And the new law that will be restored is the only new law that is still beneficial to the people among Wang Anshi's reforms-the Exemption Law. The most criticized aspect of the conservative minister is that he forcibly abolished the exemption law without asking any questions.

The first new law that was restored was about Ma Zheng, and the impact was not too large, and there were also four rich businessmen, plus three of them, they were actually Cai Dao behind them.

When Cai Dao was in his hometown of Fujian, he had been studying how to breed horses and how to use the resources in his hands to improve the breed of horses in the Great Song Dynasty as much as possible. Over the years, it has gradually begun to bear fruit.

After the Arabian horses transported by sea were crossbred by the horses bought in Liao, the second- and third-generation horses obtained have been bred in Cai Dao's hometown. However, due to the fact that in the middle of the previous Yuanyou year, the reformers were generally belittled and completely lost power in the court, Cai Dao was worried that Zheng Xia would use the power of the government to ruin his foundation while he was away.

Therefore, Cai Dao ordered his men to move the horse farm and the shipyard to Yizhou Island.

Among them, there was still a lot of price, and some horses couldn't stand the bumps in the sea and died on such a short sea route. However, it also completely solves the worries.

Another horse farm, Jeju Island, has only been established for a short time, but the number of Mongolian horses is already large, and now it has received 50,000 horses. This time, Cai Dao did not use other horse breeds to improve these Mongolian horses. Because in this era, the Mongolian horse was short and had good endurance, making it the most suitable war horse for the Song people to ride.

Therefore, Zhao Xu's move, although it was to exchange the land of the herdsmen for the land donated by the four wealthy merchants, was not a money-losing business. Moreover, three years later, these four wealthy merchants still had to pay enough horses to the Song court on time. These horses, the imperial court did want to buy horses at market prices, but it was much better than spending a lot of money from the Western Xia Kingdom and the Great Liao Kingdom but not being able to buy any numbers.

Moreover, leaving this matter completely to private contractors can also essentially completely eliminate the involvement of civil officials and soap officials, and corruption is rampant, but it does not see that the effect is much stronger.

It is precisely because of this that Prime Minister Han Zhen and Finance Minister Zhang Duan not only did not dissuade this matter, but vigorously supported Zhao Xu's initiative. Compared with the Bu style of the Han Dynasty, Zhao Xu's move was only to pay a few pieces of land and the false name of Renyong Lieutenant, the military attache of the ninth grade. You must know that back then, Bu Shi raised sheep for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in Shanglin Yuan, and he still got Lang Guan. This official was very valuable in the Han Dynasty.

However, when the exemption law was restored, it caused a lot of turmoil in the DPRK and China.

After Zhao Xu came into power, he has been seeking to inherit the legacy of the first emperor, and in the past few days, he has changed his name to "Shaosheng". After consulting with Han Jin, Zhang Dian and other ministers of the reform faction, when he was about to restore immunity, Cai Dao put forward a different opinion.

Cai Dao did not object, but demanded that the exemption law that had been in force until now be fine-tuned, and that the scope of implementation of the new law should be reduced and divided into three steps.

The first step is now implemented in the Gyeonggi region;

The second step, a year later, will start to promote it on several roads near Gyeonggi;

Third, after another year, the law will be extended to the whole country.

For this reason, Zhao Xu also specially summoned all the backbone ministers of the reform faction to gather in the Jing Court, and let Cai Dao debate with them in this place.

"Your Majesty, such a big thing, why bother to discuss with this yellow-mouthed child, if you spread the word that it will go out, it will only make people laugh." As soon as everyone sat down, someone began to talk about Cai Dao's age, and the person who spoke was Cai Dao's father, Cai Bian.

Whenever his cheap father was in the same room as Cai Dao, his intelligence declined rapidly.

Strictly speaking, Cai Dao is eighteen years old this year, but it is not an exaggeration to compare with the adults in the court, who are called Huangkou children.

But Cai Bian forgot that in the center of the Jing Court, there was His Majesty the Emperor, who was only less than a month older than Cai Dao. He said that it was not good, so he had to attack Cai Dao with age in front of Zhao Xu.

The other ministers didn't need to look at it at all to know that the official family must be in an extremely bad mood.

Cai Jing couldn't help but cover his face with his hands, it didn't matter if this pig teammate talked nonsense, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he offended the official family. If others want to drive Cai Dao out of the Jing Court, it will be impossible at all.

mistakenly hit the auxiliary car, but the key is that the auxiliary car is sitting on the main owner.

Is it really good for Chi Guoguo to despise the official family like this?

Naturally, it's not good, Zhao Xu has been holding back for more than eight years, and at this time, naturally he won't hide his emotions in front of these ministers.

Cai Bian hadn't realized that he had invisibly offended the official family, and Wu Zi wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Zhang Dun: "Lord Cai, this is Your Majesty's court, since Your Majesty has allowed Daochang Cai to speak, don't say anything more." If you have any words, think clearly before opening your mouth. ”

In fact, others were also a little surprised, Cai Bian was so smart in the past, how could his son immediately become a pig as soon as he stood in front of him.

"Your Majesty, after more than ten years of verification by Xining and Yuanfeng, the new laws presided over by Jing Guogong, in addition to the exemption law, although other laws can increase the revenue of the national treasury, in fact, some new laws are completely ineffective in improving the lives of the people, and some new laws have completely become new laws that harm the people. I don't know if all of you here can disagree on this. Cai Dao didn't pay attention to his father's difficulties for him, and the opening chapter pointed directly at Wang Anshi's new law.

Cai Dao's words, all the ministers present, even Zhao Xu on the throne, all showed hesitation.

Only Han Jin nodded in agreement, and he didn't hide his attitude. Because what Cai Dao said was the truth, it was much more insightful than those conservatives who simply repealed the new law for the sake of opposition.

The words are the truth, but the new law supported by Wang Anshi can be devalued so worthless, which is unimaginable to everyone. After all, Wang Anshi is this child's grandfather!

"It's nonsense, the Qingmiao Law implemented by the officials at the local level has already benefited the people there. How did it come to your mouth and become a detriment to the people? For Cai Dao's words, the biggest reaction was naturally Cai Bian, and he immediately stood up and retorted.

The lord was right. But in your own words, the biggest shortcomings of the Seedlings Method have been exposed. The reason why the poor road says that the Qingmiao Law harms the people is because the drawbacks of this new law are that they succeed because of people, and they also fail because of people. When you were in Jiangyin, you opened a warehouse and lent grain to the people at a low price to survive the famine. But have you ever done it yourself, at that time, you were just a master bookkeeper, why didn't the magistrate do it, why didn't the county do it, why didn't the county do it, and when you were a petty official of the nine grades, those chief officials sat back and ignored it? You know, given your position at the time, this was too much. When Cai Dao said this, Cai Bian was speechless.

Cai Dao did not make things difficult for his father, but pointed out the essence of the Qingmiao Law: "Jing Guogong was too careless when implementing the new law. When the results of the new law were not seen, they were eager to implement it throughout the country. Take the green seedling law as an example, this new law is nothing more than lending grain to the people, so that they can not only be full of usury, but also have food to survive the period when the green seedlings are not available. Your Majesty, Poor Dao asks you, if every household under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty has a three-year reserve, do they still need this Lao Shizi Qingmiao method? ”

"Naturally, it is not needed! But as you say, it's too hard to achieve. Zhao Xu nodded and replied.

"Not bad. However, this matter will be discussed later, Your Majesty, when Jing Guogong implemented the Qingmiao Law, he never thought that the person who specifically implemented this new law was not him, but thousands of civil officials in charge of various state capitals and counties across the country!

And at that time, these civil officials from the bottom were either Sima Guang and his gang, or they were the spokesmen of the local usury gentry, how could they serve the first emperor and Jing Guogong with all their heart, and offend their financiers and backstage?

Therefore, Your Majesty, when you implement the new law this time, you must be cautious and think twice before acting! For example, this time the exemption law. The tax system implemented in the Great Song Dynasty is a two-tax law, and the land tax itself is not high. However, conscription, especially the former service, is cumbersome, complicated, long-distance, and expensive, and the person who serves the service is also responsible for compensation. This is what makes all the people who serve in the service miserable, and some even have to be ruined because of this.

It is under such circumstances that the conscription system of our Great Song Dynasty has reached the point where it must be changed, and Jing Guogong's judgment is undoubtedly correct. But how to change it needs to be proved by practice. At the beginning, when Jing Guogong implemented this new law and began to collect it in the countryside, the errand money of those fourth-class and fifth-class households at the bottom was exempted. ”