The New Year's Day of the fifth year of Jingding passed quickly, and Zhao Jiaren was about to roll up his sleeves and make a big splash, when the latest news came. The official family of the Great Song Dynasty died.

Naturally, the news reached Fuzhou in the form of a fast horse. Just when Zhao Jiaren was very surprised, Bu Ruyan actually appeared in Fuzhou and took the initiative to ask to see Zhao Jiaren, which made Zhao Jiaren even more surprised.

Bu Ruyan and Zhao Jiaren sat down face to face, and neither of them spoke first. After being silent for a while, Zhao Jiaren felt that his approach was a bit too much to pursue safety. So he took the lead in asking: "I don't know how Miss Bu would think of coming to Fuzhou." ”

"The official family died, of course we have no business to do." Bu Ruyan replied. What she said was common sense, of course, the entertainment industry should be banned after the death of the official, at least for several months. It's okay to go elsewhere, Lin'an has to implement it no matter what.

"Girl Bu is going to come to Fuzhou to open a business?" Zhao Jiaren was a little surprised by this. Although there are two big cities on Fujian Road, Quanzhou and Fuzhou, the culture of these two places seems to be different from that of Lin'an, and the locals prefer to watch theaters rather than go to the painting boat and all kinds of high-end entertainment of famous prostitutes.

"No, someone is talking about the death of the official. said that the official family was hit by the wind and ......," Bu Ruyan said helplessly.

Zhao Jiaren originally had no special feelings for his cousin Song Lizong, and he couldn't help but smile when he heard Bu Ruyan tell the story of Lin'an. Song Lizong died this time, and the cause of death has not yet been announced. According to what Bu Ruyan said, someone immediately created Song Lizong, as before, to summon famous prostitutes to the palace on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to play a pure escort service. In a moment of excitement, he died in the wind.

With her cleverness, she felt that it was completely boring to stay in Lin'an, so she came to Fuzhou from Lin'an. One is to avoid that boring period of closure, the second is to see how her investment is, and the third is not to be disturbed by boring people. After all, she is also on the list of escort services for Song Lizong.

"This ...... Is there a ...... in the official family this year" Zhao Jiaren asked a little hesitantly, he felt that it was a bit disrespectful to ask the business of famous prostitutes directly.

"In previous years, these things were handled by Dong Songchen, Zhao Zhizhou thinks that after Dong Songchen died, that chamberlain still dared to do this?" Bu Ruyan replied very fluently.

In this way, Zhao Jiaren also agrees very much. Although he still wants to learn more about the situation, Zhao Jiaren doesn't have that much time. At this time, he had to pay one million copper coins to the court for Jingding in five years, and it was not so important whether the official family died or not.

"Then please ask Miss Bu to stay here for a while, if you want to return to Lin'an, I can arrange a boat for you." Zhao Jiaren said with a smile.

After sending Bu Ruyan away, Zhao Jiaren immediately sent a message to Lin'an, asking his father to help collect the rumors of various court recitals. The country can't be without a king for a day, and in the first piece of news sent by his father, the prince Zhongwang really became an official, and the history is the same, and the official temple name of the deceased is Lizong.

It didn't take long for the second news to become interesting, first of all, the new official family completely restored all the status of the deposed prince Zhao Hong, which was simply a slap in the face to the deceased Song Lizong. If the abolition of the crown prince Zhao Hong is legitimate, then the legitimacy of Song Lizong will of course be questioned. Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but shake his head at the choice of the new official, his young child had taken the wrong medicine.

Of course, it is not appropriate for Zhao Jiaren to use 'this child' to describe the new official Zhao Yu. Although Zhao Jiaren is theoretically Zhao Yu's uncle, the two were born in the same year and are both 24 years old this year.

Then Zhao Yong, who was in charge of Lin'an commerce, suddenly sent a message that because of the death of the official family, the demand for white cloth had increased greatly. I asked that a batch of white cloth be quickly mobilized to Lin'an to sell.

Zhao Jiaren didn't expect that the death of the official family could bring such economic benefits, and there were surprises in the accident, so he hurriedly arranged this matter. After all, it is impossible for the official family not to be buried in order to meet Zhao Jiaren's needs.

Then Zhao Jiaren received a letter from Jia Nidao, after reading it, Zhao Jiaren could only sigh that the blessing was not double, and now the left prime minister Jia Nidao changed his mind, and he asked Zhao Jiaren to hand over one million copper coins every year at one time, and turn it into 100,000 copper coins every month starting from February.

This suggestion is not a bad thing, but Zhao Jiaren still wants to refuse. Because Jia Nidao's approach is really a bit excessive, the agreement can't be changed at will just because Jia Nidao thinks. Zhao Jiaren may be under Jia Yidao in the official position, but Zhao Jiaren cannot accept this kind of arbitrary sabotage of the agreement. Changing orders is itself unreliable.

Of course, Zhao Jiaren did not immediately reply to express his agreement or opposition. According to the rules of the Great Song Dynasty, an important minister like Jia Rudao must go to be a mountain envoy. That is, to supervise the construction of mausoleums for deceased officials. Zhao Jiaren was ready to see if Jia Yidao's request would be agreed to by the officials.

The Great Song Dynasty had a lot of ancestral family laws, that is, governance traditions, and the mountain tombs made this very interesting practice. Other dynasties usually have to crack down on those powerful people before the transfer of the throne, and find a reason to clean it up. or denigrate, or put it in a very bad place.

This is easy to understand from a political point of view, after all, the current emperor is firmly on the throne, but the crown prince, no matter how violent, is still a newcomer. Therefore, cracking down on those officials who are powerful in the DPRK and China will reduce the difficulties that the crown prince may encounter when he ascends the throne. If these people are available, it would be good to summon them back after the prince is seated.

In the Great Song Dynasty, this practice was institutionalized. After the death of the official family, the core minister in charge will be the envoy of the mountain and take the initiative to give up his position. It can be regarded as a kind of institutional progress.

However, Zhao Jiaren soon got the latest news, and Jia Rudao's request to be a mountain envoy was rejected by the new official family. This made Zhao Jiaren sigh even more, this new official family is really disappointing.

The new official family is Song Duzong, who served Zhao Jiaren in his previous life. This official is very dependent on Jia Yidao, and he has a very bad feeling about power. Regardless of whether Song Lizong won the country or not, at least Song Lizong himself is an official, that is, he has great power. When he was in a low mood, he played with his sister's paper and ignored all kinds of criticism. This is the emperor.

And Song Duzong, in the eyes of the current Zhao Jiaren, can probably be described as 'an actor who plays the emperor'. This man knew that he was the emperor, but he had no idea what to do with the power in his hands. Originally, it was supposed that Jia Nidao relied on the emperor's power, but now it has become the emperor's reliance on Jia Nidao's governance.

Since things have developed to such a point, Zhao Jiaren has not compromised. He got on the boat directly and rushed from Fuzhou to Lin'an to meet Jia Rudao. The swelling of Jia Rudao's power to the highest point only began in the era of Song Lizong, and the real peak of power was in the era of Song Duzong. In other words, this left prime minister Jia Yidao is now officially entering the era of power leaning towards the government and the opposition.

On the shore of the West Lake, in Jia Nidao's mansion, Zhao Jiaren met the Prime Minister Zuo. From the outside, it looks like Jia Yidao is just a little older, and there are no other changes. After the two of them sat down, Zhao Jiaren asked bluntly: "Jia Gong, I don't know what you want to do with this million copper coins." ”

"Why does Jiaren want to ask this?" Jia Rudao looked surprised.

"Because I think Da Song has had a big problem in Huizi for so many years. That is, Huizi never had a collateral. Zhao Jiaren expressed his views bluntly.

Banknotes are subject to collateral in circulation. The collateral is what kind of goods the people can exchange for with paper money. Because paper money is legal tender, that is, the currency issued by the state, once there is paper money, then gold and silver become a commodity rather than a currency. Unless gold or silver is minted into money.

When the Great Song Dynasty first issued paper money, there was collateral, and the collateral at that time was copper coins. Not only collateral, but also paper money has three steps: issuance, circulation, and return. The Great Song Dynasty also allowed paper money to be returned by paying half of the tax. That's why banknotes were very popular from the beginning.

After Zhao Jiaren briefly explained this knowledge to Jia Nidao, he saw that Jia Nidao had no intention of resisting. Zhao Jiaren continued, "Jia Gong, are you worried that there are too many children on the market now? If you rebuild the collateral, there won't be that much copper at all. ”

Jia seemed to be noncommittal, he asked indifferently: "Zhao Zhizhou, I have read everything you said, don't worry I don't know." ”

Since Jia Yidao said so, Zhao Jiaren could only continue, "The people have no trust, and the more Jiaozi there are, the more efforts must be made to maintain Jiaozi's credit." If you don't have so much copper money, you can set up a state-run grain store. After all, most of Jiaozi are still circulating in the city, and as long as the credit of Jiaozi in the city can be stabilized, the entire credit of Jiaozi can be maintained. The problem of Da Song before was the credit ...... of unlimited overdrafts"

Speaking of this, Zhao Jiaren suddenly paused, because Jia Yidao's face showed an extremely impatient expression. Seeing Zhao Jiaren pause, Jia Rudao said angrily: "I know that Zhao Zhizhou is a heart for the country, but I want to ask Zhao Zhizhou, do you know how many times the Huizi Institute has to print every day in order to be able to take out the money to buy the land?" ”

Because of the excessive issuance of Jiaozi, Jia Rudao began to play hard to issue Huizi. The difference between Jiaozi and Huizi is probably a bit similar to the gold yuan coupon and the silver dollar coupon. In fact, it is the same thing, but the result of over-issuance leads to credit bankruptcy, and it has to be solved in a different way.

"I don't know how many hours a day I print." Zhao Jiaren replied honestly.

"150,000 a day! This money is used exclusively to buy public land! Jia Rudao gave Zhao Jiaren an answer happily.

Zhao Jiaren was silent. If you have 150,000 guan a day, it will be about 50 million guan in a year. How much money is that? It depends on how a comment is.

At least from the experience of Zhao Jiaren in his previous life, although the Great Song Dynasty showed the problem of inflation, it was only the inflation of paper money. The whole fiscal situation has not completely collapsed. In other words, the economy of the Great Song Dynasty is still trying to digest such a sum of money. Moreover, during the Battle of Xiangyang, Xiangyang, which had held out for seven years, did not lose a steady stream of supplies from the rear.

Of course, Zhao Jiaren can't say this to Jia Yidao. He quietly listened to the half-tantrum and half-narration of the Great Song Dynasty Prime Minister to introduce his financial ideas.

Jia Yidao's public land law is an attempt to overthrow this mature private ownership of land and save the financial crisis. The specific idea of the public land law is based on the system of restricting the amount of land that exceeds the standard, and first of all, one-third of the land produced by the government in excess of the standard will be bought back by the state as official land, and then leased out.

The initial object of buying back public land was the land that exceeded the standard of official households, and the standard set was that the first product was limited to 50 hectares of land, and each of the following products was reduced by 5 hectares, to 5 hectares for the ninth product. The Gongtian Law directly involved the interests of the bureaucrats and landlords, and Li Zong could not make up his mind, so Jia Rudao said that he would throw off his sleeves and resign and return to the fields, and Li Zong agreed to implement it in Pingjiang (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), Jiaxing, Anji (now Huzhou, Zhejiang), Changzhou, Zhenjiang, Jiangyin and other prefectures in western Zhejiang, and then pushed it to all roads.

Jia Rudao took the lead in dedicating 10,000 acres of land in western Zhejiang as official land, blocking the mouths of those who opposed it. In the fourth year of Jingding, the Guantian Institute was formally established, and at the end of the year, more than 3.5 million mu of public land was bought. However, the number of acres of land exceeding the standard was far less than the amount of public land, so it was first stipulated that the maximum amount of land owned by unofficial families was limited to 5 hectares, and later it was reduced to 200 acres.

All public land that has been bought back will be nominally given economic compensation according to the amount of rent: if the rent amount is more than one stone, it will be 200 yuan per mu; for nine buckets, one hundred and eighty; Eight buckets are one hundred and sixty, and so on. The bank started the money printing machine at the Huizi Institute, and printed 150,000 yuan a day, which was specially used to buy public land.

"I know Jia Ren doesn't want to pay 100,000 copper coins every month, but do you think I don't know how to mortgage money? The reason why I want to do this is to give the copper money to the soldiers as soon as possible. Since I have offended almost all the landlords in the world, I can't leave all places untouched! Jia Rudao revealed the truth that had been said in the last paragraph, that is, he was very angry.

Facing Jia Rudao's true feelings, Zhao Jiaren replied calmly: "Jia Gong, if you say this when you write to me, I won't come to Lin'an again." ”

"What do you mean?" Jia asked puzzled.

"Jia Gong, do you still remember when you were in Yangzhou ten years ago, after listening to what I said, you asked me, is this a rebellion? Let me ask you, I am from the Great Song Dynasty, and Sister Ling is the concubine of the official family. Which one of us made is the opposite. Now what I want to say to you is that you are engaged in the reform of public land, and I am engaged in cotton work, and our goal is to solve the difficulties of the Great Song Dynasty. If you don't tell me the reason, but just call me out, of course I'm not happy! You have to respect me. At the end, Zhao Jiaren looked serious. This is his true words, and Zhao Jiaren's tolerance for being called around is getting lower and lower. 13110