Cai Xiang was said inexplicably.

Zheng Lang is definitely not Lu Yijian's person, so why did he say this?

He guessed well. Even though he had a deeper understanding of Lu Yijian, Zheng Lang would not change his perception of Lu Yijian. He had never been too evil. Without this enlightenment, Zheng Lang would not deny Lu Yijian's achievements and always put his political achievements above Fan Zhongyan. He had no good intentions. Even with political achievements, Lu Yijian was still very low in moral integrity and could not tolerate others, suppress his opponents, and used all means to rely on profound power-making and deceitful techniques to play personal power, and set a precedent for the Song Dynasty with Fan Zhongyan.

But as a polite minister, he can only discuss things with the facts. What is right is right and what is wrong is wrong. He believes that Zhao Zhen often asks people about Lu Yijian's bad luck and loses the system. He says that he doesn't have to be labeled as a big hat.

You can drive anything, but you can't really drive nonsense.

Once it opens, the black and white will be reversed, and it will be great!

He didn't talk to Cai Xiang anymore because he was going to the capital to talk about something.

Drought and food.

Three uprisings occurred this year, the latest and longest was the Guiyang Man Uprising. The main reason was that there were many absurdities here and it was difficult to govern. They were self-restrained and often committed evil, and participated in the large-scale sales of salt. After Chen Zhifang took office, he suppressed the large private salt dealer Huang catching ghosts. Seeing that it was difficult to manage here, he forced the local life. The leader Tang He and Pan Zhiliang launched an uprising, which lasted for three years. Finally, the policy of differentiation was used to resolve the uprising in this area.

It has nothing to do with the pressure brought to the people by the Song Dynasty's military. The weak policies of the Song Dynasty were too late to win over, so how could they strip these powerful acts of life? The faults in the middle are hard to explain. As officials of the Song Dynasty, they were forced to do so. They usually regarded these barbarians as masters, but they could not disturb the people in other normal areas, as well as taxation and management, so they decided to move some acts. It is possible that they were not subject to the control and used some rough means in the middle.

The main reason was the leaders of these Mandong. Like the Meishan Man, a country that occupied almost half of the area in the northwest, which was larger than later Zhejiang Province, they were unruly and occupied the mountain as king. The Song Dynasty agreed with this, but they were so panicked on the mountain that they often ran down the mountain, burned, killed, looted and robbed the Shuman and Han people, or did other evil things.

Therefore, he refused to move and led the people to resist. As for those ordinary people, they were just puppets and tools to be used in this war. In other words, there was no justification for this so-called uprising and it was not worthy of any sympathy. The Han people and the Martial Man should not stay where they were killed or robbed. Let them burn, let them disturb the entire country's system.

Because it happened a little late, you can take it slowly, and there are still important things at the moment.

The root cause of the other two uprisings was the consequences of the Northwest War for several years. The reason for the inducement was this drought.

He thought of another consequence.

So I came to the capital and sat down with several prime ministers. Zheng Lang said, "It was May, but it started from Shandong. Until the capital, it rarely rained in Shaanxi, and drought occurred one after another. However, after reading the relevant memorials, I found that the supply of Jianghuai annual grain was not enough."

"What happened?" Yan Shu asked in surprise.

"Mr. Yan, I'll go to the Secretariat to bring you some memorials."

Zheng Lang left, and later he brought a few lieutenants to report with a lot of comments.

Not long after coming to the capital, Zheng Lang was quietly planning this matter and sent people to urge officials from all over the country to speed up the pace of transporting grain. The summer harvest in the south of the Yangtze River also came. He took this opportunity to transport a large amount of grain to the capital. There was no reply from the distance, but some officials in the Huai River had already arrived in the capital. He talked about various difficulties, insufficient financial resources, insufficient labor, and insufficient boats. Some of the reports were not reviewed by Zheng Lang, and he did not pay attention to it when he saw it. Compared with previous years, the speed of grain transfer has slightly decreased, but it did not drop sharply. No one thought deeper.

Zheng Lang spread out the memorials one by one and said, "A camel crosses the river with a heavy load because it is too much, which is very dangerous. If you reduce one weight at this time, you can cross the river safely. If you increase one weight, you may only add a straw, which will cause the camel to drown. The drought in the north is serious, and the national war has been long, and the people are burdened with heavy burdens. If the drought continues, insufficient food may become this fatal straw. My husband, you must prepare for the future and prevent it in advance. I asked my servants yesterday that a dou of rice in the city has increased by four cents and has not started yet. Once it begins, the drought will appear like when His Majesty took power for a few years, and the country is in danger."

It was not as serious as Zheng Lang said, but this drought had a series of consequences. In short, although the war stopped, it further deteriorated the Song Dynasty and delayed the recovery time. He had the same thoughts as Yuan Hao for the so-called peace, which was brewing for the war below. Take it seriously? Is it stupid?

When several prime ministers heard that he was talking seriously, they opened the memorials one by one. Zhang Dexiang said, "When Xingzhi, it is not that all places do not adjust food, but there are many difficulties."

Everyone stared at Zheng Lang.

No one paid attention to it. As soon as he chose it, he thought of another aspect. In particular, Fu Bi was very nervous. Not only Zheng Lang, but also Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi and Zhang Fangping. At this moment, the enemy could not find a chance to attack Han Fan.

Zheng Lang was even more worried and said, "The main reason for this was war. There were some granaries in the north, which saved some grain and grass. Because they wanted to reduce the burden on the country and reduce freight and losses, all the grain and grass in these granaries were transported to the northwest, which was the same straw I mentioned. If there was no drought, there would be a bumper harvest in the north and there would be no problem with the empty granaries. But if there was a drought in the north, the empty granaries would lead to a series of consequences. Of course, there were also reasons for the exemption law and financial difficulties."

"There are also disadvantages of reducing labor force," Jia Changchao said lightly.

Don't think that he is just talking plainly, maybe this person can use this matter to make a fuss.

Zheng Lang glanced at him and said lightly: "Jianggong Jia, there is a severe drought, but it will not happen every year. If that happens, no matter how hard the monarch and ministers in the temple work, the country will be in danger. Besides, the country used to mobilize grain by merchants and heavy labor, which blocked the trafficking of merchants. Secondly, relying on the Xiang army and the service. After the implementation of the exemption law, the service did not decrease. On the contrary, because the use of salary to hire poor people to transport, the efficiency was higher than before. The only reduction was the Xiang army. Last year, the number of Xiang soldiers and the rural soldiers and the foreign soldiers was as high as 500,000. The rural soldiers and the foreign soldiers were mostly in the border areas. It has nothing to do with the exemption law. Or the Xiang soldiers, the national Xiang soldiers were at their peak last year, nearly 500,000.

After the exemption law was implemented, nearly 80,000 soldiers were successively cut, making them become servants or ordinary people in disguise, but this refers to the total number of all troops in the country. Last year, Liangzhe Road, which was responsible for the Jiangzhuan Cao transport, had a total of nearly 140,000 soldiers from Huainan Road and Jiangnan Road. Because this area is the richest, almost every state prefecture implemented the exemption law, with a large reduction of nearly 40,000 people. However, not less than 40,000 troops, the imperial court set up soldiers, one was to raise refugees and not cause trouble, and the other was to deal with hundreds of soldiers. The soldiers who were actually used to escort grain accounted for less than 100% of them. In other words, only 4,000 labor was actually reduced. These four thousand labors were hired with very high money. How much impact did it have on the country?"

Talk with facts and speak with real data.

This exemption law is a reformed reform, and it was implemented with the help of the trauma caused by the war. Even if it was just implemented, Zheng Lang would doubt whether he would become a conservative step-by-step reformer like Lu Yijian. Although it sounds nice and causes less turmoil, this step-by-step reform cannot heal the current Song Dynasty. In fact, since the failure of the Qingli New Deal, Zhao Zhen has also been making adjustments. What he inherits is the step-by-step reform of Lu Yijian.

The best time of the Song Dynasty was temporarily won, but it accumulated more disadvantages for future generations.

Jia Changchao was arguably.

There is not much malicious intention at the moment, because he also knows that Zheng Lang proposed this reform. If Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi really proposed it, then Jia Changchao would not have this attitude today.

Zheng Lang was a little worried and bowed and said, "My grandpa Jia, my husband. I came from the local area and stayed for nine years. I have also built many projects. I have a deep understanding of the wing soldiers. The salary is low and not enough to support my family. If the labor is too hard, they are not motivated and may even cause mutiny. If the labor is not used, the country will bear so much money and use it for? This leads to a situation where people usually become idle people. When the construction starts, the court has to allocate additional money to hire the people. Although all the workers need to be used for service and some refugees must be resettled, how many wing soldiers does the country raise? How much salary does it take to pay in a year? Just one wing soldiers, in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, may use up the Tang Dynasty's taxes in one year. Now that the national treasury is empty, this disease can be diagnosed and treated without much influence, why not do it?"

Don't fight around, do more practical things for the country.

Everyone was silent.

This is not the negative effect brought by the exemption law. Zheng Lang said this because he was afraid that someone would make a fuss and make it a victim of party struggles. The real negative effect is another place, which is quite troublesome, and Zheng Lang is trying to find a way for this.

He also said: "In fact, the country has many disadvantages. For example, in this warehouse, most officials did not give money. Some minor officials came from good backgrounds. Fortunately, some minor officials were forced to collect goods. In order to support their families, they asked for bribes and requested public goods. The amount of goods was severing the matter. Some official officials in the country even participated in favoritism and fraud. They stored for one year and lost nearly half of them. This was also one of the reasons for this crisis. In the war in the northwest, several years of further brought financial crisis to the court. Later, after the implementation of the exemption law, the old traditions remained, and similar situations still occurred. I saw it, but I did not say that it would be very wide because it would be a big deal. If a war in the northwest is serious, the disease will come like a mountain of falling, and the disease will go like a thread to pull out, so you can't hurry."

Hearing this, Du Yan was finally moved and said, "You talk about drought and food."

"The difficulty in transferring grain has nothing to do with labor. This is an excuse for a few local officials to shirk responsibility. The heavy scientific provisions and the lack of merchants are the main reason. The warehousing in the north is empty, and the grain shortage is heavier than in previous years. The emptiness of the national treasury and the lack of money and silk is also the main reason. It is just that the transfer of the capital is not a big problem," said Zheng Lang. If it is correct, Fan Zhongyan immediately returned to the court and recommended Xu Yuan, the doctor of Imperial College, and promoted him to be the command of Jinghu, Jianghuai and Liangzhe. Yuan said that the grain in six routes and seventy-two states cannot be enough for the capital, so I did not believe it. So I ordered Jiangzhou and other counties to keep grain for three months, and the distance was supplemented by the next, and more than a thousand boats were transferred from the grain west. So I soon had enough food in the capital. But what should I do in Shandong?

What should I do in Shaanxi where the disaster is more serious?

No solution.

This is no longer possible to be done by forced levying orders. Zheng Lang said: "The war in Xixia was painful, and the Khitan was quite malicious. No matter how they talked about it, they would negotiate peace with our court. There was no war expenses, and part of the finance could be allocated this year. Therefore, I would like to allocate four million guan to hire some people to transport food to Shandong, the capital, and Sanmenxia."

"Sanmenxia?" Yan Shu finally spoke.

"Well, learn from the old Tang Dynasty system and build warehouses in Sanmenxia. If Shaanxi is suffering from drought, the court will let the people flock to Henan to eat. They can use the method of OEM to transport them to the upper reaches of Sanmenxia, ​​and then use boats to transport them to Guanzhong to resolve the drought in Guanzhong. Then the court's crisis will inevitably be overcome."

"Xingzhi, what you said is good, but where did the court generate four million guans of money?" Wang Yaozuo asked anxiously. If it was four hundred thousand guan and one million guan, you could still get it by squeezing it. Four million guans would be sold together, and even if the officials of the Three Divisions were in charge, they would not be able to get so much money.

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