Chapter 127: Great Ideals

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When Wang Anshi heard this, he half-understood and half-believed.

Le Lin continued: "So, what about you? Your Qingmiao Law is to oppose the entire landlord class, what do you rely on?"

"I ......"

"Changing the law, innovating, it's not a dinner party, it's not painting and embroidering, it's not that you rely on a mouth, a few articles to win the trust of the official, you can do it once and for all, it's done, how many people's cakes have been moved by your green seedling method, do you know!"

Le Lin said what was in her heart in one breath.

Wang Anshi seemed to understand: "Cake?"

"No, it's not a cake, it's a rice bowl! You have touched someone's rice bowl, do you know?"

Wang Anshi comprehended, and his face suddenly darkened.

Le Lin continued: "Who in this court does not have a little land? Who is not a landlord? Who is not relying on lending money to the common people and enriching himself? In essence, you are lending money in the name of the state, and you are touching the rice bowl of the entire landlord class!"

Not only the Qingmiao Law, but also the Fangtian Average Tax Law in the Xining Reform Law, Qingzhang Land, in fact, is to check and sort out the cultivated land and land endowment that evade taxes, and to carry out an inventory of cultivated land across the country. The equalization method, the government centralized procurement of food and grain system. In fact, the government has the functions of a modern central bank and a price bureau. The government set up a city office to raise a certain amount of capital, and when the price is low, the government buys it, and when the price rises, it sells it.

These are all aimed at the strata with vested interests!

These new laws were extremely rare in ancient societies. Le Lin's knowledge of later generations can be realistically summarized as giving the government access to the market, through a series of economic intervention policies, to speed up the circulation of money, thereby increasing the wealth of society. This is why Wang Anshi said, "The people do not add endowment, but the country uses enough". These methods were effective in modern society a thousand years later, but in the Song Dynasty more than a thousand years ago, they were too far ahead of their time.

Wang Anshi was as silent as if he was dumb, but he was not silent, but faintly like the calm before the storm.

Le Lin mistakenly thought that he was convinced, and said more and more confidently: "Where is it so easy to change the law, you have cut off the financial routes of many people at this time! Cutting off people's financial routes is like killing your parents, before you kill the class with vested interests, they will have the full ability to kill you long ago!"

Wang Anshi raised his head, stared at Le Lin awe-inspiringly, and said almost word by word: "As long as it is beneficial to the people and the community, what does it matter if Wang has a thousand cuts? Since I am not even afraid of death, I should be able to think of a way to resist the opponents." ”

Lelin let out a long sigh.

Yes, of course he has a way.

-- In this society with a small peasant economy, there was no complete market economy, and none of these changes could work well with the help of the market economy, so in history, Wang Anshi could only rely on the coercive power of the government to promote the new law.

"What you said about using the Seedlings Law as an official assessment must be the method you said, right?" Le Lin asked bitterly, "But, have you ever thought about what kind of consequences this method will have?"

Historically, the resistance to changing the law has been unprecedentedly huge, but Wang Anshi, the "reluctant minister", is a person who rises to the challenge and becomes stronger when he encounters the strongest. Eventually, in order to implement the new law, Wang Anshi further increased the power of the imperial court and forced it to promote. The new law has become a performance appraisal for officials in disguise, and if officials want to have good "political performance", they have to further expand the power of the government, and in the end, they fall into a vicious circle.

Wang Anshi remembered what "Le Lang" said before, "bad money drives out good money", and suddenly understood the relationship between the two.

"Is it 'bad money drives out good money'?"

He said suddenly.

Le Lin nodded, then shook her head again: "This is one of them, and even more. ”

Compared with the disturbance of the Qingmiao Law, the biggest drawback of Xining's reform was that it opened the Northern Song Dynasty party dispute.

In order to expand the power of the imperial court, and thus to improve the centralization of power, in the Xining reform, the imperial court used a large number of traitorous officials who would do whatever it took to achieve their goals. They brutally attacked the conservative forces for the sake of the effect of the New Deal, and since then, the entire history of the Northern Song Dynasty has been almost full of party disputes between the old and new parties, and the country's internal friction has been serious, which has greatly damaged the vitality.

"Implement your new law, non-traitorous officials are not competent, such unscrupulous people, in order to consolidate power, will definitely fight against the same party and form gangs. Le Lin explained carefully.

Wang Anshi imagined this trouble, and a few drops of cold sweat couldn't help but ooze from the corners of his forehead.

He wanted to speak and stopped, and he wanted to talk and then stop.

Finally, he was still unwilling and helpless to say to himself: "Is there really no way......

Le Lin couldn't bear to see him discouraged, and said with relief: "If you want to be fast, you can't reach it, the starting point of the Qingmiao Method is good, but you still need to think about it more, be gentle, and be slow." ”

Wang Anshi shook his head, stunned for a long time, and then choked up: "I'm not talking about the Qingmiao Method. ”

"Huh?"

"I'm talking about this world, this world, this people. ”

Lelin looked at him blankly.

Wang Anshi grabbed Le Lin's shoulder with one hand and said excitedly: "Every time, every time it's like this!"

"What, what?" Lelin heard.

"Every time, the landlord class you mentioned continued to annex land and seize wealth from the common people, and the people of Li became more and more miserable, and then encountered natural disasters, the people were struggling to make a living, and the affairs of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang recurred, and wars broke out, and finally the dynasty was changed, and the cycle continued to ......"

Lelin was stunned when she heard this.

She didn't expect Wang Anshi to think so far-reaching.

Wang Anshi continued: "I also thought that my Qingmiao method would allow Li Min to escape the fate of this reincarnation. ”

His eyes were red, and he stared at Le Lin without blinking for a moment, his eyes were almost pleading: "You say, is there really no way?"

Lelin felt extremely guilty.

Wang Anshi, whom she thought, was a brainless person and a paranoid who was desperate to achieve his goals.

She never imagined that behind these changes, there was such a compassionate and lofty ideal.

"Yes, there is a way. ”

It was silent for an unknown amount of time before Le Lin said this answer.

Wang Anshi was stunned instead, and said in disbelief: "Really?"

"Well, it's just a long time later. ”

"How long?"

Le Lin pondered for a moment, and then replied: "It will take long enough for the productive forces to develop enough for people to live out of the land, long enough for a new class to emerge, and long enough for this class to overthrow the rule of the landlord class." ”

Wang Anshi seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, put down the hand that grabbed Le Lin's shoulder, and asked, "How long will it take?"

"If not a thousand years, it will take eight hundred years. ”

At least, wait until capitalism sprouts, at least, wait until the bourgeoisie is strong enough.

"How long is it going to take?"

"Yes, you are waiting for the violent action of one class to overthrow another. ”

When Wang Anshi heard this, he laughed faintly.

"What are you laughing at?" asked Le Lin curiously.

"The road is long, I will go up and down and seek. ”

"Huh?"

"It doesn't matter if it's a thousand years or 10,000 years, as long as there is such a day, a certain bento should do its best to achieve it. ”

Le Lin looked at Wang Anshi's side face, and under the reflection of the slanting sun outside the window, his square silhouette became more and more resolute.

This discussion gave her a more three-dimensional understanding of this mixed figure in history.

"Mr. Wang," she called, "there is a reluctant request below." ”

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