The benevolence of the little emperor began.

Under the influence of the old lady, the little emperor lived a very simple life, wearing ordinary linen clothes, reluctant to waste, that is, these coarse clothes were washed and worn, worn and washed, and as a result, the emperor did not look like the emperor, and the farmer did not look like a farmer.

Once, during a meal, a worm fell from the food container, and he kept it silent, for fear that many people would be implicated if he was chased.

It's just life, and there's also the reflection on the ancestors, the people of the Chai family have not been affected much, but after Li Yu, Meng Chang, Liu Jiyuan and Liu Gang and other kings with different surnames defected to the Song Dynasty, they all fell ill and died violently at the hands of his master of chemistry. The descendants are not like the Qian family, and there is still a Qian Weiyan to support them, and they gradually annihilated, so they recorded these descendants as officials one after another.

It is also manifested in the relatives, from time to time there are flying words that King Jing (newly sealed) Zhao Yuanyan is the marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, in fact, at this time, plus Zheng Lang vaguely said a few words, the little emperor was even more suspicious. didn't do anything to Zhao Yuanyan, on the contrary, arrested hundreds of rumors. Cai Qi is in the book, the villain is ignorant, not enough to know, and can't let Jing Wang'an.

The more you catch, the more unstable Zhao Yuanyan's heart becomes, besides, these little people are like this, if they get caught in the wind and rain, they are worth arresting, right?

The little emperor then issued an edict to release all these people, and only a few of them with particularly long mouths were selected and flogged a few times. It's just that if you take that little wicker and pump it on your buttocks, it will hurt, but it doesn't hurt.

But these are superior people, and this kind of benevolence is also manifested in the common people.

Fan Zhongyan was injured by the Jiang, Huai, and Beijing disasters, so please follow the line and said: "The palace is half said that it is not eating, so what." Today's road is difficult to eat, and Encore is not compassionate! ”

The mediocre and brutal emperor will be furious, grandma's, the palace doesn't eat for half a day, and it's okay? In exchange for Emperor Hui of Jin, he would ask, if there is no food to eat, why don't you eat meat? But it's different with the little emperor. Immediately ordered Fan Zhongyan to pacify Jianghuai, open a granary, give relief to the poor, ban silver rituals, and dismiss Lu Shu to fold the tea. Jiangdong Dingkou salt money. There are also hungry people who eat black grass, black grass is wild oats, if you don't know, it also has a name, called bell grass, is a kind of harmful plant in the field, almost all the countryside has this kind of plant. It was eaten by cows, and as for people...... It's better not to touch. Not only the black grass, but also other wild vegetables, I couldn't stand the hunger, so I had to eat indiscriminately.

Fan Zhongyan picked it and presented it to the little emperor, Your Majesty, we brought you a treasure, that is, it fed millions of people in Jianghuai. When the little emperor heard this, his spirit came. This is a baby, take the brocade box and open it to see, it's very cute. This thing is a treasure that feeds millions of people?

sighed for a long time, and passed on the nobles of the six palaces to show their extravagance.

What he has achieved is not Fan Zhongyan, but also Bao Zheng and other Qing officials...... It was not only the little emperor who sighed, but also Zheng Lang. Such a Ming Jun. As long as there are a few people who do practical things, the unprecedented Dazhi will come. However, either the ideals are too lofty and I can't dig a golden doll with a spade, or I am a conservative minister. Faithfully defend the interests of the upper class.

Most of the people who can be used to do practical things are conservative, and most of the people who have a long-term vision are broad-minded. For example, Fan Zhongyan went on to write and talk about things. When the ancestors were in power, the Jiang and Huai were fed at least, and the six armies were raised to take the world. Now the southeast Cao rice is six million stones, as for the treasury and wealth, all from the people, plus the hunger year, the food is so. I wish that each of them has a division, and the number of schools used by the ancestors will be extravagant and thrifty.

When Zhao Kuangyin was in power, he had very little luck in taking Jianghuai, but he raised six armies and took the world. Now that there is no war, the southeast rice has reached six million stones, and the burden of other wealth and silk is from the people, so when it comes to the year of hunger, the food is so hard, please Your Majesty according to the number of the ancestors.

Right? Seems right.

But don't forget that the Song Dynasty at this time was no longer the Song Dynasty at that time, with redundant officials and redundant government and redundant soldiers, resulting in a lot of redundancy. If you want to reduce people's taxes, where can you save? Cutting officials? Which one you cut, or that batch, this cut is not a minority, tens of thousands of cuts. These officials are still not allowed to fight with you, so many officials are desperate, even Lu Yijian has to step down obediently.

Reducing troops is better, streamlining the administration of elite troops, everyone knows that it is good, and there are fewer soldiers, but they are more well-trained, well-supplied, and their combat effectiveness will be improved. The policy of the Guan Jian Song Dynasty was to treat the people well, and as long as there were displaced people, they would adopt him and not give him the opportunity to rebel. Well, this cut has removed 500,000 800,000 van soldiers and a small number of forbidden troops, and the combat effectiveness is now there, and the financial pressure has all been reduced. But where are so many soldiers settled?

Hundreds of thousands of fierce men have nothing to do and run around, and the consequences are ...... Jian Zheng, okay, do you want to create a powerful minister for the Song Dynasty? Why Ding Wei was so strong and did not endanger the Song Dynasty is precisely because of this layered official structure and redundant policies, which led to the extreme decentralization of power, which made Ding Wei seem to have power, but in fact he had no power. Who dares to move?

If these three drawbacks don't come down, no matter how good the little emperor is, he won't dare to reduce taxes.

He also said that the ancestors wanted to restore the thistle, so they carefully hid it, and did not disturb it when they were in the teacher's time. Today, if there is a fall, or there is an emergency, how will it help! There are times when the creatures of the sky are used, and the country uses them excessively, and the world is not sleepy! Jiang, Huai, and Zhejiang, there are grains for the year, and they are repaid in addition to the rent and tax, and there are no less than two or three million stones in the southeast roads, so although there are good years, the price of grain is also high. As for the cost of building a boat and feeding the soldiers, it was five or seven million taels per year, so the people of the county could not afford to pay it.

It's still Zhao Kuangyin, he knows that Khitan is not so easy to fight, so before fighting, he must make preparations. It is even said that I used twenty horses of silk to buy a Khitan head, and it is estimated that I was affected by Ran Min's order to kill Hu before saying this. Then don't be more, as long as you sell 2 million horses of silk and buy 100,000 Khitan heads, there are 100,000 people less, and the Khitan will be in chaos without a fight.

This is mostly empty, but Zhao Kuangyin is only a big man, and he doesn't fight unprepared battles, which can be seen from now on, but it's a pity that he died inexplicably and died too early. In the hands of Zhao Kuangyi, he thought that the eldest brother had saved a lot of military expenses and could fight, but after the war was finished, he was defeated. In the end, he did not buy the head of the Khitan, but gave hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. 100,000 taels of silver and 200,000 horses of silk, according to the current price, it is not 300,000, but close to 500,000!

Therefore, the state amassed wealth in preparation for the recovery of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun. Now there is no war, and the accumulation of wealth continues. In addition to the tax, two to three million stone rice were purchased every year, resulting in a high annual price. It can't be said that Fan Zhongyan is not right, at the beginning of Zhenzong, the price of rice was 20 wen per bucket, and the price of wheat was 10 wen, which was similar to the grain price when it was stable in the early Tang Dynasty. By the time of the economic development of the Song Dynasty, many ordinary people rarely ate these coarse grains. But by this time, the price of rice had risen to 70 to 100 wen per bucket, and the price of wheat was approaching 50 wen. In the Tang Dynasty, half of the people would starve to death every year!

However, the Song Dynasty was uneventful. Strange!

In fact, it's not that Zheng Lang is about to walk a tightrope, this huge country has already begun to walk a tightrope.

In addition, so much grain to be transported, the cost of shipbuilding, and the reward for transporting troops, etc., will cost 500 to 7 million yuan a year. It's not just one year, it's every year. The cost of just one is staggering. For Tang Ming, oh. Oh my God, the country has long since collapsed. Lao Tzu's annual income is only 20 million, which is insufficient, and he uses six or seven million for freight alone.

So how did the Tang Dynasty solve it, it was easy to solve, and these transportation costs were dispersed to the wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Song Dynasty used money to solve problems, and it was not the people of Jiangnan who actually took care of it. The biggest beneficiaries are these large families, the landlord class. Not only that, but the big landlords are also benefiting from the rise in food prices. The common people have handed over the mess, how much grain can be sold. Besides, there are more craftsmen in the city, they only have a share to buy, so what do they sell? To be sold. It is the big landlords, the higher the price of food, the more they benefit. The unfortunate ones were the craftsmen and the imperial court.

Is Fan Zhongyan right?

Yes, I have reduced the transportation and purchase of grain, and the price of grain has come down, and the people have benefited. The imperial court saves money.

However, the key is whether these grains can be saved, and the population of the north is growing rapidly, and food support from the south is necessary. There is also a lot of transportation, produced by some corrupt officials. The interests of the landlord class. Oh, Comrade Dafan, there are so many beneficiaries, are you ready to fight against them?

Fan Zhongyan also saw the problem, and said that the country is prepared for a wide range of feeds. However, redundant soldiers and redundant officials, lazy work, filling Kyoto. Ministers to Huainan, the road to the soldiers, said that thirty people from Tanzhou to save the new ship to the Wuwei army, escaped in the road, stopped six people, went to Hunan more than 4,000 miles, six people than return to the state, has not yet known the whole life. It is to know the trouble of feeding. It harms people like this.

directly pointed out the redundancy of soldiers and redundant officials, how to solve it?

He also said that it is advisable to sell redundant soldiers, cut redundant officials, prohibit laziness, reduce work, save the use of Beijing divisions, and then reduce the transportation of the river and Huai, and in addition to the tax supply, it can be stopped at a high price. There is no shortage of national use, and if the southeast strikes, the price of rice cannot be afforded; If the businessman is through, the method of entering the middle can be carried out at the same time. Zhenzhou built Changlu Temple, the food of the conscripts has been 40,000 Hu, and the Dongyu statue is 300,000 yuan. If it is given to the people, it can be lenient and restrictive; Giving to the people can increase the richness; If you give it to the soldiers, you can expand the old frontier. From now on, I would like to always take the labor of civil engineering as a precept.

It is estimated that Fan Zhongyan was very emotional when he wrote the book, so he wrote a typo, and the first one was cut into a pin, Da Fan, don't, do you want to bury these redundant soldiers alive? Raising these idle officials and idle pawns is nothing to do. Can they be cut off, how can they be arranged? If you can't cut it, how can you talk about it? However, the last words were aimed at what Lu Yijian had just done to return to the dynasty, the country was so difficult, and Lu Yijian actually instigated the emperor to slender the Lu Temple and Hongfu Temple.

But what is it for?

The two queen mothers Liu and Li could not enter the Taimiao, so they repaired the Lu Temple and the Hongfu Temple to compensate the two old people. It's just a small amount of 300,000 yuan, is it still money for the Song Dynasty?

Therefore, the ideas are different, Fan Zhongyan thinks about how many people will benefit if the 300,000 yuan is invested, and Lu Yijian is thinking about how to find a balance between the ministers and the emperor to bridge the dispute between the queen mother. So the Fan Lu contradiction began from there!

The little emperor had no choice.

It's a big problem that can't be solved, and now he thinks that the little emperor is still tender, but seeing that thirty people from Tanzhou pulled the boat to Anwei and did nothing, this is half the distance from Tanzhou to the capital, thirty people died or fled, and only six people remained, and the little emperor was sad.

There may be, this is a case, it is impossible for the surname to be a whole case, otherwise something big would have happened.

But since Fan Zhongyan brought it up, it was impossible to lie, and the little emperor was very heavy when he saw it. But I couldn't think of a better way, so I had to start with myself, starting with serious self-abuse.

Everyone was well-intentioned, but they pressed too hard...... So Zheng Lang played the piano for him in the spring, talked, and sometimes thought about this little emperor, it was very pitiful, and now the only fun was a few little beautiful girls in the palace. is this fun, and he will soon be castrated by the ministers, and he almost even let the minister drag down the little tender needle of the little emperor. All that remains is the pleasure of practicing flying white bodies, which is not fun...... But the toss is not over.

God also came to join in the fun, I gave you so many talents in the Song Dynasty, he didn't care that so many talents were invested together, whether it was a positive role or a responsible role, so it was for balance. The little emperor has just taken office, and the disasters in Jingdong, Jiang, and Huai are not over, and that thing has arrived, locusts!

The little locusts flew and flew, and even the small locusts flew in the farmland of Zhengzhou.

The drought and locust plague were the signs of the first year of the little emperor's reign.

"Dalang, there are a lot of locusts."

In fact, Zheng Lang rarely cares about foreign affairs, Fan Kuan is by his side, and the opportunity is rare, so he has to take time to ask for painting skills, and he has to paint for the two queen mothers, and his study time is even tighter. Behind the flowery articles, there is hard sweat piled up, and there is no half ingenuity at all.

After listening to Si'er's words, Zheng Lang walked out.

Not far outside are rice paddies and sorghum fields, and the half-yellow ears of rice and sorghum ears and bean stalks are full of dense locusts. It had little impact on the Zheng family, and his family's source of income gradually detached from agriculture.

However, Zheng Lang's expression became serious, which had little impact on his family, and the drought was inevitably accompanied by a locust plague, and the two were almost accompanied by each other. But how much impact will they have on the fragile agriculture now, or even more seriously, in today's world where everything likes to lead to natural disasters, how much impact will they have on the little emperor?

There was a curling incense and smoke wafting from the village, and the peasants were very afraid of this little thing, and they all burned incense and prayed.

Clouds of smoke drifted into the cyan sky with the scorching summer wind, Zheng Lang frowned, and said softly, "Your Majesty, let me do you a little favor again." ”

Quan Dang owed a debt to the little emperor in his last life.