Chapter 583: The Difficulty of Politics
After Qin Yu became the manager, the financial management also fell into his hands, and he spared no effort to persuade King Rong to sell the land in his hands and invest in mining.
King Rong didn't expect that Qin Yu's actions would actually save his life. Every move of King Rong's Mansion is actually in the eyes of one person.
"Tian Tian's vision is very powerful, the person I recommended is very powerful, what I want King Rong to do, he has achieved it." Sun Hui looked at the data transmitted to him by the "All-Seeing Eye" and said to Xiao Tiantian with a smile.
Because King Rong, the number one large landowner in the Song Dynasty, took the lead in selling off his land and investing in mining, which played a great demonstration effect, and now many officials and large landowners have begun to follow suit, the serious land annexation situation in the Song Dynasty has been effectively alleviated, and the resistance to Jia Yidao's implementation of the "Public Land Law" has been greatly reduced, and the economic situation of the Song Dynasty has also begun to improve.
"Qin Hui's descendants, it seems that they are born to be good at intrigue and trickery." Xiao Tiantian smiled.
"But it's still Brother Sun, how do you know that you can open the situation from King Rong?" Wang Linlin looked at Sun Hui, and admiration flashed in her eyes.
"Brother Sun has studied history." Xiao Tiantian replied, "We can't do this part." ”
"It's not enough to have research, you have to be able to figure out a way." Sun Hui sighed, "I only know now that why Jia Rudao went to the front line to fight in a desperate attempt is actually because he offended too many people by implementing the "Gongtian Law". Now I know what Mencius meant when he said, 'It is not difficult to be in government, and you must not offend the giant room'. ”
Due to the war between the Song and Mongolians, the Song Dynasty increased the need for military rations. However, due to the depreciation of paper money and soaring prices, the state was unable to raise food and wages, resulting in a shortage of military rations. For this reason, Prime Minister Jia Yidao proposed the implementation of the "Public Land Law" in an attempt to solve the problem of military rations, and at the same time reduce the issuance of paper money and reduce prices, so as to save the ruling crisis. Under the circumstances of fierce land annexation and extremely difficult state finances, the implementation of the "Public Land Law" was necessary at that time, and the original intention cannot be said to be bad. After the implementation of the "Public Land Law," it has achieved remarkable results in solving the shortage of military rations and reducing the issuance of banknotes. However, because of the corruption of officials, especially this measure, which greatly harmed the interests of the bureaucratic landlord stratum in Jiangnan, it was frantically opposed and sabotaged by them, and many defects arose in the process of implementing the "Public Land Law," and the peasants in general were also harmed to some extent. Jia Yidao's reputation was greatly damaged because of this, and he once became a public enemy of the world.
Mencius said: "It is not difficult to govern, and you must not offend the giant room." It means that if rulers want to stabilize the ruling order and leave a "good reputation" for themselves in history, then all the policies and measures they implement must not offend the ministers and powerful families who are the basis of their rule, not only because their popular will directly affect their own rule, but also because these people hold a pen in their hands, and they must record history according to their own and their own class's likes and dislikes, and praise and disapprove them at will, which can not only make a certain ruler "immortal" but also make him "stinking for ten thousand years". Sun Hui knew that historical facts also confirmed that in feudal society, all national histories, records, or wild histories, notes, and the like written by bureaucrats and scholars involved their personal interests, there was very little objectivity and fairness at all, and the evaluation of characters was even more so.
For example, because he killed 460 scholars and Confucian scholars who advocated the implementation of the feudal system and spoke ill of him behind his back, he left behind the title of "tyrant." As for his historical merits of ending the situation in which the princes were divided into powers, defending against the Xiongnu in the north and conquering the Baiyue in the south, and saving the broad masses of the people from the suffering of war and chaos, they are not recognized in the historical books at all. When Wang Mang was in power, he took a series of measures to buy people's hearts, which won the praise of scholars and doctors, and was even known as the "Duke of Zhou", and the number of people who wrote books praising his merits reached more than 400,000 people, and many people in the ruling group feared that he would not be the emperor on behalf of the Han Dynasty. However, once Wang Mang officially ascended the throne, he carried out "restructuring" in order to alleviate the acute class contradictions, and because of the policies of "Wang Tian" and "private ownership" that he implemented, he violated the interests of the landlords, aristocrats, and wealthy businessmen, and was soon abandoned by them, and finally ended up with a crime of "usurping the Han Dynasty" in history.
At the beginning of his coming to power, the government and the opposition were all rejoicing and encouraged by his military exploits in Ezhou and some of his previous economic and military achievements, and the famous scholar Wang Bai presented poems praising him as "righteous and universal and wise and devouring the heroes", "returning to assist the emperor and soothing the feelings of the masses", reflecting the attitude of the local doctors towards Jia Nidao at that time. The students, who are accustomed to praising and deprecating characters, also compete to call him "teacher", "veteran" and "Zhou Gong". However, when Jia Yidao set out to implement policies that were beneficial to the entire feudal ruling class and not to the immediate interests of the aristocracy, bureaucracy, and landlord class, they met with fierce opposition.
Because the Song Dynasty did not establish the land system and did not suppress the annexation, the phenomenon of land concentration was very serious, and the later period was even worse than the early period. According to the official Sun Mengguan said in the recital: "Those who come to take advantage of the wealth and wealth, or take the land of others as their own things, are connected by the ropes, look at thousands of miles, and are trapped in the stars, and ridicule Vance." The big one is Lingyi County, and the small one is arbitrary. This not only exacerbated class contradictions, but also made it difficult for the feudal state to levy and levy labor.
In the later part of the Song Dynasty, the heavy burden of peace and control not only made ordinary yeoman farmers miserable and forced to rise up to carry out resistance struggles, but also bankrupted some large households, and it is a fact that the peace war had seriously shaken the class foundation of the Song Dynasty's rule. Due to the drawbacks in the peace bargain, for example, the magistrate took the opportunity of the bargain to use the city to buy grain, and to increase the consumption of rice and noodles to increase income; The officials "begged in all directions, used the rice, and paid for the money", which further burdened the households. As for the apportionment of peace, it is also very unreasonable, "the powerful and many fields are not allowed to be added to the peace", and the burden mainly falls on the heads of poor and weak households and small and medium-sized landlords.
As the war between Song and Mongolia was in full swing, military spending increased sharply, and the financial crisis was unprecedentedly serious. At this time, the Song Dynasty government's dependence on peace was so deep that it had reached the level of "the state used the border salary, and all relied on it". Not only does the excessively heavy peace still fail to solve the problem of military salaries, but it also makes society more unstable.