Wu Song did not move the yellow calendar for the time being. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Anyway, the reform of the law in Qinghe County is about to start, and Xu En is going to challenge Zhang Dahu. As soon as Zhang Dahu fell, Huang Li lost his backer, and it was not too late to settle accounts with him when the time came.

According to Xu En's instructions, Wu Song came to the county Cheng Jiang and asked him about the specific content of the reform of Qinghe County.

Although Empress Jiang is currently Xu En's right-hand man in the reform of the law, Wu Song's wariness of him has never been completely removed. Could Empress Jiang be the masked man who assassinated Hu Qin, that is, the secret agent of the traitor Tong Guan who was ambushed in Qinghe County? This doubt remains.

However, when he met Empress Jiang, Wu Song's doubts were reduced a little.

Empress Jiang was busy, reviewing various documents that were about to promote the reform of the law, and arranging for the county officials to prepare for various reform of the law. On his desk, there is a large pile of paperwork. With such a diligent appearance, it can be seen that he is indeed very supportive of Xu En, not quite like a hidden traitorous agent.

Seeing Wu Song coming, Jiang Hou immediately put down the paperwork in his hand and greeted him warmly.

After seeing the ceremony, Wu Song directly stated his intentions. Empress Jiang did not shirk politeness, and briefly introduced to Wu Song the specific measures to be implemented in Qinghe County to reform the law.

For example, the upcoming tea monopoly law, also known as the ban system. In the early period of the Northern Song Dynasty, tea in many places mainly implemented the cross-introduction method of official purchase and commercial sales, and four years after Song Jiayou, the trade law was implemented for more than 40 years. Now, the Trade Law has been abolished and the prohibition of palace purchases and sales has been restored. Although merchants were allowed to trade directly with the plantations, merchants had to purchase tea quotations and government-made tea cages from the government, and the government monopolized the right to sell tea.

In the future, the printing and sales rights of tea quotations will be vested in the imperial court, and they will be printed and made by Taifu Temple, and all tea will be sold. The cages used to hold tea when merchants sold tea were still made by the government. Merchants sell tea to the government first, and then buy tea from the gardeners, and use the official cage to dress it, and the government contract field weighs, checks, and seals. Merchants can only go to the designated place to sell tea to open and sell, there is still a time limit for selling tea, if it is not sold out on time, it is necessary to return the tea quotation and cage.

For another example, the upcoming Fangtian Law is very similar to Wang Anshi's old system of changing the law that Wu Song had learned in middle school textbooks before he crossed over, and the purpose was to equalize taxes. The specific method is to strengthen taxation according to the fineness of the land and the area of the land. At that time, the land annexation was serious, the landlords were cunning and plundering, and they tried every means to evade taxes, or the amount was uneven, or the average tax was unequal, or the officials violated the law, etc., which led to the loss of taxes in the imperial court, and the people were full of complaints.

The implementation of the Fangtian Law is to re-measure and evaluate the land, and collect taxes according to the area and fertility. This can not only increase the tax revenue of the imperial court, but also expose various land annexation situations, which is conducive to curbing annexation and maintaining social stability to a certain extent.

In addition, regarding other law changes such as the salt money law, Jiang Hou also explained them to Wu Song one by one. Obviously, he regarded Wu Song as not only a close confidant of Xu En, the magistrate of the county, but also a colleague who jointly implemented the reform of the law in Qinghe County, so he had no reservations.

Before the crossing, Wu Song was just an ordinary urban clerk, lacking enough knowledge of history, and he did not know much about economics and politics. However, this does not indicate a lack of comprehension.

After listening to Empress Jiang's introduction, he thought for a while and said, "Actually, all these changes have only one purpose!" ”

When Jiang Hou heard this, her eyes lit up, she looked at Wu Song with interest, and asked, "Oh? Wu Du head let's talk about it, what is the purpose? ”

Wu Song said: "All these changes will eventually help the imperial court to increase taxes and concentrate the wealth of the world in the hands of the Jingshi, that is, the imperial court." Lord County, Wu Song is stupid, I don't know if I'm right? ”

"Smack!" The county Cheng Jianghou, who has always been moody, actually clapped her hands, stood up, and praised sincerely: "Wudutou is really smart, no wonder the county magistrate is so unusually rewarding you!" ”

Wu Song sighed.

Empress Jiang was stunned for a moment and said, "Why did Wudu Tou sigh?" Don't you think these reform measures are not good enough? ”

Wu Song knew in his heart that he couldn't help but sigh just now for two reasons: on the one hand, he knew that the real designers of these reform measures in Qinghe County were obviously not Xu En and Empress Jiang, but Cai Jing in the imperial court. The ultimate purpose of Cai Jing's implementation of these reforms was to increase the taxes of the imperial court and make more money for the emperor, so this confirms that he was indeed a big traitor as recorded in the history books of later generations, not a reformer as Xu En said.

Originally, after listening to Xu En's evaluation of Cai Jing, and feeling that Xu En himself was honest and capable, Wu Song did think that maybe the historical records of later generations were wrong, and the real Cai Jing in history may not be a traitor but a capable minister, and there are many people who have been loyal and traitorous since ancient times. But now it seems that he is only disappointed.

On the other hand, he also realized that if these reforms in Qinghe County continued, it would only be the imperial court that would benefit in the end, and the ordinary people would not only get any benefits from the reforms, but would also increase their burdens in the future. This is really prosperity, the people are suffering, and the people are suffering! In the name of the reform of the law for the common people of the world, in the end it is just to satisfy the elite!

This also made him sigh uncontrollably.

The first reason is that it is of course inconvenient for him to tell the county queen Jiang at this time. However, the second reason, he couldn't help but say, "These reforms, in addition to increasing the taxes of the court and making the current emperor have more money to spend, the common people don't seem to get any benefits!" ”

When Jiang Hou heard this, his eyes lit up again, and he saw that Wu Song was even more full of smiles, and said, "Okay!" That's great! Wudu Tou is not only skilled and very smart, but also has a sense of compassion and concern for the suffering of the people, which is even more rare! ”

Wu Song hurriedly said: "Lord County, don't just praise Wu. Wu Song is a rough man, if he says something wrong, please give me advice! ”

Jiang Hou Zhengse said: "Your words can be said to be right, or you can say they are wrong!" ”

Wu Song said: "What do you mean by this? Please also be explicit. ”

Jiang Hou said: "You are right, because these current changes are indeed as you said, everything is to increase taxes for the current emperor." However, if you say that this is not good for the people of the world, it is not necessarily. As long as the emperor is wise, he will use the accumulated wealth on the people of the world, build water conservancy, run schools, help the weak and the poor, and take it from the people for the people, which is naturally good for the people! ”

Wu Song blurted out and said, "Will there be such a good emperor?" ”

He almost told the record in the later history books about Song Huizong as a dumb monarch.