Cai Xiang was said inexplicably.

Zheng Lang is definitely not Lu Yijian's person, why did he say this?

He guessed right, although he knew Lu Yijian better, Zheng Lang still would not change his perception of Lu Yijian. has never been too evil, without this enlightenment, Zheng Lang will not deny Lu Yijian's merits, and always put his political achievements above Fan Zhongyan. is not good, even with political achievements, Lu Yi Jian De is still very low, can not tolerate people, suppresses opponents, unscrupulous means, relies on advanced power and deceit, dances for power, and Fan Zhong drowned the party in the Song Dynasty.

But as a minister, he can only talk about things, what is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong, thinking that Zhao Zhen sent people to ask Lu Yijian often if it was not good and lost the system, saying that it was not necessary to put on so many big hats that did not exist.

Anything can be opened, nonsense really can't be opened.

As soon as it is opened, black and white will be reversed in the future, and it will be returned!

didn't say much to Cai Xiang, because he wanted to go to the capital hall to say something.

Drought and food.

There were three uprisings this year, the latest and longest was the Guiyang Barbarian Uprising, the main reason is that there are many people in this place, it is difficult to govern, self-control their own ferocious, often do evil, and large-scale participation in the sale of smuggled salt, Chen Zhifang went to the post to suppress the big smuggling salt dealer Huang Hunting Ghost, seeing that it is difficult to govern here, so he was forced to relocate the local Shengyi, the leader Tang He and Pan Zhiliang launched an uprising, which lasted for three years, and finally used the policy of differentiation to solve the uprising in this area.

It has nothing to do with the pressure brought to the people by the military of the Song Dynasty, the weak policies of the Song Dynasty are too late to win over, how can they harshly strip these strong and tyrannical people. The fault in the middle is also difficult to explain, as an official of the Song Dynasty, he was also forced to do so, and he usually almost regarded these barbarians as uncles, but he could not disturb the people in other normal areas, as well as taxation and management, so he decided to move some of the people. It is possible that they did not submit to the control and resorted to some brutal methods in the middle.

The main reason is that the leaders of these barbarian mountains, they are the same as the Meishan barbarians in China, which occupies almost half the area of Zhejiang Province in the northwest, and occupy the mountains as kings. The Song Dynasty acquiesced in this, but they stayed in the mountains in a panic, so they often ran down the mountain, burning, killing and looting the familiar barbarians and Han Chinese, or doing other evil things.

Therefore, he refused to move and led his people to rebel. As for those ordinary people, in this war, they are just puppets and tools to be used. That is to say, there is no justification for this so-called uprising, and it does not deserve any sympathy. You can't let the Han people stay with the barbarians, let them kill, let them rob, let them burn, and let them disturb the whole country's system.

Because it happened a little late, you can take your time, and there are important things to do now.

The root cause of the other two uprisings was the consequences of the Northwest War for several years. The cause of the inducement is this drought.

He thought of another consequence.

So he came to the capital hall and sat down with several prime ministers, Zheng Lang said: "It was May, but from Shandong to Beijing, and Shaanxi rarely rained, and there were droughts one after another, but I looked at the relevant twists and turns, but found that the Jianghuai Sui Cao could not be supplied. ”

"Is this the case?" Yan Shu asked in surprise.

"Yan Xianggong, I'll go to Zhongshu Province to get you some recitals."

Zheng Lang left, and after a while, he came over with a few small officials holding a large number of recitals.

Not long after coming to the capital, Zheng Lang was quietly planning this matter, sending people to urge officials from all over the country to speed up the pace of transporting grain. It happened that the summer harvest in Jiangnan had also arrived, and he took this opportunity to transfer a large amount of grain to Beijing. There was no reply from the distance, but some officials from Lianghuai had already reported that they had arrived in the capital, saying all kinds of difficulties, insufficient financial resources, insufficient labor, and insufficient boats. Some of the reports were not reviewed by Zheng Lang, and they didn't pay attention when they saw it, compared with previous years, the speed of grain adjustment has decreased slightly, but it has not dropped much. No one thinks deeply.

Zheng Lang spread out the folds one by one and said, "A camel crosses the river with a load, because it is very dangerous because it carries too much weight. At this time, you can lose one weight and you can cross the river safely. One more weight, possibly just one more straw, will drown the camel. If the drought continues in the north, the drought in the north is severe, the country has been at war for a long time, and the burden on the people is heavy, and if the drought continues, the lack of food may become a fatal straw. Everyone, take precautions and take precautions. I asked the servants of the house yesterday that the price of a bucket of rice in the city had not yet begun, and once it began, there would be a drought like the one when His Majesty had only been in power a few years ago, and the country would be in danger at this critical time. ”

It was not as serious as Zheng Lang said, but the drought had a series of consequences, in short, although the war stopped, it further worsened the Song Dynasty and delayed the recovery time. For the so-called peace, he and Yuan Hao have the same thoughts, which are brewing for the war below. Is it really peace? It's stupid.

Several prime ministers heard him say seriously, and opened them one by one, and Zhang Dexiang said: "Xingzhi, but it is not that the grain is not adjusted in various places, but there are many difficulties." ”

Everyone stared at Zheng Lang.

No one pays attention to it, but when it comes out, it thinks of another aspect. In particular, Fu Bi was very nervous, and it was not only Zheng Lang who promoted the exemption law, but also Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi and Zhang Fangping. At this juncture, the enemy cannot be given a chance to strike at Han Fan.

Zheng Lang was even more worried and said: "The main reason for this is the war. There were some granaries in the north, and some grain and grass were saved. Because I want to reduce the burden on the country and reduce freight and loss, all the grain and grass in these granaries are transferred to the northwest, which is also the straw I said. If there is no drought, there will be a bumper harvest in the north, and there will be no problem with the empty granary. But when there is a drought in the north, an empty granary can lead to a series of consequences. Of course, there are also the reasons for the exemption law and financial difficulties. ”

"There are also drawbacks to the reduction of forced labor," Jia Changchao said lightly.

Don't think that he said it plainly, maybe this person can make a fuss about it.

Zheng Lang glanced at him, and said lightly: "Jia Xianggong, there is a big drought, but it won't happen every year, if that's the case, no matter how hard the temple monarchs and ministers try, the country will be in danger." In addition, in the past, the state relied on merchants to mobilize grain, and the distribution was heavy, which hindered the trafficking of merchants. After the implementation of the exemption law, the errand service did not decrease, on the contrary, because the poor people were hired for transportation with wages, the efficiency was higher than before. Last year, there were more than 500,000 Xiang soldiers, township soldiers, and Fan soldiers nationwide. Most of the township soldiers, Tibetan soldiers, and archers were in the border areas, and had nothing to do with the exemption law. Either it is the box soldiers, and the country was at its peak last year, with nearly 500,000 soldiers. After the implementation of the exemption law, nearly 80,000 soldiers were successively reduced, making them disguised as errand soldiers, or ordinary people, but this refers to the total number of all roads in the country. Last year, there were nearly 140,000 soldiers on the Liangzhejiang Road, Huainan Road, and Jiangnan Road, which were responsible for transporting Jiang Zhun Cao, and because this area was the richest, almost every state capital implemented the law of exemption from military service, and the proportion of reductions was very large, almost 40,000. But it was not that there was a shortage of 40,000 soldiers, and the imperial court set up van soldiers, one was to raise the displaced people so that they would not be troubled, and the other was to cope with the hundred servants. Less than one-tenth of them were actually used to transport food, that is, only 4,000 laborers were actually reduced. These 4,000 laborers are hired with very high money, how much impact does it have on the country? ”

Speak with facts, speak with real data.

This exemption law is an improved change, or it was implemented with the help of the trauma caused by the war, and even if this law died just after it was implemented, Zheng Lang would doubt that he would become like Lu Yijian, a conservative and broken-step reformer. Although it sounds good and causes less turmoil, this kind of broken step reform cannot heal the current Song Dynasty. In fact, since the failure of the Qingli New Deal, Zhao Zhen has also been making adjustments, and it is precisely Lu Yijian's broken step reform that he inherits.

temporarily won the best Chenguang of the Song Dynasty, but accumulated more drawbacks for future generations.

Jia Changchao heyran.

There is not much malice at the moment, because he also knows that Zheng Lang proposed this law reform, if it was really Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi who proposed it, then Jia Changchao would not have this attitude today.

Zheng Lang was a little reassured, arched his hand, and said: "Xianggong Jia, all ministers, I came from the local area, I have been staying for almost nine years, and I have built many projects, and I have a deep understanding of the soldiers. Usually the salary is low, which is not enough to support the family. If the employment is too hard, they will not have a positive surname, and it may even lead to a mutiny. Without employing workers, what does the state do with so much money? As a result, a situation was that people who were usually idle, and when the construction really started, the imperial court had to allocate another wealth to hire the people. Although it is said that hundreds of workers must be used for service, and some displaced people must also be resettled, how many soldiers does the state raise? How much you need to pay in a year. Just one box soldier, placed in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, it is possible to use up a year's tax revenue in the Tang Dynasty. Now that the treasury is empty, why not treat this problem without much dissipation? ”

Don't fight and do more practical things for the country.

They were silent.

This is not the negative effect of the exemption law, Zheng Lang said this, because he was afraid that someone would make a fuss and let it become a victim of party strife. The real negative effect is in another place, which is quite troublesome, and Zheng Lang is thinking of a way to do it.

He also said: "In fact, there are many drawbacks in the country, such as this warehouse, many officials did not pay salaries in the past, some of the officials were from good backgrounds, a little better, and some of the officials were forcibly requisitioned, in order to support their families, so the goods were bribed and entrusted to the public bank, and the number of goods was in vain, and even some official officials of the state also participated in favoritism, and the storage was a year, and the loss was nearly half. It was also one of the causes of this crisis, and it further brought financial crisis to the imperial court during the war in the northwest for several years. Later, after the introduction of the exemption law, the old tradition remained, and a similar situation still occurred. I saw it, but I didn't say it, because if it is changed, it will inevitably implicate a wide range of people. If you are seriously ill in the First World War in the Northwest, the illness will come like a mountain, and the illness will go like a thread, so you can't be in a hurry. ”

Hearing this, Du Yan was finally moved and said, "You said drought and food." ”

"The difficulty of grain mobilization has little to do with labor, and this is an excuse for a small number of local officials to shirk their responsibilities. The main reason is that the department is heavy and the businessman is not good. The main reason is that the storage in the north is empty and the grain shortage is heavier than in previous years. The emptiness of the treasury and the lack of money to mobilize are also the main reasons. It's just a matter of transferring the Beijing Division, and it's not a big problem," Zheng Lang said. If there is no mistake, Fan Zhongyan immediately returned to the court, recommended Dr. Guozi Xu Yuanying, and promoted it to Jianghuai and Zhejiang Jinghu to make a judgment on the shipment, Yuan said, with six roads and seventy-two states, you can't be enough for the Beijing Division, I don't believe it. So he ordered Jiangzhou and other counties to leave three months of grain, far and near to make up for each other, leading more than 1,000 boats from Cao to the west. But what about Shandong?

What about Shaanxi, where the disaster is more severe?

Didn't work out.

This is no longer something that can be done by forcible requisition, Zheng Lang said: "The Western Xia war is bitter, the Khitan is quite malicious, no matter how you talk about it, they will negotiate peace with our court, there is no war expense, and part of the finance can be allocated for use this year." Therefore, I want to allocate 4 million guan first, hire some people, and wantonly transport grain to Shandong, the capital, and Sanmenxia. ”

"Sanmenxia?" Yan Shu finally opened his mouth.

"Well, learn the old system of the Tang Dynasty and build a warehouse in Sanmenxia, if there is a drought in Shaanxi, the imperial court will let the people pour into Henan to eat, and you can use the method of grain OEM to transport it to the upper reaches of Sanmenxia, and then use a boat to transport it to Guanzhong to relieve the drought in Guanzhong. Then the crisis of the imperial court will inevitably pass. ”

"Xingzhi, what you said is a good idea, but where did the imperial court come up with four million yuan?" Wang Yaozuo asked eagerly. If it's 400,000 and 1,000,000, you can still make it up by squeezing it. Four million guan, even if the officials of the three envoys are sold together, they can't make up so much money.