Sure enough, I heard that Wang Anshi immediately took out all the theories of the year, what is the green seedling law, what is the city easy law, all kinds of renovated things, appeared in front of Shang Yang in an endless stream, for a while, so that the reformers of the Spring and Autumn Period present were speechless, originally they also thought that the policy of valuing agriculture and suppressing business should be able to implement for many years, but what I didn't expect was that when it came to Wang Anshi, even the imperial court and the government had to go down in person to do business, if this is the case, So didn't their policies look ridiculous? Based on this, some of them are even ready to jump out directly against Wang Anshi. Before they could take a step, they heard two light coughs from Suning, and then they obediently said back, quietly waiting for Suning's evaluation.

Suning's evaluation is actually not fair and objective, he only made certain adjustments to some of Wang Anshi's changes in the details, but Wang Anshi is a well-known cow Xianggong, he refuses to accept these adjustments proposed by Suning, and thinks that his method is the most reasonable.

All of a sudden, the two of them were arguing in the lobby, and everyone else present was amazed.

But the two of them ended up just talking about things, although the tone was very high, and their faces were flushed a few times, but they didn't fight in the end, let alone anything excessive, and the quarrel ended in the end, and it just evolved into a competition, and the rules of this competition are like this, Suning took out two counties that had been heavily traumatized in the past war and were relatively close to Liangzhou, as the testing ground for this competition, one of which pursued Suning's reform plan, The other is to carry out changes according to Wang Anshi's method. These two counties are also famous in history, one is called Zuo Feng Yi, and the other is called Right Fufeng. In the dynasties of the Qin, Han, Sui, and Tang dynasties, where the political center was in the Guanzhong region, these two places were definitely not allowed to be ignored by the rulers.

However, after the Song Dynasty, the political center began to move eastward, first in Kaifeng, Henan, and later to Youzhou in the north, which was later Dadu and Beiping. These two places have slowly withdrawn from the stage of history, but it is undeniable that in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, these two places are still very reference and development potential areas, at least the situation of soil erosion, not as serious as after 800 years, only after 1800, it is even more difficult to compare with the present.

It has to be said that the Hundred Years War of the Song and Xia Dynasty caused great damage to the physical geography of this generation, especially the wood needed for the war, so that the surrounding vegetation could grow steadily, in this case, if there is no large-scale soil erosion, it will be a hell of a life.

However, the development potential of these two places is still quite good, at least agricultural production can still be barely restored, and if there are achievements in water conservancy and irrigation, then considerable achievements can be made.

So no matter how the two of them toss in these places, the results they can get must be eye-popping, and the difference is only in whose reform plan can receive more praise and recognition.

In fact, Wang Anshi also knows that he and Suning have such a game, and the final result is likely to be biased towards Suning, but in his heart, there is still a straight heart as a child, he firmly believes that there are still people in this world who dare to tell the truth, as long as they make achievements, they will always attract the appreciation of others, so he boldly responded to this showdown.

So a strange thing appeared in the land controlled by the Liangzhou system, just when the princes of the Kanto region were competing for competitive development, the focus of the Liangzhou system turned out to be a strange change competition, although I don't know when Uncle Liang's atmosphere began to change and became proud of advocating change, but it is undeniable that the generals, including the generals who are resting the situation of the empire on the battlefield on the Western Front, are very concerned about the change that is being carried out in the hinterland of the Liangzhou region. Because each of them knows that the final outcome of this contest of change will directly affect what kind of policies they will implement in the future, and even the local magistrates in and around the Kanto region are ready to implement the policies they have introduced, and perhaps before the end of the contest, their policies have already begun to be widely applied in the surrounding counties.

The first one thrown by Wang Anshi was the Qingmiao Method, which was also used as the first shot of the law change in history. The core of the project is also very simple, in order to prevent the poor peasants from being exploited by the rich families, the imperial court allows the local government to lend loans at lower interest rates like those farmers in the prime of life, and when the harvest is in the coming year, the farmers need to return these loans to the government with interest.

This has the advantage of restricting the sources of wealth for the private wealthy, relieving the pressure of exploitation, and generating a large amount of tax revenue for all levels of government. While alleviating the class contradictions, it also relieves the financial pressure.

But it is undeniable that this practice has also brought some negative effects. For example, some farmers do not need these loans, but are forcibly suppressed by the local government. After all, this allows the government to profit from it. At the same time, it can also make the knife and pen officials who handle it a lot of extra money. Moreover, according to the concept of some scholars in later generations, the interest rate of the seedling law is actually still somewhat high, and it does not essentially reduce the burden on farmers.

On the premise of refusing to make policy adjustments, Wang Anshi began to implement his own Qingmiao Law, and it is obvious that the shortcomings that had appeared in the Great Song Dynasty all appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, so the Liangzhou system fell into a huge controversy for a while.

And what is somewhat different from the previous life is that this Niu Xianggong can no longer adhere to the classic assertion that the sky is not enough to be afraid of people's words. Because no one will care about this kind of thing in the Liangzhou system, except for those scholars who like to tinker with astronomy, but this kind of thing has a more powerful influence because of the relative perfection of the public opinion system, especially after the newspapers began to report on Wang Anshi's changes, the pressure faced by the Ningxia Gong has far exceeded his expectations, and many newspapers have applied to interview him while seeking to get exclusive revelations. also hoped to be able to reflect some people's ideas to others, but Wang Anshi rejected all these media requests, after all, in his time, although such a thing as street tabloids had appeared, no one dared to interview him, the former prime minister.

As a result, his behavior is also understood as not having enough confidence in the policy.

However, such a misinterpretation obviously angered Wang Anshi, so he immediately launched his second change, that is, the exemption law that once made Su Shi's angry young trolls very dissatisfied.

The background of the introduction of the exemption law is that some of the affairs that the government needs to carry out, such as escorting grain, are all borne by the wealthy private households. The Great Song Dynasty divided the households into five classes according to their wealth and poverty levels, and only the last class did not need to serve in the government.

And most of those who go to serve in the government will encounter all kinds of exploitation by those swordsmen and penmen, and there are countless examples of people who have been ruined and killed during this period.

In order to avoid such a tragedy, Wang Anshi decided that the government would no longer recruit unconditionally, and these people would be handled by the government, but instead the government would take out part of the budget and hire and recruit people who were willing to engage in these professions to do these things.

The advantage of this is that most of the peasants are freed from heavy labor, ensuring that they can work more fully and take care of their crops, so they have better food output, and by the way, they also increase tax revenues for the state.

It's just that the money for exemption from military service is still a heavy burden for ordinary people.

And this also brings another disadvantage, that is, those little officials with knives and pens have lost a lot of opportunities to exploit the masses at the bottom, after all, many of these recruited people are veterans engaged in related professions. They know even more about those tricks in related fields than these little officials with knives and pens, and when they come to the superiors, they can also analyze things from the head of the way, so that sometimes those little officials with knives and pens will be suppressed by these people.

So another thing began to happen during this period, that is, many pen and knife officials began to satirize Wang Anshi's new policy, and they constantly sought the help of major newspapers, hoping that these media organizations with fresh power could give Wang Anshi enough pressure, but things did not go as smoothly as they expected.

Since Zuo Fengyi and Right Fufeng have only recently returned to the two systems, they have used a large number of people from the old government like the counties in Guanzhong and Bingzhou, which also brings some problems, that is, the old exploitation system still exists, and Suning is extremely dissatisfied with this, and as for those newspaper practitioners who are quite influenced by nationalism, they hate them even more.

So the words that these people told the media were all published by them in 1510, so Wang Anshi quickly knew the plot of these knife and pen officials, and as a result, this group of people was arrested by Wang Anshi and beaten up, and then all of them were expelled from the government, at the same time, the knife and pen officials from several surrounding counties were also sent to Wang Anshi's command as soon as possible, but their mentality was more trembling than that of their predecessors, fortunately, Wang Anshi only knew that after beating the killing stick, he would send a few carrots. And these carrots are also very important in the original content of his changes, that is, to increase the salaries of the knife and pen officials.

You must know that in the early years of the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, these little officials had no salary to receive in order to work with the imperial court. And their social status is also to be suppressed by the officials, and many civil officials like Su Shi who were born as jinshi look down on these little officials.

Even the petty officials who worked in key positions in the Privy Council had to engage in corruption because they had no regular income, and Wang Anshi believed that whoever let them not make trouble in their own changes must be brought to their hearts. Moreover, he also gave considerable sympathy to those who were serious about their work, so he took the initiative to improve the treatment of these people, so as to let them do things with peace of mind, not to interfere with their own law change work, not to mention to exploit and squeeze those innocent people, although this way, it is impossible to put an end to corruption and bribery, and there is quite a taste of the Manchu Dynasty to raise honest silver, but it is undeniable that the knife and pen officials at that time were still very grateful to Wang Anshi, So in the implementation of his reform plan, still gave a lot of support, and in this time and space, similar things happened quickly, after Wang Anshi advocated to improve their treatment, the pen and knife officials quickly obeyed Wang Anshi's words, and took the initiative to give him advice to deal with several wealthy businessmen in the county, so in this case, Wang Anshi's change achieved rapid results, once made the media exclaim, they may not be able to avoid getting a prime minister from the Song Dynasty in the end.

Speaking of which, after the election defeat in previous years, the people of the Northern Song Dynasty have not given up their coveting of the cabinet, especially after Wang Anshi was summoned, they remembered the prime minister's position at their fingertips.

And at this point, Suning indulged them intentionally or unintentionally, not only secretly allowing them to provide all kinds of conveniences for Wang Anshi's change, but also did not summon several important subordinates of Wang Anshi's change back then, and even included Shen Kuo and others who had betrayed him at one time.

However, this time Wang Anshi's changes, after all, do not need to be promoted throughout the country, so he is not very urgent to need these manpower, but Suning often maintains correspondence with these people in order to understand Wang Anshi's latest developments, and at the same time, through this group of people, he has a clearer understanding of the far-reaching changes in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty.

As for why he did this, it was very simple to say, because he was a little skeptical that his adjustment of Wang Anshi's policy was the right medicine, after all, it was just some strategies he came up with when he was bored before, but now he really wants to put it into action, he is still a little nervous, however, after some discussion with these people, he found that if it can really be promoted, I am afraid that even Wang Anshi will envy himself, so he began a bold promotion action.