Chapter 807: Countdown (4)
Yan Rong received the edict and did not refuse, but made a request, his father was sick, he could take care of him in the capital, and once he left Dengzhou, he was far away from his hometown, and asked the imperial court for permission to take a two-month vacation to serve his father. This is a polite way to put it, if it doesn't work, I'd rather refuse to take office than go to Dengzhou.
Choose one of the two, A or B.
When Han Qi heard this, it wouldn't be so coincidental, he was worried that Zheng Lang was tricking, so he sent someone to check, and he was really sick.
The instruction must have been given by Zheng Lang, who left Yan Rong a tip early and said a lot of things. The imperial court finances allowed Han Qi to corrupt it, and the economic foundation of the people could not be corrupted, as well as this bank. There is a metaphor for this, just like the property market, everyone knows that there is a bubble, but they don't know when it will come, officials want to eat, drink, play and have fun, vested interests want to make money, and the rulers have to make some reluctance, or do some fine-tuning. But these fine-tuning did not dare to touch the interests of these vested interests, and even took out the people's tax money to protect them. So the tone is higher and higher. To be specific, the land price is being adjusted here, the land price is getting higher and higher, the policy is getting looser and looser, and the banks are unwilling to suppress it, etc. The bubble grew bigger and bigger, and finally the state, the people, local officials, and those with vested interests all went to sea.
If you know that's the case, why not squeeze the bubble out before it's too late?
Guan Jian's result did not come, there was a fluke mentality, and there was a popular saying among the people that the Yellow River would not give up.
However, Zheng Lang knew.
He had no choice, and when he had no choice but to do so, he came up with another way, not to shrink the bubble for the country, but to simply blow up the bubble, and the faster the speed, the easier it was to explode.
It's still the folk saying, it's called not breaking and not standing. Or it is better to have a long pain than a short one, because the sooner the foam explodes, the less damage it will cause. Otherwise, when the whole country is really implicated, once it explodes, the country will have nothing.
But there is a premise, the country's most important economic foundation, that is, the private economy, cannot be harmed by the imperial court. The purpose of breaking is to stand. Rather than breaking itself, the foundation is needed, and this private economy is the foundation.
Hence this tip.
Zheng Lang didn't know that Yan Rong's father would get sick, and what was written on the bag was only for Yan Rong to delay for a month or two as much as possible, and Yan Rong's father's illness was just a coincidence.
His students are all very competitive, regardless of Fan Jiaerlang. Or Lü Gong, Sima Guang, Yan Rong and Wang Anshi. or Xiao Su, who has a very good style, lives frugally, is loyal, and his talents are not bad. Relatively speaking, Da Su is a little worse, a little flower, but under the influence of Zheng Lang, it is much better than in history.
It's Dasu. He is also very filial to his father.
Han Qi confirmed that Yan Rong's father was sick, and had no choice but to agree. Anyway, it was the bank's idea, let Yan Rong come down, the goal was achieved, and then it would be pursued too obviously. And to this day. Under Zheng Lang's advice, the court is still noisy and not peaceful. Coupled with government affairs, Han Qi worked hard and didn't have much thought.
Under Yan Rong, the person on top is Sun Sigong, who is the time of Wanqiu. When the transfer envoy was flooded, Sun Sigong was recruiting his husband, and the two quarreled, and Sun Sigong abandoned the official and went home. Because he is proficient in I Ching and arithmetic, Wu Kui recommends. Add the School of the Secret Pavilion. Zhao Zhen used Zhao Shu as a spare tire in his later years, and transferred Sun Sigong to Zhao Shu's mansion as a storyteller. Zhao Shu ascended the throne and was promoted to Tianzhang Pavilion to be systematized. He has always had a very good relationship with Ouyang Xiu.
The bank supervisor was near the Third Division, and Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu called Sun Sigong to discuss secretly. didn't say anything else, just said that the northwest used troops, the country was plagued by many disasters, and the emperor succeeded to the throne and rewarded him lavishly, using some money. However, outsiders didn't understand, and blamed Zhongshu more, so Sun Sigong misappropriated the bank's dividends to solve the current financial crisis first. As for the arrears, after Pu Yi has a dispute, he will slowly repay it.
Sun Sigong was not reused in the Zhao Zhen Dynasty, and he did not have much affection for Zhao Zhen. Yan Rong abides by Zhao Zhen's edict that before the arrears are repaid, they must not be misappropriated. It was Zhao Zhen's edict, not Zhao Shu's edict. Moreover, Yan Rong has embezzled Zhao Zhen's Yongzhao Mausoleum once.
This is also Ouyang Xiu's statement, but Sun Sigong doesn't know the real situation, it was Han Qi who forced Zeng Gongliang, Zeng Gongliang had no choice but to ask Zheng Lang to persuade Yan Rong, and Han Qi used Zheng Lang's feelings for Zhao Zhen to save a batch of expenses for the treasury.
But let Ouyang Xiuyi say, Zheng Lang's master and apprentice did a very bad job, the first emperor's Yongzhao Mausoleum can be misappropriated, and now the emperor wants money to use, why can't he embezzle it, is this money not the state's, but your master and apprentice?
After entering the bank prison, I checked the accounts.
Yan Rong has done a good job, and in the past three years, in addition to the expenses of Yongzhaoling, he has still repaid more than 63 million arrears, that is, if there is no accident in the arrears of the river workers, even if they cannot be paid off by the end of this year, there will not be much left.
Why do you have to pay it off this year? Besides, there was not much left, so Sun Sigong took out the bank's money and handed it to Zhongshu, sending blood to Zhongshu's tight finances.
Han Qi breathed a sigh of relief, achieved his goal, and didn't care anymore.
Instead, the election of the ministers, at this time only Peng Siyong and Shao Bi were left with two ministers, according to the establishment, the official ministers of Taiwan must reach sixteen. It's too unusual. And just these two ministers, Peng Siyong has been humming and chirping. So it was supplemented. However, the candidates for this addition, Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu are cautious and cautious, and they must be confidants to enter, otherwise it will be endless.
Sun Changling is the palace servant, Guo Quan's son Guo Yuanming is the supervisor of the imperial history, Huang Zhao is the servant of the imperial history, Jiang Tang's son Jiang Zhiqi is the supervisor of the imperial history, and Kong Daofu's son Kong Zonghan is the supervisor of the imperial history. There was an uproar again, this is a national speech and minister agency, to put it mildly, it is specially used to oppose the prime minister, but the people who are now appointed are all cronies of Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu. What else is this admonition used for?
In short, Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu destroyed the N Song Dynasty system this time.
In particular, Jiang Zhiqi has always been Ouyang Xiu's protégé, but last year he participated in the scientific examination with Fan Zhen's son Fan Bailu and several other officials.
Seeing this person enter the Imperial History Tower, the ministers quarreled even more fiercely.
However, when this Jiang Zhiqi arrived at the Yushitai, Peng Siyong brainwashed him every day, and he would be very fun in the future.
But it was not the minister who was in a hurry, but Zhao Shu.
It's a little bad, and immediately Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu turned the Song Dynasty into two people, so they discussed the West Mansion. Wen Yanbo almost disappeared after coming to Xifu, which made Zhao Shu feel very dissatisfied. Therefore, I want to add another prime minister to Xifu.
He thought of a person, Zhang Fangping.
This person has civil and military talents, as well as economic talents. Whether it is in the three divisions or the governance of Shu, or in the northwest, they have made contributions. There is a talent for literature, a talent for governance, and a military talent.
Then as soon as the discussion came out, Ouyang Xiu immediately objected.
Zhao Shu was not happy.
His ability is not as good as Zhao Zhen, but he will understand the simple truth. You can't let the court really become a hall of words. On the model of monarchs and ministers. It was undoubtedly when Zhao Zhen and Zheng Lang were in phase, that is, at that time, his adoptive father still retained some of Zheng Lang's political enemies, and tacitly ignored the opposition between Taiwan and Zaizhi. Why can't I just appoint a second prime minister in Xifu?
Han Qi also has Han Qi's thoughts, the country has been in chaos, all this is not because of you, if it wasn't for the things you did, why wouldn't it be like this. Then let Zhang Fangping enter the West Mansion to confront him, and Zheng Lang echoed on the periphery. The ministers rose up and attacked, and did not do anything.
Neither the monarch nor the minister can understand each other.
What made Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu angry the most was that it was clear that Zhao Shu had repeatedly instructed him to help him correct Zhao Yun's name for the imperial examination, but outside, he repeatedly threatened. I didn't say, oh, this is made by Chinese books.
Guan Jian's blow arrived.
With so much profit from the bank in a year, Zheng Lang expected that Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu would fight its idea when they were in financial difficulties.
Afraid of accidents, Yu instructed Yan Rong to make some arrangements.
Again, it's about finance.
The corruption of the specific finances cannot be said to be the fault of Han Qi alone, in fact, after Zheng Lang went south. And the finances are gradually decaying. Zheng Lang quietly improved some of the drawbacks, and the forced value brought about by the large-scale development of the south covered up this trend.
After Zheng Lang's recommendation, Pang Ji was the prime minister again. Some improvements have been made. The second best time for the economy of the Song Dynasty. After Pang went down, Fu Bi was the prime minister, and he was already corrupted, and then Han Qi was the prime minister, and he was corrupted again. However, the river engineering cost a huge amount, at least to reach the unprecedented investment, and it was the most central area of the Song Dynasty, and the added value brought by this time was even greater, and this failure was once again covered up.
When the river work is over, so is the transportation of the related workshops. Han Qi's carelessness is not careless, and there are few people who can see through the true face of this economy in the Song Dynasty. As a result, it was used in a bit of a lazy manner, which led to rapid financial difficulties. It didn't take long for Sima Guang to write that the state capitals borrowed money from the wealthy to tide over the financial difficulties.
This is the truth of the real fiscal trend.
In the middle, Pang Ji once entered the middle book, otherwise the finances would be even worse.
Developing to this situation, it is from a fair standpoint, and Han Qi's mistake is the biggest. And there are very few people who can come up with this truth, and they all think that it is a mistake of Han Qi's administration.
There are officials in the bank, and there are also privately elected employees, and when chatting occasionally, Yan Rong sighed, the country's finances are corrupt, borrowing money everywhere, how much has it been lost this year? What if it takes 10 or 8 years?
In the past, all dynasties and generations had difficulties, but throughout the Song Dynasty, the finances were not as strange as they are now. It can't be said that it is corrupt, at least Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu did not want to harm the main interests of the people, but the imbalance between revenue and expenditure is something that has never happened in the Song Dynasty.
If it continues to develop, no matter how Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu don't want to hurt the people, they will actually hurt them. This has nothing to do with Yan Rong, and we have to wait for Zheng Lang to clean it up in the future. At the time of the removal, the people had not yet noticed the change.
However, the private employees who can squeeze into the center of the bank supervision are all elites, and how can they not notice such a big financial contrast between the front and back of the country. Han Qi did not count, nor did he dare to count, but the population increased, and in order to show his political achievements, he counted the changes and increases in the number of households.
No one can know how much the imperial court is in deficit now, but looking at the measures of officials in various places, there will be no less. I don't know that the emperor's life is not long, now that Zhao Shu is only in his thirties, how can he live for ten or twenty years, then Han Qi can be the prime minister for ten or eight years.
Yan Rong didn't say anything, but it gave many people room for speculation and reverie, what should I do in the end if I continue to develop like this? One by one, I think of the bank, which is different from the Ping An Supervisor, whose share deed is full, and the bank is 30% of the share deed. Don't say that Zheng Lang's recognition of the system, even the ancestral family law dares to be forcibly corrected, and the name of the first emperor dares to change, what else dare not do?
Then came the Peace Prison.
Currency has been in short supply for many years, and most of the metal obtained is used to mint coins. However, coinage requires costs, and often the currency is less than the value of the metal itself, which leads many people to melt copper coins and remint them. In order to ease the finances, the Ping An Jian stopped minting. But that's it. In the end, the safety prison did not generate higher profits, and by last year, profits were declining. Without him, more officials were stuffed in, salaries were further raised, and efficiency declined. and so on. Even if it's a public-private partnership. It also affected profits, resulting in no minting last year, and real earnings fell partially. In fact, the scale of the safety prison is expanding, and there is no coinage, why is the income declining?
Discussing one by one, Yan Rong explained slightly, there seemed to be no malicious intent, he was a bank envoy and a student of Zheng Lang. Talking about the shortcomings of the state, what's wrong?
However, the bank's various deeds are also worried.
After Yan Rong received the edict, he had to hand it over, and in the two days after the handover, he occasionally chatted with his colleagues, worried about Zhongzhong and his ineffective governance. If the country's economy is corrupted, it will inevitably hit the bank's idea. It is possible that the first step is to ignore the edict of the first emperor and not use it to repay debts, but to divert it to the Chinese book to fill the black hole of the country. But it is misappropriation, and this dividend is placed in the hands of the share deed, which is a huge number. But what is it in the country? In the end, it will inevitably encroach on the interests of various shareholders. If you want to encroach, there are many tricks, such as diluting the share deed. Originally, the court was 15 percent, and the private court was 15 percent, but now the edict is issued, and the court has become 30 percent, 50 percent, and the private people are not moving, just like the original Ping'an Prison, the court has always held 500,000 shares of the deed, so the private dividends will also decline. Or just find an excuse to check it. Or forcibly embezzle, since you can borrow so much money from private individuals, why can't you forcibly embezzle private dividends in the name of borrowing?
If you borrow it, you have to pay it back.
But borrowing too much, 50 million yuan a year, 500 million yuan in ten years, what will the court use to repay? Since the founding of the main Song Dynasty, it has not had a heavy deficit in recent years, and even exceeded the Qingli War. It wasn't a deficit, it wasn't a deficit, it wasn't a deficit, it was just a heavy drain on the people.
The entire Northern Song Dynasty did not have a similar serious deficit, but the Ming Dynasty later borrowed the practices of Han and Ouyang.
This gave Yan Rong the best opportunity to maintain the bank.
After saying a few words worriedly, Yan Rong left.
It can't be regarded as unfounded.
In the past, Zhongshu asked the bank for dividends several times, but Yan Rong refused, but this is an indelible fact.
Sun Sigong is moving the bank's coins, and the shareholders are more worried. Some employees protested, why misappropriation before the day of dividends? Sun Sigong is proficient in arithmetic, but that does not mean that he is proficient in economics, or even does not understand the operation mode of banks at all. What does the bank use to make money, the greater the capital, the more money is earned. Because I didn't understand, I replied very strongly, saying that this was the profit of the imperial court, why couldn't it be misappropriated? Even because Yan Rong has served as a bank envoy for many years, he thinks that these private representatives are here to find fault, and his attitude is even more unfriendly.
The two sides quickly clashed.
But the people behind these representatives are not ordinary rich families who borrow money from various states and counties, they are all wealthy and powerful families in various places, and there are even many relatives of powerful clansmen, such as the Li family, the Gao family, the Cao family, and the immigrant family.
They don't care about the affairs of the court, and they don't want to take care of it, but when it comes to their own interests, can they not be in a hurry? How strong are Wang Anshi and Zhao Ji in history, and the combination of Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu is also drizzling in front of them, what happened in the end? Fail!
Besides, Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu are now embattled.
is not like Wang Anshi, although Wang Anshi's reform was too hasty, he has also achieved many results, where is Han Qi's effect? Yes, Imperial Exam!
Zheng Lang said that the world is the world of the elite, and after the book revision has been changed this time, he still does not dare to despise the elite of the world.
Han Qi took a step back and agreed that Zhao Shu would take Shao Kang as the Imperial Counselor, Wu Shen, Lu Jing and others as the imperial history, and Zhao Shu also promised to let Shao Bi enter the two systems, and a series of balanced transactions came over, but Han Qi still did not agree to let Zhang Fangping be the privy envoy, saying that Xifu had not used military ministers for a long time, and the story should be repeated. Zhao Shu was right when he heard it, and he was also reading the Confucianism written by Zheng Lang, and he had to think deeply.
According to legend, his adoptive father often watched Zheng Lang's Confucianism, and this became a generation of Ming Jun.
Zheng's Confucianism said that the usage of some civil and military ministers, the country is still dominated by scholars, military generals are auxiliary, scholars are governed, military generals are to protect the family and defend the country, and the world is peaceful.
Di Qing is an example, he died in the front, and later the Western Xia invaded Shaanxi several times.
A famous general should arrive at the Great Wall.
After thinking about it, he said: "Then take Li Duanyuan as the privy envoy." ”
Li Duanyuan is the son of Li Zunxuan, it is still good, Zhao Shu at the beginning of his reign, deliberately pretended to be sick and shouted, Li Duanyuan admonished: "Your Majesty should bow to the power of the platform, in order to tie the hearts of the people, it is not appropriate to retreat, lose the hope of the world." ”
can be regarded as Li Shu's confidant minister.
Zhang Fangping can't do it, if you want to use military generals, Li Duanyuan can be regarded as okay.
Han Qi couldn't refuse, but he was unhappy in his heart, and after thinking for a long time, he replied, "The minister thinks that the other person is the best." ”
"Who?"
"Guo Kui."
"Guo Kui?" Zhao Shu knew that Zheng Lang's confidant and favorite general, and he didn't know why Han Qi had a neuropathy, so he actually recommended Guo Kui, and said without thinking: "Yes, he is a very good candidate." ”
Han Qi smiled, it's really good. A Guo Kui calmed the emperor's heart, and also stuffed the mouths of the ministers of the world, look at what I use to avoid relatives and enemies, in fact, what role can Guo Kui play when he arrives in Xifu? Di Qing is playing foolish, and the little Guo Kui still has to be a puppet?
Han Qi did not avoid relatives and enemies, and let Guo Kui enter the West Mansion, and at the same time asked his cronie Shao Bicao to say that Guo Kui was a man of force and could not be placed in the temple. Han Qi then "persuaded" Shao Bi, the two sides retreated, and created a new term, which was signed by the Privy Council.
Guo Kui didn't know that as a general, it was difficult to be promoted, so he jumped in stupidly. Jumping in front, the strange title was put on, and the scholars began to read the book, saying that Cao Bin and his son, Ma Zhijie, Wang Deyong, and Di Qing were called by the world.
Di Qing can, why did you do that to Di Qing in the first place?
Recurrence of the inferior root of the doctor.
Han Qi repeatedly protected him, but all the scholars and doctors did not report it. Of course, he also achieved his goal, in this case, Guo Kui still dares to learn from Fubi? You can't find death.
And Dr. Shi was distracted by Guo Kui, which also relieved his pressure.
But he didn't know that the biggest crisis was coming.
The bank was moving money, but Han Qi didn't know how to offend a force. This force was Zheng Lang's headache, defeated Wang Anshi and Zhao Ji, the four famous ministers of the Tang Dynasty, Yao Song Erzhang did not dare to touch, and the most successful reformer of the Song Dynasty, Song Xiaozong, finally compromised.
This power is truly the world!
Zheng Lang has never thought that he is a gentleman, he is about to cultivate holy wisdom, and he does not reject the use of conspiracy, but if this conspiracy is for the sake of the country, it is wisdom. If it is for personal glory and wealth, then it is evil! With this premise in mind, he made the design a matter of course.
A pit was dug several years in advance, waiting for Han Qi to jump down.
I didn't expect Han Qi to jump so late, but the jumping effect was better at this time.
What a big and deep pit!