Faced with such a situation, what should the scholar do?

Zhu Ming couldn't say it, and he didn't dare to say it, so everyone guessed slowly. He is just doing psychological guidance, and everyone can understand it differently.

The scholars lived in Daming Village for a few days, and then they left one after another and rushed home to spend the winter solstice.

Ling Guxu stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the river and was silent.

Zhu Ming watched them leave without saying a word.

Bai Qi tilted his head and asked, "What is the eldest brother thinking?" ”

"A little thing." Zhu Ming smiled and patted the top of Bai Qi's head.

According to the news I heard from the household department, the financial expenditure of the Great Song Dynasty has exploded.

In terms of the salaries of officials and soldiers, Zhao Kuangyin was 1.5 million yuan a year at that time. During the period of Wang Anshi's reform, it had soared to 3 million. Yuanfeng was restructured, and the number of officials increased, so it skyrocketed to more than 4 million.

After Song Huizong succeeded to the throne, the salary and military salary reached 6 million yuan.

Now, close to 10 million guan!

This is only the annual salary and military salary, and does not include other military expenditures, or even military rations.

Song Huizong's large-scale construction is enough to toss, just say a Genyue, no one can figure out how much it costs. Anyway, after the construction is completed, it covers an area of about 750 acres, the mountain peaks are built on the flat ground, the highest point is more than 150 meters, the pavilions and pavilions, the strange stones and flowers are innumerable, and hundreds of thousands of people are used before and after. It is also divided into two mountain ranges, which are filled with river water.

In this way, when Song Huizong wanted to redeem Yanjing, the Jin people only bid one million yuan, and the Song court couldn't get together all the cash, and had to use various materials to offset the account.

Zhu Ming took Bai Qi home and thought about a very important matter.

When he rebelled in Fangla, he also followed the army in Hanzhong, how much financial pressure could it cause to the imperial court if he completely occupied Sichuan?

After calculating it, I found that I couldn't calculate it at all.

Even if Zhu Ming inquired about some data from the household department, he couldn't figure out what the imperial court's income was.

For example, after the pacification of Fangla in history, due to the extreme shortage of money in the imperial court, the government began to levy money. That is, among all kinds of commercial taxes, 20 more Wen is levied per pass. With this alone, more than three times the amount of land can be collected.

If you squeeze it, it seems that you can squeeze out the tax.

When Song Gaozong crossed the river, the southeast three roads (Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and the northern part of Poyang Lake south of the Yangtze River) had an annual income of less than 10 million. Only 30 years later, the income of the southeast has risen to more than 65 million yuan, how did Zhao Gou increase the tax sixfold, but did not force the people to die and rebel?

The ability of the Great Song to collect taxes is simply fascinating.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Sichuan region contributed more finance than the southeast region, about 15 million guan (including local interceptions)! Tea and salt are the main tax revenues in Sichuan.

Zhu Ming threw the messy account into the brazier and burned it, feeling that he could really plan the Fang La uprising.

The southeast and Sichuan rebelled together, and they could blow up the finances of the Great Song Dynasty!

No matter how awesome the Western Army is, what's going on?

As long as the terrain of mountains and rivers is used to defend for so much a year, the soldiers of the Western Army may even have enough food and salary.

But if there is a rebellion in advance, "justice" will be lacking.

This so-called justice is for mainstream public opinion. Everyone knows that the emperor appreciates the Zhu family's father and son, and their rebellion belongs to the revenge of the generals, and they will instantly bear the infamy of "disloyalty" and "ingratitude".

If Jingkang rebelled later, it would be much more logical.

Zhu Ming picked up the brush and began to write a letter to his father, using pinyin in the whole text, to discuss the time of the rebellion. Even if you ignore the time, you have to consider "justice", the father and son are now receiving too many favors, and it's time to anger the emperor.

Spraying Cai Jing would not annoy the emperor, and Song Huizong was happy to have someone do it.

You have to spray Zhu Mian, spray flowers and stones, and persuade the emperor not to build Genyue and stop engaging in all kinds of civil engineering. This will definitely make the emperor unhappy, it is better for the father and son to demote the official together!

The more miserable the encounter, the better, not only to win the sympathy of the world, but also to earn the prestige of asking for the people's lives.

"What is this word?" Bai Qi looked at Pinyin.

Zhu Ming smiled: "Book from heaven." ”

Bai Qi asked, "Big brother, can I learn the Book of Heaven?" ”

"I'll teach it to you when you've refined your knowledge." Zhu Ming said perfunctorily.

"Oh." Bai Qi no longer dwelled on this matter, and continued to watch Zhu Ming write the Book of Heaven with curious eyes.

After writing a letter, Zhu Ming asked, "Can you practice martial arts?" ”

Bai Qi shook his head: "My mother-in-law let me study well, and when I grow up, I will also be an official in the imperial examination." ”

Zhu Ming said: "In the future, when I ask Uncle Zhang's mother-in-law about martial arts, I will say that the world will be chaotic, and only by practicing martial arts can I defend myself." ”

"Okay." Bai Qi is very happy, which child doesn't like to dance with knives and sticks?

In the following days, Zhu Ming read books and practiced martial arts every day.

The book he read was called "Wujing General Essentials", which was not easy to get, so he got a set through his father.

Zhang Guangdao, Li Bao, Zhang Bo, Deng Xia, and Bai Sheng, who returned to the village, all followed along. Deng Chun followed Shi Yuangong and recruited iron smelting households, and when he came back, he would also learn.

The sub-volume that I haven't read for the time being was thrown to Liu Shiren for transcription.

Liu Shiren is the bankrupt Liu Jiazi, who has been recruited by Zhu Ming, and is regarded as a text secretary, and will follow him to Jinzhou after the beginning of the spring.

They all belong to the personal entourage, and the imperial court not only allows it, but also sets the quota of the personal entourage, and the imperial court helps to pay the salary every month.

What the Great Song Dynasty forbade was the private hiring of staff, and the staff's followers were different. For example, the masters of the Ming and Qing dynasties could meddle in government affairs, participate in the judgment of cases, and take charge of the documents and account books, which was absolutely not allowed in the Song Dynasty.

To practice martial arts, you also need to read books, and the martial arts cheats borrowed from the Zhang family are practiced according to the records in the book.

This year is a warm winter, and it is almost the end of the year before it snows.

And suddenly the temperature plummeted, and it snowed heavily all over the north, and even the Jianghuai region began to snow.

……

Yingzhou (Fuyang).

Yang Zhi looked at the snowfall in the sky and frowned.

Twelve of their officers went south and were assigned to different states and counties to transport flowers and stones.

Yang Zhi and Sun Li's mission location were very close to each other, and they made an appointment to go on the road together.

Yingzhou belongs to Jingbei Road, and the situation here is very similar to Jingdong Road, which has also been sucked by Tokyo for a long time, and there have been more and more thieves in recent years.

The Huashi Gang escorted by Yang Zhi was only loaded with a few boats, and it was not a strange stone. After the people carried the raw lacquer, wood and other things to the ship, Yang Zhi took the boat to escort the goods along the Yingshui north.

In addition to the boatmen, there were only twenty or thirty garbage vans left, and he had to wait for Sun Li to come and go together, so as not to be robbed by the water bandits halfway.

"Why don't you have any meat today?" Yang Zhi asked the postman.

The postman said, "The road is closed by heavy snow, and the food is almost gone, where is there still meat to eat?" The county doesn't send food, and we can't do anything. ”

After a few more days, the inn no longer provides food.

Yang Zhi could only eat with the Xiang army who escorted the ship at the restaurant outside the city, and it was getting more and more expensive because of the heavy snow.

By the time he went south, he had already used the coil almost to the end.

Now that he was shy in his pocket, he didn't even have money to eat, so he looked at the treasure knife on his waist.

This is an ancestral steel knife.

When the heavy snow stopped for a while, Yang Zhi went into the city to sell knives, and the situation was not the same as "Water Margin".

He stood from morning to evening, when someone finally came to buy a knife.

is a young gangster, Yang Zhi is too lazy to bargain, and he can't afford it when he sees the other party. The gangsters felt that they were being slighted, scolded and walked away, and soon called a group of accomplices to stand beside Yang Zhi and sneered.

The two sides developed from a quarrel to a push, and the gangsters wanted to grab the knife, but Yang Zhi killed one person in a hurry.

The rest of the gangsters scattered in a hurry and rushed to the county government to report to the official.

Throughout the Spring Festival, Yang Zhi was imprisoned. First the county government prison, then transferred to the state court prison, until the end of the Lantern Festival holiday, the manager joined the army to try his case.

Killing people is to pay for their lives, thinking that Yang Zhi committed a crime because of escorting Hua Shigang, the manager joined the army and was sent lightly, and he was only sent to Weizhou (Xinxiang and Hebi).

This punishment is really light, and the distribution is too close.

It was only at this time that Sun Li came over with Hua Shigang, and happened to meet Yang Zhi, who was about to board the ship (Yang Zhi also had to take the flail and continue to escort Hua Shigang).

Both of them are in the wrong place, but their sins are not punishable by death, and at most they cannot be officers.

Sun Li was shocked: "How did the eldest brother commit a crime? ”

Yang Zhi said: "If you don't come after waiting for a long time, you won't be able to leave when it snows." The entanglement was exhausted, and the post house still didn't give me food, so I thought about selling knives for money, and I got killed when I argued with others. You went back to Beijing to find Zhu Daxianggong to see if he could exempt me from this crime. ”

The two arrived in Tokyo with Hua Shigang, and first went to hand in errands, and Sun Li went to inform the sworn brothers.

Sun Li said: "Brother Yang is to wait for me, otherwise he will leave before the snow." I want to beg Prime Minister Zhu, if he refuses to help, I will kill the guards and rescue Brother Yang from the grass. ”

"Count me as one," Li Jinyi said, "It's not interesting to stay in the capital, and I'm called around by those bird officials." worked hard to get a trip to Huashigang, but didn't earn half a penny, but stuck it in it several times. In this world, it is unlucky to be an officer, so he simply falls into the grass and becomes a robber. ”

Lin Chong said: "There are twelve of us, since we are brothers, Brother Yang's business is my business." If Prime Minister Zhu doesn't help, I will also rob the prisoners and fall into the grass! ”

The rest of the people echoed one after another, but none of them flinched.

Just to worship righteousness, they have to abandon their family and business to rescue Yang Zhi as a robber.

After some discussion, they went to Zhu Guoxiang's mansion together, claiming to be Zhu Ming's old acquaintance, and asked to see Zhu Guoxiang for important things.

Zhu Guoxiang was left in the palace by the emperor, waited for two days, and finally saw a carriage returning.

Eleven people stopped the car and knelt down, shouting: "Zhu Xianggong help!" ”

Shi Biao immediately picked up his weapon to alert Zhu Guoxiang and lifted the curtain and asked, "Who are you?" ”

Sun Li said: "My name is Sun Li, this is my righteous brothers Li Jinyi, Lin Chong, Hua Rong, Chai Jin, Guan Sheng...... Together with Brother Yang Zhi, I recognized Zhu Tanhua very early. Zhu Tanhua also said that she would help when she encountered difficulties. Brother Yang killed someone by mistake, and we had no choice but to ask Prime Minister Zhu to come to the rescue. ”

When Zhu Guoxiang heard these names, his whole body was numb, just like looking at a giant panda, staring at everyone and looking at it.

After a long time, Zhu Guoxiang said: "Let's talk about it when we go in." ”

"Thank you!" Eleven people were overjoyed when they heard this.

(End of chapter)