Chapter 216 Villains are bad for the country

"Wow!"

Zhao Youju suppressed the anger of setting off all the things on the table, just threw Zhao Jingyun's letter on the table, walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, and then sneered.

Wei Liaoweng lowered his head, and his heart was also angry.

Although there are such and such discords with the Son of Heaven in political opinions, he sees that Zhao and Ju are doing their best, just for the sake of the country and the people of Taiping, and he is also very admirable in his heart. He is different from Zhen Dexiu, although he is also a master of science, Zhen Dexiu takes preaching as his own responsibility, and he also pays attention to the people's livelihood and suffering in the mission, which is why Zhao and Ju want to put Zhen Dexiu in the local government to be an official and keep him in the center.

After a while, Zhao Pingju calmed down, he glanced at Wei Liaoweng, and said with a wry smile: "Wei Qing, this is the inevitable disadvantage of heavy utilitarianism, the so-called medicine is three points of poison, heavy utilitarianism can save the Great Song Dynasty, and it can also be bad for the Great Song Dynasty." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty is right, how should such things be handled?" Wei Liaoweng answered, and then asked.

Zhao Jingyun's letter is another great matter, the issue of land annexation.

Now with the development of industry, cotton, hemp, mulberry, tea and other cash crops are expensive, and those local tycoons collude with the local government to take into their own hands the ripe fields that were originally unclear or have no land deeds but have been reclaimed, and then try to take the land of the rest of the small landlords and yeoman farmers. In Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, such things are extremely common, and the demand for labor in the large-scale farm-style production is far less than that of intensive cultivation in the past, so only about half of the original yeoman farmers and small landlords have become tenant farmers, and most of them have lost their livelihoods. Although the factories were built in the central cities, they could only benefit the surrounding villages, and they could not control the laborers in the remote villages, and these laborers who had lost their livelihoods could not be used, so they could only gather in one place and become displaced people.

The dynasty was lenient to the people, and there were several peasant uprisings, rarely because of excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, mainly because of the rebellion of displaced people who lost their land and had no way to make a living.

Many of the people who plundered the people's land and property turned out to be the Liuqiu Bank, and the reason was simply that they had a loan relationship with the Liuqiu Bank. In their opinion, Liuqiu Bank is the industry of the Son of Heaven, and since it is related to the industry of the Son of Heaven, they can use it to oppress the common people.

"The matter...... What does Wei Qing think? Zhao Youju originally wanted to speak, but after a turn of thought, he asked Wei Liaoweng again.

"I think it...... The magistrate's ban on this was also a deterrent to the prohibition of these annexations. Wei Liaoweng hesitated for a while, he originally wanted to propose the closure of the Liuqiu Bank, at least to cancel the contract agreement between the Liuqiu Bank and those lawless tycoons. However, thinking of the role of the bank in stabilizing the currency and grain prices of Lin'an some time ago, he changed his words again, and only said half of what he said.

After finishing speaking, he himself smiled bitterly, as the Son of Heaven said, "It is a medicine that is poisonous", which is not only beneficial to the people, but also adds a lot of trouble.

"Wei Qing has made progress, if it was half a year ago, Wei Qing's first sentence would have been to make Liuqiu Bank close." Zhao Youju smiled slightly, the anger in his heart had calmed down, he did not have the antipathy and fear of Wei Liaoweng for the land annexation, but he hated those wealthy families for their nonsense under the guise of begging for banks and the Son of Heaven.

"Your Majesty, the minister still understands the principle of not giving up food because of choking."

Zhao Heju put his hands behind his back, heard what he said, turned around and nodded at him and said, "It is Qing who has this thought, so I am willing to let Zhen Jingxi out of Beijing, but I refuse to let Qing out." I need to have a person like Wei Qing by my side, who understands the general situation and is not welcome, so that I can perceive the gains and losses of government affairs. Tang Taizong's Wei Zheng, extremely admonished, but did not know how to be flexible, and forced the master to the extreme, so there was a regret of falling the monument after death, and Qing was better than Wei Zheng. ”

Zhao Heju's words were not so much praise as encouragement, Wei Liaoweng was also greatly moved when he heard it, and bowed down and said: "Your Majesty Mingjun, the ancients are unprecedented, the ministers are stupid, and it is a great blessing for your majesty to be able to make up for the shortcomings!" ”

In an instant, Zhao and Ju felt that they were quite good with Wei Liaoweng. He remembered something and said with a smile: "I heard that when Qing mentioned some places, there was a song "Drunk and Down", I tasted it and liked it quite much, does Qing know what I have to say?" ”

Wei Liaoweng turned around in his heart and said: "What Your Majesty said is the song "Renri Nanshan about the punishment of Maozhi"? Your Majesty's best words should be ......"

He originally wanted to say the last sentence "will be a man, every day is a human day", which is the finishing touch, but this son of heaven acts differently from ordinary people, and now he is talking about land annexation, but he suddenly mentioned his own poem, which is also related to land annexation. The thought turned around, and he hesitated: "But the sentence 'the merchant house sits on farming and weaving'? ”

"Qing is really smart." Zhao Youju nodded.

"Merchants do business, farmers cultivate, this is an eternal principle." After a while, Zhao Heju said: "On the contrary, the annexation of land by landlords is also an eternal principle. The gains and losses of several dynasties, the decline and fall of the country, all started from annexation, and the kings of the past dynasties strictly ordered that they should not be annexed, but the annexation is repeatedly prohibited, why is this so? ”

Wei Liaoweng replied solemnly: "Although the king forbids annexation, most of the annexers are scholars, and now there are hundreds of ministers and officials in the court, and there are a few of them who are not connected to the vast mansion of Motian!" ”

Zhao Heju knew that Wei Liaoweng was grateful for his praise to him, so he said this sincere word.

"Qing is a true gentleman." Zhao Heju couldn't help but praise again: "I want to ban the annexation, and the courtiers will not violate the yang and the yin, but I am afraid that the merger will not be banned, and the people's complaints will arise again." ”

"It's just that the annexation can't be forbidden, it will become a big disaster, Your Majesty, the minister has a plan to solve the annexation." After thinking for a while, Wei Liaoweng gritted his teeth and said.

"Oh? Let's hear it. ”

Zhao and Ju are very curious, land annexation can be said to be a stubborn disease in the Chinese dynasties, and all dynasties have not been weakened by annexation. In terms of the Han Dynasty, if it were not for the serious land annexation in the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang would not have had to implement the reform, let alone plant the fruit of destruction; At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the annexation was even more serious, and those powerful people in various places even established dock forts, which greatly reduced the fields that could be directly controlled by the central government, which was the harm of secession; The weakness of the Tang Dynasty is also directly related to the annexation, when the Tang Dynasty can maintain the government soldiers, the soldiers are invincible, and once the Juntian system is destroyed, the homesteaders are sharply reduced, and the government soldiers can not be maintained, and the Tang Dynasty has to use relatively low combat effectiveness of recruits and even foreign mercenaries to defend the border, which is the disaster of An Lushan. It can be said that the problem of land annexation was the cancer of the Central Dynasty, almost completely incurable. But Wei Liaoweng said that he had a strategy to solve the merger, which made Zhao and Ju impressed, if this was the case, his family would not need to work so hard to plan the century-old plan of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Your Majesty ordered the ministers to be envoys, point to the land of the world, and grant the ministers the right to kill." Wei Liaoweng said murderously: "After the ministers remove this scourge for Your Majesty, Your Majesty will behead the ministers to comfort the doctors and relieve the anger of the officials." ”

He said this sincerely, Zhao Youju originally wanted to laugh, but he held back. With Wei Liaoweng's temperament and his understanding of history, it is already his limit to be able to do this step. He is completely loyal, and the king should not be suppressed, but appeased.

"Wei Qing, although the annexation is big, it is extremely unworthy to lose the talent of a prime minister for this!"

This is the first time that Zhao Youju has praised Wei Weng for the talent of Prime Minister Weng, and it can be regarded as an encouragement to his loyalty. He came to Wei Liaoweng's side and patted Wei Liaoweng on the shoulder: "Besides, I have the help of Qing, and I used Qing's head to solve the disaster of this merger, what about twenty years later?" What about my children? Merchants want to sell, farmers want to farm, and landlords merge, this is an eternal principle, I and Qing can be stopped for a while, but they can't be stopped for a lifetime! ”

"If Your Majesty advocates science and practices the way of education, so that everyone is a sage, then this matter will be ......" Wei Liaoweng was moved in his heart when he heard it, and blurted out the words hidden in the depths of his heart.

Zhao Youju returned to his place and sat down, looking at Wei Liaoweng with a smile, Wei Liaoweng knew that he had said the wrong thing, and he couldn't help but look depressed.

"At the beginning, Zhu Hui'an's talents, among the disciples he taught, not all of them were sages and gentlemen." Zhao Youju sighed and said: "I also hope that the officials and people in the world are gentlemen, but Qing knows that this is not something that I can get by being good at science. There are 3,000 disciples of Confucius, and there are only 72 sages...... Wei Qing, empty talk is misleading. ”

Wei Liaoweng lowered his head and was silent, he was also a master of science, so he naturally would not be easily persuaded by the two words of the Son of Heaven, but he admitted that at least what the Son of Heaven said made sense. If we want to solve this problem, I am afraid that we still need to find another way.

"This matter can't be solved overnight, let's put it down first, and solve the problem in front of you first." Zhao Youju comforted him.

Wei Liaoweng glanced up at Zhao Heju, and then looked at the table clock next to him, and more than an hour had passed since he asked for a solo pair. It was already noon, and he felt hungry in his belly, but the Son of Heaven was still very energetic, not as tired as when he first saw him.

"Didn't I set up a department of persuasion under the Ministry of Industry?" Zhao Youju pondered for a while, and then gently tapped on the table and said: "Wei Qing, the household department can squeeze out some money, and I will ask the Quanye Division to gather these landless people into the city and place them in the factory-in this way, the factory is tantamount to carrying this burden for the country, and I feel that it is necessary to reduce the tax burden for the factory." ”

"Your Majesty Mingjian!" Hearing that the Son of Heaven had a way to deal with it, Wei Liaoweng said happily in his heart.

The controversy about "innovation" in the newspapers has entered another stage, from whether or not to innovate at the beginning, to "how to innovate", and the things that have been changed in the past dynasties have been taken out, the gains and losses have been compared, and the lessons have been summed up, among which Wang Anshi's reform is the most mentioned.

Wang Anshi's reform is not so much Wang Anshi as it is the reform of Emperor Shenzong of the Great Song Dynasty, and the consequences of this change on the Great Song Dynasty still exist until now, such as extremely fierce party disputes, which confuse political struggles with academic disputes.

Chen Zhaoxia, who had been silent for a long time, published another signed article in the "Great Song Times Weekly", in which he sharply pointed out that the reason for Wang Anshi's failure to change the law was not that Wang Anshi abused villains, but that those righteous men and gentlemen "stood by and watched" and even restrained their opposition. He said very fiercely in the article: "The time has changed, and when the monarch and the minister are united in their hearts and outside, they should seek the benefits of changing the law with the strength of the country, why can't they get it!" They were confined to academic disputes, focused on partisan struggles, watched coldly, and ignored them, so that the king had no gentlemen to use, and the famous ministers had no virtuous ministers to support, so villains such as Lu Huiqing and Cai Jing were fortunate to advance. Those who are bad about the new law are not villains, but they are really gentlemen of the other generation. If Sima Guang, Ouyang Xiu, and Su Shi all help each other, with Sima Ouyang in front of them, and two Su Zuofu in the back, so that the good of the new law can be followed by the evil, how can I come to Jingkang's shame? ”

"The Tao is not the same, and this Tao is the road of heavenly principles, not the academic path. Sima, Ouyang, Wang Anshi, and Su Shi all have the ambition of Jun Yao Shun and the ambition of helping the world, and they are the same. However, they do not distinguish between avenues and small paths, and they are not the same with different political views, so they cause the gentleman to fight among themselves and the villain to benefit. ”

"The gentleman is harmonious but different, and the villain is the same but not harmonious. The gentleman has different views on governing the country, and he must not be in harmony with the road of serving the country and helping the people. ”

This time, Chen Zhaohua's spearhead is no longer Zhu Xi, a master of science, but directly aimed at the famous ministers of the Great Song Dynasty a hundred years ago, which was originally the most glorious period of the Great Song Dynasty. Chen Zhaohua's article "Wang Anshi's Gains and Losses in the Reform" was like an article, and after it was published in the "Weekly", it immediately set off a huge wave.

Clear-eyed people know that Chen Zhaohua's article is actually creating momentum for the new law of the Son of Heaven, and is warning those who have different intentions about the reform strategy of the Son of Heaven that if the whole country cannot be united, Wang Anshi's reform will become a lesson from the past. At the same time, he is also looking for an excuse for the Son of Heaven to innovate in case of mistakes: it is not right to innovate, but the ministers are not of the same mind.

Cui He held the newspaper, and after reading this article, he shook his head with a smile: "Why are there so many characters in the bag of the Son of Heaven, Yelu Jinqing is already the talent of the prime minister, and this Chen Yaoxia is the talent of the servant of the Ministry of Rites." ”

"Cui Xianggong, what is the purpose of the Son of Heaven for Chen Yaoxia to write this article?"

Sitting opposite Cui is Ge Hong, originally after Xuanxuan, he Ge Hong is most likely to sit in the position of first assistant, but halfway through the killing of a Cui He, he is somewhat uneven. Although he was still on good terms with Cui He on the surface, he didn't meet much in private, but after seeing Chen Zhaohua's article, he had to come to discuss with Cui He.

He is old and refined, and he can feel the gaze of the Son of Heaven after Chen Zhaohua's article.

"Don't think about it too much, just do the things that the Son of Heaven has to do, the most important thing for a courtier is a plain heart." Cui said lightly.

"Choi Sang-gong!" Ge Hong is really a little anxious, if his guess is right, in order to smoothly implement the reform, the Son of Heaven will definitely have to reshuffle the court, in that case, a minister like him, who has always been close to the Son of Heaven, will inevitably become the target of purge. Whether it was out of public or selfish intentions, he didn't want such a shock in the Great Song Dynasty.

"If the Son of Heaven hadn't sent this article, Ge would have participated in politics, I'll tell you the truth, you're just afraid that you're really going to leave the court. But the Son of Heaven ordered Chen Zhaohua to send this article, then you will have no worries, and you should understand the meaning of the Son of Heaven. Cui He groaned slightly for a while, Ge Hong, the old fox, really didn't know what Bai Zi meant? I'm afraid that it's more important to take advantage of this to test and see what is the position of myself as Prime Minister Zaisuke.

Note 1: When Wei Liaoweng wrote this word, the author has not verified, if there is any error, please forgive me. Renri refers to the seventh day of the first month, and the Song Dynasty is a festival. The full word is as follows: boundless spring. People are bitter and seek in the south mountains. The village drum family flute. Pray for wheat and silkworms, come and take advantage of the seventh day. Weng's former sons and grandsons helped him. The firm sits on farming and weaving. It is important to know that this means no past. It will be a human day, and every day is a human day.