In the Xuanyou Palace, Zhao Zhen sat on the dragon chair very worriedly, in fact, Zhao Zhen had to worry about it, because now the situation in the Great Song Dynasty has begun to change somewhat, and the direction of change is not the kind he wants, he has begun to feel that the Great Song Dynasty has a downward trend. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo/、qВ5。 \\

The words of Song Shou, the governor of the political affairs, made Zhao Zhen recognize the source of this trend, but he was a little cowardly, but he did not have the slightest way to solve these problems.

The increase of officials, this is a helpless thing, the imperial court has the imperial examination, it is necessary to increase the number of officials, otherwise those who read will have no channel to enter the officialdom, which will discourage the enthusiasm of the scholars, and another reason for the increase of officials is the system of shadowing, if you want the imperial court not to increase officials, the only way is to cancel the imperial examination and the system of shadowing.

But is it possible! The cancellation of the imperial examination, what a ridiculous thing, the imperial examination is related to the Great Song Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji, the Great Song Dynasty's civil and military officials, most of them were born in the imperial examination, once it is canceled, I am afraid that the entire Great Song Dynasty will soon disappear; It is even more impossible to cancel the shade system, how can the civil and military officials of the court not agree to this matter, taking Lu Yijian as an example, the five children of the Lu family, all of them are in the shade, if the shade system is canceled, those civil and military ministers who have worked hard for decades for the Great Song Dynasty will not be strange.

The imperial examination could not be canceled, and Mengyin could not be canceled, Zhao Zhen and the imperial court could only watch as there were more and more officials in the Great Song Dynasty, and the expenditure of officials was also increasing, and the gap in the silver of the household department was getting bigger and bigger.

The other three issues that Song Shou said. In Zhao Zhen's view, there are all problems that have to arise.

rewarded the ministers, causing the household finances to be tight, Zhao Zhen did not feel guilty at all, after all, he had just been in power, if he did not express it to the civil and military officials. Gather people's hearts, who knows what those officials will say, is it that as soon as they come up, they will directly reduce the number of hundreds of officials, and the foolish emperor will do this, but think about it carefully, as soon as he is in power, he will add a hundred scholars, and all the officials will basically add a false title, resulting in an increase in the expenditure of nearly two million yuan in the household department, which is indeed a bit excessive, but the thing has been done. Could it be that those positions were removed without any reason, and the hundred officials didn't make a fuss!

The increase in the expenses of the clan, this is also a matter of no choice, after all, those children are the flesh and blood of the Zhao family, can they make them suffer as soon as they are born! Clan expenses are scattered. Sealing their father, this is the rule left by the Taizu period, in order to make the Zhao family more prosperous, the rule left by the Taizu! Does Zhao Zhen dare to disobey?

As for military spending, there is no way to do it. Yuanhao of Western Xia was ambitious, and the local army had not moved for thirty years, so he selected elites from the Xiang army to supplement the forbidden army. The principle and policy of strong cadres and weak branches are also the rules left by Taizu, and the best way to maintain the stability of the Great Song Dynasty at this time is because the household department has no money and it will be abolished, and the minister dares to make this kind of suggestion, I am afraid that he will be assigned to Lingnan immediately.

Thinking about it, the money proposed by Song Shou must be spent, and it cannot be saved at all. Since you can't reduce your spending, you have to find a way to increase your income.

Not only Zhao Zhen understands these things, but also the seven important ministers of the court below, so they are all worried, and the reason for their worries is how to increase the income of the imperial court.

"Two more taxes?" Prime Minister Li Di looked at his colleagues on the left and right, and said this is the simplest, but the most stupid way.

"By all means, the increase in the two taxes can only solve the immediate crisis, but the damage to the social system can be eliminated for a long time, and it is impossible to kill the chicken and take the eggs!" As soon as Li Di's words came out, they were strongly refuted by Song Shou.

"Qi Qi official, we can mint a lot of money, in order to solve the eyebrows, with iron-clad copper coins instead of the current copper coins, so that the problem of insufficient copper production will be solved, with big money to redeem small money, and then return the small money to the furnace from the casting of big money, so that in the short term you can get a large amount of money, enough to alleviate the shortage of household money." As soon as Li Di's bad idea was dismissed, Cai Qi proposed an even more bad idea.

"Casting big money, it is lightweight, once the iron-clad money appears, the people are afraid that they will learn to cast iron-clad money, and even pure iron money will follow, and then the Great Song Dynasty copper money will depreciate, although it can be relieved, but after a few years, the harm to the Great Song Dynasty will be greater, and it will be more undoable." Song Shou is worthy of being a powerful minister who is also the third envoy, and he has a much deeper understanding of the economy of the Great Song Dynasty than several other important ministers, and criticized Li Di and Cai Qi's bad ideas one after another.

Song Shou's criticism made these important ministers look at him angrily, but there was no better way, Lu Yijian looked at the official family staring at him intently, pondered for a moment, and another bad idea appeared.

"We can increase the number of people in exchange for the copper money of the people, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty will be rich and accumulate a lot of wealth in their hands, so that we can make up for the gap in the household." Lu Yijian said with some apprehension, although he was the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, but in terms of economy and finance, he did not know as much as Song Shou, and when he said it, he immediately looked at Song Shou, hoping that the three envoys would not refute and criticize again.

But Lu Yijian was disappointed, as soon as he finished speaking, Song Shou immediately came out again and retorted: "By all means, Jiaozi has maintained a quantitative line since it was returned to the imperial court, and the main reason for happy sorting out is that the imperial court does not have enough silver to make a reserve for Jiaozi, once Jiaozi increases the amount of money, it is bound to make the people exchange more Jiaozi for cash, and now the imperial court household department has not much silver, and it is impossible to pay for the exchange of these Jiaozi, so that Jiaozi will be seriously depreciated, and the credit established by the imperial court on Jiaozi will be lost, At that time, it will be even worse for the household! ”

Zhao Zhen heard that this was finally on fire, and he happened to have a cup of refreshing tea sent by Gan Ling at hand, stood up and grabbed the teacup and threw it to the ground, and said to Song Shou angrily: "This is not good, that is not good, what is feasible, is it just watching the 1.2 million troops of the Great Song Dynasty mutinier because of the arrears of salary, and then there is no need for Western Xia and Liao to send troops, and the Great Song Dynasty will already straddle the salary." ”

"Qiqi official, Weichen please abolish the three banknotes and change to cash transactions!" Seeing the fire Zhao Zhen, Song Shou sighed in his heart, he said so many words, just to arouse Zhao Zhen's anger, and then lay the foundation for the passage of these words, because he knew that if the official Zhao Zhen hesitated, the matter of abolishing money would definitely not be agreed to, and the money introduction system is now full of loopholes, becoming the main means for corrupt officials to collude with businessmen to embezzle money, which involves too many court officials, the water is too deep, if the official Zhao Zhen can't make up his mind, he will never dare to make this kind of suggestion.

Scrap money and change money! As soon as Song Shou's proposal came out, several other important ministers of the court were stunned again.

The banknote quotation system is derived from the system of entering China in the Great Song Dynasty, and the so-called entry into China is the withdrawal of later generations in different places.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Qinfeng, Yongxing Army, and Hedong were stationed in heavy troops for a long time, and military reserves were indispensable, but the local rent of the three roads was insufficient to raise soldiers, and the burden of mobilizing silver and grain from all over the country was too heavy, and it was too disturbing to the people, so they entered the Chinese system.

The so-called entry into the middle is that the merchant buys the silver grain from the frontier and stores it in the local Sansi transfer yamen, and after obtaining the deposit voucher, he can use the voucher to withdraw the stored materials from Bianjing or other places, or the merchant can deposit the silver grain in Bianjing and withdraw it from the frontier.

With the reform of the salt law and the tea law, the salt and tea trade of the Great Song Dynasty was exclusively bought and sold from the imperial court to the imperial court and sold by the merchants.

Because the sale of salt tea is in the hands of the imperial court, businessmen can only get salt tea goods from the court officials and transport them to the north to make huge profits.

In accordance with the rules of entering the middle school, 100 pieces of salt tea banknotes are transported from the place of origin to the north, and you can get 15 pieces of duty-free goods, which are the profits of the merchants.

But after Zhenzong, the Empress Dowager Liu listened to the government, reused Xia Zhu, the first corrupt official in the Northern Song Dynasty, this guy was very good, and actually led the salt and tea banknotes of 100 guan and sold them to merchants at a price of 50 guan, and collected huge bribes from businessmen.

In Zhao Zhen's court, most of the officials have obtained huge profits from the salt tea banknotes, and now Song Shou wants to abolish the salt tea banknotes and change to a cash system, so that no matter the merchants and court officials, they will not be able to make huge profits from it, and they will definitely find Song Shou's trouble, which shows how much pressure Song Shou is under to dare to say this proposal to the official Zhao Zhen.

"Waste! If it weren't for him, how would the salt tea money become like this, if the salt tea cash is not good, I will let the merchants and officials who make huge profits from the salt tea money all spit out! Zhao Zhen, who was angry, heard Song Shou's words, and immediately thought of how much pressure this courtier put forward this opinion, if he didn't support him, I am afraid that the loss of salt tea will be bigger and bigger, the smart Zhao Zhen roared loudly with the help of anger, and sent an obvious signal, so that the officials of the imperial court should not block the implementation of the salt tea cash system, otherwise they will turn over the old accounts.

Sure enough, Zhao Zhen's roar was deeply remembered by several other important ministers, and while Song Shou was secretly refreshed in his heart, Lu Yijian and others were secretly speculating that the implementation of the salt tea cash system would definitely cause a big turmoil, and they would support or oppose it! The official family said that they were so decisive, whether they really wanted to reform, or whether the thunder was loud and the rain was small.

The important thing is that these people are all important ministers of the court who cherish their feathers, and the matter of salt and tea money has nothing to do with them, if Zhao Zhen really turns over the old accounts, is it good for them!

At this moment, they are all weighing the disadvantages, considering the future political tendencies and the way forward!

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