Chapter 165: Instigating a War between the Old and the New
"Yuan Chang, you ......"
The stunned eyes and disdainful expression made Cai Jing wake up from his self-release. He is greedy for money, but unfortunately, the court was engaged in a life-and-death battle before, standing in line and taking a stand.
Yushitai is like a madman, and he only knows how to bite all day long.
As a result, Cai Jingjing had no chance to make money.
But in his bones, he likes money and the sense of security that wealth gives people.
It wasn't until he was asked by Zhang Zhi that he woke up from his yearning for the operation of the big households in Yingzhou. Inside, deeply examine the greed that you have revealed. Before, he was still deeply obsessed with wealth, but when he suddenly turned around, he became an iron-faced and selfless appearance, and said: "This matter is a great opportunity." ”
Opportunity?
What chances?
Chao Buzhi and Zhang Zhu looked at each other, they were still benevolent gentlemen in their bones, so they naturally didn't understand, why did Cai Jing repeat it so repeatedly?
But Cai Jing is the master who sees the seams and will not let go when he sees the opportunity, how can he be targeted? Said proudly: "Do you think this is just a small matter for big families to take advantage of food prices to embezzle the people? ”
"Wrong, very wrong."
Cai Jing didn't know if the means of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger had been effective. But he knew that Zhang Zhu had already begun to listen to him. As for Chao Buzhi, he didn't care about this colleague from the eldest young master at all.
The Cai family is a big family in Fujian, but Cai Jing came from an ordinary background.
The eight poles in the family can't beat an official, and there is no one who comes out of an official family like a person from an official family, who will establish a moral bottom line for himself since he was a child. finally got to Cai Qu and recognized a clan uncle, one of them is from Putian, the other is from Quanzhou, if they want to be relatives, they have to be pulled up for hundreds of years. I didn't expect Cai to be a silver spearhead, so he hasn't done much yet? He was defeated, with a good hand, but he lost a lot.
This made Cai Jing very angry, and at the same time, there was nothing he could do.
Of course, although his brother Cai Bian grew up with him, he was completely different from him. But isn't there a saying that eats the same rice and raises a hundred people.
Although Cai Jing's means are not bright, his vision is not bad, and he is even much better than other colleagues. A person like him, if he is under the name of the Ming monarch, can be a good minister with achievements. But if you are under the faint king, most of them are traitors. The traitor is just of bad character, but if the traitor has no means, he basically won't live long.
Cai Jing naturally will not be the latter, he keenly found that the changes in Yingzhou allowed him to find an opportunity, an opportunity to be tied to Zhang Dan.
After pondering for a while, Cai Jing began to speak: "On the surface, the big fish and meat towns in Yingzhou are quite hidden, so people can't make mistakes. But it was found in depth that it was the bad government that led to the dilemma of the situation in Yingzhou, and it was even impossible to clean up. ”
Zhang Zhu arched his hand and said: "Yuan is talented, but I have heard of it." ”
"Brother Yuan, don't go around the bend!" Chao Buzhi also urged Cai Jing to say quickly.
Cai Jing said with a smile: "There are two problems that make the situation in Yingzhou so difficult, one is that small farmers lack the ability to protect themselves and become prey in the eyes of large households; The second is that under the Baojia Law, the people need to bear more harsh forced labor, and they have less money in their hands. However, the two of them don't have to worry, the big households in Yingzhou are also embezzling the small farmers' industries. ”
"As for the merchants and the middle-sized farmers who own more than 50 acres of land, they have no way at all. Medium-sized peasant households generally have sufficient ability to pay taxes and have a surplus in good years to withstand the deficit in famine years. Moreover, if there is surplus grain in hand, it will not be affected by the increase in grain prices by large households. ”
"Cai Zhizhou, what are you talking about? Could it be that small farmers should be misappropriated by large households? Chao Buzhi's face changed suddenly, and Cai Jing's attitude towards the people made him feel cold.
Cai Jing glanced at Chao Buzhi, and said in his heart: How can such a stunned young man gain a foothold in the officialdom! is still a bachelor, he is just waiting for the system, one level worse than a bachelor, but he has become your boss, is it a shame? Is it sad or not?
Cai Jing suddenly burst out laughing, and said in an impassioned tone, "Didn't you find out? That's the opportunity. When did the big households in Yingzhou start to embezzle the land of small farmers? ”
"Six or seven years ago, right?"
"What happened then?"
Zhang Zhu's face was a little bad looking, six or seven years ago, wasn't his father attacked by Sima Guang's generation in the capital, and finally left the capital in disgrace?
Cai Jing's guy is simply a pot that can't be opened, it's too annoying!
But Cai Jing didn't think of this stubble at all, but danced excitedly: ""Qingmiao Law"! The repeal of the "Seedlings Law" gave large households the opportunity to control the grain stocks of small farmers through loans, and the government lost the benefits brought by the "Seedlings Law", and then lost the direct means to control grain prices. ”
"The benefits of the Seedlings Law, although it may not seem like much. But the total is very impressive.
It is enough to use these revenues to stabilize grain prices.
Moreover, in the process of implementing the "Seedlings Law", the government is only the leader, and it also needs the assistance of businessmen. The income obtained does not need to go directly to the treasury. The money in the treasury cannot be touched by officials, and it needs to be reported to the imperial court. The transfer made the yamen walk around, and then went to Bianliang to walk around, and when the court agreed to settle the grain price, the daylily was cold. As for the regular closing of positions, it is also very troublesome. In the absence of a disaster, it is a big sin to use the standing position to close. However, the principal and proceeds of the BIBS Law can be used directly by officials. It's almost the same as a small vault.
Once the price of grain skyrockets, after the officials report to the court, a month or two will pass, and the big families will have enough to eat and drink, what other means can be used? ”
"And the Seedlings Law is not just for the government, with money available. Under the Errand Law, the people had less money at their disposal. In the past, the "Conscription Law" not only did not increase the burden on the people, but also gave some benefits to the poor. Now, these good laws are gone, which has led to the big farmers in Yingzhou starting to attack small farmers, and small farmers have no power to resist. ”
When Cai Jing said this, he looked at Zhang Zhu with a provocative look in his eyes, and motioned to the other party, he has said so much, don't you understand?
Of course, Zhang Zhu understands, but this is a big deal.
At the beginning, in order to abolish the "Green Seedlings Law", Sima Guang simply went into battle shirtless and threatened to resign. The most effective decree of the old party on the two Wang Anshi reforms was to be afraid and guarded. Because of the good law, conform to the will of the people. Sima Guangfu Wuche, can you understand this truth?
He just couldn't watch Wang Anshi leave his own traces on the Great Song Dynasty.
This is the reason why Sima Guang spared no effort to clear the "Green Seedlings Law". In addition to the confused ideas such as the "Baoma Law", many new laws are beneficial to the people.
But "Seedlings Law"!
Now that the old party is still in power, the spearhead is directly aimed at the "Green Seedlings Law", which is to fight to the death with the old party.
At this moment, even Zhang Zhu's eyes when he looked at Cai Jing were a little afraid: "Yuan Chang, this matter is not easy, and you also know that the "Green Seedling Law" will not move easily. Unless there is a court giant who serves as the secretary of the same Zhongshu Sect, he strongly advocates and respectfully asks the Empress Dowager to decide. The Empress Dowager promised to agree to restore the good governance of the young seedlings. In addition, how dare you and me go to the court? ”
Even Chao Buzhi was impressed by Cai Jing, and he felt a little guilty that he should have misjudged Cai Jing.
Cai Jing has the people in his heart, and once the book restores the "Green Seedling Law", this is the kind of green bricks that pick up the grave of the old party, the kind that never dies. can sacrifice life and forget death for the people, this pure heart, he can't do it himself.
Even if Chao Buzhi has been influenced by the morality of a gentleman since he was a child, he is determined to become a respected gentleman.
But he didn't dare to do anything like giving people heads and moths to the fire. There are a thousand words in his chest, and he wants to say to Cai Jing that he shouldn't have looked down on Cai Jing before, he is guilty......
"Yuan Chang, once you write to the imperial court, do you know the consequences?"
Zhang Zhu asked hard, he felt goosebumps all over his body, and that kind of cold killing intent filled his body.
Cai Jing looked at Zhang Zhu in amazement, touched his chin suspiciously, and couldn't help but recall, when did he say that he was going to go to the court?
Isn't this sending to death?
Could it be that what he just said was not obvious enough that Zhang Zhu didn't hear it?
As for whether Chao Buzhi understood, he didn't care, Su Shi was cold, what hope was there?
But the chapter can't be so indistinguishable from right and wrong!
When did someone see him Cai Jing fighting with people in the court?
He hid behind, shook his fan, drank fragrant tea, and inadvertently set the general trend. When he went to the court by himself, didn't he make it clear that the old party would chase after him and beat him hard?
He just wanted to repeal the "Qingmiao Law", and the pus that came out of Da Song's body was punctured and let the princes of Gon Gon take a look, as for himself, it was completely behind the fame!
Quack, Cai Jing smiled awkwardly: "Renhe, you will probably be mistaken, what this official means is that the fluctuation of grain prices in Yingzhou is not enough to warn people, and it is better to make things bigger." ”
"Make a big fuss?" Zhang Zhu was puzzled: "How big is the trouble?" Now that the people are affected by borrowing, it is the time when they need to be rescued, and the trouble is big, is it possible to make the people resentful of the big households, and the conflict will not be successful? ”
"Almost, that's what it means." Cai Jing nodded with satisfaction and said temptingly: "It's better to be bigger, that is, let the court see that the "Green Seedling Law" has been abolished, and the people are not willing to become fish and meat in the big household." ”
"You mean the civil uprising?"
Zhang Zhu finally heard what Cai Jing meant by making a big fuss, which was simply a sheep and a wolf's skin to bite the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty.
Cai Jing also knows that there is no benefit, so let Zhang Dian go, naturally in vain, the reason why he said this is because he saw the opportunity, and the timing was favorable to Zhang Tun: "As long as this matter is big, Zhang Xianggong has every reason to step into the capital and sweep the old party with the general trend of destroying the withering and decaying, are you willing to let go of such an opportunity?" For the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty, some people died well. ”