Chapter 74: Controversy with Lin'an Officials
"The national economy is trapped in the creation of prosperity, and the rich people are trapped in peace." Liu Lianggui, the prefect of Lin'an, had a loud voice and a firm attitude.
In fact, the prefect of Lin'an is just a common name, and the official title is generally "Zhilin'an Mansion". Zhilin'an Mansion is like the secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee in New China, and it is a high-ranking position. As a result, the personnel of the Zhilin'an Mansion are generally high-ranking officials, or even prime minister-level figures who have been dismissed or idle.
Liu Lianggui was also a well-known figure in the Song Dynasty, and the officials from the Great Song Dynasty were all part of the ruling class and were part of the Great Song Dynasty.
"Whenever they come to peace, the officials are like tigers, threatening the rich. However, when the harvest is scarce, rich households from all over the country hoard and the price of grain soars. Speaking of these things, Liu Lianggui's tone also became heavy.
Harmony refers to the government's fair purchase of grain from the people. After the middle of the Tang Dynasty, it gradually became a requisition imposed by the government on the people. Other officials, like Zhao Jiaren, are well aware of this. Everyone didn't interject and listened quietly to what kind of new solution Liu Lianggui, who knew Lin'an Mansion, was going to say.
Zhao Jiaren was a little absent-minded, his eyes lowered and looked at the desktop, and thoughts were surging in his heart. There is a lack of land on Fujian Road, and Zhao Jiaren cannot produce food, and the grain of tens of thousands of his subordinates actually depends on sea. When the coastal lighthouse system was completed, the safety of shipping was greatly improved, and the cost of transporting grain from Lianghuai Road to Fujian Road was greatly reduced. Even so, Cho Jiaren really didn't particularly worry about this matter anymore, all because Jeju Island began to provide meat to Cho Jiaren's subordinates.
As soon as he thought of meat, Zhao Jiaren's thoughts jumped to the nitrite preservative being studied, once this thing is produced, the storage time of meat products will be greatly increased. As for the question of what nitrite causes cancer, it is not within the scope of Zhao Jiaren's consideration at all. As a doctor, Zhao Jiaren knows very well that cancer is a geriatric disease, and now 99% of the people in the Great Song Dynasty will not live to the stage of high incidence of cancer. As for the very small number of young cancers that are a genetic problem, the effect of eating nitrite or not is negligible.
As for what this Liu Lianggui said, Zhao Jiaren is very clear. No matter what others say about Jia Nidao, Zhao Jiaren doesn't think Jia Nidao is a traitor. This is why Jia Xianggong did have his own ideas, and Jia Xianggong didn't want to bring down the Great Song Dynasty at all.
For example, the reform of public land is the land restriction system that the Great Song Dynasty carried out. The landlords were required to buy back more than 200 acres of land by the state, and then lease it to the landless people for cultivation. The land rent received from these lands was used as a source of military rations and military expenditure, as well as collateral for the issuance of currency.
I have food in my hand, and I don't panic in my heart. With such a large amount of grain in its hands, the Lin'an Imperial Court could do a lot of things that could not be done originally. Zhao Jiaren doesn't think there is anything wrong with this idea, except that the facts prove that the implementation is not good, this idea can be regarded as grasping the key no matter how you look at it.
As a native of New China and a Ph.D. student in the United States, Zhao Jiaren has seen the agriculture of two countries. He believes that there is no solution to the root cause of China's grain supply other than the state ownership of land. Of course, it can't be said so absolutely. If New China can eliminate the United States and Canada, and solve the local 'aborigines', it can also solve China's food supply problem.
Anyway, in history, the Gongtian reform finally failed, or before the results of the Gongtian reform could be fully seen, the Great Song Dynasty was finished. What really made Jia Nidao stink for 10,000 years was the Battle of Dingjiazhou, in which Sun Huchen, Xia Gui, and Jia Nidao faced a bitter battle, and successively abandoned their armies and fled, and as a result, the last elite of the Southern Song Dynasty was all finished. So much so that after that, Lin'an had no troops to use, and finally surrendered. If Jia Yidao had been willing to fight to the death there at that time, perhaps the final outcome would have been very different. At least if Jia Rudao died in Dingjiazhou, his reputation would be completely different.
Just when Zhao Jiaren let his thoughts fly, he heard Liu Lianggui say: "Zhao Zhizhou, I don't know what you have to say about my foolish opinion. ”
Zhao Jiaren raised his eyes to look at Liu Lianggui, and saw that he took a sip of the teacup, and then showed a comfortable expression. It can be seen that he just made a big call, and he said that his mouth was dry.
"Although there are many things to do, it has been used for hundreds of years. The pamphlets are very complete in all localities, as long as more officials are sent to supervise them. I think you all know that officials and petty officials are bound to put their hands on it and fill their own pockets. But I think it's all a matter of regulation, and if it can be regulated more effectively, I think it can improve. Zhao Jiaren told his opinion.
As soon as this idea came out, Liu Lianggui showed a dissatisfied expression on his face. Zhao Jiaren is good at opportunities, and the whole Lin'an is very clear. Zhao Jiaren's super-large Kong Ming lantern presented to the official family as a tribute will be raised outside the Lin'an Palace City during the New Year's Festival. The official family also wants to 'enjoy with the people', and put a pair in Lin'an City, and if you are willing to pay, you can ride to the sky.
Lin'an City also knows that Zhao Jiaren is good at shipbuilding and understands water warfare. When Mongolia went south, the Shuai Shui army cut off the Yangtze River and was the hero of the great victory in the Battle of Ezhou.
However, after listening to Zhao Jiaren's words, Liu Lianggui couldn't help but be angry in his heart, and ridiculed each other, "Zhao Zhizhou is so young, why is his political views so old-fashioned!" ”
"Old-fashioned?" Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but smile in surprise when he said this, and the officials around him couldn't help but chuckle. Listening to their voices, I still quite agree with Liu Lianggui's opinion.
Liu Lianggui drank water and moistened his throat, and spoke loudly at this time, "The country is so hard, if you can't be determined to innovate and break a way, how can you get rid of the country?" If the old system of land restriction can be used, the problems faced by the state can be solved immediately. But Zhao Zhizhou wants to make peace. It's not old-fashioned, what is old-fashioned? ”
Hearing this, Zhao Jiaren felt for a while that what Liu Lianggui and Governor Liu said was quite reasonable. Zhao Jiaren did oppose the implementation of the law change, and it seems that he can be classified as conservative. However, Zhao Jiaren himself did not agree with his conservatism at all, and the argument between officials was probably to gain the advantage of his tongue, and Zhao Jiaren replied loudly: "Do you think the method used is different from before, that is, it is conservative or changeable." The scale of my judgment on this matter is very different. When we encounter difficulties, we naturally have to rise to the occasion. The harmony method can be used for hundreds of years, and there is naturally a reason for it. And even if the rich people hate the law of peace, they also know the rules of the law. We will have to exert three times or five times our strength, while enforcing the peace, and at the same time setting new rules that can be recognized by both the court and the rich people. to continue. In my opinion, Governor Liu's idea is to leave if he is in trouble. It should be used with a basket or a limited field.,Probably think it's easy to use whichever one.。 I don't think that's a good idea. ”
As soon as Zhao Jiaren said this, Liu Lianggui's face changed greatly. He said angrily: "Is Zhao Zhizhou saying that I am afraid of difficulties? ”
Controversy over changing the law or conservatism was not uncommon in the Great Song Dynasty, and this kind of controversy happened many times. There have also been many major or minor changes to various systems. Whether Zhao Jiaren is 'old-fashioned' or not is just a political point of view, and Liu Lianggui knows that Zhao Jiaren is by no means the only one who is old-fashioned, and there are not 10,000 but 8,000 officials who hold the same view as Zhao Jiaren in the Great Song Dynasty. In the imperial court, there must be about half.
However, Zhao Jiaren attacked Liu Lianggui's attitude, which is another problem. Liu Lianggui is now refuting Zhao Jiaren because he wants to fight for his own conduct.
Without waiting for Governor Liu to continue speaking, an official next to him spoke: "Zhao Zhizhou, why do you think it is more difficult to make peace with the land than to limit the field." I think it's harder to limit the field than to the farm. ”
"It's not difficult to limit land, at least for first-class households with fields. And it is the officials of our Great Song Dynasty who are right to straighten out and reckon. One is to operate on others, and the other is to operate on yourself. Which is harder to argue? Zhao Jiaren replied happily.
The words had a certain effect, and the officials were silent for a moment. However, looking at their expressions, Zhao Jiaren suspected that these people were going to give themselves a siege. The Great Song Dynasty is completely different from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Zhao Jiaren has returned to the Great Song Dynasty for so long that he feels that the Great Song Dynasty is very similar to New China in many places. One of them is that the Great Song Dynasty system is governed by officials, and these officials never look at local forces. The landlords had no restrictions on the Great Song Dynasty. Therefore, the implementation of the land restriction order and the crackdown on local tyrants have no psychological pressure on the officials of the Great Song Dynasty.
Now that the words have come to this point, Zhao Jiaren did not wait for everyone to besiege him, but he took the initiative to explain his opinion, "If you are willing to be honest and honest, you will serve the country." It is not a problem to increase the grain that can be harvested in various places and in the fields by two or three times. And the so-called people do not stand without trust, what Governor Liu said earlier is very good. Now the Jiaozi is overissued, so the Jiaozi is depreciated. The people did not believe in Jiaozi, so they emptied Jiaozi as soon as possible, so Jiaozi continued to depreciate. Isn't this the kind of people who have no faith and cannot stand? As I said earlier, the current problem is that the regular closing position has existed in name only. If the regular closing position is still there, the people can go to the regular closing position to sell grain for a fixed amount after taking the handover. The price of Jiaozi was immediately stabilized. I know it's going to be very difficult, but once the people's faith is restored, there are so many ways to think of it. ”
The officials had never discussed politics with Mr. Zhao, let alone worked with him. Listening to Zhao Jiaren and Liu Lianggui raising the bar, I felt that Zhao Jiaren was conservative. Hearing Zhao Jiaren laugh at Liu Lianggui's tricks, he felt that Zhao Jiaren was a little sour. Now listening to Zhao Jiaren's plan, everyone was dumbfounded. Zhao Jiaren's words do not sound conservative at all, and his qualitative views may be described as 'crazy birth'.
Liu Lianggui's face was originally full of anger, but at this time, it had become shocked. After opening his mouth and stammering for a moment, Liu Lianggui asked, "Zhao Zhizhou, do you know how many Jiaozi have been sent now." If, as you say, how much grain will it take to get Jiaozi back? ”
Regarding such a question, Zhao Jiaren said angrily: "There are people's household registrations in various places, and only those rural people can have a few bills." The people of the city gave them rations. You can buy a certain amount of grain every month. As a result, food needs are limited. And faith naturally stood up again. ”
After saying this, everyone in the room showed disapproving expressions. Although everyone's thoughts are different, their views on Zhao Jiaren are the same. This man is a madman. This kind of food introduction method is really nothing to do, and it adds countless troubles in vain.