"Xingzhi, what's wrong?" Wen Yanbo looked at Zheng Lang's expression and asked.

Zheng Lang said: "Brother Kuanfu, there are two choices, one is not afraid of trouble, and I still have several strategies that must be added. The second is that I am afraid of trouble, and I will tell the reason for the trouble. ”

"Xingzhi, please speak," Chen Zhizhong said.

Both of them are prime ministers, but in fact, Zhao Zhen's appointment is wrong, just like Wang Sui and Chen Yaozuo, or like Xia Zhu and Chen Zhizhong, the two prime ministers stand side by side, which is easy to cause contradictions and split the Chinese book. And Zheng Lang came from behind, both of them were named prime ministers, and in fact, Zheng Lang was above Chen Zhizhong. The only bright spot is Yan Rong, but this bond is too weak.

However, after coming to Zhongshu, Zheng Lang was very low-key and respected Chen Zhizhong very much, and miraculously the two did not have a major conflict, at most there were some disagreements on political opinions, and there were some arguments. There are Zheng Lang's merits, and there are also Chen Zhizhong's merits, Chen Zhizhong's ability is not the most top-notch, but moral exercise is not unbearable as He Tan said, if it is Xia Zhu, Zheng Lang will have a conflict with Xia Zhu.

Zheng Lang said: "Let me first say that I am not afraid of trouble, Fan Xiang's strategy directly points to the disadvantages of the salt administration, but it is not perfect enough. The first is that he only targeted the northern Sichuan region, breaking through the regional confinement and not involving the whole country. For example, Qianzhou should belong to the Guangyan area, because its land belongs to the Jiangxi South Road, the imperial court will divide it into the Huaiyan area, and the salt will not flow in, and the result is that the freight is high, making the salt expensive, and the phenomenon of private salt is repeatedly prohibited. Another example is that the Dongchuan area is vast and sparsely populated, and the salt price is only 50 Wen, but Chengdu Fulu is crowded and narrow, but it is close to 200 Wen. Compared with these areas, Fujian Road has done better, Wuping, Qingliu, Ninghua and other counties have inconvenient transportation and are closed to each other, but they are properly regulated, and the disparity in salt prices is less than 15 Wen. However, the imperial court has always used a violent repression system. If we do not pay attention to adjustment, we will intensify the contradiction between salt administration, in fact, we only need to pay a little attention and make some changes. There will be no decline in state revenues, and these problems can be avoided altogether. ”

Of course, it is not that Fan Xiang did not think of it, but that Fan Xiang's reform is mainly aimed at the salt relief area, not the whole country, so only the salt of northern Sichuan is mentioned.

Chen Zhizhong and the three of them stared at Zheng Lang strangely, not knowing what to say.

Fan Xiangniu. Zheng Lang is even better, why didn't Zheng Lang mention it before. It's not that I don't mention it, it's too troublesome, in fact, no matter whether it is a franchise or a redundant official, Zheng Lang has some improvement strategies in his heart, but there is one that can't be avoided, vested interest groups!

Zheng Lang said again: "Second. For example, in the western part of Beijing, Zheng Yingru, Xumeng, and other prefectures are forbidden areas, but Cai Xiang, Deng and Tang are trade areas. These state capitals are staggered, the forbidden area is official salt, the price is stable, the trade area is commercial salt, the price fluctuates hugely, the high price of the forbidden area salt flows to the trade area, and the price is low when the salt flows to the forbidden area, especially in Lanzhou, there are two cities in the north and south, one in Henan. One is in Hebei. Hebei is a real trade area, and the price of salt is only a dozen Wen, while Henan is a forbidden area, and the price of salt can reach more than 30 Wen. The court banned it with a cool law. The salt administration is not a law of exemption from military service, and the salary of the conscription varies from place to place, and although the low-paid people are dissatisfied, they cannot relocate their families for this purpose. The cost is too high, and can I apply for the job after the relocation? Often only a village is separated by a stream, which will produce a huge price difference, so how can the people not steal salt? ”

Just like the Shifting Family, if the door of the elegant room in the teahouse is sealed, he will not be able to escape, and if he does not move the Clan's wide clothes and untie the belt, he will not care about the consequences, and he will do what he should do. He continued: "Is it appropriate to make adjustments? Third, by reducing the levy on merchants, the salt circulation will be faster, and the people will benefit. Fourth, the imperial court allocated a batch of funds as the principal for the purchase of salt, so that it could jointly adjust the price and quantity of salt banknotes with the Salt Institute, stabilize the price of banknotes, and maintain the balance between salt banknotes and output. ”

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This is the perfect method that Xue Xiang later implemented on the basis of Fan Xiang's salt method, but there is an even-loss method in it, so Zheng Lang didn't say much about three or four things. The key point is still the first two, as long as it is operated properly, it will reduce many bad drawbacks of the salt administration.

Wen Yanbo asked again: "What will be the trouble?" ”

He vaguely sensed that there would be some trouble, but he was not prepared and wanted to hear what Zheng Lang had to say.

"Is it troublesome......" Zheng Lang hesitated, because of the greed of salt merchants, which led to the failure of various salt reforms, so there was Cai Jing's salt money law, the counter belt method, and the circulation method, businessmen want to make money, earn black hearts, and lure officials to the sea with heavy gold and beauties, and it is forbidden to do so, okay, first of all, the country does not care, let you earn. Then the new salt introduction is constantly introduced, as long as the new salt introduction is introduced, the old salt quotation can only be half of the original price, one-third, one-quarter, one-fifth, or one-tenth!

There are two benefits, one is the real powerful, they can get inside information in advance, not only do their interests not suffer, but they can also deal with the money and salt in advance and make a lot of money. The second is the large, medium and small businessmen who operate and attract traffic. The former is necessary, and without the support of these elites, the salt law cannot be promoted and enforced.

Then, all large, medium and small businessmen, as long as no one is in the core of power, because the salt money was quickly launched and rapidly depreciated, even the wealthy and giant businessmen went bankrupt one after another, and they took turns to become displaced people, and some of them died in the fire. But instead of killing the rich and helping the poor, the biggest impact is still the more pitiful salt producers, but let Cai Jing finally force the salt profit out, if there is no unnecessary waste and redundancy, how much can the salt really make? Cai Jing's approach, in addition to letting the merchants and core magnates, almost forced out sixty percent of the salt profits, making a profit of more than 20 million yuan a year, and the highest one reached more than 30 million yuan! If he can still force out these two, then he can make a profit of more than 40 million yuan a year, or even more!

Zheng Lang writes about Confucianism, especially benevolence and righteousness, which involves reflection on human nature in many aspects, and has a deep understanding of human greed. Xu Xu said: "Brother Kuanfu, you should know the price of salt in Yizhou. ”

"It's not under my jurisdiction, I really don't know," Wen Yanbo said.

I don't know if what he said is true or false, Zheng Lang didn't pursue it, smiled slightly, and said: "It's okay, even if you know, there are reasons to deal with it, and there are reasons not to deal with it." If you don't deal with it, it will become a habit for the people in the beneficiary area to eat Gaojia, although there are complaints, but they will not oppose the imperial court. If Dongchuan salt is organized to flow to Yizhou, Dongchuan salt will be expensive, and the people of Yizhou will be grateful, but the people of Dongchuan will hate it. The attitude of the people is okay, as long as they do not starve to death and freeze to death, they will not shake the rule of the imperial court. But Brother Kuanfu. Dongchuan is so close to Chengdu Mansion, and the salt price gap is so high, do the local heroes really not pay attention? How many chains of interests have been formed over the years? Once the imperial court wantonly circulated Dongchuan salt to Chengdu Lufu, this chain of interests was equivalent to disappearing. What kind of attitude will the powerful have towards the imperial court? They are the real rulers of the local area, strong and stable, stable in the locality, strong and chaotic, chaotic in the locality! ”

The center is pointed.

All three were silent.

"But whatever? The price of salt on Chengdu Fulu will become more and more expensive, and in the end, the people can't bear it, what will happen? The same is true of Fan Xiang's salt reform. As long as it is carefully analyzed, there are countless drawbacks in salt tea and alum incense, especially the merchants who exchange those moldy grains for cross-introduction, resulting in a shameless waste of millions of dollars a year. Moreover, Fan Xiangzhi's reform was only aimed at Shaanxi as the center of gravity, as well as part of the eastern and western parts of Henan and northern Sichuan, and did not involve the whole country. In this way, the interests of many local businessmen in Shaanxi will be damaged. Because Shaanxi is an important place for all kinds of banknotes, it has led to the loss of the interests of businessmen across the country. Brother Kuanfu, Brother Alcohol and Chen Xianggong's family are poor. I won't participate, but the Wen family is a big family, maybe there are the interests of your Wen family's children. In the end, there will be many ministers who will speak for this huge chain of interests, and even the people who speak will surprise you. At that time, Lu Yijian and Li Jian reformed the tea law, which could not be described as careless, and it was only implemented for a short time, and it was unanimously opposed by the ministers. Ho, this chain of interests has been damaged. Who is the person who is speaking? The world's famous elders, gentlemen, great Confucians, the teacher of the emperor, Sun Zheng! ”

…,

Wen Yanbo in middle age is still good. Most of the things are from the perspective of the country, and in his later years, there is no paper Yanbo or Han Qi, all of them have degenerated.

"Therefore, I think that although Fan Xiang's reform is good, it will fail. My number of strategies is added, and the loopholes in this salt policy reform are even smaller. However, Fan Xiang's radiation is only in Shaanxi and nearby areas, and once my method is implemented, the scope of the radiation will spread to the whole country, and the voice of opposition will be even greater. Three ministers, please think about it. Zheng Lang finished drinking tea.

Chen Zhizhong twisted his eyebrows and said: "In this way, how about trying it out in Shaanxi according to Fan Xiang's policy?" ”

"Yes," Zheng Lang said. In fact, Zheng Lang doesn't want to move these franchises for the time being. The main reason is that the state finances are insufficient, and if it is sufficient, it will be easy to solve, at least some improvements can be carried out, such as relaxing the trade law, reducing the taxes and procedures of merchants, increasing their speed and the profits of merchants, some people will suffer, but more people will benefit, and the speed of salt production will be fast, and all kinds of disadvantages and salt prices will fall rapidly. Now the imperial court still wants to make this amount of money, and wants to make a lot of money, the bottom of the salt price in the hands of the imperial court has risen, and the same as the later housing prices, the government first sold the land price high, so how to reduce the housing prices? What will happen in the end? The salt let the people rise up, the house became a bubble and exploded, and everyone stopped eating together!

Therefore, let Fan Xiang toss it first, regardless of success or failure, there is this valuable experience that can be used for reference to lay a good foundation for the next reform.

Wen Yanbo asked again: "The imperial court opened the private salt channel, deliberately relaxed the entry of the Western Xia private salt, so as to secretly support the Western Xia, Fan Xiang went to Shaanxi to preside over the salt policy, and two of the nine policies conflicted with it, how about it?" ”

"Brother Kuanfu, it doesn't matter, because the imperial court is relaxed, the private salt is overflowing, and the Western Xia has defeated the Khitan again, and our dynasty can collect the scale of private salt. Yes, but this degree must be controlled. ”

"I thought I would really have to collect it," Pang said.

It was Zheng Lang who let go of the words and sent someone to secretly visit the smuggling salt merchants and the scale, and they would be punished in the future, but many businessmen were desperate for profit, and the scale of the smuggling salt was getting bigger and bigger, and if they didn't control it, it was possible that the salt of the entire Shaanxi would be replaced by Qingbai salt in Xixia.

It was agreed that Zheng Lang wrote a notebook and handed it to Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen finished reading the notebook, and laughed and laughed. In the book of Zhuzhong, Zhao Fan Xiang proposed a point for Shaanxi to make the prison system and relieve salt, and presided over the reform of salt administration. Fan Xiang was instructed, came to Zhongshu, looked at several prime ministers and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, if I go to preside over the salt administration of Shaanxi, it will be inconvenient to be the one who is not in charge of the prison envoys. ”

I'm just offering advice, but let me preside over the salt administration, I have to be a transit envoy, right, what do you do to mention the prison envoy?

Chen Zhizhong shouted: "Your appointment as a prison is a merger, and the preparation of salt relief has been appointed by the imperial court, and it has been transferred to the Shaanxi Metropolitan Envoy, and all salt relief affairs have been handed over to the preparation and placement department." What more could you ask for? If there are achievements, the imperial court will not hesitate to transfer the envoys, if the words are silent, and the punishment is followed, how can you choose the official extravagantly? ”

You went to Shaanxi to preside over the salt reform, and the imperial court also gave you this right, what else do you want?

It may be that Fan Xiang wants to go up to the next level. Maybe Fan Xiang did feel a little inconvenient for this position, but Chen Zhizhong reprimanded him, didn't dare to speak, and retreated.

However, there was embarrassment on Zheng Lang's face. If you don't listen to this sentence carefully, it's nothing, just blame Fan Xiang for being long, listen carefully, it will be very bad, if you are an official according to seniority, you can't be the prime minister of the country at all.

This sentence exposed Chen Zhizhong's inner thoughts, but Zheng Lang acted more and more low-key.

There is no need to fight with Chen Zhizhong. It's just that there is no hatred of Chen Zhizhong, Chen Zhizhong is going down, how many years has he been the prime minister? In the early Song Dynasty, it was difficult for a person to serve as prime minister for ten or eight years, and there were, such as Wang Dan, very few. And like Wang Dan's ultra-low-key attitude of being a low-key person, it is difficult for ordinary people to do it. Let Zheng Lang learn. If you can't do the same, what if you don't become the prime minister?

…,

Then Song Qi was downed by Li Shuyin, and Zheng Lang didn't ask. Li Shu is not a good person. Song Qi is also a huāhuā son, almost, there is no need to remind.

Then enter Wang Zhen for the Tianzhang Pavilion to be systematized, the first Zhang Guifei was established, thanks to Wang Zhen for speaking for him, secretly gave tens of thousands of gold coins, and said to people: "Zhen, my family is also an official." ”

and will receive the canonization ceremony, Sister Zhang wants to let her family's counselors hold the book, and Chen Zhizhong's admonition and canonization must be made by officials above the system. So he suddenly entered the post.

Hearing the edict, Zheng Lang frowned slightly.

Zhao Zhen asked, "Zheng Qing, what do you want to say?" ”

Zheng Lang said: "Your Majesty, the minister has many flaws, and he is not an official, how can he ask His Majesty to be perfect?" ”

A little sarcasm.

Didn't say deeply. Sister Zhang was helpless, after she was favored, almost all the ministers objected, so Zhao Zhen reused Wang Zhen. If he takes the lead in opposing it, there will be a story of Miao Shang's two beautiful sisters, and the minister will forcibly drag Sister Zhang out of the inner palace and become a female Taoist priest. Although he was dissatisfied with the harem politics this time, thinking of this consequence, Zheng Lang was silent.

Zhao Zhen understood, and was very smart and didn't ask much.

In the month of Layue, the rain harmed the crops, bad beware, the two rivers were seriously affected, and the name of the next year was changed to Huang You, and the prisoners of the world were sentenced to the first degree, and those who were sentenced to prison were released. He also went out of the treasury to buy grain and millet for disaster relief in Hebei, and the government repaired the houses for the returnees to relieve the winter cold.

Western Xia sent information, the Khitan general Yelu enemy Lugu led the obstruction of the troops, the soldiers marched Qifeng, from the desert Qi army into the north of Liangzhou, and then from the north of Liangzhou with a very fast speed to Helan Mountain, because of the surprise of the Western Xia, there was no time to mobilize 3,000 elite soldiers to resist the battle, killed several brave generals of the Divination Department, the enemy Lugu shouted and attacked, and the Xia soldiers were defeated. The enemy Lugu led his troops into Helan Mountain, and the army arrived at the palace and captured many noble officials in the palace. However, the walls of Xingqing Mansion were tall, and many Western Xia troops returned from the east to support, and the enemy Lugu saw that Xingqing Mansion could not take the city, so he withdrew to Khitan territory with the captured Western Xia noble officials, as well as the jewelry and wealth in the palace.

Because the father and daughter did not move to the Song Dynasty, and did not get the mother of the country, the Khitan failed twice, and the face still couldn't be put down.

The beam is finished.

Seeing that the two countries were red-eyed, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty covered their mouths one by one and secretly had fun.

At the end of the year, Jia Chang played upwards, Dayu ruled the nine rivers, only Luochuan remained, although there was a migration decision in the past dynasties, but did not cross the north of Yunpu, the east of Weibo, that is, the slippery river calendar Beijing Chaocheng, the river channel that entered the sea from Putai. Since the dynasty, the big river has been repeatedly decided, Tianxi three to four years of summer has broken the embankment one after another, especially Tiantai Mountain, where nine years to plug it. In the sixth year of Tiansheng, he defeated Wang Chu again. At the beginning of Jing You, it collapsed in the horizontal wall, divided into three rivers of gold, red and silt, and entered the sea through the north of the Di Bin. Recently, the Haikou is congested and cannot be dredged, so last year, the river was defeated by Debo and the 21st (because of the diversion, sediment precipitation, and the three rivers are congested, so there are many small water disasters). This summer, it collapsed in Shanghu, passed through the east of the northern capital, and as for Wucheng, it went through Jiying and arrived at the south of the Qianning army and reached the sea. Since ancient times, there has been no greater harm than this year. The imperial court took Shuofang as the fundamental place, prepared the Khitan, and took materials to feed the military division, but Cangdi Binqi was the thickest. Since the decision has been made, half of the financial benefits have been consumed, and the defeat of Shanghu has been lost. However, the book does not speak, and it is not regretted.

It's so serious, Zhongshu doesn't care if you don't ask, what is Zhongshu doing!

deliberately stabbed Zheng Lang, didn't he say that Nengchen, this is what Nengchen did?

If you want to save its drawbacks, restore the old road in the east, plug all the mouths, the case has the east of the horizontal wall to the Yunpu between, the embankment is there, and it is advisable to add the end. Its shallow place can be sent close to the county people from time to time, and the road to the eastern boundary of Yunzhou. I would like to draw the three rivers of Hengyuan, Luochuan and Shanghu as a map to advance, and hope that His Majesty will stay in the province.

When the song was folded to the Jingshi, Zhao Zhen summoned everyone to discuss, Zheng Lang shook his head and said: "The river is broken, this strategy will not be successful, but you can send the minister to check it." ”

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Xiao Yunjin, the mother of the Khitan country, sent the security army to make Xiao Lu, Yongzhou to observe Ma Yong, and Liao Xingzong sent Zhangxin Army to stay behind Yeluqing and Chonglu Shaoqing Wang Yuanji to congratulate Zhengdan.

Yeluqing also brought a letter of state, which was invited by Liao Xingzong, saying that the Wuyi clan was Ning Lingge's wife, although it was robbed by Yuan Hao, but the wedding had been prepared, and the name was decided, so please Song Dynasty looked at the beauty of adults and handed over Ning Lingge's wife to Khitan.

The monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty laughed dumbly, it's not enough for you Khitan to get a Ning Lingge, and you want to get the queen who didn't move?

But they didn't answer one by one, and looked at Zheng Lang together.

Zheng Lang was also dumbfounded, at this time, at that time, when the Song and Xia were fighting, the Khitan could blackmail, and now the Song Dynasty is not bad if it doesn't draw a ladder in the back, and you still want to blackmail? But it is inconvenient to say it publicly, and said calmly: "Western Xia changed greatly last year, and we don't know whether it is black and white. It's just that the father and daughter didn't move, and they were afraid of the persecution of their brothers and sisters, so they came to join me and let me stay in the court. Although his daughter visited the church with Brother Ning Ling, there was an accident during the wedding, and she was no longer Brother Ning Ling's wife. However, it is inconvenient for me to stop the matter of marriage. In this way, after a while, I will take you to the Shangshu Mansion of the Lost Scholars. If the father and daughter continue to acquiesce in this family affair, I will send someone to escort them to the border of your country. If you don't agree, since we take them in, we can't ignore their ideas and forcibly hand them over to your Khitan. ”

Yeluqing could only agree.

After the banquet, Zheng Lang brought the four envoys to the Wuyi Mountain Mansion.

didn't move the mountain to listen, frowned and looked at Zheng Lang, not knowing what Zheng Lang meant. Wu Yishi suddenly said to Zheng Lang: "Zheng Xianggong, can you go to the inner hall with the concubine to say a few words?" (To be continued.)

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