"Hand over the notebook," Zhao said.

Mr. Tang Da, don't read it,

Fortunately, just now Wen Yanbo vaguely impeached Zheng Lang for using the country's life to seek merit and dictatorship, wanting to learn from Wang Mang, and vaguely said that the two governments were in collusion, which is a very bad sign. Otherwise, Zhao Ji could let people drive Tang Kun out of the palace.

"Your Majesty, aren't your courtiers allowed to say anything?"

I am not an official, not an impeachment, but a word, the family law of the ancestors, and I am not guilty of words.

But he said that Wen Yanbo has 40 counts, isn't it impeachment?

Sima Guang looked at Zheng Lang, he was smiling bitterly. Zheng Lang is a good gentleman, it may not be a good thing, but it can offend people's lives, whether it is Zheng Lang or Wang Anshi, as the host of the reform, it is best not to show up, but Sima Guang did not expect the teacher to find this fierce brother.

Zhao Ji was speechless.

It's still tender, so that Tang Kun can read out the forty so-called crimes, doesn't Wen Yanbo understand? In fact, Zhao Ji is not very satisfied, he is also quite satisfied with today's court from the perspective of Renjun, Zheng Lang has too many students, but they are working separately and are not screwed together, Zeng Gongliang and Fu Bi are also the same, Wu Jing is faintly opposed, Chen Shengzhi also seems to have a tendency to oppose, Wu Chong is noncommittal or not, but Zhao Xuan faintly saw a group of people surrounding Wen Yanbo.

Tang Kun began to impeach.

It's too easy to find a person's handle, even if Zheng Lang doesn't have Zhao Niannu, he can find N handles in him. Fubi, who has relatively few shortcomings, can also find it if you want to find it. Besides, Wen Yanbo, Wen Yanbo has been repeatedly tampered with by a few gentlemen in the back, and he has been infinitely beautified, but he may not be so beautiful in fact, he is a capable official, if he can let go of his selfishness. will become Zheng Lang's most important assistant. But certainly not a moral gentleman. Not to mention the Six Towers River, the lantern shirt, and the persecution of Di Qing and Wang Shao. Not to mention the framing and slandering role he has always played in the history of law change, he usually has many shortcomings.

Tang Kun magnified them one by one infinitely.

not only said Wen Yanbo, but also impeached Zheng Lang and Gouhe, the country owes it so. He does not think about the disadvantages of reform, but only seeks to be peaceful, trying to make the world return to his heart, even if the petty evil is rampant in the court. Everyone was stunned when they heard this, how could they talk about Zheng Lang's head again.

This time, even Zheng Lang smiled bitterly.

On the one hand, the crimes of Wen Yanbo are counted, and on the other hand, the crimes of Zheng Lang, Zeng Gongliang, Fu Bi, Feng Jing, Wang Anshi and others are counted. Of course, the saddest thing is Wen Yanbo, under the portrayal of Tang Kun, treacherous, love money, stingy, inaction, prestige, collusion with Feng Jingfanzhen and others to form a party for personal gain, greedy for wealth and nobility, collusion with the Middle Palace, insidious and cunning, tricky power and selfishness, framing loyalty, lifelong thief, old traitor and slippery......

Wen Yanbo was so angry that he was about to vomit blood, and pointed at Tang Kun with his finger and said, "You, you, you!" ”

The best thing is that Tang Kun finished reading it and said: "The ministers are small-spoken, and the finger painting is not the ruling of the court." The minister is guilty, please demote the minister to Jiexiu. ”

Hear the word Jiexiu. Wen Yanbo was finally enraged, fell down all of a sudden, and fainted with anger.

The other ministers snorted together.

The Wen family is in Jiexiu, and as soon as this neuropathy goes to Jiexiu, the Wen family will not want to be safe.

Zhao Ji swallowed for most of the day and didn't speak.

Tang Kun, as if he hadn't stabbed Lou Zi just now, retreated calmly and retreated to his class, looking forward to it. Wen Yanbo had just been pinched by the eunuch and woke up, he couldn't pinch Tang Kun, picked up his teeth and said with grief: "Your Majesty, the ministers have not been humiliated by this, please ask the quasi-ministers to give their respects." ”

At this time, another person was angered, the prefect Fan Zhen.

He was very uninterested in Han Qi, but he was very friendly with Wen Yanbo, which caused this situation, first, the turmoil brought about by the reform, and second, some of Wang Anshi's tough practices, which caused him to be dissatisfied with both Zheng Lang and Wang Anshi. He is a dead-brained person, and once he admits his death, he can't convince anyone. It's not good to impeach Zheng Lang and grant Tang Kun, because Tang Kun also beat Zheng Lang hard just now. In his heart, he decided that it was either Zheng Lang's envoy, or Wang Anshi's envoy, raised his teeth and walked out, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister also has a play, Tang Kun said to form a party, and look at the nine rulers of the court, Zheng Gong, Lu Gong, Wang Anshi, and Sima Guang, all of whom are teachers and students, occupy four seats, and are respectively ranked as the leaders of the east and west. Zeng Gongfu is the second minister of Fan Lou's seven ministers. This is not a party, what is a party. ”

"Also, Su Shi is Zheng Gong's most proud protégé, just a word in the book, did not satisfy Zheng Gong, he was expelled from the court, degraded Huangzhou as a group of practitioners, Kong Wenzhong should be a test system, there is virtue and talent, the minister has repeatedly suggested that the court reuse the talent, still because of the outspokenness, so the book is not used. However, Li Ding avoided obedience, so he did not recognize his mother, a bad person, and went against the principles of heaven, and wanted to think that it was the imperial history, and the imperial history platform was recommended for it, and the house was dismissed by Song Minqiu, Li Dalin, and Su Song, and Hu Zongyu was dismissed by the court. Wang Shao wantonly deceived and created side affairs, and if he failed, he ignored them, and became a criminal border minister. Hope for the Holy Jianhu! ”

Wang Anshi was furious when he heard this.

Tang Kun impeached Wen Yanbo for forty major crimes, although it was very embarrassing, most of them were still a little shadowy, and Fan Zhen turned right and wrong upside down. Let's talk about Li Ding first, Li Ding is a student of Wang Anshi, and it's not bad that his mother died without a funeral. But Li Ding's mother Qiu was very special, she originally had a son, that is, the famous poet monk Buddha Yin of the Song Dynasty, that is, the three-year-old who could recite the "Analects" and the poems of various families, and the super prodigy who could recite 3,000 poems at the age of five, and Su Dongpo's good friend Buddha Yin. Later, she remarried to the Li family and gave birth to Li Ding. Then he remarried, remarried to the Cai family, and gave birth to Cai Nu, who is famous for his fine brushwork. Remarrying in the Song Dynasty is not the end of the world, not to mention that the great founding emperor of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Guo Weisi, married a widow and liked his wife, that is, Liu E was a remarried woman, no one dared to use this to say right and wrong, and Fan Zhongyan's mother. But according to the rules of Confucius, do not lose your mother. That is, Li Ding's mother remarried to the Cai family, that is, the people of the Cha family, not the Li family. Li Ding is right not to mourn for his mother, if he does, it will really make the world laugh. Why Fan Zhongyan can be worried, the reason is very simple, Fan's mother was kicked out of Zhu Shuo's family, and she is not from the Zhu family, so she can ask for mourning. Just like Zhao Shu, even if he rolls on his knees, no matter how cunning he is, he is not Zhao Yunrang's son, but Zhao Zhen and the son of Empress Dowager Cao.

Don't be surprised, Wang Yaping teaches in space, and is called a teacher by the editor, and netizens ridicule him, in fact, there is something wrong, how much is positive energy. But it's just not right. However, Sora Aoi is called a teacher by countless netizens. But there was no objection. Could it be that I learned from Mr. Cang how XXOO? Even if Teacher Cang is noble enough to be a teacher. Could it be that Wang Yaping's human nature is lower than that of Teacher Cang? Wouldn't that be even stranger? This is the concept of the people of the time!

The following series of personnel recalls are normal personnel transfers, what does it have to do with Li Ding, is it for Li Ding? To remove so many ministers?

Zheng Lang belittled Su Shi, and many people know the truth, because Su Shi's words and deeds are not brainy, and his living habits are very sloppy. deliberately let Su Shi go down to practice, and then worried that the salary would be low due to group training, and he was afraid that Su Shi would be used to spending lavishly and that the money would not be enough, so he asked the bank to remit 5,000 yuan for Su Shi's use. It is even more contradictory to say that Zheng Lang's three students are autocratic, and then to say that Su Shi is inappropriately depreciated.

Li Zhongshi and Wang Shao quarreled. Changed to Shuzhou, Shuzhou since the rise of Jiangdongwei. It is also an economic state of the Song Dynasty, which is not too aggrieved, and it is quite normal for officials to rise and fall, even Zheng Lang has made such a great contribution, and he has not stayed in Zhongshu all the time, on the contrary, he has stayed in Hegong from the south for nearly ten years, does Zheng Lang feel wronged?

In the end, Wang Shao's intention to open the side has already been discussed and unanimously agreed by everyone.

This is not the most vicious, the most vicious is to point the finger at the four members of the Zheng family, as well as the two Zeng Fu. If six people fall, it can be said that the reform will fail completely!

A person who admits death and ignores the overall situation. One is neurotic.

Zhao Ji was so angry that his heart ached.

Fan Zhen was still not satisfied, thought about it and said: "The minister played again, it was originally a new commercial tax law to harass the people, but the book has become a book, which makes local officials trouble, since April, the yaqian has been forcibly arrested and shackled in the front, and the wives and children have howled and cried in the back. He also made trouble at the border, and the border was not peaceful, but he sent four cool officials to investigate Hedong, Hebei, Shaanxi, and Jingxi Yintian, and the country's safety was in danger. ”

There are four people who presided over the inventory of Yintian, including Wang Anshi, who is also a cool official.

To people, to things, to destroy, to destroy everything!

Zhao Ji's face finally turned pale.

Tang Kun was very embarrassed, Zhao Wei only thought he was a neurotic, but Fan Zhen was not as simple as a neurotic.

After Fan Zhen finished speaking, he also calmly retreated.

A trace of sadness flashed in Sima Guang's eyes, Tang Kun may not be a psychopath, he may be gambling, and he will deal with it immediately after impeachment, and he can't escape the demotion. can help Zheng Lang and Wang Anshi, this is the return after the bet.

But he is a small person after all, and Fan Zhen is going to fight directly.

There is another layer of relationship, he and Fan Zhen have always had a good personal relationship, when Zheng Lang knew Hangzhou, he was also the magistrate of Hangzhou County, although he was influenced by Zheng Lang, he spoke privately at home, the temple must speak publicly, and the public and private should be separated, Fan Zhen was in a hurry, Sima Guang still didn't want to see it.

Turned his head and glanced at Zheng Lang.

Zhao Ji said for most of the day: "Fan Qing, do you know who recommended you to return to the Academy?" ”

"I don't know."

"It's Zheng Gongye."

"If it is Zheng Gong, the minister is willing to give a minister."

Zhao Ji's eyes were cold, and he said solemnly: "Fan Qing, you are also old, and if you have a heart, then go back and retire with peace of mind." ”

"Your Majesty," Fan Zhen said.

Zhao Ji stared at Wen Yanbo again and said, "Gong Wen, do you know who recommended you to return to Beijing again and again?" ”

Wen Yanbo is not as tough as Fan Zhen, and he is reluctant to degrade Luoyang, and he is reluctant to give up his pension, that's what he said, don't take it seriously. So he remained silent.

Zhao Ji continued to say coldly: "Duke Wen, I had a slight objection to this at that time, but Gong Zheng said that people have no long-term worries, they must have near-term concerns. The court was afraid of forming a party, and the harm of friends was worse than the eunuch dictatorship and foreign relatives interfering in politics. But I am also afraid that the court will form a hall of words, although the minister has no evil intentions, but he can't start this disaster, even if the minister knows that it will be more difficult to do things. Therefore, Fu Gong and Zeng Gong had different opinions from Wang Qing, Sima Qing, Wu Qing, and Lu Qing, and Zheng Gong still insisted on transferring many scholars and doctors who opposed the reform to the two governments, Taiwan, and two systems, so as to achieve different opinions and stir up different opinions, that is, each did not dare to do anything wrong. I obeyed, but every time I went to the third division or Xifu on the second and third watches, I couldn't bear to see Zheng Gong working. In the past, when I was in Yunzhou, I saw Zheng Gong swaying freely, and I could see a trace of Wei and Jin demeanor, and he was even more smiling and pleasant. But lately, I can't see it. I'm guilty. ”

The truth is revealed.

Why did Zheng Lang desperately transfer his political enemies to the two governments and two systems and Taiwan's advice, stirring up different opinions, each not daring to do evil, and monopolizing dictatorship! It has nothing to do with reform, but is afraid that the children and grandchildren will misunderstand, and there will be a Li Linfu in the country!

But in order to achieve this. How much does Zheng Lang pay?

Zhao continued: "The reporting system is strict. This is not the final intention. Fan Qing, you'll find out in some time. Although you are a minister, it is impossible for the state to take any action with your permission. to be implemented! ”

Stern to the extreme.

"The border is certainly peaceful, but Fan Qing, do you know how many households there are in the country now? How many households will be in ten years! This is the biggest crisis of the country. Zheng Gong is already thinking about this. Including the three roads in the north, the inventory of the hidden fields is a measure for the coming year, and the intention is not what you can know! ”

This sentence came out of nowhere, but it really woke everyone up.

Over the past few decades, the country has developed vigorously, driven by Zheng Lang, the emergence of Jiangdongwei, the development of the south, or the importance of breeding. The increase in large livestock has also led to an increase in grain production in the north. The country may be affected by disasters. The price of food has risen, but in general, people will not starve to death because of lack of food.

For example, this year, when the price of rice in the capital fell to its lowest point, it was only 500 yuan per stone, and many people sang praises of virtue, and Zheng Lang contributed a lot to it. But there is the flip side, because the population is increasing because of increased food production, the population is increasing faster. The number of households is gradually reaching 18 million. In the blink of an eye, you can run to 20 million households. Although the area of the Song Dynasty was small, the cultivated area was quite large, the output increased, and it was possible to support 20 million households, but if it continued to develop, what about 25 million households and 30 million households?

In fact, there are smart people who have seen the crisis.

For example, the phenomenon of shoveling tenants has increased, the speed of non-annexation has increased, under the control of the imperial court, in the annexation, but it is not so bad, mainly because the number of people has increased, resulting in land tension, and the main household has the confidence to repeatedly increase rent.

However, I don't quite understand, what does it have to do with the north?

The grain production in the north is limited, the space for reclamation is limited, and he vaguely knows that Zheng Lang is not willing to develop the north and Shaanxi in order to protect the water and soil. But there is little connection with the northern and western borders.

I couldn't figure it out, so I stared at Zheng Lang together.

Zheng Lang didn't speak.

This question is only known to a few people, Zhao Ji's mother and son, the two of them must explain, remember, this is the era of imperial power, these two people are the heaven of the Song Dynasty, the land of the Song Dynasty, without their consent, the consequences are very serious.

There is also Zeng Bu, Lu Huiqing is also talented, but he is a figure who eats the master, but Zheng Lang is very important to Zeng Bu. as well as several students. Let them know that it is also to adopt the strengths of others and supplement and improve.

Zhao Ji's following sentence is easy for everyone to understand: "There are many Han people on the border of Western Xia and Khitan, why is our dynasty not attractive?" It's not that I'm not rich, but the border is too bitter, and what they see and hear can't make their hearts move. ”

It's enough, for example, to recover the sixteen states of Youyun, more than half of the Khitan Youyun territory is Han Chinese, and half of them support it, not to mention the back, even Song Taizong can also take over the sixteen states of Youyun. If the Han people in the territory do not support it, it will be a big trouble in the future when they recover the sixteen states of Youyun.

Similarly, there were also many Han households in Western Xia.

But at this time, the national outlook is not strong, it doesn't matter if you are a Han or a Fan household, unless the difference in life is worlds apart, several countries have ruled for so many years, who is willing to surrender to you?

"Zheng Gong said that today's financial revenue is a little better, a few days ago he entered the palace to speak, and also persuaded me that in recent years, the country has punished malpractices and carried out various reforms, although a move will inevitably cause controversy, but everyone is very tired, and persuaded me not to reduce the degree of ministers this year, I once acquiesced, but today I am very disappointed!" Zhao Ji finished speaking in one breath, ignoring the court, waved the sleeves of his robe, and left the court.

Everyone's eyes widened.

Sima Guang looked at Fan Zhen and sighed slightly.

Fan Zhen is purely self-defeating, if there is no advice from him, with Tang Kun's neurosis, Wen Yanbo may not be able to go down, but with his advice, Wen Yanbo has to go down. And old friend, it seems that he has fallen into evil today!

Not only him, but many people looked at Fan Zhen and wanted to shake their heads.

said that Wang Shao was fine, said that Li Shizhong was fine, even if it was Li Ding, it didn't matter.

just said that Zheng Lang had four teachers and students.

Strictly speaking, it is a teacher-student relationship, but Zheng Lang has not recognized this teacher-student relationship since he was a teenager, but just said that we should learn from each other, help each other, and make friends as equals. Even if it's a teacher-student relationship. Take a look at Han Yi's eighth son, Lu Yijian's fourth son, Fan Zhongyan's third son, and. People of the Wen family. A member of the Daimyo Mansion's Sanhuai royal family. The people of the Wang family of Yucheng in Tianfu, the Zeng family, the Zhang family, and so on. The Song Dynasty had a system of avoiding suspicion. There are only two, the dearest person, this dearest relative is not five clothes, but three clothes. is also in Zhongshu as the prime minister of the Eastern Mansion, so he needs to avoid it, after all, the most important official position of the country is Zhongshu Zaizhi. The second one is that some people are in the Chinese book, and some people are admonishing in Taiwan, and they also need to avoid it. This evasion is even more serious, which is the reason why Fan Chunren is the envoy of supervision, rather than the real minister.

Others, or ambiguous teacher-student relationships like Zheng Lang, still need to be avoided, so the people of the Wen family and the Lu family don't want to live.

Fan Zhen offended not only Zheng Lang. It's a family of top scholars.

Besides, did the four teachers and students twist into one heart? wants to be autocratic, on the contrary, if it weren't for Zheng Lang in the middle, Sima Guang and Wang Anshi would have gone into battle a long time ago. Also, can Zeng Gongliang and Fu Bi be implicated?

Also, the deadliest one, what does Fan Zhen want to do? The country owes a huge burden, and the Western Xia has repeatedly invaded, whether economic or military, it is inseparable from Zheng Lang. If Zheng Lang is brought down, needless to say, the National Mansion is already tilting, then it is possible that from then on, the entire house will fall. In the past, I also had impeachment, but it was only against things, not people.

It seems that Lao Fan is confused today.

Zheng Lang walked up to Fan Zhen and said, "Jingren, when I was in Hangzhou, what you saw was that I liked to be eventful. When the emperor was the prime minister, I was very quiet, but you were not in the temple. This time I am the prime minister, you are in the temple, and you have seen me troubled again. Yes, my reform has brought a lot of controversy. I was very quiet during the reign of Emperor You, but I only had the merit of managing money, but the disadvantages of the country were increasing, and it was only because of the good finances that I was covered up. It's a move like a river worker to benefit the people, and it still causes a commotion, and it's still in power. Quiet and inactive, the world is governed, hello, I am good, he is good, who doesn't want to? However, there are several possibilities. Today, when people look at the Tang Dynasty, they are often called the former Fang Du, the later Yao Tang, although Yao Tang is good, it is the same as me in Huangyou, it is only repaired, the merger is serious, the government military system is damaged, and the Juntian system is destroyed, and these three major disadvantages have not been solved. If it is solved, how can it be used to make dictatorship, and how can it be the chaos of Anshi. Although I have caused all kinds of controversy in Hangzhou, what is Hangzhou like today? Don't you want the country to become an enlarged Hangzhou in the next few years? The Qingli dispute has become a national pain, and you still want to go back to this way? ”

Then he sighed and walked out.

The dispute between the court meeting has changed from the northwest to the dispute between Zheng Wen and the two.

It was very hurt and painful, Wen Yanbo was forced to be forced to stay any longer, he wrote to ask for release, Zhao Zhen allowed it, Fan Zhen had a good appetite, not only wanted to eat Zheng Lang and the four people, but also Zeng Fu, Zhao Yan mistakenly thought it was Wen Yanbo's idea, and was very displeased, and sent him to Luoyang for the elderly. Fan Zhen went directly to Shi, and Tang Kun sent it to the south.

Zheng Lang's side was also very hurt, Fan Zhen mentioned it, and it was somewhat taboo, Zeng Gongliang, Fu Bi, Lu Gongzhu, Sima Guang and Wang Anshi also wrote to ask for release.

This is impossible, Zeng Fu and the two seem to be unimportant, but they are actually very important, one is the banner, the other is to block the wind, and the third is to have deep qualifications, which can play a good role in stability. Wang Anshi is an important minister of reform, Sima Guang can play a link between reformers and conservatives, so that the court struggle will not deteriorate, Lu Gongzhu has a quiet personality, but he is a son of the Lu family, with him, he can play a role in compromise with the wealthy. And all six of them are talented.

There is actually another problem. If the teachers and students avoid it, and don't talk about the consequences, let's talk about talents, a group of old ministers are withered first, and there will be no more than twenty people who can serve as prime ministers, and the five teachers and students of Zheng Lang, including Fan Chunren, can be said to be located among them. No matter how you avoid it, you can't get around it.

It's a good thing and it's a bad thing.

Zhao Ji is not allowed, Zeng Gongliang has repeatedly asked for resignation, it has really made him feel very tired in the past few years, the quarrel is almost endless, and he has been arguing since he was in peacetime, this quarrel is seven or eight years long, and he has served as the prime minister for nearly ten years, according to the rules, it is also time to go down.

not only wrote a few resignation letters in a row, but also begged Zheng Lang, I am old, I am over 70 years old, let me take a breath. Zheng Lang was helpless and asked Zeng Gongliang to sentence Ying Tianfu. and let Lu Gong sentence the Yongxing Army. The main privy envoy is fine if he does not reveal it, and it is a bit taboo to reveal it.

Under the three phases, even if Chen Shengzhi won the love, it was not yet a hundred days, so Zhao Ji made another personnel transfer. Let Wang Qi serve as the governor.

With the transfer of personnel, Fu Bi is a scholar of Zhaowenguan University and serves as a Pingzhang matter, anyway, Zheng Lang will not serve as prime minister, so he has to let someone in front of him stand up. Wu Chong was a privy envoy. He also ordered Cai Ting to return to Beijing and serve as a privy deputy envoy.

Dongfu became Fu Bi, Zheng Lang, Wang Anshi, and Wang Qi. Xifu became Wu Chong, Sima Guang, Wu Jing, and Cai Ting.

It is very beneficial to Zheng Lang. There is no appeal of Wen Yanbo. The hearts of the opposition were leaderless, and they dispersed. Besides, Wang Jue has a soft personality, and after Wu Chong was enlightened by Zhao Xuan, although there was still some displeasure in his heart. But gradually he is not evil with Zheng Lang. Not to mention Cai Ting, who is one of Zheng Lang's die-hard supporters.

But it's not necessarily a good thing.

Zheng Lang also proposed that Lu Dafang be the privy deputy envoy, which was a good official. Honest and outspoken, both military and civilian, but a little slighted against the reformers. In short, Zheng Lang tried his best to make the court unable to become a hall of words, even if it was a little difficult for him.

In fact, at this time, coupled with Zheng Lang's sentence "dissenting opinions are directly stirred, that is, each party must not do anything wrong" spread out, and more people respected Zheng Lang. Of course, the whistleblowing system still brings huge opposition. But then put it away.

After three days of arduous negotiations, Zheng Lang and more than 80 businessmen each took a step back.

Day 1. Zheng Lang said that the imperial court took a step back and reduced the amount of fines and confiscations for reporting.

General cargo by the original two, three or four times fine. It becomes double, one and a half times, and twice the slash. However, luxury goods are small in size and easy to turn into "parallel goods", and the system of fines and confiscations is still strict.

The merchants are not satisfied, even if the fine is doubled, one and a half times, the number of their business at that time is not a few thousand, the largest can reach tens of thousands, and the loss of that confiscation is huge.

The next day, Zheng Lang proposed another plan, reducing the residential tax from 3% to 2%, and the maximum upper limit of the tax is three ways. That is, the commercial tax is between 2 percent and 8 percent. The former is a real tax reduction, and the latter is for the benefit of remote merchants, such as from Chengdu Fulu to Jingshi, the transportation cost by water is very low, but it has to pass through the jurisdiction of the sixth and seventh roads, and the tax alone reaches more than ten percent.

The second is to take care of Haoqiang, they also have their reasons, where to levy what taxes in the past, even the two taxes will not be paid, and now even the commercial tax is also levied, and it is inevitable that they will not be satisfied. Therefore, Zheng Lang made a compromise, and if the single cargo reached 5,000, the commercial tax would be halved. That is, small and medium-sized businessmen pay a tax of 1,000 yuan, and these large families only pay 500 yuan because of the large number of goods. The imperial court also has a step down, not to say that it compromises with Haoqiang, but to encourage the circulation of goods, and the circulation of a large number of goods can not only bring tax revenue to the country, but also help the stability of prices in various places.

The tax reduction for these goods includes luxury goods. But excluding two goods, one is tea, the other is alum, after the original monopoly was changed to commercial tax, the income of the two phases is only barely equal, if the tax is allowed again, then the tea alum trade law may fail.

This is Zheng Lang's bottom line.

As for the reporting system, Zheng Lang is uncompromising, he can reduce taxes, and then take further care of taxes, but he doesn't want to stop the reporting system, otherwise no matter how it is reduced, tax avoidance will still occur in various places, which is also one of Zheng Lang's bottom lines, and it is impossible to make any compromises. But after this proposal was made, the eyes of these business representatives flashed.

Zheng Lang said again: "In addition, I will make further concessions. ”

That is the handling of fines.

In just eight months, the goods confiscated and the fines amounted to nearly seven million yuan. Half of them are awarded to relevant whistleblowers and officials, can you not be blushing? Some people can get thousands of dollars after reporting it once. How many people will be targeted? Therefore, in only eight months, the fine reached more than 7 million yuan, and the fine alone reached almost 1 million yuan per month, which can be imagined as the following sensation. In fact, it has not been strictly enforced, and many officials have covered it up, otherwise this amount will be doubled.

Half of the money becomes a reward, and when it goes to a private pocket, it is impossible to take it back.

The other half, Zheng Lang, on behalf of the imperial court, did not want to embezzle it, so he chose it, and returned half to the various punished masters, slightly soothing some of the anger in their hearts. Another half is deposited in the bank and divided into ten years, and about 200,000 yuan can be withdrawn every year as a teacher.

Then let Liangguang, Jinghu South Road and Kuixia Fourth Road slightly civilized areas, open local schools, this money is not out of the imperial court, if the local barbarian and Tibetan departments are not even willing to pay for the school, where the gentleman goes, it is very likely that he will not respect, and some bad things will happen.

The school was built at the expense of various localities, and then the bank handed over the money to the charity association, which gave each person an annual salary of 200 yuan, and hired the first children of schools in the neighboring areas to teach. Then you can hire a thousand sons, open three or four hundred schools, and further civilize the barbarians in the border areas.

The money was not transferred to the schools in the name of fines, but in the name of donations, and the schools were hired to hire teachers. If these confiscated merchants perform better. You can use it as a donation in the future. Enter the ranks of good households.

Lianghu was also promoted by Zheng Lang. In the end, administrative means have fallen behind. Therefore, Zheng Lang slowly made some changes to Haoqiang's greed through various inducements. This is what the master said about morality, and what Zheng Lang said about governing the country, but it is difficult. It can only be said that it is better to do it than not to do it well. However, the distribution of the share deed of the supervisor did play a very good role.

Each supervisory deed is given priority to good households, as long as they enter the good households. It means that there will be more opportunities to make a fortune. Use this to force Haoqiang to slow down the merger, and not to do evil.

In this way, not only get a righteous name, but also get a chance to enter the ranks of good households, although the fine is great, the loss is large, it can be regarded as further compensation. The compromise was sincere.

More people moving.

But the day has not been negotiated.

Then, on the third day, a new plan was proposed, agreeing that the imperial court would continue to implement the whistleblowing system. However, I asked Zheng Lang to give in again. That is, if the payment for the goods reaches 20,000 yuan, the tax will be reduced to one-third. If it reaches 50,000 yuan. reduced to a quarter. If this is the case, they will represent the merchants in various places, and will no longer resist the taxation of the imperial court, on the contrary, they will be very cooperative.

Zhang Fangping, who accompanied him, asked curiously: "You merchants, how many times can the payment exceed 50,000 yuan?" ”

In the Song Dynasty, there were many businessmen who did a big business, and some of them could reach millions of dollars a year. But this is a single trip, what is the concept of 50,000 cargo?

Zheng Lang also hesitated for a while, and finally said reluctantly: "Okay, agreed." ”

"Gong Zheng, please issue an edict." The merchants were overjoyed and immediately spoke.

Of course, they are still not happy to pay the tax, but if it is reduced to a quarter, it is still bearable, for example, for 50,000 goods, the average tax is 6 percent, that is, 3,000 yuan, and now it is only 750 yuan. Although the tax was paid, it was almost negligible compared to the 3,000 yuan.

"You are all merchants, the most lowly group in the past, but you can force the imperial court to this point, it can be said that it is the first time since the history of civilization in China that it is groundbreaking, but the imperial court will not make any concessions in the future." Zheng Lang said stupidly.

"Whoa." Many people were also ashamed and replied in unison.

Zheng Lang took Zhang Fangping back to draft the edict.

Zhao Ji breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's finally over." ”

is a little melancholy, if it weren't for Wen Yanbo and everyone to oppose it, it could be delayed for a period of time, and every month of delay would be equivalent to adding a lot of income to the imperial court. And he said, "That's fine." ”

Zhang Fangping was still a little puzzled.

Zheng Lang smiled and said: "An Dao, this is what I thought in April, when I heard about the Zhongjiang tragedy, I sent a small official to calculate the business tax revenue account book, and I was originally going to resign from the post of the third secretary. can see the decline in commercial taxes, and then there are these powerful lawlessness, stay in the third division, and then come up with this solution. ”

"What's the solution?"

"It's not complicated to say it," Zheng Lang said. The method is very simple, it is impossible to let the officials strengthen the investigation, but there is one thing, that is, officials, using the acceptance of reports as the official's political achievements, officials will be forced to carry out the information of the whistleblower, and forcibly check these powerful goods. And then there's the huge amount of reports. No matter how lax the imperial court is, as long as the government decree has always protected whistleblowers, the atmosphere of whistleblowing will not stop.

All the merchants will be disappointed.

The imperial court was not greedy for this fine, and many ministers even impeached it, but in fact, Zheng Lang insisted that he would not use this fine from the beginning to the end. A gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way. The same is true of the state, even if it seeks wealth, it must follow the right path. If you make money by fines, you are going down the wrong path.

Therefore, Zheng Lang returned half of it and used it to hire a teacher, not because it was an idea, but an idea that he had a long time ago, and he also said it to Zhao Ji.

It's not the fines that are needed, but the fear and disappointment of the businessmen. If there is no such toss, even if Zheng Lang proposes this kind of compromise, these heroes may not agree. After a lot of tossing, many people were punished and almost went bankrupt, so the compromise came, and it was a very generous one, and everyone agreed.

It's not complicated to say, but it's not that simple to execute.

Several years of reform have caused many controversies, and this time it is not a reform, but a fine-tuning, but this is the most controversial. Otherwise, they would not have forced Wen Yanbo, Feng Jing, Fan Zhen and others to attack Zheng Lang at the court meeting.

In Sima Guang's words, it's like dancing on the tip of a knife.

There is another secret, Zheng Lang asked Zhang Fangping not to spread it, that is, Infernal Affairs.

Zheng Lang is in power in various places, attaches great importance to commerce, and there are also eunuchs, as well as the development of the south, he will not have much friendship with merchants, but there are some contacts, and some merchants are not evil. For example, among the dozens of businessmen who came this time, several of them had dealt with Zheng Lang.

Zheng Lang secretly sent someone to inform them, so that they seemed to be on the side of the businessman, bargaining with him, such as the upper limit of the tax is three ways, the back 20,000 yuan is reduced to one-third, and the 50,000 yuan is reduced to one-quarter, it is not the businessman's idea, but Zheng Lang deliberately let these people negotiate with other businessmen, represent the interests of the businessman, and put forward the conditions to himself.

During this time, everyone was wronged, and the court negotiated with them, as Zheng Lang said, at least to make them feel respected, and it seems that there has never been a similar case in history. Secondly, the conditions were all put forward by them, and the imperial court also met them one by one. After the factual conditions were proposed, they got a great advantage, on the contrary, the court was wronged, so there was no complaint about the new business tax from then on. There will be controversy, but not too much.

When Zhang Fangping heard this, he said in his heart, no wonder the emperor said that Zheng Lang had good intentions, and you will know it in a few days. But he still didn't quite understand, and asked: "Xingzhi, even so, it is very rare for a single trip to exceed 5,000 yuan, let alone 50,000 yuan." They're cheap, it's not easy to get it. (To be continued.) )