Chapter 64: People-Oriented Thought

"This credit, Weichen can't afford it. In addition to the wisdom and foresight of the saints, the great Song Dynasty can have today's prosperous situation of civil and military affairs, which is inseparable from the efforts of Wen Yanbo, Sima Guang, Su Shi and other loyal ministers and cadres. Han Qi and Fu Bi have done so much, and in the end they ended up like that, aren't the saints ashamed? Although they betrayed the saints, they were for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty. Holy! Great oaks from little acorns grow.. No matter what happens, it's a step by step. In accordance with the will of the Holy Lord, the government hall has developed Huguang and Liuqiu, and vigorously built workshops and developed maritime trade. Now, according to the will of the Holy Lord, the capital has been moved to Beijing. All the plans of the Holy Father have been achieved, and now it is time to steadily consolidate the results, stock up on more grain and grass, and vigorously build water conservancy roads. Holy! Don't fight anymore! Adding a pearl county and getting saltpeter mines has increased the burden of grain. Wang Anshi is accusing Zhao Ji of being unfair to Han Qi and Fu Bi, accusing Zhao Ji of wasting too much people's strength, and accusing Zhao Ji of being reckless.

"What credit do Han Qi and Fu Bi have? Is their merit a large-scale merger, usury, and obstruction of the change of the law? Zhao Ji no longer dwelled on the problem of food shortage, but said angrily.

"Wanton annexation, usury, obstruction of the change of the law, these things, has the Holy God investigated in detail? On what basis? Could it be that the abundance of land is the result of annexation? Wang Anshi glared and retorted.

"What is the basis for the gentleman to say that they have merit?" Zhao Ji was not convinced.

"You have raised so many Iron Guards, Shadow Guards, don't you see them?" Wang Anshi stood up and shouted.

Seeing that Zhao Xuan and Wang Anshi seemed to be about to quarrel, Bao Shou hurriedly stood up and arched his hand and said, "Holy Lord, Wang Xiang." Han Qi, Fu Bi and others can't say anything about obstructing the change, although they are also for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty, but they should not betray the saint. It is not too much for the Holy Lord to deprive them of their meritorious official positions. It is not the fault of the Holy God that they committed suicide. However, their contributions to the Great Song Dynasty cannot be easily erased by the saints. Although they had a lot of land, Wechen had never heard the people accuse them of annexing land, nor had they ever heard the people accuse them of usury. ”

Wang Anshi didn't want to quarrel too much, after all, he came to advise, not to quarrel, and he had to explain everything reasonably. And Zhao Ji didn't want to anger Wang Anshi too much, for Wang Anshi, perhaps because of the influence of later generations, Zhao Ji always had a natural sense of trust.

Seeing that Wang Anshi and Zhao Ji both sat down, picked up the teacup and drank tea, Bao Shou breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "The most feared thing in agriculture is natural disasters, the people are weak, they can not build water conservancy on their own, and they cannot save themselves when they suffer natural disasters, and they have to pay taxes from the imperial court. Unable to afford it, he could only sell his land to officials and landlords to seek asylum. Since the implementation of the new law, the abolition of money and the Fangtian order have been implemented, the people can get the green seedling money, the land of the officials and landlords has also been measured, a large number of hidden fields have been discovered, and the officials have to pay the field tax, and the state of land annexation has been improved. However, the common people are always weak in terms of family resources, unable to build water conservancy, unable to buy cattle, and not experienced enough in managing farmland. From this point of view, the newly drafted Juntian Decree of the Holy Lord will only make the grain production of the Great Song Dynasty lower and lower, and the people will become more and more impoverished. ”

As Bao Shou said, Zhao also understands that large-scale agricultural production will indeed help improve operational efficiency and increase grain output. When landlords lease land to tenants, they will also intervene in agricultural production and guide and coordinate the tenants to carry out agricultural planting. Large-scale does have advantages in preventing natural disasters, in case the field is damaged, it can also be replanted in time, and the land will not be wasted. Because, in fact, the tenants are customers, they can move freely, and in order to retain them, the exploitation of the landlords is not to the point where it is impossible for people to live. This kind of agricultural production relationship is still quite in line with the development of productive forces in this era. Compared with the migrant workers of later generations, the situation of customers in this era is almost the same.

"What does this have to do with Han Qi and Fu Bi's exploits?" Although Zhao Xuan understood the truth of what Bao Shou said, he felt that Bao Shou was pulling away from the topic.

"Han Qi and Fu Bi, that's how their fields are operated. All the customers who take refuge in them, as long as they work hard, can eventually save their family assets and finally buy a piece of their own land. And Han Qi and Fu Bi will not stop them from leaving. Many people have benefited from them and are grateful to them. Although they had a large amount of land, the rent was very low, and the effective operation not only expanded their land, but also made the people who came to them rich and able to leave. As for usury, although there is, it is for the children of the nobles who gamble, and for the common people, the interest charged is very low. In addition, the saints should also know about the military exploits made by Han Qi and Fu Bi in the frontier. Look to the saints! Bao Shou arched his hand and said.

"So, the Juntian Order is not suitable for implementation?" Zhao Ji pondered for a while and asked.

"The abolition decree stipulates that the taxes levied by the imperial court are only levied on the children. Ordinary people can pay taxes through side jobs, which helps people improve their ability to resist natural disasters. Because the tax was levied only on the landlord, the land rent became the jiaozi, and the tenant only had to pay the jiaozi as the land rent, and no longer had to pay the agricultural products prescribed by the landlord and suffered from the joint exploitation of the landlord and the merchant. As long as the Holy Authority limited the scope of land rent, ordered the yamen at all levels to coordinate water conservancy, and abolished the money order to deal with the gap between the rich and the poor in the Great Song Dynasty, there was no need to implement the Juntian Order. Bao Shou further explained.

"What side hustle can ordinary people have?" Zhao Ji really didn't know enough about the state of agricultural production in the Great Song Dynasty, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but ask again.

"There are more side jobs, raising livestock, hunting in the mountains, going out to work in workshops, or doing short-term work for landlords and wealthy families. The income from these side hustles is relatively stable and will not be affected by natural disasters, and the income is enough for them to pay taxes. The Fangtian Decree stipulates that tax payment is no longer divided into households, etc., and agricultural tax is only paid per acre tax. As long as the people have the desire to get rich and are diligent enough, it is not difficult to get rich. Bao Shou saw that Zhao Xuan listened, and his heart was much happier, and then explained.

The biggest difference between the Song Dynasty and other dynasties is the difference in people-oriented thinking. Mencius's status was very high in the Song Dynasty. Zhao Ji and Wang Anshi and others also talked about the livelihood of the people. Historically, Sima Guang's opposition to the change of the law was also based on the livelihood of the people, insisting that "wealth is not in the people, but in the officials." The great philosopher Cheng Hao even issued a message of "establishing a heart for heaven and earth, establishing a life for the people, continuing to learn for the saints, and opening peace for all generations." Voice. Although the scholars and doctors of the Song Dynasty were a little more comfortable and luxurious, but the scholars of the Great Song Dynasty were very hard-boned, and there were very few things about corruption and oppression of the people.

Compared with various dynasties, the Song Dynasty was also the best dynasty for the people. Song Renzong wanted to expand the palace, thinking that the people were very noisy outside the palace, and opened small stalls for the people to block the royal street, but because he was afraid that the people would not like it, he did not take tough measures, and Song Renzong did not force the people to demolish because he wanted to expand the palace, and those hawkers who were selling were never driven out. Compared with the chengguan of later generations, these things in the Song Dynasty are simply unimaginable.

This kind of people-oriented thinking of the Song Dynasty was not achieved even in later generations of China. Why did you have to divide the households, etc.? Why didn't the people drive out? The Song Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty levied a different tax in that the Tang Dynasty levied a tax on people, while the Song Dynasty levied a property tax. The collection of property tax must distinguish the level of household registration of the people according to the amount of property.

On the one hand, this method of taxation recognized the private rights of the people's property, and the imperial court protected this private rights; Not suppressing annexation and allowing land to be bought and sold is to protect the people's right to control private property; On the other hand, it recognizes a considerable degree of the people's private right to operate freely, and self-production and self-use is not a kind of management right, and only when it is produced and sold is it a kind of business activity; The recognition of the people's right to operate was the reason for the commercial development of the Song Dynasty, and it was also a manifestation of the commercial development.

In the next generation, you open a factory, you build a house, you don't spend money to buy the right to operate from the state, and the next day you demolish your house. Why are street vendors chased all over the street by the chengguan, isn't it because they don't have the right to operate?

The biggest advantage of household separation is that people who do not have property or whose property is not enough to reach the household do not have to pay any taxes. This is the reason why there were no large-scale peasant uprisings in the Song Dynasty. Of course, there is also a certain harm in dividing households, because property not only includes acres of land, but also includes other aspects of management, once the business fails, the household level declines, but still has to pay taxes according to the original household level, the people will suffer. Fang Tian ordered the abolition of households, etc., and regarded the acres of land as the only taxable property, which was very conducive to the development of other sideline businesses for the people.

There were no officials at the bottom of the Northern Song Dynasty, and they often used users to exploit the people, causing the people to bear unnecessary taxes and making the people dare not seek wealth. Once you get rich, the number of households rises, and if the business fails, it will be difficult for the number of households to fall. This once caused the capital of the people's families to be too small to resist natural disasters.

If we do not consider the size of the capital, if we look at this kind of management right alone, the people of the Northern Song Dynasty enjoy completely equal management rights, so that in fact, on the basis of the economy, the Northern Song Dynasty has evolved into capitalism, because equal management rights must be accompanied by a sufficient degree of property protection, personal freedom and safety protection, and the principle of free trade. This kind of social environment is enough to give birth to the original industrial revolution.

Needless to say, personal freedom can be seen from the household registration system of the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Northern Song Dynasty, anyone who lived in a place for more than two years automatically obtained a local household registration, and there was no restriction on the free movement of the people. You will not be given a temporary residence permit just because you are going to a certain place. After the death of the Song Dynasty, this kind of system has not appeared again, from the Yuan Dynasty, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the people have to open a certificate when they go out of the village. The same is true of the republics of later generations, if you don't have an ID card, you can't go anywhere.

Historically, only the Northern Song Dynasty had detailed and explicit economic legislation, which was almost the same as the British Bill of Rights. The Industrial Revolution in Britain began after another forty years of the victory of the bourgeois revolution marked by the Bill of Rights. At that time, the British industry was basically the same as that of the Northern Song Dynasty, still in the workshop stage, and in terms of production technology and prosperity, it was similar to that of the Northern Song Dynasty. The production process, not the production technology, most of Newton's mechanics are still the playthings of the tall nobles, and the Northern Song Dynasty Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Writings" is not something that the lower class people can understand.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji also felt that he was too harsh on the scholars, thinking too badly of the scholar class and too badly of the Northern Song Dynasty. I have always thought that the system of later generations must be advanced, don't you know that it is not as good as the Song Dynasty! I have been thinking about using the system of later generations to transform the Song Dynasty, and then I realized that the land ownership system of fighting local tyrants and dividing land in later generations is too backward compared with the land system of the Song Dynasty.

Without equal management rights, the Northern Song Dynasty would not have produced so many great inventions that affected the world. You must know that three of China's four major inventions were born in the Song Dynasty. Without free and equal management rights, how can there be innovation? No wonder China is so lacking in innovation in later generations! The wisdom and creativity of the people are limited by the system, and the Chinese people who have no choice can only engage in copycats. In later generations, China's most creative economic field could only be Shanzhai, and his creativity made the whole world stunned. But in other aspects, it's really embarrassing!

There is no equal right to operate, even if Zhao Ji gets all the advanced technology of later generations, like the invincible protagonists in many novels, invents no limits, and the steam engine says that it will be made out, it will only be a copy of the Qing Dynasty's Westernization Movement, and it will eventually fail.

If the Northern Song Dynasty had not been bound by Song Taizu's system of advocating literature and suppressing military force and dividing power, resulting in a strong army without an excellent commander to command, his martial arts would be unimaginable. This can be seen from the ups and downs of the national hero Yue Fei's life!

"What about the other new laws I've drafted?" Zhao Ji couldn't help but be suspicious.

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