Xu Zhiqian's confusion is completely understandable.
In the court, Sima Guang and Wang Anshi fought fiercely, but after leaving the imperial city, they both came to find Zhang Fei.
This phenomenon is very strange.
But the answer is just as Zhang Fei said, who would refuse an excellent free labor?
Although he thinks that he has sat at the card table, he is the only one who thinks so. In the eyes of everyone, there are only two protagonists in the world today, namely Wang Anshi and Sima Guang.
He's just an excellent waiter.
And what he provided was only technical support. Because his status and age were not enough for his political ideas to be exposed, this scene was not so weird.
If the equal loss method is just a small test of Wang Anshi's skills and kicks off the reform, then the recruitment method is Wang Anshi's official start of the war.
When the Equal Loss Law was first promulgated, Sima Guangdu was still urging everyone to take a look before talking about it. Apart from a few private fights with Wang Anshi, he did not publicly oppose Wang Anshi in a formal occasion.
At that time, it was mainly Fan Chunren and Su Shi who opposed it, and both of them were demoted.
This only involves the tribute system and the crackdown on some profiteers. From a technical and moral level, Wang Anshi can still stand.
But as soon as the recruitment law came out, Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo expressed their stance directly.
We don't agree.
Because this method involves everyone in the world.
But how to stop it? Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo came to Fu Bi in unison.
Can it be stopped through legislation?
"Currently, this is impossible."
Fu Bi glanced at Wen Yanbo and Sima Guang, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Although the "Song Xingtong" also includes some tax law regulations, it is impossible for the officials to allow us to amend the tax law, because this will
It conflicts with the imperial decree."
You are really overthinking this. How could the emperor give up his tax power?
Logically speaking, tax law should also belong to the three divisions, and under the Zhongshu sect, it definitely belongs to the imperial decree.
This does not fall within the powers of the Legislative Council.
Sima Guangdao: "According to the concept of legal system, it is to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the people, and whether legislation can provide protection for the people."
Fu Bi pondered for a while, "We can only modify the penalties for tax evasion, but this cannot be modified easily. If the judiciary fails to deter the people, then many people will have the confidence to evade taxes, which will increase the burden on the government."
Wen Yanbo frowned and said, "So, neither the judiciary nor the legislation can stop Wang Jiefu from acting recklessly?"
Fu Bi stroked his beard and said, "What I can think of right now is to legislate tax-free households."
"Tax-free household?"
Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo said in unison.
Fu Bi nodded: "In the past, tax-free households were divided according to the level of household, but the concept of legal system is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of individuals, which does not distinguish between levels, so human life naturally belongs to the legitimate rights and interests of individuals.
If a person's income is only enough to survive, in this case, if they are still asked to pay taxes, it will be a violation of their legitimate personal rights.
Moreover, most of the times in history, officials forced the people to rebel, that is, they depleted the land and collected taxes by force, which pushed the people to the point of desperation, thus triggering turmoil, which also seriously harmed the interests of the country and the monarch.
Based on this, we have sufficient reasons to legislate on this."
Sima Guang nodded and said: "I still remember Zhang San's first class. He drew the line between the legal system and the Confucian law on top, and the line of the legal system was below it. As long as it does not touch
If we touch the line of the legal system, the legal system will have no right to interfere with the Confucian law and the Legalist law."
Fu Bi chuckled and said, "It seems that Zhang San's education method is even more impressive."
Wen Yanbo said: "But what Wang Jiefu mentioned in the article is also valid. The shortcomings of the labor law make the people would rather harm themselves in order to obtain the status of a lower fifth-class household and avoid the Yamen labor, which makes the people less enthusiastic about farming.
, the number of poor households increases year by year. If tax-exempt households are established, this situation will become even more severe."
Fu Bi said: "This can only set the tax-free household to a low enough level. I even think Wang Jiefu is unlikely to break through this bottom line. This can only prevent officials from exploiting the people on this basis."
Sima Guang said: "But determining tax-free households will also bring a lot of burden to the government."
Fu Bi said: "This must be implemented in cooperation with the public prosecutor and the law. The legal system only gives people the power to protect their legitimate rights and interests, but this power must be well implemented under the public prosecutor and the law."
Sima Guang said distressedly: "But the public security laws have to be implemented by people. I have to let those officials with good moral character and like-minded people to enforce the law, such as Fan Chunren and Su Shi. I can't directly order the local government to enforce the law."
The judiciary was changed to the public prosecutor's office.
At present, most local government offices are run by officials, and those officials do not receive salaries. If we continue to let them enforce the law, it will only destroy the law."
He was really in trouble. In fact, many officials in the DPRK and China questioned him: Your judicial reform took only a long time to be revised, but there are only two pilot projects outside, one in Dengzhou and the other in Yangzhou.
And you only sent two prosecutors there.
Can this oversee the New Deal?
In fact, the specific framework of the Public Security Bureau and the Procuratorate has already been formed, and coupled with the legal system, it is even more powerful.
But Sima Guang is a very traditional Confucian school. He attaches great importance to the moral aspect of officials and is very cautious in employing people.
Fu Bi nodded and said: "Yes, one of the reasons why the police can be successful is that they can get a stable income without having to exploit people to maintain their own livelihood."
Having said this, he comforted Sima Guang and said: "Take your time, lest you lose more than you gain."
Xiangguo Temple.
I saw an old monk with a white beard wearing a red cassock walking quickly towards a vegetable garden in the northwest corner.
Arriving in front of the vegetable garden, two young monks at the door immediately bowed to Buddha and said, "Abbot."
This white-bearded old monk is Huiming, the abbot of Xiangguo Temple.
Huiming said: "Where can we stop the quarrel?"
The two young novices looked at each other and then at Huiming.
Huiming closed his eyes and sighed: "I will come back in a quarter of an hour."
"yes."
As soon as Huiming left, a young novice came back into the vegetable garden.
After a short while, I saw a sedan hurriedly leaving the courtyard.
Not long after the sedan left, Huiming came to the vegetable garden again.
I saw a big monk with a fat head, big ears, big shoulders and a round waist, with a red face standing in the courtyard, clasping his hands together, "I have seen the abbot before."
This person is none other than Master Lu Binlu.
Huiming looked at Lu Bin and asked, "Are you still awake now?"
Lu Bin immediately said: "Awake up. Please come to the host room."
Standing in the courtyard, Huiming could smell the smell of alcohol and sex, "That's all, let's talk here. Do you know why I'm so anxious to find you?"
Lu Bin hesitated for a moment, "Recruitment method."
Huiming asked again: "What do you think?"
Lu Bin wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Abbott, I thought this money is not very much, so why bother to conflict with Wang Jiefu?"
Huiming frowned and said nothing.
Lu Bin scratched his bald head and said: "The recession is about to begin, and the people are in urgent need of food. Usually, food prices will rise at this time.
If we lower the price of grain and sell it, we will be able to harvest a large amount of copper coins in a short period of time. If we can also join forces with other large landowners to lower the price, then there will be a shortage of copper coins in the countryside. When the court collects the money for exemption from labor, it will be inevitable.
There will be problems.”
Huiming said: "I'll leave this matter to you."
"yes."
"I'm leaving first."
"Abbott, walk slowly."
Huiming walked to the door and suddenly turned around, "Don't hang out in the courtyard in broad daylight. It's not good for others to see you."
Lu Bin nodded and said, "Yes."
After Huiming left, Lu Bin scratched his bald head anxiously, "I'm already hiding in this temple, but I still can't do without these nonsense. Sigh."
With that said, he shouted outside again: "Yunyun! Yunyun!"
I saw a young novice come in and asked, "Master, what are your instructions?"
Lu Bin said: "Go and call that woman back quickly. I'm very angry today."
"yes."
Outer city, west of the city.
In a large house, there was only a crackling sound coming from inside.
This house was the ominous place where Zhang Fei originally rented it to live in, but was ambushed by Wang Wenshan.
Now this place has become the accounting department of Bianjing Law Firm. After all, there is a lot of money in the inner city, so the accounting department can only be moved to the outer city.
Although it is a law firm, the accounting department has become the most core department of the firm, because the most profitable business of the firm is tax calculation.
Now there are more than a hundred people.
Eighty percent of them were poached from the government as swordsmen and pen officials.
"Yu Jiang has met Sanlang, Yuan Yuan."
But I saw a middle-aged man about forty years old coming to the hall and bowing to Zhang Fei and Fan Li who were sitting in the seats.
"Mr. Yu, please sit down."
Zhang Fei stretched out his hand to lead him to the seat next to him.
"Thank you."
Yu Jiang sat upright, his posture was exactly the same as Sima Guang's.
Zhang Fei asked: "I heard that Mr. Yu served as a superintendent in Kaifeng County before?"
Yu Jiang nodded: "Exactly."
Zhang Fei asked again: "I wonder what Mr. Yu is responsible for?"
Yu Jiangdao: "Before I came down, I was responsible for determining the grade of households in the government office."
Zhang Fei asked curiously: "I heard that the bailiffs who do this work are all very rich. Why does Mr. Yu come to my place?"
A level determination may directly affect the life and death of the people. This kind of thing is very profitable, especially in Kaifeng Mansion, where you can live a very nourishing life by drinking some soup.
Yu Jiangdao: "I just don't want to join in with those people, so I am rejected by those people, so I choose to come here to do things."
Zhang Fei chuckled: "Mr. Yu, have you ever thought about revenge?"
Yu Jiang was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said, "I never thought about it."
Zhang Fei said: "What if I give Mr. Yu a chance to take revenge?"
Yu Jiangdao: "We just have different views and don't conspire with each other, but we have no grudges. Moreover, they don't get salaries. If they don't do this, how can they make a living? I won't do anything illegal."
Zhang Fei chuckled: "If breaking the law becomes a habit, then legality becomes illegal."
Yu Jiang looked at Zhang Fei confused.
Zhang Fei said: "You should know that the imperial court is going to promulgate a recruitment law recently."
Yu Jiang nodded.
Nowadays, reading newspapers has become an indispensable entertainment in the lives of literati.
Zhang Fei added: "At that time, the imperial court will re-evaluate people's household registration levels. Mr. Yu should know that there are many tricks in this kind of rating, and our firm will also start work in this area to ensure that people get a fair assessment.
At that time, I will set up a special team to handle this matter, and I plan to let Mr. Yu be the leader of this team. I wonder if Mr. Yu is willing?"
Yu Jiang frowned and said, "I would like to, but if I do this, I will offend a lot of people?"
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "I don't want to offend them, I want to eliminate them."