Chapter 076: Tailor-made
In fact, what Yang Yi put forward in the Baowen Pavilion was nothing more than two points. The first is to immediately shift the focus from attacking political opponents to the implementation of new policies; The second point is to treat the old party differently, and to crack down on such culprits as Sima Guang first and foremost, and never be soft. As for Fan Renchun, Su Shi, and other ministers of the old party who are hopeful and more worthy of fighting, they should try their best to reduce the resistance to the implementation of the new policy.
Fan Renchun and Su Shi are both world-famous figures, even if they don't fully agree with the new policy, as long as they have limited support, they can lead countless conservatives to defect, at least their resistance will not be so fierce.
In the original history, Zhang Dian did a very failed job at this point, they did carry out indiscriminate attacks, the old party's heads and brains were almost all degraded to death, Su Shi did not die, and it was only after Zhao Ji ascended the throne that he was able to return from Hainan Island.
Maybe they don't know the series of means of attacking, dividing, and co-opting, but they just lose themselves in hatred.
Love can make people crazy, and hate can also make people lose their minds.
Now Yang Yi stood in the perspective of an outsider, put forward another plan, and there is a reason, Zhao Xu was immediately moved after hearing it, even Zhang Duan was silent, speaking from his heart, if it is based on the New Deal, Yang Yi's plan is undoubtedly much better than a comprehensive crackdown, and it is much more beneficial to the New Deal!
But obviously, it is not easy to convince Zhang Shangying that they are not an easy task, no matter how well Yang Yi said it, they still have a clear attitude and strong opposition, perhaps in their opinion, the current liquidation is just the beginning, and even the principal has not been recovered, let alone the interest for nine years.
These people's emotions must be taken care of, compare their hearts to their hearts, if they have been wronged for nine years, once they turn over, it is impossible to immediately forget the pain and grievances they have suffered, after all, there are not many nine years in life, and the new deal they have devoted all their efforts to being ruthlessly destroyed is even more heart-wrenching, and Yang Yi does not plan to persuade them at one time that they have to eat one bite at a time!
In fact, Yang Yi understands that intellectually Zhang Shangying and they have already agreed with his strategy, but they can't accept it emotionally for a while, otherwise their current attitude towards themselves is not only fierce opposition, but must be extremely hateful and denounced as a traitor!
Yang Yi saw this, and didn't blindly argue with them, Zhao Xu also saw this, although he was moved, he didn't act immediately, everything needs time to reconcile!
There is a debate over whether the old party should be treated differently, but there is no objection to the resumption of the new policy as soon as possible, because the new policy is the banner of the new party, and if the banner is not raised, everyone will lose their direction and righteousness.
The next day, Zeng Bu, a scholar from Hallym University, wrote a letter, asking for a reinstatement of the exemption from the law of money and the protection of the armor, and the abolition of the ten branches of the law, so that the jinshi would study the scriptures and the righteousness, and the ban on Wang's words would be lifted.
Zhao Xu used treasure to order the world.
It is not surprising that the revival law has long been expected by people in the world, but what is puzzling is that the exemption law and the green seedling law, which are the core of Wang Anshi's reform, have not moved.
In the Baowen Pavilion, including Yang Yi, the newly baked 'traitorous minister', a number of 'traitorous ministers' have been holding meetings for ten consecutive days, and Zhao Xu, the 'faint king', despite his illness, always insists on meeting for several hours a day until the end, and even Cai Bian temporarily put down the compilation of the "Records of the Divine Sect" and joined this important topic, Su Song is the only minister who does not belong to the new party and is fortunate to participate in the Baowen Pavilion meeting.
Yang Yi has become the absolute protagonist these days, because the topic is the unified service he proposed, which will be attributed to the land, collected by the mu, changed the forced labor to hired labor, and the government will uniformly draw money from the tax and hire people to serve on behalf of him, so as to limit the harshness and make the tax stable.
This is his strategy during the imperial examination, and feeling the toughness of Zhao Xu, Zhang Dun, Zhang Shangying and others, Yang Yi once again threw out the supplementary proposal of 'the official gentry pay for food'. It can be said that these six words are the core, and they are an effective way to solve the problem of more and more concentrated land and less and less taxes in the imperial court.
In order to carry it out, it is necessary to have a tenacious emperor, a fierce prime minister, and a group of ministers who are persevering for the new policy, so that it is possible to consistently implement the decree.
Replaced Emperor Shenzong and Wang Anshi, absolutely not, Shenzong's character was not decisive enough, and his hesitation led to Wang Anshi's ups and downs; Wang Anshi was not strong enough, he was too gentle with his political opponents, so that the opponents could be saved, and the opposition was too strong. …,
And Zhao Xu, Zhang Dan, Li Qingchen, Zhang Shangying and others just meet these conditions, and it can be said that these policies are tailor-made for this combination of monarchs and ministers.
Zhao Xu has been suppressed and neglected for many years, which makes the tenacity and even extreme factors in his character penetrate deep into the bone marrow, he trusts a person to die, and hates a person to death, the original history has proved that he will never forgive, never forgive, and never compromise, whether internal or external, consistent.
And Zhang Dian is a peerless divine soldier, his perseverance is better than Zhao Xu, his loyalty is from the beginning, as long as he recognizes the thing, although tens of millions of people, he will cut a bloody road, the world in his eyes is black and white, and he will never be soft on opponents.
Li Qingchen, for the sake of the new policy, regardless of personal honor and disgrace, knowing that nothing can be done, he still resolutely stood up to fight thousands of armies alone, adhered to the concept he identified, and let you degrade for ten years without wavering.
Zhang Shangying, no matter what else he does, dares to stand in front of Zhao Xu and let him kill his grandmother, this alone knows how strong he is.
Cai Jing, no matter how later generations commented on him, but one thing is an indisputable fact, until his death, he was still insisting on the implementation of the new policy, Zhao Ji ascended the throne, the first year of Chongning (1102) to the fifth year of Chongning, Cai Jing for the prime minister to implement the new policy, the Great Song Dynasty made a lot of prosperity, "republication of Xinghua Mansion Chronicles" said that this period of "the time is peaceful for a long time, Yu Yingyi", but unfortunately Chongning five years "out of the West, its long sky", the ambitious Cai Jing was defeated by a sudden comet!
Even if this combination is as strong as this, Yang Yishi's proposal to pay for the gentry in one place still makes these people extremely dignified, and if it is really implemented, this is not wrestling with a few old parties, this is against the gentry of the whole world. Baowen Pavilion is arguing every day about the feasibility of this policy related to the fate of the Great Song Dynasty, and whether there are any improvement measures.
Su Song has reservations, he thinks that the law is a good law, but it is unlikely to be implemented, Yang Yi rarely speaks, he has drawn a framework, and the benefits of the gentry to the court do not need to be repeated, can it be implemented? How? It's up to these people here to make up their minds.
At the critical moment of the discussion, Zhao Xu suddenly ordered Fan Chunren to enter Beijing, and in the Baowen Pavilion, there was suddenly an old party minister, which made people feel very abrupt, after listening to the proposal, Fan Chunren was stunned, and his eyes fell on Yang Yi and was silent for a long time before he said: "Your Majesty, Taizu has a word, share the world with scholars, this government violates the ancestral system, and will inevitably attract strong opposition from the gentry of the world, if Your Majesty insists on implementing it, it can cause all kinds of chaos, I hope Your Majesty will think twice!" ”
Fan Chunren got up and kowtowed, he did not immediately refute it loudly, but persuaded him earnestly, Zhao Xu asked in a deep voice: "Fan Qing thinks that for the imperial court and the people of the world, this law is a good law?" ”
Fan Chunren replied: "Your Majesty, if it can't be implemented, the Fa can't be said to be good or bad!" ”
"The worries of the first are worried, and the joys of the world are happy; Fan Qing, I am wondering, if your father Fan Wenzhenggong is alive, with his kind of exemplary mind, will he oppose this decree that is beneficial to the court and the people. ”
Zhao Xu mentioned Fan Zhongyan, and there were many praises in his words, these words were like a boulder thrown into Fan Chunren's heart, making him fall to his knees with tears in his eyes, choked up!
Fan Zhongyan's life, noble character, worried about the country and the people, and has been trying to reform the bad government, it can be said that he is also a person who thinks that the law of the ancestors is not enough to abide by, and Fan Chunren now regardless of the good or bad policy, but the ancestral system cannot be violated, from this point of view, he is against his noble father.
"I know that you will say that I share the world with scholars, not with ordinary people, but now the land is constantly concentrated in the hands of scholars, a large number of ordinary people are displaced, and it is an indisputable fact that the court taxes are depleted and unsustainable;
If they still have a little loyalty to my Great Song Dynasty, they should understand the truth that the skin does not exist, and Mao will be attached. Qing's late father was a man of noble character, the first person in my Great Song Dynasty to try to get rid of bad government, he didn't stick to the old ways, has Qing forgotten what his father did?
As Qing said, as soon as this decree is issued, it will inevitably attract strong opposition from the gentry, but for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty and the people of the world, although there are tens of millions of people, I will go! What about Qing? ”
I have to say that Zhao Xu's strategy of lobbying Fan Chunren was very clever, Yang Yi saw that Fan Chunren, who was in his sixties, was in tears at the moment, and he kowtowed one after another, and he couldn't say a word of objection. …,
Zhao Xu made a final decision, and the rest of the discussion was the question of how to implement it, Yang Yi did the shopkeeper, Zhang Dian can't do it, he is the chief executor of all policies, all aspects must be considered comprehensively, according to Yang Yi's strategy, it is to unify the service and endowment, and return it to the acres.
After colluding with Cai Jing, the head of the household department, he put forward a different opinion: "Your Majesty, now that the treasury is tight, the minister suggests that the law of errand service be retained for the time being, so that the collection of service money can be spread out a little, and some resistance can also be alleviated." ”
At the beginning, Wang Anshi's errand service law was not only conducive to the development of people's livelihood, but also the court also earned a lot of silver from it, and the service money of the errand service law was charged per capitation, in fact, it was not necessary to use so much money when hiring servants to serve as laborers, and the surplus sometimes reached two or three million yuan, which was more than the money earned by Qingmiao;
Once the service money is also unified into the tax, the mu is levied, those landless people no longer have to bear any service, and the collection of service money is much smaller.
Yang Yi thought about it, and also felt that it was necessary to keep, and sometimes the benefits to the people could not be given at one time, what they originally expected was just a scoop of water, you gave him a lake at a time, far exceeding their expectations, but the people's hearts are not enough to swallow the elephant, and when they are not satisfied with a lake, you have to give them a piece of the sea, until in the end you can't afford it; These words are hard to hear, but the phenomenon is real. So, Yang Yi was the first to stand up and echo Zhang Dian.
In July of the first year of Shaosheng, Zhao Xu issued an edict again to reinstate the law and implement the new tax law of Shaosheng.
As soon as Shaosheng's new tax law came out, the world vibrate, some people like and some are worried, some people oppose and some support, support ordinary people, oppose those officials and gentry, and all kinds of voices echo wave after wave;
The new tax law is levied per mu, whether you are a family of officials and gentry, or ordinary people, if you have land, you will be taxed, and if you have no land, the tax rate is slightly higher than the original two-tax system, but this is the result of unifying most of the original miscellaneous taxes.
At the same time, there was also a decree issued: Fan Chunren was relocated to the prefect of Henan, and Su Shi was the prefect of Huzhou.
Although the two were only sent to the prefect and the prefecture, under the tide of the old party being degraded one by one, these two people were able to return against the tide and become a landlord from exile, which is also very eye-catching, and the government and the opposition have speculated whether this is a reconciliation signal released by the new party, which has played an unexpected role and divided the voices against the new policy.