It's still not possible to get Wei Mingyi Mountain, you have to get it together with his brother Wei Ming Mingshan, as long as the two brothers are snare together, Suizhou City can change hands into the Song Dynasty. With Zheng Lang in the court, he is bold and bold, so he will do it first and then talk about it.

He has been talking to Wei Ming Yishan for a long time, and using the Wuyi family as an example, he is allowed to use the lowest regimental training envoy position, send an envoy to infiltrate Suizhou, and bribe him with a large gold bowl. Li Wenxi, a small official of the famous mountain, accepted it and secretly agreed to return to obedience. Afterwards, Zheng Lang suspected that the famous mountain knew that in order to lure the famous mountain, he deliberately used gold to make a bowl, and the monk held copper, which was several times heavier than copper, hundreds of taels of gold. Without so much gold, the benefits are not thick, and the famous mountains will not be moved. A pure gold bowl is placed in the homes of those rich families in the Song Dynasty, and it is not a small number, not to mention the poor Western Xia. Does Li Wenxi dare to conceal it and not report it?

Most of them are at both ends of the famous mountain head rat, wanting to get Jin to surrender, but afraid that the Song Dynasty will ignore it and be retaliated by the Tangut people.

The subordinates heard Li Wenxi say that Mingshan agreed to surrender and returned to report that he had invested so much money that he knew that the time could not pass and that he could not come, so he immediately allocated his subordinates and set off for Suizhou. Before leaving, he only wrote a letter to report to Lu Xu.

Lu Xuan was dumbfounded, yes, you are a favorite general under Zheng Xianggong's account, and the two families are still related. But you also have to follow the rules, without the permission of the edict, without my order, how can you casually transfer the troops of Qingjian City together?

Immediately gave an order, sent an envoy to the north to chase after him, and ordered the plant to bring the army back.

The speed of the envoy was far less fast than the army of the planter, and the two countries were not considered to be peaceful, but during the period of self-government, only the Western Xia attacked the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty did not counterattack the Western Xia. The famous mountain was caught off guard, and the army of the plant suddenly appeared. and besieged his tents.

The famous mountain only had time to be draped in a hurry. Armed with an iron spear, he prepared to mount his horse for battle. Wei Mingyishan shouted: "My brother has made an agreement to surrender, why do you have to resist when the Song army arrives?" ”

Wei Mingshan shouted: "When did I say surrender? ”

Yishan said: "Li Wenxi, you come out." ”

Li Wenxi was helpless. I had to come out with the golden bowl in my hand and said: "General, the Song envoy sent someone to make an appointment, but he was timid and didn't report to you." ”

Look at this golden bowl. The other generals looked at Mingshan with suspicion.

Xixia is too poor, even though Mingshan controls all the ministries in Suizhou, it is impossible to have this big golden bowl, and it is not clear if it is reasonable, Mingshan put down the big gun and cried loudly. After crying, he took the gun and surrendered to the planter. The Song Dynasty had 300 chieftains, 15,000 households, nearly 100,000 people, and 10,000 soldiers alone. But most of the troops are in the northwest of Suizhou, since they surrendered. They can't be allowed to stay in the northwest any longer, waiting for Li Liangzuo to come and take revenge. So he asked Mingshan to order. Let the Tents of the Northwest be transferred to the south.

Li Liangzuo was shocked when he heard the news, the total number of households in Western Xia was only seven or eight hundred thousand, including the Uighurs of Shazhou and Ganzhou, the Tubo people of the Liugu region of Lanzhou, and the most fierce tribes were only from Hengshan to Suizhou. Two defections, amounting to more than 100,000 civilians and more than 10,000 fighters. Not counting, even to catch a Suizhou. But he himself was wounded and seriously ill, unable to catch up, so he mobilized an army of 40,000 and set off for Suizhou. Lu Xu's envoy caught up with the cultivator.

At this point, what else can be said?

And compared with the old Confucian masters, the species is different, the character is fierce, if a soldier violates the military law, immediately take the liver and lungs, the left and right people dare not look at it. Not only the Song people, but even the Western Xia heard that this killing god was coming, and they were all frightened.

In the face of the fierce seed, the messenger did not dare to speak.

Just as he was hesitating, 40,000 troops of Western Xia were killed. In fact, at this time, the strength of Yanzhou far exceeded that of Yanzhou in history, because the imperial court deliberately raised more than 100,000 horses, and all cavalry could not do it, even if they had horses, they might not be able to ride, and the cavalry should not only be able to ride horses, but also have superb riding skills, and there are fewer soldiers. However, the number of cavalry far exceeds the number of cavalry in history. In addition, there were many artillery pieces.

The cavalry gave the seed a good hand, but the artillery did not. Yes, in Yanzhou City, it was too late to transport it to Qingjian City, and the seed was afraid that Lu Shu would not agree, so he cut it first and then played it, and he didn't have the idea of fighting these artillery.

And he only brought the troops of Qingjian City, not the troops of the entire Yanzhou, and there were only a few thousand soldiers under his account. There are also soldiers, soldiers under the tent of famous mountains, but can they be expected to fight?

At the beginning of winter, the wind and sand were filled, and 40,000 iron horsemen rushed angrily, raising thousands of miles of sand clouds, and soon approached Suizhou City. The city can not be defended, the Song Dynasty blindly reconciled, and the Western Xia neglected to take precautions, causing the city of Suizhou to fall into disrepair, the city wall was damaged, and there was a shortage of soldiers and food. The Mingshan brothers were a little discolored, and they were not in a hurry, and led the Song army out of Suizhou City, and brought some troops to surrender to the generals, and took the initiative to come to the Jinci Valley, a key place in the northwest of Suizhou, to guard it, waiting for the arrival of the Western Xia army.

After a while, the Western Xia army arrived.

In the face of 40,000 Xia troops, more than 100 soldiers were like earth, and they were defeated in a battle. He promptly ordered the camp to be closed, and sent people to gather all the old and weak in Suizhou City, beating drums and shouting behind to confuse the enemy.

The Western Xia army attacked the camp of the Song army, but the people sat in the middle, and the two generals Yan Da and Liu Fu were on the wings, and they did not move. Several attacks were repulsed by a rain of arrows. Hearing countless drumming and shouts from the city of Suizhou in the rear, all the soldiers of Western Xia were depressed.

It was only at this time that he ordered the three armies to attack.

Just after fighting for a while, countless shouts in the rear seemed to be approaching, and the Western Xia army once again exposed the shortcomings of lax military discipline. Many subordinates were afraid that their strong men would be lost and the strength of the tribe would be damaged, so they fled to the rear, and fled in a hurry with an army of 40,000. But what's worse is that this time the planting is not the same as the history of the planting, and most of the leaders are cavalry, as well as Mingshan's subordinates. It is impossible to expect these troops to fight against the wind, but everyone can fight against the wind. They were also mostly cavalry. In terms of speed, he did not have a disadvantage, he bit tightly behind, and chased for dozens of miles, more than 40,000 soldiers were killed more than 3,000 people, more than 4,000 people were captured, and the rest were all scattered, and after several days, they fled back.

It was another brilliant victory with less, although it was not as magical as the battles between Zhang Qi and Zhang Kang, but it was not bad.

The question is, who gave the seed the right to send troops?

……

An even bigger controversy was going on at the imperial court.

Zheng Lang's idea is relatively perfect, but it is still people who carry it out.

Just one judge will cause a storm, and there will also be an investigation of counterfeit insurance and tax evasion. As well as the escaped money and various taxes and hidden fields.

More than 2,000 Beijing officials went down. In order to keep the errand job. One by one, they fought hard.

This is called good at the top, happy at the bottom, and strict in investigation, and the first can define many officials as incompetent officials. Or the officials who harsh the people, if they are abolished, more positions will come out. Second, the country is short of money, and the country can benefit from making up penalties for tax evasion and tax evasion.

The facts are found to the end. All kinds of money exemption and tax evasion money have been fined and confiscated to more than 16 million yuan. You can imagine how much you toss below.

One of them stands out the most.

It was the later bull man Zhang Dun, whose nephew won the champion and was ashamed to be on the same list, so he took the test again, and he actually passed the test again. This jinshi is not a cabbage, and it is difficult to get in. Nearly 10,000 people often come, and only a few hundred people can be admitted, including the Ming Classics. With the Jinshi, the real Jinshi is often less than two or three hundred. There are only more than 100 people strictly. Since Zheng Lang's admonition, there can only be more than 100 people. The ratio is nearly fifty to one, one hundred to one.

This is not the usual kind of one hundred to one, since you can pass the exam, it is very rare to really go through the back door to get in, and more than ninety percent have some strength. Back then, Fu Bi was not high, but he couldn't pass the exam! But Zhang Dian did it, in the first exam, and then in the second exam, although he was not the champion, he also regarded Jinshi as a cabbage.

The imperial court was also surprised, so it made an exception and transferred to Shang Luoling as an ordinary jinshi. He had political achievements in Shangluo, and was transferred back to the imperial court as a small Beijing official. Zheng Lang checked the list of ministries and departments, and when he saw his name, how could he not pay attention.

deliberately delegated him to Qizhou and led Qizhou, not only letting him interrogate the talents of officials and whether they were competent, but also inspecting taxes and checking hidden fields. Hideta chose a total of 80 states, with two conditions, the first is the capital of Hideta's relatively powerful state. The second top tycoon is less. But there are still many wealthy families in several state capitals, such as Qizhou.

After receiving the order, Zhang Dan's face did not change, and he took the officials down to inquire, and found out five corrupt officials, seven officials who did not act or had other bad situations, and fined more than 400,000 yuan, but not as fierce as Yintian. Qizhou was originally a rich place on Jingdong Road, and the opening of the new canal has brought huge wealth to Qizhou since the river was repaired. Zheng Lang once used various prisons to restrain the merger of wealthy households. But when the rulers were corrupted, many people even thought that Zhao Shu could live for ten or twenty years, and Zheng Lang was old, what else could he do?

Even the binding force of the prison is gone, and the more wealth there is, the more it will be annexed, and it will become the hardest hit area for the annexation of Yintian.

Later people praised the Song Dynasty for not restricting the phenomenon of annexation, saying that it made sense to liberate the labor force, which led to the further development of industry and commerce. However, the actual disadvantages far outweigh the benefits, affecting the country's tax revenue and putting pressure on the lives of the poor people.

And many bad things happened during the merger, such as the patriotic poet Lu You's son Luyang Zai Lu Zishu befriended Shi Miyuan, using his father's power and influence and power in his hands to trick Zhang Ting, Shen Cheng and others, the main household of Luyang, to get 11,800 acres of fertile land at the price of one mu of land and ten yuan, and give Shi Miyuan Fuxianzhuang. When it was actually given, it was only 500 yuan per acre. The people were not satisfied, and went to the official mansion, Lu Zishu joined the patrol and hunted, and the unjust man fled, so he let the patrol burn down all their houses. The field is gone, the house is burned down again, how to live this day, the people are angry, resist, do not let Lu Zishu burn their house, and Lu Zishu led the officials to arrest and kill more than a dozen people. At that time, Luyang was still peaceful, and when the people saw that the officials had killed more than a dozen people, they were frightened one by one, and they were arrested when they lay down. Lu Zishu locked them in a prison, poured feces and dung, and then tortured them severely, forcing them to forcibly give up the title deed without giving them a penny.

After Zheng Lang learned about this history in his previous life, whenever he read Lu You's sentence that he did not forget to tell Naiweng, and then thought about his son's actions, he sighed deeply.

But Zheng Lang didn't dare to do it all at once, and only a few states were selected for some of the hardest-hit areas of headaches, and Qizhou was the most important state among them. Deliberately chose Zhangdu.

Didn't disappoint him.

Zhang Dian was in Qizhou for four months, a total of more than 30,000 hectares of hidden land were counted, all of them were disposed of, and handed over to households below the fourth class. Half of the deed shares are also an astonishing amount, and if they are auctioned at banknotes, they are worth at least more than one million. In order to forcibly suppress it, he killed thirteen rebellious family members or domestic slaves, exiled more than 70 people, and flogged more than 200 people. It's not over now. That's just the beginning.

The hidden danger in Qizhou is gone. But the scriptures play like this. How much of a storm will it cause?

When it was first ready to be implemented, there was tacit support or silence. With the uproar in various places, many officials finally stood up to express their opposition. Or the way of implicit expression is wrong, whether it is redundant officials or tax evasion, it must be solved, but it can be done by soft means, and so on. The world will be in chaos.

Zhao Ji had no choice but to gather important ministers together for discussion and discussion.

Many ministers advised.

At this time, there is less support and more opposition.

Lu Huiqing stood up and said, "Your Majesty, there are still princes, and listen to the ministers." ”

Not many people know Lu Huiqing now, and they all think that he is a staunch reformer, but he is free to speak. You can't listen to your own side of the story, but you have to listen to what others have to say. So I listened to Lu Huiqing and went down. Lu Huiqing also said: "Since the ancestors of the autonomous country, love the people has been the national purpose. What is to love the people, take from the people, and use them for the people. This people do not refer to the scholars, but to all the people of the world. They are the people, and they are the children of His Majesty. ”

may not be serious, at least Lu Huiqing's statement on the table can make sense. He also said: "For example, the act of river work is to take it from the people and use it for the people." No matter how the cost of river work is obtained, it actually comes from the people. However, nearly half of the cost of river work is used for the people, and the other half of the cost is the consumption of equipment. It is the rule of the country. In the years of peace, the state lost almost a river worker. What is the money used for? Waste, reward. Including the shadow of officials, why the number of officials has risen so much, it is all because of the flood of officials. The corporal doctor of the world thought that it was too harsh for the imperial court to only make up for one person in five years, so he developed a heart of confrontation. But have you ever wondered how many people they have shaded before? ”

Lu Huiqing pointed to the depths of many officials' hearts, why are the rich people opposed, and there are so many officials who oppose it, is the imperial court doing something wrong? The main thing is to lay off officials, and reduce the shadow subsidy by five times, which makes some officials unhappy.

Lu Huiqing said again: "Let's talk about the whereabouts of Qian Bao, in the past few years, the country has suffered two major funerals, only the promoted officials and all the princes have been promoted by two more levels (referring to the officials, that is, the salaries of all officials have increased by two levels), and there are countless rewards, and there are officials and magnates who have benefited. For example, the original freight rate of a bucket of grain transferred to Zhenrong Military Village came from the south of the Yangtze River, only less than 400 Wen, why did it rise to 1,000 Wen? Officials want to exploit the country, redundant officials abuse their duties, and money and silk also want to exploit the country's money, do you want this country? Under the nest, there will be no eggs! Now that a small inventory is raging all over the world, do you still want to continue to settle the story? If so, Your Majesty, the ministers will resign from their posts, and the three ministers will be powerless. ”

"Lu Qing, please take a seat," Zhao Ji said movingly.

Then he looked at Zheng Lang suspiciously, yes, how powerful this statement is. Why is he said that he is not good at morality?

Zheng Lang smiled, it has nothing to do with moral exercise, Lu Huiqing's political philosophy also belongs to the reformists, but this person is insidious, it is not what ordinary people imagine, otherwise Wang Anshi would not be confused by him.

Lu Gongshu said: "Zheng Gong, or issue an edict to make the movements of various investigation officials a little smaller?" ”

That's one way of saying it.

No matter what it is, even the most conservative officials cannot justify the country's fiscal deficit. But not in favor of doing so. For example, Yintian, how good it is as before, in the past year, one or two states, supplemented by investigation, warning, the contradiction will not intensify, and it has prevented the spread of Yintian. Why bother to swallow a whale, check eighty states at once, and still investigate thoroughly.

Not only the court, but also the various Beijing officials who were investigated below, in the opposition of the whole world, many people softened their attitudes. Some good officials directly wrote their resignations, in exchange for merit, but I couldn't do it, so I resigned from my post.

Zheng Lang waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, the various Beijing officials will bring some bad influences, I know, I'll talk about this later." I'll start with business taxes. Nowadays, commercial tax is an important part of national taxation. The state was right to shift the tax from the two taxes to the commercial tax, which increased the state revenue, reduced the pressure on the poor peasants, and further prospered commerce, bringing more prosperity to the country. But there are many bad things. In order to levy commercial taxes, the state has set up a metropolitan tax institute, and each state capital has set up a metropolitan tax or commercial tax institute, and the customs town has also set up affairs to collect taxes on goods. Taizu put the officials to collect, but these small officials mostly hid official money, so Taizong Wang Renzhen wrote a letter to say its disadvantages, and the officials of each affairs were completely attributed to the imperial court, and the big ones were placed in the palace supervisors, and the small ones were ordered to lead at the same time, and the states still ordered the capital to be in charge and the prisoners were in the same hand. However, due to the fact that most of the financial officials in the prefecture and county who supervised the liquor and taxes were the safe haven for the deposed officials, the scholars were ashamed. After taking office, it was still handed over to the local officials in charge. These petty officials are pleasing the state and county officials, and the other is enriching their own pockets, so they are doubly pressurized. ”

Zhao Ji frowned.

As long as it involves the country, the truth that comes out of Zheng Lang's mouth is disappointing.

"Put it aside again, I said that the proportion of commercial tax collection, the line of shipments, the tax paid by the service is called the tax, two out of a hundred, and the sales in the market are called the tax, and the tax is not compared with the tax of three out of a hundred, but the business of the states and counties is as much as a cow's hair, not only the tax, but also the law is forced to collect and collect. The minister once calculated that if one million catties of Shu tea were sold to three thousand miles of land, only the taxes were paid over and the new terms of various affairs were turned over, and the taxes would reach 20,000 guan (Lu Tao folded, 25 million catties of Shu tea rolled 3,000 li, and the harsh tax was 500,000 guan. If this is the case, the data from the Chinese book alone will produce more than 70 million catties of tea in a year, and more than 20 million catties of Shu tea alone, can it bring 1.5 million yuan of business tax? This is impossible, if the commercial tax at the time of trafficking alone reaches 1.5 million guan, plus the tax on tea farmers in situ, tea alone can bring 2.5 million guan of income to the country. In fact, according to the statistics of the book, the tax on tea at home and abroad is only more than 498,000. Where did the two million dollars go? ”

Let the numbers speak.

Where did it go, needless to say, all of them were embezzled by the petty officials.

One tea, two million dollars are gone, how much proportion of tea accounts for the state finance?

Zheng Lang added: "This is just a normal tax calculation. In fact, no, many big tea merchants have a strong background, and where they pass, the small officials dare not levy taxes. But does that prove a tax irregularity? No, those who really dare to levy taxes are all powerless and powerless small businessmen, and here there is a report from the Supervision Department. ”

Passing it on, a small and medium-sized tea merchant in Huzhou made a deal with the merchants in the capital and transported a batch of tea to the capital for sale. However, because of the poor business of the road, the tea was transported to the capital, and it was also forced to go bankrupt. The family was so anxious that they wanted to hang themselves, and it happened that the imperial court sent Beijing officials and officials from the Supervision Department to go down to investigate, and handed over the lawsuit, wanting to fight a lawsuit with these small officials.

Seeing this lawsuit, Zheng Lang remembered his previous life. There are relatives in the family who are running ship transportation, and some people pay freight to load coal from Shandong to Shanghai. The price is also fair, but I inquired about it and didn't dare to take the order. The freight was given 100 yuan a ton, and the oil money and the normal tax of 60 yuan were enough. A month and a half back and forth, which seems good. But in fact, it is not, the state has formulated various policies, and the formulation is based on good intentions, for the safety of ship owners, including ship assembly and staffing, but in order to save costs, there are always some places that do not do well. Once you've done it, you don't want to make money. It's a helpless thing. Running on the familiar river, the Hong Kong supervisor came to inspect, and a Chinese cigarette was sent away. Running on an unfamiliar waterway may not be able to get rid of it, the fine is coming, often a fine of 35,000 yuan, that is, the equipment is complete, and it is not easy to find trouble.

If it doesn't go well, you will encounter a few sad ghosts, and if it's over, you may be fined 100,000 oceans back, so you can't even recognize your family.

It is similar in nature to the Song Dynasty.

And it is difficult to check, and it is not possible to check it, and a check will cause countless disputes.

Zheng Lang saw that everyone had finished reading it, and said: "Everyone, you are afraid of trouble, I am even more afraid of trouble, if you don't like trouble the most, few of you can compare with me." But please tell you, don't bother, how to solve it? Or will they continue to perpetuate? (To be continued.) )