Chapter Five Hundred Bosses (1)
Zheng Lang said: "Your Majesty, it is better to have short pain than long pain, and the implication is not wide. If you retreat like this, not only will the exemption law fail, but the two taxes will also collapse, and the consequences will be no less than the collapse of the Tang Dynasty's equal-field system and the government soldiers."
It refers to the storm caused by Guo Zi and Sun Lin.
There will be a lot of trouble, so Zheng Lang intentionally or unintentionally took over the matter from the Secretariat. He first asked Lu Yijian to come out of the mountain and took Lu Yijian's great favor. No matter what, Lu Yijian was besieged by a gentleman again for more than ten days for this matter.
However, Lu Yijian's appearance brought great benefits, and there were few opposition ministers. He reduced the first step of resistance in the temple. Then he issued an edict to inform the world in detail, but he did not order all prefectures and counties to implement it. Otherwise, he would have to poke a hornet's nest. This is to say hello first and establish laws and standards.
Another edict was issued, asking Guo and Sun to go to Shouzhou, and brought a large number of minor officials and soldiers from the capital, giving Shouzhou a preparation time.
Zheng Lang wrote another letter to the powerful men in Shouzhou. He did not write it by him, but asked his family's guests to write it. However, he stamped Zheng Lang's private seal and said the severity of the matter, especially the Qigu. He made money, and many people participated. He gathered more than 40,000 Qigu in. There were top tycoons, and there were also three or four-class households with a little extra money in the family and no way. This was what Zheng Lang hoped to see. If there were many people participating, there would be no one to join forces, and they would not be united, and they would be corrupt with officials or bully the small Qigu. Shouzhou was slightly biased, and there were not many people involved, but there were more than a dozen Qigu. In addition to these people, there were also top local households, with a total of more than 30 letters.
As the prime minister, Zheng Lang can be regarded as a declining noble character by his close confidants.
The sanctions law was established, the buffering time was provided, and the face was given. Guo and Sun arrived in Shouzhou slowly.
There was a panic of wind and many big farmers guessed that the situation was not good, and they actually reported hidden fields. It was impossible to have all, and it would be good to have ten acres of eight acres. Before Guo and Sun left, Zheng Lang repeatedly greeted him. As long as the hidden situation was not strong, there was no need to investigate it in depth. Once again, the disputes and difficulties were reduced.
Now it is easier to check Zheng Lang's abacus, multiplication oral score, abacus oral score, and some geometric formulas have gradually been circulated since he was promoted in Taipingzhou. The three departments have also adopted it one after another, and Guo Zi's Thousand Steps Measurement Method. The field measurement error will not exceed five%.
The situation has been repeatedly corrected by Zheng Lang, and it has become better. However, many wealthy families are unwilling to lower their arrogant heads. Why do they have to measure our Shouzhou? They have to measure the whole country and refuse to obey their duties? This is all excuse, mainly taxation, originally there were two taxes. Now there are exemption money, two taxes, one plus one, and they don’t want to report real land. But in fact, in addition to the top large households who seek minor officials, the implementation of the exemption law is very beneficial to many second- and third-class households participating in hidden land, and they completely resolve them from their strong service. It turned out that the exemption law did not implement the exemption law, and they were clamored to enforce it, but after implementation, they wanted to hide the land and avoid the money they wanted to avoid. It is also a normal human psychology. People do not care about themselves, and they will be punished by heaven and earth, and there is no doubt that they have too much wealth in their hands.
The next method became very tough and measured one by one. All the hidden acres were investigated. However, this investigation was not like the original owner of the household in history, but the tax was required, which caused the land investigation to cause controversy, but it was not very effective. The land that was found was not used as public land. Public land was flooded, and in the end, I didn't know how to reward the powerful and powerful, but it was still as Zheng Lang's previous policies, and handed over to poor households and tenants. Not only did I pay, I also prepared two land deeds, one in the hands of the household owner and the other to stay in the county government. If I want to buy and sell the land in the future, I not only need to change the land deeds of the household owner, but also change the name of the household owner's deed from the county government to take effect.
It also played a preventive role. Guo and Sun left Shouzhou. Even if these wealthy families could make all the poor people and tenants give up their land, can they force the magistrate to lower their heads and modify the land deeds one by one? Could this magistrate not want to be an official?
It was not impeccable, but Zheng Lang was very rational about this. For example, when Song Xiaozong governed the Southern Song Dynasty, he saw that the warehouse law was corrupt, but some folk merchants spontaneously formed a social warehouse with the people to prepare for the famine, which was quite effective, so he promoted the social warehouse. At first, it was good, but decades later, the social warehouse was in trouble again, becoming a new mountain for the powerful and officials to work together to make fish and the people.
This is an unsolvable problem. It can only keep pace with the times, and make corrections and adjustments based on the development of things and current affairs from time to time, otherwise, even the better system will have many new disadvantages after the evolution of time.
Still no measurements were made, people were sent to post notices everywhere, and the edicts and regulations were notified, and then relax for another ten days. And under the Huairou court and the armed suppression of the court, the rebels in various places were gradually eliminated, which also gave Guo and Sun a peaceful and prestigious external environment.
Ten days of first rituals followed by soldiers.
In fact, many timid household owners who are afraid of troubles see the news that something is wrong, or some clever household owners also see it wrong, and report the real land one after another. Before the measurement, they add 50,000 hectares of arable land to the Shouzhou household registration. After all, Shouzhou is a large prefecture with a large area, but there are more hidden fields that are not reported.
Gradually measured, and found more than 90,000 hectares of hidden fields. In fact, it was not the case. How could there be only 90,000 hectares of hidden fields in Shouzhou? But the situation began to expand, and many local tyrants were fighting, and some were not polite, so they asked Guo Zi to throw them into the prison directly, and after a whip, they were released, and a few were exiled directly. So they went to the capital again, and other wealthy households in the prefectures were worried that the matter would continue to develop and would be unfavorable to them, so they followed them together. Zheng Lang issued an order, asking Guo Zi to boldly continue to investigate, but they had to remember the four words: first be courtesy and then soldiers, and they could not give the other party a handle.
Since Zhao Zhen mentioned this, Zheng Lang said: "Your Majesty, please issue another edict, stating that the court will only investigate the hidden fields of Shouzhou this year as a warning. The powerful people in other prefectures will not cause trouble and concentrate the disputes in Shouzhou. Besides, I hope that all the hosts and guests will not make things difficult for the court and continue to hide the land. If local officials act unfairly and are harsh to the people, they can appeal in the prefecture or even the capital, but they cannot hide them anymore. If the situation does not expand, the investigation of the land case will end in Shouzhou. If the local owners continue to hide a lot and reduce the number of land in the Ministry of Revenue Registration, then the inventory will continue next year, one state, two states and three states, until all prefectures in the country are investigated."
Zhao Zhen pondered for a moment and said happily: "Wonderful."
Not only is it differentiated to avoid causing trouble, but it also focuses on the warning mentioned above and is supplemented by the investigation, and has also realized the Confucian way of first being kind and then being righteous. First rituals and then being soldier. He said melancholy: "Zheng Qing, I really hope you will participate in the new policy."
Zhao Zhen vaguely felt that with Zheng Lang's participation, the success rate would be greater.
But Zheng Lang has been away, and there are some practices by gentlemen. Zhao Zhen’s suspicion is getting worse and worse, and he does not force it. Although he hopes, he silently looks at Zheng Lang’s freedom in order to protect Zheng Lang. Zheng Lang said: “Your Majesty, this year, there will be heavy snowfall in various parts of the north and severe drought. Many people are in trouble. Not only do refugees need to prepare cold-proof materials, but also people in the capital and all over the country must also prepare charcoal to avoid frostbite from the people.”
"That's true. I immediately allocated a million from the inner treasury and scattered all over the country, and asked the officials of various states to prepare more firewood and charcoal to prevent our people from suffering from the cold again. Zheng Qing, you are also that Joseph, put love in your heart."
"Your Majesty. When you say benevolent, you are ashamed of your Majesty. Your Majesty is benevolent, but you are your Majesty's arm. You release your Majesty's intention of benevolence and the mouth of your Majesty's hands and hands to benefit the people and protect our great Song country."
Zhao Zhen was very happy and said, "Stay here to have a meal with me."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Zhao Zhen was very happy, but Zheng Lang was not a charming minister. If he did something wrong, he would also boldly say that without doing something wrong, he would not be defeated for the sake of overthrow. He would listen to his words. Not only would Zhao Zhen like this minister, but even a hero like Li Shimin would also like it.
Ouyang Xiu is back.
Zhang Yanshou made him die, but he still had to talk about it. What is your Lord's idea? Ouyang Xiu jumped up and asked the envoy to go with twenty peace. But your Yuan Hao was too ungrateful and actually locked my envoy in Xiazhou for more than two months. There is no need to talk about it now. Our dynasty suffered a severe drought in Xiazhou, but the crisis of drought was resolved. If you want to fight, you can only follow the nine points I said before. Nothing else is possible, and even 50,000 to discuss the green salt, and there is no more than 200,000.
Zhang Yanshou was shocked and said, "Why did your messenger keep his word?"
Those two messengers are now exiled to Lingnan. Or I will send someone to escort you to Lingnan and let you talk to them slowly.
How could Zhang Yanshou talk about good things like this?
I was dizzy, so I wrote a letter back and then stayed in the door and didn't want to see Ouyang Xiu, so that I could not end up being angry to death.
Zhao Zhen was speechless.
Zheng Lang said: "Ouyang Xiu did a good job this time and forced the starting point to more than 100,000. Otherwise, the starting point will be 200,000, plus 500,000 s of green salt. If you want to make a peace agreement, you must increase it again. You cannot increase it. Your Majesty, if it is really 200,000, plus 570,000 s of green salt, it is 500,000 s of green salt. If you levy less taxes, how many people will survive the crisis. If you have 500,000 s of more green salt in the national treasury, how many disaster victims can be saved?"
Zhao Zhen looked around, and Zheng Lang said again: "Your Majesty, please rest assured. It won't take long before Yuan Hao receives the letter, he will send an envoy again. Now they want to make peace, and we want to make peace. They will advance. When we move forward, they will retreat. This time Yuan Hao comes, and he will explain what he wants to do in his heart. Otherwise, it will be very unfavorable for our dynasty. He has no limits on his side, but I am increasing the price step by step. What kind of numbers will be made in the end. The most terrible thing is that I
Many ministers in the court would think this way. Today I gave 200,000, and 50,000, so 250,000 would be the same. If not, it would be 300,000. Then it would eventually become a humiliating treaty that has been famous for all ages. The ministers didn't care. Just as Cao Cao went south, many civil officials in the Eastern Wu wanted to reconcile, but they surrendered or officials. The one who suffered was the Lord of Wu, Sun Quan, who became a prisoner. The truth was the same. At this time, peace talks, officials still enjoy wealth, but what later generations think is not that the ministers are incompetent, but that His Majesty is incompetent and weak."
Yan Shu opened his eyes and was so angry that he was about to jump.
After putting on this big hat, which minister dared to participate in peace talks?
And Zheng Lang was a little bit criticizing the mulberry and slandering.
Zhao Zhen did not consider Yan Shu's feelings. He had only been waiting for a few months anyway. He had been delaying this peace talk for a year and didn't care about these months. After thinking about it, he agreed, but he was worried, and issued an edict to make the ministers in Shaanxi prepare for defense in case Yuan Hao became angry and invaded the border again.
Then Di Qing also arrived at the capital. Zheng Lang was afraid of something unexpected, so he called Di Qing to his home regardless of taboos and talked with him for a long time. The main thing was a terrain and climate issue. He talked a lot when he wiped out the rebel army. However, Zheng Lang talked about another new issue this time, which was to pay attention to hygiene.
When the two armies were fighting, flags were waving, thousands of horses were galloping, with a fierce momentum and looked very majestic. In fact, as a later generation, entering the military camp was far from what later generations imagined. Especially for hygiene, soldiers were always facing the danger of death. They had time to pay attention to hygiene, and sometimes soldiers were covered with fleas.
This has nothing to do in the north. When it comes to the south, it is another major source of malaria and various diseases. Therefore, Di Qing ordered the three armies to pay attention to hygiene, often use salt water to wash clothes and bathe, and also soak the clothes and tonics in salt water before washing, and perform crude disinfection to reduce the possibility of production. The main reason is that it is difficult to get to the head. After staying for a few years, you will not have any problems of one kind or another.
This made Di Qing lead his army south.
Looking at his back, Zheng Lang breathed a sigh of relief. With Di Qing's departure, the peace of the Song Dynasty was coming.
At this moment, he suddenly felt the value of peace.
The New Year came unknowingly, and Han Qi reported from Shaanxi that the country's economy was in a tight position and that Shuiluo City was built meaningless. Please stop Shuiluo City.
Many people later did not understand this Shuiluo City, and Zhao Zhen and Han Qi participated in the war several times and shocked Xixia. He said that it was meaningless to build it, probably because it was not very meaningful, so he issued an edict to stop the construction.
Zheng Lang did not take action, he was actually amused and laughed in his heart, and the battle for the boss finally began. (To be continued)
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