Chapter 608: Prime Minister (6)
Zhang Fangping said in his heart that it was time to recall it a long time ago.
Zheng Lang went to Hebei, and the task of pacifying was secondary, and the main task was to pacify the thief. Wang Ze has been peaceful for several months, Zheng Lang is still in Enzhou, and the court is silent, which is strange.
Zheng Lang was not so anxious in Enzhou.
There are not as many people as in history, but Gao Jilong's ability is limited, so he just dragged it out until the summer harvest, this year is not a peaceful year, but the whole country is still peaceful before the summer harvest. The real ability of officials to govern, he may not be better than Lu Yijian, but he just doesn't open the golden finger, he is better than the heart, compared to the ability of officials, there are officials in the Song Dynasty who are better than themselves, but there will not be many. It was during this time that he was doing one thing, rewriting benevolence.
Confucianism is not only about moderation, benevolence, righteousness, and tripartism, but also about sage, etiquette, and so on, in order to constitute a complete Confucian academic system project. But the Holy Wisdom and Ritual Music, especially the Rite and Pleasure are more troublesome, and the most important thing is the Rite.
This is a huge project, in fact, it cannot be said that it is the Confucianism of the master, but the restoration of the real Confucianism in the Spring and Autumn Period, combined with the ideological outlook of later generations, and Dong Zhongshu Confucianism since the Han Dynasty embarked on a completely different path.
No one knows about it.
Zhang Fangping didn't know either, and asked, "What kind of position is granted?" ”
You can't just be called back like this, what's it?
Zhao Zhen frowned, it was not that he didn't give it to Prime Minister Zheng Lang, he gave it last year, but Zheng Lang may not give it. Thinking of the chaos in the court for a few ministers, some ministers made small means, and laughed dumbly. After thinking for a while, he said: "The draft edict is given to Song Zhen, the governor of the matter, to inspect the school. The waiter of the Ministry of Work is the privy envoy, the doctor of the left counsel is the governor of the political affairs, and the privy deputy envoy of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites and Rites of Fubi. ”
Zhang Fangping was stunned.
Fubi also has credit this time.
At first, the king rebelled. Under the attack of Ming Ho, although Wang Ze kept Beizhou, he was crumbling. Only then did he regret it, not only did he send someone to inform the Shenzhou believer Pang Dan of the incident, but in addition to Shenzhou, there were other places, Qizhou Forbidden Soldier Ma and Zhang Qing were also his believers, and there was also a homeless Zhang Grip. The king asked them to raise an army to rebel and slaughter the city in response, and to respond to Beizhou.
Zhang Shu's son-in-law Yang Jun heard this, this is a rebellion. Regardless of Zhang Grip being his father-in-law. After thinking about it, he couldn't tell the governor of Qizhou, he was incompetent, and he was afraid of making a mistake, so he fled to Qingzhou and reported Fubi. His luck was that the person he met was not Jia Changchao. After hearing about it, Fu Bi attached great importance to it.
Leave Yang Jun behind and entertain him. But there is a problem, Qizhou is not under the jurisdiction of Fu Bi, and it just so happens that Zhang Congxun was ordered to come to Qingzhou on business, and Fu Bi asked Zhang Congxun to be his envoy. Pay for the training, make the gallop to Qizhou, and tell the ministers to send troops to take it, and those who have no way to get rid of it will quietly resolve a crisis.
However, this matter was not quite right, and it was a violation of the rules, and he wrote to himself to impeach himself for the crime of sending a traitor. Zhao Zhenjiazhi is a bachelor of the senior administration hall to know Qingzhou Fubi as the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, which is equivalent to another title. Fu Bi did not accept it.
And Fu Bi has always had a good relationship with Zheng Lang.
In Hangzhou, Fu Bi also served as Zheng Lang's subordinate, Fan Lou Yan, Fu Bi is one of the five ministers, although Zhang Fangping and Fu Bi are very cold, but they also know that Fu Bi is the deputy minister of the West Mansion, which is beneficial to Zheng Lang.
But, but ......
Chen Zhizhong is the prime minister of the Eastern Mansion, and the Great Song Dynasty is the prime minister of the Western Mansion, how to arrange Zheng Lang's return?
A slight hesitation, not daring to hesitate for too long, will make Zhao Zhen think that he is selfish.
In fact, Zhao Zhen's wisdom is very mature at this time, and he can understand the normal relationship between ministers, and he will not blame him.
Zhang Fangping said: "Huh. ”
Under the edict, the shuffle began.
There was a big change of face, the east mansion became Chen Zhizhong, Pang Ji, Wen Yanbo, and the west mansion became Song Zhen, Wang Yiyong and Fu Bi. …,
Of course, it depends on whether Fu Bi can accept it, if Fu Bi resolutely does not accept it, Zhao Zhen is helpless.
But many people have the same question as Zhang Fangping, where does Zheng Lang go?
……
Large swaths of wheat began to be harvested.
Hebei is not the best place in the north, to see. The whole Hebei is high in the west and low in the east, the inclination is serious, especially in the north, the Song and Liao military confrontations, set up some state-owned animal husbandry supervisors, built a large number of ponds, lower than the sea level, part of the seawater backfills, forms a lot of salt brine land, is conducive to grazing, also has rich forest resources, but is not conducive to planting. However, the southeast of Hebei Road is the most developed area in the country. In particular, mulberry hemp and the textile industry. Hebei's silk is called fine silk, both sides are smooth and consistent, it is difficult to do this with the silk produced in other places, not to mention the coarse silk in the south, even if it is the exquisite silk in Shandong, it is two to three hundred different than the silk of Hebei. It has nothing to do with technical factors, but the soil quality, the soil quality here makes mulberry leaves with different nutrients, and mulberry leaves create different quality of silk, and different silk creates different quality of silk.
Bay State is also one of the best regions among them.
So Zheng Lang said that these people are full of food to support, except for the year of the catastrophe, why do they need to be opposed?
There are too many people who have died, and the trauma of the soul is difficult to heal.
But after governance, Beizhou, which is now Enzhou City, gradually got on the normal track.
Coming outside the city and watching the farmers harvesting wheat, Zheng Lang asked a farmer affectionately: "Weng Weng, how is the harvest this year?" ”
"Xianggong, it's okay, if the wind and rain are smooth, there will be two stones."
"Two stones...... Zheng Lang said in a low voice: "What if the harvest is not good?" ”
"It's easy to say that the harvest is not good, sometimes there is no harvest, and sometimes only one stone of wheat can be harvested."
"What about paying taxes?"
According to the system of the Song Dynasty, one acre of land takes ten incomes and one system, that is, one bucket to two buckets of grain tax, in fact, more than that, two taxes are heavy, and in some areas the tax of one acre of land can be levied more than three buckets, plus two hundred Wen Xia tax money, two hundred Wen If you buy wheat, you can buy more than six buckets, buy rice, you can also buy three or four buckets. Also, there are various additional taxes.
"Rely on the heavens."
"Xianggong, but no, if the famine comes, our lives will be lost."
Zheng Lang was speechless, in the feudal era, the best time for farmers was not in the Tang and Han dynasties. Not in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but in the Northern Song Dynasty, the best Chenguang in the Northern Song Dynasty was in the Zhao Zhen Dynasty.
It's miserable.
Sigh. In fact, there is still a way to solve it, reduce the two taxes and cancel all kinds of additional taxes. The people will breathe a sigh of relief. But in the face of such heavy expenditures in the Song Dynasty, the proportion accounted for more than 30% of the two taxes, who would dare to cancel it?
The old farmer also stared at Zheng Lang, a little curious.
The officials of the Song Dynasty were not as good as they imagined, but as close to the people, the officials of all dynasties were inferior to the Song Dynasty.
Even if he is a farmer, he can get along with the prime minister.
The old farmer saw the compassion in Zheng Lang's eyes, and said, "Zheng Xianggong is a good official. ”
"Weng Weng. My annual salary subsidy can be close to 30,000 yuan, and a family like yours, at least four or five thousand households can support me alone, dare not be a good official? ”
The old peasant listened in a daze, hearing this kind of remarks for the first time.
Zheng Lang walked to the next one.
The slightly hot summer breeze blew, and suddenly the old farmer wanted to cry.
Turned. Return to the city.
Lan Yuanzhen's holy decree arrived.
Zheng Lang was still very polite.
is not very exclusive to the eunuch Zheng Lang, sometimes seeing these eunuchs, Zheng Lang often thinks of Emperor Chongzhen, killed Wei Zhongxian, and recalled the eunuchs from all over the country. Compressing the rights of the two factories in the east and west, all the civilian and official groups cheered.
But wrong!
Even this political achievement, which was praised by countless people later, became the most important factor in the fall of the Ming Dynasty. …,
Compared with Xiaoice, the proportion of cereals is greater than that of not paying attention to the promotion of grains.
Without him, the reason why the eunuch dictatorship appeared in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was not because the emperor was mediocre, but because the situation required it, and the literati group was unscrupulous, not only compressing the emperor's rights, but also using the power in their hands to embezzle the interests of the country. With eunuchs, a constraint could be formed that allowed the emperor to manipulate the affairs of the state. With eunuchs as the supervisors, it is impossible for them to collect wealth from ordinary people, and they must take the big ones and snatch the wealth back into the treasury from the hands of the powerful literati group for the country.
Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian and delegated his power to the group of commentators indefinitely. In the past few years, the treasury has gradually emptied, coupled with the serious accumulation of malpractices, and several Liaodong wars, the treasury is not only empty, but in debt.
Shaanxi suffered a severe drought, and the treasury was empty, so it was unable to provide timely relief. Note that there is a timely disaster relief here, if it is not timely, people can really starve to death, can the people not fight back? If this were not the case, even if half of the grain money for disaster relief was in the treasury and gave the people of Shaanxi half food and half a full life, would there be Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the eight lambs of the king.
This truth was realized by him after a long time.
Not only to Lan Yuanzhen, but also to other eunuchs, as long as he doesn't do too much evil, he is not very repulsive.
Take the order first.
Zheng Lang said, "Thank you, Lord Longen." ”
did not ask Zhao Zhen about the final arrangement, Huan'er made tea, the two chatted, and did not talk about the arrangements after returning to Beijing.
Lan Yuanzhen stood up and said, "Zheng Xianggong, let's go." ”
"Okay," Zheng Lang instructed Cui Xian and Huan'er to pack their luggage.
There is no need to hand over, Enzhou City originally had Zhizhou Gao Jilong, and in fact, Zheng Lang did not need to exercise the power of pacifying him in the later period. Not only Enzhou, but also the whole of Hebei gradually returned to normal. began to set off, out of Zheng Lang's expectations, and when he heard that he left Enzhou City and returned to Beijing, many people poured in to see him off.
In his thoughts, it would be good if too many people had died, and it would be good not to hate themselves, and he didn't expect the common people to be grateful at all.
Chong everyone kept bowing his hands, went out of the city gate, said goodbye to Gao Jilong and the relevant officials of Enzhou, and got into the carriage. The weather in early summer is not too hot, but the large expanses of ripe wheat and green mulberry forests outside the city dye the earth into a beautiful oil painting. In the carriage, Cui Xian asked in a low voice, "Official, what are you going to do?" ”
Cui Xian doesn't think about the prime minister at all, but takes over the prime minister now, is it good for her husband?
Zheng Lang said: "It's difficult. ”
At this time, the time is ripe to take over as prime minister, and there is an important thing to do, just in time for the summer harvest and the fall in grain prices, grain preparations are about to be made. But this will create a new problem, Wang Anshi's change of law cannot be said to be useless, just when the drought comes, what should Wang Anshi do? Zheng Xia painted a picture, and Wang Anshi was sad. As the prime minister, what impact will the Yellow River have on itself if it bursts its banks in history?
Don't say that it has nothing to do with yourself, in this era, ten of you can be involved in yourself!
I haven't figured it out yet. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )