Chapter 396 Ida
This is not a place to speak, Wang Ju immediately washed his hands and said, "Teacher, let's go back and talk."
The two returned home, which was Wang Ju's straw hut.
"You are hypocritical, too." Zhang Zai said as he looked at the decoration in the straw shed.
"Mr., then you are wrongly blamed me. If I want to be comfortable, I just want to buy a house in the city and spend how much money? Why do I have to make a fuss? These decorations have nothing to do with me. They are materials brought by soldiers from the barracks. They said that I was about to get married and should not be too shabby. I couldn't let the soldiers tear them down, so I didn't let them get rid of them, so I paid for them and handed them back to the warehousing."
"That's right."
"I dare not deceive my teacher, I have met my master's wife."
"You have done a good job in recent years. My husband has been teaching people all his life, so you have the greatest prospects," Guo said with a smile.
In this regard, she did not regard Guanzhong Erlu as a student of Zhang Zai.
"Hello Dalang," Zhang Gui shouted from the side.
"No, I've grown taller," Wang Ju said happily, touching his head.
However, Guo raised another son for Zhang Zai in Weizhou, named Zhang Yin, and this lineage was very prosperous in history. Although the Jin people conferred official positions of Zhang Gui and Zhang Yin, Zhang Gui's lineage gradually disappeared. However, Zhang Yin's lineage produced many high-ranking officials in the Jin Yuan Dynasty.
Wang Ju didn't know anymore, even if he knew, he didn't want this history to be re-stated.
"Dalang, you killed a lot of people, right?" Zhang Gui asked again.
"I'm killing bad guys." Wang Ju said with a smile.
"Don't talk nonsense," Guo pulled him.
Li Fei'er came here to make tea in person.
Wang Judao: "Teacher, let's go to the study to talk."
Therefore, what we will talk about next is more private words. We must say it separately.
The two of them came to Wang Ju's simple study with teacups.
"Mr. This time, the timing is not good."
"How to say it?"
"When the country is full of shortcomings, the government is determined to reform."
"political reform?"
"It is a big move, taxation, arable land, commerce, farmland water conservancy, education, official system, military system, etc., all of them must be moved."
It should be said that Zhang Zai was not against reforms. For example, when he was in Weizhou, Cai Ting came and understood military affairs, he valued Zhang Zai very much, and because of Wang Ju, he valued it even more. So when he talked with Zhang Zai, Zhang Zai said a lot. Some Cai Ting dared not agree, such as Zhang Zai said that he would use border troops to replace the imperial guards. Anyway, the imperial guards were not worthy of use, so it would be better to cancel the imperial guards and train a capable army in Shaanxi. How could that be?
However, Cai Ting agreed to Zhang Zaizhong's training. In addition, Zhang Zai's military generals' skills made Cai Ting more appreciate. Later, Cai Ting entered the Western Prefecture and revised Zhang Zai's military generals' skills, which led to the Song Dynasty's military strategy.
And many other things.
This is also related to Zhang Zai's origin. Why did he finally accept Wang Ju? Although it was Wang Ju's six bows, it was also related to his experience when he was a teenager. Zhang Zai was originally from Kaifeng, and his father Zhang Di died of illness when he was the governor of Fuzhou. So Zhang Zai's mother took Zhang Zai, a fifteen-year-old Zhang Jian, and Zhang Jian, a five-year-old, to escort the coffin back to the Central Plains. Halfway through insufficient road resources and encountered wars, he left Xiegu and went to Hengqu, Mei County, and buried his father here and settled here.
It should be a teenager that Zhang Zai was also very hard.
This kind of life experience prevents him from turning to a conservative.
Zhang Zai was pondering after hearing this.
Wang Ju said again: "My teacher, it's very troublesome. I don't know much about how to change it. There are only two points: one is to reduce expenditure and the other is to open up the source."
"Save money and increase resources?"
"Sales are saving unnecessary expenses, such as cutting redundant soldiers and eliminating unnecessary floating expenses."
"I know this. It seems that the last time the big layoff was also what you proposed?"
Originally, it was impossible for Zhang Zai to know his official position, but he had a close relationship with Cai Ting. Cai Ting could hear some insider information, probably Cai Ting told Zhang Zai.
"It's a little bit of a relationship," Wang Ju said lightly, "But the court probably will lay off troops and even have other actions. In addition, officials have not yet been laid off, and they will continue to lay off later. This is to reduce expenditure. Opening up sources means opening up wealth paths, such as the Kapok Branch. This is a matter of no-floor, and some financial resources are not about opening up sources, but about reallocation."
“Reassignment?”
"Do you know what Sang Hongyang's methods?"
"I know, it will be controversial if you make money like that."
"The main thing is to make money, but some cannot be considered purely to make money, such as the exemption law or the recruitment law. The service of the court has caused many people to suffer. Especially some merchants and main households of third and fourth households, they are key taxpayers in the country. However, due to the service law, the first and second households are all powerful and difficult to collect taxes. The state has to pay taxes to the 5,6 and seven households, so the poor are more poor. Therefore, recruitment is used instead of exemption, and it has another advantage, which is to spend money on employed service. Some service is not for many years. If they are servants, they will be trapped in service. However, the recruitment officers have to make careful calculations and release more labor."
"I understand, it's just that households with one, two, three, and four pay, and the government uses this money to hire idle people instead of these labor. This not only solves the difficulties of these people, but also solves the problem of some loose idle people making a living."
"What my teacher said is not that simple. Now first-class households are the biggest beneficiaries. They rarely pay taxes and will not serve. Even if they serve, they are mostly clerks, not real servants or servants. But there are countless people in the country, and there are probably 500,000 or 600,000 people. If they plan to give 30 stagnant coins per person, they will have to pay 15 million stagnant coins. It is impossible to raise them from second-, third- and fourth-class households. Therefore, they must be paid to first-class households. Will the first-class households be happy? Many of these first-class households are official households, relatives, and real powerful people."
Zhang Zai fell into deep thought again.
Wang Anshi, who was even more deadly, made money crazy. Since it was Huizheng, then he should be a Huizheng. It is okay to collect households from the upper class, but the reason was Wang Ju repeatedly said that he could not raise enough money to recruit soldiers without levy.
Even if you can collect the levies of the houses, monks and Taoists, single households and official households, but what about the poor lower-class households (five, six, seven or eight people) and female households (widow families)? Especially these female households have the nerve to collect the levies?
In addition, the 20% exemption method is required to be used to prevent floods, droughts, famines and sudden wars. It is called "free and leniency leftover money". Then there is indeed a leniency leftover money. In addition to paying the annual leniency, there is also a lot of money surplus.
Isn't this an excuse for the opposition?
"Mr., then you think about it, the battle between the new party and the old party, reform and conservatism, and the southern and northern schools, where do you stand?"
"I don't stand anywhere."
"Mr., you come from Weizhou. Have you seen the head of Zheng Baiqu?"
"Look. That canal head is well built."
"I am not referring to the channel, but to the Jing River. The mainstream is guiding the Jing River to go southeast. I use the Canal Pond to force the Jing River to go northeast and enter Zhengbai Canal, and the two streams compete for water. Mentor, if you stand in the middle and cannot go southeast or northeast, is that possible? And you are famous and do not want to go southeast. Someone also forces you to say it. What should you do then?"
"The main reason for the country is the inequality between the rich and the poor. If the well fields are implemented, that would be great."
"Yintian?" Wang Ju almost fell to the ground in fear and asked again: "Mr., how about Iintian?"
It is said that during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the cultivated land was neatly planned, and roads and channels were crisscrossed. The land separated these roads and ditches into squares, shaped like a tic-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac-tac
Specifically, the Song Dynasty could not be verified, and later generations could not be verified.
However, when future generations may view it, it will definitely cause many disadvantages, otherwise Shang Yang would not have proposed to abolish the well fields and open up the fields during the reforms.
In fact, the well-field system in the eyes of the literati and officials was no longer the well-field system in ancient times. Moreover, the Song Dynasty was not the well-field system proposed by Zhang Zai first, but Li Wei. Perhaps he also realized the power of the powerful. The well-field system was very vague, and serious conflicts occurred in many places.
Zhang Zai's well fields are clearer.
First, all the land is collected as state-owned, and according to the ancient well-field law, the land in the world is drawn and distributed to farmers. The distributed land is not allowed to be rented or tenanted, and the state will uniformly collect one-tenth of taxes.
"What about the main and the client objecting?"
"The state can make some humility and give them a land official according to their original land. These land officials can collect tithes taxes in a certain area. After 10 or 20 years, the land officials will select the virtuous."
"That's to leave it to the country?"
"It's almost the same, so that they can calm their opposition."
In fact, the ultimate goal of these ideas is just three words: equalizing the fields.
In the entire history of China, only TG has done it. How many people died and how big a storm has happened? And with ideology, revolution, invasion of powerful foreign pirates, internal implementation, external pressure also gives the possibility of implementation, which is successful.
But in this era of imperial power, can equalize the land?
In fact, Zhang Zai cannot be blamed. They are all kind-hearted, and the second Cheng also proposed it. Later, someone continued to mention it. In the Ming Dynasty, Huang Zongxi deliberately tried to prove the feasibility of the well-field system from the military farm. In fact, it was his desire for this equal land system.
"Mr., did the Tang Dynasty implement the equal-field order?"
"Yes, it was executed very well at the beginning, but later it was corrupted, and the Tang Dynasty declined."
"Mr., no, the Tang Dynasty could implement the equal land order, that was only part of the equal land order. Think about it, after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there were only two million households, and how many places were deserted. There were too many idle land, so the equal land order was partially implemented. But mentor, if you think about the history books, the Tang Dynasty did not divide the land of the powerful clans? No. Besides, the number of households in our dynasty now has more than 10 million households. In fact, one place implemented the equal land system, which is the well-field system that the mentor wanted, which was the policy implemented when Wang Xiaobo and Zhang Shun rebelled. It could be implemented, but the premise was to overthrow our Song Dynasty and re-establish a court. Then kill all the major masters, and to make meritorious officials no longer greedily reward the land, then that could be implemented. Mentor, are you sure you want to do this?" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!