Zhao Zhen vaguely felt that Zheng Lang and Jia Changchao were a little disagreeable, and rescued: "I don't know, come and listen."

"The Khitans often laughed at our cowardly in military affairs. However, seeing the beauty of our robes and scepters and the wealth of all officials, the dishes, the food, fruit, pork, sweet and sweet food, clothes, and utensils, and the utensils were all admired, and they learned the style of beauty. They even praised each other, including the Khitan emperor himself, who believed in Buddhism, studied Confucian classics, and regarded themselves as China. This situation stimulated them to spend extravagantly, so they needed more gold and silver. However, they discussed with our dynasty with a huge amount, and a lot of silver was circulated back to our dynasty. Not only did the annual monies given to them by our dynasty, but also some of the silver produced in their country flowed into our dynasty. This was the reason why the Khitan prohibited the dynasty from discussing felt silver with our dynasty in the second year of Qingli. Song Qi said this was a trapped Chinese plan. It was not that it was deliberately targeted by our dynasty, but that a large amount of silver was flowing back to our dynasty. After they lacked currency in their country, they had to do so."

"What does that have to do with iron money?"

"In the era of the Khitan Emperor's Holy Sect, our dynasty discussed with the Khitan, and the number was not large. In the past, there were more copper coins in our dynasty. The amount of money was sufficient. Although the Khitans cast several kinds of currencies, the most was Chongxi Tongbao, which had not been put into the market. Later, the two countries repaired it, and many commodities in our dynasty flowed into the Khitan, and the copper coins were insufficient, so the money was put out, but it was still insufficient. Our dynasty made huge profits in Hedong. The Khitans saw the opportunity and were also imitated on the border.

According to our court, we cast a large number of iron coins, because the exchange price is lower than that of our court, so smuggling merchants brought them into the country. Now half of the iron coins circulating on the market are almost minted by Khitan. Although the iron coins are used, it seems that the court has gained some benefits, but it has caused constant worries among the people, with mixed benefits and disadvantages, and many disadvantages. As a result, the Khitan gained greater benefits. Therefore, I thought that the iron coins circulating on the market were immediately taken back and destroyed. Otherwise, the Khitan would have the harm."

This question is a bit complicated.

Later generations only saw wars, but did not know that many wars had been in these countries where they could not see the smoke of gunpowder. Especially currency wars.

The Song Dynasty has not done a good job, and has lost this battle with the Khitan or the Jin Dynasty.

If we talk about currency, the currencies of several countries are insufficient. Later generations used how much silver in the Qing Dynasty. This is wrong. The purchasing power of one tael of silver in the Qing Dynasty is far less than that of the Song Dynasty.

Because it is expensive and cannot be used in underprivileges, that is, when buying fragmented goods, gold and silver are difficult to come in handy. However, they are used for many purposes, not only for making utensils and jewelry, but also for bribery, gifts, charity, compensation, redeem, and borrowing. In business, there are long-term movements, road capital, price payments, price representations, fees, storage, bulk transactions, etc., and can also be used as tax payments, monopoly income, offerings, contributions, military expenses, rewards, and general national expenses.

Although it cannot be used "smallly", gold and silver have been used on a large scale, and the output is increasing, and supply has been in short supply, so the price has been rising, and many wealthy families have treasured gold and silver, resulting in an increasingly shortage of gold and silver. The price has risen faster, and the price has barely stabilized until the emergence of Ping An Supervision.

As the currency itself, copper coins are still mainstream.

Because of insufficient money, silk is still used instead of currency transactions or bartering. Therefore, later generations have been unable to accurately count the income of the Song Dynasty. Some say that the highest income of the Song Dynasty reached 180 million guan, and some say that 160 million guan, which is this.

Even if Zheng Lang counts now, there is no accurate number, including copper coins, silk, grain, and grass. This is the main one, including gold, silver, tin, iron, lead, charcoal, wood, stone and jade, various fruits and vegetables, and study. Specialties in various places are also the official income of the Song Dynasty.

The Ping An Supervision Bureau came out and relieved slightly, but most of the gold, silver and copper were used as utensils and jewelry, and they did not turn into money and flowed into the people. Even if they turned into money, they could not satisfy the huge economic output of the Song Dynasty. And when exchanged iron coins for copper coins, the Song Dynasty was an absolute loss-making business. There was no war between the Khitan and the Western Xia before, and Zheng Lang never proposed it, for fear of arousing the resentment of the Khitan. Until the outbreak of the war, there was no need to allow this bad momentum to develop.

Zhao Zhen turned to Wang Gongchen and said, "Send someone to check it out."

Wang Yaochen returned home because of his mother's death, so Wang Gongchen made up for his vacancy and moved Zhang Fangping to the Chief Censor. Overall, Zhao Zhen still focused on protecting the Jia Chang Dynasty and used the Jia Chang Dynasty to quickly calm down the various influences brought by the gentlemen, especially the cliques.

Zheng Lang did not attach much importance to this, but Jia Changchao's various actions did make Zheng Lang very disgusted.

Although Lu Yijian rejected dissidents, he did not use any crime to cause the ministers to suffer disasters in court. Moreover, he was a minister who made contributions. Jia Changchao did this. First it was Ouyang Xiu and then Yin Zhu.

Zheng Lang calmed down and said, "I heard that since this year, the weather has been good, the country is peaceful, and the people are safe, and the treasury has been slightly saved. This is a blessing for the country. Your Majesty has always been restrained and treated the ministers well. This is also a blessing for the country. However, Your Majesty is too kind and I think it is inappropriate. The kindness and power must be moderate and too favored. Once it is underestimated, unless the minister with good moral character is unwilling to advance and retreat. The rest of the ministers will feel resentful. In the former, even if Your Majesty does not treat it too much, he will do his best to be loyal to the emperor and love the people.

.The treasury has a little more. I think there are three uses: one is to prepare grain to prevent possible disasters. The second is to prepare treasury so that the treasury can save some treasury to prevent accidents. The third is to be kind and civilians. Since the use of military force in Shaanxi, I have heard in Zhengzhou that there are many names of nearby prefectures and counties, including additional consumption, additional consumption and consumption of rice, warehouse consumption, saving consumption, official consumption, scale consumption, foot consumption, and foot consumption. In the Kangding year, all the head money was taken to the officials and not allowed to be publicly used in this state. Since the war began, some prefectures once again took the head money to the public, exploiting the people, and

There are some names that even officials can't even think of if they think about it. This is only the amount of extra fees, discounts, transfers, purchases, and purchases. Even the exemption money generated by the new law also generates many exemption money, taxes, etc., as well as commercial taxes and city taxes, etc., and the imperial court issued an edict to restore the original state, but there are officials in various prefectures.

There are also local tributes. For example, Bao Zheng gave an inkstone in Duanzhou, and there were not many local tributes in the court, such as Duanzhou inkstone and southeast oleiferous. However, local officials used the name of the court and ordered various names, which were originally hundreds of fresh oranges, but the cost was not much. The meaning of praise was much greater than the intention of trying it out. It became a major disadvantage and brought heavy burden to the people. If the national treasury was slightly surplus, please send your ministers to discuss it to see if these names could be abolished one by one. This is the foundation of benevolence."

What Zheng Lang said exists. But it cannot be said that the Zhao Zhen Dynasty is very dark.

Exploitation by cleverly making names from the common people, officials from that dynasty were doing it. No system could be avoided. (About this situation, I posted a repost in the work related to the work, explaining some progress in the Song Dynasty)

Of course, if these inexplicable names are reduced, people's lives will be better.

Moreover, Zhao Zhen had one of the biggest characteristics, which was a bad habit, and he could not save money. At the beginning of the war, the Song Dynasty's various taxes and income once reached more than 130 million guan, and later it reduced its tax efforts to relieve the burden on the people. However, the expenditure reached more than 120 million guan, and it was not enough to make ends meet. Song Yingzong was forced to try to reform.

But at that time, Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu were in charge of the government affairs. In order to maintain their status, they became shameless and dared to offend many powerful people and launched reforms. These difficulties were left to Song Shenzong. After Song Shenzong became emperor, he ran to the Sansi to read the account book. He was stunned when he saw it and screamed in an anxious manner. Then he refused to support Wang Anshi's reforms.

This advice is not only as simple as loving the people.

Zhao Zhen replied: "I accept it."

Zheng Lang also said: "A few years ago, I discussed newspaper matters with Mr. Song. After leaving the court, many major events happened, and this matter was not allowed to be done. Mr. Song wrote a letter a few times ago to ask me that I would like to ask Your Majesty to allow Mr. Song to preside over the newspaper matters. Just two cases must be established, and no ten-rebellious behaviors must be promoted, and no vulgarity must be left unused. If so, the court can convey some publicly available mansions and edicts to the people through newspapers, so that the people can understand the trends of the court, the monarch's ideas and orders. Cooperate with the court's spoken ministers to supervise the illegal behavior of some officials. The people can also use newspapers to write out the ideas of the people, and the court can use it as a reference and understanding. This is a major event that is quite beneficial to the country, which is equivalent to establishing countless spoken ministers for the court without any money and assisting the country. It is of great significance."

The newspaper incident took a long time, and the gentleman party was in power at that time. Zheng Lang was worried. When this tool came to the hands of the gentleman party, God knew what it would become?

Therefore, it would be more fair to have an old and good person like Song Xiang hosted it.

"Hey, why don't I know?" Zhao Zhen asked strangely.

Zheng Lang said it bribed, first, it was official, but it was not prohibited to be private, and he could publish poems, songs, classics, novels, unofficial history, and even gossip. This was necessary, otherwise it would not attract readers. Then there was news, which was what Zheng Lang said that he could publicly report major events, and the public discussion was the money for selling newspapers and advertisements. When the advertisement was said, it would knock down the monarch and ministers. Fortunately, some original advertisements had appeared in the Song Dynasty, with banners spreading and the name of the bookstore, which attracted customers and was able to understand it after the talk was opened.

Zhao Zhen thought about the remarks of the Song Dynasty for a moment and said, "Accurate. Song Qing, after you go back, you write a draft and present it, and all the officials will discuss the draft."

"Here," Song Xiang was overjoyed. This was also a merit. He was honest and could not compete for others. This was his rare opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

Zheng Lang continued: "Last time Lan Yuanzhen talked to me about seed planting, and I submitted a memorial."

"Why don't you trust officials?" Jia Changchao asked suddenly.

"Mr. Jia, I'm sorry, the court needs officials, but I am pessimistic about officials. My two mothers died one after another and were in a bad mood. Otherwise, I would write a theory of benevolence and righteousness and a view of human nature at this time. However, I have a fair opinion on selfishness and benefit others, and there are very few officials who can truly do it for the country and the people, regardless of their own interests. If you say you don't believe it, I agree with it. For example, since Mr. Jia became prime minister, all kinds of practices."

You have become the prime minister yourself, and you have not wiped out all the dirt, so how can you clean up the officials below?

In fact, Zheng Lang's proposal was very rational and could be implemented without the approval of the court. The court only played some role in the process of cultivating seeds. He had seen results, but Zheng Lang was pessimistic about the official because he saw more. No matter which system, it was too difficult to let officials become the legendary Bao Qingtian. Especially the Chinese official-oriented thinking was very serious. The Song Dynasty was a little better, but there were still many corrupt officials. So it was proposed to hand over this matter to the private person.

But there are three conditions. The first is good households. Second, they are divided into four levels according to the quality of seeds, and the selling price is two to five times the local grain price. Third, they shall not use any coercive means to force the people to buy seeds.

Good households are some conscientious big households, not all big households are domineering and powerful. Many big households in the Song Dynasty treated tenant farmers well, established rural academic charity schools, and helped the poor. Some big households even spent a lot of money to buy food when disasters came, and actively cooperated with the court to provide disaster relief. The scale was no less than that of later generations.

After the young man Zheng Lang proposed, Zhao Zhen was quite supportive, and he received five or six groups of good households. It was critical that Zheng Lang did not serve as prime minister at this time, otherwise one lord and one prime minister would have been added. This kind of general good idea was more prevalent. However, Zhao Zhen's several meetings also played a leading role. A group of good households in various places did touching deeds.

Then there is technical problems, intensive cultivation, select the best seeds, and plant them in a closed environment to avoid the pollen from being worried. The nature is the seed company in later generations. Profit is supplemented by and seeds are improved, so good households have become the primary prerequisite. If things are done, the court will give some more commendations. Directly avoid the government's link to avoid bad disadvantages. But in the Jia Changchao period, it is stuck. Food is the most important thing for the people, so how do you think of making this money?

Don’t say that you can’t twist this bend, but in this era, it’s really difficult to twist it.

"Ask again." Zhao Zhen said. At this time, he did not want Zheng Lang to have a conflict with Jia Changchao.

But today Zheng Lang talked about many aspects, including those who advised the lord. Those who were related to military, diplomacy, taxation, finance and agriculture, and they were ignorantly the style of the prime minister. Zhao Zhen was very pleased and said, "Zheng Qing, you will be in the capital for a long time. I have some confusion in Confucianism. Go to Erying Pavilion to talk to me."

Everyone knows the tactfulness and says goodbye automatically.

The king and his minister walked towards Erying Pavilion, and Zhao Zhen asked, "When will you worry?"

The question was strange, Er Niang had a wish. But among Zheng Lang's seven mothers, one of the aunt and the other four nun, must have a very grand Dingyou. Zhenzong has a system, twenty-seven months. At least one year is still available. If you pay more attention to it, Er Niang also needs Dingyou, then it will take longer.

But Zheng Lang understood Zhao Zhen's mood and answered truthfully: "I'm afraid that it will be difficult for Dingyou to expire. In order to obtain accurate information, Zhang Kang borrowed the name of Chen and sent Guo Kui to the Khitan Emperor. The Khitan Emperor was more looking forward to me. For our dynasty, I must go sooner or later. It happened that the Khitan was newly defeated and the three armies seized their aura. This is a good time for me to go to Khitan. If I delay it for a long time, the Khitan will recover and I will inevitably take some revenge. With the Khitan national strength, if I were cautious and fought against Xixia, I would win more than lose. At that time, it would be difficult for me to escape from the Khitan."

"Zheng Qing, what if it's not accurate?"

"It is inappropriate. At this time, our dynasty must engage in false peace with the Khitan in exchange for their hatred for the people of Xixia. If the Khitan is jealous of the Khitan, it will be detrimental to the country. I promise to be an envoy. If the Khitan detains me, it will be a disadvantage to the Khitan. The fault is not our dynasty. Even if I use a plan to escape."

"I am still very worried. By the way, have you re-educated the mean?"

"I have always been in a bad mood. The mean is related to Confucianism. I am not in a mood and dare not practice it. However, I plan to renovate it after I go back this time. As for benevolence and righteousness, I have not thought about it, so I do not have the courage to compile it, so as not to miss others."

"Benevolence and righteousness?"

"The main line minister has already thought about it, let's talk about the good and evil of human nature first."

"Do you think human nature is good or evil?" Confucianism has always been controversial about this. Mencius believed that human nature is good, and Xunzi believed that human nature is evil. So later generations said it all, but there was no final unanimous answer.

Zheng Lang replied: "To judge human nature by good and evil is too one-sided. The dragon has nine sons, each with different characteristics, but they are all ancient divine beasts. Genetics is part, but acquired growth is more critical. Therefore, whether Mencius or Xunzi, they all attach importance to acquired education. But I think that when a person is born, it may not be good in nature, nor may it be a piece of white paper. One is influenced by parents' inheritance, and the other is the instinct of human nature, and the other is the instinct of human nature, and everything is evolving in order to grow and survive, and people are even more so. In order to consolidate their own advantages and pass on the family line, human nature's tendency to be selfish may not be evil, but selfishness is the inner and others are the outer. Therefore, after the symbiosis of benevolence and righteousness, I will rewrite it."

"One of Taoism?"

"It is not the Taoist one. Taoism believes that the cycle of heaven and earth, from nothing to one to two to everything, eventually returns to nothingness. The minister's one is not that long-term. There is righteousness in benevolence and benevolence in righteousness. It cannot be simply viewed in black and white. It is a very complex coexistence and mutual generation. This is the Confucian one and has nothing to do with the Taoist one." It is a bit confusing. In this way, at least the boundaries between good and evil are not so clear. Indeed, if written, it is more complicated than Zheng Lang's so-called Zheng's doctrine of the mean.

Zhao Zhen thought for a while and was confused. Suddenly, he smiled dumbly. Let the minister think about it so that he can avoid using his brain. The two entered Erying Pavilion and Zhao Zhen asked a few Confucian questions, which was also a manifestation of preferential treatment. Otherwise, what should I do? If I don’t care about the title, I don’t care about it or give money, but I can only communicate with gentlemen and treat others with sincerity.

After walking out, a girl was flying a kite in the autumn wind.

Seeing Zheng Lang, the little loli stared at him with big eyes.

Zheng Lang had no choice but to stop and said, "I have met His Highness the Princess."

"It seems that this is not a knight ceremony." Zhao Niannu said.

Zheng Lang looked at Zhao Niannu suspiciously.

Zhao Niannu said: "I have asked the gangsters (referring to the Jews in Kaifeng), and they have told the story of the knights."

There are many Jews in Kaifeng City, but Zhao Niannu grew up in the deep palace. God knows how she learned the etiquette of Western knights. Zheng Lang laughed and knelt down on one leg, performed a knightly ritual, and said, "I have seen Your Highness the Princess."

Only then did Zhao Niannu walk around him happily.

The little girl grew up and was very beautiful, but Zheng Lang suddenly thought of Ouyang Xiu's poem:

Jiangnan willow, the leaves are small but not yin

The human beings are so light that they are tolerant of folding, and the orioles are so tender that they can't chant.

Stay and wait for the spring to come to a deeper day.

Fourteenth Five-Year Plan, I hug the pipa and look for it.

I walked down the hall with money, and I was already careful when I met.

What's more, until now.

I definitely have no wrong thoughts about this little loli, but in the Song Dynasty, these scholars and officials like to storm and talk nonsense. If they spread it, they can't explain it clearly. It's better to avoid it. They stood up and said to Zhao Zhen: "It's not appropriate for me to come to Beijing with filial piety. I have to go back quickly."

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