Shao Song

"I heard that I was scared last time?"

After taking off the twelve chapters of Gongmian and changing back to daily cotton casual clothes, Zhao Jiu, who was tired for a day, took a rest for a while. When he got up in the evening, he used a little bit of food in the permanent barracks, but the food was served. After taking a bowl of porridge, I took it straight to the class, and then read a note written by myself, and suddenly opened his mouth, not knowing who I was talking to.

"It's absolutely nothing." Standing inside the door, Yang Yizhong immediately turned around and handed over, but he didn't pretend to be confused and said that he didn't know what happened.

"Nothing, then why did you secretly dismiss the maid?" Zhao Jiu continued to flip through his notebook without looking up. "And I didn't dare to send too many at once. I sent three people in half a month and paid five pennies for one person..."

"minister……"

"I didn't blame you. You didn't know that day, don't you know these days? What I said must be done has nothing to do with you... just ask casually, you are misunderstood."

"The minister knows."

"Do you know what a fart?" Zhao Jiu didn't look up. "If you really know, you should know. There are some things that I can only tell you... Except for you, no one outside will know. Are I actually afraid to take charge of the affairs of the government personally? Except you, anyone outside will know , I actually have been hiding from those emperor relatives?"

"..."

"Why don't you speak?"

"The official family is the official family after all. For example, in the Yaoshan formation, the official bends the bow and shoots the arrow and misses the shot, but it does not delay the official raising the hand and the eagle. The so-called fear and avoidance are all temporary, and it is really a step forward. Going out is bound to be successful."

"and then?"

"Then, after all, the minister is just a chancellor. Mengenlie is in the center. It is an important position that I dare not think of for a lifetime...it should be careful to converge."

"It's a bit Hu Quan that the editor doesn't change it to a servant?"

"Almost, but..."

"But Hu Quan is more comfortable than you. You are a companion like a tiger, right?"

"..."

"Want to release it?" Zhao Jiu finally looked up. "If you are released, you can go to Han Shizhong or Zhang Jun to serve as a deputy generalist, or you can transfer to a civilian post from Zhizhou..."

"..."

"How could I let you out?" Zhao Jiu continued to sneer. "Let you release it, it's not even convenient for me to find the "King of the King".

Yang Yizhong remained silent after all.

"Almost." Zhao Jiu reviewed the notes in his hand and finally got up. "Let them all come to see me at the Great Account of the Chinese Army!"

Yang Yizhong bowed his head to listen to the order, but he hesitated before leaving the house: "Do you want the official to put on that set of twelve chapters?"

"What for?" Zhao Jiu, who had already got up, shook his head again and again. "If it weren't for the old clothes of the Emperor Taishang, I wouldn't want to wear them at all..."

After speaking, Zhao Jiu hesitated seeing the other person leaving, and then took the notebook in his hand again, and then walked out grandiosely.

Out of the dormitory, the sky had already arrived in the evening, Qiu Cicada's hissing did not stop, and the setting sun hadn't faded to the west. Zhao Jiu saw countless civil and military nobles, Buddhist and Taoist magnates, each with their thoughts and thoughts and transferred to the army's tent... The account, in fact, has long since become permanent. It is just a relatively rough and practical brick-wood structure...and waited for a while, until Yang Yizhong turned back, only then came here under the **** of the imperial guard. Place.

At this time, even though they were just gathered together for a while, the bureaucrats, honorable monks, and merchants were already uncomfortable.

Besides, where are these people comfortable with each other?

The decent bureaucrats who arrived today are members of the Secret Pavilion. These people are the real high-ranking members of the empire. They look at the rest of the people as if they look at chickens and ducks. The upper ones, such as the two state heads and the few idle scholar-officials who have been serious officials, are naturally at ease, while the lower ones are like those new to the monk’s way, but they are uneasy, so they keep talking, trying to listen to some information; as for all of them, Unexpectedly, the few wealthy businessmen who will appear here are the most uniform... These people don't need anyone to remind them, and honestly go to the corners, all dumbfounded, and they dare not make any noises.

It was those military commanders in the camp, all of them were excited at this moment, talking to the monks and Taoist priests. Five Vajrayana Bodhisattvas, five thousand **** kings, twenty-eight nights down to earth, three hundred and sixty-five star monarchs who are driving along with the clouds, as if they knew the afternoon monks. His words and the counterattack of the Taoist temples next door set the stage for a while.

Of course, everything became silent as Zhao Guan’s house, who was in the limelight today, entered the lobby of the Chinese Army. Everyone became solemn, and many of the monks and merchants who met the saints for the first time had some hands that didn’t know where to put them, and some even directly. Kneeled down with a plop... but no one laughed.

However, Zhao Guan’s family didn’t look at the chaos left and right. They just sat in front of the military case with a stapled notebook. At the same time, the nearly 100 armored imperial squad was led by Yang Yizhong and Liu Yan. Pouring in from both sides, not only controlled the lobby, but also lit the countless brazier lights on both sides of the lobby.

Suddenly, the bright lights made everyone instinctively awe-inspiring.

After Zhao Guan’s family looked around, he looked at the densely packed human heads, but then laughed out: “Speaking of which, starting from Huai Shang, I only lit a candle in my bedroom and was laughed at by the Queen Mother... Some folks also said, I clearly speak of utilitarianism, but in fact I am posing a moral stance, and today I am suddenly so extravagant, but I don’t know if some people say that even morality is fake."

Several chief executives took the lead and laughed, and then Zhang Jun came out more and more, and said: "Officials have always subdued Wang Shu Wang (Wang Anshi). As everyone knows, Wang Shu's utilitarianism is also based on justice, morality and utilitarianism. , Where is the opposite?"

Zhao Jiu nodded slightly, and all the chief executives nodded together. Even Li Guang did not respond to this statement, but among the laughing people below, many people were already wary.

"I let everyone come today because of a rare big sacrifice. Everyone gathers together. It's better to take the opportunity to explain two things." Zhao Jiu waited until the bottom became quiet, and immediately spoke. "The first thing is the establishment of the public cabinet; the second thing is to take advantage of the presence of the public cabinet and the secret cabinet, and take the opportunity to talk about some of the major policies of the imperial court in the next few years... Duke Lu."

Lu Haowen was obviously prepared early, and immediately came out more and more, but to give a rough idea of ​​the establishment of a public cabinet that had been discussed a long time ago.

And along with the uncle Yan Shenggong nephew, the head of the Meihua Han family, Han Xiaoxuan, the two state fathers, the uncle Zhao Huang who has been in poor health, the great scholar Juan Guo, and the nineteen host observers selected this time, and Some unexpected but in fact universally formed inexhaustible in-laws with the Zhao family in the previous hundred years, and wealthy merchants who were not merchants in name, as well as the old officials such as Wang Shuzhan who lived at home, one by one. Before thanking you, the atmosphere gradually calmed down.

It’s because the way this stuff sounds and looks a bit after the big sacrifice in the past. It’s nothing more than the wayward official who threw away all the previous things and changed the gameplay again... and besides, there are many people in it. He paid the money, so he was justified.

Of course, those wealthy businessmen who are not businessmen in name still arouse dissatisfaction from the bottom of everyone's hearts. Only one of the two state fathers, Wu Guozhang, and the concubine Wu, were born there. Actually, it is hard to say anything. …Even, isn’t there a case of Wang Lun?

Therefore, some people were unconcerned and calm after the grant, some were obviously disappointed, and some people were particularly excited... However, as Lu Gongxiang reported that he would be the chief of the cabinet, and then the public After the Cabinet Council went straight to the imperial and capital provinces, the atmosphere still reached an established climax.

After all, there is still such a bit of political status and theoretical political power... For many people who have never been in contact with political power before, and those who desire political power to a certain degree, how dislike it ?

Ever since, this first thing ended so happily in the indifference of the bureaucrats and the officers who had nothing to do with them.

Then, it's the second thing... the so-called talk about major policies.

"In the next few years, what should we do to ensure the advancement of the Northern Expedition in a few years?" Zhao Guanjia flipped through his notes and waved to each other. "All those present today can speak freely!"

There was a silence below... Having said that, the ready-made ministers, shangshuers, and servants were all there. What major policy, they didn't say, could it be said by the Lord Yan?

"Officials!" Sure enough, Zhao Ding, the prime minister of the province, walked out after a little hesitation. "The Northern Expedition is certain, but if you want to mobilize soldiers, you still need great governance to be governed, and if you talk about the basics of great governance, one can follow the roots, and the other can investigate... What else can we do in terms of law, law, sacred studies, engineering, and military preparations; while investigating the harm, we start with the problems in front of us and see how we can solve them."

"Please tell me more, please." Zhao Jiu blurted out.

At this time, many of the members of the cabinet had already secretly complained in their hearts, thinking that they were here to serve as a foil today...otherwise? Just answer this question, if it is said that the officials have not communicated well with the clerks, that's nonsense!

Of course, why can't the officials communicate well with the chief executive?

It was the case of Shaoxing in the past. It is said that Zhao Guan's family also reached an agreement with the officials and Yushi Zhongcheng in advance.

"Personnel, in fact, the fact that the official family is pursuing the combination of name and reality is an excellent measure. It can be called a sweep of the various official positions since the five generations, and it has also improved efficiency." Zhao Ding is relatively calm, not so much Discussing the problem, it is better to say that they are reporting on Zhao Guan's family and several chief executives. "Fadu, the imperial court is now formulating a new "Emperor Song Xing Tong", the emphasis is on releasing, so that the people's hearts will be relieved...

"Let's live." Zhao Jiu thoughtfully. "What do you say about the matter that I mentioned to Qing a few days ago?"

"Return to the official." Zhao Ding said calmly. "The ministers and other officials first discussed the matter properly before the imperial court, and then paid the Secret Pavilion for public discussion, and then handed over to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to formulate detailed rules. There are already written documents and will be submitted to the officials for preview... But in any case, as the officials mentioned, they abolished Xiankou. The slaves and maids were changed to employing miscellaneous maids; the Zhenzong reform was abolished at the same time, and the main family and the employed miscellaneous maids involved in the criminal system, and the punishment was all based on the good family. As for the wives, the ministers also regarded this as a violation of the human relationship, but this is the only thing It is not easy to make a clean break. The ministers set up a three-year time limit, starting from the first day three years later, no more courtesy of wives and pawns; as for the release of some official prostitutes, the official has already issued a decree in the first half of the year and special matters will be dealt with. There is no need to say more."

Zhao Jiu nodded slowly.

In fact, these are the many basic aspects that were triggered by the prostitute incident on that day, or the most direct incident... Yang Yizhong's investigation is very clear. It is meaningless to discuss prostitutes alone. The key is personal liberation and avoiding economic relations from jeopardizing. The basic human rights of the people at the bottom.

You know, when the Song Dynasty was founded, a major advancement was to use hired slaves and maids to replace the low-mouth slaves and maids in the previous Tang Dynasty. The so-called low-mouth slaves and maids in the Tang Dynasty were like cattle, horses and livestock to the master, while the hired slaves were The Liang family temporarily comes to work at the owner's house. The two parties are in an economic employment relationship and do not involve basic personal belongings.

Of course, judging from the actual legal provisions and the actual situation, there are still a considerable number of low-mouth slaves and maidservants. In other words, Da Song's personal liberation was not complete.

Not only that, with the passage of time, this tangible relationship between good and bad has in turn affected the law. In the Zhenzong Dynasty, there were legal amendments such as disputes between masters and slaves and reduction of the master’s family crimes. ...This is a standard historical reversing.

Moreover, this kind of reversing is intensifying. In the current season, many articles have unfavorable amendments to slaves, and the folk atmosphere is becoming more and more unfavorable to slaves and maids. Even in another time and space, after the Southern Song Dynasty has stabilized, it has made great strides. Various personal restrictions were imposed on the servants, and the good and low system was restored to a certain extent... Therefore, Zhao Jiu's emotion and vigilance were not groundless.

And now that he thought of this problem, he naturally persuaded Zaizhi to correct this basic problem in the name of gathering people's hearts and relieving the pressure on the bottom.

It can be regarded as the complete abolition of the Liangjian system, which guarantees a considerable part of the basic human rights that exist at the bottom.

As for the violating human relationship such as the princess wife, naturally, there is no need to say more. It is justified to abolish it at this time.

Frankly speaking, these series of events have actually affected the interests of the powerful, wealthy businessmen, and even monks and Taoists. But as the saying goes, in front of the emperor, the bureaucrats, the officials, and the army, which onion are you?

The people below are thoughtful at this time, and they just feel that they are going to be unlucky today. Who cares about this.

"As for the sacred learning, it goes without saying. The officials squeezed rational and new learning, and respected the original learning, and the new and the Chen alternated themselves." Zhao Ding nodded when he saw Zhao Jiu, and then went on to introduce it. "In addition, the official establishment of the Daxiangguo Temple Artillery Workshop, the reorganization of the military equipment supervisor, and the establishment of a steamship workshop are all timely actions. In terms of military affairs, there is no need to say anything. Everyone knows everything."

"So, I still do a lot of things with you guys?" Zhao Jiu put away his eyes from the notebook, and smiled.

As soon as this remark came out, many of the nobles below were already unable to hold back and were ready to come up to shoot horses, while Cheng Li Guang frowned instinctively, but stood silent and noncommittal.

However, seeing Li Guangwei still motionless, he had no choice but to do so, but Zhang Jun, who had already been out of the queue, could only sternly bow his hands: "Officials are careful! Since ancient times, people who have traveled a hundred miles have been half 90, not to mention that the country has reached this point. How can you be complacent if you haven't even competed for half of the race?"

The eager nobles were immediately awe-inspiring, but Li Guang went to see Zhang Jun as if he had eaten a fly, and more ministers immediately realized with keenness that today’s things would not be so simple... the emperor and the chiefs, even It is possible that Yushi Zhongcheng has reached an agreement on something to some extent, but it is obviously important and needs to be endorsed by everyone here.

Considering that this is a military camp, where the officials have the strongest executive power; it is among the ceremonies, when the authority of the officials is the most powerful.

"What Zhang Xianggong said is quite true." Zhao Jiu didn't panic, he was right. "What Zhao Xianggong said just now is based on the roots, and he has not yet heard the words of harm..."

"Officials." Liu Ji, the deputy minister of the provincial capital, suddenly stepped forward and smiled bitterly. "The words to investigate the harm are actually very simple."

"That's it."

"So that the officials will know." The prince's deputy who didn't know when to stand up sighed. "If it is to investigate the harm, in the case of a hundred years before the current dynasty, there has long been a conclusion. It is nothing more than three redundant... redundant troops, redundant officials, redundant expenses... But now and then, the changes in Jingkang, although the national orthodoxy However, the government’s Zhongxing is like building a new one. The three redundant things are basically abandoned. However, although the country does not have three redundants, it has other disadvantages. One loses the land of the two rivers, and the other is the land of Henan, Huaibei, Jingdong and Guanxi. The scourge of war, therefore, the dynasty still has the difficulties of insufficient military strength and insufficient finances...not to mention being poor and weak, but also poor and weak."

Li Guang was helpless, and finally came out, but coldly said, "Is it just finances? Don't the people's hearts be gathered?"

"The hearts of the people really want to gather." Zhao Ding finally talked to each other again. "But the biggest part of people's hearts is not elsewhere. It is to raise the army, replenish the wealth, increase taxes in the southeast, increase taxes in Jingxiang, and advance the wealth of Bashu. A thousand hearts, but eight hundred are here! So! After all, it is financially tight... If the finances are abundant, how can the imperial battalion be set at 200,000? Is it not good to raise 300,000 soldiers? If the finances are abundant, how can the people of the South have to work hard? Is the newly added tax not good? If the finances are sufficient, why bother to raise the national debt every time in winter? If the finances are sufficient, how can private donations be required to redeem the refugees in Hebei last time, and this time to redeem the official prostitutes to sell the palaces? If the finances are abundant, how can we have such a ceremony so that the official family wears the old Dagon crown of the Taishang Taoist emperor, while the Manchu civil and military can only wear official robes to pay homage?! At this time, the damage is done. Too little, but in one word, it is money!"

The chief executives sang and said so thoroughly, the wealthy businessmen below have already chilled their hearts...Is this going to take them?

Even the monks and Taoist priests are also worried.

But the rest of the civil and military officials, and even some of the nobles, are all eager to try... The officials and the officials mean this, so there is no reason for them not to cooperate?

In fact, even if they do not proceed from the dark psychology, they are really for the country and the people, there are already many scholar-bureaucrats who are in their positions to seek political affairs. It's wrong for us to make a surprise attack, but the problem is naked, it's money.

"Your Majesty!" Lin Qi, Shang Shu of the Household Department, came out and said seriously. "The minister was able to think about finances a little bit... now that the wealth has reached its extreme, and wanting to increase it is tantamount to making the people upset; although there is still a possibility of raising the benefits of the franchise of salt, iron, tea, wine, and tin, it is impossible to take the initiative to raise it. Prices will ruin the hearts of the people in the city, and we should wait for it to gain weight. In addition, if Jingdong recovers, if it can operate sincerely, it will be normal for more than one million yuan in income in one or two years; and Jingdong has always been a developed sea trade, Korea , Japan’s traffic is smooth, and it may be able to earn more than one million yuan... Besides, if you want to make money, it is nothing more than paying children and national debt."

Not surprisingly, there was the Song Dynasty, the market economy was developed, and the franchise of sea trade and some commercial products was very mature. Like Zhao Kai’s tea-horse reform in Bashu, it was more that the imperial court restricted commercial and economic activities in the Bashu region. , Has been released now, and there is no current situation where the commercial potential of the coastal areas where the court can directly radiate is suppressed.

For example, during Song Zhezong’s reign, a sea trade reward mechanism was established. Which sea merchant pays more taxes is to be rewarded with official positions, and it also set up something similar to the Marine Accident Regulations... Instead, it was Zhao Jiu, the traverser. A very unusual order was once granted in Nanyang to abolish the ceremony for the internal officials to send off the fleet to sea on the southeast coast, so as to save some money for the country.

In a word, Lin Qi's meaning is very clear. Since we have to consider popular support, taxation can no longer be mentioned. Commercial tax is an important part of Song Dynasty's finances. Although there is still room for squeezing in theory, it is also considered that commercial tax is actually related to it. The hearts of the people in the cities, which account for a large proportion of the population of the Song Dynasty, should no longer be promoted, but should settle down and allow it to slowly recover on its own.

But then again, waiting for it to recover slowly is certainly a kingly approach, but isn't it ready to use soldiers now, just short of money?

So Lin Qi bluntly said that if he wants to make quick money, but does not want to lose heart, then he can only consider the national debt and Jiaozi...This is an inevitable direction.

In fact, Zhao Jiu had already rehearsed Lin Qi's remarks once before discussing with the chief executives. At that time, Liu Ji analyzed this way, and Li Guang immediately refuted him.

"The officials thought that what the Hubu Shangshu said was on the surface, and the inside might not be right." At this moment, the Guozijian Jijiu Chen Kangbo came out more and more, and publicly refuted it. "Although the minister is not good at money matters, he knows some fundamental truths... After all, the wealth of the world is there, the land tax was issued in Longmu, and the taxation started in the market. There are traces to follow. Now the plight of the imperial court The reason is that the north of the Huai River was hit by the war, and they had to raise their troops to the north, and the south had to increase taxes, so that they lost a certain amount of people’s support. Therefore, there must be no more ideas in the fields, and no more ideas in the market. And Korea, Japan, Dali, Tubo, and even the big eclipse are so big that the annual business income cannot suddenly exceed expectations. Then the official dare to ask Lin Shangshu, now if you want to use national debt and pay for money, you must have a way to get it?! Whose money are you going to use this for?"

In the day-like lobby of the Chinese Army, illuminated by countless braziers, everyone fell into a delicate state for a while. Some were nervous, some were eager to try, some were panicked, and some were thoughtful.

Even if the chief executives started with the suspicion of acting in "The Legend of the White Snake," there was no problem with what they said, and the country had this financial problem.

And Lin Qi, Shangshu, who was forced to pick up this topic because of his duty, had no problems with his analysis.

It was Chen Kangbo, the young leader of the main battle faction, who had just been promoted to his official position and was young and vigorous. His words were straightforward and eloquent, but they were also irrefutable...the logic was there.

Therefore, the Zhao official family and the clerks sang a harmony, in the end do they want to use the national debt and pay their sons to make money for whom?

"There are people in the world who don't have to do production and sit back and enjoy their success. When the country is in trouble, they don't want to pull a penny. After the country is troubled, they are still fighting for money. At this moment, Chen Gongfu, the official secretary, suddenly stepped out of the ranks, but did not look at the officials and the governors behind him. Instead, he turned his head to face him and spoke out loudly. "Now that the country is so difficult, one has to spend one point in the army when it is full of finances, so that even the Supreme must raise fish and plant mulberries in the harem, so where do you keep them full of stomachs?! It's just doing things and confiscating Ge?!"

"Namo Amitabha."

As the officials of the central government of the imperial court saw so many layers of pictures, in an instant, he chanted a sentence of Buddha's Fahe in his heart and even felt a bit wronged...Isn't the afternoon okay? I said you are a Bodhisattva, and you say I am an Arhat. That's it at night?

Do you really want to kill chickens to get eggs, harvest all the fields, and all the floating wealth?

If this is the case, it is no wonder that the people of Mingdao Palace have not come... Their home was raided by the official four years ago, and even the golden body of Daozu was shaved off.

In fact, don't say that these monks and Taoist merchants smell such murderous theories, that is, Sheng Gong and others are also a little confused... Can't even the sacred field in Qufu be confiscated, right?

PS: Routine sacrifices, the new book "The Nurturer of the Ancient Gods"...

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