Chapter 608 Prime Minister (6)
Zhang Fangping said in his heart that it was time for the recall.
Zheng Lang went to Hebei, and the task of appeasement was second, and the main task was to combat the thieves. Wang Ze had been pacifying for several months, but Zheng Lang was still in Enzhou. The court did not say a word. It was strange.
Zheng Lang is not that anxious in Enzhou.
There are not as many people killed as in history, but Gao Jilong's ability is limited, so he just dragged it down until the arrival of Xia Cheng. This year is not a peaceful year, but the whole country was still peaceful before Xia Cheng. The real ability of the government administration may not be better than Lu Yijian, but he just doesn't open his golden fingers. The victory lies in his intentions. Compared with the ability of the government administration, there are officials in the Song Dynasty that are better than himself, but there are not many. It just so happened that he was doing something to rewrite benevolence and righteousness.
Confucianism does not only have the doctrine of mean, benevolence and righteousness, three parts, as well as sage wisdom, rituals and music, etc., to form a complete Confucian academic system project. However, sage wisdom, rituals and music, especially rituals and music are even more troublesome, and the top priority is rituals.
This is an extremely huge project. In fact, it cannot be said that it is the Confucianism of the Master, but it is restored to the true Confucianism of the Spring and Autumn Period, combined with the ideas of later generations, and embarked on a completely different path from the Confucianism of Dong Zhongshu since the Han Dynasty.
No one knows about this.
Zhang Fangping didn't know and asked, "What position is awarded?"
What's the point of not being able to recall it inexplicably?
Zhao Zhen frowned, not because he didn't give it to Prime Minister Zheng Lang, but he gave it to him last year, but Zheng Lang might not have given it. Thinking of the chaos in the court for a few ministers, some ministers laughed in silence. After thinking for a while, he said, "I will draft an edict to serve as the Chief Secretary General of the Central Committee and the Chief Secretary General of the Ministry of Works as the Privy Councilor, the Left Censor General of the Ministry of Rites as the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Councilor General of the Ministry of Rites as the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Councilor General of the Ministry of Rites as the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Councilor General of the Ministry of Rites as the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Councilor General of the Ministry of Rites as the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Councilor General of the Ministry of Rites."
Zhang Fangping was stunned.
Fu Bi also made contributions this time.
At that time, the king rebelled. Under Ming Hao's attack, although Wang Ze saved Beizhou, he was shaky. He regretted that he not only sent people to inform the Shenzhou believer Pang Dan to rise up, but in addition to Shenzhou, there were other places. Qizhou's banished soldiers Mada and Zhang Qing were also his followers, and there was also a vagrant Zhang Ru. The king asked them to raise troops to rebel and massacre the city to support Beizhou.
When Zhang Ru's son-in-law Yang Jun heard about this, he was a rebellion. He ignored Zhang Ru's father-in-law. After thinking about it, he could not tell the governor of Qizhou. He was incompetent and was afraid of misleading things, so he fled to Qingzhou and informed Fu Bi. He had good luck and the person he met was not Jia Changchao. Fu Bi attached great importance to it after hearing this.
He kept Yang Jun and was entertained. But there was a problem. Qizhou was not under Fu Bi's jurisdiction. It happened that the eunuch Zhang Congxun was ordered to come to Qingzhou for public servants. Fu Bi asked Zhang Congxun to be the envoy. He was responsible for the matter. The envoy rushed to Qizhou and ordered the guards to send troops to take them. No one could escape, and a crisis was resolved quietly.
However, this was not done well, and it was an act of disobedience. He wrote a letter to impeach himself and sent an envoy to the charge of sending a entourage. Zhao Zhenjiaozhi and appointed Fu Bi, a scholar in the Zizheng Palace, as the Minister of Rites of Qingzhou, as the Minister of Rites, which was equivalent to another title. Fu Bi refused to accept the resignation.
Moreover, Fu Bi and Zheng Lang have always had a good relationship.
Fu Bi also served as a subordinate of Zheng Lang in Hangzhou. Fan Louyan was one of the five ministers. Although Zhang Fangping and Fu Bi were not catching colds, they also knew that Fu Bi was the deputy minister of the Western Prefecture, which was beneficial to Zheng Lang.
But, but...
Chen Zhizhong was the Prime Minister of the Eastern Prefecture and the Prime Minister of the Western Prefecture of the Song Dynasty. How did Zheng Lang make arrangements for his return?
A little hesitation and not daring to hesitate for too long will make Zhao Zhen think he is selfish.
It is not necessary to do so, because people have selfish intentions. In fact, Zhao Zhen was very wise at this time and would not blame him for understanding this normal relationship between ministers.
Zhang Fangping said: "Here."
The reshuffle begins after the edict is issued.
A big change of face came, and the East Mansion became Chen Zhizhong, Pang Ji, Wen Yanbo, and the West Mansion became Song Xiang, Wang Yiyong and Fu Bi.
Of course, it depends on whether Fu Bi accepts it. If Fu Bi insists on not accepting it, Zhao Zhen will have nothing to do.
But many people have the same questions as Zhang Fangping, where will Zheng Lang go?
...
Large swaths of wheat began to be harvested.
Hebei is not the best place in the north, it depends on it. The whole Hebei is high in the west and low in the east, and has severe inclination. Especially in the north, the Song and Liao military confrontation, some state-owned pastoral supervisors were set up, and a large number of ponds were built, which were lower than sea level. Some sea water poured backwards to form many brine lands, which are conducive to grazing and rich forest resources, but are not conducive to planting. However, the southeast direction of Hebei Road is the most developed region in the country. Especially mulberry and hemp and textile industry. Hebei's silk is called fine silk, and both sides are smooth and consistent. It is difficult for the silk produced in other places to achieve this. Not to mention the coarse silk in the south, even the exquisite silk in Shandong is two to three hundred textiles different from each piece of silk in Hebei. It has nothing to do with technical factors, but the soil quality. The soil here is made of mulberry leaves, and the quality of mulberry leaves creates different silk quality.
Bayern is also one of the best regions.
So Zheng Lang said that these ordinary people are full of food, so why should they fight back except for the great disaster?
There are too many people who die, and the trauma of the mind is difficult to heal.
But after governance, Beizhou, which is now Enzhou City, gradually embarked on normal track.
When he came outside the city and watched the farmers harvesting wheat, Zheng Lang kindly asked a farmer: "Weng Weng, what is the harvest this year?"
"My husband, it's okay, luckily, there will be two stones when the weather is good."
"Two stones..." Zheng Lang whispered: "What if the harvest is not good?"
"It's easy to say that the harvest is not good. Sometimes the particles are not harvested, and sometimes only one stone of wheat can be harvested."
“What should I do if I pay taxes?”
According to the Song Dynasty system, one acre of land was collected by ten yuan, which means one dou to two dou of grain tax. In fact, the tax on two dou of land was more than two dou of grain. In some areas, the tax on one acre of land could be levied to more than three dou of land, plus two hundred yuan of summer tax. If you buy wheat for two hundred yuan, you can buy more than six dou of rice, and three or four dou of rice. There are also various additional taxes.
"It depends on God's harvest."
"My husband, no, if the famine comes, our lives will be gone."
Zheng Lang was speechless. In the feudal era, the best time for peasants was not in the Tang and Han Dynasties, not in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but in the Northern Song Dynasty. The best time for the Northern Song Dynasty was in the Zhao Zhen Dynasty.
So miserable.
Sighing. In fact, there is a way to solve it. Reduce the two taxes and cancel various surcharges. The people can breathe a sigh of relief. But in the face of the heavy expenditure of the Song Dynasty, the proportion of the two taxes accounted for more than 30%. Who dares to cancel it?
The old farmer also stared at Zheng Lang, a little curious.
Officials of the Song Dynasty were not as good as they thought, but as people-friendly, officials from all dynasties were not as good as those of the Song Dynasty.
Even a farmer can have family affairs with the prime minister.
The old farmer saw the compassionate emotions in Zheng Lang's eyes and stuttered: "Mr. Zheng is a good official."
"Weng Weng. My annual salary subsidy can reach nearly 30,000 guan. A family like you can only support me at least four or five thousand households. Do you dare not be a good official?"
The old farmer was a little dazed when he heard this. It was the first time he heard such remarks.
Zheng Lang went to the next family again.
The slightly hot summer wind blew, and suddenly the old farmer wanted to cry.
Turn around and return to the city.
Lan Yuanzhen's imperial edict arrived.
Zheng Lang was still very polite to entertain.
He was not very repulsive of eunuchs Zheng Lang. Sometimes when he saw these eunuchs, Zheng Lang often thought of Emperor Chongzhen, killed Wei Zhongxian and recalled eunuchs from various places. He compressed the rights of the East and West factories, and all civil servant groups cheered.
But did it wrong!
Even this political achievement, which was praised by countless people later, became the most important factor in the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Compared with Xiaobinghe, it accounts for a larger proportion than the one who does not pay attention to promoting miscellaneous grains.
Nothing else, the reason why the eunuchs appeared in the middle and late periods of the Ming Dynasty was not that the emperor was incompetent, but that the situation required the situation. The literati group was unscrupulous, not only compressing the emperor's rights, but also using their rights to embezzle the interests of the country. With eunuchs, it could form constraints, so that the emperor could manipulate the major national affairs. With eunuchs as supervisors, they could not make money from ordinary people, and they would have to take advantage of the big families and snatch the wealth from the powerful literati group back into the treasury for the country.
Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian and delegated his power to the reviewers group infinitely. It was a wise ruler, but it was wrong. Over the years, the treasury gradually became empty, and coupled with the serious problems, the treasury was not only empty, but also the debt was running.
Shaanxi has a severe drought, and the national treasury is empty and cannot be rescued in time. Note that there is a timely disaster relief here. If it is not timely, people will starve to death. Can the people not fight back? If not, even if half of the food and money for disaster relief are given to the people of Shaanxi, will there be a turtle like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong?
This truth was understood after a long time.
Not only did he do too much evil to Lan Yuanzhen, but he was not very repulsive to other eunuchs.
Receive the order first.
Zheng Lang said, "Thank you Lord Long's kindness."
They did not ask about Zhao Zhen’s final arrangements, Huan'er made tea, and the two chatted, nor did they talk about what they had arranged after returning to Beijing.
Lan Yuanzhen stood up and said, "Mr. Zheng, let's go."
"Okay," Zheng Lang ordered Choi Xian and Huan'er to pack their luggage.
There was no need to hand over. Enzhou City had originally a prefect Gao Jilong, and in fact, Zheng Lang did not need to exercise the power of the pacification envoy in the later period. Not only Enzhou, but the entire Hebei gradually returned to normal. He started to set off, and Zheng Lang expected that when he heard him leave Enzhou City and return to Beijing, many people came to see him off.
In his mind, too many people died, it would be good if they could not hate themselves, and they would not expect the people to be grateful.
He kept bowing to everyone, left the city gate, bid farewell to Gao Jilong and officials related to Enzhou, and got on the carriage. The weather in early summer was not too hot, but large areas of mature wheat and green mulberry forest outside the city dyed the earth into a beautiful oil painting. On the carriage, Cui Xian asked in a low voice: "Official, what are you going to do?"
Choi Xian didn't consider the Prime Minister at all, but took over the Prime Minister now. Is it beneficial to her husband?
Zheng Lang said: "It's difficult."
At this time, the time is ripe for taking over the Prime Minister, and there is an important thing to do. It is the summer harvest and the grain prices are falling, so we must prepare food soon. But this will create new problems. Wang Anshi's reform cannot be said to be useless. As the drought comes, what should we do if Wang Anshi do? Zheng Xia painted a painting, and Wang Anshi was sad. As the prime minister, what will the great dam breakage in the Yellow River have had on him?
Don’t say that it has nothing to do with yourself. In this era, you can get involved in yourself if you have any questions!
Haven't figured it out yet.
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