Zheng Lang looked at Zhao Zhen's expression, and was overjoyed in his heart, could it be that Zhao Zhen is rare not to do viagra and want to be strong?

However, the Khitan lost the two battles too badly, it was okay to lose, but it couldn't be so badly defeated, it was even worse than Ge Huaimin's defeat in the battle of Dingchuan Village in history, at least Ge Huaimin still held on to the stalemate for a period of time, and the soldiers and horses were not as good as the Khitans.

Zheng Lang said slowly: "Your Majesty, the defeat of the Khitan is the defeat of the commander's incompetence, not the weakness of the Khitan army. ”

The head must be sober, at this time the Khitan is still like the United States later, but since Liao Xingzong, the IQ has been declining more and more, and there is no American cunning, but the country's military strength is considerable. Tough on the head, all other elements are equal, and the Khitan army is still the most powerful. There is no need to provoke the Khitan, it is necessary to score the primary and secondary points clearly, and solve the troubles one by one, Western Xia is the source of the trouble, as for Jiaozhi, Zheng Lang prevented it, but he didn't take it seriously in his heart.

One sentence calmed Zhao Zhen down.

The first calm thing was not to hide the false Pang, and he did not do very well, in a battle on the bank of the Yellow River, in order to leave a way back, he pursued for a while, and let the Khitan defeated army go. This is the wrong approach, let go of the Khitan will buy your love? If Yuan Hao is here, he will not make such a low-level mistake. Because of his release, the Khitans thought that he was weak and continued to prepare to start a war. He didn't think of him yet, made a mistake, and prepared to send an envoy to the Khitan to ask for peace. He also sent an envoy to the Song Dynasty to thank the Song people for their mourning.

Yang Shousu said that the Song Dynasty's plot was not treacherous, and he didn't believe it, and continued to think that the Song Dynasty was weak, but the Khitan did not stop the army, and did not dare to ask the Song Dynasty to hand over the father and daughter, and they were also greedy for the benefits of green salt smuggling. As for Yang Shousu's statement that the two countries must immediately demarcate the boundary line, and make a covenant not to take in each other's people, he will not listen to it at all. If the boundary line is demarcated, how can we occupy the fertile land of the Quye River? Now it is not allowed to invade farming, but could it be that the Song Dynasty put Di Qing in Fuzhou for the rest of his life? As long as he fights with the Khitan, Di Qing is not in Fuzhou. You can continue to encroach on the land and make a profit for yourself.

The envoy was only to appease the Song Dynasty and let the Song Dynasty continue to tacitly support the Western Xia.

In September, Zhao Zhen added Fu Bi as the deputy privy envoy of the Ministry of Rites. In the past, when disaster relief was carried out, many victims gathered in the city, cooked porridge and ate it, and the hungry people gathered together, but they were afraid of this gathering, and the same was true of the army, why there were many plagues when the northern army arrived in the south. Because people are gathered together, and one person is infected with the disease, it can quickly spread to the whole army, so most of them die of the epidemic, or because the officials are negligent, or because the rescue food is insufficient, and they cannot be fed for several days.

Later, the imperial court successively used Zheng Lang to provide disaster relief with work, and did some practical things. It's just a piecemeal arrangement in the states, and the effect is weakened, but before the construction starts. This method is still used to gather victims. Fu Bi made some improvements, selected Feng Minoru five states, persuaded the people to come out of the millet, plus the official warehouse, with the selection of more than 100,000 public and private houses, scattered among his people, the benefits of the mountains, forests and slopes, listen to the homeless people to take it, its original owner must not forbid, the assessment of the official said that the number of living people is 500,000. It is estimated that it is an exaggeration, and the entire affected area is only more than 2 million people at most, which is certainly not that much. But it must have saved many people.

In the Song Dynasty, disaster relief was provided by the imperial court, by some well-intentioned families, and by monasteries. Later generations often tried to belittle the Song Dynasty. Exaggerate the role of the latter two and belittle the role of the former. The large households and monasteries have some outstanding performance in disaster relief, but they do not play a 10 percent role, and compared with the income of both sides, the imperial court taxes and monopolies certainly account for less than 5 percent of the state revenue, and the latter two will exceed 560 percent. The imperial court is the main body of disaster relief.

Often, those who perform well in the process of disaster relief are promoted faster than those who have achieved military success.

Under the imperial edict, Zheng Lang also wrote a letter to Fu Bi in advance, asking him to agree. …,

In late September, Fu Bi finally returned to Beijing to serve as the deputy privy envoy, Wang Su sent the cloth to the Khitan Chinese army camp in Tanglong Town, returned to Shaanxi, and the imperial court issued an edict to let him return to Beijing to serve as the governor. At this point, the five ministers who participated in the Fan Lou banquet, as well as the mentioned Wang Su, Zheng Lang's student Lu Gongshu, including Zheng Lang, a total of eight people, Zheng Lang himself is not counted, Lu Gongshu is still in the survey period, and five of the other six people hold various important positions in Beijing.

In October, first the Zhang family was a beauty, and then a concubine. The bizarre assassination case in the palace shows that it is not only Xia Zhu alone, but also the living house Wang Shi, who said that the thief started from the queen at all, please investigate the matter, and want to shake the status of the Cao family and Yin is Zhang Meiren. Zhao Zhen told He Tan in Wang Zhen's words, and He Tan said: "This traitor's plan must not be ignored. ”

Zheng Lang was also speechless when he heard this, fortunately, Empress Cao was by Zhao Zhen's side that night and performed well, otherwise it was possible for Zhao Zhen to succeed, and the harem would have a big incident again. After He Tan admonished, Zhao Zhen stopped. He Tan is a double-edged sword, if used in the right place, the effect is remarkable, and if it is used in the wrong place, it will make people have a headache.

Zhao Zhen continued to use Zhang's merits as an excuse to take the throne as a concubine. Zheng Lang has never seen this beautiful little concubine, and Zheng Lang is silent about Zhao Zhen's small actions.

This is Zhao Zhen's love!

With the blooming of this love, the most glorious time of the Song Dynasty also came. Therefore, beauty is water, but it is not necessarily disaster water, it depends on how the water flows.

And then something big happened.

Fan Xiang went to the book for the second time, please change the two pools of salt method, the first time the book was accurate, but Zhao Fan Xiang and Cheng Jian discussed, Jian and Fan Xiang disagreed, just when the mother passed away, went home and worried, so it was abolished by the previous discussion. After Ding Wei came back, Fan Xiang saw all kinds of shortcomings in the salt administration, and he couldn't bear it anymore, so he played again and asked for a discussion on reforming the salt administration.

The East Mansion discussed its performance, and Zheng Lang looked at this piece playfully.

Several monopolies in the Song Dynasty, and later developed vinegar monopolies for the sake of collecting money, there were many drawbacks, and there were many ministers to improve them, if it was said to be done well, it was Fan Xiang's salt administration reform that was the most effective.

But......

It's troublesome!

Let's talk about labor first, the suffering of the southeast pavilion households, it's pretty good, the state rarely regulates the quantity, more work and more pay, if it exceeds a certain amount, the state will use the name of floating salt, slightly increase the price to buy it. Although it is bitter, it still does not have the suffering of Shaanxi salt households and Sichuan Gorge salt households. Shaanxi is a backward labor system, forced servitude, without any personal freedom, during the period of conscription at least 110,000 catties of salt to the state every year, two and a half catties of salt only pay a penny! The treatment is that the whole family is exempted from military service, and the family is given 40 taels of money per year and 2 liters of rice per day. It seems good, no less than the treatment of the forbidden soldiers. In fact, no, the cost of salt extraction is extremely low. But there are more or less costs that are paid for by the salt farmers themselves. Moreover, those soldiers in the barracks had swords and arrows, and the superior officers dared to withhold them. Besides, two-thirds of the salt households actually go to the hands of the salt households. Why is Zhao Kuangyin, known as the first oldest emperor in history, do this?

Without him, and look at the price of rice, from Zhao Kuangyin to the early Song Zhenzong, the price of a bucket of rice fluctuated at about 20 Wen, the price of wheat from 10 to 12 Wen, and the beginning of Qingli 70 Wen. At this time, it rose to 90 to 100 wen, and 50 wen. If Zheng Lang doesn't do well, it will rise, and it will rise to 120 to 230 after four years. It was not until Wang Anshi changed the law that the farmland water conservancy law was implemented. After a rare drought, the country is implementing the law of equal loss and market change. The new warehouse method was implemented, and the price of rice fell back to 50 to 80 wen, and at the lowest point, a bucket of rice in Huangzhou was only 20 wen. The price of silk was 1,000 Wen per horse when Zhao Kuangyi, and after the Qingli War, the peak rose to 3,000 Wen per horse, and now it is gradually falling, and the average price is still between 1,300 and 1,500 Wen. At that time, Zhao Kuangyin thought that it was a dream to have five million guan in the inner library, and today five million guan is not enough for the imperial court to stuff the teeth! …,

Zhao Kuangyin implemented this policy, which was very good for salt farmers, but prices were rising rapidly. Now these treatments are still there, and the salt households are living a very hard life. It's not the most bitter, the river gorge is even more bitter. Because of the lack of control by the imperial court, many areas of the Sichuan Gorge were half-private and half-public, not to solve salt, but to well salt. The government continued to use the system of hard labor, and the treatment was even worse. The government is a little better, those private barbarian heroes are implementing the harsh slavery system of two or three thousand years ago, and the treatment of slaves is not even as good as that of the Spring and Autumn Period, and as private salt farmers, the treatment is even inferior to that of livestock.

Then there is the salt law, the imperial court will divide the country into two regions, one is the area where the government directly buys and sells, saying that the private heroes do not do the same thing, the government, some officials join forces, the use of suppression and science and other means, repeatedly rolling, for example, the original salt price in Chenzhou was only 31 Wen, and now it is gradually breaking to more than 200 Wen, marching to the 300 Wen mark. The people did not want to buy it, so the government forcibly apportioned it to the people. As the emperor, Zhao Zhen would definitely not think like this, and sent someone to investigate, for the good of the country, we are actually called the country, but we are actually in our own pockets, but the country has carried the black pot for them.

The government can't do it, and then look at the private one.

That is, the area of trade law, the real trade law area is only Hebei, the imperial court pacified the people of Hebei, resisted the invasion of the Khitan, and prevented the invasion of Khitan salt, adopted the real trade law, and some other preferential measures. Except for Hebei, and then to the Southern Wilderness, where the imperial court really can't control it. In other regions, the trade law is a buying and selling system, and it is this buying and selling system that has a big problem.

It is good to start to implement the buying and puffing system, although Zhao Kuangyi is a master of chemistry, but for the common people, it is indeed good, it can be regarded as an emperor who loves the people, after the Northwest Campaign started, a large number of materials are needed, this movement is very difficult, more from Jianghuai, through the Grand Canal to the capital, and then to Chang'an, there is a fatal Sanmenxia in the middle, to Chang'an can not be navigable, even if it is navigable, it can only be a small boat, mostly land transportation, but at that time the combat area was farther away, Xiazhou, Lingzhou, land transportation distance is longer, Under the tragic transportation conditions at this time, what will be the cost? If the employment system is used, the people will be less resentful, and the court will not have so much money. The second is procurement, allowing officials to purchase materials, whether expensive or practiced, and there are countless cats in the middle. Especially for such long-distance transportation, loss alone can do a lot of things.

Therefore, the original policy of exchange of convenient money was carried forward, allowing merchants to come to the capital to buy tea and salt, and then transport materials to the northwest, and use tea to lead salt to Jiangnan to receive tea and salt to transport to the so-called trade area. Finally, for convenience, it developed into sending materials to the northwest, and directly receiving tea and salt alum in the northwest. So there was a new thing, the intercession shop. Seeing that it was profitable, especially in the later period, the policy of transfer was gradual, and the damp mold grain was transported to the northwest, as long as some gifts were stuffed to the officials, they could get the relevant exchanges, and the profits were quite large, and many small and medium-sized businessmen also participated. However, the procedures for cashing in are cumbersome, many small and medium-sized businessmen have the ability to send materials to the northwest, but they do not have the ability to go to the southeast to operate tea and salt alum and other transactions, the more they develop, this policy becomes the plaything of the wealthy, the more small and medium-sized businessmen can not participate, so after getting the exchange, some large gold and silver shops, color silk shops, stops, and quality warehouses in Tokyo City began to resell these securities, and finally the gold silk shop in the area of Nantong Lane in the capital is the center, forming a gathering point of the exchange shop, and trading and reciprocating. However, small and medium-sized businessmen harmed the country, and the profits were still very small. Under the suppression of these big businessmen, the pressure was as high as 50 percent, and by the time of Cai Jing, it was as high as 90 percent.

The only advantage is that similar securities products appeared in the Song Dynasty.

It was good at the beginning, like the change of the I Ching hexagram. When the yang reached the extreme, it began to turn yin, and then all kinds of ills came one after another, and the officials and businessmen colluded, increased, overestimated, and even transported those wet and moldy grains to the northwest. As for checking, it can't be checked, for example, now. Many clan disciples and relatives, including the Gao family and the Cao family, are involved, how to check? In bad times, one-third of the grain could not be eaten at all and had to be thrown away, but these garbage should not be underestimated, and they were transported from the south of the Yangtze River to the northwest by truckload. A bucket is worth hundreds of dollars! …,

The imperial court saw that it would not work like this, so it reformed, the same as tea. made a fuss about the salt introduction, but the salt introduction was reluctant to let go, changed back and forth, and was never successful. This is why Fan Xiang has this salt policy innovation.

Here's how:

Shaanxi solved all the trade in the old salt ban land, replaced the ban law with the trade law, said that the merchants were not good, and the government did worse, so let the salt trade be active first, and the salt into Shu did not ask, referring to the northern part of Sichuan and Hanzhong. Sichuan Gorge produces salt, mostly in the south of the well salt, but in the north is a serious shortage of salt, but in addition to the Chengdu Basin, the rest of Sichuan is mountainous, so salt has become a major problem for the people in northern Sichuan. Salt circulation was allowed to break through the regional confinement and flow to northern Sichuan. A remarkable step forward.

The second one doesn't need to be used as a salt guide, those rotten grains and old grains don't want it, if you want salt to lead, take cash to it, and if you don't have copper money, you have to take out cloth instead of it, and then distribute salt leads. This is the confidence brought by this year's bumper harvest in Shaanxi, and now with Sanbaiqu, not only a bumper harvest, but also a large amount of grain surplus in Shaanxi, Fan Xiang has more confidence to speak. It's a huge step forward, but that's it, something goes wrong.

The annual class is 375,000 seats for salt, and the coupons are awarded, that is, the pool inspection coupons, and the soldiers and civilians are in the battle to develop the Shaanxi pool salt and resist the impact of the green salt in the Western Xia. The imperial court now intends to let smuggled salt into the country, but if it does not let it go, it cannot prohibit smuggling salt. Therefore, this strategy was used to increase the amount of local salt produced in Shaanxi, and the flow of green salt from Western Xia to the Song Dynasty was impacted.

Another supplementary policy was made, starting from Yanzhou to Weizhou, recruiting people to enter the Zhongchi Salt, giving coupons, and giving all kinds of preferential policies, transporting the salt to these border areas and handing it over to the government, and after transporting it, private individuals were not allowed to sell it, so as not to mix the smuggled salt, and all of them were sold by the government. Make the border area into a separate zone to prevent the invasion of illegal salt.

Another proposal that has nothing to do with salt, during the Qingli War, the state was short of money, all materials were replaced by quotations, and as long as materials such as iron, charcoal, tiles, and wood were transported to the army, they were given all kinds of exchanges, and the imperial court has not yet honored them one by one. After the end of the war, there continued to be collusion between officials and businessmen to transfer these irrelevant materials to the army and support various exchanges. The locals will not go to Jiangnan to do tea and salt business, but it doesn't matter, you can exchange the cash back with the traffic introduction in the capital after a few years. It is very similar to the futures of later generations, but it is not liked at all, this is sucking the blood of the country, eating the flesh of the country, and the country is lost, but in order to maintain the operation, it has to be apportioned to the people, forming a vicious circle. The states and armies must be prohibited from adopting these unnecessary supplies and distributing them.

Originally, the salt coupons were falsely estimated and those who received salt were not sold, and the price was reduced. This policy provided Cai Jing with the inspiration from which the infamous salt copying method was developed. However, this policy is not a salt copying law, it is a good policy, and it can be used to reduce national losses.

However, to prevent the deterioration of domestic salt smuggling, the prohibition law is still implemented in the prefectures near the salt producing areas, such as Hezhong, Heyang, Shaanxi, Yu, Xie, Jin, Jiang, Pu and other places, forming a quarantine zone to prevent the spread of salt smuggling.

All the money and grain in Kyushu are all attributed to the goods and goods, which means that they are under unified management and are under the control of the state, so as not to be greedy by local officials. The money is still in the hands of officials, but it is unified, and it is not scattered to various states and counties, even if it is greedy for ink, it is easy to check and investigate.

Isn't it amazing?

Chen Zhizhong, Wen Yanbo and Pang Ji all praised each other, why Zheng Lang repeatedly said that the two governments are far better than the previous two governments, Chen Zhizhong's ruling is not too evil, and Pang Wen and the others are even more capable officials, put in the Jia Chang Dynasty, Fan Xiang's government is not to say that it is praised, and it may also attract criticism, including the conservative Great Song Dynasty.

But Zheng Lang hesitated!