Even if you look at the lively people and overestimate it, the amount of food donated by these merchants to the imperial court is only a million stones per person.

This amount is tantamount to a drop in the bucket and does not help at all.

This point is most clear in the hearts of Finance Minister Zhang Duan and Prime Minister Han Jin.

After a few days of overt and covert visits, these two important ministers, who had just taken up their new official posts, had basically figured out the current situation in the DPRK and China.

In a word, there is an extreme shortage of emergency food.

In addition to abolishing the new law, the prime ministers of Yuan Younian did not have much tossing in the past eight years.

They did what they had promised to rest with the people, and the Western Xia was also in a period of regime change, with the exception of the Battle of Hongdecheng last year, there were no large-scale conflicts between the Song and Xia.

However, the imperial court's fiscal revenue has always been separated from revenue and expenditure, and the idea that they just want to reduce the deficit by reducing expenditure is tantamount to a dream.

For more than eight years, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu simply ate grain in Yin, lying on the pile of grain scavenged by Song Shenzong, Wang Anshi and Cai Qu. In particular, Zheng Xia and Fan Zuyu, who were recommended by the two ministers, dragged themselves back.

In the first six years, Hedong Road and Hezhong Mansion have always relied on Bianliang City to give them blood transfusions.

Therefore, the newly appointed Minister of Finance Zhang Dun, in the past few days, has not been busy with other things at all, and has been collecting food from everywhere, and it is precisely because this work is very simple that he is even less optimistic about this merit-seeking order signed by Zhao Xu.

However, there are such two super-rich people who immediately slapped everyone in the face as soon as they made a move.

As one might expect, there are still a lot of businessmen who want to use this to get a mixed official status. Judging from the trees donated by these people, most of the businessmen participated in this grand event with the intention of joining in the fun.

However, on the afternoon of the third day after the post of the list, someone finally broke the limit of one million stone of grain.

These two super-rich people are none other than Ding Youcai from Qingzhou Mansion and money from Putian County. Compared to the other merchants who came to join in the heat, after they reached the same time, as soon as they made a move, each of them had to donate two million stones. Later, the two tycoons seemed to be fighting for the sake of fighting spirit, and gradually increased the amount of grain they donated to 5 million stones.

To a country, five million stone of grain may seem insignificant, but to put it in the name of a merchant, it is an astonishing amount of wealth. What's more, the two of them donated to the court for free.

At this moment, the entire Bianliang City, from the prime minister to the peddlers and pawns, was all boiling.

Han Zhen and Zhang Dian met with these two bold businessmen one after the other.

This is the solution to Zhangdun's urgent need.

It is no wonder that the always proud Zhang Dian was willing to meet the two lowly businessmen in person.

However, after hearing the names of these two merchants, the hearts of two people that had been hanging finally returned to their places. One is Zhao Xu, and the other is Yang Wei, who has seen Ding Youcai and money.

The two of them now know that these two wealthy businessmen are selling Cai Dao's face, so they will make such a move. They're just acting.

Since it is acting, it is natural to act in a full set.

In this play, Yang Wei, the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, personally went out, and according to the routine of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Bu Shi, he first asked the two of them for their requirements, and the two naturally did not dare to ask for anything. So, Zhao Xu invented an edict again, commending the two for their loyalty and courage, but rejected the willingness of the two of them to donate food to the court free of charge.

Later, when the people of Jingxi East Road fled to Bianliang City, Yang Wei came forward to accept the people's donations, and Ding Youcai and Qian donated all the five million stone grain promised before to Kaifeng Mansion.

In the end, because of this matter of Kaifeng Mansion's donation, Zhao Xu learned about it, and personally met with him and rewarded four wealthy businessmen.

This big drama written and directed by Cai Dao also deceived the people, and many civil and military generals actually understood that even if they had such a huge amount of money at home, they were not willing to donate a lot of family funds for the sake of an official position that was not obtained from the right way. But among the businessmen, there is naturally no shortage of shrewd people.

For example, a giant merchant in Shu saw the clues, and also donated silver money equivalent to five million grains to the imperial court. If he did this, he was already bankrupt. Seeing this situation, Cai Dao knew in advance that Zhao Xu was rewarding these merchants, so he added another fire to it, and he asked the owner of Mu Laozhai to also participate in it, and donated three million stone of grain to the imperial court.

The bargaining chips that Zhao Xu used to reward these four giant businessmen were the herdsmen in the Great Song Dynasty.

Previously, when Xining changed the law, Wang Anshi also wanted to improve the system of horse breeding in the Great Song Dynasty, so he implemented a new law, the horse protection law, but because this new law was difficult to implement and out of date, it didn't take long for this new law to be abolished.

The original horse breeding system was also changed to a pastoral system.

Even so, this pastoral system was abolished in the early Yuanyou period, and Wen Yanbo and Lü Gongzhu reinstated the original herd husbandry department of the Great Song Dynasty.

This time, at the suggestion of Zhang Dan, Zhao Xu decided to permanently abolish the Department of Herding Affairs, and those officials in it, the older ones were all let to be served, and the younger ones who had been in the dead place were all arranged to be in more idle departments, and those officials who had been serving with all their hearts and minds were included in the Third Division.

However, there are still exceptions to this, these officials or soap subordinates who serve in the Qun Mu Division, except for the chief officials, as long as they are involved in corruption and reselling state-owned assets - the land of the Qun Mu Division and the horses, cattle and sheep in it, all have their family property confiscated, and their families are degraded to Lingnan, to be precise, to be degraded to Guangnan West Road. And those soap subordinates only need to ask about the crime, and they will be killed directly.

The punishment was severe, and the Great Song Dynasty did not have it, you must know that in addition to the two chief officials and two judges, the Qunmu Division also had other auxiliary officials, such as the Metropolitan Detention Officer, the Detention Officer, and the Detention Officer. Although these people are not civil officials on the right path, they are also students who graduated from Taixue. However, this time, they were all killed. For a time, public opinion was in an uproar, and those corrupt officials were also in danger.

But Zhang Dun didn't care about this, and he announced the specific distribution plan of the herd division in various pastures.

The pastures in the northwest region were handed over to Ding Youcai for management, and after three years, a certain number of horses had to be handed over to the imperial court every year, and of course, the imperial court would also buy these horses at market prices.

And the money got the pastures of Hebei Zhulu, the owner of Mu Laozhai got the pastures of Hedong Road, and the rich businessman in Shu got the pastures of all roads in Shu.

As a result, the four Great Song Dynasty versions of the Bu Shi appeared in the eyes of the world at the same time, and they also appeared on the political stage of the Zhezong Dynasty in the years that followed.

At the same time, Zhang Dun also announced that in addition to the above four places, all other pastures would be abolished, and the original land would be sold to the local landless poor. In addition, the pastoral system was restored.

This is the first new law that the finance minister has reinstated since he took office.

And the second 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.