Chapter 865: Sword of Darkness, Heart of Light
readx;?“ According to some declassified documents, during the Yonghe period, the madness of the Shuo Party may also be due to the secret dispatch of the Holy Ancestor behind the scenes. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info" the professor on the podium said after telling the story.
"This statement needs to be verified, but some of the missteps of the banking department back then were indeed sent by the Holy Ancestor to instigate Sun Jue."
"But we can't deny the greatness of the Holy Ancestor, the Shuo Party was too powerful back then, and Wu Zong has always wanted to use the way of balance, and the ancestral technique of mixing different theories has caused Wang Jiefu and the Holy Ancestor to constantly compromise. Only by completely breaking them can a new order be established. ”
"Therefore, some people talk about the Holy Ancestor, who uses the sword of darkness to hold the heart of light. Please pay attention to this, the means can be dark, but the heart cannot be dark......"
Nearly two hundred years have passed since the Yonghe Party struggle, and in these two hundred years, the other side has been resolutely implementing Wang Ju's policy, and those who do not agree with the Central Plains and China will be killed without mercy, which is also the most important system on the other side. After Shaosheng, the Song Dynasty also intended to maintain a good relationship with the other side, and even the kings married the princesses of the Song Dynasty, which made the people on the other side always regard the Song Dynasty as Zhengshuo, in fact, although the other side divided the three countries, it was clearly stipulated that the three countries were the fetters of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the lords of the three kingdoms were only called kings, not emperors, monarchs, and emperors. Although everyone respects Wang Ju very much, they only say that the Holy Ancestor, not the Holy Emperor.
Of course, in this kind of constitutional monarchy system on the other side, the power of the king is infinitely decentralized, and the ruling is changed to a change system, and everyone loses the ambition of being the king and hegemon, and the system established by Wang Ju has no soil for ambition in the Central Plains.
Under this good relationship, the Song Dynasty also encouraged the landless people to migrate to the other side, which made the other side prosper rapidly, and of course, this also relieved the population pressure of the Song Dynasty.
However, with the help of the other side and the improvement of transportation, the Song Dynasty successively destroyed the Liao State, the Black Khan, the Khora Mold, and the Tibetan tribes, so that the territory exceeded the peak of the Tang Dynasty.
However, because of the long period of the founding of the country, the politics of the Song Dynasty deteriorated again, the annexation was serious, the wealth and the poor were seriously divided, and the ministers and soldiers were literal and martial, almost to the point of being terminally ill, even if the other side continued to help, they could not stop the spread and expansion of this trend, on the contrary, there were many people in the Song Dynasty who thought that the other side was a minister over the king, and that the other side was interfering in the internal affairs of the Song Dynasty and overriding the Song Dynasty, resulting in many ministers becoming more and more repulsed by the other side.
As a result, the other side gradually abandoned the Song Dynasty, and some long-term people began to prepare for the new dynasty.
However, because Wang Ju left some prophecies, the other side has long been mentally prepared for the Song Dynasty today.
But it cannot be denied that this foundation has been developed rapidly precisely because the Song Dynasty has been strong for a long time in front of it, and the other side is attached to the Song Dynasty. Because of the unification of these two hundred years, the economy of the Song Dynasty developed rapidly, and various technologies also developed rapidly, and almost joined hands with the other side to enter the initial stage of industrial civilization, and the internal capitalism of the Song Dynasty also officially sprouted, laying a solid foundation for the new dynasty in the future.
The situation of the Song Dynasty was punished by Sanzhou, and the inheritance tax was raised by 20 percent, and the inheritance tax was not required to be paid in each standard property, but the excess part must be paid the equivalent of 20 percent of the money, or the government sent someone to calculate, and cut out 20 percent of the property to be handled by the government, so that they could inherit the inheritance of their fathers and use it to crack down on hereditary, monopoly and merger.
This inheritance tax is the tax reform initiated by Wang Ju since the Shaosheng period, the first reform is the commercial tax, the commercial tax has not moved, but the tax has been greatly adjusted. When it comes to people's livelihood, taxes are only 2 to 4 percent, and grain, for example, is only 2 percent. The pit mines are between 4 and 8 percent, and the liquor and luxury goods are 10 percent. The foreign or imported goods of the city and the department have also been adjusted, and only 5 percent of the people's livelihood is concerned, and the base rate of luxury goods such as the Song Dynasty is 10 percent, but tax evaders will be severely punished. The homestead tax is also different from that of the Song Dynasty, the other side has formulated a standard, ordinary houses are not taxed, and higher than this standard is levied at a tax rate of 1/1000 to 2/1000 per year, and 1/1000 is an assessment of someone, and those who have contributed to the country and society can enjoy this qualification, otherwise it is 2/1000.
The second is the inheritance tax, Wang Ju raised it to 15 percent, but also formulated a standard, according to the family's home, land, and all other assets to assess, ordinary families do not have to pay this inheritance tax, but higher than this standard, must pay 15 percent of the inheritance tax, but some families are all immovable property, so they can be allowed to repay within ten years according to the minimum loan rate of the bank. After more than ten years, then someone was sent to forcibly cut off his property and auction it.
These systems were for everyone, including Wang Ju himself, and if he died, his property would be divided among his three sons, even if it was the property of the royal family, and he would also have to pay inheritance tax. At the same time, the two taxes were further reduced, and some martyrs, filial sons, good people, teachers, etc., were all exempted from the two taxes, but this did not include officials.
Then a rule was made that the children of officials who are related to each other cannot enter the officialdom, and the children of officials are related to each other, or those who are related to the local rich and powerful, the officials themselves are not allowed to enter the officialdom at the provincial level, that is, if they want to hold an official position at the provincial level, their children must be related to the children of the poor family to combat hereditary inheritance.
After the introduction of these systems, some wealthy people began to return, and the inheritance tax was too high.
The other side did not stop it, but it was the return of these people that began to bring the situation on the other side to the Central Plains.
At this time, the relationship between the Song Dynasty and the other side was getting better and better, and the other side intended to open up forty or fifty states and allow the Song Dynasty to send officials, so the Song Dynasty deliberately sent many officials to sharpen it.
Look at how difficult it is to be an official on the other side, and then look at how comfortable you are as an official, should you serve the court more?
In fact, it is not as hard as the Song Dynasty imagined, as long as you are not greedy and do not make serious mistakes, as long as there is a similar official in one generation, you can ensure that three generations can live a better life. Even if it is a system like the other side, the official is the official after all, and there are many advantages, which can only be said to be much better than the officials of the Song Dynasty.
But after the tempering of the other side, as long as the officials sent to the past study carefully, they will generally become good officials after they come back, so that in the later Song Dynasty "super golden" 100 years, there are nine prime ministers, who have gone to the other side to be officials. However, a hundred years after Shaosheng, the Song Dynasty was at a loss and had no opponents, and gradually became corrupt.
And with the disgust of the other side, the Song Dynasty made an even more wrong move, and once again issued an edict that the people should not be moved.
This was a fatal mistake, although with the help of the other side, many new technologies appeared, including all kinds of grain seeds were improved, and Liaodong was also fully developed, but at this time the Song Dynasty reached nearly 60 million households, coupled with the exploitation of the powerful officials, all kinds of contradictions intensified, and finally led to the outbreak of this great uprising.
Although its own population is rapidly multiplying, in the middle of a hundred years, millions of households have migrated from the Song Dynasty one after another, but the population base is too small, and the total population is less than 200 million people, and the increase in grain production, that is, at least 400 years, it will take at least 400 years before a land and population crisis may occur, but by that time, I am afraid that the other side has already entered "modernization".
With the rumors that there was a great uprising in the Song Dynasty that almost swept the whole country, it is funny that this group of rebels moved all the nondescript systems on the other side. When the news reached the other side, many people laughed. Although it is a good thing, it also gives the other side a warning. When the three royal families heard about it, they quickly cut their expenses and donated nearly half of the industry's deed shares for disaster relief and poverty relief in various continents.
The three continents also separately announced that those who are engaged in business with the families of officials must be strictly examined, and those who have children as officials must start from the grassroots level, and when they are promoted, they must go through stricter performance evaluations, so as not to be like the Song Dynasty, because of the favor and affinity, which led to the protection of officials and officials, and quickly went into decline.
Because of this, the professors in the academy once again took out this history and talked about it repeatedly.
Wang Ju's life is not entirely bright, such as the battle of Yongle City, all kinds of indications prove that Wang Ju may have known in advance that the Song Dynasty would cut down the summer, and it would fail after the summer. And no one dares to underestimate Wang Ju, so it is holy, such as science, after Wang Ju is old, he will divide everything on the other side into three, and begin to write books and establish studies with peace of mind, and then leave many theorems and formulas and hypotheses, and the advancement of science on the other side is the success of various scholars who continue to study these theorems and hypotheses left by Wang Ju. As long as you follow these hypothetical studies, there will be progress, but if you want to bypass these hypotheses, there will be no progress.
But without Wang Ju's tacit vision, it is impossible for Zhao Ji to delegate power to Wang Ju, and there is no possibility for Wang Ju to succeed in reforming, let alone destroy Western Xia, defeat Liao, and lay the foundation for the later recovery of Yanyun's sixteen states.
and in Gao Taotao's administration, Wang Ju's possible role in secretly promoting.
If Gao Taotao, Wen Yanbo, Liu Zhi and others are not crazy, the upper-class elites of the Song Dynasty will not be completely disappointed in the Shuo Party, then Zhao Xu is in power, Zhang Dian and Zhang Shangying are in charge, and the power of the Shuo Party is still like a shadow hovering over the Song Dynasty, Zhang and Zhang will not be able to completely restore Wang Ju's reform, and they will not be able to concentrate their forces to take the sixteen states of Yanyun in one fell swoop.
Of course, there is a premise for this, that is, Wang Ju has done too successfully in the front, and the more successful the front, the more crazy the back, which will form a sharp contrast.
Wang Ju's possible promotion made the Shuo Party even more crazy, and also made many people in the Song Dynasty miserable in those years, which was a darker means than sitting back and watching the fiasco of Yongle City. But if you don't do this, you will even force Wang Ju to break his promise and have to return to the Song Dynasty again to preside over the overall situation. The important thing at the moment is undoubtedly the Song Dynasty, but the important thing in the future is the other side, and here in the future it is related to the fate of the entire ethnic group......
It was this means that made the Song Dynasty enter the long Zhongxing era, without a Zhongxing Song Dynasty, the other side could not flourish, after all, at that time, the other side was sparsely populated and had limited products, including trade, and it was also dependent on the Song Dynasty to continue to develop. Of course, the gold, silver, minerals, and technology on the other side also played a positive role in the long rise of the Song Dynasty.
This is a perfect and long win-win era.
That's why the professor said that the means can be dark, but the heart cannot be dark......
After the professor finished speaking, the class was announced, and some students continued to open their books and look through the history behind.
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In the past few years, the ministers have always regarded Zhao Xu as a child who doesn't understand anything, and he does whatever he wants.
But how can a seven-year-old boy who can read the Analects by heart be comparable to that of an ordinary teenager? Besides, Wang Ju has been teaching almost hand-in-hand for so long.
It's just that Zhao Xu had to endure it in order to prevent accidents. Even if these people forcibly divorce their fiancée and force her to remarry someone else, they have to smile at this group of people.
Thinking of this, the more he spoke, the sharper his tone became: "Dafang, have you ever learned from Zhang Zai?" ”
Lu Dafang can't be completely regarded as Zhang Zai's student, but he did ask Zhang Zai for a period of study, and the sea of learning is endless, and the master is a teacher, so to a certain extent, Lu Dafang can be regarded as Wang Ju's senior brother, at least the two have a good relationship.
But that's the most ironic part.
Some of the wronged Lu Dafang, he and Fan Chunren, Lu Gongshu, Wang Cun and others belong to the old party, but they are all moderate old party, the methods are not radical, the act is not cruel, in recent years Lu Dafang in the DPRK has played a more or less restraining role on the radicals, preventing the further deterioration of the country, although this kind of restriction may not be what Wang Ju likes.
However, Lu Dafang did make three serious mistakes.
Because he and Zhang Dian have always been at odds, when Liang Tao attacked Zhang Tun, he did not rescue Zhang Tun, but on the contrary, he fell into the well, which led to the expansion of the situation, and soon there were Zhang Dang, Cai Dang, and Anshi Dang.
Later, Liu Zhi and the others made a fuss about Wang Ju's party, although Lu Dafang fought, but he was afraid of the power of Wen Yanbo and Liu Zhi, so he did not fight. Therefore, many famous generals on the front line were degraded to the south together, and Kumamoto died because of this. Not to mention Wang Ju in this list, You Shixiong and Seed Master Dao are also Zhang Zai's students.
Even if he can't abolish the public because of his own interests, Lu Dafang has little hatred with the New Party, so he can see it more thoroughly, but did he stand in the position of the Song Dynasty to stop the perverse actions of the Shuo Party?
Fortunately, because of Wang Ju's arrangement, the two rebellions of the Liao State slowed down their pace, otherwise when the Liao army was angry, panicked, and the morale of the three armies on the front line of the Song Dynasty was angry, panicked, and the morale of the army was turbulent, the army went south, and the Song Dynasty would be in serious danger.
The last one, if he didn't dare to do anything because of Wen Yanbo and Liu Zhi and others, and later Wen Yanbo retired, Liu Zhi and others were demoted from the court, Fan Chunren was recalled, Lu Dafang and Fan Chunren worked together, and they could still set things right in time, but the two were helpless in the face of the country's defeat and the quarrels in the court, so they lost the best opportunity to correct their names.
But that's not the end of it.
As soon as the imperial court issued an edict to strictly investigate the Duan Tianshui case, someone came to beat the drum and voice the grievances.
In order to make peace, Wen Yanbo and others ceded Montenegro and Wudu Army to Liao.
In fact, it really can't be cut, Wang Ju occupied the Hetao, using the Yin Mountain Black Mountain and the Yellow River as a natural danger, but this area is very large, so Wang Ju built the Great Wall, and built many forts to increase its defensive strength.
Although it cannot be described as an iron wall, because of this, if the Liao State wants to break through these defense lines, it will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.
Then the northwest is also protected, and at the same time, the Song Dynasty can easily exchange a large number of war horses, livestock, and furs from the hands of the Divination and Bai Dadan, and can even easily provoke the relationship between these tribes and the Liao State, so that they will keep rebelling and weakening the strength of the Liao State.
However, this cut, there is no natural danger to rely on, and it also means that Wang Ju spent so much money, silk, manpower, and built fortifications, which lost half of their effectiveness.
Everyone only knows its military value, but they don't expect another thing to happen behind it.
There were 100,000 troops scattered on the five roads on the edge of the northwestern Shaanxi road, but there were less than 30,000 soldiers in the rotational war, and the rest was 30,000 poly-army, and more than 7,000 Fanluo troops were selected from the nomads who were dependent on the Song Dynasty in the north and south of the Hetao, as well as the Zhejia army, and the Baojie army on the Lingxia Road.
In addition to these troops, there were also some archers and strong men and horses, but they were all militia in nature, at most they were exempt from land taxes, no salaries, and could not be regarded as official officers and soldiers.
The Wudu Army also had more than 3,000 border troops, some of whom were immigrants from the Song Dynasty, and the rest were Han people from the Liao State who had settled in the original country, accounting for almost half of the households of the Wudu Army.
The Song Dynasty ceded it to the Liao State, and Liang Shisu, the new governor of Shengzhou, ordered the military and civilians of Quanzhou to retreat to the rear. First, the forbidden army was successfully withdrawn, but the retreat of so many soldiers and civilians caused chaos. At this time, the Liao army suddenly crossed the Yellow River, came to hand over, and pointed to these people and said that they are all our Khitan people, and they are not allowed to transfer.
Liang Shisu did not dare to refute, so the Liao army successfully controlled the Wudu army, and also occupied a part of Fengzhou, nearly half of the Shengzhou boundary, but these border troops, especially the immigrant border soldiers have weapons in their hands, so some bloody soldiers took the initiative to stand up and resist, but the dragons were leaderless and retreated. Someone asked Liang Shisu for help, but Liang Shisu remained silent. So all these rebellions were suppressed, and then the Liao State took all these border troops to the rear, and only the Liao people knew where to take them.
However, some people escaped by luck, and a few people came to the capital to complain, but they didn't dare to say anything when they heard all the things in the court.
It wasn't until Zhang Zhang and others were transferred back to the capital one after another, and the emperor was in charge of the government, that these people felt that the time had come, beat the drum, and sued Liang Shisu.
It is not easy to sue the officials with the people, and they first have to suffer dozens of boards, but the relatives of these people are also taken to Liao, and their whereabouts are unknown, so they don't care, after receiving the boards, they will report the situation one by one, and then cry silently.
Zhao Xu said that there has never been one since ancient times.
Then I added, crazy!
At this time, the liquidation really began, and the imperial court issued an edict to thoroughly investigate Xiong's case, and the eunuch who forced Kumamoto to go south with illness was in the palace, but a eunuch was so bold, explain to the instigator behind the scenes. Then thoroughly investigate Shen Kuo's case, who sent people to the Zunyi Army to create rumors. After thoroughly investigating the Huaqin case, what courage did these officials have to torture a county magistrate of the country to death in the middle of the way.
Then posthumously presented Kumamoto, Shen Kuo, Hua Qin, Duan Tianshui and others to show compassion to their families.
With the beginning of the purge, more than 200 people before and after were reprimanded, and nearly half of the officials were almost stripped of their official positions and sent to the south for resettlement, Yongzhou is a good place, Liu Zhi, you go to this good place. Half of them went to the South and stayed there.
Zhang Kai and others were also transferred back one after another.
It's not over yet, and then the imperial court released the list of Yonghe traitorous ministers, headed by Wen Yanbo, a total of 46 people, all the "traitors" on this list, not only the official positions are fine, but their children will never be favored, and those who have children will be immediately dismissed from all official positions.
This is fatal, why these officials are getting more and more powerful, it is the grace system of the Song Dynasty, Lao Tzu is an official, his son is an official, and his grandson can also be an official, that is, the hereditary as Wang Ju said, coupled with the mutual affinity of officials, so a huge network of unfillable desires has been formed, like a bloodsucking worm, sucking all the flesh and blood of the Song Dynasty.
But unlike history, this liquidation and purge is far better than another time and space, but many powerful people applaud.
Because at this point, the military and political affairs of the Song Dynasty have been completely destroyed, just like the deed shares of the banking department, they have not seen dividends for two years, and even the share capital has shrunk by more than half, in this case, how can they not hate the Shuo party?
This is what Wang Ju said if it is not broken and it is not established.
There is also an idiom called fighting but not breaking.
The best example is Washington, who raised 300 slaves and accounted for 2 percent of the country's income, which is a very terrible number, just like the Celestial Empire's annual income of more than 10 trillion yuan, then 2 percent is more than 200 billion yuan of net income a year! It's not terrible to have money, but this person is even more stingy than Zhou Papi, when the United States had just experienced a war, and many people were so poor that they couldn't even eat, and this guy didn't take out a penny to help the people. What's even funnier is that he once told his family that he was not allowed to bury him when he died, in case he would come back to life......
And the great Comrade Lincoln, who gave the order to massacre the Indians.
However, from the perspective of white Americans, they have far more than two achievements, and they are still American heroes.
So Zhang Xun eats human flesh, Yue Fei has a very bad temper, Taizu did make mistakes in his later years, but they are also heroes. The negative example is Zhao Gou, in fact, Zhao Gou's internal governance is okay, and his life is frugal, but he is a faint king!
No one is perfect, and mistakes can be made in small directions, but mistakes cannot be made in general directions. The same is true in politics, where there are fights in all countries. However, this struggle must have a certain bottom line, and this bottom line can also be said that no one can be killed, and it can also be said that no matter how the fight is fought, it must not endanger the country.
In the past few years, the Shuo Party has gone too far, and has made great strides to cross this bottom line, if the original time and space, the difference is not big, many people are not easy to notice, but in this time and space, the contrast between before and after is too great.
After several months of purging, almost all the backbone of the old party was emptied, especially the list of more than 40 traitorous ministers, because of the cancellation of their favors, it also means that more than 30 official eunuch families have since come to an end.
Unless there is an accident, Wang Ju, Zhang Dian and Zhang Shangying will not let the accident happen.
First of all, the imperial court successively issued edicts to restore the decree of the first year of Shuozheng.
Then he did a jaw-dropping thing, and issued an edict to collect all the 100 million cotton pieces to the capital, and burn them all in front of the people in the capital.
At this time, Fan Chunren had not yet been demoted from the court, and he persuaded him tactfully.
It's a pity, although this cotton exchange is wrong, but for these cotton exchanges, the country used hundreds of thousands of manpower, and the cost alone reached tens of millions, so you can't burn them with a fire. It's really not good, five as one, ten as one, how much can some losses be recovered.
Zhang Shangying said: "If not, how can the credibility of the silk bond be re-established!" ”
At this time, the cotton exchange has always fallen to the market price of 200 Wen, and the silk exchange has also fallen sharply, which is only equivalent to about 500 Wen.
If the country does not have such a strong man breaking his wrist, it is impossible to restore the people's confidence in silk intercourse.
Along with it, a fleet of clippers came from the other side, each loaded with a large amount of gold, silver and bronze, and the imperial court posted a letter on the affairs of various banks, and the other side would continue to provide a large amount of gold and silver every year until the banking department returned to normal.
At the same time, many brokers disembarked from each ship and went to various states to sign a large number of orders, and with orders, all walks of life could resume production. These economists said another piece of news, the currency of the Song Dynasty was chaotic, and the currencies of the Great Eclipse countries were also chaotic, not to mention not only the Great Eclipse, but also the Tianzhu countries along the coast, and the European countries on the Great Eclipse side.
Seeing this situation, in recent years, some seafarers have brought silk to Dashi, where the price of silk is relatively expensive, and the silk of the Song Dynasty is so exquisite, so many countries also use it as a quasi-currency in circulation, and even the value is far above its own denomination, just like the Yingzong Jiao of ten cents, in some countries over there, its value is almost equivalent to the purchasing power of more than forty wen.
As a side note, the banking department and the silk exchange are both promoted by Wang Ju, and although Wang Ju is on the other side, he will not sit idly by and watch them fail. If the value of the silk cloth continues to depreciate, Wang Ju will take the silk cloth to the big food to digest it, and forcibly raise its price again.
Then now that you have a silk hand in your hand, you will immediately exchange it for copper coins at a very low price, and you will inevitably regret it later.
With a three-pronged approach, the silk hand finally began to warm up.
The following year, it was changed to the yuan, Shaosheng. Shao, continue, recover, which means to restore the decree of Zhao Ji and continue.
The state issued an edict again to restore the two tax rates of Shuozheng, that is, the Wendi tax in the mouths of some people, according to Tian and so on, from ten taxes to thirty taxes, of course, it is not this tax rate when it is implemented, and there are some miscellaneous taxes. And the tax rate on the surface is also higher than the tax rate of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, that tax rate is fifteen to thirty taxes one, not ten taxes one.
However, it is much lower than the original tax rate, and even some miscellaneous taxes are clearly banned one by one in this edict.
Soon, a large fleet of ships arrived on the other side one after another.
Not only did they bring some goods from the other side, but they also brought large quantities of gold, silver, copper, iron, and especially gold, which amounted to nearly four million taels. Wang Ju began to arrange this "break" a few years ago, and the key to the break was the banking department, but it had to be established after the break. The gold mine production and trade on the other side of the bank were not enough, so he let the soldiers on the other side attack a small country in the South China Sea and obtained a large amount of gold, silver, pearls and jade, so for two consecutive years, the other side brought a huge amount of gold and silver.
The price of silk delivery suddenly returned to the past, and even many people took out the gold and silver in their hands again and went to various businesses to exchange for silk delivery. After all, gold and silver transactions are too troublesome, and you have to pay a certain amount of handling fees to the gold cabinet. And it was a copper coin, and as the other side brought a shipload of raw copper, and minted it into copper coins, its actual value began to fall.
In fact, the banking department and overseas trade are the two most important magic weapons of the "golden rule" initiated by Wang Ju, with the resumption of overseas trade, the banking department is back to normal operation, and under their pull, the economy of the Song Dynasty has also recovered.
But it was still far from the Chenguang of the later years of Yuanfeng and the Shuozheng period, and in the autumn of that year, hundreds of people fled to the other side, so that the fleets left, and a large number of people stayed in various ports because they could not take them with them.
Zhao Xu was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly asked Cai Qu that if the country was stable, there would not be so many people fleeing the Song Dynasty. (To be continued.) )