In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Jun went to court with the panda's eyes.

When the prefect came back, in addition to the prime ministers, Li Di was probably more excited.

Because Wang Sui fell ill this time and had fallen into a coma, the imperial doctor said that it was estimated that it would not last until the end of the year, and it was almost dying.

Therefore, this time, the Constitutional Yuan may vacate the position of prime minister, so he is likely to be able to enter the Constitutional Yuan.

When Zhao Jun didn't come back before, Li Di was a little worried that Zhao Jun was not in Bianliang, and Lu Yijian would get in the way.

But now that Zhao Jun is back, then he has nothing to worry about.

Even if they are happy to be able to take the position when they die, the mood is still so happy, which seems a little inhumane.

But Li Di didn't have much friendship with Wang Sui, so he couldn't feel sorry for him. Second, this is a politician, who wants to die for the sake of power.

After the end of the early dynasty, Li Di wanted to ask to see Zhao Jun, but Zhao Jun asked someone to hand him a message - don't be impatient.

This sentence made Li Di feel at ease, and he was secretly happy that he defected to Zhao Jun at the beginning, and he really didn't play the wrong chess.

Although the former prime minister is willing to be someone else's follower, it seems that he is a little willing to degenerate.

But Li Di has also been up and down in the Huan Sea for so many years, and he has already started to watch it.

What's more, Zhao Jun is too young.

is so young to sit in this high position, and he has won the trust of the officials, he may not be able to hold power for a long time in the future.

If he can follow a powerful boss for a long time, it will be a great thing for him and the children of the family.

Therefore, Li Di naturally chooses to bet, which is the keen sense of smell of an old politician.

Zhao Jun went to the Constitutional Yuan after the early court, and the meeting was held, except for Fan Zhongyan, who is now transferred to Hebei, only Wang Sui, who was seriously ill in bed, did not attend the meeting.

Everyone sat down separately, and Zhao Jun sat back in his main seat again, put the notebook on it, and started today's topic.

The first is to talk about the current domestic situation.

Militarily, Fan Zhongyan won two battles in the northwest, one defensive battle and one counterattack battle, and beat Li Yuanhao to the ground, and now he can only obediently hide in the nest and lick his wounds.

The Liao army in the north went south, Chen soldiers border, the two sides carried out several temptations, and the Liao army sent small teams to harass the border fortress.

The Song army in the fortress used the earth-shaking thunder, and directly used the catapult to throw the clay pot filled with gunpowder into the enemy camp, and the moment of the explosion, the Liao cavalry was so frightened that they fled in panic and did not dare to approach.

Yelu Zongzhen faced the turtle shell of the Song Dynasty, and it was obviously a little difficult to ride a tiger.

Some wise generals proposed to simply bypass the fortresses and cities on the front line of the Song army, and go south to fight the grass valley and plunder the people of the Song Dynasty, but they did not believe that there was no way to take the turtle shell of the Song Dynasty.

directly made Yeluzong so angry that he asked that big smart to lead the troops by himself, but the general did bypass it, and he was dumbfounded when he took 5,000 light horsemen south and ran deeper than 200 kilometers to Jizhou.

Because the tortoise shell of the Song Dynasty was repaired directly from Xiongzhou to the Beijing Daimyo Mansion of the Song Dynasty, although there were also common people who cultivated, once they found the Liao cavalry, they immediately threw down their hoes, or drilled into nearby pillboxes, or ran to the city.

During the Song and Song dynasties, the economy and agriculture had shifted to the south, starting from the Qin and Han dynasties, Hebei and Henan had always been the traditional agricultural and economic center of gravity of the Han people because of the relationship between the North China Plain.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hebei's population reached more than 6 million, and it became the main area for Yuan Shao to dominate the world.

However, by the time of the Two Song Dynasty, the population of Hebei was still 6 million, of which about 3.3 million were on the East Hebei Road and 2.6 million on the West Hebei Road, which was obviously unreasonable in the Song Dynasty, where productivity and agricultural technology far surpassed that of the Han Dynasty.

On the other hand, during the same period, Henan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions had a population of more than 10 million.

The only reason was that Hebei became the front line of the confrontation with the Liao State, and the Song Dynasty court turned the Hebei border and nearby prefectures into military towns, and moved the border people to the south.

Therefore, there are fewer people in the border areas, and the main population concentration in Hebei is basically near the Daimyofu north of the Yellow River.

The Liao State wanted to bypass the fortress on the border and attack the hinterland of the Song State hundreds of kilometers deeper, unless Yelu Zongzhen did not want the logistics line and planned to make a desperate bet, it would be impossible to bypass.

The end of that clever was that Fan Zhongyan mobilized troops and directly besieged Hejian Mansion, and the whole army was annihilated.

In fact, this battle was also a real temptation of Yelu Zong.

He wasn't so stupid as to send people in and die directly, but the result of the test was obvious, the Song State extended all the way to the Daimyo's Mansion on the border, and built too many fortifications, which really made him unable to speak.

Therefore, to a certain extent, militarily speaking, the Song State was already in an invincible position to defeat the Western Xia, the northwest was safe, and the northern Liao State could not invade in the south.

Zhao Jun was still very happy to get this result, at least his arrival still gave the Great Song Military a powerful shot in the arm.

There is no need to worry about the military at the moment.

Old Fan can withstand it.

Economically, in the past two years, Lu Yijian and his people have not been eating dry food, reforming the state-owned farms, and handing over more than 51% of the management rights to private enterprises.

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has also registered several state-owned commercial banks of its own.

As I said before, in the Song Dynasty, there was actually a registered company, and if the "store book" was registered in the government, it was successfully registered, and it was called a commercial house at that time.

These state-owned commercial banks have cooperated with private enterprises, and the right to operate them has been handed over to private enterprises, and as long as they do not violate laws and disciplines, evade taxes, or basically make things difficult for the officials, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce will solve them for them.

As a result, Bianliang's original state-owned monopoly of tea, salt, alum, wine, spices, and so on officially entered the ranks of the private sector, liberalizing the monopoly official system and allowing commerce to flourish.

The only thing that is still specialized in is ironware.

After all, this thing is a strategic material, and if it is allowed to be privately owned, I am afraid that it will not be long before the Western Xia and Liao States can obtain a large number of iron weapons, which is not good for the Song State.

In terms of the reform of officialdom, it has now been fully extended to the whole country, and the system of linking official positions with grades has been implemented.

For example, Zhao Jun's Constitutional Yuan is the prefect of the Constitutional Yuan, and it is Song Guogong, a proper Zhengyi product.

Lu Yijian and their Constitutional Yuan are known together, from a product.

If there is an observation candidate for the identity of each book, it is the second grade, if not, it is from the second grade.

The level of the adjutant officials of each ministry, such as the squire of each ministry, is basically between the third and fourth grades.

And all the way through the slight envoy to the positive three products, pacification envoys, transport envoys, and criminal divisions are the four products, and important areas may be from the third grade.

The main reason is that the economic envoy is not permanent, and the south will basically not be set up, and only when there is a war, will senior civilian officials be sent to serve as military and political officials, which is comparable to the power of the Tang Dynasty's envoys.

The state-level Zhizhou is generally from the fifth grade, and the county is generally the seventh grade.

Basically, it solved the situation that the original dispatch was not linked to the grade, resulting in confusion in the officialdom and unclear authority.

In addition, the country has also begun to separate the public procuratorate and the law, which was temporarily piloted at the road level before and officially promoted to the whole country last year.

From here, there are many basic departments such as the Dali Bureau, the Criminal Trial Bureau, the Education Bureau, and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau.

They assume the functions of the local courts, the Supervision Yuan, the Education Bureau, and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and since then the county magistrates have been concentrating on local development, and criminal cases have been handled by the local county lieutenants (public security bureaus), the Dali Bureau, and the Criminal Trial Bureau.

And at the road level, the Imperial History Observatory also has a branch, and the arranged Imperial History is also a young Imperial History who has just been admitted to the Jinshi.

Young people tend to be more strong-blooded and have not been polluted by the big dye vat of officialdom, so they are more energetic.

They make monthly local inspections to audit states and counties.

Like before, Zhao Jun arranged for the confiscation of the land of those landlords and wealthy households who violated the law and discipline and turned it into official land.

If these official fields are discovered by the inspection of the Imperial History Observatory by the local prefecture or county, or if there are local problems, they must immediately report to the central government.

After that, we have to see if Zhao Jun's knife is sharp.

In terms of education, the primary school knowledge brought by Zhao Jun has been promoted in Bianliang.

The imperial court established several primary schools to admit children from poor families free of charge, and the main teaching was elementary school mathematics and normal Confucian education.

The best of them will be selected to teach junior high school mathematics, chemistry and physics.

Although the books brought by Zhao Jun did not completely involve the entire junior high school mathematics, physics and chemistry, there were still a lot of contents in this area, such as "Interesting Little Experiments in Physics", "Basic Chemical Reactions", "Nature and Science" and so on.

This is bound to promote the development of mathematics, physics and chemistry in the Great Song Dynasty.

In a few years, after slowly letting mathematics, physics and chemistry take root in the people, and taking advantage of the trend to include science in the imperial examination, I am afraid that in less than ten years, mathematics, physics and chemistry will be able to take root and grow vigorously in the Great Song Dynasty.

So after hearing the feedback given by everyone in the Constitutional Yuan, Zhao Jun is still very satisfied with the current progress.

Basically, with the exception of the military system, the tax system, the rule of officials, and the land, the rest of the political system, economy, education, and other reforms have been completed, and the resistance is not very great.

Naturally, there is no resistance to education reform, and these officials do not understand what mathematics, physics and chemistry are.

There are some small obstacles in the economy, for example, those officials in the original state-run field could not accept the loss of the iron rice bowl, and they made a noise against it.

But the objection is invalid.

Li Zheng struck hard to strictly investigate the corruption in the original state-run farm, which directly caused an earthquake, and hundreds of officials were dismissed, from Bianliang to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and many people were arrested.

Now the resistance is gone, and the rest of the officials don't care, anyway, they don't care about their affairs, not to mention that there are more people in the officialdom now.

After the reform of the bureaucratic system, there were many new departments, and the original idle officials came to the post one after another, which solved the problem of redundant officials in the Song Dynasty at once.

But the way to solve the problem is really a bit to cure the lame leg, so simply sawed off the leg.

Because in the past, redundant officials were idle officials, and they were not dispatched, so they could be paid one less salary.

Now that there is a dispatch, the salary is overpaid, which allows the redundant officials to solve it, but the officials' salaries are more expensive, causing greater financial pressure.

However, this is not without its benefits, that is, the new officials will obviously be more supportive of the Constitutional Yuan, and the existence of the Constitutional Yuan will allow them to take office, so that a new interest group will be formed.

Basically, as long as the Constitutional Yuan does not remove them again, most of the newly appointed officials will basically maintain the Constitutional Yuan's position.

Therefore, this has led to a new officialdom restructuring, and there is little resistance.

The rest is now only a large-scale restructuring.

"Good."

Zhao Jun heard everyone's report, nodded with satisfaction: "It seems that these days, you haven't done nothing. ”

Lu Yi stroked his beard and said proudly: "That's natural, or I have made some achievements." ”

"Old Lu, don't be too complacent."

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "These systems are just foreplay, and the resistance will not be too great. ”

Hearing Zhao Jun's words, everyone was curious, and Wang Zeng asked, "It seems that you have indeed gained a lot this time." ”

"There are indeed some ideas that I need time to sort out, but the core idea is actually one point, first relieve the survival pressure of the people at the bottom, so that the domestic contradictions can be temporarily resolved."

"How?"

"It's simple."

Zhao Jun said: "For example, the increase in consumption will be returned to the public, and a large number of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes will be abolished. Minimize the proportion of agricultural taxes and raise the tax rates of large landlords and the wealthy class. ”

"In that case, wouldn't the imperial court pay a lot less taxes?"

Sheng Du frowned.

"It's just that the proportion of agricultural taxes has been reduced, do you know how much the tax was in the Southern Song Dynasty?"

Zhao Jun asked rhetorically.

Everyone shook their heads, in the past, everyone asked about the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, but they didn't hear him say it in detail.

"It is higher than that of the Northern Song Dynasty, generally above 100 million."

Zhao Jun stretched out a finger and said: "In the case that the Southern Song Dynasty only has half of the country, and a large area of land north of Huainan and Sichuan has been lost, the tax is still higher than that of the Northern Song Dynasty, in fact, it is very obvious that the problem can be seen." ”

Yan Shu was surprised: "Why is this happening? ”

"Because of the business tax."

Zhao Jun said: "After the Southern Song Dynasty moved to the south, in order to alleviate the financial pressure, it vigorously developed trade. Through the Maritime Silk Road and the Ancient Tea Horse Road in Yunnan, goods were exported to Southeast Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and even Europe. The economy was more active than that of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the commercial tax was as high as 80%. ”

"With the commercial tax alone, you can collect 80 million yuan?"

The crowd was shocked.

"More than that."

Zhao Jun said: "The Southern Song Dynasty's fiscal peak reached 160 million yuan, and the commercial tax reached 85% at the peak, which shows that the industrial and commercial tax has basically replaced the agricultural tax and become the pillar tax of the Southern Song Dynasty." ”

"Do you mean, the Great Song should go all out to develop commerce?"

Lu Yijian asked.

In fact, the Northern Song Dynasty also vigorously developed industry and commerce, but it did not develop as much as the Southern Song Dynasty.

After all, the traditional thought in ancient times was to emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce, so during the Northern Song Dynasty, a balance between agricultural tax and commercial tax was maintained, and it was not until the late Northern Song Dynasty that commercial tax completely overwhelmed agricultural tax, reaching 60%-70%.

"It's not full force, it's a degree of tightness."

Zhao Jun said: "Grasp the big and let go of the small, flexibly promote, and actively expand externally, increase the import and export quotas, I think the business of the Great Song Dynasty can be developed in four directions." ”

"Which four?"

"The first is from Guangzhou to Central Asia and Southeast Asia, the second is from Qingtang to Central Asia, the third is from Zhejiang and Shandong to Guangzhou, Japan and Goryeo, and the fourth is from Chengdu to Dali and Southeast Asia."

Zhao Jun pointed out: "Such two land Silk Roads and two maritime Silk Roads are bound to bring a steady stream of tax revenue to the Great Song Dynasty. Especially in Japan, as long as there is a large inflow of Japanese silver, then the shortage of money in the Song Dynasty can be solved, and the extra copper can be used to make artillery and expand military capabilities. ”

He continued: "In addition, the expansion of foreign trade can stimulate economic growth internally, reduce agricultural taxes, develop commerce, and the tax revenue will definitely not be less, and it can also promote industrial development, which is a good thing for the people at the bottom of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

"Hmm"

Everyone nodded slightly, which sounded good.

Yan Shu asked: "I remember you said that the Yongzheng reform still has to be apportioned into the mu, so why not implement this?" ”

"Because it's not yet time, the productivity is not up to standard, and it is self-defeating to apportion."

Zhao Jun looked around at the crowd: "The suggestions I put forward are basically things that can be achieved in the Great Song Dynasty, these things, if they are placed in the Ming Dynasty, they may not be possible, but in the Great Song Dynasty, they should be able to be done." The rest of the things that can't be done can only be said later. ”

He was referring to the increase in consumption and the abolition of a large number of exorbitant taxes. The policy of lowering the proportion of agricultural taxes and raising the tax rates of large landowners and the wealthy class.

Don't look at these policies in the Ming Dynasty, but in the Song Dynasty, it was different.

The Great Song Dynasty imposed heavy taxes on miscellaneous taxes, which not only forced the peasants to rebel, but also forced a large number of landlords to rebel.

It's not that these landlords want to rebel, but who the Song Dynasty tax does not control you, even if the family members of the officials are doing business, they have to pay the taxes, which is comparable to the tax bureau of the American empire in later generations.

What are the tax exemptions for lifters, jinshi, and officials?

Inexistent.

It was all done by the scholars and doctors of the Ming Dynasty to fool the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

In my great Song Dynasty, there are only three things that cannot escape, one is to serve in forced labor, the second is death, and the third is to pay taxes.

The rich class can avoid forced labor by spending money, but they can't avoid paying taxes by spending money, so the Song Dynasty is so rich, and the typical scraping of the ground and fattening the imperial court, and the imperial court then spends the money on the three redundant life.

Therefore, these reforms proposed by Zhao Jun belong to the situation that the Song Dynasty can fully realize.

That is, to reduce the burden on the peasants by abolishing a large number of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and then expanding trade with foreign countries, and continuing to squeeze large landlords and particularly wealthy people to make up for the reduction in tax revenues brought about by the abolition of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes at the bottom.

As for the spread into acres and so on.

It's a bit difficult.

The policy is certainly a good policy, but once implemented, the population will inevitably grow explosively.

Whether you admit it or not, the population of the Qing Dynasty could reach 400 million, and the allocation of land into mu only played a driving role, and the real decisive role was the introduction of high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes, which could feed so many people.

Otherwise, in the case of a serious shortage of grain, the poll tax will no longer be levied on the per mu, which will inevitably lead to a shortage of productive forces, but a larger population, and a very easy famine.

Therefore, it is not suitable to spread the land into the acre, at least for the time being.

In addition to these more general policies, Zhao Jun has also made his own adjustments and made some policies that he has studied.

From agriculture to the economy, to the reform of the local system, he has his own ideas.

It's just that there are too many things, and for the time being, I have said some strategies that are more easy to understand, and relatively conservative, less radical, and easier to implement in the feudal society of the Song Dynasty.

(End of chapter)