Song soldiers along the south bank of the Yangtze River, all the way to attack the city and plunder the land. Quarrying is down, and further east is the Jinling Mansion realm. At this time, Zhao Kuangyin ordered Wang Ming to inspect Yuezhou and Chizhou, thinking that he was the commander of the Western Route Army, responsible for keeping an eye on the defenders of Hukou of the Tang Army; Then Cao Bin and Pan Mei will be the main generals and deputy generals of the Middle Route Army, and they will attack Jinling.

Under Li Congyi's calculations, compared with history, although the progress of the Song army was comparable, the losses were greater. The main thing is that when attacking Dangtu, when encountering the prepared resistance of the Dangtu army, Cao Bin paid more than twice as much time and more than twice as many casualties than in history.

The loss of the Tang army decreased because the quarrying pontoon bridge was destroyed when it was completed, and the Jinling court did not urgently order the Runzhou Town Navy (Water Army) and Tiande Army (Infantry Army) to advance by land and water, and would attack the quarry, so that these two armies were not destroyed, and they were temporarily in Jinling at this time.

At this time, Jinling fully mobilized and actively prepared for war, and at the same time, it was said that all localities were guarding the defense area, and there was no need to enter King Qinjing without an order.

However, this order was actually given to Zhu Lingyun at Hukou. The 100,000 troops at Hukou were the pillars of ensuring the stability of the southern Tang River, and they were also a major pressure that the Song army on the south bank had to defend. If you rush back to help and are annihilated by the sharp and healthy Song soldiers at this time, then this Jinling defense battle will not be able to fight. Therefore, although Li Yu wanted Zhu Lingyun to come to Jinling, a bunch of people stopped him, and Li Yu also recognized it.

The Jinling court did not ask Ning Guojun to enter Jinling, and Shi Yu Wancheng, the assassin of Changzhou, asked Li Congyi to follow his promise and lead the army to aid Changzhou. No, Wu Yuejun hadn't set off from Hangzhou at this time, and Li Congyi was naturally not in a hurry.

Li Congyi should make full use of this time to carry out the New Deal reform. Li Congyi's New Deal reform has only two ideas, one is to improve the ability to absorb tax revenue, and the other is to build a promising government.

Wang Anshi of the Northern Song Dynasty changed the law, and its goals were also the above two; But there are differences. The essence of Wang Anshi's reform is to intervene in economic life through the visible hand of the government, so as to improve the ability to absorb tax revenue in an all-round way. After Wang Anshi's reform, the ability to absorb taxes was indeed greatly improved, effectively solving the problem of fiscal deficit that plagued the Song Dynasty. But Wang Anshi's reform is of course undesirable, because the extra money in the treasury is pulled out from the teeth of the people at the bottom, which further widens the gap between the rich and the poor in the Song Dynasty. The old party of the Song Dynasty said that Wang Anshi's change of law was to compete with the people for profit, which was the key point of the new law.

Therefore, Li Congyi naturally will not make mistakes in this regard. After the Tang and Song wars, the Xuanzhou government issued decrees one after another. However, at this time, the Jinling court naturally had no heart to take care of it.

In order to improve the ability to absorb tax revenue, the Xuanzhou government on the one hand comprehensively implemented the tax reform, abolishing the harsh and miscellaneous taxes such as fire consumption, foot money, warehouse tax, etc., and non-monetary taxes such as forced labor and apportionment. If the income of these exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes is one, the powerful officials can get ten, and this kind of evil government will naturally not be allowed to stay. At the same time, five types of taxes have been established: value-added tax (including consumption tax and customs duties), income tax (enterprises and individuals), property tax (deed tax and real estate tax), agricultural tax and poll tax. The agricultural tax (field tax) was the largest tax in the world at that time, and it was naturally impossible to abolish it at this time, and Li Congyi had to collect it strictly to prevent local tyrants from evading taxes. Poll tax is available in both the East and the West, if it is used well, it is a good tax to divide the family, and it can force the strong to have to divide the family, there is no close big family around the backbone, only a scattered big family, and the influence of the strong family will naturally decline significantly. On the other hand, there are extensive townships and towns. The area under the jurisdiction of the county is too large, from the county to the countryside, and some places cannot go by boat or horse for several days. In fact, there was a similar setting in the world, called the Inspection Department, but the functions were too simple, that is, tax collection and public security, and only in some naturally formed important towns would have similar settings, and then they were often in the hands of local tyrants. Li Congyi's township is the dispatched agency of the county government.

In terms of building an economically promising government, on the one hand, it is based on value-added tax (VAT) assessment, allowing county-level governments to set up land storage companies and investment companies to directly participate in economic activities; On the other hand, it is to set up posts and personnel in prefectures, counties, and townships, and the core is to set up deputy posts to decentralize powers and set up departments to check and balance.

In order to tie in with the above two aspects of work, Li Congyi also implemented the civil service examination.

Throughout October and leap October, Xuancheng County, which was a pilot county, had been in a mess with the personnel of the county government, but some key tasks were advancing rapidly. The reason is very simple, in the past, the state capital could only find the magistrate, the magistrate could find the master, the master could find the officials, and the officials could find the officials. Now, Hou Hongye, the magistrate of the county, or the county magistrate, seems to have a few more deputy county magistrates to divide his powers, but if there is anything, he can find the deputy county magistrate. The deputy county magistrate can find the bureau he is in charge of, or directly put the task on the township.

In leap October, the reform of the Xuanzhou state capital also began. Of course, Li Congyi still appointed himself governor, and appointed Tang Puze as the first vice governor, but Gao Jingtong was the executive vice governor, and Xu Jianzhang and Hou Hongye were also promoted to vice governors. Of course, these job titles, that is, the internal application of Xuanzhou, will not be recognized when they leave Xuanzhou. But this set of things doesn't work, and the people in it know best.

Li Congyi has set up a bunch of institutions in the prefecture and county, and has added a large number of official positions, which can be said to be a big distribution of official hats, which should be a happy thing, but it is not without noise. For example, the position of director of the Xuanzhou Culture and Education Bureau should have been none other than Zhou Yuanji, a doctor of literature, but Zhou Yuanji did not approve of Li Congyi's promotion of Guogongfu Primary School in Xuanzhou. That's fine, Zhou Yuanji also openly contradicted the tune, and he also spoke disrespectfully at the competition meeting. This scholar's temper came up, even Gao Jingtong couldn't convince him, and in the end, Li Congyi was annoyed and directly pushed him to the end. Zhou Yuanji wanted to go to Jinling to complain, but Huang Guangyi's security department had already stared at him and controlled him before leaving Xuanzhou. Li Congyi was unwilling to kill him, and was slightly dissatisfied with the self-assertion of the Security Division, so he let him go. However, at this time, the Tang army was defeated, and the Song army pointed directly at Jinling, and Zhou Yuanji did not dare to take his family to Jinling anymore.

This vacated position of director of the Xuanzhou Bureau of Culture and Education, Li Congyi took Shi Junbi to do it. Shi Junbi was also shocked at first, but he was also young and vigorous, so he agreed. It made Chen Dong quite envious.

In leap November, with the organization and support of the new state government department, Ningguo County and Jing County also began to implement the new policy. And Li Congyi also took the time to go to Jing County again.

"The reform of the Guogong Lord, his subordinates summed up two sentences, saying, 'A special person is responsible for a full-time job, and a special person is responsible for a special person'. In the past, the county government did things, but whoever was caught would do it, so why not? There is only one duty of the county government, which is to collect taxes. As long as the tax paid to the state government is sufficient, the state government does not care about the affairs of the county government. To this end, the county government needs to create a fair and just environment, the second is to actively guide the development of local advantageous industries, and the third is to go shirtless when necessary to drive local economic development. Dong Han talked eloquently.

However, the reform of the Guogong has extremely high requirements for the people in the county government. It is true that there is a saying that the so-called three days of Shibei should be impressive, and there are indeed some people who can 'learn and always be new' as adults say, but these people are always in the minority. Therefore, the subordinate suggested that the reform principle of the Guogong University should be 'the whole should be slowed down, and the parts should be speedy', and the whole should be slow, which means that from the perspective of Xuanzhou, the reform period can be longer, and the reform time span can be half a year or a year; ”

After Li Congyi heard this, he was absolutely amazed!

This Dong Han is inconspicuous, limited by his status as a lifter, and under the old bureaucratic system, he can only live a mediocre life, and he died in the office of the magistrate. However, if you talk about the cognition of the New Deal, Gao Jingtong, Hou Hongye and others are not as profound as Dong Hanlai.

Dong Han is also deliberately pretentious. Dong Han is now three out of fifty, and he is still from Qipinzhi County. Last time, taking advantage of Jiang Guogong's inspection of various counties, Dong Han played some tricks on Leshui Paper, although he hated Leshui Paper, but he also won Jiang Guogong's favor. In this way, Jing County had the opportunity to be included in the second batch of pilot reforms, and only then did the Jiangguo Guild come to guide the county government reform of Jing County during the Song and Tang wars.

"Where there is reform, there is a debate about the path of radical reform and gradual reform. Radical reforms usually require the completion of a single battle, the so-called quick knife to cut through the mess, in which the problems that arise because of the one-size-fits-all are called the pain of reform, and it is believed that the pain will be over after a while. Gradual reform, on the other hand, holds that everything must be tried and slowed down, and only then can it be extended when the benefits are seen and the harms are discouraged. But the so-called radicals or gradists are biased. Li Congyi was quite happy, so he also talked to Gao Jingtong, Hou Hongye and others who came to guide the reform of Jing County. Where it is reform, it must be the redistribution of interests, there must be many resistances, both the unnecessary resistance to breaking habits, and the crazy counterattack of the victims of interests, so the reform must be radical, otherwise it will be procrastinated, and the resistance will become greater and greater, and it will not be feasible from top to bottom; However, reform is also to break the old and create the new, and then whether this new thing will be perfect, it will definitely be harmless, and it will not be at all, in order to prevent the unintentional big mistake from leading to a group of rebellion reforms, this gradual reform is inevitable, and in the gradual reform we will continue to try and make mistakes and make corrections, until the harm is the least and the benefit is greatest. This is similar to what Dong Zhixian said, 'the whole should be slow, and the parts should be speedy', that is, we should be gradualists in the overall reform plan, and we should be radicals in the implementation of specific reforms. ”

"The discussion between Dong Zhixian and Guogong on the reform model is really very exciting, and I would like to ask Dong Zhixian to write an article for a little discussion, and then publish it in Xuanzhou Daily." Hou Hongye was also the vice governor, and he was in charge of the newspaper.

Xuanzhou Newspaper is Li Congyi's early August, after a large number of papers from Leshui Paper were sold, he arranged for the state capital to set up a Xuanzhou Newspaper. At present, the Xuanzhou Newspaper is published on a ten-month basis, and the county governments are forced to subscribe, and the rest of the people can also subscribe by themselves, with 36 issues a year and a subscription price of two silver dollars.

Counting the costs of paper, editing, printing and delivery, these two silver dollars are naturally not enough. At present, under the guidance of Li Congyi, Hou Hongye marketing companies advertise in Xuanzhou Daily and collect advertising fees; At the same time, anecdotes and miscellaneous novels were added to the newspaper, which made the taverns and tea shops in various counties also subscribe to the Xuanzhou newspaper. Since the Song and Tang wars, the Xuanzhou Newspaper has also published the war situation every ten years, which has caused the subscription of the Xuanzhou Newspaper to rise rapidly.

"Dare to disobey!" Dong Han also knew the influence of Xuanzhou Daily, and Hou Hongye invited himself to write this editorial, which was also a gesture of goodwill.