"Xingzhi, let's talk about the last reform," can squeeze into the ranks of those present, most of them are not simple people, Zheng Lang first released the two prison share deeds, and released a good news, and said so much today, it will not be for the average loss law, although there is a dispute over the average loss law, but there are still fewer disputes in the past two years, so the next reform will be more troublesome, Fu Bi felt worried, frowned and said, deliberately biting the last two words very hard. You can't toss anymore, if you toss it any longer, Zheng Xingzhi, your popularity will soon be gone, and you will be the same as Han Qi, and you will become the finger of a thousand people!

"There are four in total, first Shaanxi is one ploughing and two seals," Zheng Lang said.

For Shaanxi supply.

The freight for the materials to arrive in Shaanxi was too high, so they first arrived at Sanmen, turned to land, and then moved from the upper reaches of Sanmenxia to a small boat and transported to Weishui, and then passed through six or seven hundred miles, or even nearly a thousand miles of dry roads, and transported the materials to the front line one by one.

Not only food, but also weapons, armor, tents, etc., soldiers' clothing, shoes, socks, household utensils, wine, medicinal herbs, miscellaneous grains for horses, chickens, and forage. The merchants, their families, the prostitutes, and the people who served the transportation were all needed, and food was only a part of them.

After the end of the Qingli War, disarmament one by one, the more cuts, the fewer relevant members accompanying it, the supply will be reduced, and there is a Sanbaiqu, except for a drought year, otherwise Shaanxi can barely level at least in the grain piece. This alone represents significant savings.

But with Li Liangzuo's re-use of troops, Han Qi actually prepared 450,000 soldiers, more than 200,000 forbidden troops, more than 100,000 township soldiers, and 100,000 Tibetan soldiers in order to defend, not counting the volunteers and strong men of Shaanxi. Archers and van soldiers. As a result, the cost swelled dramatically again. The more soldiers. The more people involved are brought in, and the more materials needed need to be carried by people, forming a bad cycle. This has become one of the black holes in the financial leveling. After Zheng Lang took office, he was cut one by one. But in the face of the murderous Liang clan, he also had to keep hundreds of thousands of troops.

Now Shaanxi is still one of the heavy financial burdens of the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, there is this policy of one cultivation and two closures.

Ploughing is not ploughing, but water conservancy.

The imperial court allocated 10 million yuan in two years to let Cheng Shimeng go to Shaanxi. Find some places where it is easy to build weirs, divert river water, and build some reservoirs. Instead of building a weir directly on the river section, there is too much sediment, but diverting water, storing sand through the sand storage tank, and then entering the reservoir to divert the river channel downstream. More areas are irrigated, even in drought years, because these reservoirs guarantee a certain harvest. and then with the Sanbai Canal, even if Shaanxi is increasing troops now, as long as it is not a disaster year. It can also barely level the grain.

This is reclamation, and reclamation will inevitably destroy the already weak water and soil. Therefore, the second is to seal and close the mountain!

It is not feasible to forcibly close the mountains, and there are ways to relocate some of the people in the mountainous areas who are very small in the distribution of people, and plant thorns on these slopes, which are vigorous and grow quickly, and in a few years all the mountain roads can be blocked. Then whoever wants to enter these mountains to cut timber will not succeed. Use this to protect the soil and water.

It turns out that if Zheng Lang said it, everyone would be suspicious.

Shaanxi is already implementing similar measures to protect the environment, some barren mountains are gradually greening, with trees on top and alfalfa below, and in some less populated areas, because the water and soil are protected, the phenomenon of river turbidity is gradually reduced.

Zheng Lang's approach this time was even more extreme, simply using thorns to seal some mountainous areas of little value into no man's land.

This article is not very controversial, it is money, Zhao Luan hesitated: "10 million is not a small number, if there was no problem before, the current financial constraints, and in order to appease the people, just to repay the interest, it will cost millions a year." Is it late? ”

This year, when the profits of the bank supervision are freed up, there will be a surplus in the state, and a part of the money can be allocated. The Liang family is ambitious, and it is estimated that the northwest cannot be calm, and it will be implemented earlier, which is an expenditure for the time being, and will generate a lot of savings year by year in the future, and it will also benefit the people of Shaanxi. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guanzhong in the Tang Dynasty has developed maturely, and the conditions in Shaanxi are good. However, after the war in the northwest began, the people of Shaanxi undertook a large amount of military service and labor, and other roads developed in great strides. ”

Zhao Pan couldn't keep his voice down.

Generally speaking, this article will not cause great controversy not only in the capital, but also after it is implemented.

But Zheng Lang also has another intention to implement it, which is for the next one, tea.

The state is inefficient, corrupt and wasteful, and sooner or later its revenues will decline. However, the most serious damage to the benefits of tea is the banknote law.

When it was first executed, Zhao Kuangyi was kind-hearted.

The northwest uses troops, and the freight is amazing, and if the state is used to transport it, the cost will become very high because of efficiency and corruption. If you really buy it, it doesn't take much, and you can bid 300 wen for a bucket, and I believe that the merchants themselves will have a way to transport the grain to the front line in Shaanxi, and it is still a high-quality grain. But in that case, it will disrupt the grain prices of the entire Shaanxi, make the people miserable, and the people living in the cities will not be able to live their lives in the first place. So Zhao Kuangyi came up with a workaround, first issuing tea bills, then salt bills, and letting merchants exchange money to transport grain to the front. The distinction between military rations and civilian rations not only ensures the rations of soldiers and soldiers, but also does not disturb the price of civilian grains.

At first, it was good, but the only ones who had the ability to do it were those who were powerful and powerful, and gradually the tea money and salt money were controlled by the powerful people. What are the consequences of being controlled by them? There is a backstage, unscrupulous, and even transporting inedible moldy grain that has been aged for an unknown number of years, or mixing sand and soil into the grain, mixing soil, and washing it away, what if it is mixed with sand? Who has the ability to choose one grain at a time? Some businessmen even bought grain on the spot in Shaanxi, even saving freight, and then poured some sand into it, used it as banknotes, and sent it to the barracks. Moreover, it also affected the price of civilian grain in Shaanxi, making the people miserable.

The profits of more than 20 million yuan that are very likely to be generated by the tea are gradually controlled by Haoqiang, and more than half of the soldiers' food is still wasted and cannot be eaten and poured out. Now it has also caused a very embarrassing problem, the imperial court transports its own grain, needless to say, it returns to the original topic, waste and corruption are serious, and it will inevitably increase the suffering of the people. If you buy food. It will further disrupt grain prices in Shaanxi. Know the drawbacks. No one dared to say anything. Zheng Lang couldn't keep silent either, because there was no good way to solve it.

The overhaul of the reservoir this time can resolve some of the troubles caused by grain, but I want to solve it completely. There is only one way, to wipe out the Western Xia, completely reduce the garrison, and then introduce some policies. Let the Northwest be self-sufficient, then no matter what tea money, or salt money, there is no need.

The reason why the imperial court changed the tea law was not the complaints of the front-line soldiers, and the powerful people were going too far, and the state did not know how many officials were used in order to make tea, and in the end the result was only a profit of hundreds of thousands a year, and the miscellaneous expenses and official salaries were actually deducted. Already seriously losing money. How many tea farmers and small and medium-sized tea sellers have been harmed by a single tea. Just think about why Li Shun and Wang Xiaobo rebelled. Why is this all the trouble?

So he tossed from Liu E's time to Zhao Zhen in his later years, and then the trade law was implemented. Han Qi trade law tea administration for three, the first to the three divisions of the year class are given to tea households, where to the money of 680,000 odd, so that the year of the loss of the county officials, than the loss of tea, its out of several times, the court is difficult, in order to lose its half, the annual loss of money 338000 odd (even is many, there is odd is insufficient), called the rent money.

The so-called rent money is that the Song Dynasty encouraged tea farmers to grow tea, gave some capital support, and then carried out a tea administration monopoly. That is, nominally, the tea garden also has a part of the imperial court, but in fact this is a disguised tax increase. Tea farmers must also pay two taxes, and pay the more than 300,000 yuan in rent in addition to the two taxes.

But it's not too harsh, there are so many tea gardens in the country, even if more than eighty percent of the tea gardens of big businessmen evade taxes and rents, the remaining twenty percent of the tea farmers will not be too stressed. There is a positive side to it. But it has also become a reason for opponents, the imperial court system is not to give money to the people, in the past it was to give money to tea farmers, but now it is disguised to give tea farmers. In the past, it was the smuggling of tea sellers that was punished, but now it is possible that the punishment is for the good people who cannot pay the taxes. It's all a quibble.

Although the tax is paid, as long as the imperial court does not come nonsense, the rent is spread on less than 10% of the tea farmers, which is actually not a heavy rent, on the contrary, if the tea farmers can grow good tea, they will definitely obtain greater economic benefits. Besides, smuggling tea sellers is not good, it turns out that those big businessmen are good people?

The reason why there has always been opposition is because after the implementation of this trade law, the huge profit margins have gradually been obtained by all large, medium and small tea merchants, and it is impossible for Haoqiang to monopolize it. This is the reason why many tea policy reforms have failed many times due to opposition.

The second is to save all the money with the capital, and the tea also makes money, and the imperial court can let officials from all walks of life participate in it, and grab a profit from the hands of merchants to fill the treasury.

Article 3 Thirteen strikes, six goods affairs, the reduction of officials, and the reduction of expenditures. Only the ban on tea is the same, and the tea is popular all over the world.

In short, it is about the gardeners who grow tea, the officials collect rent, and the merchants who sell the tea, and the government levies and calculates the commercial tax, and the ban is abolished, which is called the commercial law.

The reform was not very thorough, and Zheng Lang simply carried out a thorough trade law. Zheng Lang did not move the so-called rent, but assigned the task of renting money to the locality, instead of the subordinate officials of the three divisions to collect it one by one, causing unnecessary labor costs.

The second article is to put an end to it, the imperial court pays the capital to Zhulu, and the amount of tea is huge, but the officials and businessmen collude to harsh the tea farmers, force them to sell to the government at a low price, and then join forces with big businessmen to sell at a high price. On the contrary, because of the process of buying tea and selling it one by one, there are still a lot of expensive labor costs. This article is gone, and the merchants are directly allowed to trade with the tea farmers.

Unless in exceptional circumstances, the Shipping Division submits a reason and applies to the Ordinance Division, and the Ordinance Division negotiates with the three envoys, so that the Shipment Division can occasionally carry out tea shopping to balance the price of tea.

But it is this abolition, there will be a lot of opposition, all kinds of tea, the court did not benefit, the actual profit, the following officials and giants, from which a lot of profits, although not as big as the banknote law tea, the profit is not small.

As long as the front is implemented, the back will set off overwhelming opposition to public opinion.

Article 3 will be improved and the Trade Act will be enforced together with the abolition of all relevant tea farms, goods, and prohibition of tea varieties, including cured tea.

The reason why some tea varieties are kept is forbidden is also because Shaanxi needs money and grain, so Zheng Lang is ready to spend 10 million yuan to let Cheng Shimeng go down to major in water conservancy. The first Cheng Shi Meng is a good official, he will not harsh the people, he will not be greedy for ink, and the second Cheng Shi Meng is proficient in water conservancy. At least, starting from Beiluoshui and going all the way to Guanzhong, about 50,000 hectares of cultivated land can be added, and millions of stone grains can be added to offset the tea money grain.

That is, the tea part, all the officials. Haoqiang. Big businessman. Don't think about any more crooked doors.

However, if it is implemented, the state officials will be further slimmed, and the three divisions will have a lot less affairs, and the officials will be light on the government. There are many more below. Let the Song Dynasty be redundant and redundant, and come to a big decompression.

After listening, everyone was silent one by one, if it weren't for the three things that Zheng Lang said just now. It is quite possible that there will be opposition at this time. Fortunately, Han Qi made a strong first reform, otherwise it would be more troublesome at this time.

Article 3, for the alum monopoly.

There are five major franchises in total, and the salt and wine franchise has gained a lot, and Zheng Lang does not dare to move. It is very likely that the actual imperial court of the incense monopoly will only get four or five of them, or even less. However, because of its preciousness, the number of officials used, the labor cost is not high, and the profit is still very considerable, which can bring two or three hundred profits to the imperial court a year. Zheng Lang didn't move. Alum franchises are different.

The alum monopoly was implemented from the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty was different from the Song Dynasty. The first is the labor cost, and the second is the monopoly of large households caused by the banknote buying system and the encroachment of the interests of the imperial court.

Alum production areas have Hedong, Hebei, Huainan, Jiangdong, Zhejiang, South West Road and other places, although not as scattered as tea, but also very scattered, want to monopolize must send a large number of officials to operate, labor costs are higher than the Tang Dynasty, this is not counted, there is also a system of buying money and buying the system, the powerful households invade step by step, resulting in a decline in profits. When it was low, it only got tens of thousands of yuan a year, and when it was high, it was only more than 300,000 yuan, and normally it was between 150,000 and 200,000 yuan. That is to say, in addition to making those powerful people richer and richer, the imperial court is losing money almost every year, except for the labor costs. Not only that, but there is a monopoly that must be distracted and managed, which is redundant and makes the lives of various alum craftsmen live in misery.

The third is to let alum implement the trade law, if there is a monopoly of high prices, let the shipping department notify, purchase in the Jiangdong alum field, and balance the price of alum.

The implementation of the commercial law is beneficial to the imperial court, and if it is not a monopoly, it can levy a commercial tax, which will not be as huge as tea, but it is much better to be able to levy tens of thousands of dollars than to lose money and lose the hearts of the people. At the same time, the number of officials was reduced and government affairs were simplified. Guan Jian, Guan Jian is the benefit of Hao, what should I do?

This is the third one, and the fourth one, which evolved from Wang An's Shifangchang River Crossing Money.

In the Song Dynasty, there were many workshops, all of which were actually profitable, but because the petty officials were greedy and filled their pockets, they did not pay much money to the imperial court.

Therefore, Wang Anshi took out the real seal and vote system that appeared in the Tang Dynasty, that is, in the downtown place, limited to two months to call people to buy, the people are willing to buy, listen to the self-standing price, and then put it into the box, two months later with the key to open the copper box, depending on the price of the higher one.

In fact, it is a contract system, Zheng Lang used it very early, but it was not Zheng Lang's inspiration, there were too many later generations, but it was still relatively advanced in this era. That is, the imperial court still retains the ownership of these farms, but the management rights are ceded to the contractor.

Later, it was expanded to the sake business. Not all local liquor businesses are profitable, if the benefits are not large, coupled with the greed of officials, these liquor businesses will lose money, but in fact, if they are properly managed, these liquor profits are still very considerable. Wang Anshi was in the place for a long time, and he observed it attentively and saw this. Later, the law of actual sealing and surrender was implemented for some liquor businesses with poor returns, and the production, management and sales rights of liquor were auctioned to the people through auction. The court saved a lot of officials, and received a sum of money safely, and did not be distracted by the income of these wine and workshops.

In the end, it was expanded to the river crossing, because the river ferry required a large number of ferrymen, or van soldiers, to serve as boatmen to and from the passenger ferry, and also to manage the loss and maintenance of ships. Therefore, Wang Anshi released more than 26,000 river crossings across the country and auctioned them off to private businesses. In the ninth year of Xining, it has obtained more than 3.8 million stone and more than 1.7 million stone and 2.1 million net income. Eight years later, in the seventh year of Yuanfeng, the income of Fangchang Hedu in the country was more than 6 million, the expenditure was 1.74 million, and the net income was nearly 4.3 million. If the previous losses are calculated, one in and one out, it can reach seven or eight million.

After the implementation of the most important thing, the administration was simplified.

Zheng Lang adopted them one by one, and added one more, that is, pit mines. There is a similar situation in various pits and mines, the three-seven point system is implemented, but the implementation is not implemented in this way, the craftsman said that I only mined 100 catties of copper, and the clerk said that you missed the report, more than that, it is 300 catties. The craftsmen went bankrupt, that is, the three-seven-point light system was implemented, and the craftsmen had to flee, so the pit mines were scrapped, and in fact, these pit mines still have mining value. Therefore, many pits and mines were also screened out, and some of them were not efficient, or those that caused the craftsmen to flee due to the harsh stripping of small officials, and they were auctioned one by one.

After the buyer pays the money, in the future, don't come to ask, I pick 10,000 catties, you can only obediently look at the greed.

This article is not as controversial as the first two, but it will make some small officials reduce the opportunity to be greedy for ink, and it will lead to some complaints.

The implementation of the three reforms will reduce at least 500 or more formal officials, 4,500 petty officials, nearly 80,000 former servants, and more than 100,000 artisan households out of the sea of suffering. The imperial court not only had easy government affairs, but also had to get rid of the heavy burdens one after another, and had to get rid of the losses and get at least five million yuan a year. If you include the pits, one in and one out, it is not five million, but ten million is possible. It is also a benevolent government for more than 200,000 families to be freed from forced labor, to regain their personal freedom, and to return to production.

But......

Fu Bi said: "Xingzhi, the four reforms are well-intentioned, which is called good governance, but have you ever thought that the imperial court has gained very little, but the trouble is very big." ”

Zhao Ji and Zheng Lang glanced at each other, which also became the place where Gao Tao and Zheng Lang argued the most.

There may be tens of millions inside and outside, but it is not easy to achieve this goal, it is estimated that there is a difference of 10 million in and out, and the actual implementation, God knows, it may be 5 million, it may be 2 million. The consequences are severe. If it is not an official, the official power will not be filled this year. The first is the small officials, the most difficult to cut is not the errand and the front of the ya, but the small officials with a little real power, cut once and quarrel once. If the last three laws are all implemented, a large number of minor officials will be laid off. But that's not the hard part. The main one is tea, and the other is alum, and the trade law has been thoroughly implemented, so how many large and powerful families have been damaged?

If it continues, coupled with the foundation of the previous two reforms, the government and the opposition will inevitably be turned upside down.

It's not just a big trouble, but a big trouble, a big trouble.

Zhao Ji took a deep breath, and only after Zheng Lang proposed it, Zhao Ji didn't think of so much, thinking it was good governance, and praised a few words. It wasn't until his mother had a dispute with Zheng Lang and listened to them arguing that Zhao Ji came to his senses.

A queen mother, a prime minister, and the debate between the two vividly taught Zhao Ji an educational lesson, and finally he understood that it was so difficult to do things.

Zheng Lang talked about the four methods, and Fu Bi also said that it would be very troublesome, so it depends on the attitude of the scholars. (To be continued.) )