When Sima Guang and his entourage entered Beijing, Di Qing was already preparing to withdraw his troops and had not yet died.

The four of them went to Beijing, causing a sensation, and the two students were one for the Zhiyuan and the other for the Zhizhi, which also meant that Zheng Lang's students gradually all came to the forefront.

In the imperial history, when the two of them first arrived in the capital, they suddenly wrote a strange letter, first saying: Compared with the Chinese and foreign ministers, they were either sent because of competition, or because of debate, or because of their reputation, or because of their crimes. In the meantime, there are those who ask to be released back to the fields, there are those who beg to make a living, there are those who wish to give a career before the age has come, and there are those who ask to return to the peasants. From now on, please be as to those who have been presented, and allow you to play and carry out.

This passage is similar in nature to what Liu Chang said and what Zheng Lang said in private.

If you want to resign, you have to resign sincerely, and deliberately seek to clear your name and get a high name by resigning, why bother, you will develop a hypocritical atmosphere.

Sima Guang and Wang Anshi were surprised when they heard this, but they couldn't keep quiet, and they refused to accept the edict many times.

Then the voice changed, and he said, again, there are talented people in the country, but avoid suspicion outside Beijing, raise a clean name and ruin the name of the country, and also deal with the matter, please deal with it.

No names were named, but everyone knew who it was.

I just don't know if he's kind or evil.

When Zhao Zhen saw this, he was also silent.

The truth is not a national taboo, nor is it a deliberate attempt to avoid suspicion outside Beijing, but how can it be said.

In the end, the state opened up the road of wide speech and appointed Taiwan officials. Dr. Binian is a person who is in danger, and he hates his own love, and according to his situation, he makes floating theories, runs through the door of Taiwan's admonition, and fans the theory of turmoil, and those who are fortunate enough to speak can get it. Pushing the truth is not just, it stops at borrowing power and seeking pleasure from private intentions. The one who speaks. If you take the lead in your duties, if you have a little different ears and eyes, how dare you do it! There is a theory of love and hatred, and the wisdom of the master is disturbed, is it not a burden to hear and judge! Looking at Dr. Lishi, he stole a few thin hearts and took the Qing Dynasty road. In addition, there are white things in the court and those who do more in Taiwan. Excuse the situation, and cover the person in charge to help him with his words. The minister thinks that there are twists and turns, the law is serious, and the court and even the public treat the world, and those who do not speak will help. From now on, the ministers will play the court as if they were on official business. Those who do not apply for the imperial history platform without carrying it out are allowed to play and hear.

This paragraph is very subtle, but it reveals several serious problems, and the ministers of Taiwan are happy to talk nonsense, and some ministers have flattered Taiwan in order to seek help and consolidate their rights.

Zheng Lang had said something similar a long time ago.

After Zhao Zhen saw it, he issued an edict, and the Taiwan admonition was the official of my ears and eyes, and the matter could not be known. The general asked the courtiers to listen widely. It is a dangerous person, who is jealous of karma, relying on the situation, and creating flying words to slander kindness, and it is not a loyal trip. Under the door of the Chinese book, he is a good example for me to work, and he is pragmatic; Follow through and change, and be dethroned.

However, it may not have much effect, the atmosphere has been cultivated, and it is too late to correct it.

Wang Chou is a loyal elder. In addition, Sima Guang is the Zhiyuan Academy. Therefore, before Sima Guang did not enter Beijing. Suddenly, from below, the atmosphere of impeachment of Pang Ji arose again.

Some people are not at odds with Pang.

After several years as prime minister, it's better to go down and rest.

It's people who always have a breath.

So many years. Especially for two years, I have to manage the country carefully, and I have to fight wits with some ministers, Pang Ji is old again, and he is gradually unable to do it, and his heart is slightly moved, so he falls ill. So I asked for help.

Zhao Zhen is not allowed.

Pang Ji went to court with a sick face, took off his chicken hat in front of Zhao Zhen, and said, "Your Majesty, look at the minister's hair." ”

Zhao Zhen was helpless and approved his will, but let Pang Ji stay in the capital to recuperate, and allowed him to ask about military affairs. The treatment is similar to Lu Yijian, and some Taichen wanted to impeach, but with Sima Guang going to Beijing, Wang Chou didn't want to have many things in Shitai, so he finally stopped one by one.

Hu Suzhihe was meritorious, moved to the deputy privy envoy, Ouyang Xiu moved to the governor's office, Zhang Sheng moved to the privy envoy, Zeng Gongliang moved to Pingzhangshi, and they are still two prime ministers, but Zeng Gongliang is under Han Qi's class.

When Sima Guang first arrived in the capital, he was dismounted.

The book ordered Sima Guang to determine the average tax in detail.

This average tax is not only the square land tax method, there are many differences between the two, and it is not an equal tax, but a fixed tax on the fertility of the land.

But the actual implementation will be very cumbersome.

Even the fields and households are hidden, what is the quality of the field?

The imperial court should also send officials down every year to investigate, this is Zheng Lang's suggestion, not more than a year, starting from the county, accounting for the changes in cultivated land every year, and then sending officials to check the two or three state capitals where the area of cultivated land has decreased the most.

It is not a governance policy, but only a function to stop the flood and use it as a deterrent.

However, when the officials went down to investigate, some officials were harsh, and some officials were lax. There are also differences between states, such as the states near the capital, Chenzhou, Caizhou, Bozhou, etc., most of which are powerful families. Yintian ranks at the forefront of the country, and even Zheng Lang avoids it, not to mention other officials.

It has a good deterrent effect, but there are countless disputes every year.

After Sima Guang received this appointment, his face did not change.

In the past two years, in addition to water conservancy and mediation, the rest of the time teachers and students stayed together, that is, to talk about the national system.

Zheng Lang is above, below, and his biggest role is to operate for the country, but the system has not been touched much. Afraid of trouble. And reflecting on Fan Zhongyan's words, everything must be thought of concisely for the decree.

Decrees are easy to implement only when they are concise.

Regarding this average tax, Zheng Lang, Wang Anshi, and Sima Guang also talked about it, of course, it is not the Fangtian average tax method, but the fair taxation of various lands.

It's more complicated.

The average tax is mainly inspired by the Tang Dynasty's uniform land system and the two tax system, the average land system actually came from the Northern Wei Dynasty earlier, according to the labor force allocated to the vast number of farmers to cultivate the land, but each household labor force has birth, old age, sickness and death, so it is changing at any time, this right is implemented by the state, so there are two kinds of field systems: Yongye field and mouth field.

However, due to the fact that the wealthy family controlled most of the cultivated land resources, the implementation was not effective since the beginning of the founding of the country, so that Li Shimin and Wei Zheng had a dialogue, and once wanted to restore the ancient well field system and hinder the annexation of land. When Yang Yan reformed the two-tax system, he didn't even mention the word Juntian.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there was still not much pressure on the land, on the contrary, the wealthy families were annihilated in the long river of history, freeing up land space, so as not to prevent the annexation of cultivated land. This was praised by later generations, and in the later period of actual development, because of the increase in population, land annexation has become a constraint on the development of the country, so the Tang Dynasty's two taxes on equal land were all turned over.

The minister likes to use two words when talking about things. Stories, that is, examples.

Before Sima Guang was fully conservative in history, he and Liu Shu believed that the Juntian system was the actual system of the Tang Dynasty, and Sima Guang even publicly called it the Juntian Law. This is the beginning of Sima Guang, including before Wang Anshi came to power, Sima Guang's attitude can be regarded as a radical.

Most scholars and doctors do not think that the Tang Dynasty field system is a uniform field system, but the mouth is divided into the world, after Tianbao. The division of the world is bad because of the merger. Among them are Ouyang Xiu, Zeng Gong, and Zhu Xi. Zhu Xi believes that the Tang Dynasty was not a uniform field system, but only a method of dividing the world and the subordinate method of the uniform field method, which is similar to the Jingtian system.

Zheng Lang talking to Sima Guang. Sima Guang didn't have his own ideas yet, but he had Liu Shu and Ouyang Xiu.

Why mention them, one story, two attitudes, there is a story, then it can be promoted in the Song Dynasty, evenly share the acres of land, and oppose the annexation. If the Tang Dynasty had not really implemented it, there would be no story about this Juntian. Without a theoretical basis, it cannot be truly distributed equally to the peasants.

The two results contended, and a new mild argument emerged, that the Su brothers' equal tax and equal land tax were not to distribute the cultivated land evenly and then tax it according to the area of cultivated land, but to pay taxes according to the existing land, and not to stop the annexation, nor to grant the land to the peasants. The theory has Mototsu's "Junda Shape". There is also Lu Zhen's recital. It is said that the land is only for the purpose of equalizing the tax, and the field is only the basis of the tax. The granting of land is to ensure the source of tax revenue, so that the country has a stable income. Chai Rong also agreed with Lu Zhen's statement, and the edict said that the general practice should be evenly determined, and the weight should be appropriate.

In fact, all three statements are false.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the implementation of the equalization system meant that the land was evenly shared, so that everyone could cultivate the land, the state had taxes to collect, the land was the foundation and the core, and the tax was the product of the land.

But succumbing to not offending all the elites in the world, it was implemented, only partially. The strength of the government army at one time also has a lot to do with this partial implementation. For the sake of the state, policies should be proactive to prevent the spread of such annexation, rather than encourage it.

It is impossible to forcibly implement the uniform land, and the annexation is the core, and the country has been established for a long time, and the annexation will inevitably be rampant, which is also the reason for the corruption of the partial uniform land system in the Tang Dynasty, not only the increase in population, once the country does not have much terra nullius land distribution, regardless of whether the population increases, the uniform land system has become a dead letter. What the state does can only induce. For example, let them see a greater return than the field, and morally attack the large-scale concealment of the land or usury. It could not be achieved in the Tang Dynasty, firstly, the commerce was underdeveloped, and secondly, the powerful families were too strong and even dared to despise the state, but in the Song Dynasty it could be barely done, although the Song Dynasty had less official land than the Tang Dynasty. However, it is not a complete solution in the end, and Zheng Lang can't think of it.

Before agreeing on the average tax, Sima Guang wrote a note on the dialogue between the master and apprentice and handed it to the Chinese book, called "Qizhou Xingzhi and Jun Shi on the Equal Tax".

No matter how dark his belly is, Sima Guang is embarrassed to rob Zheng Lang of his credit.

Then the average tax is agreed.

Zheng Lang said that the decree must be simple, so Sima Guang started with simplicity, first of all, land, all kinds of land, originally there could be hundreds of kinds of cultivated land, so according to its harvest, and input one by one, regardless of mountains, paddy fields, south and north, river valley plains, slopes and ridges, only look at the harvest and input, divided into ten grades.

There are advantages of complexity, and there are disadvantages of simplicity. It is more detailed and clearer. Crude and controversial. However, multiplicity will only add more items. Although it is controversial, it can be easily enforced, and it leaves some room for officials to maneuver and facilitate handling. Easy to handle is easy to promote.

Regardless of whether it is a black cat or a white cat, catching a mouse is a good cat, and the first thing you have to do is catch this mouse.

With a hint of utilitarian thinking, this is also what Zheng Lang hopes to see the most.

On this basis, a number of treaties, more modest treaties, were established. Finally, when the country makes affairs, it is necessary to make the rewards and punishments clear first, and everything can be accomplished. If a foolish person is troubled and corrupted, he will be dealt with in the same way, and he will be able to disintegrate and will not succeed. Looking forward to his diligence, the tax officials, according to their merits, punish and persuade, and then do their best.

This mediocre and foolish man is troubled and ruined, and he has a deep meaning, and he can't be harsh, or soft.

However, in the face of all the wealthy families in the world, Sima Guang, like Zheng Lang, deliberately avoided it.

But Sima Guang added another sentence, you must be quiet and promising.

This is the progress of Zheng Lang's training.

It is impossible to do things for fear of controversy, but on the basis of doing something, it is better to reduce controversy.

As soon as the two governments were played, the two governments immediately drafted a draft to implement it.

Then Sima Guang went up three more times, and the first one pointed directly at Zhao Zhen. Your Majesty, you have done a good job, and you have been seeking treatment for forty years. But there is still a shortage of discipline in the imperial court, and the poor people in Luli still complain, what is the reason?

There are three great virtues: benevolence, Ming, and martial arts. The benevolent person is not a concubine who is appeased, but also promotes education and cultivates politics. Raising the people, benefiting all things, this person is also benevolent. Those who are wise are not annoying and harsh, but also know friendship and safety. Don't be virtuous and foolish, distinguish between right and wrong, this person is also wise. The warrior is not strong and violent, but where the Tao is, there is no doubt, the traitor cannot be confused, and the man cannot be moved, and the martial arts of this person are also. Therefore, it is not clear. There is still good land that cannot be cultivated; Ming but not martial, still look at the filth of Miao and can't do it; Wu is not benevolent, and he still knows what he has gained but does not know what he is doing. If you have both, the country will be strong, one will decline, two will be dangerous, and if none of the three is in place, you will die, since the birth of the people. Not or changed.

Your Majesty is that the three virtues have not been done well. Although benevolent, benevolent is soft.

But how many emperors can do the three virtues that Sima Guang said? Of course. There are some positive aspects of this note.

The first is about virtue, and the second is about the way of the courtiers. The first is to appoint officials, and the imperial court uses seniority to assign posts, without asking about the virtuous and foolish, resulting in inaction by officials. The second is to reward, the court can't reward in the name, then the world will pretend to be famous for merit, and escape with clever writing. is another disadvantage of the times, Zhao Zhen used more literary scholars in his later years, or famous people, can he be a good emperor and a good official if he writes well? So where is Li Yu? Therefore, with the third article, those who must be punished, those who can perform their duties, those who have merit will be rewarded with rank and reward without removal, those who have no merit will be deposed and abandoned and those who seek more ability, and those who are guilty will be punished and punished without leniency.

Writing the last paragraph, Sima Guang still held his breath in his heart.

Even if Zheng Lang made a mistake and did so many things for the country, this mistake would have been avoided long ago.

From a personal point of view, it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, and he is a person from Pang and Zheng Lang, Pang is old and seriously ill, and most of them will not be able to return to the court. Zheng Lang has been wandering outside the court, which is not good for himself.

The third is to select the army, the art of elite soldiers, and not too much. The soldiers chosen today will be promoted to their military points and their food will be increased, which is a grace for everyone to wear, and everyone is happy. But I heard that in the capital, the chosen ones often complained and wept with father and son. In addition, when foreign soldiers go to the countryside and say goodbye to their relatives, it is self-evident that they are sorrowful.

This is a supplement to Zheng Lang's notebook.

It seems that the state has taken a lot of money to raise soldiers, but it is not easy to live in the capital, and the soldiers are still very hard.

In fact, Zheng Lang also said that if you want to change this situation, you must not only reduce the number of soldiers in Gyeonggi, but also choose the children of poor families in Gyeonggi, and not only resettle the families of the soldiers from Jingxi Road, so that their living expenses will be reduced, and the family will have enough arable land to settle down, but also learn from Shaanxi to do so, and select some elite village soldiers, one is not far from home, and the other is the locals, who do not have the pain of migration.

But contrary to the ancestral family law of the Song Dynasty, Zheng Lang did not dare to say it, and Sima Guang also did not dare to say it.

After the five zigzags were put on the list, Sima Guang was still not enough, and the country was in the suburbs every three years, and there was no forgiveness. But every year in the summer, there are negligence, cunning officials are greedy and indulgent, and they are very profitable, and the people are tyrannical and insult the good. Does this southern suburbs festival still have any effect? The most terrible thing is that some traitors do illegal things, and then flee, anyway, when the three years are up, the world will be pardoned, and they can return to the countryside in a big way and continue to do evil. Therefore, the amnesty system of the southern suburbs should be changed, and the beneficial government of the people should be retained, but these criminals cannot be pardoned, so that the wicked will be afraid.

On the seventh piece again, into the five rules, one is to protect the industry, the second is to cherish the time, the third is to be far-sighted, the fourth is to be heavy, and the fifth is pragmatic.

Seven and one on the top, a sensation in the capital.

Zhao Zhen didn't fully adopt it, but he felt funny when he looked at these notes, and said to the attendants beside him: "If you don't make a sound for thirty years, it's amazing if you make a sound." ”

At the beginning, the two small fights were so good, but Zhao Zhen saw it with his own eyes. I didn't expect that the two of them had almost disappeared over the years, or Wang Anshi did a thing to buy grain at a high price on Liangzhejiang Road.

However, with the youth and sharpness of his youth, Zhao Zhen prefers such Sima Guang.

Sima Guang's performance is also more satisfactory to the people of the capital, which is like the student who is trained by Xianggong.

But Sima Guang didn't expect the next thing to happen.

As soon as I came back from this day, I was about to take the exam, and a guest came to my house.

The first hand handed over the sticker, on the book seven big characters, for the library to make Gao Zunyu.

The supply and reserve envoy is not a high-ranking position.

The last three words are truly noble.

Sima Guang hesitated for a while, and finally let the goalkeeper Gao Zunyu in the half-open.

It's only a half-open middle door, and if it's fully open, it's charming.

In fact, Sima Guang didn't like Gao Zunyu to come to visit.

Let the people in the family come up for tea and give each other a salute, Gao Zunyu glanced at the maid on the side, and Sima Guang asked the maid to go down. Gao Zunyu said: "Junshi, the prince is very admiring to Zheng Xianggong, he has always had a dream in his heart, and he wants the eldest prince to worship under Zheng Xianggong to study. ”

Needless to say, the prince refers to Zhao Zongshi, and the eldest son refers to another teenager, Zhao Zhen, but this is impossible, if he is not established as the prince, Zheng Lang will not be able to associate with Zhao Zongshi's family, and from the perspective of personal feelings, Zheng Lang will not associate with his family and put Zhao Zhen anywhere.

As the crown prince, Zhao Ji is the future crown prince, so he asked Zheng Langjiao, who is also a prince or a young master, and a minister of the East Palace. I don't dare to say that I worship the disciples as students.

But don't take it seriously, it's just a gesture of goodwill.

But this time Sima Guang really thought wrong, Zhao Zongshi may not have this idea, but Gao Taotao has this idea. The eldest son's attitude was somewhat aggressive, which worried her. Seeing Sima Guang grow up, he faintly had this idea. However, it is very difficult to achieve.

Sima Guang just sipped tea and didn't speak.

Gao Zunyu said again: "I came out of Han Xianggong's house yesterday, and the two Xianggong are the pillars of my Great Song Dynasty." ”

Sima Guang Zhang Yu put down the teacup in his hand, and Gao Zunyu's words were inappropriate, although they could also be called subtle. But before finding out Sima Guang's attitude, he must not say this.

Moreover, comparing Han Qi with Zheng Lang, Sima Guang didn't like it in his heart, although Gao Zunyu was not a threat, it made people have that kind of misunderstanding.

Sima Guang's displeasure disappeared in a flash.

Pang Ji went down, the teacher was in the river work, and if he wanted to govern the river, he still helped with the Chinese book, and he couldn't force this tone. I can't fight for it myself. Gao Zunyu also said the wrong thing, he meant to help the prince, once Zhao Zongshi became the emperor in the future, a Han Qi and a Zheng Lang would inevitably be reused.

At the moment, Zheng Lang does not necessarily have to treat Zhao Zongshi as a thing, on the contrary, Zhao Zongshi asked Zheng Lang, otherwise this crown prince may be a dream. But in the future, whether Zheng Lang can be reused depends on Zhao Zongshi.

Sima Guang figured this out, went down in anger, and still drank tea.

Where can Gao Zunyu Chengfu match Sima Guang, he saw that Sima Guang was indifferent, a little anxious, and said in his heart, you are not your teacher, what qualifications do you have.

It's good, if he met Wang Anshi, he would have been blasted out long ago.

So he thought that his niece had said a word, if Sima Guang is silent, you throw out the following paragraph, and five or six times out of ten will succeed. I don't know the reason, Gao Taotao may not be able to judge whether Zheng Lang told Sima Guang about this.

If you say it, Zheng Lang has a higher status in Gao Taotao's heart, and he is a real honest gentleman. If it weren't said that Zheng Lang's status in her heart had declined, then this temptation and invitation would be self-defeating. Helpless, the matter of the East Palace is unresolved, the emperor has a son and everything is zero, and if he does not have a son, it may not be her husband's turn, and if she is not decided for a long time, it will be related to the future throne of the country, and there will be many disadvantages to her husband. Can't afford to drag it out.

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