Chapter 165: Jia Xianggong, who made a move

The officials who govern my Great Song Dynasty are all under the control of the Ministry of Officials, and there is no question of belonging to each other before. In this case, other local officials could write documents to Zhao Jiaren and also to the imperial court.

Jia Rudao knows that in the past year or two, the population of various parts of Fujian Road has undergone considerable changes. The poor people in those impoverished areas left their hometowns one after another to make a living in the shipyards and factories run by Zhao Jiaren. There are a large number of magistrates who complain about this.

For these useless things, Jia Rudao didn't want to deal with them at all. Because the group of people added together can submit less finance and taxes than Zhao Jiaren. Our Great Song Dynasty is short of money, and it is a centralized system, so the performance of officials is completely linked to taxes. Getting rid of Zhao Jiaren alone will make the Great Song Dynasty fall into a situation of financial scarcity, not to mention that Jia Yidao will not do this, and other forces in the court will not do it either.

And the pressure in Jia Rudao's heart is getting bigger and bigger. Recently, there has been no news from Xiangyang for several months, and the Mongols have besieged Xiangyang like an iron bucket. The rescue operations of the generals in recent months have not only been ineffective, but have also been subjected to more field attacks by the Mongols, who have had to retreat after losing their troops. , every time they write a letter to Jia Yidao, they must add a statement asking Zhao Jiaren to lead the rescue army.

Jia Rudao originally looked down on soldiers, but now he looks down on them even more. Of course, he knew that the last rescue was Zhao Jiaren, who had fought hard one after another to open the passage. Of course, the prison army in the army of Xia Gui and others has to boast for Xia Gui, because to boast for Xia Gui is to boast for themselves. However, when it really came to Jia Yidao, those prison soldiers were honest one by one, and they didn't dare to say any more nonsense. obediently admit that Xia Gui and they are just following behind Zhao Jiaren and defending the walled cities that were captured by Zhao Jiaren.

Even so, Xia Gui and the others bragged a lot when they asked for credit. Just looking at their recitals, it is probably Xia Gui and others who led the army wisely and martially, killed the Mongolian army, and forcibly opened a passage. And Zhao Jiaren only 'existed' on the battlefield, and it seems that he also fought a few battles with the Mongolian army. As for how Zhao Jiaren fought and what the results were, Xia Gui wrote vaguely on the chapter.

This approach cannot be said to be wrong, because theoretically, Zhao Jiaren himself has to exaggerate the results of the battle for himself. However, Zhao Jiaren did not do so. What is the reason for this, Jia Rudao is actually not very clear. At that time, he didn't want to figure out Zhao Jiaren's thoughts, he just hoped that he could stabilize his position.

As a result, the entire imperial court at that time felt that Xia Gui and other generals were very capable. However, Xia Gui has tasted the consequences now, since they did not highlight Zhao Jiaren's role at that time, although they are trying to make people think that Zhao Jiaren is very capable, the officials in the court really don't think so. They just felt that Xia Gui and the others were fighting badly because the war was not good, so they wanted to find someone to shirk their responsibilities. Since there are no other generals who can fight, the court can only keep issuing orders to Xia Gui and others, asking them to 'do it well, do it seriously.' Once a meritorious service is made, the court will never hesitate to reward him'.

Thinking of Xia Gui's mood at this time, Jia Rudao only felt that it was too mocking. However, in addition to the ridicule, Jia Rudao also had to consider whether he really asked Zhao Jiaren to come out and do something. It is one thing to suppress Zhao Jiaren, and it is another thing to let Zhao Jiaren do it. And the recent situation has become more favorable to Jia Nidao.

For months, officials who opposed the reform of the public land have been like flies chasing away the smell of the land, and there has been a lot of discussion around the topic of releasing the public land. The proposal to return all the public land to the landlords was opposed not only by officials who supported the reform of the public land, but also by some officials whose families were large landowners. The reason is simple: if the public land is rented by the local powerful according to the new plan, then the big landowners, as the absolute powerful people in the local area, will be able to get more land in addition to the land that they had previously been taken away by the government. From this point of view, it is not very beneficial for them to give all the public land to the original landlords. As a result, the anti-Gongtian reformers themselves split first.

When these contradictions began to come to the fore, Jia Rudao instructed the people below to continue to fan the flames in these matters and put forward various suggestions. As a result, it seems that some new conclusion will appear at a moment's notice, and it seems that the reform of public land will enter the next stage.

Seeing that the big landlord faction actually had the intention of converging the reformers of the public land, those anti-public land reformers who were born from small and medium-sized landlords, or who supported small and medium-sized landlords politically, fought back. For literati, disrupting the situation is really a simple matter. They directly proposed that since they want to readjust the public land reform, they should use Zhao Jiaren's model as the standard. Under this standard, our Great Song Dynasty can meet the needs of the imperial court for copper money and grain, and can even cancel many tax burdens, reducing the burden on all the people of the Great Song Dynasty on the whole.

If you can't do it yourself, then come up with a standard that no one else can do. We can't do it together.

For such a disturbance, Jia Rudao is actually very disdainful. However, he did not mind the internal division of the factions opposed to the reform of the public land.

Jia Yidao, who threw out the issue, sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, and the officials tossing in the Colosseum hoped to win the final victory. It would also be a very good thing if they could get the land that originally belonged to someone else, so the big landlords did not easily raise their hands and surrender. Fighting with people with different views in the same faction did not make them become Jia Nidao people, but only made them lash out at Zhao Jiaren again.

Regardless of whether or not Zhao Jiaren was praised for his excellent performance in the public land reform, now criticizing Zhao Jiaren's achievements has become one of the mainstream. These officials can't help it, if they really take Zhao Jiaren as the standard, then everyone will go straight to breaking the situation. If the standard can be lowered, everyone can still reap the benefits.

Jia Rudao didn't say a word about this, he just waited to see how those people continued to splash dirty water on Zhao Jiaren. When Zhao Jiaren's image among the officials falls again, and when the officials lash out at Zhao Jiaren again, Jia Yidao can use Zhao Jiaren to do things. Although this does not prevent Zhao Jiaren from stopping his continued rise in the Great Song Dynasty in the future, it can at least make Zhao Jiaren unable to soar in the next few years. As long as Zhao Jiaren can't soar into the sky, Jia Yidao's status will continue to be as stable as Mount Tai.

So although I really wanted to write a letter to Zhao Jiaren immediately and ask him to go to the rescue of Xiangyang. Jia Nidao still held back, as long as he waited a few more months, and when the war against the reform of public land in the imperial court came to an end, Jia Nidao could use the 'infamous' Zhao Jiaren to add credit to Jia Nidao. Just like the previous success of Xia Gui and others to the supreme commander Jia Nidao.

As long as Jia Xianggong is strategizing in the court, there is nothing that cannot be done.