The beginning of the change
Su Shi of the Zhishi Museum objected in a letter, and accused Song Shenzong in person, "His Majesty is too anxious to seek treatment, too wide to hear, and too sharp" Zhao Ji was shocked and exclaimed, "Qing Sanyan, I should think about it" The first shot of the vigorous reform was beaten into a dud by Su Shi, everyone can imagine Wang Anshi's anger! So when Emperor Shenzong proposed to use Su Shi as the regulation for repairing the Chinese book, Wang Anshi resolutely opposed it and appointed Su Shi as the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture.
On June 22, Lu Xu, the boss of Yushitai, was also pulled off the horse by Wang Anshi. Specifically, the Lu Zhi incident has little to do with the change, and its cause is related to the sacredness of maternal love. It is said that the most beloved son of the powerful "female Yao Shun" Yingzong's wife and Shenzong's mother, Empress Dowager Gao, is not the eldest son Song Shenzong Zhao Hao, but the second son, Qi King Zhao Hao, who loves to the point that they must meet every day and are inseparable. The specific method is to keep the adult Zhao Hao in the palace all the time and not rush to live outside.
She's breaking the rules! It's true that her father-in-law (Renzong) died early, her husband (Yingzong) died early, and her mother-in-law and aunt (Cao's) had a good temper, and she was used to being lawless. The lessons of the successive dynasties with blood have summed up a rule: there can only be one emperor and one crown prince in the palace, and these two men related to the throne exist. The other princes all rushed outside, or even rushed to live in other places, the farther away the better! Otherwise, beware of a coup d'état that can happen at any time!
But Empress Dowager Gao just doesn't care, her preferences and her will are more important than the safety of the country! This became a fact in the future, and so on, what's the big deal about keeping a beloved son to live nearby!
So a minister called Zhang Piguang wrote to remind her, but she was furious and ordered the Divine Sect to deal with this surnamed Zhang severely! Shenzong had no choice, the filial son was obedient, so he had to order Zhang Piguang to be released. At this time, no one in the Manchu Dynasty dared to speak, only Wang Anshi stood up: Zhang Biguang didn't make any mistakes, so he didn't have to deal with it!
At this time, Lu Zhi took advantage of the power of the Empress Dowager Gao to use this matter to impeach Wang Anshi! In all fairness: Is Wang Anshi wrong? It's just a fair word. Isn't it the same nature as when Yingzong Dynasty Lu Zhi opposed Pu Yi before? So why would Lu Xue oppose Wang Anshi? The answer lies in the impeachment note he wrote. It summarizes Wang Anshi's ten major crimes: "being rude, wanting to have a good name, asking the king to take a name, disregarding the public with affection, favoritism and resentment, sloppiness and power, tyranny and harming government, Ling Shuo in the same ranks, friends as traitors, and shaking the world" are so big that they are scared to death, and it is said that Wang Anshi "is like a traitor like loyalty, a big fraud is like a letter, showing Pu Ye to the outside, and being treacherous in Tibet..."
But Emperor Shenzong withstood the pressure of his mother this time, kept Wang Anshi, and dismissed Lu Xu. Appointed Kaifeng prefect Lu Gong as the imperial historian. The reason for the appointment of Lü Gongshu was because Lü Gongshu's brother and privy envoy Lü Gongbi opposed Wang Anshi, and Wang Anshi wanted to use Lü Gongshu's work to force the Privy Council to favor him.
The above is Wang Anshi's experience of killing Tang Jie, driving away Lu Xu, and PK the two most famous quarreling kings before. It is said that this kind of record is changed in front of the Shenzong Dynasty, which is enough for him to look at the world, and a cough will overwhelm the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty. But not at this time, no one obeyed him.
This month, the privy envoy of the Northern Court of Great Liao, the king of Wei, Yelu Yixin, was crowned Taishi. The affairs of the Quartet Army were carried out by Yi Xin cheaply. The Khitan proverb "would rather disobey the edict." No violation of Wei Wangbai's post"
On July 17, the first decree of the new law was promulgated, which fully satisfied the needs of officialdom without harming half of their income, and at the same time doubled the state tax revenue by 10 times. But what is depressing is that there are still people who jump out and oppose it with a loud voice, what is this for?
The even-lose law is introduced! Quickly let the dignitaries and nobles in the capital, and even the emperor see the effect of the new law, and cleverly dodged the biggest fundamental lifeblood of ancient China - agriculture.
The time has not come. Never touch the most sensitive, basic things.
The equalization method is a business, and it is related to the living conditions of more than one million residents in Kaifeng. We all know that the prosperity of a big city depends on the supply of the surrounding small towns and villages. It is like a huge queen bee, and all the worker bees have to go all out to feed it in order to fatten it. In turn, it spits out nutrients to reproduce the entire colony.
Kaifeng City is also like this, in order to prosper it, Zhao Kuangyin established a department called the Shipping Division, and its chief shipping envoy is responsible for Huai, Zhejiang, Jiang, Lake and other 6 road transportation. A series of good things such as firewood, rice, tea, and salt from the south were transported to the capital. But after a long time, its drawbacks have been revealed.
The shipping department is only an executive agency, and can only go to a certain place to collect and deliver things according to orders. And decide what to ship. But it was a certain big guy in Sansi Province in the capital, and his old man looked at the bottom file that he didn't know which year and month he saved, and said that there was a place to produce this thing. Yes! With a stroke of the pen, send the shipping envoy there to apportion.
This makes the whole Caoyun messy, and many times, this place does not have this product, but the task comes; There is this thing in that place, but it is rotten in the land, and it is not wanted. Waste, right? Hold your horses! And even more wasteful!
The supply and demand in the capital are even more chaotic, and the bigwigs of the three divisions are all "gentlemen" who don't talk about words and don't stick to money, how can they go to market research? As a result, what is urgently needed in the capital often cannot be transported. The backlog in the capital is pouring in. In the long run, there is a disconnect between supply and demand, but the wonderful thing is that the capital has become more prosperous.
In response to this, Wang Anshi's method was to increase the power of the shipping envoy. It is up to him to decide where to go, at what price, and what to buy, which is equivalent to the state opening a large comprador company, which solves the problem of disconnection between supply and demand in the past, and also allows the country to make money between buying and selling.
At the same time, Wang Anshi did not violate his declaration of competition at all, and did not use half of the taxes of officials and ordinary people, so that the country got benefits. In order to achieve this in actual operation, Wang Anshi selected a suitable candidate - Xue Xiang. In the past, he served as the judge of the degree branch of Kaifeng Mansion and the deputy envoy of Shaanxi Transport, and he is definitely a good hand at financial management.
After Xue Xianglu took office, he used the 5 million yuan of hidden money and 3 million stone rice provided by the emperor to the shipping department as the starting funds, and the state-owned comprador company was prosperous. At the same time, he was also scolded by famous benevolent gentlemen.
The first round of attacks was launched by Liu Qi, Qian Yi and other imperial historians in August. As a result, one was demoted to the state salt and wine department, and the other was demoted to the state salt tax.
After that, it was Su Shi and Su Zhe brothers who appeared. Su Shi's words really got to the point, to understand the mystery, we have to think about another question first: before the introduction of the equalization law, the supply and demand of the capital have long been out of touch, what can Kaifeng City still maintain the peak prosperity of feudal society in history? For what?
That is the most desirable thing of the Great Song Dynasty, until the British Industrial Revolution, the most prosperous and free thing in the entire world - commerce. It has reached unimaginable heights in the smallest territory of the Zhengshuo Dynasty created by the Han people! The beautiful and prosperous Bianliang City like a dream is proof of this!
But it is also a double-edged sword, on the one hand, it maintains the prosperity of the capital and the circulation of the surrounding areas. But on the other hand, it also allowed Jinshan Galaxy to flow away from the Great Song Dynasty treasury, and it had nothing to do with the country.
In connection with Su Shi's words, it is that "since the implementation of the equalization method, the wealthy businessmen are suspicious and dare not move", what the equalization method needs to do is to compete with the businessmen for profits and nationalize the profits of the businessmen. And the businessmen did not dare to move, which is the success of the even-loss method.
Someone is going to say: isn't this a monopoly? Cracking down on free competition? This is taking the back road of history and strangling the already prosperous business of the Song Dynasty! It's also true and not true. Because terms such as free competition and monopoly occur in modern society, they are matched by high commercial taxes. In the Song Dynasty, no matter how developed commerce was, it was only relative to other dynasties. Subjectively, it is still an agrarian society. Can the commercial tax, which is based on the agricultural tax, match the profits earned by the big merchants?
After the two Sus, Fan Chunren, the second son of Fan Zhongyan, launched a new wave of attacks. Fan Chunren is an inscrutable person, who has always been floating between changing the law and not changing the law all his life, and the swing is very level. At this time, he was the first to jump out and scold the new law, and more than 10 years later, his performance was just the opposite...
At this time, his position was the same as that of his father, and he was the Governor's Yuan. His recital repeats once again the theory of the gentleman and the villain. In his opinion, the New Party has nothing to do. The so-called law of enriching the country is nothing more than learning from the villain Sang Hongyang of the Han Dynasty, thinking about how to make money every day like Shang Ying, which completely violates the teachings of Confucius and Mencius and other sages...
12th. Fan Chunren was dismissed from the Zhiyuan and demoted from the capital to reflect on himself.
On the 16th, Su Zhe was dismissed and placed in the detailed text of the Regulations Department of the Three Divisions. Served as the governor of Henan Prefecture.
There are also Feng Jing, Xie Jingwen, Li Chang and others who constantly attack the law of losing and losing, and the reasons are the same, which is nothing more than disrupting order. Spell malfunction. I don't know which of the so-called "order" laws of the Great Song Dynasty stipulates? I don't know what the right spell is? Anyway, Wang Anshi and his comrades are just not right!
Emperor Shenzong didn't have a good face about this, in front of the state civil servant, with the salary of the Zhao family, but he stood on the side of the big businessman and spoke, is there still heavenly reason in this world? Nothing else, refute and drive away one by one, and reflect on it coolly!
As of now, it is just a small fight, and after the implementation of the even-loss method, Fu Bi, Sima Guang, Han Qi, Wen Yanbo and other prestigious and powerful bigwigs have not yet appeared. Maybe they're still watching, thinking...
On the other hand, what Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi are doing is to stabilize their foothold, take advantage of the momentum of suppressing the opposition, and promote the equalization method throughout the country, so that every way can be done! In order for the whole world to see the state of the sufficiency of the national treasury, the most important thing is to give everyone a period of adaptation, so that their brains, which have been rigid and stable for more than 100 years, can gradually adapt to changes.
Wang Anshi himself was also aware of this, and he wrote such a passage in the recital: "When it comes to changing the law, it will be beneficial to slow the change, and there will be many harms in rushing it." Everyone has to brainstorm and take their time"
Article 2 of the new law is of great importance because it deals with the foundation of the state – agriculture. That's the most important thing! If one is not handled properly, the people will be miserable, complaining, and even change the dynasty! How many times have there been changes of dynasty, all because agriculture collapsed and the people couldn't eat, so they took risks and became mobs!
This new law is called the "Qingmiao Law", which is very famous in the history books, and has even become synonymous with this "Wang Anshi Reform"...
Speaking of the Qingmiao Law, it must be associated with another term, that is, the "Changping Law" that prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, this law can be said to be a benevolent government that benefits the people of Li 100%, and it is not harmful at all. When the harvest is abundant, the state pays to stabilize the market price and prevent the grain from hurting the peasants. When a disaster year occurs, the state sells it at a low price so that the people can eat.
Pay attention to its nature: it is completely non-profit, and it is a kind of state-run public welfare undertaking. Then the question arises: since it is so good, why should Wang Anshi change it and implement the Qingmiao Law?
This reaffirms the truth that there are no bad things in the world, only bad people. No matter how good the policy is, it depends on who implements it. In all dynasties, the country was ruled by Confucianism, and although there were some rules for rewards and punishments, it was far from being able to supervise it. No matter how good the method of closing positions is, it has also been corrupted by the officials below: the more conscientious people in this gang are the ones who have the most to swallow the grain in the warehouse, and the more economically minded ones are to take out the grain in the warehouse, collude with the profiteers, and sell it by means of stockpiling and raising prices in the disaster year. At the same time, as farmers, their food rations have become a problem, so how can there be seed grain left? So after the beginning of spring, I can only go to borrow. (To be continued......)