From whom and how? Borrowing from the rich, borrowing from usury! Usury is a terrible term that has never disappeared from ancient times to the present, and it still exists around us today, and it has always maintained a strong folk color. Right! Usually they are triads!

It's easy to borrow and it's hard to repay, either selling your children or going bankrupt. As the saying goes, "the poor who are not afraid of debts are afraid of the heroes who collect debts", and the mergers are formed, and the rich get richer and richer, and the poor have nothing, and they become tenants and slaves...

In response to this problem, in September, Wang Anshi launched the green seedling method!

First of all, the imperial court wants to come up with the capital, where does the capital come from? It is the grain in the warehouses that are often closed and widely benefited all over the country. Didn't you corrupt officials make money out of this? Now the imperial court has taken it back and made money for the emperor. The specific method is to exchange these grains for cash, in Hebei, Jingdong, Huainan 3 Road, divided into summer and autumn, summer refers to before January 3 every year, autumn refers to May 30, the money is lent to the farmers who are not in charge... After the harvest of the two crops, two percent of the interest will be added, that is, 120% will be returned. Considering that it is operated in two quarters, the actual annual recovery is 240% (of which 200% is the principal and 40% is the interest), and there are many other details, such as urban and rural residents can borrow except for those who are idle and have no real estate. In order to prevent non-repayment of loans, or even running away from debts, it is stipulated that there must be a guarantor, etc... You don't have to know everything. There is only one caveat: it is expressly stated that hard apportionment is not allowed!

Now let's compare the BIBS method with the usual closing method. The answer is very clear, the Qingmiao Law is not to save farmers, because the interest rate of 40% is very high, as the saying goes, if the profit is more than three points, it is a thief, and four points is not to say. But only comparison will reveal the truth, to what extent was the civil usury of the Song Dynasty high at that time? Don't be shocked! That's 6 cents per month, or 720% per annum! What is this concept? I can't really describe it...

Thus, the essence of the Seedlings Method emerged. It's not about saving the peasants, it's about killing the rich! Profiting from the powerful landlords is the most important thing at present! It is true that the interests of the vast number of peasants cannot be considered for the time being... The contrast of interest rates, the emptiness of the treasury. Let Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi make up their minds, overcome all difficulties, and implement this decree regardless of everything!

But don't be busy, agriculture was so important at that time that if you weren't careful, you would make a big mess that you couldn't clean up! For this reason, Wang Anshi really asked for advice with an open mind, and anyone who had different opinions could put forward. Historical records: The Qingmiao Law was agreed upon by Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing, and after the agreement, it was shown to Su Zhe. Su Zhe had not been dismissed at that time. It was an insider at the time when the regulations of the three divisions were set up to examine the text and change the law. As soon as the Seedlings Law was released, he immediately raised objections.

He said that the original intention of this law was to save the people, right? But with 2 points of interest, this is a big problem. You must know that you can't talk about credit with the common people, and everyone will borrow money when they see it, and it will be difficult to repay it, even if the rope is tied and whipped with a whip, it is difficult to pick it out. At that time, the world was in chaos, how did it end? What's more, the method of closing positions is perfect. There's no need to change it at all, it's just that the clerks down there are bastards, as long as we strengthen the rule of officials, everything will be OK. Why bother to mobilize the people. Nothing to do?

It can be said that he did not understand the national conditions at that time. Do you still want to close your position now? The country has no money to send the first emperor to the funeral, how can there be money to give to the peasants for nothing?

So: the priority is to grab the money! While grabbing money, the wind of annexation that began in the early years of the Song Dynasty was stopped, and the ill-gotten wealth of the rich and rich was strangled to death, and all turned into state income!

The reason is reasonable, but Wang Anshi still doesn't dare to act rashly. He said to Su Zhe that you have a point. I'll think long-term. After nearly 1 month, there was no more "green seedling method". It's just that the wheel of reform is equivalent to the wheel of history, once turned. Not even the people who pushed it in the first place could not control it. Just when Wang Anshi was still hesitating, an accidental thing suddenly happened...

Wang Guangyuan, the director of Jingdong Transport, went to the seal and suggested that thousands of "degree monks" should be sold on Hebei Road to try out the green seedling method on Hebei Road.

This proposal contains at least two of the following insights: 1. The Seedlings Law is well known. No matter what the controversy is within the Regulation Department of the Three Divisions, and what Wang Anshi's intentions are, this decree and its contents have been leaked out. To be honest, it's a bit of a dereliction of duty. In Fu Bi's words, it is the likes and dislikes of those in power who let the people below know the way, and it is inevitable that there will be pandering. 2. "Degree monks" is a wonderful way to think about it. These three words represent huge instant income and endless super troubles. Let's start with what kind of huge income? A few thousand of these degrees can accumulate 500,000 yuan. It is basically the sum of the annual coins given by the Song Dynasty to the Great Liao and Western Xia. Speaking of troubles, it is really endless. The monks are the legal business licenses of the monks. Amazingly, since ancient times, no matter in prosperous times or troubled times, Buddhism has always blossomed and prospered everywhere, and it has not been affected by the current situation at all. For what? Seeking the afterlife, seeking peace of mind, seeking liberation, etc. are more illusory, but the important thing is that there are practical benefits, and the monks are tax-free. Once you can get the "monk", no matter who you used to be, you will be making money every day, and you will have a golden wind in your sleeves. In the long run, imagine what the country's tax revenue looks like. So I have to say here: Wang Anshi is too eager for quick success!

The future sage Cheng Hao criticized: This is not the right way of the king, and there is no durability. Wang Anshi was dismissive of this, he said that the so-called royal road has righteousness and "power", that is, change. Thousands of monks can buy 450,000 stone rice, and can save 150,000 people in famine years. To oppose such a thing is simply to be stubborn!

In this regard, I would like to ask the great prince Wang: Is it a famine year now? Are you talking about saving people?

Besides, how did Wang Guangyuan know that there was such a thing as the Qingmiao Law in Lu Dao, and it catered to it in such a timely manner? In such a chaotic and complicated situation, anyone with a little bit of brains will have questions - what is the relationship between these two surnamed Wang? Could it be that Wang Anshi couldn't eat in the superstructure, and mobilized the masses below to build momentum and push the decree up?

Therefore, the implementation of the Seedlings Law itself should be said to be correct and necessary. But Wang Anshi's initial approach was wrong. In the future, this will cause the most serious and consistent mistake made by almost all the laws and regulations in the "Wang Anshi Reform" - inconsistent words and deeds!

But I never wanted to deny it. The essence of reform is the redistribution of interests, and when it comes to this concept, it is on the same level as war. I ask you: Is there a successful change in this world without bloodshed? Is there a new world created by the undead? So even if Wang Guangyuan was secretly instigated by Wang Anshi, it was not a big deal. Even if you use the money from selling the monks, there is nothing wrong with it, at least you don't use the grain reserves in the regular closing position...

When it came to implementation, the New Party made the mistake of being inconsistent with its words and deeds. It was said that it was only trialed in Hebei, and the result was expanded to Hebei, Jingdong, and Huainan 3 roads. It is said that it is used to pay the monk's money. As a result, 15 million Shichang and Guanghui warehouses were used to close the grain. It is said that the "green seedling law" is based on agriculture, and as a result, urban residents can also borrow. It is said that hard apportionment is not allowed, but for the sake of political performance, promotion, wealth, collapse of Wang Anshi and other positive and negative reasons, the hardness of apportionment is not much worse than diamond...

In the historical materials that have survived to this day, it is impossible to tell whether this is Wang Anshi's proposition or Emperor Shenzong's own decision. But since it was released in the name of the Great Song Emperor, these two people are inseparable!

Why the rush? In the end, there are no loopholes in the Qingmiao Law, and the concept in the officialdom has not been clarified, so it has been done with great fanfare? This is really incomprehensible, after all, Wang Anshi just said that "changing the law is easy to slow down and not easy to hurry". In the end, he is full of confidence, as long as the Qingmiao Law is implemented, he can quickly see benefits. Gagged the Conservatives? Or did he prejudge that he and Sima Guang and others would never get along, and there would be no chance to straighten out the concept, so they forcibly passed it, making the Qingmiao Law a reality and letting the law change spread out on a large scale?

Unknown... What we can see is that with the introduction of the Qingmiao Law, Wang Anshi's reform of the law itself, and the confrontation between the new party and the old party, have suddenly risen to the point of dire straits, and you are living and dying...

Wang Anshi also knows very well what those top bigwigs will do after the introduction of the Qingmiao Law. To meet the challenge, he made a crucial decision - to give someone a promotion!

29th. Lu Huiqing was promoted to the crown prince Zhongyun and the storyteller of the Chongzheng Palace. This position is equivalent to the emperor's personal adviser and teacher, and he can regularly discuss knowledge face-to-face with the emperor, and there is nothing more appropriate than this position to control public opinion and control the emperor's thoughts! It will soon be proven. How wise and timely this decision was.

On October 3, Fu Bi resigned. The reason for the disclosure was old age and illness, but in fact, everyone knew that Lu Dao was against the new law. Opposition is opposition, and Fu Bi's approach makes people very emotional.

Fu Bi has something to say and talk about things. Never buttoned his hat indiscriminately, and scolded others for being villains at every turn. When an opinion is not accepted, it will not be annoyed. Look for an opportunity to take revenge. Now, when he can't stop it, let alone want to participate, he chooses to retreat and not get involved!

Before Fu Bi left, Emperor Shenzong summoned him and asked, "After you leave, who will be the prime minister" Fu Bi replied, "Wen Yanbo" Shenzong was silent for a long time. asked "how is Wang Anshi", and then it was Fu Bi's turn to be silent for a long time...

Fu Bi left Kaifeng, and after that, he never returned to the imperial capital, and basically withdrew from the chaotic officialdom that lost basic norms. Looking back on his life, especially his departure, I can experience a true gentleman's style. What is grace and self-cultivation? Look at Fubi, the gentleman does not speak ill, the gentleman is not strong, even if this kind of cultivation is put in modern times, he is also a standard gentleman!

Historians have lamented that from the beginning of the Xining Reform to the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, politicians were all revengers and persecutors with perverted and distorted minds, and even the minimum quality of discussing things calmly and calmly was lost. Yes! Really lost! Fu Bi is the last endangered ancient species, and after him, no one can do the 4 words of "self-denial and revenge"!

Wang Anshi was not interested in lamenting this, not because he didn't agree with this virtue, but because he saw the crisis behind this matter. Fu Bi's departure represents a message and a position in officialdom. When Fu Bi first came to power, it was a shield erected by the emperor for the reformers, and he wanted to use Fu Bi's prestige to delay the weakening of opposition. Now that I'm gone, it's a very obvious signal: I won't play with you anymore, so I'll do it myself!

At the same time, Chen Shengzhi was appointed as the prime minister, because the emperor wanted to erect another shield for the reformers after Fu Bi left. But how can Chen have the prestige of being rich?

Sure enough, the opposition suddenly attacked it en masse, and the scale was unprecedented in the Northern Song Dynasty for more than 100 years. All dwarfed.

Sima Guang was on the verge of a thunderstorm at this time, but no one could see it. His cultivation had already reached the point where Mount Tai collapsed and did not move. There is a small incident circulating in officialdom:

One day, Sima Guang was in the office, and something was urgent, and a small official rushed in to report. But when he saw Master Sima sitting precariously and motionless like a mountain, he was startled at that time and hurriedly stopped his feet. As a result, he made another mistake, he was too quick to shake the candle down, and it almost burned the sleeves of Sima Guang's robe, and the little official was frightened and frightened, and his feet were soft, but Sima Guang did not move at all from beginning to end. It's just that his eyes are like torches, and he keeps staring at him closely.

Having calm in every major event is the minimum quality of a politician... But at this time, he really couldn't help it! The crisis came too quickly and threatened him directly. Wang Anshi promoted Lu Huiqing to the Chongzheng Hall to tell stories, and before that, Sima Guang himself had been lecturing to the emperor in the Yiying Pavilion...

Good for you, Wang Anshi! First, threaten my position. Second, if I don't come forward myself, send a subordinate to fight against me, what am I? This will not be tolerated!

So a few days later, Emperor Shenzong asked Sima Guang, "Aiqing, what do you think of the current prime minister?" Sima Guang replied, "The Min people are cunning, and the Chu people are easy." Now there are a total of 4 people in Zhongshu Province, the two prime ministers Zeng Gongliang and Chen Shengzhi are both Fujian, and the two Wang Anshi and Zhao Luan are all Chu. Southerners have never been a good thing! Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin once said that southerners are not allowed to be prime ministers, and they will do bad things if they do" Then Sima Guang praised two northerners in front of the emperor: Fu Bi and Han Qi... Determine the wisdom and foolishness of people by geographical differences, I really don't know from which period of history Master Sima got such a lesson?

However, in the next part of the conversation, Master Sima really has some insight. Emperor "Wang Anshi" How is this person "Sima Guang" Wang Anshi is indeed a sage, and now some people say that he is treacherous, that is too much. But he is ignorant and too stubborn, what about Lu Huiqing, "Sima Guang's words, "Lu Huiqing is flattering, and he is by no means a good person!" Wang Anshi is now slandered inside and outside the court, all because of his "The emperor thought about it and said" Lu Huiqing had a very clear mind when he said things, like a talented person" Sima Guang sneered, "Lu Huiqing is indeed literary and wise, but his mind is not right!" Jiang Chong and Li Xunru have no talent, how can they move the human master" Shenzong silently...

This silence generally means that the emperor said to him that he was not cold, and that he wanted to end the conversation. can carefully check Sima Guang's academic system, coupled with his usual lectures to the Divine Sect, you will understand that this silence is extraordinary, and Lu Huiqing's trouble is big!

Sima Guang is different from Ouyang Xiu and other gentlemen of the previous generation, he will not look at anyone who is not pleasing to the eye, and he will throw the big hat of the "villain" over a trivial matter, and the master will look at the history of all generations and classify the people of the world into 4 categories: saints, fools, gentlemen, villains... It is divided into two aspects: talent and morality. Talent and virtue are saints, no talent and no virtue are fools, virtue is better than being a gentleman, and talent is better than virtue is a villain. Sima Guang focused on explaining why it is so different from a gentleman and a villain. That is, if a person is not talented enough and has a high enough moral character, he will only benefit mankind in a very limited way, and will not do evil. But if a person is full of bad intentions and has a very big talent, he will harm people everywhere, and he will have nothing to do to disturb the world, especially for gentlemen who are incapable and particularly loyal and honest, the lethality is too great!

Therefore, the villain, the talented villain, is the most dangerous and undesirable! According to this theory, specific to Lu Huiqing, the villain title has become a tailor-made dress for Lu Huiqing.

The result of the conversation that day was that Shenzong was silent, he was thinking, and this achieved Sima Guang's purpose.

As a super officialdom fighter, the old bastard knows very well that it is impossible to make Lu Huiqing fall out of favor with just such a conversation, what he wants is to plant a seed in the emperor's heart, and from this moment on, he has been vaguely shrouded in Lu Huiqing, so that every thing he does and every word he says is secretly in line with the ultimate crime of "villain"... (To be continued......)