In the past three years, the price of arable land in the Great Song Dynasty has been soaring. There is no other reason, because of the introduction of high-yield crops, more grain can be produced per acre, which makes many landlords see greater benefits, and more and more landlords hope to be able to hoard more arable land.

However, this cultivated land is not something you can hoard if you want to, and the Great Song Dynasty has always restricted uncontrolled land annexation, even if you have money, you can't buy land if you want to.

This is why Zhao Weiji's promise to relax restrictions on land annexation has won over so many officials in the DPRK and China, who are both officials and landlords, and they also want to have more land.

When he saw that a small group of officials actually jointly wrote a letter asking Zhao Weiji to remember to fulfill his promise to open up the restrictions on land annexation three years after ascending the throne, Zhao Weiji smiled coldly.

He picked up the pen and wrote four words under the chapter: "You have no jokes." Then asked Zhang Zhibai to ask someone to return the recital.

After receiving the return of the recitals, the group was very excited, and many of them had already begun to think about the grand occasion of buying all the fields they could buy in their hometown in three years.

It's just that they didn't expect that Zhao Weiji had already prepared, and when they owned a lot of land in three years, they would fall into a big trap and never be able to climb out again.

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Three years have passed in a flash, in these three years, Zhao Weiji's cabinet has gradually formed, many specific policies have begun to be designated by the minister, Zhao Weiji needs to do is to agree or disagree, which gives him full free hands to bring in what he wants.

Due to the appearance of the Cabinet. Chinese book. Chancery. The three provinces were gradually abandoned, and the six ministries gradually became institutions directly responsible to the cabinet. The six ministries have also undergone great changes, first of all, the criminal department was independent by Zhao Weiji, and together with the Dali Temple and the three divisions of the Yushitai, it became an institution at the same level as the cabinet, directly under the emperor.

This is done in order to give the judiciary some relative independence and not be subject to any administrative interference. However, with the independence of the Criminal Department, the entire organization of the Great Song Dynasty has also undergone a great change.

The Yamen no longer has any right to hear cases. The Criminal Division established by the Taizong Dynasty became the direct subordinate agency of the three divisions at the road level, and at the state and county levels, the Inspectorate and the two independent judicial institutions of the Judicial Department were newly established.

So that from top to bottom formed a judicial system directly under the emperor, while the judiciary is relatively independent, it also provides a gentle solution for redundant officials, rather than letting these people idle and have nothing to eat the emperor's food, it is better to find something for them to do.

After the Criminal Department became independent, the Ministry of Rites was dismantled by Zhao Weiji, and it was originally a imperial examination and etiquette. Diplomacy is under the control of the Ministry of Rites, and now the imperial examination is independent by Zhao Weiji. A Ministry of Culture and Culture was established.

In addition to being responsible for the imperial examination, Taixue was also assigned to the Ministry of Culture, not only that, but even Si Tianjian also returned to the Ministry of Culture, in addition to Zhao Weiji also set up a Qiqiao Bureau in the Ministry of Culture, specializing in the research and education of natural sciences, Taixue also opened corresponding subjects.

The Ministry of Household has also been transformed to a certain extent, and the commercial part has been divided, and a special department of commerce has been set up to be in charge of commercial matters.

In terms of taxation, a separate Ministry of Finance was established, and all tax and fiscal expenditures were taken care of by the Ministry of Finance.

In this way, the six ministries became the eight ministries, and the division of labor in each department was extremely detailed, so that the administrative power of domination was basically handed over to these eight ministries. Because basically there are corresponding departments for major national events, and there is no need for special overall planning and coordination.

In this way, the power of the state is divided into three parts, and the executive power is directly responsible for eight ministries, and although the cabinet is above the eight ministries, they only have the parliamentary power. The greatest and most effective decision-making power was held by the emperor.

Although it seems that the three provinces have been brought together again, the decentralization of power has made it impossible for the prime minister to actually monopolize power.

What's more, there were basically seven or eight cabinet members at this time, and they were no longer the secretary of the eight ministries, completely cutting off the appearance of powerful ministers.

It's just that after the reform of the civil service system was completed, it was difficult for the military generals to deal with Zhao Weiji. Zhao Weiji, the Song Dynasty's change of law, does not plan to implement it anymore, although that thing prevents the dictatorship of military generals, but Zhao Weiji also knows how harmful it is.

Since the method of changing the military can no longer be used, how to prevent the generals from supporting the army and respecting themselves is a big problem. Zhao Weiji thought about setting up a military academy to make all future generals become protégés of the Son of Heaven, which could reduce the possibility of military generals using their own troops to a certain extent.

But that takes time, and at the same time as the establishment of the military academy, Zhao Weiji can only hand over the financial power of the army and the food supply to the local government after the abolition of the military change law.

All the expenses of the garrisons in various places must be reported to the transit envoys of the time, and then the transit envoys provide the garrison with the corresponding grain and grass and military salaries.

In addition, the appointment and dismissal of personnel in the military must be attended by the local yamen, and the appointment and dismissal of senior officers must be reported to the military department.

In this way, the financial and personnel rights of the garrisons in various places can be severed, and it is hoped that the possibility of rebellion by the generals will be reduced.

If the changes in the imperial court in the past three years are dazzling enough, the changes in the people have made these people a little unable to keep up with the rhythm.

Due to Zhao Weiji's strong support, more and more handicraft industries began to rise, and this artificial promotion of the budding capitalism made the traditional landlord class somewhat unable to keep up with the changes.

After the rise of the handicraft industry in the workshop, it was natural that a large number of laborers were needed to fill the workshops in their hands, and the way to attract labor was treatment.

The wages paid by these factory owners for their workers were much higher than those of working as tenant farmers in the landlord's house, and many trades were relatively easier to do than tenant farmers.

As a result, many tenant farmers gave up renting farmland from landlords and turned to work as craftsmen in factories. This was something that the landlords did not expect.

According to other experience, if the peasants lose their land, they have basically no other way out than to become tenant farmers of the landlord's family. There is no capital in business, and there is no craftsmanship in workmanship.

Nowadays, when those workshops hire craftsmen, the threshold is very low, and with the help of simple machinery, a farmer who does not know anything has a very short time to get started.

In addition, Zhao Weiji has come up with the production method of the assembly line, and the handicraftsmen who carry out the assembly line often do not need to learn how to completely produce a product, but only need to learn the steps they are responsible for, so that the threshold for entry is lowered, and a large number of farmers who have lost their land have begun to transform into handicraftsmen.

After such a situation occurred, those officials who had hoped that Zhao Weiji would fulfill his promise as soon as possible and announce the development of land annexation completely understood that their emperor had already foreseen this situation, so they did not take land annexation seriously.

First of all, even if a large amount of land has been annexed, the peasants are not worried about having nowhere to go, and some peasants are even eager to sell their few acres of thin land that have no yield to the landlords and then go to the city to work.

On the other hand, many landlords now have no money to carry out land annexation, so in order to be able to keep their land still rented, landlords have to reduce their rent. As a result, their income has been greatly reduced, and they have no extra money to buy new land for the time being.

In such a situation, Zhao Weiji still announced the lifting of the ban on land annexation in accordance with his promise, but after the ban was lifted, the land transaction volume did not increase much, and basically maintained the same as before the lifting.

This makes this so-called possible crisis directly disappear before it appears.

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On this day, in the cabinet, the ministers who usually have nothing to do with each other actually quarreled over a letter today.

In fact, it's not a big deal, it's just that Shanxi is in a bad disaster and needs relief. If it had been estimated that the recruiting flag would have been over to that tree.

However, this morning, a person in the cabinet proposed a new plan, which brought about a new change in the discussion of this matter, and this change was the reason for the quarrel.

When the ministers quarreled, Zhao Weiji was on the second floor of the cabinet processing the piece handed over before. Because of the loud noise, he stopped what he was doing and asked the eunuch to go down to see why there was such a big quarrel.

The eunuch soon returned to the second floor, and from the eunuch's mouth, Zhao Weiji learned that there was a quarrel about how to provide disaster relief, and Zhang Zhibai thought that the local army should be recruited according to the old practice, but Ding Wei, who had just been promoted from the Ministry of Commerce to the cabinet, felt that it was now possible to let those factory owners recruit people, so as to avoid the problem of redundant troops.

Ding Wei's method is very good, but Zhang Zhibai believes that in this way, the kindness of the imperial court will be stolen by merchants, which will be unfavorable to the imperial court for a long time.

In this way, neither of them could convince them, so they quarreled. Coincidentally, Kou Zhun happened to be out of the cabinet today, and no one could be suppressed, which made the fight more and more noisy, and finally alarmed Zhao Weiji.

When Zhao Weiji heard this, he thought it was something important, and asked the eunuch to go down and find both of them, and Zhao Weiji had already thought of a solution to this matter.

This matter may also be an excellent opportunity for Zhao Weiji, who can finally start the strategy operation against the Liao State.

Three years is long enough, and it is time for the Liao State to pay the price of invading the Great Song Dynasty. (To be continued......)