Chapter 284 Dongfeng

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After hearing this, the officials around him seemed to hear Zheng Lang saying that I would go to take down the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun tomorrow without any effort.

Zhang Xia recalled that Zheng Lang was still very modest when he talked to him along the way, and he was really modest!

Zheng Lang was serious and bowed again: "My fellow villagers, you don't have to worry. Although it is my promise to Your Majesty, I will not impose these taxes on you or merchants. That is not my purpose of being a human being. Even if the imperial court collects taxes, it will be taken from the people and used for the people. But it is difficult and I need more assistance from you."

No one takes his words seriously. If you peel off all the merchants' skins and drink all the people's blood fat, you will not be able to earn five or six times the income.

After Zheng Lang finished speaking, he looked at the crowd, saw Shi Congguang, walked over and said, "You can settle down."

"Prince Zheng, I bought a yard at the foot of Phoenix Mountain, but I had a lot of money and spent more than 1,500 yuan." Shi Congguang replied ashamed.

"It's not expensive, this is Hangzhou." Zheng Lang said hehe, and bowed to the officials and said, "It's getting late, we have to go back. If you have something to do, we'll talk about it tomorrow."

There were automatically a yamen runners who separated the crowd and asked him to go back.

This is also a kind of respect for miracles.

If it weren't for the miracle in Taipingzhou, Zheng Lang would have said this rashly today, he would have been regarded as a lunatic by everyone.

Moreover, Taipingzhou has become a legendary place. Some yamen runners even implement the exemption law like Taipingzhou. Rich people do not want to pay the yamen, and rich people are still looking forward to some subsidies. If others do not care for themselves, they will be punished by heaven and earth. In fact, if they can make good use of it, they can accomplish many things.

There are many people, most of them who believe that they do not have the ability to think so far. Since they can make a miracle in Taipingzhou, Hangzhou is dozens of times better than Taipingzhou, why can't they make it? They left excitedly.

But the officials continued to petrochemical.

Although Shi Congguang spent some money, the house I bought was in excellent location. The northwest is Wulin Gate, which is adjacent to the foot of Phoenix Mountain. It has three entrances and three exits and cross-yards. There is also a garden where some Taihu stones are piled up in the garden, carrying various trees and flowers, and several tall osmanthus flowers are similar to the railings on the second floor. Before the flowers bloom, golden millet grains burst out among the lush leaves.

There are two more ancient wells, with stone moss growing in full bloom, and the ancient meaning is high.

Beside Fenghuang Mountain, looking up, you can vaguely see some pavilions and temples on the mountain, and pieces of yellow glazed tiles blooming in the sunlight.

Another small stream came from the mountain, and clear water splashed outside the house, so the original owner led a guide and led part into the house. A small pond was bloomed with the stream water, with some golden carp and several sparse lotus flowers in it.

After walking for a few steps, looking back and forth, Zheng Lang said, "It's really not expensive."

Wang Anshi pulled Zheng Lang's clothes.

Zheng Lang understood and walked into the house with Wang Anshi and Yan Rong.

Sier, Huan'er, Zhu'er and the others were cleaning the house. When they saw Zheng Lang coming in, they quickly wiped the tables and chairs.

The three of them sat down and Wang Anshi told the story of this journey.

Hangzhou is very good, and it is even good to come along the Grand Canal. From a geographical point of view, Hangzhou has the Grand Canal, and the Wuyue Canal to Yuezhou and Mingzhou. It also has the Qiantang River shipping outside, and the huge Zhejiang and the Huantang River to Huzhou. In addition, the terrain is flat, so Yuezhou quickly replaced it as the center of the southeast.

But only Hangzhou, and only the flat areas are Renhe, Qiantang and Yanguan near Hangzhou. From Fuyang in Yuhang to west, Lin'an, Xincheng, Yuqian and Changhua, most of them are mountainous terrain, just like Fujian, eight mountains, one water and one branch of fields.

"Continue," Zheng Lang nodded. In fact, the entire Liangzhe River also has seven mountains, one water and two parts of the fields. The so-called wealth in the southeast does not refer to western Zhejiang and southern Zhejiang. This is different from later generations. The advantages of the coastal locality have not been used. The wealth in the southeast starts from Jiangning, all the way to the Taihu Lake Basin, and on both sides of the Qiantang River. The situation is bad when going inside.

Therefore, like Fujian, there are problems such as difficulty in arable land and difficulty in obtaining water.

But the people fully utilized the wisdom of the southerners, or what Sier said, "Shier said that they were cunning. They were private and government-owned, and were used for irrigation. They had a large population and a small cultivated land. Therefore, they cultivated their intensive farming, and their yields and intensive farming were the highest in the country.

It was forced to do so.

There are also more bad sides, especially the invasion of powerful people, such as enclosing fields and storing water, encroaching places with water sources, or surrounding lakes and turning them into fields. This development time was very early, but the area was small, not as noticeable as Jingminwei.

As a result, June came, the poor people looked at the sun and sighed at the ocean, and had no water to irrigate. But it was not like Taipingzhou, which was the Maoshan and Huangshan water system. The water flowed down and was very stable. Only Huangmei genius was the flood season. However, the east of Zhejiang was different. This was Tianmu Mountain and Xianxia Ridge water system, which was close to the sea and had a short flood season. However, the water flow was large and the water system was developed. In autumn, there were many rainstorms and mountain torrents, and the strong people blocked rivers and lakes, and the water was not allowed to leak. Thousands of households were flooded. This was what the officials of the Song Dynasty called autumn slums.

Some officials also prevented them and forced them to dismantle the siege, but they were resisted by wealthy families, and some even pushed their swords at each other.

It has nothing to do with rebellion. This is the edict of Taizu, Taizong and Zhenzong, which allows us to open up the land and gain the land for those who have opened up the land.

After Zhao Zhen issued the edict, he could use it as evidence, but he also said that it was Taizu, Taizong and Zhenzong, or the current emperor, and of course the first three, so why do you still use the emperor's edict to threaten us!

Zheng Lang smiled bitterly. The Song Dynasty's policy of being close to the people cannot be said to be bad, but the threat to the people is too weak, especially the powerful. Moreover, the government orders are both open and treacherous, which also reduces its prestige. The more frequent the edicts are changed, the weaker the prestige is.

This is the situation in the six counties in the west.

The three counties in the east may not be very good either. The harms between Qiantang River and Zhejiang are often flooded, not only flooding but also tide disasters. There are also West Lake near Hangzhou City. Salt officials... salt also harms.

"Say, I came from the salt field."

"Here," Wang Anshi responded worriedly.

Like the tea farm, the court had a kind intention. First, lend it to the pavilion households, and give the salt households a plow and salt cooking tool. There is only one condition. These tools and cattle are not for you to farm, but they are specially plowing salt mud for the court. However, the pavilion households themselves are unconscious and often plough privately.

The court showed a humanized side to this and turned a blind eye.

And I give you a piece of salt to cook salt specifically.

This is what the court paid, so there will inevitably be a reward. First, the salt tax. The pavilion households generally pay 30 to 35 s of regular salt every year, and 50 kilograms of flat salt per stone and 150 kilograms of regular salt. The rest must be sold to the country, and even tasks are formulated for the sake of people's livelihood. After completing the task, the more salt cooked is floating salt, also called flat salt, and the purchase price is higher.&*.

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More humane.

But the fact is, it is not! First of all, the purchase price is too low. The government only saves 500 yuan per stone for the regular salt (because the money is insufficient, a scoop of less than 1,000 yuan is mostly 700 yuan, which is called saving money). A pound of salt is only 2.5 yuan. After reaching Tiansheng, I added it and the additional 600 yuan is only 3 cents.

But it's not bad, it's better than scraping it with a knife later. At this time, it was plowed with a plow, with a high thickness of salt and a large amount of salt production.

There is no hurry, there are two taxes, two taxes are replaced by salt. When two taxes come, miscellaneous taxes are also coming. All the messy taxes have to be collected. Then the ox plow has to collect money, and the prices of goods have risen, and the price of firewood remains high, becoming more and more expensive, while the salt price remains unchanged. As well as the exploitation of the people of the Tinghu households by the Tinghu households, some of the big Tinghu households have not been cooked in the salt farm, and they live in the near-site supervision, borrow money and profit, and hide land (hidden the number of salt fields they occupy themselves), which harms gangsters (citize the household registration of civilians). Whoever has nothing to do, borrow money and borrow money and rely on it whenever they have something to do.

More than that, the Song Dynasty gradually relaxed the people in all aspects, such as giving the people the right to move freely, and even entrusting refugees into the wing army to give them a way to survive. However, because of the violent salt profit, the salt people were very strict. One was not allowed to join the army, and the ones who were charged were entrusted to their own business, and the two were entrusted to the pavilion escaped. The two were entrusted to the pavilion and the pavilion fled to the scene, and even if they were moved to the other, they would take them back even if they were entrusted to the scene. The three were entrusted to the pavilion and the three were entrusted to change their business, and they were only allowed to cook salt to make a living. After all, they were serfs! It was even more regressive than the Tang Dynasty's policy of closing the household.

So Wang Anshi was very worried.

The teacher is very popular and pays special attention to the common people. Once you see this situation, what will happen?

But another problem is smuggling. In Hangzhou alone, a pound of salt from a salt bank is three-money, and the sale price in this state is twenty-six cents! Even the travel expenses are saved. If you transfer one hand, you will get 90% of the profit. Some smugglers dare to hunt and kill the yamen runners who inspected the government. Therefore, the salt sellers are crowded with thousands of people, and the power of the prefectures and counties cannot be prohibited.

There are also many strange places, such as Qianzhou (Ganzhou) is close to Guangnan, and it is based on the old system and transports Huai salt. Think about how far it is from Liangzhuan Road to Qianzhou. Therefore, it became the area with the most serious private salt phenomenon in the Song Dynasty.

Not only salt, but also wine. The wine situation is slightly better, but there are also many bad things. Many powerful people forced to make wine privately, including some officials with backstage in the imperial court, and many private wine shops were opened in several prefectures in Huxiu, Hangzhou and Yue.

As for the benefits of tea alum, according to Wang Anshi's intention, it is better to simply commercialize them all. What do you want them to do? Tea alum farmers were forced to be very hard, and the court did not get any benefits, such as more than 200,000 yuan and more than 100,000 yuan in the past few years. The court really took the more than 400,000 yuan in this 400,000 yuan!

After commercialization, the loss is the interests of the wealthy family, so what does it have to do with the court? Small and medium-sized businessmen have a better life with the people, and once commercialized, the court will rely solely on commercial taxes, and will not have less income than before.

This refers to the accumulated problems that have formed at the moment. At the beginning, including salt, the court had good intentions. After implementing tea specialization, many new tea varieties were developed. This is the power of the state machine, or alum, and the same is true. However, afterwards, the court did not respond in time and did not gain the benefits. Instead, it became a tool for the powerful and powerful people to make fish and the people.

But the problem is not only that, but there are other things, such as temples.

It is not as serious as Fujian, but also very serious. Not only does it prevent its water conservancy, it even occupied West Lake. Some temples have deep backgrounds, such as Dongxiao Palace in Hangzhou, when Song Zhenzong personally granted 15 hectares of fertile land, Empress Dowager Li was born in Hangzhou, and Zhao Zhen also granted 15 hectares of Lingyin Temple Village to pray for blessings. Who dares to touch this temple?

As for invading fields, rivers and lakes, seizing people's land, issuing usury, hiding people's households, etc., it is all the same.

After saying this in one breath, Wang Anshi said: "Doctor Zheng, it's difficult. Unless Doctor Zheng really has the ability to turn the rivers and seas, he can move away all the mountains in Fuyang and other counties."

Zheng Lang spewed out a mouthful of tea and said, "I'm moving a mountain. I said a small mountain with a base of hundreds of feet and a height of less than thirty feet. Is it big?"

That is, the foothills are about 300 meters long and 90 meters high. Such a mountain is considered a very small mountain. Wang Anshi said: "It's not big."

"But do you know how many stones it will have? Nearly one million stones, it takes more than three thousand ships to load with a river boat with a load capacity of more than 10,000 stones. What are my abilities to do to make the world go wrong?"

Speaking of Sun Wukong's golden cudgel, just like this small mountain, it may be weighed 50,000 golden cudgels.

Wang Anshi was also happy.

Zheng Lang said again: "Don't worry, I have made psychological preparations for this. Most of them are fine-tuning, and the focus is not on it. Some are easier to manage. The difficult thing is whether I can maintain it after I leave office. The difficult thing is that there is no big problem in a state, and how to solve the problem of more than 300 state prefectures nationwide?"

Speaking of this, Wang Anshi complained: "Doctor Zheng, that can't be said."

“What can’t be said.”

"It's five or six times."

"It's five or six times, and I don't say that I have made a promise to Your Majesty, or five or six times. What's the difference? No one knows now. Maybe your Majesty has kept my secret for me and relieved my pressure. This is Your Majesty's kindness. You can't be lazy, and you can't lie to Your Majesty. I take the initiative to reveal the truth and will provide good protection for some of my measures."

I don’t know if I don’t say it, but I’m shocked when I say it. Just five or six times, who dares to stop myself from doing some reforms?

"Not proper, not right," the voice came from outside.

Just now, Sima Guang and Lu Gong walked in with two beautiful young wives.

The two young wives also sang a sweetly sing: "I've met Dr. Zheng."

"Sit." Zheng Lang said.

The four of them sat down and Zheng Lang asked: "Sima Sanlang, what's wrong?"

Most of the new Jinshi were assigned to be magistrates of each county. However, through the allocation, we can see the power of the powerful. Sima Guang ranked high, but was assigned to Yuqian. Lu Gongzhu was assigned to Yuhang. Lu Gongbi and Han Jiang had a period of experience, one in Qiantang and the other in Renhe, guarding Hangzhou like two ghosts slapped the door. Fan Town arrived in Lin'an, Su Shunqin arrived in Xincheng, Cui Huanghe arrived in Changhua, Xue Lihe arrived in Yanguan, and only one magistrate of Fuyang was the original magistrate of Liu County.

This is also the headache for Zheng Lang.

Almost all of them were replaced, regardless of their lack of experience at the moment. Even if their wisdom was made up for it, there were a few who were very good at the background and might not be able to listen to his followers. The magistrate also had some independent rights.

I don’t know why the imperial court made such arrangements, but such arrangements undoubtedly caused chaos.

But whether it is Lu Gongzhu or Sima Guang, even if it is in his own territory, it will not be easy to meet in the future.

The easy meeting is Han Jiang and Lu Gongbi. What do you do when they meet? Besides business, what else do you want to have a friendship with them?

Sima Guang said: "I don't know how Doctor Zheng can increase Hangzhou's income by five or six times. If he can't do it, it's a huge laughing stock. If he can do it, it's not called a miracle, but a miracle. It won't be beneficial to Doctor Zheng in the future."

Even if the achievements of the administration are done, they must be stopped. If the contributions are too great, not only military generals, but also civil officials will be jealous. It will be difficult to do some small articles and further advance. It can be seen that historical books can often kill ministers who have great achievements like you, unless the Jin Dynasty goes south and rely on the support of the Wang and Xie families.

However, no matter whether Wang Dao or Xie An or other, such background, such credit and status, many people still secretly destroyed it.

What does Zheng Lang use to compare with others, Dao Wang and Xie An?

Zheng Lang sighed and said, "Sima Sanlang, you have good intentions, but for the sake of the country and the people, why should you care too much about your status? Besides, I am a little indifferent. If Your Majesty was not valued, I would like to be at home with paid tuition, raising flowers, tasting tea, playing the piano, and practicing calligraphy, that would be the life I most want to live."

After saying that, he was confused.
To be continued...