Zhao Xing breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "In addition, the strong enemies of our Great Song Dynasty neighbors come to harass us from time to time, forcing us to raise millions of troops, which is also a reason for the heavy burden. If we want to get rid of this phenomenon once and for all, we must change. If there is no change, another hundred years, or even less than a hundred years, thirty or forty years have passed, the official and gentry class has further expanded, and the number of small people has further decreased.

The land of the Emperor and Song Dynasty lies in redundant soldiers and redundant personnel, and it is not impossible to eliminate redundant soldiers and redundant personnel, one of which is to expand the territory and develop overseas space, which is a means to let those landless people go overseas to reclaim the wasteland and collect wealth for my Great Song Dynasty, so as to reduce the financial pressure of my Great Song Dynasty. And the development of overseas territories, there is another advantage---- the small Nanyang countries are not strong in combat effectiveness, and the box troops raised in various places are all waste materials when they meet the Liao people, but it is more than enough to deal with the small Nanyang countries, so let them go to the small Nanyang countries to plunder, which is just regarded as waste utilization.

However, these measures are urgent measures to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, the development of overseas territories, expand tax sources, although it can alleviate the urgency for a while, but those developers to overseas, will definitely become the new gentry, if the gentry continue to do not pay food, it will not be long before there are no small people in my Song Dynasty, all of them have become gentry. At that time, what about taxes, who will pay taxes, and who will pay for the errands?

Therefore, the real source of the Great Song Dynasty was the unequal officials and gentry who did not pay food. The gentry enjoy the benefits given to them by the state, but do not bear the obligations, and this is the greatest scourge of the state. If this scourge is to be eradicated, officials must be held accountable......"

Zhao Ji interjected: "Didn't Taiwei implement the integration of officials and gentry to pay taxes in Guangnan, is this method feasible?" ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "The law of the ancestors, the gentry do not pay grain, but the merchant is a lowly family, the ancestor did not say that officials are allowed to do business, on the contrary, there are also many prohibitions, but no one has implemented these prohibitions."

When the current official family was in Qiandi, he used to pay taxes to Guangzhou City Bosi according to the law as the king of Duan. That's a good precedent. It can touch the interests of the gentry at least, and then slowly change---- doesn't the law of the ancestors say that the gentry do not pay grain, we still do not pay grain for the gentry, but we must pay taxes when doing business.

Anyway, no one abides by the ban on doing business today, since the government can't stop it. Then open their mouths and let them compete, and we will collect taxes according to the program. In the end, we want to go over to the point where the gentry and the small people have the same taxes and obligations, but I don't think the court needs to be in a hurry.

We are now mercantilist, and businessmen pay the most attention to fairness and contract in the process of trading. A person who abides by the contract and makes fair deals, everyone is willing to deal with him. This is the inevitable result of commercial civilization.

And the commercial civilization of our Great Song Dynasty only lasted for more than 100 years. Therefore, we do not need to be in a hurry, we just need to try our best to maintain this atmosphere of commercial civilization, so that the essence of justice and the spirit of contract can influence us for another hundred years. Or even five hundred years. At that time, justice had permeated our daily consciousness, and it was only natural that the common people and merchants would rise up and demand the same power and obligations as the gentry. As a result, society tends towards justice.

If I were to comment on Wang Anshi's new law, I would think that there are only two new laws that must be implemented without delay, and the rest should be delayed. There is no rush to implement ---- first is the exemption law. After the officials and gentry paid taxes as a whole, the common people did not need to bear the burden of hard labor. You can even earn money to support your family by doing errand service, which is to work for the government.

I think this is something that only Da Song has. It is the characteristic of our time. It would have been unthinkable to do this in other dynasties. Joke. Ordinary people work for the government. You can also make money. It is only in the commercial area that the Great Song Dynasty is not regarded as a flood beast. This is benevolent governance. I, Da Song, should push this policy to the extreme.

I have a suggestion. I was thinking about talking to the court in a few days. For example, we can create a local income bracket. Local magistrates declare local income. And tell them that this income must not be faked. Because of the income through the people. We can calculate the local economic situation as well as the tax situation. And in the future, the local government and local government performance. It's all about the numbers. If they want to cheat. It will inevitably affect your own promotion.

These figures were reported to the imperial court later. The imperial court can be based on the local income situation. Formulate a detailed implementation of the law on exemption from military service. It is well known that we make a fuss money based on local revenues--- The north and south of the land are different. The peasants of the north have had a hard year. What you get is nothing more than three or five times. And the fertile land of the south. The people toiled for a year. It is possible to earn in the hundreds. And Quang Nam cannot be measured by these. The people of Quang Nam have worked hard for a year. The income of each household is about 600 yuan.

This income can also be calculated: Quang Nam has a population of about 25 million. The average annual tax paid is about 30 million yuan. According to the ratio of 15 years old to one place. The average annual income of other places should be more than 15 yuan. Besides. Quang Nam's army maintenance expenses, education expenses, free medical care and other expenses are added together. It should be around 60 per capita. Calculated as 10 households per household. The average annual income of each household should be 600 yuan---- which is the basis for the imperial court to calculate the tax revenue of each place.

I'm just doing a rough math here. Su Sanzhang (Su Zhe) is proficient in accounting. There should be a better understanding of the method of calculating local financial endowments. So as long as the magistrate reports an income figure. We should be able to base our efforts on this data. Calculate the local finance, local taxation and public sentiment. And the local government and local government performance. It's all about how to increase people's incomes. This is the quantitative assessment standard. This is how I evaluate officials in Quang Nam.

The average annual income of the people has come out. There are 360 days in a year (30 days per month in the lunar calendar.) 12 months in a year). Planing off the rest of the day. Cut off the festivities. The rest of the land is the working time of the people. Use this number of working days to remove the average annual income. That is, the average income of the people who work an average day --- the local land exemption law. The amount paid to the people for exemption from military service should not be lower than this figure. Such. The people can work for the government. Earn a life that is no less than the average local income. And so it goes. How the people are unwilling to cope with the servitude.

In order to prevent the magistrates from paying for the errands endlessly, we should also set up a set of corresponding budget and final accounts, and the magistrates should be required to submit their financial plans for the next year during the examination in the autumn of each year, and if the local government pays more than the local government revenue, or reaches a certain percentage of the local revenue, we should veto the annual budget of the magistrate......

There are still a lot of implementation know-how in this, so I won't go into detail about them one by one, but in short, there is a lot of work that needs to be done in the early stage in order to implement the exemption law. We need to plug all the loopholes that corrupt officials may embezzle, so that the original intention of the imperial court can be implemented. After the imperial court established this work, it could also strengthen the control of the central government, and in the future, the imperial court could control the local officials and local towns to do whatever they wanted by vetoing the local expenditure calculations. Bring all power back to the imperial court......"

Zhao Ji interjected: "Acting like this can indeed strengthen local control, but I'm afraid I can't control a master of money like Lord Taiwei." Lord Taiwei did not increase the endowment, so that Guangdong's wealth increased every year. I am afraid that what you just said about the per capita household income of Guangnan is more than 600 yuan, but your calculation method is vague, which means that you have paid less taxes to the imperial court, and you have paid a lot less, which is enough to raise another army. For example, a gold-swallowing beast like the Vermilion Bird Army, which costs countless amounts of money and food. ”

Zhao Xing smiled awkwardly, skipped the topic, and continued: "Another law that Wang Jinggong deserves to implement is the three-way law. The imperial court summoned scholars to Beijing once every three years, and the journey was far away, so they needed to prepare a year in advance, and many people had no hope of participating in the imperial examination because of the lack of travel expenses, such as Guangnan, when Po Gong went to Huizhou, he walked on the road for eight months. In the land of Guangnan finger shooting, how many scholars have this financial resources. Maintain an eight-month trip?

And Wang Jinggong's three-way method just solves this problem. With the school house as a unit, the government only needs to assess the qualifications of the school house every year, so that the poor people in the world can study nearby, study nearby, and serve the country after completing their studies.

I know, according to the decree of the imperial court. Local governments have various subsidies for local students to raise scholars for the imperial court and cultivate reading seeds. Let the imperial court bear the cost of raising scholars, which is also a kind of redundancy, and delegating this burden to the local government, the imperial court can reduce expenditure, and the world's poor scholars can also reduce the cost of studying. Therefore, I think that the method of finger shooting in the place of finger shooting should be implemented in the whole world, and the local people should act as local officials. So. so that the people's grievances will not boil and harm the neighbors. ”

Zhao Xing just said "six people". It is the classification method of the people in ancient China, including eunuchs, merchants, artisans, and peasant households. The peasant households were divided into several classes, each with different tax payments and national obligations, and their respective powers.

Zhao Xing talked eloquently here, talking about the strategy of governing the country, and his attitude was extremely respectful, which was completely the pattern of the court. His attitude is a bit incompatible with the cheerful atmosphere of Hele Building, where to talk about state affairs, the occasion is not right, the characters are wrong, and the way is even more inappropriate. However, the little emperor listened attentively, Master Li pretended to be deaf and dumb, Gao Yu had an expression of wandering, and the two eunuchs present were absent-minded, so no one in the small room reminded Zhao ----Xing that he was a court lieutenant, and how inappropriate it was to explain the national policy to Zhao Yi, a big businessman, here and now.

Full of stomachs out of place, this is Wang Chaoyun's evaluation of Su Shi. And what Zhao Xing has always done is also in line with this evaluation. Now, the Xizi girl who said this has died of illness in Lingnan, and only Su Shi and Zhao Xing, the untimely master and apprentice, are still left in the world.

The little emperor came out to be a girl, but Zhao Xing turned this girl action into a state discussion. He evaluated Wang Anshi's new law one by one, pointing out its advantages and disadvantages. Most of the time, they oppose it for the sake of opposing it and approving it for the sake of approving it according to the interests of their partisanship. Zhao Xing's evaluation of the conciliatory faction is precisely with a rare fair attitude in this era.

"Wang Jinggong is worthy of being a scholar, his understanding of this era surpasses all the contemporaries, so the ills of the times he pointed out are unavoidable and undeniable", Zhao Xing finally commented: "I know that the purpose of Wang Jinggong's change of law is not to benefit the people, Su Sanzhang is right, he is the same as Wang Mang, that is, he uses the excuse of changing the law to seize power, however, at that time, the results of the debate on the change of the law proved that the law must be changed. This shows that when Wang Jinggong put forward the reason for changing the law, the reason was indeed impeccable, so that even Sima Junshi (Sima Guang) could not deny the reasonableness of Wang Jinggong's statement.

However, since Wang Jinggong came to power, what he has done is not to change the law, but to change the law is just a knife in his hand, and he has covered up all his sins under the pretext of changing the law, excluded dissidents, established a party, and grabbed power by unscrupulous means.

Wang Jinggong did not say the most fundamental reason for changing the law, and I think the most fundamental reason is: My Great Song Dynasty has reached a commercial society, and has reached the republican era of ruling the world with scholars. And the law of many of our ancestors is still in the serf society, and we must establish a set of laws that seek justice and abide by contracts, or establish such a general principle, so that our society can steadily move towards the age of commerce.

His Majesty the Divine Sect did not do this in the first place. His Majesty Zhezong has no one who knows the direction, and if His Majesty wants to surpass the two emperors, he needs to recognize the general direction of the times.

The ancients said that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and some things are too eager, overkill, but inappropriate, as I just said, when commercial civilization evolves to a certain extent, he will inevitably seek justice. Seek the spirit of contract, seek integrity, so we don't need to pull out the seedlings to help grow. It is only necessary to establish a general direction for the future era.

Speaking of which, this is the best era, the entire South Seas are prostrate at the feet of my Great Song Dynasty, and that vast sea area is like the bath tub of my Great Song Dynasty, allowing my Song people to fly. At the same time, our Great Song Dynasty has been bathed in commercial civilization for more than 100 years, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty, the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and the official gentry have been deeply influenced by commercial civilization. Begin to consciously and voluntarily seek justice. And the spontaneous power of the people can inspire this society more than the ten Taixue. In the face of the tide of this era, we don't need to make too much effort, as long as we show the way to the people, so that they will not get lost in the process of moving forward, so simple, it is enough. If you do all this, you can surpass the two first emperors, and even surpass the three emperors and five emperors. It will always be engraved in the hearts of our Chinese people---- which is an unprecedented foundation and a monument built in the hearts of our nation.

With a small effort and a small effort, as long as the ship of the Great Song Dynasty does not deviate from the direction, and allows it to continue sailing according to the teachings left by our ancestors and ancestors, we can accomplish unprecedented glory. Thinking about all of this makes me feel like I can't breathe, I'm a person of this era, I'm a participant in this era. It is the people who drive this era. This honor is my deed. Who is still qualified for this? ”

Zhao Xing's words are like a slowly unfolding picture, in which there is not only the Great Song Dynasty, but also the world; Not only now, but forever. Several people present were blinded by Zhao Xing's words. Song Huizong Zhao Ji muttered softly: "Give up me, give me what I want, monument!" Zhao Xing, a monument that has never been seen for thousands of years, patiently waited for Song Huizong to calm down from the excitement, but Song Huizong, who calmed down, first asked: "Or someone discuss: Lord Taiwei has raised more than 10,000 troops in Guangnan, this is Cheng Cheng overstepping the imperial court system, what does Lord Taiwei say?" ”

Zhao Xing replied indifferently: "What kind of army do you raise more than 10,000 troops----?" My answer is: the army of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

The little emperor changed the topic: "The demon army enters the palace on the first day of the third month, can the Taiwei go to watch the ceremony?" ”

"Be there!"

"Can the firearms left behind by the Suzaku Army be distributed to other forbidden troops?"

This question should not be asked by a businessman, but Zhao Xing replied respectfully: "The Great Song Dynasty firearms are attributed to the Great Song Dynasty." ”

The little emperor asked again: "On the third day of March, the Jinming Pond is open. At this moment, all the countries are coming to the court, my emperor and Song should also have some new atmosphere, I heard that there are many rare and strange things in Guangnan, can Guangnan send a team to perform the local customs to the people in the capital? ”

"It's the middle of February, and time is too late, so I immediately sent someone to Quang Nam to summon Quang Nam to go to Beijing...... When the time comes, please also invite Zhao Daguan to appreciate it. ”

Zhao Xing's words were to remind the little emperor that the conversation between the two just now was beyond the scope of a businessman's conversation with the Taiwei, and the little emperor reacted, quickly turned to Master Li, and took the opportunity to cover up: "Miss Shishi, March 3, Jin Mingchi Point School, Miss Shishi must be in Kuixing Tower." After the slogan was sung, I asked the teacher and the girl to go to the front of the Xuande Building to watch the Guangnan performance. ”

Zhao Xing shook his head lightly: "Zhao Daguan, when the time comes, the teacher and the girl will have to deal with the official order, I'm afraid I won't have time to hang out, so it's better for me to send a few personal attendants to follow, and lead the teacher and the girl to watch the performance in front of the Xuande Building." ”

Zhao Xing is not here to reproach the little emperor, he is reminding: Li Shishi, as the head of the capital, will be called in the third imperial examination in March, and she has to deal with the official service. At the same time, the little emperor also had to fulfill his responsibilities and meet with the new science and technology scholars.

Even after seeing the new science and technology jinshi, the little emperor couldn't get out. In Jin Mingchi, if the wandering eunuchs and family members recognized the little emperor, his identity would be guessed, and it would no longer be possible to play the role of a common man in front of Master Li.

After Zhao Xing's reminder, the little emperor also came to his senses, and he immediately took advantage of the situation and said: "Lord Taiwei's family is known as a prestige, I heard that twelve people dare to face the murderers of Tubo, with Lord Taiwei as a guarantee, the master and the girl don't have to worry about safety......"

There was a pause. Zhao Ji yawned, covered his mouth and said: "Today's conversation is happy, delaying Lord Taiwei to find fun, and now it's late at night, please settle Lord Taiwei." ”

Zhao Xing stood up obediently and responded to Zhao Ji's eviction order. Get up and take your leave.

At the door, Dong Xiaoliang greeted Zhao Xing, and said with annoyance: "Taiwei, the ten unique ones in the capital have gathered, I wanted to add an eternal story to Hele Building, but I didn't expect Lord Taiwei to chat with a big businessman for a long time, isn't this wrong?" ”

Zhao Xing walked a few steps and turned around to hint: "Xiaoliang, if I were you." He hung a gauze tent on all the boxes, so that the people outside could see that the people in the boxes were faintly wrong, and so on. Fang looks elegant. ”

Dong Xiaoliang scratched his head and said to himself in pain: "Gauze tent, it's so expensive." The boxes in the capital are all dressed like this, and I add a gauze tent, is it necessary? ”

After Dong Xiaoliang finished talking to himself, he found that Zhao Xing didn't listen to his question at all, and was walking back to his private room, he hurriedly chased after him and asked tightly: "Tai Wei." Taiwei, there are a bunch of invitations in your room, I told you about the ten Jedi in the capital, but you talked to me about the yarn tent, why is this? Speak clearly before you go! ”

Zhao Xing couldn't say clearly, he returned to his private room, and listened to the rest of Bianliang's performances in a wandering manner, and this banquet was not finished until dawn the next day. He was half drunk and half awake when he was carried back by the servants.

The next day, at the time of the last dynasty, the officials who should be on duty went to the court, and the officials who were not on duty came to visit Zhao Xing's mansion. But Zhao Xing didn't see anyone, and he met with the Guangnan businessmen who came to visit.

In recent years, with the smooth flow of sea and land, Guangnan merchants have gradually increased their residence in the capital, and Zhao Xing has returned to the capital. These Quang Nam businessmen finally found an opportunity. Visiting Zhao Xing with hometown friendship, they all gathered at Zhao Xing's mansion. When they saw the crowds of officials waiting to be seen, these businessmen originally wanted to put down their names and make an appointment to visit another day, but they didn't expect Zhao Xing to block all the officials and meet them directly, which inevitably made them a little flattered.

As soon as they met, Zhao Xing was not polite, and said directly: "I checked the number of people in Guangnan this year's imperial examination, and there are 314 people in Guangnan who went to Beijing for the imperial examination this year, but none of them are on the list. I feel that as a magistrate of Quang Nam, I have taken good care of the students of Quang Nam, so that they cannot study in the capital with peace of mind. I intend to add a Guangnan guild hall outside Bianliang City in imitation of the Admiralty Building---- which is not easy for the government to come forward, and it all depends on the sponsorship of businessmen. Let's talk about me first, I will sponsor 3,000 guan, and my teacher Po Gong will sponsor another 1,000 guan.

In addition, all the court officials who are demoted to Quang Nam, their donations will be made for them, and the rest will depend on your service. ”

Guangnan businessmen have had this consciousness in recent years, and it is right to follow Zhao Xing.

This magistrate sometimes seems to be an extortion businessman, but in fact, everyone who is willing to go to the end with Zhao Xing has benefited from Zhao Xing's policies. Now, Zhao Xingyi proposed, and Guangnan businessmen responded one after another for fear of falling into the back of people. In the blink of an eye, the funds raised by Zhao Xing have reached 300,000.

With the money, Zhao Xing then explained: "This Guangnan guild hall is not only open to Guangzhou students, but also open to businessmen, and I plan to build a building with 3,000 houses, in addition, I will also build a trading hall for my Guangnan merchants to list and trade here." You are the patrons of the building and have the right of first refusal to subscribe for the shops in the building.

I intend to hand over this mansion entirely to the Quang Nam Chamber of Commerce, and in my ideals, it should have a school house for Quang Nam students to live in for free, as well as a place to operate where Quang Nam merchants can mingle with the merchants of the capital.

In addition to this, it should also have a large warehouse to store the goods of the merchants. There are also a large number of trading shops, so that businessmen can display their goods, and the income needs to fund my readers in Guangnan, provide them with free accommodation and accommodation, so that they can study in the capital with peace of mind.

Speaking of reading, I also wish the hall had a large garden where the scholars could smell the flowers in the spring sun. It just so happens that in the past few years, Quang Nam has introduced foreign tree species, and we should show the people in the capital the flower bed landscape embroidery of Quang Nam, so the garden is indispensable.

I remember that the weather in the capital has been getting colder and colder in recent years, so in addition to the open garden, we should also build a few closed glass flower sheds in order to cultivate the unique southern flowers of Quang Nam, so that Quang Nam merchants can feel the rain of flowers in Quang Nam even in the capital. Of course, this trellis should also be a place for businessmen and students to study......"