Chapter 223: Official Usury

After going back, Ma Chao found the horse pole, and listened to Ma Chao tell the details of the story, and the horse pole kicked Zhang Mingli on the heel: "I followed you for most of the night, and you didn't find out that someone was following until the end, and you fed the dog what I taught you." ”

Zhang Mingli lowered his head and was aggrieved, thinking, it was the head that followed me, if it was an ordinary person, I would have found out.

Ma Gan stared at Zhang Mingli, as if he had seen through him, pointed at Ma Chao and said, "Don't take him seriously, look at his weak appearance, he has suffered kidney loss recently." If you can't even find him, he'll be a fart. If you run into an enemy, they'll shoot you to death. “

Ma Chao is a modern person, he has no concept of dignity and inferiority in his heart, he usually mingles with his brothers, Wang Wu often trains him like a big brother, and Ma Chao is the object of ridicule when training soldiers.

Even if they are like this, Ma Chao's image in his Flying Tiger Army is still a god who can turn the tide. Anything is absolutely fine as long as the horse is better than the horse.

But the image is the image, Ma Chao's self-esteem is still a little bit, and he couldn't help coughing, and said to Ma Gan: "I'm still here!" “

Ma Gan's mouth opened wide, but he still left a little image for Ma Chao, and he asked Zhang Mingli: "What do you have to do with the prefect Zhou Shang?" ”

Here's the thing......

Zhang Mingli's father, Mr. Zhang, has been a farmer for generations, and in ancient times, peasants lived better than their subordinates, but they were also limited. If it's okay in normal times, but in the year of famine, this life will be tight.

Later, Zhang Mingli's mother fell ill and encountered a famine, so she had no choice, so she went to Zhou Shangna to borrow 'green seedlings'

From the perspective of purpose, Wang Anshi's original motive for advocating the implementation of the Qingmiao Law was to "enrich the people" and "strengthen the army". The Qingmiao Law, also known as the "Changping New Law", was one of the measures taken by Wang Anshi in the Song Dynasty of China, which was promulgated and implemented in September of the second year of Xining (1069) by the Regulations Department of the Three Divisions. The main thing is to change the rigid practice of the old standing closing system of "reducing the market price in case of expensive volume and increasing market price in case of cheap volume". The grain reserves of the Changping and Guanghui warehouses were flexibly converted into capital and lent to peasants and urban handicraftsmen at an interest rate of 20 percent, so as to alleviate the phenomenon of usury and exploitation by the people, and at the same time increase the government's financial revenue, so as to achieve the goal of "the people do not increase the amount of money but the state uses enough", thus improving the phenomenon of "accumulation of poverty" in the Northern Song Dynasty. However, in fact, a series of problems arose in the implementation of the Qingmiao Law, which was later abolished after the death of Shenzong in the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085).

In recent years, this abolished method has been quietly used by some local officials to collect private money, and they have lent grain to the people at official prices. But when the people returned, it was still the official price, which was twice as high as the previous official price, and the most angry thing was that the government did not accept grain, only copper coins.

This is known as the Seedlings Method.

In order to treat his wife, the old man of the Zhang family could only borrow and borrow, and in the end he couldn't afford it, so Zhou Shang sent a servant to urge him, but the old man couldn't pay it back, so he added his fists and feet. He was so old, and he didn't come up in one breath, and he was beaten to death.

Zhang Mingli's mother went to complain, but Zhou Shang found someone again, quietly killed her, and threw her into a mass grave. Zhang Mingli said while crying, and Ma Gan couldn't help but give Zhang Mingli another kick, this kick was really heavy, and Zhang Mingli turned over twice.

"What were you doing?"

"I was drafted into the army and went to Jiangxi to fight."

Ma Gan listened, helped Zhang Mingli up, said sorry, and then looked at Ma Chao, Ma Chao gritted his teeth, and said two words: "Get him!" (To be continued.) )