, if it is a writer and a writer, then to assess their management level.
But the written test is somewhat one-sided, and some craftsmen don't know a few words, so it can only be said that it is more effective for all writers and writers. Therefore, a hand test was added to see their hands-on ability, and an oral test was taken to personally gather everyone and go to the Q&A one by one.
Therefore, it should be said that this interpretation is still relatively fair and reasonable.
During this time, he was mainly doing this, and he did not do anything to the officials and officials, but Wang Ju began to observe secretly, and the envoys and envoys of the five libraries and six courtyards were selected from the observation.
Then Wang Ju observed some of the hall officials and selected a few hall officials to be his cronies, including this Ye Mo.
One thing Ye Mo reported was exactly what Wang Ju was worried about.
The selection of officials and craftsmen gradually came to an end, Wang Ju did not say, and everyone knew that the next step would be to the officials of the treasury.
How much Wang Ju will stay, everyone doesn't know, but Ye Mo was picked out by Wang Ju from so many officials, and his wisdom is not bad, he doesn't have to guess, and he knows that a lot of them will be eliminated, so some officials collude privately and secretly think of countermeasures. What's worse is that it is placed in this environment, which will undoubtedly make more people think of Pianpian...... (To be continued......) R1292