Fu Bi said: "If one person attains the Tao, the chicken and dog ascend to heaven." ”

The next step must be a verbal sword, but the relationship between the two is good, and the country has reached this point, if it does not do anything at all, it is unlikely, so Fu Bi said it extremely vaguely.

Zheng Lang said: "I don't know whether the ascension to heaven is true or not, even if it is true, a person's ascension to heaven will take up a lot of resources, not to mention the family's livestock and poultry." ”

"It doesn't have much effect, it's very turbulent, so if you move it to the back and put it down."

"Time will not pass, no longer come, go with the wind, there is Fu Guangheng, Li Shi Dachuan!" He also said: "The black is long and long, the winter is cold and harsh, and it takes spring thunder to return at dawn and return to the earth in spring." The shock is slight, and the smile is hoarse; Shocked for a hundred miles, not a dagger! ”

Fu Bi frowned.

His first sentence is only eight words, but it has a deep meaning.

If you want to become an immortal, you must have the help of everyone, and of course, if you go up, you must repay more people who help. Here, the eight characters are not a derogatory term either. The intention is very profound, one person attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven, which is also one of the Chinese traditions. After ascending to the throne, you can make some appropriate rewards to your relatives, benefactors, teachers, students, clansmen, and protégés. Others will also place more emphasis on nurturing talent. This is also the way of opposition in Zheng Lang's Confucianism, benevolence and loyalty. Or what Zheng Lang said.

Therefore, often after one person gains power, or after gaining wealth, he promotes others, and there are many similar stories in folk novels, praising and eulogizing his behavior. This ideology is deeply rooted, and what Zheng Lang is doing now seems to be subverting it, which will definitely attract many objections.

Zheng Lang also objected in a tactful tone.

It's not the kind that Fu Bi said, there is a law and a degree, and he does not exclude making a moderate return, but he opposes this kind of excessive one-person enlightenment, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven. At this time, there were no Xiuzhen novels. But there are some primitive rustic theories. For example, when cultivating, it is necessary to use precious medicinal materials for alchemy. Or do you get something for nothing, let others make offerings so that you can meditate, how many people have been cultivating for thousands of years, and how many people can get the legendary ascension to heaven? No matter who is enlightened. The cost is evenly amortized, and it is so expensive that it is impossible to calculate. Besides, with so many family dogs and cats ascending to heaven together, how many resources are needed.

Or as a later folk proverb, it is said that Fengyang is Fengyang. Since Fengyang came out of a Zhu Yuanzhang, there have been nine years of famine in ten years.

Moderate rewards are virtues, and excessive rewards are serious harm to other people's resources.

Fu Bi and tactfully persuaded that the Song Dynasty had a lot of disadvantages, which has been approved by more than ninety percent of the people, the biggest one is redundant government and redundant officials and soldiers, Zheng Lang has already undergone major surgery. Now, the third reform is still aimed at these three redundancies, but the gains are far less abundant than the previous two times, and the controversy caused is huge. Pay for one's whistle. You can drag it back, and there is no need to set off a bloody storm again.

Zheng Lang resolutely refused. In the past two years, the country has had a huge deficit, and the whole country is very anxious. And there's a huge deficit. At this time, no matter what you do, as long as it has an effect, there will be a valid reason. If you miss this section, the country's finances will slowly turn around in the future, and it will be more difficult to do whatever you do. For example, the tea administration took nearly 40 years of disputes before Han Qigou's peace-style trade law was passed, but there are still disputes, and many people are eager to try and restore the law. Including Wen Yanbo, he actually hit the idea on the iron.

For example, when the country enters a dangerous hexagram, it must have a bright heart and make a difference. Moreover, the degree of embarrassment of the country is not what the hexagram can show, since the monarch and the ministers want to have the ambition to get rid of it, they must use the power of thunder to sweep away all the evils of the times. Although thunder and lightning are combined, but the right way, so the thunder rumbles, people are terrified, and then laughter, huge thunder resounded all over the land, because of this, the temple can be sacrificed to continue.

Lian Zhen came and went, and his smile was hoarse; Shocked for hundreds of miles, he didn't lose his dagger, he said it, and Fu Bi had no choice but to retreat.

Lu Xue said: "Gong Zheng, the court and the people compete for profit, but it is not beautiful in the end. ”

Competing with the people for profit, a hat that can't be bigger.

Zhang Dian snorted coldly: "What does it mean to compete with the people for profit, since the founding of the country, the country has successively set up pit mines, workshops, and affairs, as many as nearly 10,000 places, is it considered to compete with the people?" Salt, tea, alum, and wine, all of which are things of the people's livelihood, are they still all forbidden, are they considered to compete with the people? Zheng Gong's move, I have not seen anything to compete with the people, on the contrary, it is to benefit the people, and let the benefits of tea alum to the people. With what people? Is it a minority? It is a small number of heroes, since Jing You, the state has created all the prisons, and the annual income is as much as tens of millions of dollars, is it not as good as the benefit of tea alum? Lu Yushi, as a minister, please do not reverse right and wrong. ”

"I think that the eunuchs are mutually beneficial, without the imperial court to protect resources, the eunuchs will not be established and grown, if there is no merchant who knows how to operate, the eunuchs will be like a tea government under the management of the imperial court, gradually deteriorating." Lu Huiqing said fairly, but her voice changed: "But I also agree with Zheng Gong's move, whether it is the tea alum, or the operation of Zhufangchang, the original intention is not evil, to increase national income and reduce the burden of the people's two taxes." However, due to improper management, the imperial court did not see profits, but instead became a harsh behavior of the people in various states and counties, so that many pit and mining workshops gradually fell into disuse. It is better to simply hand it over to the private sector to operate, although the court profits, how much it is decided by the people, not a harsh move by the people. ”

Even if Zheng Lang and others have the eloquence of Zhang Yi and Su Qin, they can't distinguish the word commotion. Turmoil is inevitable.

The struggle is between harsh people and competing with the people for profit, and once opponents are allowed to put these two charges on their faces, the reform will inevitably fail. Even if it has been implemented for ten or eight years, it is quite effective, and after wearing it, it will be corrected to the opposite direction. Therefore, Lu Huiqing made a timely addition, which is not a harsh move of the people, but a policy of benefiting the people.

The five kicked off the dispute.

Zheng Lang listened impatiently, if he couldn't get through here, once the news went out, the edict would not be successfully issued, so he said: "I just want to say one thing, among the many drawbacks, many people talk about redundant officials, and the number of officials is really redundant? We set up officials in the court, starting only from the county level, and some small counties have only one prefect county, and they don't even have a master book. However, Qin and Han set up a pavilion chief. Wouldn't that be more verbose? It is not the redundancy of the quantity, but the cost of maintaining officials, which is almost ten times that of the Tang Dynasty compared with the Tang Dynasty. As long as this cost is reduced, how can there be redundancy? Why is no one saying that? ”

Although the Qin and Han dynasties set up the position of pavilion chief, the nature was different. Often, it's just a tax exemption. Most are not paid. The burden on the state is small. Even at the most tense moment of the state, even officials did not have a good fortune, such as Gao Yun, a famous minister of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and other officials or greedy for ink. Or because his family background is good, the official should be nourished and moisturized, and Gao Yun's family background is not good, and he is not corrupt. As a result, the family could only live on rewards, barely clothed, hungry and cold.

In this case, it is difficult for officials whose family backgrounds are slightly worse to be greedy or not. So in the Tang Dynasty, he was given some living salaries, but corruption still could not be eradicated. Zhao Kuangyin's brothers simply made further high salaries and pensions, resulting in the cost of raising an official to a point that future generations could not imagine.

It cannot be said that it is bad, except for some low-level officials who are corrupt, most of the officials are good. At best, it is a disguised increase in income. Example of business, example of hospitality and gifts. The former is a businessman with many evils, and the latter is a kind of corruption in disguise, but it is not a direct extortion. The officialdom atmosphere was at least good in the early and middle Northern Song Dynasty.

The main bad thing is the bad for the little officials.

It was not those who were bitter and miserable, but some powerful officials, and the five major franchises were corrupted or their incomes were drastically reduced, and there were also a large number of pit and mine farms whose incomes were reduced, and these petty officials played the most important role in the middle.

It is not difficult to cut officials, but the difficult thing is to cut the quota of these small officials.

There are also scholars who are ashamed to talk about profits, and do not care about this aspect, or some officials have little ability, and they are directly emptied of their power by the small officials of various states and counties, and become an empty shell official. This further made these petty officials extremely arrogant.

A high salary is good, but it is too high, and the disadvantages far outweigh the advantages.

With this sentence alone, more than 100 officials were silent one by one. To be able to sit here, the annual salary plus various subsidies is at least three or four thousand yuan, which is almost the same as that of later American presidents. Among them, the highest is Zeng Gongliang, who is twice the income of Zheng Lang, and almost ten times the income of later US presidents!

In the Song Dynasty, where productivity was extremely backward, it was unimaginable!

Zheng Lang didn't say it explicitly, he has taken care of your feelings, otherwise this official's income will have to be cut, that is, cut by half, and the Song Dynasty will be able to save more than 10 million yuan a year. If even the number of officials is reduced, it is possible to lose 20 million. What is the concept of a state that increases its income by 20 million yuan a year?

is just a sentence that makes the entire capital hall cold.

"I'm really tired, sometimes I often want to stop, don't think about anything, don't think about anything, and take a good rest for a while," Zheng Lang said again. and let everyone be silent, agreeing or opposing, but no one denied that Zheng Lang had exhausted his efforts for the country.

Two sentences, there is no objection, or if there is an objection, I am embarrassed to say it.

The edict was issued, Zheng Lang once again took a part-time job, and concurrently served as the envoy of the three divisions, the first reform was initiated by Zhongshu, the second reform was initiated from Xifu, and the third reform was initiated from the three divisions. The third division has two capable ministers, Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dian, who may not be considered good people, but they have the ability, but Wu Chong is weak, and Zheng Lang has to take care of it.

The first is to review the actual price of all auctioned Fangchang Hedu pits, although the auction system is implemented, there is still the possibility of black-box operation. An estimate must be made, and the price offered must reach the lowest price after the final price of the auction has reached the third division. Since Zhang Dian was transferred to the Third Division last year, Zheng Lang asked him to secretly send someone to preside over the investigation, and even Wu Chong didn't know. It was only at this time that Zheng Lang's intentions were revealed.

There is also a benevolent government, which is secretly set up to float, and there is a maximum estimate, that is, how much money can be made in a year when this workshop is not greedy for ink and runs well. Exceeding two-thirds of this figure, it immediately fell back. For example, if a workshop is estimated to earn 1,000 yuan a year, and if it exceeds 670 yuan, it reaches 1,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan. The latter is estimated to be very rare, but there will be. A more benevolent measure.

In fact, throughout the reform process, various benevolent measures have been implemented from beginning to end. For the sake of the country, but also for the vast number of people living in the middle and lower classes. This is different from the nature of Wang Anshi's reforms, Wang Anshi can collect 160 million to 180 million numbers, if you add the changes brought by Zheng Lang, as much as 50 million, it will be a financial income that future generations will be stunned forever. But Zheng Lang won't do it.

The second is the workshop tax, the workshop is also taxed, and there are many names, some are included in the house tax, some are included in the two taxes, and some are included in and bought. Very non-standardized. This time, we will also standardize them one by one. It is then combined with the new commercial tax of the levy. It will be possible to further improve the commercial tax, and even formulate a decree that no workshop can evade the tax. For example, scholars can enjoy the right to be exempted from two taxes, which is the ancestral legal system. It is also the legal system of dynasties and generations, which cannot be changed. But it didn't say that the scholars and doctors should also avoid taxes. Therefore, the name stipulates that no trader must pay the workshop tax, as well as the commercial tax in the process of selling.

There's no need to rush this. You can put it in the back.

Article 3 Reform begins.

There are many people who respond, and the family that took the lead in responding was unexpected by everyone, and it was the three major families of relatives.

Cao Gao asked the children of the three families to write articles almost at the same time, saying that the country had reached the moment of life and death, and if it did not change, it would die.

Anyone who knows the inside story feels very strange.

The three major families have done a lot of mergers, and even Zheng Lang doesn't dare to touch them, why are they so easy to talk about the three reforms?

Zheng Lang simply smeared the black, thundered to the end. After the reform was initiated, officials were sent to investigate the hidden fields in the 15 prefectures. This time, I didn't send Sima Guang, who was good at talking, down. Instead, he sent a hard-line Zhangtun to preside. And it includes Zhending Mansion and Bozhou, which the imperial court did not dare to touch before.

Zhang Dian had not yet left, and several major families took the initiative to hand over a large number of hidden fields.

At this point, everyone suddenly realized that it had been secretly negotiated a long time ago, and what was sung was a double reed. Although several major relatives and families have ceded the interests of Yintian, the big head is on the side of several major eunuchs, and there will be a bigger eunuch who does not know the inside in the future.

In fact, it is still Zhangdun's sentence, how much income can be obtained on cultivated land? Picking up in the mud, hiding an acre of land is only two or three buckets of grain taxes, plus miscellaneous taxes will not exceed four or five buckets, there are higher, some harsh officials are crazy to implement all kinds of heavy additional taxes, but with the imperial court's repeated orders and declarations, and there are inspectors from all walks of life, these harsh officials have been restrained one by one. Even if 10,000 acres of land are hidden, it is only a few hundred stones of grain. It's nothing when it comes to the proceeds of a few prisons.

The truth is revealed, but it cannot be revealed.

But Zhang Dian had an excuse, and even a few noble relatives took the initiative to cooperate with the imperial court to investigate the hidden field, who dared not comply. This time, the investigation was a bit ruthless, and more than 200,000 hectares of hidden fields were found before and after. Finally, the amount of cultivated land in the imperial household register entered the 5 million hectares mark for the second time.

But because of this, more people were offended.

There is the future eunuch who does not know what to do, and there are many people who support it, and there are also many more people who oppose it.

There was even an article in the newspaper that impeached Zheng Lang's so-called theory of expansion. As long as the royal family exists, the children of the clan will not fall. But the scholars are different from the rich families, the scholars are like the Wen family, the Wang family, the Lu family, there are very few, most of the scholars died in front, and the children in the back did not act, and the three generations disappeared. The faster disappearance is the businessman and the main household, some of the children are not good, the parents left a large inheritance, because of poor management, quickly lost, resulting in a folk proverb, rich no more than three generations. There are also businessmen who have not made good judgments, made a mistake in business, and quickly become penniless, and even have a huge debt that cannot be repaid due to financing, and they are not allowed to sell their children and daughters like poor families.

The royal family is bound to swell, but there are very few scholars and wealthy businessmen who can swell, and Zheng Lang's so-called expansion theory is wrong.

I don't know what to do, it's completely nonsense with my eyes open, mergers are like this, redundant officials are like this, and it's not right to say that the theory of expansion is wrong? Zheng Lang didn't bother to argue with them.

But this time Zheng Lang's hornet's nest is too big, Han Qi's imperfect tea law trade, after 40 years of controversy, Zheng Lang forcibly tried to use half a year to implement the tea law into real trade, and even the alum franchise also implemented the real trade law, so how many powerful interests were harmed?

In the end, in the midst of opposition, the three relatives closed their mouths in unison. The three lords of the palace negotiated with the family again and persuaded them, and also confirmed that Zheng Lang said that there would be a prison in the future, and once it was implemented, its interests were unimaginable. Therefore, after listening to the persuasion, he supported at first, and later gave up a large amount of hidden fields, which gave the three women and Zheng Lang face, and it was enough to do this. What happens next will no longer have anything to do with us.

Sima Guang said worriedly: "Gong Zheng, it's not okay to go on like this, there are too many controversies." ”

If it was the reform implemented by Wang Anshi, Sima Guang estimated that most of them would have ignored the friendship of his fellow teachers and could lead the ministers to oppose it.

Zheng Lang also had a hesitation in his heart.

If it continues for more than ten years, even if Zhao Ji drinks Goryeo century-old red ginseng soup for himself every day, he will not be able to survive for more than ten years, and he will be tired to death like Zhuge Liang.

And he worries about one thing.

If you want a country to be strong, you must have a perfect system, perfect morality, and one more, the progress of science and technology in great strides, and this is it, with the current conditions, it will take at least 200 years to reach the level of science and technology in Europe in the 19th century.

If this step can be reached, then it is not possible for the countries of the world to harm it right now.

Regardless of whether it is Yuanmeng or Jurchen, they will no longer have a headache for them.

The country will be replaced, saying that the Song Dynasty was founded for a thousand years or two thousand years, that is impossible, and if the country is established for another five hundred years, there will be a great miracle in the history of mankind. However, if the country can be established for more than 200 years without favoring one side, and can maintain normal development, it will perish, and the extinction will not come from the outside, but will decompose from within. This problem is not big, as long as there is a master of great talent, after putting things right, then the reforms initiated in recent years, laying a good foundation, will let them learn, including Confucianism, not necessarily future generations will completely refer to Zheng's Confucianism, at least not Zhu's Confucianism. Hugh underestimated Confucianism, which was the theoretical basis of feudal governance in China. Coupled with the progress of science and technology, the Chinese nation will once again stand tall in the world. But can the results of his own government affect 200 years?

Zheng Lang was very skeptical.

Sometimes because he thinks hard, he wants to take a breath, it's not a lie, and he even wanted to learn from Lu Yijian in his heart, so he simply retreated and made progress in a broken step reform. That way, you will have an easy life.

After listening to Sima Guang, Zheng Lang's eyes were blank, but he quickly sobered up, and he had to send it, and now he couldn't take it back if he wanted to, and said: "I know, but there is a chance." ”

"Opportunity?"

"The reason why this is the case, the four reforms in a row, and another large-scale inventory of hidden fields, is that there is another opportunity in the future."

"Opportunity?"

"It's an opportunity to divert attention, and it's in the West."

PS: I'm too tired, I write like this, it's very unpleasant to readers, and I still have to spend my brain writing by myself, and I was forced to rest for a day yesterday. (To be continued.) )