Zheng Lang looked at Zhao Zhen's expression and felt extremely happy. Is it rare for Zhao Zhen to be Viagra and want to be a hero?

However, the Khitan lost too badly in the two battles. It was possible to lose, but it could not be defeated so badly. It was even worse than Ge Huaimin's defeat in Dingchuan Village in history. At least Ge Huaimin still held a stalemate for a period of time, and his troops were not as good as those of the Khitans.

Zheng Lang said slowly: "Your Majesty, the defeat of the Khitan was because the commander was incompetent, not because the Khitan army was so weak."

The head must be clear. At this time, the Khitan was still like the United States later. However, since the Liao Xingzong, its IQ has declined more and more. It is not as cunning as the United States, but the national military power is quite good. Head-on, the other elements are equal, and the Khitan army is still the most powerful. There is no need to provoke the Khitan. You must clearly distinguish the primary and secondary points and solve the trouble one by one. Xixia is the root of the trouble. As for Jiaozhi, Zheng Lang prevents it, but he did not take it seriously.

One sentence calmed Zhao Zhen down.

The first thing to calm down is that Mozang Epang was not doing well. In the battle on the banks of the Yellow River, he pursued a way out for a while and let the defeated Khitan army go. This is a wrong approach. If the Khitan is let go, you will buy your love? If Yuan Hao is here, he will not make such a low-level mistake. Because of his release, the Khitans thought he was guilty and continued to prepare for a war. Mozang Epang did not expect that he would make a mistake and was preparing to send an envoy to the Khitan to ask for peace. He also sent an envoy to the Song Dynasty for thanking the Song people for their mourning.

Yang Shousu said that the Song Dynasty had no clues, and Wuzang Epang did not believe it, and continued to think that the Song Dynasty was weak, but the Khitan did not stop its troops and did not dare to ask the Song Dynasty to hand over the father and daughter, and was also greedy for the profit of Qingyan smuggling. As for Yang Shousu, the two countries must immediately divide the border line and make a contract to not take in each other's people, Wuzang Epang would not listen at all. If the border line is divided, how can we occupy the fertile land of Quye River? We cannot invade and farm farming now, but did the Song Dynasty put Di Qing in the prefectures for the rest of our life? As long as we fight with the Khitan, Di Qing is not in the prefectures. We can continue to invade and farming and make profits for our own benefit.

The envoys were sent only to appease the Song Dynasty and let the Song Dynasty continue to support the Western Xia in tacit understanding.

In September, Zhao Zhen added Fu Bi as Deputy Envoy of the Minister of Rites. In the past, many disaster victims were gathered in the city and cooked porridge and ate them. The hungry people gathered together, but they were afraid of this gathering. The same was true for the army. Why did the northern army have many plagues when they arrived in the south? Because people gathered together and one person was infected, they could quickly spread to the entire army, so they often died of epidemics, either because of neglect of officials or because of insufficient food for rescue, and they would not die after being fed for several days.

Later, the court successively used Zheng Lang's work-for-relief method to relieve disasters and did some practical things. However, the arrangements of the states were made in fragmented, and the effect was weakened. However, before the construction started, this method was still used to gather victims. Fu Bi made some improvements, selected five states to encourage the people to give out grain, and added the official warehouse, and chose more than 100,000 public and private houses according to his location, and the benefits of the mountains, forests and slopes were scattered. The original owner was not allowed to ban it. The officials who were assessing said that there were 500,000 living people. It was probably an exaggeration. The entire disaster-stricken area was only more than 2 million people, and there were definitely not so many. But many victims were definitely saved.

The Song Dynasty used disaster relief to the court, two were the courts, two were the rich families with kindness, and three were temples. Later generations often exaggerated the role of the latter two and belittled the former. Large families and temples had some outstanding performance in disaster relief, but they would not play a 10% role. Compared with the income of both parties, the court's taxation and franchise definitely accounted for less than 5% of the country's income, and the latter two would exceed 560%. The court was the main body of disaster relief.

Often, those who perform well in the disaster relief process will be promoted faster than those who are good at military achievements.

In the imperial edict, Zheng Lang also wrote a letter to Fu Bi in advance and asked him to agree.

In late September, Fu Bi finally returned to Beijing and re-elected the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council. Wang Su sent cloth to the Khitan Central Army camp in Tanglong Town, and returned to Shaanxi. The court issued an edict to return to Beijing to serve as the magistrate of the Censorate. At this point, the five ministers involved in Fan Louyan, as well as the mentioned Wang Su and Zheng Lang student Lu Gongzhu, including Zheng Lang, had a total of eight people. Zheng Lang himself did not count, and Lu Gongzhu was still in the investigation period. Five of the other six held important positions in the capital.

In October, Zhang was first promoted to become a beauty, and then to become a concubine. The bizarre assassination in the palace showed that not only Xia Sheng was alone, but also Wang Shi, the living servant. He reported that the thief started to start before the empress, so he asked to investigate the matter, and wanted to shake Cao's status and Yin took the throne to Zhang Meiren. Zhao Zhen used Wang Zhi's words to instruct He Tan, and He Tan said: "This traitor must be observed."

Zheng Lang was speechless after hearing this. Fortunately, Empress Cao was beside Zhao Zhen that night and performed well. Otherwise, after Zhao Zhen succeeded, something big happened in the harem would happen again. After He Tan made suggestions, Zhao Zhen stopped. He Tan was a double-edged sword. He Tan used the right place and the effect was significant. If he used the wrong place, it would be a headache.

Zhao Zhen continued to use Zhang's achievements as an excuse to promote the imperial concubine. Zheng Lang had never seen this beautiful little concubine, and Zheng Lang did not say anything about Zhao Zhen's small actions.

This is Zhao Zhen’s love!

With the blooming of love, the most glorious time of the Song Dynasty also came. So it is said that beauty is water, but it may not be a disaster. It depends on how the water flows.

Then something big happened.

Fan Xiang wrote a letter again, asking to change the two pools of salt law. The first time he wrote a letter was correct, but the imperial edict Fan Xiang and Cheng Jian discussed it together, and Jian and Fan Xiang had a disagreement. As soon as his mother passed away, Ding You returned home, hence the previous proposal was abolished. After Ding You came back, Fan Xiang saw the various drawbacks in the salt administration and could no longer bear it. He submitted a memorandum again, asking to discuss reforming the salt administration.

The East Prefecture discussed the memorial, and Zheng Lang watched the memorial playfully.

Several franchises in the Song Dynasty, and later developed jealous franchises to make money, all of which had many disadvantages. Many ministers improved them. If they were said to be done well, Fan Xiang's salt administration reform was the most effective.

but……

Very troublesome!

Let’s talk about employment first. The hardships of the southeast Pavilion households are quite good. The country rarely stipulates the quantity, and the more work, the more it earns. If it exceeds a certain amount, the country will use the name floating salt and slightly increase the price to buy it. Although it is bitter, it still does not have the hardships of the salt households in Shaanxi and the salt households in Sichuan. Shaanxi is a backward labor service system, forced service, and has no personal freedom. During the service period, it pays at least 110,000 kilograms of salt to the country every year. The country only pays one cent for two and a half kilograms of salt! The benefits earned are the whole family. The exemption from service is to give households 40 yuan a year and give two liters of rice a day. It seems good, no less than the treatment of the central ban soldiers. In fact, it is not, the cost of salt extraction is extremely low. But it requires more or less some costs, and these costs are also paid out by the salt households themselves. Furthermore, the soldiers in the military camp have swords and arrows, and the superior officers dare to deduct them. Moreover, two-thirds of the salt households are actually put into the hands of the salt households. Why is Zhao Kuangyin, the emperor who is called the first elder in history, do this?

It’s nothing more, let’s look at the price of rice. From Zhao Kuangyin to the early days of Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty, the price of a dou of rice fluctuated about twenty cents, the price of wheat was ten to twelve cents, and the price of wheat was seventy cents on the Qingli period. At this time, it rose to ninety cents to one hundred cents, and the price of wheat was fifty cents. If Zheng Lang did not do well, it would still rise. It would rise to one hundred cents to two hundred and twenty cents in four years. It was nothing more, but it was caused by many disasters and harms and merchants. It was not until Wang Anshi reformed that the farmland water conservancy law was implemented. After a rare drought, In the year, the country was implementing the equal-to-economic export and market-change law. The new warehouse law was implemented, and the rice price fell to 50 to 80,000 yuan. At the lowest, a dou of rice in Huangzhou was only 20. The silk price was Zhao Kuangyi at one piece of 1,000 yuan. After the Qingli War, the highest peak rose to 3,000 yuan per piece. Now it gradually fell, and the average price was still maintained between 1,300 yuan and 1,500 yuan. At that time, Zhao Kuangyin believed that having five million yuan in the warehouse was a dream, and today five million yuan was not enough to get the court's teeth!

When Zhao Kuangyin was implementing this policy during the time of the time, it was very caring for the salt households, but prices were rising rapidly. Now these treatments are still the same, and the salt households live a very hard life. It is not the most miserable, and Sichuan Gorge is even more miserable. Because the imperial court is insufficiently controlled, many areas of Sichuan Gorge are half-private and half-public, not salt removal, but well salt. The government continues to use the labor system and the treatment is even worse. The government is better at calculating that those private barbarians are enforcing the harsh slavery two or three thousand years ago. The treatment of slaves in the tribe cannot even match the Spring and Autumn Period. As private salt households, their treatment is not even as good as animals.

Then there is the Salt Law. The court divided the country into two regions. One was the area where the government directly bought and sold, saying that private tyrants were not so good. In the government, some officials joined forces to use methods such as suppressing and kefu to repeatedly suppress them. For example, the salt price in Chenzhou was only 31 cents, but now it has gradually broken to more than 200 cents and marched towards the 300 cents. The people were unwilling to buy it, so the government forced the levy to the people. As the emperor, Zhao Zhen would definitely not think so and sent people to investigate. For the sake of the country's good, we actually called the country and actually paid for our own pockets, but the country took the blame for them.

If the government doesn’t work, please look at the private ones.

That is, the area of ​​trade law, the real trade law is only Hebei. The court appeases the people of Hebei, resists Khitan invasion, and prevents the invasion of Khitan salt, and adopts real trade law and other preferential measures. In addition to Hebei, and then to the southern desert, the court really cannot control it. The trade law in other areas is to buy pun, which is a big problem with this buying pun.

It is good to start the implementation of the puff system. Although Zhao Kuangyi was a master of chemistry, he did a good job for the people. After the Northwest Battle started, a large amount of materials was needed. This movement was very difficult. He mostly came from the Jianghuai River, went through the Grand Canal to the capital, and then went to Chang'an. There was also a deadly Sanmenxia in the middle. It could not be opened to navigation when it was Chang'an. Even if it was open to navigation, it could only be small boats, mostly land transportation. However, the combat areas were farther away, and the land transportation distances in Xiazhou and Lingzhou were longer. What would the cost be under the tragic transportation conditions at this time? If the employment system was used, it would give less people to complain and give more courts without so much money. The second was procurement, allowing officials to purchase supplies, which were expensive or practical, and there were countless tricks in the middle. Especially for such long-distance transportation, it could do a lot of articles just for loss.

Therefore, the original policy of money exchange was carried out, and merchants came to Beijing to buy tea and salt, and then transported materials to the northwest, used tea and salt to Jiangnan to collect tea, and salt and alum were transported to the so-called business district. Finally, for convenience, it developed into sending materials to the northwest, and directly receiving tea and salt and alum in the northwest. So a new thing appeared, and the transfer shop was transferred. Seeing that it was profitable, especially in the later stage, the transfer policy gradually increased. When transporting wet and moldy grains to the northwest, just as you stuff some gifts to the officials, you can get relevant transfers. The profits were great, and many small and medium-sized merchants also participated. However, the transfer and delivery procedures were cumbersome, and many small and medium-sized merchants had the ability.

The supplies were sent to the northwest, but they were unable to go to the southeast to operate tea, salt and alum and other transactions. The more they developed, this policy became a toy for wealthy families, and the less small and medium-sized merchants could participate. Therefore, after receiving the transfer, some large gold and silver shops, colored silk shops, pavilions (Huoyi Inn), and quality warehouses (pawn shops) in Tokyo began to resell these securities. Finally, with the gold and silk shops in Nantong Lane in Beijing as the center, a gathering point for the transfer shops was formed, and a large number of transactions were made. However, small and medium-sized merchants harmed the country, and the profits were still very small, and the transfer shops were transferred to the transfer shops. Under the suppression of these big merchants, the pressure was as high as 50%, and when they arrived in Caijing, it was as high as 90%.

The only advantage is that the products similar to securities appeared in the Song Dynasty.

It was good at the beginning, just like the changes in the hexagram of the Book of Changes. The Yang reaches its extreme and the Yin begins to turn to the Yin, and various disadvantages come one after another. Officials and merchants colluded, raised, false estimates, and even transported the wet and moldy grains to the northwest. As for the investigation, it is impossible to check. For example, now, many royal family members and relatives, including the Gao family and Cao family, have participated. How to check? In bad times, one-third of the grain cannot be eaten at all and has to be dumped, but these rubbish cannot be underestimated. They are transported from Jiangnan to the northwest. A bucket is worth hundreds of cents!

The court saw that this would not work, so it reformed, just like tea. It was a matter of salt induced, but salt induced was reluctant to let go, and it changed over and over again, but it was never successful. This was how Fan Xiang made this salt administration reform.

Specific practices:

Shaanxi used salt ban in the old salt ban area, and used the trade law to replace the ban method. Said merchants were not good, and the government did worse, so that salt trading was active first. Those who entered Sichuan did not ask about it, referring to the northern Sichuan and Hanzhong areas. Sichuan Gorge produced salt, mostly in the south, but in the north, there was a serious salt shortage in the north. However, except for the Chengdu Basin, Sichuan was mountainous in the rest of the area, so salt became one of the biggest problems for the people in northern Sichuan. Salt circulation was allowed to break through regional confinement and flow to northern Sichuan. This was a great progress.

The second thing is that we don’t need salt ingestion. We don’t want the rotten grains and old grains. If we want salt ingestion, we have to use cloth instead of copper coins before we can issue salt ingestion. This is the confidence brought by this year’s bumper harvest in Shaanxi. Now that we have Sanbaiqu, not only will we have a bumper harvest, but there is also a lot of grain accumulation in Shaanxi. Fan Xiang has the confidence to speak. This is even more a huge progress, but this is the problem.

The annual class seat was 375,000 salt seats (one seat 220 kilograms), and the coupons were awarded, that is, the coupons were checked, and all the soldiers and civilians were transported to develop Shaanxi pond salt to resist the impact of the Xixia green salt. The imperial court now intends to release private salt into the country, but it is not allowed, and private salt cannot be banned. Therefore, this strategy is used to increase the local salt production in Shaanxi and impact the flow of Xixia green salt to the Song Dynasty.

Another supplementary policy was made, starting from Yanzhou to Weizhou, people were recruited to Zhongchi salt, given coupons, and various preferential policies were given. The salt was transported to these marginal areas and handed over to the government. After transportation, the private individuals were not allowed to sell it, so as to avoid the mixed smuggling of salt, and they were sold uniformly by the government. The marginal areas were not isolated and the invasion of private salt.

Another proposal was offered that had nothing to do with salt. During the Qingli War, the country lacked financial resources and all materials were replaced by guilds. As long as the materials such as iron, charcoal, tiles, and wood were transported to the army, they would be given various guilds. Until now, the court has not yet cashed in. After the war, officials and businessmen continued to collude with these irrelevant materials to the army and support various guilds. The locals would not go to Jiangnan to do tea and salt business, but it didn't matter. They could exchange cash for the transfer shop in Beijing after the few years. They were very similar to futures in later generations, but they did not like it at all. This was sucking the blood of the country, eating the meat of the country, and losing the country. However, to maintain operation, they had to pay tribute to the people, forming a vicious cycle. To offer suggestions, the states and armies must be forbidden to adopt these unnecessary materials and issue guilds.

Originally, the salt coupons and those who received salt were not sold (later referring to the salt quota that the salt quota expired but was still in the store to buy and sell it in a reseller), and the envoys were assigned to make the price reduction. This policy provided inspiration for Cai Jing, and the infamous salt copying method was developed from this policy. However, this policy was not a salt copying method, but a good strategy to use it to reduce national losses.

However, preventing domestic salt smuggling from deteriorating, the prohibition law still implemented in prefectures near the salt production areas, such as Hezhong, Heyang, Shaanxi, Guo, Jie, Jin, Jiang, Pu and other places, forming an isolation zone to prevent the spread of salt smuggling.

The money and grain from Jiuzhou are all included in the goods and the actual capital, which refers to unified management and under the control of the state, so as to avoid being corrupted by local officials. The money is still in the hands of officials, but it is unified and not scattered in various prefectures and counties, and even if it is corrupt, it is convenient for account investigation.

Is it powerful?

Chen Zhizhong, Wen Yanbo and Pang Ji both praised each other. Why did Zheng Lang repeatedly say that the two governments are far better than the previous two governments? Chen Zhizhong's rule is not too evil, and Pang Wen is even more capable. If you are in Jia Chang's court, Fan Xiang's politics will not be praised, but may also attract criticism, including the conservative Song Dynasty.

But Zheng Lang hesitated! (To be continued...)

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