Chen Shengzhi was the first to believe it and asked suspiciously: "Mr. Zheng, is your truth?"

Zheng Lang said: "It is important to be harmonious. There are so many problems in our Song Dynasty that we must develop peacefully, and the disputes will be left to future generations to resolve."

"If future generations solve it, will future generations be powerful?" Chen Shengzhi was even more confused.

"There are so many difficulties at present, and if you don't solve them first, how can you resolve border disputes?"

"Mr. Zheng, the country is so big, and there are difficulties at any time. If you lose your ambition, your future generations will be weaker!" Chen Xu, it should be that Chen Shengzhi is Han Qi's confidant. He is deeply influenced by Han Qi. Now he seems to be with the radical Wang Anshi. Of course, he is not a radical in the strict sense, but he is not a conservative. No matter how you look at this transaction, it is not cost-effective. As one of the priests of the Xifu, he naturally strongly opposed it. What is left to future generations to solve is simply a spokesperson for weak and incompetent, fearing death. Others can say it, but you, Zheng Xingzhi, cannot say it.

Zheng Lang called out and said, "Be kind as the basis, righteousness as the integrity, benevolence and love others. Maybe future generations are better than us."

Chen Shengzhi was so angry that he was about to go wild.

Because Zheng Lang clearly mentioned in his practice of Confucianism that the Confucianism is that the inner sage and the outer king is, so the doctrine of the mean says that the country is governed and the world is peaceful. What is the inner sage and the outer king? Be kind-hearted and righteous as integrity is the right thing, but the outside is different. These foreigners rarely know the transformation of the king's way, and they cannot distinguish it with reason. Most of them give them kindness, but they think it is weak and bullied twice. Therefore, when used outside, just like the hexagram of Yi, it is reversed. The inner sage is benevolence as the basis, righteousness as integrity, and benevolence as integrity, which can constitute a complete concept of a country and the world.

After these remarks were published, they caused great controversy at one time. It cannot be said that they were unreasonable. For example, was the Western Xia, wasn't the Song Dynasty good to the Western Xia? The Khitan sent troops and made a big move. Even the Western Xia even defaulted on the transport of a large number of green salt to the Song Dynasty, supporting the Western Xia in disguise to fight against the Khitan. After the crisis, how did Wuzang's brother and sister repay the Song Dynasty? Wuzang's rebellion, the Song Dynasty sent troops again to suppress the Wuzang's rebellion. With Li Liangzuo unifying the Western Xia, how could Li Liangzuo repay the Song Dynasty?

Thinking of this, Chen Shengzhi looked at Zheng Lang and Zhao Xu again. Seeing that they were both smiling, their hearts were moved, so he didn't say anything.

Zhao Xu didn't believe it very much, but a month ago, Zheng Lang submitted a secret report. He expected what happened today and was full of confidence.

He waved his hand and said, "That's it."

I don’t know what the medicine was sold in Zheng Lang’s gourd, but to this day, most of the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty still mainly focused on the Gouhe faction. They have been opposed since the beginning of getting Suizhou. Because the reasons are insufficient and they have not succeeded, they have finally thrown out this hot potato. They immediately passed the reply from the Song Dynasty to the envoy Du Luo Chongjin of the Western Xia Dynasty.

After hearing this, Du Luo Chongjin hesitated for a moment, Tumen, Anyuan Village to the area of ​​Great Wall Ridge. It turned out that there were not so many forts, only a few forts. Later, after the Qingli peace agreement, the Western Xia learned from the Song Dynasty and built forts and villages to erode the territory from Yanzhou to Bao'an Army. So more and more forts were built. Whose territory belonged to? The Song Dynasty believed it was from the Song Dynasty, and Xixia believed it was from the Western Xia, but more than 90% of the forts were built by the Western Xia. Therefore, Du Luo Chongjin came to discuss. Tumen was from the Song Dynasty. It was handed back to the Song Dynasty, and dozens of other forts were from the Western Xia. He did not want to trade them. Even if he got Suizhou, he would have to waste his energy. The Song Dynasty obtained 36 forts. If he sent troops to garrison, there would be no room to attack Yanzhou in the future.

The severity of the severity cannot be grasped, so I can only answer: "Thank you for your grace, but before I was in charge of the emperor, my lord and the queen mother did not mention it, so I must go back and report it."

A group of scholars and officials were a little stunned. It was obviously a business that was at a disadvantage in the Song Dynasty. It seemed that the envoy of the Western Xia was not very happy. Why?

Zheng Lang smiled slightly when he heard the report from his subordinates.

The truth seems to be a very simple truth, but whether it is the Song Dynasty or the future, it has been repeatedly striking and fighting on it.

Without any care, it will not hurt to the core. Gouhe Sect will always occupy the mainstream. Open the file, it is the assessment record of dozens of military generals and the last list of commanders of the regiments. Not only the regiment commanders, but also the commanders of each battalion. The number of commanders of each battalion is too large, with thousands of people. It must be assessed slowly in the future. Zheng Lang cannot stay in Xifu. The only one who can manage is the final list of commanders of each regiment. There are more than 400 regiment commanders, not including all kinds of foreign soldiers. The foreign soldiers are not able to do so. In order to take care of the chiefs of all races, they are all chiefs or their children. There are also some rural soldiers in the south.

As for the Xiang Army, because of the long distance, there was a time to come to the capital, some local soldiers were composed of barbarians, and like the foreign soldiers, there was no need to conduct assessments. Other imperial guards, the Xiang Army and the Township Army were organized into groups one by one. After the assessment, they could basically guarantee that the regiment would not have much real waste in the meaning of this area. They knew some martial arts, battle formations and strategies, and had a little proficient in military tactics. Among them, Zheng Lang also discovered more than twenty excellent young generals. He paid attention and did not show his voice, just like Wang Shao. Although his qualifications were good, he had to be tempered before he could become a rough jade.

After putting down the files, the second step of reform gradually came to an end.

Walking out of the Western Palace and returning home, he sent a servant to Sima Guang and handed over a manuscript to Sima Guang. He read one of the paragraphs: "Today, the family of five farmers, there are no less than two serving people, and the number of them can be farmed is only a hundred acres, and the number of them can be harvested is only a hundred stones. Spring plowing, summer weeding, autumn harvest, winter storage, cut firewood, woodcutting, government administration, and labor service; spring cannot avoid wind and dust, summer cannot avoid heat, autumn cannot avoid rain, winter cannot avoid cold and freezing, and there is no rest during the four seasons. He also sent him to usher in private, hanged him and asked about illness, and raised his orphans and young people. He worked hard in this way, and was still suffering from floods and droughts, and he was urgently punished and abused, and his taxes were collected from time to time, and the court orders were changed in the evening. Those who had should sell half of the business and sold them, and those who had no money received more than twice the breath; so he sold his land and houses.

, those who sell descendants to pay their debts. The big merchants accumulate and store up and sell more money, while the small merchants sit on the line and sell them, and they win when they travel to the city every day. They take advantage of the most urgent things. Therefore, the man does not work hard, the woman does not weave silkworms, and the clothes must be literary, and the food must be meat. Without the suffering of the farmer, there is a gain of fields. Because of his wealth, he can communicate with kings and princes, and his strength is over the power of officials to benefit each other; travel thousands of miles, and he is looking at each other with a cap, streak, and walking on silk and silk. This is why merchants merge farmers, and farmers are exiled. Now the laws are inferior to merchants, and merchants are rich and noble; respecting farmers, and farmers are poor and humble. Therefore, what the customs are noble is what the master is humble; what the officials are inferior to the law is respected. The opposite of the upper and lower levels, they are dissatisfied with each other, and they are dissatisfied with each other, and they want the country to be rich and the law is established, but they cannot be obtained."

From Chao Cuo's "On the Remarks on the Reputation of Skin".

Because Zheng Lang suggested that Zhao Xu deliberately sent some literary figures to assist Sima Guang in writing the "General Records", and had already compiled the twelve volumes of Volume 20. In the 12th year of Xiaowen in Volume 15, Sima Guang deliberately extracted the entire text of this article, accounting for more than 90% of the Chronicles of this year.

Food was very important in ancient times. The people were not full, but no matter what Confucius or Laozi you were, even if Confucius became the emperor, even if Confucius became the emperor, he would rise up. This is probably why Sima Guang was obsessed with this article.

After reading, Zheng Lang sighed: "It's good to say that although our dynasty's grain output increases, the yield per mu can be more than two stones, but in the Han Dynasty, a household can have a hundred acres of land, but not one third of it. Some fifth-class households only have a few acres of arable land. It's just this kind of land, which requires labor, taxes, socialism, life, death, illness, marriage, marriage, care for the elderly, raise children, food, drink, clothing and housing. Usually, they can barely be hungry, and when a natural disaster comes, the court prohibits it, the people still have to sell their children or be displaced. However, the rich families wear gorgeous silk, ride noble BMWs, ride in a strong carriage, and even a pair of silk stockings under their feet can be worth a few gold. But they are still not satisfied, and hide land from the country, seize the poor people, and merge with them..."

"Duke Zheng, haste will not reach the limit."

"I know that hasteness is not achieved. But Junshi, no matter whether it is fast or slow, should I do something?"

"Dehua."

"Dehua also needs criminal law to assist, otherwise it is Mo's Dehua. If you go down, it will be Dehua. If you don't use the legal weapon in the end, how much hidden land can you get?" Zheng Lang said this, thinking about something in his mind. Sima Guang was at least a student and could be considered a person who values ​​friendship. Otherwise, he would probably become his mortal enemy in the court at this time. In fact, no matter Dehua or anything else, it is an excuse. Just like the houses in later generations, in order to exploit the people and satisfy his own **, it is possible that it is said that there are many Chinese people and few lands, but the density is really as high as that of Japan, some southern countries, A San, or Western European countries? It is also said that urbanization, many farmers have not entered the city. I don't know whether farmers plant rice or gold. If it is not gold, they rely on acre of land, a thousand or hundreds of kilograms of rice, seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, and they can only afford a house until the year of the monkey and horse. If it is covered with a house, what other dreams can they have? nightmare!

At this time, then!

He took out a booklet and said, "You wrote in Han Jiyili that Han Xin asked Emperor Gaozu of Han, "Isn't it Xiang Wang, who is the king of Xiang now fighting for power in the world today?" Emperor Gaozu of Han replied, "However, Han Qi asked again, "Who is the king of bravery and strong is as strong as Xiang Wang?" Emperor Gaozu of Han was silent for a long time, and said, "It's better than that." Han Xin bowed again, but Xin also thought that it was better than that of the king of Han. However, I have once asked him to tell him that King Xiang was a man. King Xiang secretly was arrogant and denied thousands of people."

However, he cannot be appointed as a virtuous general, so he is a brave man. King Xiang saw people, respectful and kind, and he spoke, and vomited, and was sick, so he cried and shared food and drink. When he was very satisfied, he would be awarded titles, and he would be too impressed to give them. This is the so-called benevolence of a woman. Although King Xiang dominated the world, he was ministering the princes, but he did not live in Guanzhong and was in Pengcheng. He violated the agreement of Emperor Yi, but beloved the princes and princes, and was unfair. He chased his former lords and the generals, and then moved the emperor to Jiangnan.

All are destroyed, and the people do not follow each other, and they are particularly robbed of their power. Although they are famous as domineering, they are actually losing the hearts of the world, so they are more powerful and weak. Now the king is able to reverse his ways and be brave in the world. What is not punished? He is the city and city of the world, and he is not convinced! He is the righteous army and the people who return to the east, so why not disperse! Moreover, the Three Qin Kings were the generals of Qin, and the children of Qin were over for several years, and the killing was invincible. He also deceived his people and surrendered to the princes. When King Xiang came to Xin'an, he deceived and 20 surrendered Qin soldiers.

There are ten thousand, but Han, Xin, Yi is exhausted. Qin's father and brother blame these three people and the pain is in pain. Now Chu is strong and King Wei is not loved by the Qin people. When the king enters Wuguan, there is no harm. Apart from Qin's harsh laws, he made three rules with the Qin people. Qin people all want to get the king of kings and Qin. When the princes agree, the king becomes the king of Guanzhong, and all the people know it. When the king fails to work in Hanzhong, the Qin people hate it. Now the king is promoted to the east, and the three Qins can be declared."

"Xiang Wangren is a benevolence of a woman. She was ruined and cheated over 200,000 surrendered soldiers in Qin. She loved her lover only because she loved the princes. She loved the princes and the people. Emperor Gaozu of Han entered Wuguan and did not violate any violations. Apart from Qin's harsh laws, three rules, this is true benevolence. Love the people, and the people in the world. As a result, when Emperor Gaozu of Han entered Hanzhong, the elders responded and headed eastward to the great gulf, and finally won the world. True, are you the powerful literati or the people in the world?"

It's not what I said, it's what you said.

"Mr. Zheng, since you used thunder means to reform, many people have become more radical and turbulent. I am worried that I will repeat the mistakes of the Qingli New Deal."

"Yes, I thought about it, so after every reform, I will stop for a while and make some concessions to comfort it. But how severe will the hidden land be? Have you ever thought about it? Although the two taxes are not as good as the Tang and Han people in the country's income, they are still large. They are just to repay the world's burden, natural disasters and unexpected military affairs. Can the two taxes be exempted? Not only can they not be exempted, the court will no longer increase taxes for the people, even if there is a chance for the people. There are so many literati and powerful people who are less tax-free and tax-free. The more land you hide, the heavier the taxes. Guangdong and Guangxi are difficult to deal with, and malaria cannot be guaranteed to be truly eradicated. Why are so many ordinary people going to Guangdong and Guangxi? Life is forced by. But even when people are overcrowded, where will they escape? "

"Why did Mr. Zheng let me go?"

"Junshi, I let you go on to reduce disputes and deal with them leniently, and I must let you take care of them in every way. Yes, this time, you did the best in this investigation of hidden fields, with few conflicts and achieved results. But the shock of last year was also exhausted by you. Since then, every time you checked, these main households will continue to test the bottom line of the court like last year. But there are a few scholars and officials who can have your wisdom and control this bottom line. Even if you take the lead, you will lose this shock power twice or three times,

After four times, don’t think about 90,000 hectares of hidden fields, even if you go down, you may not be able to get them. Temperament and simplicity, harshness and leniency are often a line of separation. Duke Zhuang of Zheng did not love Gongshuduan, but harmed Gongshuduan. You did not love scholars and officials. The rich and poor are imbalanced, and the country continues to be poor and weak, either being violated by foreigners, or rising up and the country collapses. The five surnames and seven families of the Tang Dynasty can disappear in the long river of history, and ordinary scholars and officials! This is also the love of women!”

Cui Xian looked at Zheng Lang with a grudge from the side.

After all, he is your favorite student, don’t you talk too much?

In fact, as a daughter of the Cui family, she is also one of the powerful and powerful. She has a very similar idea of ​​her husband's approach and believes that Zheng Lang is a little radical.

Zheng Lang shook his head and smiled at her, and said to Sima Guang who was thinking: "Junshi, I am in my early fifties, and you are nearly fifty years old. You and I don't have much golden time. Even if you are healthy, you will only have twenty years of political life. After seventy, even if you are safe, you will not have the energy you are now. Your talent for classics and skills, Jiefu's management, and I, don't you want to work together to create a better future? The country is experiencing important changes. Once the country goes through, the country will become stronger again and go down. Where can I find talents like Jiefu in the future?"

Not a verbal arrogant.

Even if a time traveler comes, he may not have a hard drive, or Zheng Lang's good patience and hard work, as well as his mentality. Besides, Sima Guang and Wang Anshi cannot find many in the long river of history. He also said: "Let us create a history for the country and His Majesty."

"Here." Sima Guang said seriously.

No matter what he thinks, he also wants the country to be better.

Zheng Lang said again: "Come on, let's talk about the Nanxiao sacrifice to heaven..."

A few days later, Wang Anshi and Sima Guang joined forces to submit a letter to talk about the ceremony of worshiping heaven in the southern suburbs.

The ceremony of sacrifice to heaven was created by Qin Shihuang. The emperor had to attend the great sacrifice in person. However, the Qin Dynasty was short and failed to execute it very well. Emperor Wu of Han picked it up and said that it was a sacrifice for three years, but it was not able to execute it very well. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was abandoned again. Not to mention the Three Kingdoms and Southern Dynasties, the Tang Dynasty did not recover until Emperor Xuanzong of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty only carried out four times during Emperor Taizu, and Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty five times during Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, and once in the Eastern Suburbs. The Southern Suburbs nine times during Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, which was actually fifteen times.

There is a difference between them. The narrow sense of the Southern Suburbs worship ceremony only refers to the winter solstice and the southern suburbs. The broad sense of the Winter Solstice includes the Winter Solstice and the Southern Suburbs, the Jixiao Jixin Ri Mingtang Ceremony, and the Circular Mound Prayer for Valley in the First Month. If the latter two are included, Song Zhenzong basically carried out the tribute once every three years, while Song Renzong did not stop.

The two of them made suggestions not to prevent the frequent rituals of worshiping the sky in the southern suburbs, but to prevent things other than the rituals.

The great ceremony for offering sacrifices to heaven, and the Mingtang in the south suburbs is also to comfort the people, what is to comfort the people, lenient taxes, general amnesty, rewards, and poverty. One sacrifices to the ancestors of God, and the other sacrifices to show their sincerity in love with the people. But this comforting the people has become increasingly different. The first is a general amnesty, because the Southern Suburbs sacrifice has become a rule and system, and often some poor and extremely evil people fled after committing the crime. When the Southern Suburbs sacrifice comes, there is no judgment before, and then the general amnesty is pardoned. Therefore, these few people are increasingly harming the village. The first advice is to change the general amnesty to minor amnesty, and some repeated crimes and some serious crimes are not allowed to be pardoned, so as not to undermine national public order and make officials run away.

The second is to comfort the poor, but the money and silk are deducted from the officials. God knows how much poverty has comforted them. Of course, the two did not propose to hand over the money to the charity association to the presidency. After all, it is suspected that the melon fields and plum trees are under the plum trees. The people are still the people, and the court will not interfere with it. It is necessary to comfort the poor. There is no need to cram the Buddha at the moment. Even if the gods have a spirit, they may not appreciate this kind of affection. It is better to carry out more good policies in normal times.

The same is true for the tax service.

The third is reward, which is the top priority, including rewards to soldiers, replenishment, rewards to officials, etc.

It was originally a benevolent act, but the cost was getting bigger and bigger. During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty, the reward of only more than 5 million yuan was only rewarded, but increased to more than 7 million yuan during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong. By the time of Emperor Renzong, it cost more than 12 million yuan. This more than 12 million yuan did not include additional money, silk, firewood, charcoal, rice and grain, and was awarded with the promotion of titles. In fact, the invisible waste brought by a suburb sacrifice could reach more than 20 million yuan.

It is no longer a celebration of benevolent politics, but a celebration of waste of money and money.

Secondly, the Nansu Festival is once a year, and the two dare not say that they have changed it to five years. However, the imperial system has been stipulated. Before the redundant officials are resolved, it will be repaired every five years. How can this conflict be resolved?

The two of them are knowledgeable and talented, and quote the essays, but how to reduce this waste and make it a real benevolent government. Because there are too many implications, they only propose and no solution is proposed. If you want to become a benevolent government, you can reduce rewards, where can you reduce? If you reduce soldiers, you will mutiny or reduce officials, and you will immediately become the target of public criticism.

But it's enough.

Someone will reflect on this letter.

Zheng Lang only said one thing to Sima Guang, you discuss it with Jie Fu.

Listening to Wang Anshi reading the letter, he glanced at Wang Anshi, then looked at Sima Guang, and said with approval.

Zheng Lang was very happy to be able to cooperate.

Sima Guang just smiled bitterly, hoping that this year would pass sooner. By this time next year, the reform will be revealed, the teacher will stop, restore the previous fine adjustments, and reduce the national commotion.

After Wang Anshi finished reading, Zhao Xu asked: "Wang Qing, there is a solution."

Wang Anshi did not answer, but looked at the ministers in the hall and the soldiers guarding the guards outside the hall.

Zhao Xu stopped talking.

There is a solution, not in Wang Anshi's mouth, but in his own heart. How much reward is finally what you say, but you can't say it.

After Wang Anshi finished speaking, Qian Shu said, "Your Majesty, I have a book, and all the officials will make up for the vacancies."

"Come on."

That is to go down and check Sima Guang to check the officials in Hidden Field to fill in the gaps. The fastest way to solve the problem of redundant officials is to lay off officials, but once a layoff is turbulent, Zheng Lang finally made a humble concession. However, the selection of officials is very strict. When the vacancy comes out, there must be a job and official under the guild. When the vacancies are released, there must be a job and official above the prefecture. Because the joint positioning method of the Zhenzong era has been restored, if the official who is sponsored has committed personal crimes such as corruption after serving as a vacancies, the sponsor will also be punished. Therefore, when sponsoring, the sponsoring officials have to carefully examine the character of the sponsor. It may not be 100% effective, and it will play some role.

After the list of sponsors arrives at the Secretariat, it is screened and placed by some officials to serve as minor officials for further investigation. Then the sponsor makes a second judgment on the sponsor's performance in the official position. This is the secondary sponsor system in the governance and reform.

The difficulty of appointing officials at the source is increased and the number of officials is reduced. It is still not effective now. After so many officials have been selected, in addition to a few elderly, weak, sick and disabled, there are also some corrupt officials, especially corrupt officials, who borrow money everywhere. Some officials have made money from it and made accounts privately, and they have also found out one by one. This alone has brought nearly 10 million losses to the country, and these officials have completely gone down. However, there are many connections among other officials, plus the huge number of officials, with too many monks and less porridge. Last year, Zheng Lang checked them one by one, and selected more than 500 officials to investigate again with Sima Guang. Only 400 officials can be picked out and obtained the actual difference.

In fact, if this strict grinding system and underwriting system are not destroyed, the king will not be too stupid. It can not only effectively prevent the number of officials from expanding again, but also play a role in reversing the official atmosphere.

When Sima Guang came back, Zheng Langquan sent dozens of poor performance officials and sent the rest to the Ministry of Personnel for another selection, and then handed it to the Court of Justice for confirmation. Because of its huge scale, it must be reported to Zhao Xu, and Zhao Xu will then be handed over to the two-system review before it can be approved.

This move is the most satisfying thing for the monarch and ministers.

If the prime minister is further restrained, there will be no situation in which the prime minister will be able to quickly corrupt the national affairs if he is Li Linfu and others.

The list is too long, Zhao Xu said, "Qian Qing, leave it to the two systems."

"Here."

The envoy of the Third Division, Wu Chong, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I report to the national cashier last year."

In just one sentence, all the ministers pricked their ears together. Zheng Lang struggled for more than a year and half a year, and there were no good comments on good or bad. There were good sides and many things that made everyone dissatisfied. It was impossible for everyone to be satisfied. Everyone had their own love, everyone had their own ideas, and there were not many ministers who rejected them. After all, Zheng Lang had all the efforts he had made, and there were many oppositions. But the good and bad were mainly finance. The benefits of finance were the benefits of proving the reform!
Chapter completed!