There are not many people who know the inside story, and through various means, it creates an illusion. What is one plus five, six, if it is a question and answer question, it must be six. But now it's not a question and answer question, it's a multiple-choice question, one is five, one is one, and one is ten, and people choose one of them. Everyone may have their own answers, but there is no doubt that when there is no choice, there are many people who do not choose or who ask questions, but there will be a few who choose five.

This is a simple multiple-choice question, if it is placed on the cumbersome national politics, the answer will not be uniform, and there will be more people in the middle.

Officials are redundant, government decrees are not smooth, it must be moved, and it is impossible to step on the spot, even if they think it is possible, they dare not say it. A few people will insist on Zheng Lang's original statement, and they will not dare to say it. This is the basis for Zhengda Guangming to increase redundant officials.

So how to make a choice, Zhao Ji gave a third answer.

Many ministers did not know the inside story and echoed it.

Anyway, no matter how much they cut, these bigwigs will not move, and of course, there are many people who have small calculations in their hearts.

Fu Bi hesitated and said, "Gong Zheng, be careful." ”

He vaguely felt that Zheng Lang would have bigger moves in the future, and he was a little worried in his heart.

Zheng Lang glanced at Fu Bi.

It can't be said that Fu Bi is a bad person, and now Zheng Lang will not judge people by good or bad, is Han Qi a bad person? It's just a strongman who can't get rid of vulgar greed and power. As the status of the rich and the money of the rich family, his concept will inevitably be conservative.

Said patiently: "Your Majesty, Yanguo, and the princes, Uncle Ouyang Yong said a word in front of the river worker, can people win the sky?" I am saying here that man cannot conquer the heavens, at least not for now. For example, if the sky is dry, who can make it rain, and the sky will be earthquake. There is an eclipse of the sun. Who can keep the earth from earthquakes? There is no eclipse, no rain, no wind, less summer, autumn and winter a year? The yang is the yin and the yin is coming. Therefore, Lao Tzu said that prosperity must decline. But it can conform to the way of heaven and stay for a certain period of time, the Zhou Dynasty was founded for 800 years, and the Tang Dynasty was founded for 300 years. If our Song Dynasty did better, could we establish a country for a thousand years? Many people say that manpower is better than the sky, and they actually diverted the Yellow River. No, the productivity of the Han Dynasty was far less than that of our dynasty, and the Yellow River could be diverted, and our Great Song Dynasty? All I do is rely on the heavens, the earth, and the waterways to make some adjustments. It is not a forcible change of heaven and earth. To the heavens, to the earth. To our ancestors, to the sages of the previous generations, and to the people who raised us, we should be grateful, we should be afraid, we should think about their thoughts, their strengths, and adjust them in time. The people live and work in peace and contentment, the soldiers are brave and good at fighting, and the reason for my dynasty is peace. In particular, I have never seen anything rich, so we must be in awe of the ancestral family law. ”

"Qing's words are reasonable," Zhao said. said that the ancestor of the Zhao family was good, of course he was happy.

The problem is here, it is obviously a reform, but it keeps hanging on the ancestral family law, and then think about Wang Anshitian is fearless, the law of the ancestors can be changed, what kind of consequences will the two phases cause?

If you want to reform, you have to be humble. Is it really that easy?

There is a good example in the previous life, the reform of the USSR, the disintegration, the poor life of the people of the country, the oligarchy. Relatively speaking, China's responsibility contracting system, let the following do it, can contract, can commune, let the cadres let the people compare, and then say that the black cat and the white cat catch the mouse is a good cat, first let some people get rich, some people get rich, and the rigid thinking is turned alive together. The country's transformation has been successful, and stability has also been ensured. What great wisdom this is.

Subsequently, the system was developing, and this part of the people got rich first, unscrupulous means, bringing about many unfairness, the people's idea of worshipping money is serious, the gap between the rich and the poor is serious, and so on. Of course, it's easy to say, but it's so hard to see it in the middle of the game.

But the superiority of the two phases can be judged immediately. But few people have thought about it seriously.

There are many examples like this in Chinese history.

For example, the Qin Yifa family won the world and won the world, but they did not correct it in time, resulting in the death of the second emperor.

The Song Dynasty was more, and Zheng Lang said one of them next: "To govern the world, the king is the brain and the heart, but you need the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hands and feet to listen to and smell to execute last year, which requires a scholar." The ancestors knew that they could win the world immediately, but they could not rule the world immediately. To rule the world, you have to have a doctor. Therefore, the ancestral legal system was established, not to kill scholars, but to give preferential treatment to them, so that scholars and doctors could serve the country wholeheartedly. However, the scholar had a misunderstanding. The interests and rights of the world are a whole, the emperor, the relatives of the clan, the powerful and the nobles, as well as the ordinary people, the cornerstone of the country. Originally, scholars and magnates were treated preferentially, but in any case, their families lived far more affluently than ordinary people. Even if Fan Wenzheng's father and son are unparalleled in the world, they are still better than ordinary people. ”

Everyone turned their heads to look at Fan Chunren together.

I have to admit that ordinary people can't do it at all if they are as simple as the Fan brothers. That's it, it's better than the common people.

"The magnates and scholars gain the lion's share of the rights and benefits, and the other is weakened, the king and the common people. Giving the scholar rights and a large amount of money can guarantee the absolute loyalty of the scholar? No, otherwise the ancestral family law will not be decentralised and hollowed out layer by layer. But what will happen if the people can't live? Even if a king like Renzong loves the people like a son, the people will not survive and will become thieves! Only when the people of the whole country can live and work in peace and contentment can the country be stable and the Zhao clan can be passed on. However, because the imperial court attaches great importance to scholars, the so-called ancestral family law is tilting towards scholars and magnates bit by bit. Including the number of officials and policies, regardless of whether the country's economy can withstand it, how much pressure ordinary people will have. Ladies and gentlemen, the master cultivates benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, and wisdom, and he also has to say that he is in the middle, and he must also say that he is in the middle, what is the middle? People are content too. The officials are densely packed, and they are humble to their children, protégés and family guests, but this bit of drawbacks is difficult to return, that is, the day of the fall of our Song Dynasty. Ladies and gentlemen, for your own sake, I hope that you will not think about Your Majesty, but also for your own children and grandchildren. It's just that I don't think about my children and grandchildren, please think about it again, why do I pay more attention to literature and ignore military force? It was the Anshi Rebellion and the disaster of the division of the feudal town. Because scholars and doctors hinder the country, how will we view Confucianism and scholars after a few years? Please restore the true ancestral family law. ”

Don't take it seriously, the ancestral family law is based on the Zhao family and the people of the world, and if you really don't even care about the throne, you must put the scholar doctor in the first place, Zhao Kuangyin brother is stupid. Now the ancestral family law that everyone keeps saying is not the real ancestral family law at all.

Including this redundancy.

Zhao Kuangyin attaches great importance to scholars, but lets the state support twenty or thirty thousand officials. Hundreds of thousands of formal officials?

Zheng Lang finished speaking. Solemnly arched his hand.

Fu Bi couldn't make a sound. The rich family has millions of dollars. Zheng Lang said that the word contentment, the rich family is suspected of being under the melon field.

Wang Anshi said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Zheng Gong said is reasonable. Now we have the pressure of the Western Xia Khitan, and there are all kinds of shortcomings in the country. Trapped inside and weak outside, it is like a car walking on a mountain road with difficulty, the mountain is densely covered with thorns and rocks. Now there is a big problem with the car again. If you don't stop for major repairs, it won't be long before the car collapses. ”

Not the car, but the whole country will perish.

At first glance, it seems unlikely, although there was a financial crisis in the Song Dynasty, as long as the king did something to resolve the crisis, the domestic contradictions were not sharp enough to revolt everywhere. However, if it is not governed, it will continue like this, and it will not take much to lose money in ten years. The state will inevitably disintegrate.

Zeng Gongliang raised his eyes and said, "Your Majesty, how to control it?" ”

Temperance is inevitable. Since Zhao Ji issued an edict to reflect on the rule of Xianping, many ministers have mentioned this problem of redundant officials. The public discussion is louder. Layoffs must be cut some, but how much and how?

Zhao Ji said: "This is the note presented by Wang Anshi, Lu Huiqing and the officials of the three divisions, please take a look." ”

The eunuch handed down a very thick paper.

When Zheng Lang first came to Beijing, Zhao Ji talked to Zheng Lang about some things that happened before Zheng Lang arrived in Beijing.

The reorganization of Taiwan is Zheng Lang's intention, but before Zheng Lang said this, Sima Guang had written a book, hearing that His Majesty likes to use ministers to interview foreign affairs and whether the ministers can do so, the ministers think it is not right, His Majesty has two provinces and two provinces to admonish Taiwan, and there are ministers who are transferred to the pastor, and they are all ministers of the heart. As long as you choose a good person and take up his own position, His Majesty will know the affairs of the world in the ninth fold.

Zhao Ji may not have listened to much of the eunuch's words, this is Sima Guang's euphemistic advice, so that Zhao Ji can listen to the voice of the minister.

The earthquake in Beijing in August, this is not a trivial matter in ancient times, Zhao Ji summoned the ministers to enter the right, Zeng Gongliang replied: "The sky is cracked, the yang is insufficient, the earthquake, there is more than yin." Zhao Ji asked who was yin. Zeng Gongliang said: "The yin of the minister, the yin of the father, the yin of the father, and the yin of China, all should be abstained." The answer was very vague, he was a good man, and he didn't want to offend people. Wu Kui said: "But for the villain's ears." ”

Zhao Ji felt very unhappy at the time. Grandma, you've become a thief and shouting to catch a thief.

Yonghou Linggui began the first step of reorganization, quite stressful, Zhao Ji listened to Zheng Lang's advice and did it very carefully, and he had not yet started with the five phases at that time. asked Sima Guang: "Whenever the imperial court has a removal, everyone has a lot of words, and it is not a good thing for the imperial court." ”

Sima Guang said: "This is a beautiful thing for the imperial court, knowing people, it is difficult for Emperor Yao, and His Majesty is newly enthroned, in case of a treacherous evil, if the Taiwan admonition is silent, how does Your Majesty know it?" ”

Zhao Jicai asked in his heart: "Is Wu Kui attached to the prime minister?" ”

asked Zheng Lang, Zheng Lang did not answer, let's see if Sima Guang has an answer. Sima Guang also said unceremoniously: "I don't know. ”

Zhao Ji asked the second sentence again: "Who is the prime minister or the master of the knot?" ”

"The prime minister is treacherous, but he wants to cater to him, and he who is inclined to follow the people is also treacherous."

Zhao Ji knew, so he decided to stop Wu Kui.

Later, Zheng Lang went to Beijing, and Zhao Ji thought of one thing, it is not right to attach the master, it is not right to attach the prime minister, so who is attached? Fall into the misunderstanding, not this is the choice, one plus one is two, not zero and five. Therefore, Zheng Lang explained to him again what loyalty is and what is flattery, and took out the loyalty and forgiveness he wrote for further details. There is no way, Zhao Ji is too young and has little life experience, even if he writes it plainly and does not explain it specifically, it is still difficult to understand it.

Again, we talked about how to use people.

Behind the screen, Gao Tao asked: "Gong Zheng, what should Lu Huiqing do?" ”

Zheng Lang said that it was not Zhao Ji who benefited the most, he was young and could only eat three or four percent, but Gao Tao could eat six or seven percent. Whenever Zheng Lang came to speak, Gao Taotao hid behind the curtain or behind the screen to listen. Zhao Ji laughed and laughed, and there was no objection, his mother benefited, at least when he encountered difficulties, he returned to the harem and had someone to discuss.

Zheng Lang replied calmly: "Queen Mother, Lu Huiqing has more than enough, but not enough morality." Similar to Xia Zhu and Wang Qinruo. ”

It's not a bad thing, in fact, Zheng Lang has a very high evaluation of Wang Xia and the others. He also said: "It can be reused, the three divisions and the governor can be awarded, but the prime minister who cannot be awarded, even if he listens to his words, he must listen to his words, not listen to his words." Otherwise, you can't use this person well. Zhenzong uses Wang Qinruo. More or less misstepping. How Renzong uses Xia Zhu. Your Majesty and the Queen Mother can make good use of Lu Huiqing. ”

He can listen to it when he performs, but most of the things that go to people are not a good thing, so don't take it seriously.

Gao Tao asked again: "Who should be the prime minister?" ”

Believe Zheng Lang. If Han Qi was here, Gao Tao would never ask, I am the prime minister, what do you want to do when you ask the prime ministers in the DPRK?

Zheng Lang also calmly replied: "Prime Minister Cai." Fu Gong and Zeng Gong are both different, but there are, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Lv Dafang, Fan Chunren, Lv Gong, Liu Zhi, Wu Chong. But these people have obvious shortcomings, and Wang Anshi is too stubborn. Sima Guang is too wise, and Lu Dafang is too stubborn. Fan Chunren is too modest, Lu Gongshu is too gentle, Liu Zhi is too bone, and Wu Chongcai is slightly lower. These people all need to be polished before they can be reused. ”

Gao Tao couldn't say anything for a long time, among the several people Zheng Lang said, although Wu Chong's son married Wang Anshi's daughter, he was close to Ouyang Xiu, Liu Zhi has not officially made a career now, but is Han Qi's protégé. Four others were students of Zheng Lang.

It is an ancient style to raise people without avoiding relatives and enemies, and what can be done is only Zheng Lang reluctantly.

After a long time, he asked, "What is Qing's short?" ”

"The minister's shortness is too much, the thinking is too dense, the softness, the career is a little light, and that incident is the biggest dirt in the minister's life."

aroused Zhao Ji's suspicion again.

Gao Tao asked, "What kind of talent are there among the younger generations?" ”

The son is frizzy, and the country is like this, and now he can't tell the truth to his son, Gao talked and diverted the topic. Zheng Lang replied truthfully: "The ministers first came to the middle school, and the juniors didn't know it. ”

This notebook was written by Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing under Zheng Lang's instructions.

There are many disadvantages in the country, but redundancy is the top priority. Not only officials, but also officials. Therefore, according to Sima Guang's notebook, he re-examined and wrote a report. Since Zheng Lang wanted to reorganize, he also said how to reorganize, and the posts were bound according to this reorganized department.

If there is no basis for the true sect, once the 25,000 officials are reduced to 10,000, it will pierce the sky. It is also unlikely that according to the story of the Shinshu period, first of all, because of the diversion, the local officials could not save 8,000 people. In addition, according to the previous rules, more than 100 officials had to be sent to preside over the newly established prisons, but it certainly cannot be as many as the current number of prisons has increased by more than 500 officials.

First of all, the Beijing officials, nearly 4,000 in the capital, became 1,600 on their report. Together with local officials, there are more than 15,600 officials. If Zheng Lang's diversion is not taken into account, it is possible that they will save 12,300 officials, which is half of them.

is only an official, and there is also a big head, officials, yamen and servants.

In the past, there was a saying that servants were called servants, including the officials of various departments, the officials, the heads of the households, the archers, the ferrymen, and so on. Among them, it is difficult to distinguish between the Baoding, the village soldiers, the native soldiers and the archers. Zheng Lang had made some reforms before, and the soldiers of the formal nature were soldiers, which were transferred by the three yashu, such as the township soldiers, and the archers, native soldiers, and baoding were militia natures and were under local jurisdiction. After all, the conditions given by the state are very limited, the first is exempt from rent, and the second is to give a small amount of weapons and a small amount of subsidies. And these people are the strength and pillars of the family, if they only care about training, there will be a crisis in the life of the family.

Han Qi's righteousness and courage also belong to this nature, but it has lost its original relief nature, seriously delaying Shaanxi's agricultural production.

In this way, Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing will not move. Because of the limited subsidy, the border areas and some impoverished areas have not yet implemented a law on exemption from military service, and these militias are mainly concentrated in the border areas. It doesn't make much sense to move.

It is the latter who moves, the various officials, and the strong men.

In the past, the law on exemption from military service was extended to almost four-fifths of the prefectures and counties in the country, and the prefectures and prefectures were divided into three classes, the first class of states was the wealthy state capitals, and a little extra tax-free money was paid, the second class was self-sufficient, and the third class was subsidized with the surplus money of the wealthy state capitals. The imperial court does not touch this benefit, and makes it self-sufficient. This is different from the nature of Wang Anshi, in the history of Wang Anshi's exemption from military service, he obtained more than 104 million yuan of wealth, and the expenditure was only 6.4 million yuan, with a surplus of 4 million.

The statistical method is also incorrect, including the archers, only the village soldiers and baoding were discarded, nearly 540,000 people, and only 430,000 after the reduction. This time, the two of them calculated 440,000 people, but the actual number is not more, not including the areas and archers who still practice the errand service law, in fact, because of Zheng Lang's promotion, economic development, an increase of nearly 40,000 people compared with history. If you include the border areas, as well as the 160,000 Shaanxi volunteers that Zheng Lang has just abolished, the number is even larger.

There must be many reasons why a black hole is so big. Otherwise, how could there be such a big black hole?

Originally, the exemption law was a good thing, but because of the destruction of the exemption law, all errand servants were hired, especially those with higher salaries, which increased this black hole. In the same way, it is easy to cut a low strong man, but it is more difficult to cut a small official. But it is more difficult than laying off officials.

Wang Lu and the two took the officials of the three divisions to count and check, and compared the number of people in the reign of Huang You with the number of people in various states and counties now, a total of more than 140,000 officials were laid off this time.

If it is successfully realized, it will undoubtedly save a lot of money for the imperial court.

But after a turn, many ministers shook their heads and were silent, and Zhao Yi said: "Although Jiefu and Jifu have good intentions, if they really do this, the world will definitely be in an uproar." ”

Lu Huiqing said: "Xianping has laid off 195,000 people in four years, but this time it has only reduced 150,000 people, the redundant officials are far higher than Xianping, the national crisis is far more serious than Xianping, but the number of people is less than Xianping, why not?" Is it tacit to the state finances like this? Zhao Gong is also wrong. ”

Zhao was silent.

The whole world is in turmoil, demanding the reduction of officials, can you oppose it? Lu Huiqing said paranoidly, but Zhiping stayed in Dongfu for several years, and it is unlikely that he is not wrong. The main reason is that this financial crisis has made everyone unable to raise their heads, so that Zhao Yi does not dare to explain. But if it goes on like this, it will have to be a big mess. Boy, don't think about making meritorious contributions, this merit is not so easy to establish. So he looked at Zheng Lang, he didn't believe that Zheng Lang would agree to this unwise approach.

Zheng Lang smiled slightly.

A rare smile.

Especially the snow-white hair, which makes people feel a lot of emotion.

Zheng Lang is not so conscious, redundant officials and redundant politics are almost sister products, although they are different, if you want to solve redundant politics, you must first solve redundant officials. Therefore, the two moves in parallel are to reduce the number of officials, and the other is to actually divide and reorganize, clarify the division of labor, make the best use of talents, and the government decrees will become smooth, and the waste of all parties will also be reduced. This was followed by a series of reforms, but first the layoffs and reorganization of officials had to be carried out.

The most difficult level, whoever touches it will die. It's not that there is no way, looking at Zhao Ji with his eyes.

Zhao Ji said: "There is also a notebook here, let's take a look at it again." ”

That is, Zheng Lang's notebook, the ultimate weapon. (To be continued.) )