Yu Chu said. The whole \ Ben / Xiao \ said / The net seemed to be a little tired, and the body was protected by the group of mouths. Qingjun's face flushed, and he exhaled. There seems to be a strong aroma of wine.

What did the adults teach Yang Chengping said with a smile, feeling a little hot, and took out a silk handkerchief. Gently wipe off sweat stains from your forehead.

"Ever heard of illicit salt?" Chu Zhen closed his eyes slightly, as if muttering to himself.

Yang Chengping was stunned, looked up at Chu Qian, seemed to have a deep meaning, suddenly smiled softly, and said leisurely: "I have heard of it."

"What do you think? Chu asked.

"What how?. Yang Chengping was puzzled.

"Is it right or wrong to sell illicit salt?"

"Naturally, it's wrong, according to the laws of the imperial court. Those who sell salt for profit of more than three catties without permission will be beheaded for public display, more than ten catties, sitting together, and it is inevitable to be amnesty Yang Chengping said, his expression was a little strange.

"Brother Yang is more familiar with the laws of the Great Song Dynasty than I am." With a smile, Chu Zhen opened his eyes. Shaking his head, he said, "Actually, in my opinion." This is a move. It's hard to tell right from wrong. ”

Yang Chengping looked at Chu Zhen in surprise and arched his hand: "I would like to hear the details."

"The prohibition of smuggled salt is beneficial to the imperial court, but it is harmful to the people, but the trafficking of illicit salt is beneficial to the people. It will damage the interests of the imperial court, so I really can't tell whether it is familiar or wrong.

。 Chu Zhen said softly.

After a moment of silence, Yang Chengping sighed: "My lord's high opinion is too late."

If it is replaced by an official or Confucian scholar who does not know the hardships of the people's livelihood. must have scoffed at Chu Zhen's words, or he would also ask him if he was loyal to his duties, and he actually agreed to sell illicit salt, which was simply sorry for the emperor's grace. However, Yang Chengping understood what Chu Zhen wanted to express.

In ancient times, the monopoly of salt tea was implemented, which was sold by the local government, the salt quality was poor, but the asking price was high, and the people were unwilling to buy more, but the government often forced the distribution, or according to the people's households, or even according to the number of people's property and the level of the household.

This policy that does not conform to the laws of the market must be full of drawbacks, although the imperial court has reformed the salt law several times. But its essence has not changed, the price of salt remains high, and at this time, the quality is excellent. Cheap private salt is naturally popular, and the people are deeply benefited by it. However, the profits generated by the illegal salt trade will definitely not be handed over to the government, which will naturally harm the interests of the imperial court.

After sighing for a moment, Chu Zhen suddenly said, "Brother Yang, why don't we just partner up to sell illicit salt." ”

There was silence for a while, and a smile slowly appeared on Yang Chengping's face, and he said softly: "My lord is drunk." ”

Standing up, his body shook slightly, and Chu Zhi said drunkly: "I am indeed a little dizzy, maybe I am really drunk."

"That being the case. Then the lord should go back to the yaya to rest, Yang Chengping said, and raised his voice to beckon the yasmen to come up and help, and Chu Zhen did not refuse, so he half-squinted. The footsteps were vain and left.

Looking at the official sedan chair in the distance, Yang Chengping's expression was uncertain, his forehead was slightly wrinkled, as if he was thinking about something, for a long time, he waved his hand gently. A man suddenly walked out of the depths of the dense forest and looked at his figure. but he was the one who drank with him at the beginning.

"Yu Er, I entrusted you just now."

The official sedan chair returned to the county office and returned to the lobby, and before Chu Zhi could take a few breaths, Liu Renzhi hurried up and hurriedly reported: "My lord, you are too orderly." I'll let you see you tomorrow at the state office

Fortunately, it's tomorrow, otherwise I'm full of alcohol now, and I will definitely have a reprimand, Chu Zhi sat down with peace of mind, took a sip of the hangover tea soup presented by the servant, and said strangely: "But I don't know why." ”

"It's nothing more than farming

Facts proved that Liu Renzhi's guess was correct, and when Chu Zhen went to the state government to report the next day, he found that not only was he summoned, but also the magistrates of several neighboring counties were already present, and Fan Zhongyan presided over the meeting. Inquire about the spring plowing arrangements of each county one by one.

The foundation of the royal government, care about agriculture, this is the basic national policy that the imperial court attaches the most importance to, who makes China has always been a small peasant economic society, and the economic lifeline that supports the rule of the dynasty is agriculture, and the Song Dynasty is better. At one time, commercial taxation surpassed that of agriculture, but in general terms, it was up to the emperor's ministers. Down to the common people, they all feel that agriculture is the foundation.

This has always been the first important policy of the state and county yamen, and the so-called persuasion of agriculture and mulberry does not refer to going to the field to pretend to wield a hoe, or going into the village to persuade the people to go to farming and ploughing the land.

Calling back those peasants who had no land or who had been exiled to start farming again was called Dunbenye; Recruit some farmers to open up stars and abandon barren mature fields and virgin land, which is called Xingdili; inspect or prepare the farming implements needed for the villages under his rule, and rent them to the people at any time, called agricultural tools; Advocating greening, planting mostly in barren mountains and mountains is called extensive planting.

In fact, many prefectures and county yamen only attribute the criteria for the quality of the performance of the peasants and mulberries to the expropriation of the land for reference, and the rest of the specific actions are rarely done or even not done at all.

The limbs are not diligent, the grains are not divided, and the illness of the Bu Pin and the two Bu officials is nothing to blame, however, now he is sitting in Fan Zhongyan. I'm afraid that this year will not be so easy to hide the past.

The first person to be named and reported was of course Chu Zhen of Qiantang Zhixian County, who called him under the nose of the state government, following Liu Renzhi's reminder, Chu Zhen, who had been prepared, naturally did not hesitate, stood up and talked eloquently. It is nothing more than the above countermeasures. There is nothing new, and it is good to be effective, and there is no need to be innovative.

In fact, after careful thinking and summarization by officials of previous dynasties, the methods of persuading farmers to teach mulberry have been exhausted. There is absolutely no fault in accordance with the implementation, and the main thing is to look at the strength of the officials' implementation.

Sure enough, after Chu Qian's report was completed. The words of the other magistrates in the following counties are also very similar, nothing more than a different emphasis, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a cliché, but Fan Zhongyan did not express his dissatisfaction, but nodded with Yan. Encourage others to act on the plan.

After all, if Fan Zhongyan wanted to listen to these official articles, he could directly ask them to submit the official documents, and there was no need to summon a meeting to discuss it. Instead, after a period of time, they sent someone to make a private visit to investigate, and found that anyone was slack, and they were severely punished. Now this waste of time is obviously not his style, naturally. The above is purely a slanderous speculation. Nothing to do with others.

"Everything you say has a point. As long as he acted in accordance with it, Fan Zhongyan opened his mouth and said: "However, there is an oversight, but you did not mention the solution. ”

What negligence. Everyone was confused, and hurriedly said: "Wangtai Shou teaches." ”

"In the early years of the year, when the autumn harvest came, the people had nothing to gain. If you don't do odd jobs, you can barely support your family. Otherwise, I am afraid that it will be difficult to survive the winter, Fan Zhongyan said worriedly: "Now that spring plowing has begun, I don't know if the people still have the money to buy grain planting equipment."

You must know that cultivation is not just about strength, but also about input, even if you can sow seeds. If you want to harvest, it will take a few months, during which watering, fertilizing and weeding consumes energy, not to mention, everything is manual labor, and you often have to be taken care of, if you don't have some savings, I'm afraid you can't afford it.

Looking at the people who were thinking about it, Chu Zhen was puzzled for a while, this matter is very easy to solve, it's not so difficult to do, why are they all helpless. Don't you want to steal the limelight?

Noticing Chu Zhi's abnormality, Fan Zhongyan looked sideways and said, "Chu Zhi County, do you have a good plan?" ”

After thinking about it, Chu Zhen stood up and said: "Hui Taishou, since the people can't afford it, why don't you let the official office lend it to them first and make a contract." When it's time to harvest, let them return it

It is a very common way for later generations to undertake this kind of business in institutions such as banks, cooperatives and other institutions. Set one, the maximum limit, determine the return date, go through the formalities such as signing and drawing, and exempt the interest, noticing the surprised glances cast by the colleagues around him, Chu was puzzled. looked at Fan Zhongyan, could it be that he said something wrong.

After a moment of silence, Fan Zhongyan said softly: "Chuzhi County." You just said it was interest-free

Oh. Chu Zhi hurriedly said, "Naturally. You can't lend it out for nothing, and you can get back a few percent of the interest at that time. A few cents, there was silence again, Chu Zhen couldn't stand the atmosphere, shut up, and sat back. After all, no matter how you look at it, he thinks. Others look at themselves like idiots.

Fan Zhongyan suddenly laughed: "Very good, according to the words of Chu Zhixian, this official will play with this."

Resolutely, after speaking, Fan Zhongyan announced the end of the meeting on the spot, without waiting for the counties to retire and disperse. I left first, and I don't know whether to go back to study the feasibility of this policy, or really write an excerpt to the imperial court.

The other magistrates looked at Chu Qin inexplicably, and seemed to be shaking their heads and sighing. also retreated, leaving Chu Zhi alone and still puzzled. I can't think of what went wrong.

"Am I really wrong?" Chu Zhen muttered to himself.

"You're right, if you hadn't reminded me, I'm afraid everyone wouldn't have thought that this method was still feasible.

Zhang Yuanshan walked over and said softly: "If this plan can be done, the people of Hangzhou will be grateful to you."

"And why are they like that?" Chu Zhi refers to the strange attitude of his colleagues.

Zhang Yuanshan smiled lightly: "Because you are going to offend people again."

"What?. Chu Zhen blinked, inexplicable.

"Think about it, and get it. I believe that with the wisdom and wisdom of Chuzhi County, he will definitely understand. Zhang Yuanshan said. Turn around and go. I couldn't help but feel a hint of jealousy in my heart. This kid, how can his brain always react quickly, how good it would be if he brought it up first.

"Therefore, the most annoying thing is those people who are pretentious, who know it, but they don't say it happily, and they have to make people bother to mumble a few words. Chu Zhen held his chin and thought carefully. After a long time, he suddenly slapped his thigh and said sadly: "Damn." It's actually the Seedlings Law, which is a tragedy. ”

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