"Zhang Aiqing is really not afraid of being misunderstood and abused?" Zhao Heng stood up tremblingly, stretched out his trembling hand, and asked Zhang Junping with a virtual finger.

"Heng Mei coldly pointed at Qianfu, bow his head and be willing to be a son of a cow!" Zhang Junping clenched his fists and bowed.

The ministers in the court were silent for a long time, and they were all moved by Zhang Junping's tragedy.

Who dares to say that Zhang Junping has no backbone?

"Bo'an, you suggested that the imperial court allow the slaughter of old cows, what is the benefit to the people?" Li Di asked.

"Back to Li Xianggong, if the imperial court allows the people to sell old cattle freely, and then the price limit of beef is lifted, and their own traders will collect it and slaughter and sell it!

When the people got the money from selling their cattle, they could use it to buy another bullock or calf! It doesn't affect farming, and you don't have to bear the heavy burden of supporting cattle!

Traders can go to the government to apply for a cattle killing book, kill cattle and sell meat, and they can make a profit!

When people eat beef, they can strengthen their bodies and bones!

In this way, raising cattle is no longer a heavy burden, the people are naturally willing to raise cattle, the people's enthusiasm to buy cattle is high, and the merchants are beneficial, and they are naturally willing to sell cattle from Khitan and Xixia to the Central Plains! ”

According to Bo'an, people were not active in buying cattle before? However, I see that during the Taizu period, the adult strong cow was only five yuan, and now an adult strong cow has reached twelve yuan, which is what you said about buying cattle is not active? Li Di asked again.

"Back to Li Xianggong, the price increase of strong cattle is not because the enthusiasm of the people to buy farming cattle has increased! It's because of the increase in prices, which triggers a natural price increase!

Li Xianggong can compare other prices, and you will find that not only the price of cattle has risen, but other prices have also increased to varying degrees!

Yesterday I went to the farm outside the city, and happened to encounter two oxen fighting each other, and they collided with each other to death, and it was not easy for the courtier to pity the tenant farmers, so I ordered the steward to buy twenty bullocks and give them as animal power!

Unexpectedly, the tenant farmer not only did not sobble with gratitude, but knelt down in panic and asked the minister to take back his life!

Say they can't afford it!

I can't afford it! Zhang Junping said in a heavy tone.

"How can you not afford it? Twenty bulls, how much manpower can be saved? Emperor Zhao Heng also asked curiously.

"Your Majesty, now Your Majesty is sage, the emperor's grace is mighty, the world is gracious, and the four seas are peaceful!

Thirty years ago, when the minister's Weng Weng was alive, the farm had a population of more than 70 people, cultivated 1,700 acres of land, paid tenant rent, and the tenants could still eat enough!

Now the farm has a population of more than 300 people, and the fields are still those, and the harvest in the fields, even if they don't pay the tenant rent, the tenants still can't eat! If people don't have enough to eat, how can they raise cattle? ”

"It's different, cows eat grass, people eat grain......"

"Huh! Mr. Lu, the grass has been eaten by people, so there are still cows to eat? Zhang Junping laughed miserably.

"Shall a man eat grass?" Lu Yijian was originally from an official family, so he naturally couldn't understand how people could eat grass, so he muttered when he heard the words.

"What's not to eat on grass? The most terrible thing is not that people eat grass, but that people don't even have grass to eat!

All the lords are blaming the ministers for being ruthless and ruthless, ploughing cattle and working all their lives, just because they are too old to farm, they have to kill cattle and eat meat!

As everyone knows, this human life is not as good as the life of a cow! It's not as good as an animal!

This ox is of course an important animal power, and the people cannot do without cultivating it! Anyway, they're just livestock!

Please put your compassion for the animals on the common people, and have mercy on those who are not even as good as the animals! Zhang Junping bowed deeply to Emperor Zhao Heng and to the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs in the Vertical Arch Palace.

"Zuo Shuzi, don't be alarmist! You just said that Your Majesty is Shengming, grace all over the world, and the world is peaceful!

Isn't it inconsistent to say that the people are poor and can't eat enough to eat, and can only eat grass?

Are you implicitly hinting at Your Majesty's mediocrity? Cao said with gloom.

"The peaks and mountains are like gathering,

The waves are like fury,

Mountains and rivers surface Tongguan Road.

Wangxidu,

Hesitation.

Sad Qin and Han meridians,

The palace and all the rooms were made of soil.

Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer. Zhang Junping did not answer, but groaned behind his back.

After chanting, Zhang Junping sneered: "Cao Shu's secret envoy, in the early days of our dynasty, there were more than 30 million people, and now there are 70 or 80 million people!" The land is still the same land, but it has to feed more than twice the population!

Cao Shumi's envoy asked this question, just as ridiculous as Emperor Jin Hui who didn't eat minced meat!

As everyone knows, for the common people, if they can eat grass, it is already a prosperous age!

Your Majesty is not a saint, and many of the people you see are not clothed and fed, but the increase in population!

In the 50 years of my Great Song Dynasty, the population has doubled, and this doesn't mean that Your Majesty is Shengming and the world is peaceful? ”

The reason why Cao Yu came out to embarrass Zhang Junping was completely because he was jealous that Zhang Junping didn't send him beef yesterday.

Hatred sometimes comes just how ridiculous it is.

Cao used this person, the evaluation in the history books is not bad, saying that he is very talented, just carefully study Cao Yong's life, you will find that Cao Yong really has nothing to do with his political achievements, relying on the shadow of his father to be an official, although there is no bad memory, but also a long life.

The only person who stood out was the envoy to the Khitan for peace talks, and talked about the three million two-year-old coins promised by Emperor Zhao Heng to 300,000.

However, those who have read a little history and have a little insight into history will know that 300,000 yuan was forced by Kou Zhun.

Before Cao Yu was ordered to go to the Khitan to negotiate, Kou Zhun found Cao Yu and told him bluntly that if the annual coin exceeded 300,000, he would cut off his head when he came back, and Cao Yu was afraid that Kou Zhun would kill him, anyway, the left and right were dead, and it was better to die with more glory, so he simply bit the amount of 300,000 yuan.

As a result, Cao Yu was appreciated by Emperor Zhao Heng because of this, and rose all the way up to the privy envoy.

This also made Cao Yu get carried away and be arrogant.

After the death of Emperor Zhao Heng, Cao Yong became even more arrogant, and had a lot of contempt for the emperor and the queen mother, and soon aroused the dissatisfaction of Liu E and Emperor Renzong, who were already the queen mother, and finally ended up committing suicide.

"You are presumptuous! You bend a left-handed son, and you dare to say sarcastic words about the old man?

is even more bold to tamper with the ancestral ritual law! Are you guilty? ”

Zhang Junping can be seen clearly, from ancient times to the present, those who are stunned are afraid of the horizontal, and those who are afraid of the horizontal, this wise saying has always been valid.

Zhang Junping ignored Cao's previous sentence, and sarcastically mocked you, what can you do? Do you have the ability to bite me?

Directly answered the question of tampering with the ancestral ritual law later, "Privy Envoy Cao, none of us said to change the ancestral ritual law, just slightly correct some of the rules in it!"

The Privy Envoy of the Six Arts of the Gentleman knows, right? ”

"Humph!" Cao used the seven orifices of Qi to smoke and snorted coldly, and Zhang Junping's question was obviously to mock him for not understanding the six arts of a gentleman.

Zhang Junping did not continue to provoke him, and continued: "This is like driving a carriage, we will move forward according to the direction specified by our ancestors, but Your Majesty, as a driver, you also need to lift the reins from time to time to correct the carriage that has deviated."

This is not a change, this is a correction! ”