Chapter 299: A Precursor to Defeat
Just when the Mongolian court was preparing to move the capital, something big happened in Lin'an Fucheng. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The right prime minister and privy envoy Jia Rudao suddenly began to implement the meridian boundary pushing and arrangement method.
The meridian push method is not the first initiative of Jia Yidao, and the Great Song Dynasty has implemented it several times.
The so-called method of pushing and arranging the boundaries is to clear the acres of land and verify the method of paying taxes, taking the county as a whole and the capital insurance as the unit, selecting fair people, verifying the acres of land and taxes, and making a map and record, so that the people have a fixed property, a fixed tax on the property, and a fixed tax register.
The meridian push-row method used to be called the meridian boundary method, and Jia Rudao added the word push-row this time to show the difference, but the meaning is actually the same as before.
The financial crisis of the Great Song Dynasty court has always existed, Jia Rudao served as the right prime minister, privy envoy, after controlling the power of the imperial court, he tried every means to solve the financial crisis, Jingding implemented the public land law in three years, and in less than two years, he implemented the law of meridian pushing, the purpose of which is to be able to collect enough taxes and maintain the operation of the imperial court.
It should be said that Jia Yidao's idea is very good, but unfortunately when it is actually implemented, it is not like that.
In order to be able to complete the tasks assigned by the imperial court, the local officials tried every means to put the burden on the heads of ordinary people, resulting in a large number of peasants going bankrupt and being forced to become tenants.
Speaking of the situation faced by the Great Song Dynasty, in fact, the main problem is still in the imperial court.
The Great Song Dynasty court has always encountered the threat of Mongolian Tatars, for more than a hundred years, many places have been occupied by Mongolian Tatars, and the southern rivers and mountains are not particularly stable, for so many years, the imperial court has not thought about reducing the number of officials and reducing the burden of the people, but it is still a corner and indulges in enjoyment, resulting in the burden of the people becoming heavier and heavier.
According to the design of Jia Yidao, there have been major problems since the beginning of the implementation of the meridian boundary promotion method.
The meridian extension method does not measure the land, and the meridian register account in the Jiading period shall prevail, and the rich and fair people shall be selected, the tax per mu shall be verified, and the changes of landlords and tenants shall be corrected, and the tax shall be included in the atlas, and then the tax shall be determined according to the verified situation.
In the early dynasty, Jia Rudao announced that he was ready to implement the meridian boundary push and row law.
Many adults in the court were stunned, they didn't expect it at all, after all, the public land law two years ago made many adults in the court suffer, they tried every means to circumvent the public land law, and now there is a meridian push method.
The emperor's body is obviously not good, and it is difficult for the early dynasty to hold on, at such a time, it should be to focus on the emperor's body, and the stability of the court should be the priority, and other things can be delayed for the time being.
In the hearts of many adults, they still have a lot of opinions about Jia Yidao, but they will not show Ali, and the planning law and the public land law back then were all facing the civil and military officials of the court.
After Jia Yidao announced the method for the implementation of the Jingjie Push and Exclusion Law, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and it turned out that the basis for measuring land during the Jiading period was used as the standard, and the landlords and tenants were re-approved and the taxes were re-established.
You must know that at this very moment, if you want to re-measure the land, it will be very difficult.
The emperor decreed that he agreed to implement the meridian boundary pushing method proposed by Jia Rudao.
At the end of the early dynasty, Jia Rudao did not return directly to the mansion, but came to the Privy Council.
The scholars of the six ministries, as well as many officials of the household department, also followed to the Privy Council, and they needed to discuss the specific implementation methods.
All matters in the court are Jia Nidao's final say, as long as it is something that Jia Nidao proposes, the emperor will make an order, and the emperor's body is not working, the crown prince Zhao Yu is afraid that he will soon succeed to the throne, Zhao Yu is the son of Zhao and Rui, the emperor has no children, and accepts Zhao Yu as an adopted son, when Jingding was three years old, Zhao Yu got the greatest support from Jia Nidao and was made the crown prince, it is conceivable that after Zhao Yu succeeded to the throne, he will support Jia Nidao even more.
Therefore, this so-called consultation is also a form, that is, Jia Rudao gives instructions and orders, others will not speak, and the relevant departments and officials of the DPRK and China can do what they are asked to do.
Sure enough, Jia Rudao didn't let everyone speak, even if it was the book of the six books.
According to Jia Rudao's requirements, starting from October, the implementation of the meridian boundary push and row method in the capital area, and the next year began to roll out throughout the country, at most in about three years, the Great Song Dynasty must fully implement the meridian push and row method.
As for the people who are responsible for carrying out the inventory tasks nominated by various localities, they must be local people who are generous and fair.
The next day, a notice was posted on the implementation of the meridian boundary pushing method in Lin'an Fucheng.
Naturally, the officials at all levels in Lin'an are conscientious and do things in accordance with the requirements of the notice.
What Jia Rudao never expected was that the meridian deduction method actually attracted the attention of the students of Lin'an Fu Academy.
The students who were able to enter the Lin'an Prefecture to study were all Juzi status, standard scholars, and even some Jinshi, because they did not seek official positions for the time being, and did not receive the attention of the officials of the DPRK and China, could not become staff members, so they also studied temporarily in the academy.
The students of the Lin'an Mansion School have the power to write to the emperor and the imperial court.
Some students in Lin'an Province support the law of meridian deference, they believe that after so many years, there is no redetermination of the ownership of the land, and it is necessary to clean it up. Most of the students are discussing in the school, but there are two students who like to be true, and they secretly went to investigate the implementation of the government's implementation of the meridian boundary deduction law.
The two students are Ye Li and Xiao Gui.
On the fifth day of the implementation of the meridian push method in Lin'an Mansion, the two secretly began an investigation.
After only five days of investigation, Ye Li and Xiao Gui were chilled, and they discovered the mystery of the implementation of the meridian boundary pushing method.
Most of the people who carried out the clean-up task this time were undertaken by the wealthy households designated by the government, and most of them were local elders and Li Zheng, and these rich households colluded with the local government, and in the clean-up process, they were not completely suitable for the situation of industrial taxation, and they focused on ordinary people.
The purpose of Jia Rudao's implementation of the meridian boundary promotion method was to increase the taxes of the imperial court, so he gave Lin'an a specific task, and the taxes paid by it must be increased by at least about one percent on the original basis.
On the one hand, the elders and Li Zheng had to complete the task of cleaning up the taxes, and on the other hand, they had to reduce the tasks of themselves and their relatives and friends, so when they were calculating, they deceived and reduced the taxes of the local gentry and wealthy households, and increased the taxes of ordinary people out of thin air.
After verification, even the land in front of and behind the houses of ordinary people was calculated and required to pay taxes.
This caused dissatisfaction among the people, but they also dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.
Ye Li and Xiao Gui are different, they are students of Lin'an Mansion Academy, and when they see these things, they must have to say it, so after the two discussed, they specially wrote a note to the right prime minister and privy envoy Jia Yidao, exposing the problems in the implementation of the meridian push and exclusion method in Lin'an Mansion.
The fold is indeed in the hands of Jia Yidao.
It is also that Ye Li and Xiao Gui are too simple, and they don't want to think about it, as the right prime minister of the court, they control all the affairs of the court, how could Jia Nidao not know such a thing, if they wanted to track it down, they would have started it a long time ago, and the reason why it is still being implemented is nothing more than that Jia Nidao acquiesced to the emergence of this situation.
Jia Rudao's purpose is to increase the tax revenue of the imperial court, as for how to operate next, he basically doesn't ask, and if he wants to really control the court, he also needs the support of many adults.
The twists and turns of Ye Li and Xiao Gui were naturally discarded and ignored.
Seeing that the time is about to reach October, the recital has been handed in for several days, and there is no response, and the professor of the school has intentionally or unintentionally warned all the students of the school to study with peace of mind and not to interfere too much in the affairs of the outside world.
Ye Li and Xiao Gui finally understood, it turned out that they had been tricked.
Angry Ye Li and Xiao Gui, unwilling to stop there, the two angrily wrote to the court, this time the spearhead was directly pointed at Jia Nidao, they impeached the right prime minister, privy envoy Jia Nidao dictatorship, misleading the country, harming the people, and asked Jia Nidao to resign and apologize for the world.
This letter folded and poked the basket.
Jia Rudao was the first to see the twists and turns, and lost his temper, and directly found the prefect of Lin'an Mansion and the professor of Fuxue.
On the third day of the recital, that is, at the beginning of October, two students, Ye Li and Xiao Gui, were assigned to Xihe Prefecture, where Lizhou West Road in Sichuan belongs, because of their misconduct.
The so-called Huang match, that is, after getting rid of the fame, the face was tattooed and splashed with ink, indicating the identity of the criminal, and then sent to the border, Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, set the rule that it was not allowed to kill scholars, and the Huang match was the most severe punishment, and it was impossible to turn over for the rest of his life when he encountered such punishment, and his family and descendants would also be implicated.
Ye Li and Xiao Gui are both young people, they think they are full of knowledge, they have never entered the society, they are full of enthusiasm but too simple, they think they are concerned about the affairs of the world, and they are for the benefit of the country, but they can't justify being provoked, and they suddenly suffered such a major blow, which was difficult to bear for a while.
When they were escorted out of the capital, Ye Li and Xiao Gui's hair was gray.
They were completely silent, and it was a painful lesson.
When the two were imprisoned in the prison at the same time, Ye Li only said one sentence, and the death of Da Song was not far away.
Xiao Gui heard this sentence, you must know that if you say such a thing, I am afraid that you will be punished more severely, and it is not uncommon to be killed by an exception.
The students of Lin'an Mansion did not dare to come to see off the two, and the prefect and professor of Lin'an Mansion had long warned other students to study with peace of mind and not to ask about other things. (To be continued.) )