The military department will send people to the morning meeting every day, but such a person is often not an important person in the military department. Because Zhao Guanjia, the commander of the Great Song army, was the convener of the morning meeting, it was worthless to go to the high-level area again. Therefore, Li Yun, chief of the General Staff, only attended the morning meeting in the first two days after returning to Beijing, and after that, he was basically busy working in the military headquarters.

Hearing that the army's new discoveries had been taken seriously by the officials, although Li Yun was happy, he was only happy. He felt that no matter how much credit he had, it would not be of the slightest use to him. Looking at Li Yunxing's reaction as if nothing happened, the director of the logistics bureau said unhappily: "Chief of Staff, we can't let others take away our credit." ”

"Credit? I will ask the officials to give the troops a compliment. ”

"It's useless to praise it. Is it an increase in allowances? ”

"Are you going to let the army do business?" Li Yun asked the director of logistics.

“…… Of course not. The logistics director hurriedly said. It's just that not long after speaking, the director of logistics asked tentatively: "After all, this is the ...... that our troops have beaten down."

"What did the troops shoot down?" Li Yun stared at the director of logistics and asked.

Maybe the director of the logistics bureau also felt that it was not right, and hesitated for a moment before continuing: "Send troops to get alkali blocks, if we use it ourselves, but it is for the Ministry of Industry." I always feel that we have suffered. ”

"The reason why this was done was ordered by the government. If you think it's inappropriate, report it to the official. ”

"You have to fight the report, the chief of staff."

"I don't allow that kind of report. We are an army, not businessmen. ”

At this point, the director of logistics left in a daze.

That night, Li Yun went to Ding Fei's house. Both of them are disciples of the big courtyard in Fuzhou, and Ding Fei has long asked Li Yun to sit down. After the two ate, they talked about the current situation, and Li Yun couldn't help but talk about the logistics director by name. Ding Fei smiled after hearing this, "Don't have any deficit here, right?" ”

"What?" Li Yun was stunned. He didn't name names, nor did he mention the specific content of his work, but Ding Fei's words made people have to care.

"The official family has come out of the system of the successor official to review the previous official, and if the accounts do not match, the next official will sign it. After the East Window incident, the next term has the same responsibilities as the previous one. Anyone who suddenly wants to do something in business is afraid that he will do something. ”

"You take it for granted. Or what evidence do you have? Li Yun disagreed.

"I've been out of the anti-rape committee for a long time, I know what kind of unit it is, and after I came out, I don't contact or ask about things over there. So I don't have any evidence. It's just that I've seen a lot, and I can't help but guess. Ding Fei said with a smile.

Since Ding Fei said so, Li Yun stopped talking about business. He and Ding Fei are both around forty years old, so they don't talk about work, but they also have many personal insights to talk about. The whole drinking was very enjoyable.

The next day, Li Yun continued to work on his latest decision, trying to arrange for more retired soldiers to stay in Henan, Hebei and other newly recovered places with their families. Suddenly thinking of this matter of populine, Li Yun felt that it was not bad to let the retired soldiers collect this in the northwest. He called the Personnel Bureau of the Ministry of War and asked them to make a plan.

After listening to Li Yun's policy views, the Personnel Bureau responded: "This has not been possible recently, there are many needs for retired servicemen in various places, and there is a shortage of manpower. ”

"To what extent?" Li Yun was surprised.

"I can't pull people out at all. Since last year, the government has issued orders for retired soldiers, and they can't pull out any manpower. ”

Before a result could be discussed, Su Yanqiu, the new head of the Military Academy, came to Li Yun again and asked to start an action within the army to 'form a soldiers' committee to oppose the atmosphere of the old feudal town'. Li Yun was a little stunned at this time, this soldiers' committee was a system that Zhao Guanjia had already mentioned. The core idea is that officers must also be supervised by soldiers, and soldiers must learn to manage themselves. In fact, both the soldiers' committee and the academy should ideologically emphasize the concept that the army is loyal to the Great Song Dynasty and the Zhao official family. If the army was only loyal to the Great Song Dynasty and the Zhao official family, no matter who was the officer, it would be impossible for the Great Song army to take it for itself.

Li Yun was a little bored, but suddenly felt that he already had a direction. Just do what the government orders.

Opposing the feudal towns and purging the feudal towns of ideological poison is not only carried out in the army, but also constantly propagandized by Zhao Jiaren in the newspapers. Naturally, there are landlords who are tied to the feudal towns and are criticized. It's just that the feudal towns are hard to criticize, and the landlords are constantly described their various behaviors, which belongs to the secret criticism.

Zhao Jiaren himself asked the Intelligence Bureau to pay close attention to the process of taking place in Jiangning, and the latest information showed that after 15 working days had passed since the Midyear Festival, 43 of the 91 landlords had solved the problem of a fine of 4,000 mu of land by various land exchange methods. The remaining 48 landlords are not only fighting against the fine of 9,000 acres of land in their hands. They also did not pay this year's land tax, and Wenzhang, the prefect of Jiangning, was already preparing to go to the countryside to collect taxes.

Then the news came that the people sent by Wenzhang to the countryside were turned away by the landlords, and some were even injured in the conflict. At the morning meeting the next day, Zhao Jiaren told the latest progress of the tax collection in Jiangning Province with a smile. The important ministers looked at Zhao Jiaren's smile, and they all sweated in their hearts. The anti-tax action was not a particularly unusual thing for the Great Song Dynasty, but beating the court cadres was a direct confrontation with the imperial court. Even when the Great Song Dynasty was at its weakest, it was something that had to be solved strongly.

In silence, Jiang Ying, the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, asked: "Can the official family send troops to suppress it?" ”

Zhao Jiaren waved his hand, and then asked the secretary to call someone in. Just by looking at the walking posture of this person, it can be determined that he is from a military background, Zhao Jiaren said to everyone: "Let me introduce to you, this is Zhu Chongba, the new director of the State Administration of Taxation." The Inland Revenue Department will intervene in this matter. ”

Some important ministers had heard of Zhu Chongba, at least not the one who was sent who knew that Zhu Chongba was the commander of the Korean Military Region more than a year ago, but they did not expect that this person would go to the State Administration of Taxation after retiring from the army. Regardless of whether they knew Zhu Chongba's previous identity, the important ministers felt that something was wrong, and the resistance of these landlords was greater than that of Jia Rudao's public land reform. Of course, it may also be that the situation in the Great Song Dynasty was really critical at that time, and the several state capitals and Liangzhejiang Road that carried out the reform of Gongtian were close to Lin'an, so that their resistance was not so strong. When they arrived at Jiangning Mansion, the landlords' will to resist was high. These people are facing the official and prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty who are more determined than Jia Nidao.

"Please rest assured that the minister's family used to be the landlord, and they will definitely not let those guys who don't pay taxes do anything wrong." Zhu Chongba replied crisply.

Hearing this answer, the eyes of some important ministers fell on Wen Tianxiang again. How big a landlord this self-proclaimed landlord Zhu Chongba is, everyone is not clear. But everyone knows very well that the Wen family is a big landlord in Jiangxi, and in this operation, the Wen family is at the forefront.

Looking at the expressions of the important ministers, Zhao Jiaren said loudly: "Let me emphasize again, I have no ill will towards the landlord personally. In my policy philosophy over the years, farmland is for farming, houses are for living, and it is productivity that promotes social progress, so any profit-making method that does not promote productivity progress is not a way I will support. It is this basic idea that these tax-resistant landlords are fighting against, and those who strive to engage in production and promote the progress of the productive forces will never provoke such a confrontation. The landlords have their ideas, and I don't force them to believe in my ideas, but I won't back down in conflicts caused by ideas. ”

Wen Tianxiang listened to Zhao Jiaren's speech and felt quite emotional. The productive forces, the mode of production, and the means of making profits are all very easy to understand, but in the past, no one made it clear to officials, cadres, and the army like Zhao Jiaren. Wen Tianxiang knew that the reason why he supported Zhao Jiaren so firmly was because he agreed that land was used for cultivation and benefited the entire Great Song Dynasty by collecting more grain, and should not just be reduced to a tool for the landlords to brutally exploit the tenants. This is a moral issue, and it is also the basic question of whether the Great Song Dynasty can survive forever.

To uphold this morality is to face countless opponents. After experiencing the surrender of Lin'an, Wen Tianxiang finally understood that for three hundred years, the vast majority of landlords would choose between their own interests and the survival of the Great Song Dynasty, and they would choose themselves without hesitation. Since the scholars are unreliable, a better world may emerge after they are destroyed.

Zhu Chongba didn't speak from beginning to end. After the morning meeting, Zhu Chongba disappeared in front of the ministers. It's like he's never been there. The important ministers could only continue to wait for the latest stage of the tax struggle in Jiangning Province.

Duan Fengming was very distressed by the latest progress of the struggle, and their Duan family had originally admitted it. After paying the fine, he hurriedly sold the grain and prepared to pay the land tax. As a member of the Agricultural Bureau, Duan Fengming is very aware of the current grain purchase price, and he is also very aware of the current operation of state-owned grain stores in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is unlikely that he will wait for the sudden increase in grain prices. Taking advantage of the fact that the state is now purchasing grain, it can also save freight.

However, the alliance of the anti-tax landlords made the Duan family start to think about it, and they felt that maybe after a while, they could sell grain at a better price. Duan Fengming was helpless in his heart, he didn't know why the people in the clan just couldn't learn to be obedient, the imperial court could beat the fierce Mongols back to the grassland, how could they not even clean up the anti-tax landlords.

With such a mood, Duan Fengming said to the clan brother who came to invite him to the clan meeting: "I have to work overtime today, and I really can't go back." ”

"Is it to go to the countryside to collect taxes? That brother has to be careful, there are a lot of people below who are beating black sticks now. I don't know whether it was concern or ridicule, the clan brother reminded Duan Fengming.

"Hehe, let's act collectively this time, don't worry." Duan Fengming smiled dryly.