In the hell of the evil mirror, Wang Anshi watched all the things that happened in the world in front of the karmic mirror, and when he saw Yarong placing Yangchun noodles in front of Wang Hongwei's tomb, he also felt sour in his heart, and finally had relatives who remembered him in this life, instead of the end of betrayal and separation in his previous life. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Now, I'm going to send you to the Mirror Hell to be tortured." Fan Wu opened his mouth and said, ready to recruit ghosts to take Wang Anshi away, but Wang Anshi pleaded with Fan Wu and said: "Wait, I want to take a look at my past life in the karmic mirror" Fan Wu was a little surprised, when Wang Anshi first arrived at the hell of the evil mirror, he had been reluctant to face the karmic mirror, but now he took the initiative to ask for it, he nodded and agreed to Wang Anshi's request.

The scene in the karmic mirror has changed, and the picture that appears is on the Jinluan Hall, where two people are talking.

In the first year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty, Emperor Zhao Ji, who was only 20 years old, inherited the unification of the heir, heroic and ambitious. Since he was a child, he was saddened by the submission and concession of the emperors and ancestors to Liao and Western Xia, dissatisfied with the malaise of the imperial court, prefectures and counties, anxious about the reduction of national taxes and the tight finances, and had a strong desire to enrich the country and the people, and strengthen the army.

After the pro-government, Emperor Shenzong Zhao Ji was anxious to find talents who could govern the country in peace, and finally set his sights on Wang Anshi. Wang Anshi was in the prime of life, served as a local official for many years, and also experienced several ups and downs in the court, understood the national government and people's feelings, although he was not of great use, but he enjoyed a very high reputation among the scholars, and he was the only one in the world for more than 30 years, so Shenzong summoned Wang Anshi into the Golden Palace.

Song Shenzong was still young, with a momentum, wanting to bring the old world to the ground, he said to Wang Anshi: "What should be the first priority in today's way of governing the country? ”

Wang Anshi is a poet, but he has the world in his heart, has great ambitions, this time the Divine Sect summons, for him is a hard-won dawn, he cherishes this opportunity, prudently replied: "Start with the choice of art."

After Song Shenzong heard this, he was secretly happy in his heart, Wang Anshi's thoughts were very consistent with him, and he had a feeling of hating the late, so Shenzong then asked: "I don't know what Qing has set up, what is the priority?" ”

Wang Anshi saw that Song Shenzong was very interested in his words, and he couldn't help but say what he had thought for many years: "Changing customs and legislating laws is also urgent." Whoever wants to be beautiful and customary, in the long gentleman, eliminate the villain, and use courtesy, righteousness and shame from the gentleman. ”

After this conversation, Song Shenzong gave Wang Anshi supreme power, and Wang Anshi began a large-scale reform of the law. When Wang Anshi was in Shaanxi, he implemented the Seedlings Law, and the effect was very good, and he decided to push the Seedlings Law to the whole country.

The so-called "green seedlings" refer to seedlings that are not yet mature in the spring. In the spring, last year's autumn grain has been exhausted, and the spring grain is still in the growth period, which is also the time of "green and yellow".

At this time, farmers have "green seedlings" in their hands that can be expected to add value, but they lack the funds to supply planting and living. In the past, they could only obtain the money they needed by borrowing from landlords in the form of usury. However, the interest offered by the landlords can be far more than two or three cents, and the final result is that the peasants cannot afford to pay it back, so they can only sell their land.

Wang Anshi is well versed in financial management and feels that this should be the perfect time to invest in a mortgage. He advocated that the government lend money to farmers at relatively low interest rates in the spring. The peasants used the seedlings themselves as collateral and repaid the money to the government with interest after the autumn harvest.

This is the so-called "no tax increase and the state is sufficient", Wang Anshi tried to obtain government revenue through financial means, in the form of mortgages. This is because when production increases and goods flow are idealized, even if the tax rate remains unchanged, the economy can be stimulated in an efficient circulation environment and the effect of tax increase can be obtained.

Wang Anshi looked at himself in front of the karmic mirror, and the self in the mirror was full of spirit after being appreciated by the Divine Sect, and he was busy with the reform wholeheartedly, but Wang Anshi sighed, what happened later was something he couldn't have expected. A green seedling law, but the consequences are catastrophic.

Wang Anshi's policy of changing the law all proceeded from good intentions, and the "green seedling law" was originally intended to give full consideration to the interests of the peasants, and moreover, when he was a magistrate in Yin County, he experimented with "lending grain to the people and paying the interest for it," and the results were good. However, when he promoted this method to the whole country, it was enlarged in the same proportion, but it was the opposite of the other.

Illiterate villagers who apply for loans under the Seedlings Law have to go through the following procedures: in order to fill out the application form, they have to pay a scribe; When I got it to the yamen to apply for it, I encountered corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and I didn't know how much it would cost to pay a fee, and the amount of the loan was completely written by the officials. According to historical records, although the interest stipulated by the reform was two cents, after the exploitation of corrupt officials in the middle, the actual interest to be returned by the peasants who finally took out loans reached 35 times the original setting, which was much higher than that of usury. As a result, the peasants were forced to "beg the rich families to raise interest rates and take them" and borrow usury rather than borrow money from the government. "Politics for the benefit of the people" has become "actions that disturb the people".

In the end, even Wang Anshi's friend Su Shi came out to openly oppose him, Wang Anshi recalled the argument between him and Su Shi in the main hall, he was very depressed in the first half of his life, and was not reused before Shenzong, only Su Shi, a friend, accompanied him, in the face of Su Shi's duties, he also wavered, but he finally strengthened his belief: the sky is not enough to fear, people are not enough to be compassionate, and the law of the ancestors cannot be kept.

Politicians are not mistaken. The reform presided over by Wang Anshi became the biggest political wrestling in the political circles of the Great Song Dynasty over whether the new law was "beneficial to the people" or "harmful to the people". Most of the original Chinese and Taiwanese advisory groups were opposition to changing the law.

Therefore, after Wang Anshi presided over the political situation of the Central Committee, he carried out a major purge of these departments, and dismissed 19 Taiwanese admonitions from the first year of Xining to four years alone, and replaced them with his own comrades Li Ding, Xue Changchao, Xie Jingwen, etc., basically silning the voices of opposition. As a result, during the vigorous reform of the law, or "the ministers of Taiwan admonished silently did not dare to say anything, and even avoided all kinds of actions, and did not dare to occupy the position"; Or the ruling minister "appoints his dear people" as the official of Taiwan, "or if there is a small disobedience, he will be degraded and expelled, so as to punish those who will be especially deceitful in the future, and then he will be punished for it."

Under the premise of this utilitarian purpose, most of the people who observe words and colors, see the wind and steer the rudder, and some are hoarse and shouting and cheering for the change of the law, whether it is good or bad; Some of them carried a big signboard supporting the reform of the law, and did things such as killing political opponents and looting people's money. In order to change the law, Wang An even deliberately framed Su Shi in the "Wutai Poetry Case" and let Su Shi be exiled.