The prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty was the minister of power, not only had real power in his hands, but also had privileges in such matters as the last dynasty. For example, Jia Yidao can go to the court every ten days, and he doesn't need to be in the court, as long as he summons the ministers to his side. It's just that the final conclusion of the deliberations needs to be communicated to the officials in a cantata.

In February of the fifth year of Jingding, Jia Rudao summoned a group of officials who supported the reform of public land to discuss the matter. The public expressed their views on the progress of the recent reform of public land, and at least for now, the first step of public land reform is gradually being completed. However, Jia Rudao looked not in a high mood, and he was completely preoccupied.

Just when everyone was about to come to the conclusion that they should continue to work hard to promote the reform of public land while the iron was hot. Jia Rudao suddenly sat up straight, and said sharply: "You don't seem to be promoted, you have to be here!" ”

Being shouted at like this, the officials were silent for the time being. After Jia Yidao came to power, he got rid of a large number of voters in the name of eliminating the whole party of Ding Da, and another voter in the name of purging the former leftist prime minister Wu Qian. The vacated official positions were naturally arranged by Jia Nidao, and in a sense, the appointment letters of these officials were indeed stamped by Jia Nidao.

However, ......, there was no gratitude in the officials' expressions. In any case, these people are all from Jinshi, and Jia Rudao is only from Jinshi and not from an official family. With the temper of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, it is also the norm to scare the officials, and there is no reason to bow down to Jia Yidao. Even if everyone was silent, many people also had a faint look of resentment on their faces.

Looking at the silent appearance of these people, Jia Rudao's heart suddenly relaxed. Two days ago, Zhao Jiaren left Lin'an and returned to Fuzhou, but Jia Rudao did not send this acquaintance who was very likely to give him great help in the reform of public fields. In fact, when Zhao Jiaren publicly said, 'Ask Jia Nidao to respect him', Jia Nidao's first reaction was to be angry and wanted to kill Zhao Jiaren.

Respect is the relationship between the levels, and the current Jia Rudao is the prime minister of Zuo, the great hero of the battle of Ezhou, and the person who leans towards the government and the opposition. He and Zhao Jiaren have a superior-subordinate relationship. Jia Rudao thinks that Zhao Jiaren must work for him.

If Jia Nidao has other candidates in his hand who can provide millions of copper coins every year, Jia Nidao can dispose of Zhao Jiaren now. However, if there was such a candidate, he would not have opened a money printing machine every day to print 150,000 guanzi to buy public land.

When Zhao Jiaren left Jia Rudao's mansion, the atmosphere was quite unfriendly. However, Jia Yidao still did not tear his face with Zhao Jiaren. At this time, Jia Rudao was half venting and half tentative, and the overall reflection of such an official who supported the reform of the public land was quite ......

Among the officials, a clear voice sounded: "Boyu Hall tries the second person, and if you don't get promoted, Boyu can also go here." ”

Everyone, including Jia Nidao, looked at this guy who insisted that he didn't need Jia Nidao's promotion, and it was Li Boyu who spoke. Facing everyone's eyes, Li Boyu was neither humble nor arrogant, as if what he said was not at all offending Prime Minister Jia Yidao.

It must be said that although many people think that Li Boyu is self-destructing his future, all the officials attending the meeting feel in their hearts that Li Boyu has said something for everyone to a certain extent, and he has breathed a little bad breath for everyone. No matter how much power Jia Nidao has now, everyone is very dissatisfied with Jia Nidao's arrogant approach.

Just glanced at everyone, and Jia Yidao's expression became tolerant. Not only did he not show an angry expression, but he even smiled generously. However, the day after the meeting, Li Boyu still submitted a request for release. Jia Rudao also agreed. After all, after making such a choice, Jia Rudao had no way to let Li Boyu stay in Lin'an as an official. As for where Li Boyu was going, Jia Rudao had a lot of ideas to let Li Boyu use Xianwen Pavilion to prepare Zhijiaxing Mansion.

Since Li Boyu cherishes his feathers so much, he will not be completely complicit with Zhao Jiaren when he wants to come to Jiaxing Mansion. As for Zhao Jiaren, Jia Rudao just made a hard note for him in his heart. If Zhao Jiaren can really complete the annual payment of one million copper coins, then tolerate Zhao Jiaren for a few more years. If Zhao Jiaren can't achieve this goal this year, then Jia Yidao must let Zhao Jiaren know what respect is.

After Zhao Jiaren left Lin'an, he went directly to Jiaxing Mansion, went to Huating County, and then arrived in Jiaxing, just in time for Li Boyu to take office in Jiaxing Mansion. Although Zhao Jiaren didn't see these with his own eyes, he already knew what Jia Yidao had done. After all, Zhao Jiaren has seen Jia Nidao in 'ten years', and what he is not familiar with is Jia Nidao at this stage.

As for this Li Boyu, Zhao Jiaren just knows this person. In the previous life, Li Boyu and Zhao Jiaren's fathers were both in the Ministry of Rites. At that time, Li Boyu was promoted to the Ministry of Rites and Rites and read the book, like the Taoist dictatorship, the emperor took Boyu's old learning, entered the bedroom, and cried relatively, wanting to use it to participate in politics, as if the Tao was jealous, and Boyu was looking for illness. This matter was told to Zhao Jiaren by Zhao Jiaren's father, Zhao Zhizhuo.

Such a person was actually sent to Jiaxing, Zhao Jiaren felt that Jia Yidao was sometimes quite humorous, and he actually put two people he didn't like together. Is this looking forward to the two of them taking it together after they have an accident at the same time?

Since Li Boyu became the prefect of Jiaxing, Zhao Jiaren also talked about the economy with Li Boyu very frankly. The civil servants of the Great Song Dynasty were very receptive to this kind of more theoretical things, and Li Boyu first listened to Zhao Jiaren's economic theories, especially the monetary theory of general equivalents, and he nodded again and again.

However, after hearing Zhao Jiaren's suggestion in Jiaxing, Li Boyu's face became very ugly. Zhao Jiaren went so far as to propose that with the current situation of indiscriminate distribution of Jiaozi, there will definitely be a large-scale devaluation. And the cotton is not much to collect copper money drops, with the current situation, then you have to find a way to use paper money stably in Jiaxing Mansion.

Frowning, Li Boyu spoke, "It's hard to let Jiaxing Mansion find a way for the entire Liangzhejiang East Road?" ”

Just this sentence, Zhao Jiaren was impressed by Li Boyu. Jiaozi is not a national circulation, but each road has its own Jiaozi, Jiaxing Mansion belongs to Liangzhejiang East Road, that is to say, Jiaxing of Liangzhejiang East Road uses the Jiaozi of Liangzhejiang East Road. Regarding Li Boyu, a high-level Great Song Dynasty official, Zhao Jiaren smiled and said, "I don't know if Li Zhizhou has heard of it, before the implementation of the Gongtian Law, I was against it." ”

"I've heard of it." Li Boyu replied. Such an important matter is very well-known in the circles of Gongtian reform, because other opponents claim how wrong the Gongtian reform is, while Zhao Jiaren says that the reason for the failure of Gongtian reform is the lack of implementation ability of the Song officials.

Not only the officials who supported the reform of the public land were very dissatisfied with such accusations. Officials who did not support the reform of public land were equally dissatisfied. This is a shot that knocks down the whole boat.

"With my Da Song's ability, I wouldn't have let things get so bad. Eventually, however, it turned out that successive administrations had adopted very bad monetary policies. This time too. Now Jia Xianggong let the people absorb all the impacts, just like punching a person in the chest, but not wearing that person thicker. Doing so will only make Da Song falter. If this kind of fiscal shock had been channeled, things would not have gotten bad. If so, all walks of life can use food as an anchor......" Zhao Jiaren recounted his opinion.

"If food is the anchor, won't all that money come to buy food?" Li Boyu immediately interrupted Zhao Jiaren's words.

Zhao Jiaren said with a smile: "That's true, but there is a way to solve it with food." For example, the government can control how much food can be distributed every day. At that time, even though food prices were skyrocketing, there was no buffer. And with so many taxes, can't we reduce the taxes on the river? Li Zhizhou wanted to know what the price of rice on Jiangnan West Road was. There are only two runs in one stone, am I right? ”

As a big landowner, Li Boyu's family also has a lot of land, and when he heard this question, he nodded yes, "It is indeed two kills one stone." ”

"You can kill two birds with one stone, and you can earn half of it." Zhao Jiaren sighed. Jiangxi has a very small population at this time, and the current Poyang Lake area is very comfortable to cultivate, "and our Fujian Road is once 40 meters through." I don't believe that the cost of transportation on the river can be 20 times higher. If I let my fleet transport it, one stone of rice will be transported to Fujian Road, which is four runs, and the most I can sell will be twelve. How can it sell for decades? It's not that the taxes along the way are too high. Even if some of my goods are tax-free, I don't want to sell them along the river. ”

Li Boyu's sensitivity to theory is very sufficient, and when it comes to practice, he feels a little headache. Because in any case, Zhao Jiaren's proposal can be attributed to 'paying for the policy'. And everyone wants others to pay for their own policies, and they don't want to pay for other people's policies.

Looking at this Zhao Jiaren, Li Boyu suddenly understood why Zhao Jiaren would oppose the reform of public land from the perspective of the failure of the Song Dynasty officials. If Zhao Jiaren's request was taken, then the officials of the Great Song Dynasty would indeed not be able to do this. After all, this kind of execution is too much.

If it was a normal day, Li Boyu would probably have a debate with Zhao Jiaren, but this time he really couldn't debate, and this topic was completely collapsed. Li Boyu said: "Zhao Zhizhou, your idea is very admirable. But let's talk about cotton. ”

"Cotton is very simple, it is three ways, the first is to establish a public village, and the second is to plant cotton as much as possible on all the land in Jiaxing Prefecture." Zhao Jiaren had already had an idea about this, so he answered very simply.

After the first batch of public land was bought, an official village was set up in each township, and the village official was held by the person with abundant property, who was responsible for collecting and transporting rented rice. Zhao Jiaren is not allowed to make any more massive changes, he is ready to change Jia Nidao's system slightly. Since Jia seems to be willing to give Zhao Jiaren a chance, Zhao Jiaren is not ready to give up so easily.

The first two items are easy to understand, and Li Boyu asked, "What about the third one?" ”

"The third is to build a factory." Zhao Jiaren gave his opinion.

Li Boyu, who had always shown a good understanding, was stunned after hearing this, he couldn't understand what Zhao Jiaren meant by this.

"The way to ease the impact of the law is to stabilize food prices. Therefore, the local public village must be able to ensure the local food supply in Jiaxing. Zhao Jiaren explained the first article.

The land price of the high-grade fertile land in western Zhejiang was 400 guan per mu, and when the public land was first introduced, it was stipulated that the rent of one stone per mu of fertile land should be compensated by 200 guan, which was already only half of the market price. However, in actual implementation, only 40 guan is often given, and they are all degrees that no one buys, and they are like waste paper. Therefore, in fact, the public land law was a disguised administrative means to forcibly change the ownership of land, and people at the time angrily denounced it as "white confiscation" (i.e., the meaning of speculation without reason). Therefore, it is not at all surprising that the public land law has been subjected to persistent and desperate opposition from the government and the opposition.

When Li Boyu heard this, he could only sigh slightly. He later opposed Jia Yidao because the implementation of the public land law was too ruthless.

"The public land produces grain, and the rest of the land should not grow grain, and even if it grows grain, it will be paid to death. So all other lands have to be planted with cotton! Zhao Jiaren continued to explain.

Officials commit fraud, buy back unfairly, and intensify social contradictions. The key reason why the standard for buying back public land has been lowered again and again, and finally even dropped to 100 mu, is that the big bureaucrats and big landlords colluded with the officials in charge to conceal the actual land property, resulting in a shortage of buybacks. As for ordinary households without power or power, the officials in charge deliberately exaggerated the number of acres of land and forced them to increase the number of acres they bought, resulting in some households going bankrupt and having no land to sell. However, the overseers were impatient and mean, unscrupulous, and even indiscriminately inflicted corporal punishment, forcing some desperate households to commit suicide. Thirdly, the official land collects rent, and the head will be constricted, triggering class conflict.

In the process of buying back public land, although the landless or landless peasants were less implicated, they also suffered greatly from the public land law in the later management of official land. In order to receive a reward for meritorious service, the official in charge either overreported the number of fields bought, or overreported the rank of the public land. When the official land is actually put into operation, the shortfall in the books caused by these hands can only be made up by the peasants who lease and undertake the tenants.

At the beginning of the implementation of the Public Land Law, it was stipulated that the original rent of one stone of public land, as a policy preference, was only rented for eight buckets, but in practice, regardless of the original amount and the quality of the soil, even the original public land that could only harvest three or four buckets a year was also collected eight buckets. Although the Gongtian Law expressly prohibits over-collecting noodles, when the actual rent is collected, it is still levied in large buckets, and it is regarded as a practice for a bucket to receive one bucket and three liters, and it is even as high as one bucket and six liters in Danyang County. Originally, only brown rice was required to pay rent, but in the course of public land management, tenant farmers were forced to switch to white rice, with an additional bucket of brown grain and eight liters per stone. The tenants could not bear the layers of exploitation of the official land, and could not pay the high rent of rice, and many official fields were abandoned.

Of course, these are all situations that Zhao Jiaren knew in his previous life. So the solution that Zhao Jiaren came up with was to grow cotton all. So as to avoid the people of Jiaxing from being troubled by grain taxes again.

"If it's a cotton field, that's just the cotton business I'm in charge of, and at most it's just a matter of Jia Gong knocking out another sum of money from me. At least the people of Jiaxing Mansion can live in peace. Zhao Jiaren explained. From the perspective of cotton cultivation as a whole, Zhao Jiaren can make money no matter what.

"Zhao Zhizhou ......" and Li Boyu was shocked at first, and called Zhao Jiaren to roar, he suddenly had tears in his eyes, and his voice trembled, "You...... You...... You really forgot yourself for the country! ”

Over the years, Li Boyu has always seen officials try their best to raise taxes. It was the first time he had seen an official who was willing to pay for the people and lower taxes. 10