"Since the elimination of black-hearted petty officials and the integration of officials, the number of officials and cadres who need to be supervised by the imperial court is much more than before, and the officials and departments must increase the number of expatriate agencies outside to manage the personnel work of various prefectures and counties."

Listening to Zhao Jiaren's speech, the members of the academy couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Wen Tianxiang, the secretary of the ministry. Wen Tianxiang had waves in his heart, and his face was calm. The big thing has finally begun.

"Official, if you do this, will it make the local state capital too powerful? Officials are naturally transferred from all over the country and are under the management of the imperial court. Cadres in the state capital and county are subject to local audit. Ding Fei couldn't help but ask.

As the former chairman of the anti-counterterrorism committee, Ding Fei's worries stem from his work experience. As long as there is real power at the local level, they will use this real power to the extreme.

Ding Fei stood on the side of Zhao Guanjia like this, and many members of the society saw it with sharper eyes.

Zhao Jiaren glanced around these important ministers, and then said gently: "Where there are people, there will be rivers and lakes, supervision is not a panacea, and without supervision, it is absolutely impossible." ”

Hearing this, Ding Fei could only smile bitterly. As the head of the powerful department, Ding Fei was deeply touched by this.

Seeing Ding Fei's expression, Zhao Jiaren turned back to most of the members of the society, "No system is perfect in itself. Just like the needle and thread we use now, in the beginning, there were only needles made of bone, and they were worn with twine. Later, there was silk thread, then there were copper needles, iron needles, and now steel needles. Those lines are also more sophisticated. But is this the end? No, there will be more elaborate needles and threads. But the purpose of all needlework is the same, which is to sew better clothes. When designing the system, this original intention cannot be wrong......"

During the break, Wen Tianxiang went to the commissary to buy a bread with red bean paste and asked for a glass of soda. was about to sit at the table outside the store to fill his stomach when he saw Hu Yuanfeng coming over. This Wen Tianxiang only felt that the feeling of being happy because of the sweets was greatly reduced, and there were all kinds of signs that Hu Yuanfeng, a waiter at the Ministry of Agriculture, had a lot of criticism of Wen Tianxiang's younger brother Wen Zhang.

The break ended and the meeting continued. Hu Yuanfeng spoke: "Official, now the imperial court is rebuilding the tax system. As a result, Wenzhang, the prefect of Jiangning, used the collection of taxes to collect taxes and extort money from the people. ”

"All taxes have to be reported. Is there any concealment in the taxes reported by Wenzhang? Zhao Jiaren asked.

Hu Yuanfeng was stunned, he didn't expect Zhao Jiaren to actually get involved in the system. But Hu Yuanfeng didn't stop, he continued: "Official, the Qinhuai River collects ten times the tax, won't it be difficult for others to follow the example and levy tyranny? ”

Zhao Jiaren stared at Hu Yuanfeng and said: "The first priority of taxation at the moment is whether they have truthfully reported the content of the tax. I'm asking you now if Wen Zhang has deceived his superiors and subordinates in this regard. ”

"This ...... I do not know. Hu Yuanfeng didn't want to endorse Wenzhang at all.

"Do you know that it is the high taxes on both sides of the Qinhuai River?"

"Yes. Not only that, the government forcibly passed the Ministry of Agriculture's regulations on the punishment of unauthorized abandonment of agricultural land, and Wenzhang also used it! Hu Yuanfeng's tone was very dissatisfied.

Wen Tianxiang was stunned, he didn't quite know what this 'punishment regulations for unauthorized abandonment of agricultural land' was about. Just looking at Hu Yuanfeng's reaction, it seems to be a bit of a terrible thing.

"Official, what's going on with this Ministry of Agriculture's punishment regulations?" Ding Fei, deputy chief procurator of the procuratorate, was interested.

"This regulation. Hehe. Although Zhao Jiaren was answering Ding Fei, his eyes were looking at Hu Yuanfeng.

Turning his gaze back to Ding Fei, Zhao Jiaren said, "Why do you think the price of land is getting more and more expensive? ”

The guys in the society, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know why Zhao Jiaren came out like this. Zhao Jiaren continued to talk about the issue of land prices.

In the past, there was no tax on land and real estate, and the direct result was that the cost of land holding was too low. Many people buy land just to hold assets, and they are actually doing very badly. After talking about the legislative concept of this punishment regulation, Zhao Jiaren turned the question back to the specific content, "The purpose of this punishment regulation for the unauthorized abandonment of agricultural land is to punish those who abandon the land without permission or do not plant seriously. If found, a fine will be imposed immediately. There are probably two kinds of punishments, one is to punish the gang for buying the land. The other is to punish these people for honestly farming. ”

Many people had just heard that the Zhao Guanjia had introduced such an ordinance, and most of the important ministers instinctively disagreed with such a harsh method. This is a desperate plan, and the result of implementation will probably become what Zhao Jiaren said, and the cost of holding land will increase greatly.

"In fact, there is a third method, which is to pay high land tax and housing tax every year to keep your land and real estate." Hu Yuanfeng opened his mouth and said.

"Hmm. There are indeed such means. Zhao Jiaren responded bluntly.

"The official family knows that the prefect of Wenzhang has ordered that all land and houses of the people who refuse to sell the land and houses along the Qinhuai River to the imperial court will be taxed three times." Hu Yuanfeng threw out a killer move.

As soon as these words came out, the upper echelons of the school were shaken. Even Wen Tianxiang was stunned, he didn't expect his third brother's methods to be so ruthless, and he would take more severe measures in the face of the guy who was the front. As for the other officials, they were also a little surprised. Especially the officials who knew that this so-called 'common people' were the head snakes of Duan Jinshi's family were even more frightened, Wen Zhang used such a high-pressure method, then offended the Duan family to death.

"I know that Wenzhang leans heavily on the Duan family. There were 379 households of land and houses on both sides of the Qinhuai River, and 378 households sold their land to the government. Some people feel that they have sold their land and have no place to live and no land to cultivate. Wenzhang helped them make arrangements. This Duan family took advantage of the dry water to seize the most land, and built the most houses on both sides of the river. He made it clear that he would rather endure the ten times the tax than hand over the land and property. As long as he is here, how wide the Qinhuai River is, the Duan family has the final say......"

Listening to Zhao Jiaren talk about the arrogance of the Duan family, the officials who were still standing on Duan Tiande's side couldn't help but shake their heads slightly. They were still on Duan Tiande's side at this time, but this Duan Tiande's arrogance had exceeded the bottom line. Not to mention that the people don't fight with officials, even if they are officials in the court, the Zhao official family has obviously stood on Wenzhang's side.

Hu Yuanfeng said loudly: "Official." The Duan family came to defend themselves, but it was all Wen Zhang's words, and the Duan family was hit by Wen Zhang, which was very miserable. ”

Seeing Hu Yuanfeng's insistence, Zhao Jiaren nodded, "The situation you said is also possible." ”

Wen Tianxiang's heart was shocked, his younger brother Wen Zhang was able to survive many attacks, naturally because he was favored by Zhao Jiaren. If Zhao Jiaren really doesn't support Wen Zhang, although Wen Zhang will not be brought down immediately, he will have to keep defending himself. That's a very bad thing.

Other people who were originally against Wen Zhang, or against Wen Tianxiang, were blinded. Although there are many problems with Wen Tianxiang directly, if Wen Zhang is frustrated, it will probably make Wen Tianxiang's life difficult. At that time, in order to protect himself, Wen Tianxiang can probably only ask his younger brother to resign, or Wen Tianxiang himself to resign. Of course, there is also a possibility, that is, Wen Tianxiangyu broke the net and had a hard fight with these opponents. At that time, it depended on the attitude of the Zhao official family.

Ding Fei lit a cigarette and took two puffs of some boredom. He felt that this Hu Yuanfeng obviously missed the point, or Hu Yuanfeng was trying to cover up his thoughts. No matter what kind of idea he thought, Ding Fei knew that Zhao Jiaren was an iron-fisted emperor. Just as he was predicting, Ding Fei heard Zhao Jiaren speak, "Regardless of whether Wenzhang oppressed the Duan family or not, the Duan family has not sold the land and houses in the planned river of the Qinhuai River to the government until now." ”

Hearing this question, Ding Fei smiled slightly and took a sip of satisfaction. If Zhao Jiaren deviated from his original intention, Ding Fei would feel disappointed. Wen Zhang was able to get Zhao Jiaren's support not because he was a person who dared to act against Haoqiang. What the Zhao family must care about is the Qinhuai River widening plan proposed by Wen Zhang.

Hu Yuanfeng didn't expect Zhao Jiaren to attribute the problem to this, and he was stunned. But at this point, Hu Yuanfeng cheered up, "The official family, if the official family can make an order, the Duan family should sell the land." ”

"I am an official of the Great Song Dynasty, and it would be fine if I was also the prefect of Jiangning. Since there is no part-time service, such things naturally have to be done by the prefect of Jiangning. If he can't do it, I'm not appointing the wrong person. Zhao Jiaren's tone was calm.

Many important ministers bowed their heads. They knew that Hu Yuanfeng had really failed this time. Zhao Jiaren's attitude has been made clear to the point that he is only short of a sentence of 'the Duan family can be killed'. If the ministers did not support Zhao Jiaren's policy of raising the cost of land ownership, now they do not support Hu Yuanfeng's reasoning. If the local governor has to listen to the orders of the court from above in everything, and the people below can skip the overhead as long as they can ventilate to the court, then the rules are in chaos. The important ministers will also go to the local government to be officials, and they don't want to face the situation described by Hu Yuanfeng's nonsense.

Hu Yuanfeng's expression was gloomy, and finally there were tears in his eyes, and he choked up and said: "Official, the so-called encroachment on rivers and silting up lakes is the same crime as blocking roads and robbing in broad daylight. Robbery in broad daylight can be sentenced to 3,000 li of exile, and if it kills someone, it can be executed immediately. When the minister heard that this was a saying when Wen Shangshu knew about Songjiang, the official family could not let the Wen family control the government! ”

"That's not something we're going to talk about today. Hu Shilang went down first to stabilize his emotions, and now that you are like this, it is not conducive to discussing things. Zhao Jiaren's voice was quite gentle.

Ding Fei sighed in his heart, this Hu Yuanfeng has completely fallen out of favor. However, in the end, this person did not dare to say 'against increasing the cost of land holding', and he knew the least advances and retreats. If this guy dares to make it clear, he will probably be removed from his post soon.