Chapter 69: Wang Anshi's Reform
Hearing Yu Yunwen's voice, Yang Gao shook his head helplessly and said, "I'm really tired!" β
Slowly putting down the book, Yang Gao said in a deep voice: "Come in!"
Yu Yunwen cautiously entered Yang Gao's study, followed by a scribe in his thirties, seven feet tall, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, although he was wearing a cloth shirt, he could not hide his heroic spirit.
As soon as this person entered the room, he attracted Yang Gao's attention, and he asked Yu Yunwen curiously: "Yunwen, this is... β
Yu Yunwen smiled and said: "Your Highness, this is what Wechen came to today, this Mr. Wang Anshi talked with Wechen for a long time yesterday, Wechen found that this Mr. Wang has a wealth of wealth and has the talent of a countryman, if His Highness can reuse it, he will definitely be able to become a big help to His Highness." β
It turned out to be Wang Anshi who was summoned last time!
Yang Gao nodded thoughtfully, pretending to be surprised and said, "Oh? To be so praised by Yunwen must be extraordinary!"
Saying that, his eyes swept to Wang Anshi, who was on the side, and said lightly: "I don't know what Mr. Wang's strategy for governing the country is?" β
Wang Anshi said without humility or arrogance: "Your Highness, the grass people think that governing the country should be to develop national strength and improve people's livelihood, and if you want to develop national strength and improve people's livelihood, you should weaken the scholars in various places. "After hundreds of years of development, the power of the Shi clan has become unprecedentedly large, and the major families have married each other and gradually formed an intertwined community of interests."
Wang Anshi paused and continued: "These big families occupy high positions in the court; At the local level, most of the official positions at all levels are held by their clan children and protΓ©gΓ©s; The family also has a lot of wealth and personal armies, and the combination of several great families can even threaten the imperial rule. Therefore, the grass people steal that the warriors are immortal, and the world is uneasy! β
Yang Gao nodded with interest, "Mr. Wang, how do you think this situation should be changed?" β
"Change!" Wang Anshi said categorically: "Fang is down today, and the only way to stand is to break it!" Your Highness, please see, these are some of the opinions of the grass people themselves! Wang Anshi said, took out a stack of thick paper from the bag on his waist and handed it over.
Yang Gao took it lightly, and looked at it one after another attentively, Wang Anshi's changes are generally composed of "Shiyi Law", "Baojia Law", "Uniform Loss Law", "Qingmiao Law", "Recruitment Law", "Fangtian Average Tax Law" and so on.
Among them, the market law refers to the establishment of urban trade companies in important cities and towns across the country, the purchase of unsalable goods in the market at a low price, and allows merchants to take loans or credit goods, and collect interest according to regulations. It restricts the control of large businessmen over the market, stabilizes prices and commodity exchanges, and increases the government's fiscal revenue.
The method of equalizing the tax on square fields is to clear out the land concealed by the powerful landlords by measuring the acres of land and sorting out the cadastral land, so as to increase the state financial revenue and reduce the burden on the peasants.
The seedling method is dominated by the imperial court, and the price of rice is appropriately raised in good years to prevent grain cheapness from hurting farmers; In the famine year, the price of rice should be appropriately reduced, the price should be stabilized, the people should be saved, and the family should be restrained from merging and exploiting the peasants and "open source" for the government, so as to achieve the goal of "the people do not increase the endowment and the country will use enough".
Every policy of Wang Anshi is to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and to inhibit the development of the family. Yang Gao was overjoyed, hurriedly got up and grabbed Wang Anshi's hand and said: "Mr. is really talented, God really helps Gu, your strategy of governing the country is better than 100,000 elite soldiers for Gu!" β
Wang Anshi was also overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately knelt on the ground, and bowed: "Thank you Your Highness for being able to identify with the grass people, even if the grass people are willing to go to the soup for Your Highness, they will not hesitate!" β
Yang Gao smiled slightly, and said to Wang Anshi amiably: "Mr. Wang's policy of governing the country is very much agreed, but now that the family is powerful, rash changes will definitely arouse their vigilance. β
"Your Highness..." Wang Anshi was anxious when he heard this.
"Mr. Wang, don't be impatient!" Yang Gao smiled slightly, raised his hand to stop Wang Anshi, "Gu hasn't finished talking yet." β
"Your Highness's forgiveness, it's the grass people who are anxious!" Wang Anshi hurriedly pleaded guilty.
"Mr. Wang, please get up!" Yang Gao said lightly, "You agree with your strategy of governing the country very much, but considering the obstruction of the Shi clan, Gu decided to appoint you as the Taishou of Nanyang County first and implement the law change in Nanyang." Nanyang County is now in ruins, and most of the scholars who were originally entrenched here have been wiped out, and the resistance should be much smaller. After you have made some achievements in Nanyang, Lone can order to be pushed to Jingxiang and other places! β
"Your Highness is wise!" Yu Yunwen, who was on the side, immediately echoed.
Although he agrees with Wang Anshi's theory, he also knows that the matter of changing the law involves a lot of things, and the slightest carelessness will cause a big mess. It is indeed a very correct decision to let Wang Anshi start experimenting with the method change in Nanyang County, which is still a blank sheet of paper, and then slowly promote it in the future.
Wang Anshi heard that Yang Gao appointed himself as the Taishou of a county, and after the full implementation of the law change in Nanyang County, his body couldn't help but shake up, and he was full of gratitude so that he knelt on the ground again, hit his head on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Thank you for your appreciation, and your Highness can't repay Your Highness's kindness!" β
Yang Gao said in a deep voice: "Lone doesn't want you to smit your liver and brains, Lone only needs you to govern Nanyang County for me!" β
Wang Anshi said firmly: "Your Highness, rest assured, within three years, Weichen will make Nanyang County a big county comparable to Jingzhao County and Henan County!" β
"Lone believes in you!" Yang Gao nodded firmly towards Wang Anshi, "I'm waiting for your good news!" β
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Guanzhong, Feng Yijun.
Li Yuan rose up and was invincible. first defeated the Sui general Song Laosheng who guarded Huoyi, and beheaded Song Laosheng; Immediately, he besieged Qu Tutong in the east of the river without attacking, and quickly marched to the southwest and advanced into Guanzhong.
After Li Yuan's soldiers entered Guanzhong, the major families of Guanlong sent their children to meet Li Yuan and express their allegiance to Li Yuan. This made Li Yuan proud and full of confidence, thinking that he was only a few steps away from dominating the world.
On this day, Li Yuan had just finished meeting with the envoys sent by several small families in Guanzhong, and was about to take a short rest, but when he saw his second son Li Shimin walk into the big tent with a solemn face, he immediately asked curiously: "Shimin, your face is so ugly, what happened?" β
Li Shimin let out a long sigh, bowed down and said: "Father, Wuji has just come back, and he told his son a bad news, Wuguan has fallen into Yang Gao's hands!" β
"Huh?"
Li Yuan exclaimed, his body couldn't help but be shocked, and the teacup in his hand fell to the ground with a "bang", and broken porcelain splashed.