Chapter 407: The True Teacher
Jang Jae also walked over.
At this time, Xiao Su gradually became very famous in the Song Dynasty, but unlike Zhang Zai, one was famous in poetry and songs, and the other was famous in Confucianism.
"I've seen Brother Zihou," Xiao Su stood up and sang.
For example, although Wang Ju and Hou Ke have a huge age gap, they usually talk about each other as equals, but Ercheng is Hou Ke's nephew, Zhang Zai and Ercheng intersect with each other, isn't it a mess? But it's not messy at all, again, each in its own way.
Now that Zhang Zai and Wang Ju live together, Ercheng will come to visit, but if Ercheng poses as an elder to Wang Ju, he will suffer hardship!
"Ziyou, don't be polite."
Qiongniang came over to make tea again.
Xiao Su continued to complain: "Zi'an, have you heard of Li Shen? ”
"Know a little." Wang Ju replied.
Not only did he know, but he knew better.
After returning to Zhengbaiqu from the capital this year, Wang Ju also began to prepare, so in his correspondence with Ge Shaohua and Zhao Du, he deliberately asked a few people's feelings, which is also the origin of Zhao Du's attention to the living conditions of the people in Bashu.
Then he asked Tao Qing and Huang Liang to go out quietly and inquire about the situation in various places, including the situation of some important officials. The source of the message may be unknown, but it will be somewhat helpful.
For example, now Wang Ju has a general understanding of the situation of the people in many areas, but he is not very familiar with the situation of Jinghu Road, Guangnan West Road and Jiangnan West Road.
The situation was much better than Wang Ju had imagined.
The number of homeless people and bandits began to increase, and some of them were stabbing one, which was Han Qi's fault. There is also a part of the disaster, Han Qi is partly at fault, if there is no black hole, the country has finances. The disaster relief is timely, and there will be fewer displaced people and bandits, but the imperial court has the money to provide disaster relief. There will also be a part of the homeless bandits.
A huge debt, but apportioned to everyone. It's just one person's money, the pressure is not too great, and it can't be said that there is no pressure. For example, after Zhao Shu's death, the people's reaction, Zhao Zhen died, the people of the whole country cried, and in fact, Zhao Zhen's government began to corrupt in his later years, but where did the people know? It only feels like their lives are getting better. Zhao Shu died. That people cried? This proves that Zhao Shu's arrears in the past few years have brought a burden to the people, so the people do not like it.
That is to say, the people began to feel the pressure, but not too much. This is not good news for Wang Anshi's reform, and the strength and soil of support are not enough!
Some officials also felt the financial difficulties and supported the change, but again, not strongly.
Therefore, Wang Ju often wondered, if Han Qi did not give up, what would happen if the emperor continued to fight for two years? But that's just for thought. Han Qi was so angry that he did that, and he really put Zhao Ji in the air for two or three years, and the result was not a rebellion. It's a dead end.
This situation is also reflected in Zhang Zai, after he came to the capital, he wrote a poem, Basho new show new branches, new volumes and new hearts have been secretly followed, and new leaves are followed by new knowledge, and he is willing to learn new hearts and cultivate new virtues.
Seven new poems also show his attitude towards changing the law.
When Wang Anshi talked to him, Zhang Zai said two things. You should implement new laws as long as they are motivated by the national interest. All men in the world are willing to listen to you. The second is to be kind to others in the process of changing the law and listen to different opinions extensively. In this way, the majority of people will be able to support it, and if they don't, the force of the new law will definitely fail.
On this point, the master and apprentice have a striking identanglement.
However, Zhang Zai also has the constraints of Zhang Zai's times, and the intention of changing the law is to collect money, and it is impossible to collect money and be kind to others. But it is okay to accumulate wealth, and it is necessary to win over the majority of people, at least on the surface, and then concentrate on attacking the minority, then the opposition will be smaller. It's not that Wang Anshi should not be co-opted, but what should be suppressed is not suppressed.
Of course, they are all top figures of this era, and it is not easy to come up with so many in the game.
However, in this way, there was a conflict with Wang Anshi in essence, so it was difficult for Zhang Zai to be reused.
But the root cause is that the Song Dynasty has not rotted to the bones, and the majority of people and officials have no desire to urgently use radical means to change the law, which is also the reason why later generations hate Wang Anshi and regard Han Qi as a successful minister.
However, Zhang Zai is different from Ercheng, Ercheng immediately didn't even want to do the festival, but Zhang Zai never attacked the change from beginning to end. Although he disagrees with Wang Anshi's way of changing the law, Zhang Zai knows that the country cannot be changed, and it is better to change than not to change.
This also won Wang Ju's more respect for himself as a teacher.
However, to be able to seriously analyze like Wang Ju is too difficult and unfair for Wang Anshi and Zhang Zai.
In addition, there is also the news of important ministers that Wang Ju asked Tao and Huang to inquire about, including this Li Shen.
Wang Anshi's real teacher is not Fan Zhongyan, and in fact, he probably looks down on the reform that happened to Fan Zhongyan.
It's not Sang Hongyang and Wang Mang, these two just gave him some reference, and the real teacher is this Li Shen.
Li Shen impeached Xia Shouen's father and son for corruption and perversion of the law during the Dingzhou general judgment, Xia Shouen was a meritorious hero of the Song Zhenzong Domain, but he was impeached by him and managed in Lianzhou. See the suppression of the relatives of the powerful by changing the law, what these powerful relatives do on weekdays is indeed too much.
When Li Shen knew the Jingmen Army, the imperial court used to cut down bamboo and was dispatched, but Li Shen changed this law to bid for procurement from merchants and people, see Fangchang River Crossing.
When Li Shen served as a transit envoy to Shaanxi, he found that the people often had insufficient funds to prepare for spring plowing and production, so he provided interest-free or low-interest loans to the people, which increased the peasants' enthusiasm for growing grain and increased agricultural output. This kind of low-interest loan is Seedlings Money. A few years later, Shaanxi's military and civilian food was improved.
Li Shen also proposed the method of making money.
In the Song Dynasty, a large number of troops were stationed on the three roads of Hebei, Hedong and Shaanxi, and the local rent was not enough to supply the needs of the army. There are three ways to buy, one is to trade with cash, but the cash on the three sides is limited, and this method is rarely used. The second is apportionment and requisition, and forced purchase at low prices, which is a harsh policy and is rarely implemented. The third is that the merchants first transport the grain and grass to the border, and the imperial court pays for the tea, salt, incense, and medicine and the money of the Jingshi, and the merchants then go to the designated place to get back the tea, salt, incense and other goods and sell them for money. However, the credit of the imperial court was limited, and it was often issued indiscriminately, and merchants were reluctant to go, or merchants colluded with officials. The grain and grass that has been transported over is not a thing.
Therefore, with Li Shen's method of making money, it is to transport the cash directly to the border areas and buy grain on the spot. Or buy grain from merchants, according to its quality. The price is given, the intermediate link is omitted, the burden on the people is reduced, and the grain and grass obtained are at least edible.
This method is still partially used today.
Referring to Wang Anshi's change of law, all lose, the market is easy!
However, he is such a capable minister. It was not reused by Song Renzong. Later, the state set up the bureau to review the national plan and let Li participate in Wang Anshi and Wang Tao to lead it, Li Shen said angrily that the officials have their own duties, and if the ministers are not competent, they should be deposed, otherwise, please dismiss the bureau. It means that if I am allowed to do it, I will do it, and if I am not allowed to do it, I will not do it, so why bring two furry children in?
But Wang Anshi was not angry. This time, when I went to the capital in front, I recommended Li Shen in the back, and asked Zhao Ji to write Li Shen's name on the temple pillar. However, Li Shen was old and sick at this time, and Zhao Ji could not be appointed.
But at the beginning, Wang Anshi didn't think of Qingmiao Qian, and he pounced on the even-loss method.
Zhao Shangkuan, who knew Tongzhou, Gao Fu, Wang Guangyuan, who knew Qizhou, and Su Juan of Chenliu County, wrote at the same time, so that the country could set up a righteous warehouse.
What is the meaning of Yicang, that is, to let some conscientious heroes in various places spontaneously produce food in good years. Or collect some grain from the people who have a good harvest at home and put it in the barn. In the year of famine, it will be used for disaster relief and poverty alleviation.
Wang Anshi immediately vetoed it.
In the history books, Wang Anshi thought about the green seedling method. That's when it was vetoed. Therefore, after defeating Wang Anshi in the Southern Song Dynasty, he took out the Yicang again.
I tasted the bitterness, and it was good to start the implementation, but in the end, all the Yicang was embezzled and misappropriated. In times of disaster, not a single grain of grain can be taken out, and it has become a kind of harsh government in normal times.
Why so? It is precisely its management that is not standardized, and the regular Chang Ping and Chang Hui are not well managed, and this kind of righteous position! There are too many holes to drill in storage.
The actual standard method of curing the malpractice is still Wang Anshi's warehouse method, but now the exemption law has not come out, and there is no way to come out of the warehouse law. They are the mother and the child, the exempt law is the mother, and the warehouse law is the son.
The warehouse method has not come out, and this regular closing position is also a big black hole.
Therefore, Lu Huiqing and Wang Anshi turned out Li Shen's green seedling money.
The two have three reasons, the first reason refers to Wang Guangyuan, Wang Guangyuan withheld 500,000 grain silk in Qizhou and lent it to the victims, and after the autumn, the people returned 750,000 yuan with interest, and the interest was as high as 50 percent, but it was not right, more than 50 percent, so it only lasted half a year. But why would the people be grateful? After the catastrophe, there was nothing, and after getting this loan, I was able to spring plough and produce immediately, and I came back in one breath.
Besides, we're making two cents, which is twenty percent.
Some people say that 20 percent in half a year is not four percent in a year? That's not right, this is the spring release, the autumn harvest, the clear half a year, the real year. I really can't afford to pay it back, and in the second year, it will be calculated at half interest.
Therefore, the interest of the BIBS method is a half interest, not a quarter interest. If there is a four-point profit, it will be made by the officials below in disguise!
With it, people can quickly survive in times of disaster. The imperial court did not need to bear any economic losses.
The second reason is Li Shen's reason, there are too many poor families, and many people do not have enough funds for spring plowing and production because of the spring famine, and the whole year is not harvested. With a seedling loan, you will get sufficient funds for spring plowing and production.
Successful example, Li Shen!
The third reason is even more sufficient, the peasants have even a problem with food rations, so who to lend? Man of wealth. Especially those official households, those who have merit and those who are monks, one does not pay taxes, the second is not bad, and the third does not pay rent, which involves another question, why are monks so valuable. Not so many people want to be monks and Taoists, the mystery is that this monk household does not need to pay taxes!
Then let's borrow it, but here comes the problem of this borrowing, that is not the two cents of the Seedlings Law, and the conscience is also six cents per month, which is 72 percent a year. Those who do not pay attention to conscience are 300 percent, and they must also roll profits, not in the year, but in the month. If you don't borrow it, as a result of borrowing, in the end, the land is gone, and even the wife and daughter have become other people's handmaidens! Fortunately, this is not the Ming and Qing dynasties, otherwise I don't know how many women committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river for chastity in a year......
Not only Zhengbaiqu has several counties, but Chang'an is even more ruthless, not only ordinary businessmen, Wen Yanbo's family has done it, and it is very powerful. Don't ask people who believe in Buddhism how to do such a thing, the monks are doing the same, and each one is more powerful than the other.
But with the Seedlings Law, the ugly practices of these usurers have been dealt a hard blow. At least sniped the merger.
Wang Anshi also promised that he would not suppress the matching, which means that the people will lend if they are willing to borrow, and they will not be forced to lend if they are not willing to lend, and it doesn't matter if they don't lend, there are all kinds of conditions for a loan, and homeless people who have no property and no job will not lend, and those who want to borrow must have a guarantor and be a good citizen to be eligible to lend. The first is to ensure that loans are made to serious people, and the second is to ensure that there are loans and receipts.
See, isn't this benefit even more? And there is also the successful example of Li participating in Wang Guangyuan, which is convincing enough. It's a great benevolent government!
The key problems can climb up, which one is poor, including Xiao Su, and none of them are easy to fool.
Wang Anshi presented the grass to Xiao Su to see, and Xiao Su was anxious on the spot. (To be continued) R466