Chapter 569: Amendment

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The immortal cultivators stood in the early dynasty, the privy envoy led the military generals to stand in the west class, and the Zhongshu Province led the Wenchen station in the east class. Zheng Lang's position is unknown, it doesn't matter if he stands in front or in the back later, he mainly stands in the east or in the west, he can't go to the early dynasty, and run around on both sides. The other ministers also looked at Zheng Lang.

Zhao Zhenyun solved the problem, Zheng Lang had just sat down in the courtyard for a few minutes, and a eunuch came in to announce the decree, and Zheng Lang was the squire of the scholar department of Jixian Academy.

After the eunuch had finished announcing his appointment, he left. But the ministers' eyes turned to Xia Zhu together. Xia Zhu is also a little dumbfounded, he is the privy envoy, Zheng Lang is the privy envoy, plus Wang Yiyong, who doesn't care about anything, is the privy envoy of Tongping Zhangshi, a Xifu, how can there be three privy envoys?

It can't be the three privy envoys, there must be turmoil in the court today, each staring at Xia Zhu, lowering his head again, and making calculations.

At the beginning of the early dynasty, the ministers entered the court hall in a stream.

The highest governor of Xifu is still Wang Yiyong, although he doesn't care about anything, but he also holds the position of Pingzhangshi, he is still the nominal highest governor of Xifu, this does not need to fight, Guan Jian is below, Xia Zhu had a bitter face, looked at Zheng Lang and said: "Xingzhi, you come." ”

The emperor was ready to make Zheng Lang the prime minister, but because Zheng Lang refused, he was granted the position of privy envoy, and Xia Zhu made concessions first, and his heart was even more mixed.

Zheng Lang said: "Xia Xianggong, I am not as qualified as you, so you are still here." ”

Decisively retreated to third place.

The second and third questions don't matter, but the three privy envoys pierce people's eyes, Xia Zhu felt thorns all over his body, and looked at everyone. Everyone also looked at him, but he was very smart, and Zhao Zhen came out and sat down. Xia Zhu walked out of the train with a tooth wat in his hand and said, "Your Majesty, there was only one privy envoy in Xifu, but now there are three. Yong Dang has never been since the founding of the country, and the minister asked His Majesty to release the ministers, or to participate in political affairs. ”

There must not be three privy envoys, there must be one person who retreats, and the person who retreats will not be Wang Yiyong, who is a companion brother, in name, even if it is Jia Changchao. didn't say anything to Wang Yiyong. It's not Zheng Lang, it's just himself.

Zhao Zhen didn't make a sound, and looked at everyone expressionlessly.

Zheng Lang suddenly realized in his heart that as soon as he retreated, Zhao Zhen made a choice between Chen Zhizhong and Xia Zhu, and finally chose Xia Zhu. But I'm worried that everyone will oppose it, so there is such a scene in the early dynasty.

But Zhao Zhen may not be satisfied.

Really. Zhang Sheng, the governor of the imperial history, walked out of the train and said, "The minister impeached Xia Zhu, and the former slandered that Shi Jie would not die, and Fu Biyin made the Khitan plot to raise troops, and slandered that the enemy did not obey, and even went to Denglai to buy tens of thousands of people with heavy money to make trouble. It is to make the court send a stone coffin, and he will die. This person is so insidious, how to deal with the ministers of the two governments, Your Majesty thinks twice. ”

Don't say that you are a treacherous and filthy villain, but the word insidious, you can't rely on it.

The prime minister didn't mention it, even the two governments, Xia Zhu was not qualified to stay.

Zhang Sheng retreated, and He Tan, the imperial historian, came out again and said: "In the past, the imperial court was mistaken by Xia Zhu, suspicious of Shijie, and asked the old ministers all over the roots, and the rumors at home and abroad were quite different. Shi Jie's life, quite learned, short, incomplete but like to be a teacher, so that the later generations from scholars wander arrogant people. On the Taixue Day, he was uneasy about his job and focused on current affairs. This is short, and it is not for other things. In addition, Shi Jie died of illness the year before last, and everyone knows that even if Shi Jie is still alive, what can a young husband do? The ministers heard that this matter was all caused by Xia Zhu, and the first yin made people imitate Shi Jie's calligraphy, and made a simple ruler to come to the two mansions, and talked about the incident in vain, wanting to spread it inside. And Xia Zhu didn't know that Shi Jie was dead? Its meaning is not in Shi Jie, because Fan Zhongyan Fubi in the two mansions, Xia Zhu has a privy envoy, at that time the monarch is not allowed, that is, the line of recall, suspected Zhong Yan to reject the same force, to Shi Jie for Zhong Yan to recommend, so he hates Shi Jie, to pollute the loyal minister. Looking forward to His Majesty's treacherous heart of Xia Zhu, Liang Zhongyan and Bi's big festivals, he is purely loyal and pure, and he specially excludes treacherous plots to show his favor. Since Xia Zhu tried his best to do this, both Chinese and foreign things have been discussed, and they all know that it is impossible, but there is no one who dares to speak out, and he is referred to as a friend because of his worries. If the minister does not distinguish from the beginning to the end, it is a deep mistake of the minister, and he hopes that the saint will see it. ”…,

He Tan endured these words for a long time, but Jia Changchao was powerful in the court, and he didn't dare to say it, now that Jia Changchao is out of the court, Zheng Lang has returned, Yang is better than Yin, He Tan said it all in one go, and the old and new accounts are counted together.

Two more imperial historians were impeached one after another.

Zheng Lang held the tooth wat in his hand, looked at his nose, nose and mouth, and mouth and heart, and did not make a sound.

He Tan's advice has an effect, this is a kind of wind direction, Xia Zhu wants to be the prime minister, it is unlikely. But He Tan himself also made a mistake, why Zhao Zhen first promoted Jia Changchao and then Xia Zhu, it was precisely to clean up the traces left by Fan Zhongyan in the court. As far as the matter is concerned, why bother talking about Fan Zhongyan and Fu Bi, it reduces the effect.

At this point, the choice of prime minister has been decided.

Some Yanchen were also ready to go out to echo, looking at Zhao Zhen's expression, they flinched.

The hall was silent, and seeing that everyone didn't speak, Zheng Lang stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has a performance." ”

"Come on."

"The minister plays the grain in the warehouse," Zheng Lang said. Grain storage is not only related to the relief of the people, cash-for-work, but also related to soldiers. The soldiers are not counted if they do not have enough food, and they eat moldy rice, so they will inevitably be dissatisfied in their hearts. Zheng Lang came back this time and carried out some reforms to the Privy Council, mainly to strengthen the army. If there is a fire in the backyard, how to strengthen the army?

In the past few days, he has conducted a secret investigation with Zhang Fangping, Zheng Lang came back from Hebei, and he also deliberately interrogated secretly along the way, and there were serious problems with the warehouse grain. The first is rotten grain, when the warehouse method was set up, Zheng Lang took this situation into account.

Grain accumulates year after year, and it is bound to become stale. Therefore, a clause was formulated to unite with the liquor institutes of various prefectures and counties, and in any case, most of the wine-making was run by the state, and a large amount of grain should be purchased every year to make fine wine for sale, so as to make profits for the country.

Use old grain instead of tillery new grain to make wine, the yield is slightly low, the impact is not big, but the old grain is easier to make wine, the speed is fast, the cycle is short, as long as the grain is not mildew, the cost is comparable, then two years for a change, there will be no old grain in the warehouse. The loss is only a part of the waste of refurbishment, which is not too serious.

This is the strategy formulated by Zheng Lang after repeated interrogation and verification, and he even personally asked about the winemaking results that have been compared between the old and new grains.

However, the top is good, but the bottom is different. Presence of moldy grain. There are three reasons for improper storage, even when the grain is transported into the granary. It should also be turned over and dried in the warehouse, and there are some moisture-proof measures in the warehouse. But some officials don't care at all, and don't even arrange moisture-proof measures, saving this money and putting it in their own pockets. There are even more excesses, take bribes, and let the tide grain be put into storage, which is not moldy and rotten. The second is the question of authority, which has a treasury. There are prefectures and counties, and there are county libraries, involving three divisions, Zhongshu and localities, and the division of labor is unclear, resulting in loopholes. The third is the collusion between officials and businessmen. Merchants have more moldy grain in their hands, and some grain merchants deal in grain, mainly greedy for the difference between the bumper harvest and the spring famine. and the difference in grain prices in various places, which is a normal means of operation. However, some businessmen are different, they are very black-hearted, but they are greedy for the benefits of the famine year, such as the immediate nationwide disaster. In a normal year, one stone of rice in Jiangnan is only about 500 Wen, but after the end of the year, if the imperial court does not deal with it well, it can rise to 3,000 Wen. There is a disaster year, they take action, make profits, there will be no moldy grain, but there is no disaster year, if it is delayed for a long time, no matter how it is kept, there will also be moldy grain. This moldy grain could not be allowed to rot, so he colluded with the officials of the state warehouse, gave some small money, exchanged the moldy grain for the new grain in the state warehouse, and transferred the loss to the state.

Therefore, the national granary was empty in the third year of Qingli, and only three or four years later, a large amount of moldy grain appeared in the warehouse.

Zhao Zhen had a good temper, and after hearing this, he also said angrily: "Zhang Fangping, why didn't you say it?" ”

Zhang Fangping stubbornly walked out of the train and replied: "Your Majesty, the three divisions only have the right to dispatch partially, but they do not have the right to investigate and manage, but Zheng Lang entrusted the minister to send someone to investigate, only to know, this is already an act of exceeding authority, and the minister also learned about it, what did the minister say?" ”…,

You can't blame me, you have to blame Jia Changchao and Chen Zhizhong, it has nothing to do with me.

Zhao Zhen was speechless.

Chen Zhizhong frowned, he can't blame me, Jia Changchao covered the sky with one hand, what should I do?

But it's not the time to shirk responsibility, Zheng Lang doesn't like it, he's not afraid of a problem, he's afraid of shirking, and he doesn't deal with it, so he continued: "There is. ”

At the beginning, the warehouse law was set up, and it was clearly stipulated that it was not allowed to be greedy for ink, but the upper beam was not correct and the lower beam was crooked, and some small officials used moldy grain to tile new grain for personal gain, and some small officials used inferior grain, and even doped with sand and gravel for personal gain. Anyway, if you weigh it, the sand and gravel are not worth much, and if you stuff it inside, what does it matter to them whether the soldiers will jump out of their teeth when they eat, it is true that the money is put in the pocket. As for the high salary, the high salary is good, but will it be hot if there is more money?

This can be regarded as a cowardly, bold officials directly empty their accounts, and the grain is sold by them, without reporting, without even a little disguise, and directly greedy for ink. In addition, it is the use of grain for green seedlings, which is a move to benefit the people, and it was unanimously recognized by everyone at the beginning. But something changed below. The collusion between officials and businessmen was originally to give low-interest green seedling grain to fifth-class households for the poor people to solve the crisis and tide over the difficulties of the spring famine, but in fact they lent it to the big businessmen, so that the big businessmen could use the grain to issue usury. Without this system, these unscrupulous loan sharks would also issue usury, but with this system, these merchants used the name of the imperial court to openly fish on the common people. As a result, the court was kind-hearted, but it became a harmful act to the people and carried the burden of notoriety. Therefore, there were disasters in various places, but there was no food dispatch in the warehouse. There are even petty officials and businessmen who openly seek profits, taking advantage of the opportunity of disasters to directly embezzle grain sales and seek profits. A lot of grain was prepared, but at least half of the grain was not in the hands of the imperial court and disappeared through various channels......

"Zheng Qing, how do you think it can be solved?" Zhao Zhen said angrily.

"The division of labor is clear, the state and county warehouses are under the management of the state and county, and if there are all kinds of malpractices, it is the responsibility of the governors of the prefectures and counties of each county. The national warehouse is under the control of the three divisions, and the shortcomings are the fault of the three divisions. Zheng Lang replied.

This kind of malpractice was caused by the redundant government of the Song Dynasty, which was repeatedly overlapped, and the division of labor in many departments was unclear, and the political affairs were not smooth. Zheng Lang is anti-traditional and centralizes power. But if you don't concentrate, you won't be able to do it, and if it goes on for a long time, there will be more disadvantages of warehouse grain.

Zheng Lang couldn't help but think of Wang Anshi when he said this.

Wang Anshi carried out a series of reforms to the three divisions in history, and set up many promotion officials, which is probably also forced.

"Accurate," Zhao Zhen said with a murderous look on his face.

Under Zheng Lang's repeated advocacy, Zhao Zhen was very cautious, in the past few years, from the national warehouse to the local warehouse, more than 10 million yuan has been put in front and back, and nearly 20 million yuan has been used to prepare grain, what a huge number?

"There is another strategy, wait for the minister to talk about Baoding, and then solve it together."

"And what does Baoding have?"

"This is the second admonition of the minister, reduce the elite soldiers, increase the security and strengthen the security. But because of the laxity of the two governments in recent years. Bao Ding has also changed his nature," Zheng Lang said.

The problem is also very serious, Zheng Lang only returned all the way from Hebei. By the way, I asked a lot of questions. When the guarantee was first established, in order not to be harsh on the people. Come and go as you please. and does not do the scope of performance evaluation, for fear that officials will forcibly put the people on insurance. As a result, officials did not act, the management was chaotic, and some officials took the opportunity to add air insurance, and the exemption from insurance tax was greedy for private pockets. As for the people, those who want to be insured are often not allowed to enter, and those who want to surrender are not allowed to return. The state pays a part of the training funds, and the soldiers are not the same thing. When training, he laughed and laughed, and the heavy ones directly put this part of the funds into their pockets. This is not an angry place, when Baoding was established, one was to prepare troops, the second was to help the poor, the third was to assist local thieves, and the fourth was to reduce troops. Therefore, it is limited to households above the second grade and below the fifth class, but because they are exempt from taxes, some second, third and fourth class households also pretend to be households below the fifth class to enter insurance to evade taxes. In a good year, there are not a few baoding in a county, and tens of thousands of baoding can come in a famine year. Some magistrates saw that the form was not good, so they simply did not want to hire Baoding, so as not to delay the taxation. …,

Not only have there been problems with the Baoding Law, but also problems with the Law on Reducing Military Arms and the Law on Exemption from Military Duty. After checking the land in Jizhou, under the aggressive rectification of the Junzi Party, the trend of hidden fields stopped in the local land registers. But in the past two years, the trend of hidden fields has reared its head again. But there is no hurry, use the old and new land registers to compare, one check one accurate. This will be gradually investigated after Zheng Lang enters the Chinese book, and now it will be solved later. Solve the nail protection law first.

In fact, some articles are being advised today, which is an amendment to the first four laws.

Zheng Lang slowly said these drawbacks, and said: "Therefore, the minister asks His Majesty to write an edict to the world, and after the people are insured, they must be more than five years old before they can surrender the insurance." ”

Freedom cannot be given to the maximum, this freedom is too widespread. He also said: "In addition, the people of the world are told by newspapers and official documents that every training item, the number of times, the wear and tear of equipment, and the necessary weapons are guaranteed, and the act of protecting Ding is to prepare for the country's military resources, and if you want to protect Ding to have combat effectiveness, you must have clear rewards and punishments." The minister thought that he would give Bao Ding one stone of grain and five hundred yuan a year to stimulate their enthusiasm for training. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's inappropriate, Zheng Lang admonished, exempt from military tax, give another stone of grain every year, and give 500 yuan, which coincides with the famine year, and the number of people who are insured will increase. However, the wear and tear of weapons, the cost of training, the exemption of taxes and labor, money and food, a year will waste at least five times the country's money. If it is seven or eight hundred thousand guarantees, it will cost four million yuan, which is a lot of money, but the combat effectiveness of these baodings is very doubtful," Pang Ji stood up from behind and said.

Zheng Lang wanted to knock Pang Ji's head melon seeds.

Without this Baoding Law, do you think that if you want Zhao Zhen to cut off troops, Zhao Zhen will agree?

Even if it is 4 million guan, it is only the cost of raising 80,000 soldiers, and the target is only fifth-class households, there is no armor protection law, and millions of guan are allocated a year to help the poor people, what is it?

couldn't uncover it, and said unhurriedly: "Pang Ji, please listen to me finish speaking." Since the implementation of the Law of Reduction of War, the situation of the various sectors and battalions has not been ideal, and some people with superb martial arts skills or generals who have made meritorious contributions in war have also been reduced one after another, resulting in many opposing voices among the soldiers. The implementation of the armor protection law is somewhat hasty, and each party takes care of itself, which is even more chaotic. In my opinion, the major security guards and each of them have set up a chief and a chief of security, and they are led by regular generals to make the Baoding orderly, and if there is something in the locality, there is also a leader to command. There is no need to transfer generals from various battalions to carry out perfunctory training, the effect is not significant, but it gives the opportunity to be greedy for ink, resulting in a deficit and waste. Each small chief selects the strong martial arts from the Baoding, and gives money five times a year, and gives five stones to the rice, but the small chief is not in the establishment, and it also needs to be fixed, and the strongest person serves as the strongest person in the winter training examination every year, which stimulates the enthusiasm of the Baoding training. ”

"Accurate," Zhao Zhen said.

After the merger, although some generals were eliminated, some of the generals were noisy and restless, and Zhao Zhen also had a headache, so that thousands of low-level generals had a place to go. And this unfixed also made Zhao Zhen see the wonders.

Zheng Lang's move is also a kind of compromise, there is no way, there is a lot of quarrel, and the art of military reduction will become a problem in the end. And if Bao Ding is scattered as before, there will inevitably be big problems. He also said: "At the same time, in order to select generals, the forbidden army, the box army, the Fan soldiers, the native soldiers, the archers, the strong men, and the Baoding have a big competition every year, and the content of the competition is divided into bow and arrow, riding and fighting skills, and Chico. ”

"What is Chico?"

"Acrobats, such as stealth camouflage, language, assassination, detective, running, jumping, mountaineering, river crossing, military strategy, drawing, arithmetic, etc., replenish all kinds of talents."

"Yes, that's a great move."

"In a big comparison of three years, the top three in each county will be determined in each state, and the top three will be decided in each state, and the first three will be rewarded at all levels, among which the outstanding ones will be used as generals at all levels, and the army will reserve successor talents, and this move will also be used as one of the performance evaluations of each state and county, so that the country will no longer be weak with heavy military system."

"Exactly."

"At the beginning, the warehouse law was set up to increase the salary of small officials, the original intention was to pay high salaries and maintain integrity, and the edict repeatedly warned that if there were all kinds of greedy ink behaviors, they would be severely punished. However, with the high salary, many problems still exist. Your Majesty, please? p>

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"Zheng Qing ......"

"Not strict enough to be vigilant, Your Majesty has to hesitate, now millions of people are waiting to be fed, does Your Majesty care about so many people, or do you care about those thousands of small officials, second, third and fourth? If it is not punished, the discipline will be corrupted, and the country will not be a country, even if Fang Du Yao and Tang gather in the court at the same time, my Great Song Dynasty will also be in decline, please think twice. ”

"Exactly."

Zheng Lang retreated, and originally wanted to talk about the reduction of troops, as well as the special service battalion, and the ordnance superintendent, but looking at Zhao Zhen's embarrassed expression, he didn't say anything more. Take your time, eat too much and can't digest it in one go. And who to send to investigate, and what the effect of the inspection is, Zheng Lang is also very skeptical.

In short, the stall began to rot, and the rotten meat could only be cut off a few pieces first, and then slowly reshaped.

Zheng Lang's advice this time is not a reform, but a supplement and adjustment. None of the ministers objected, and they were more concerned about another matter in their hearts, seeing Zheng Lang retreating from the train, and staring at Xia Zhu who was second on the west side again.

Zhao Zhen also looked at Xia Zhu, and then looked at Chen Zhizhong.

Zheng Lang said a lot, and Chen Zhizhong, as the former No. 2 prime minister, was also at fault. According to reason, he can't be the prime minister, but he can't be the prime minister, let Xia Zhu be the prime minister, looking at these ministers eyeing each other, as long as he declares the edict, the court will inevitably quarrel, what should I do? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )