After this legislative session, there are more than thirty pages in the "Laws of the Song Dynasty". This is the embodiment of the rule of law, and it will only become thicker and thinner.
During this period, Zhang Fei actually did not participate too much, just like he did not participate too much in legislation before, even though Fu Bi wanted him to participate more.
But he always said that he lacked experience.
This is really not modesty, but a fact. In terms of specific legislation, he is far inferior to Sima Guang and Fan Chunren.
He just adheres to the concept of the rule of law. In the past, he still needed to remind everyone, but now there is no need, because he is the president of the court. If the law is enacted and does not adhere to the concept of the rule of law, he can directly veto it.
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However, this legislation did not give Zhang Fei many opportunities to express himself. It is precisely because Zhang Fei repeatedly emphasized the concept of legality in the past. This time when they were legislating, they did not touch this warning line and were already aware of it.
to comply.
This is a very good phenomenon.
In addition, this legislative session has also invisibly resolved the partisan dispute that was about to revive.
The legislation can be successful because ministers representing various ideals have reached a consensus on a certain point.
Take Ding You for example.
Wang Anshi's faction was very opposed to forcing Ding You, not because of filial piety, Wang Anshi was also very filial, but because Ding You conflicted with their governing philosophy.
Conservatives, on the other hand, emphasize filial piety.
The conflict of interests between the two parties is that if Ding You is abolished, but the conservatives all flaunt themselves with morality, they will definitely ask for Ding You, while some of the reformists may not be willing to go to Ding You, so in terms of promotion, the conservatives will
Suffer.
In fact, both parties have taken a step back. Dingyou still exists, but the form has changed from punishment to encouragement. It is certain that even if I go to Dingyou, it will not hinder my promotion and salary.
At the same time, three years was shortened to a hundred days.
After this legislative assembly, everyone's thoughts were still focused on the plan to destroy the Liao Dynasty. On the one hand, they promoted taxation and currency in the northern border to confuse the Liao Kingdom, and on the other hand, they launched a war against the Li Dynasty.
The person who fired the first arrow turned out to be the Taxation Department of Yongzhou.
At present, the most elite tax departments are located in the far south, because many states and counties here adopt the levy system. There are many local chiefs and village owners. Not only do they not have to pay taxes, but they also control the local tax administration. They are the local emperors here.
Because places like Yongzhou are really full of mountain roads with eighteen bends, which are very suitable for small-scale separatist rule.
When the public prosecutors first came here, they only focused on towns and businesses, and ignored the rest. Even if the chief wanted to use the death penalty, they pretended not to see it.
It was the Department of Taxation that broke the deadlock.
The tax police who were suppressing bandits on Jingdong East Road were gradually transferred here.
They came here to make a fortune, and after lurking here for two or three years, they began to tax these great chiefs.
The big chiefs here are much more ruthless than the big landowners and powerful people in the Central Plains. They have soldiers and horses, not just a few servants.
If you want to tax them, you have to ask the sword in their hand whether they will answer.
In fact, it has been very uneventful here in recent years.
The chiefs fought fiercely with the tax department, resulting in numerous casualties and even ransacked homes several times.
The government didn't care, and the imperial army led by Guo Kui also ignored it. They were only responsible for guarding the border.
Everyone performs their duties.
But in the end it was the Taxation Department that won a decisive victory.
This mainly depends on the different mentality of the two parties. The tax department only takes lives to make money. If the law is removed, there is actually no difference between them and robbers.
But for those great chiefs, they only pay 20% tax at most. Is it worth it to work hard for this money?
The main reason is that in the beginning, they did not believe in evil, until they discovered that these are not tax police, they are clearly a group of desperadoes, and they will kill all your villages directly.
Moreover, these tax policemen are getting stronger as they fight, because in this environment, more desperadoes will appear, and unruly people will appear in poor mountains and rivers. They will join the tax police one after another and rob in accordance with the law. Is there anything more exciting than this?
Many chiefs even joined forces to protect themselves, but they still could not defeat them.
Although neither the government nor the imperial army intervened, the weapons and equipment of the Nima Taxation Department were all provided by the government, including a large number of firearms. This is definitely an attempt to go astray.
The key point is that you can't sue the officials. If they do, the officials will ask them a few questions: Have they received tax bills? Have they paid taxes in accordance with the law? Why do you use force to prevent the tax department from enforcing the law?
In the end, the chiefs, who cherished their lives, chose to pay taxes in accordance with the law.
Since you have all paid taxes, what reason do you have for not abiding by the public prosecutor's law? Besides, only our Royal Police can protect you from being bullied by the tax department.
In fact, it was the Taxation Department who first broke the situation and broke the local supervision system, and then the public security system was slowly established in the local area.
As these areas become more stable, problems also arise one after another. Where should the elite tax department go?
They could only ask them to collect taxes next door, because the Li Dynasty secretly encroached on the territory of the Song Dynasty. The tax department immediately entered the next door to collect taxes without saying a word. Naturally, they burned, killed, and looted.
Li Chao was dumbfounded when he heard the news. You Song people came to my house to collect taxes. Are you crazy?
Besides, this kind of behavior has always been our job. When did you learn it?
So, they quickly sent people to Yongzhou to negotiate.
In fact, Li Chao originally wanted to go to war with the Song Dynasty, but due to the recent counterattack by the Champaign State, they wanted to regain their territory.
For the Li Dynasty, the Champa State was obviously more important, so they wanted to clean up Champa first and then go to war with the Song Dynasty. They did not use force directly, but sought a diplomatic solution. They once suspected that this was a misunderstanding because it was too
Unbelievable, are they the bandits coming from the other side?
As a result, Guo Kui said, "That's all our territory. Our tax police collect taxes in our territory. Isn't this normal?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After some negotiations, the Li Dynasty also understood that the Song Dynasty was provoking trouble, and it was because of the support of the Song Dynasty that the Champa State dared to take the initiative to attack.
As a result, Li Chao immediately sent troops.
As a result, the vanguard army was completely wiped out by the tax police in the first battle.
Not only the generals of the Li Dynasty could not recover, but also the generals of the Forbidden Army who were watching at the border were deeply ashamed.
Only the chiefs were shouting, "Okay, okay, good, good, good, fuck, don't stop."
They suddenly became much more balanced and couldn't even defeat the Li Dynasty's regular army, so our loss was not unjust and not embarrassing at all.
Only Guo Kui knew very well that this was no accident.
This is because this group of tax policemen outperforms the National Forbidden Army in every aspect, and may not be as good as the heavy armored cavalry that the Song Dynasty had just established in the northern border.
Because these tax policemen not only received funding from the court, but also had money themselves, so their equipment and swords were all made with their own money. They did not want the inferior goods given by the court and directly asked for discounts.
Of course, the Li Dynasty sent regular troops, and the Song army could not watch from the sidelines. Guo Kui led 50,000 forbidden troops, crossed the temporary border of the country, and began to fight against the Li Dynasty.
However, the situation deviated from Guo Kui's expectation. The tax department was so capable that they attracted the main force of the Li Dynasty, allowing the main force of the Song army to regain many towns relatively easily.
Li Chao suddenly panicked. Are you serious? As the situation changed, Li Chao was forced to mobilize the main force from Champa to go north. After all, Champa was not fatal, but the Song Dynasty was here to claim lives.
At this point, the war between the Song Dynasty and the Li Dynasty broke out in full force.
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Zhang family.
"I didn't expect that those tax policemen were so powerful. They were able to annihilate the Li Dynasty's vanguard army by themselves. It's incredible."
Xu Lingxiao took the newspaper and sighed: "No wonder everyone has been paying taxes honestly recently, and no one dares to challenge the tax department anymore."
"so so!"
Zhang Feiyun smiled lightly, but focused on the newspaper in the newspaper courtyard, saying: "Father-in-law, uncle, is it my literary talent that is too low, or is it that the words in this newspaper are really inferior to
It was more polished and clear before.”
Xu Zun chuckled and said: "You just realized it now. It is said that the characters currently used by Di Bao Yuan were written by Huang Tingjian of Di Bao Yuan in Dengzhou. This person also became famous among scholars because of the fonts on Di Bao Yuan.
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In addition, I also heard that Di Newspaper Institute invented a printing tool that can print faster and clearer. Oh, it seems that it has also applied for an incentive law. In the future, if your official bookstore wants to use this printing tool,
You still have to pay.”
"Yeah?"
Zhang Fei looked forward to it and said, "I want to see this."
At this moment, I suddenly heard a quarrel coming from outside the hospital, "Xiaosi, don't be stingy, let me take a look first."
"I just bought it, I didn't even look at it myself."
"Don't you have Xiaotao? Let's see what this does."
"You...don't talk nonsense."
It was the voices of Niu Beiqing and Li Si.
"What are they two arguing about?"
Zhang Fei muttered something, then got up and came to the courtyard. He saw Li Si lying on Niu Beiqing's broad back, shaking his short legs, and digging hard into Niu Beiqing's arms with both hands.
"What are you doing?" Zhang Fei stepped forward.
"Third brother."
Li Sigang hurriedly jumped off Niu Beiqing's back, ran over again, and said aggrievedly: "Third brother, please take care of Daniel. Let him snatch the album I just bought."
Niu Beiqing hurriedly said: "Borrow it! I'll borrow it directly! I didn't steal it."
Li Sidao: "I told you not to borrow it, and you still want it. You are robbing me."
"okay!"
Zhang Fei hooked his hand and said, "Bring the album."
Niu Beiqing depressedly handed the album to Zhang Fei.
Zhang Fei opened it and took a look, and immediately took a breath of air, but saw that the picture album showed a young woman, half-covered by a gauze veil, looming, the key is that it is in color, it looks very exciting!
Niu Beiqing came over and said hehe: "Sanlang, don't you feel good looking at it?"
"It's nice...it's nice for you."
Zhang Fei closed the album and asked, "Who painted this?"
Li Si immediately said: "This is not a painting, this is a seal."
"Printed?"
"Um."
Li Si nodded and said: "This is the latest picture album published by Feng Yue Bao. The eight great courtesans in Bianjing. The third brother just saw Liu Xixi from Deyuelou."
Zhang Fei said: "But this is in color?"
Li Sidao: "It is said that this is Fengyue Bao's latest invention. They have prepared four more colors specifically for printing."
Zhang Fei nodded, "That's it."
Then he handed the album to Li Si and said to Niu Beiqing: "Daniu, go buy one yourself."
Niu Beiqing said: "All are sold out."
Zhang Fei said: "Tell me your name."
"That's okay"
Niu Beiqing suddenly turned from worry to joy.
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The technology tree of the Song Dynasty was all about printing. Technology in this area was advancing by leaps and bounds. There was no other reason than to make money!
However, it also feeds back into other industries, especially smelting. Currently, copper and lead smelting all come from the printing industry.
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Di newspaper courtyard.
"I heard that you came up with this printing machine?"
Zhang Fei looked at the big iron screw next to him and asked a craftsman in his thirties.
The craftsman said hurriedly: "Yes."
Zhang Fei asked curiously: "How did you come up with it?"
The craftsman said: "Replying to the president, I saw my wife tying one end of the sheet to a tree when she was wringing out the sheets. Although she was very weak, she could still wring them out, so I thought of using this method.
By pressing the plate in a different way, just by moving the wooden handle a few times, one person can print it."
"Twist the sheets?"
Zhang Fei smiled and nodded: "It's interesting. The majority of this year's charity foundation bonus will definitely be yours."
"Oh! Thank you, Chief Justice. Thank you, Chief Justice." The craftsman was immediately overjoyed.
Wang Anshi on the side chuckled: "If the chief judge thinks this, can he apply for the incentive law?"
Zhang Fei nodded and said: "Of course. Especially this device, I think it can be used for many designs that need to be fixed, such as our artillery, wheels, etc. I suggest not to apply with a printing press, but with this
If you install it and apply, you should be able to make a lot of money."
This is actually the principle of screws, but it may take time to use them on a large scale, because they are forged and then carefully polished. When used for printing, no matter how high the cost is, it is still very cost-effective, but for
This may not be the case in other aspects.
Isn't it nonsense to spend a month polishing a small screw and then use it on the door? The screw is more expensive than the door.
"You are truly worthy of being the president of the court. Your vision is extraordinary!"
Wang Anshi's eyes lit up, and he added: "It's really not easy. Our business office has managed to make a name for itself, so that we won't be humiliated by those businessmen every day. We get a printed tax coin and have to give them money."
In the end, he is arrogant and advocates the centralization of power by the government. He is actually very concerned about the government's inability to win over businessmen.
Zhang Fei said: "You have to continue to give me this money!"
Wang Anshi said: "Are you referring to the color printing of Feng Yue Bao?"
Zhang Fei nodded and said: "If tax coins are printed in this color, it will be even more difficult to imitate."
Wang Anshi sighed: "Why didn't we think of using color printing before?"
Zhang Fei said: "It proves that you are not working hard enough and treating the craftsmen well enough. As long as you slow down for this kind of thing, you can get more money, haha!"
Wang Anshi nodded and said: "You are right. Ever since the incentive law was introduced, no matter how many newspapers and periodicals are printed, there is still no way to make money. The bamboo paper businessman has now become one of the richest men in Jiangnan. It has only been a few years.
From now on, as long as they invent technology and apply for incentive laws and licensing fees, they will get half of the points."
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "This may not be enough. I heard that at Feng Yue Bao, the craftsmen take 70%."
According to the incentive law, the creations made by craftsmen at work belong to the merchant. This 70% belongs to the agreement between the merchant and the craftsman, not the incentive law.
"Seventy percent?"
Wang Anshi was surprised and said: "So many?"
Zhang Fei said: "Forcing our genuine bookstore to give 70%. Alas..."
roll!
After the introduction of this incentive law, every company is involved.
Wang Anshi sighed: "It's better to achieve 70% than to pay."
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "I think so too."
The craftsmen nearby have all pricked up their ears. The spring for us craftsmen is coming. If we come up with an invention, we can earn more than the merchants.
After wandering around the workshop, the two came to the lounge again. Wang Anshi said: "Did you read the article about the Taxation Department?"
Zhang Fei nodded with a smile and said: "This is the best publicity for the Taxation Department. Even the territory controlled by the other party can raise taxes. Who dares to evade taxes?"
Wang Anshi laughed and said, "That's exactly what I meant!"
After a pause, he continued: "It is precisely because of this that the imperial court is now considering whether to destroy the Li Dynasty in one go."
Zhang Fei said: "I don't think it's necessary."
Wang Anshi asked: "Why?"
Zhang Fei said: "We can compare Xihe and Xixia. The Xihe area was captured in one go, but within a few years after it was captured, the court still had to pay four million guan every year, and rebellions continued during this period, but there was no such thing in Xixia
this problem.
The reason is very simple, that is, our most powerful weapon is not artillery or crossbows, but our system and ideas. If we conquer purely by force, the other party will just be unconvinced by words. If we are slightly negligent, they will rebel.
But combining the system to attack, although it takes a long time, they are all convinced, so there will not be too much rebellion, but it can save us a lot of money, which will gradually erode away, and the expenditure can be controlled within an acceptable range.
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Wang Anshi nodded slightly and said, "That makes sense."
Zhang Fei added: "The most important thing is that all this is just to confuse the Liao Kingdom. This kind of gradual encroachment can also allow us to move forward and retreat freely, instead of getting stuck in it."
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In terms of publicity, Wang Anshi is undoubtedly Zhang Fei's chief disciple. This article about the Taxation Department was written by him personally.
The effect is naturally extraordinary. The tax department can suppress bandits, but it can even collect taxes from other regimes. This is simply incredible.
With such publicity, everyone is convinced by the Taxation Department.
No one dares to confront the Tax Department again.
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The Song Dynasty did not shy away from publicizing the achievements of the Taxation Department on the territory of the Li Dynasty. Of course, the Liao Kingdom also learned about the war between the Song Dynasty and the Li Dynasty, and was immediately ecstatic. It had lost Yunzhou and Xixia before, which made the Liao Kingdom once
I was very nervous and a little at a loss as to why the previously weak Southern Dynasty suddenly became so capable of fighting with this strange attack and defense.
Judging from the situation at that time, the Song Dynasty would definitely continue to move north. After all, the Song Dynasty had already enacted legislation to include all the sixteen states of Yanyun into the Song Dynasty's territory, so the Liao Kingdom adopted a comprehensive defensive posture.
As a result, it was suddenly heard that the Song Dynasty came to fight against the Li Dynasty.
Everyone in the Liao Kingdom breathed a sigh of relief, so now the Liao Kingdom is also faced with a choice, whether to take advantage of the opportunity to attack, or to repair internal affairs first.
There are also many controversies in China.
Waging war externally can also divert internal conflicts.
However, since the main force of the Song Army in the north was motionless, the Liao Kingdom still felt that they should focus on internal affairs first, because they knew that annihilating the Song Dynasty had not been possible before, let alone now, and with the current morale of the Song Dynasty
It seems that even if it achieves partial victory, the Song Dynasty will not compromise.
The Liao Kingdom has just experienced a huge internal strife. After all, Yelu Yixin has been in power for more than ten years. There are too many party members in the DPRK and China, and the internal affairs are very unstable. Once a war starts, let alone winning or losing, even if they do not get enough benefits, the internal affairs will be unstable.
There may be unrest.
Before that, spies from the Liao Kingdom had found out why the Song Dynasty suddenly became so rich and powerful. The reason was the public security law and tax coins.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In fact, the spies of the Liao Kingdom were very powerful. Although the Song Dynasty continued to promote tax coins, they were not fooled. In the letter sent back to the country, they still emphasized
The judicial reform of the Song Dynasty.
It's just that these spies are not very clear about the internal relationship between judicial reform and tax currency.
However, the minister of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Liang, the most trusted minister around Yelu Hongji, saw the key. He believed that the public prosecutor and the procuratorate were the key.
However, after some discussion, both the wise ministers and the powerful people believed that the public security law was not suitable for the Liao Kingdom.
First of all, it took the Song Dynasty ten years to perfect the public security system. Do we have so much time?
Secondly, our country has large tracts of grassland and not so many towns. How much role can the public security and procuratorate play?
Finally, they still have many tribes that control local justice, finance, and military affairs. Unlike the Song Dynasty, they were almost all magistrates of prefectures and counties. How to make them abide by the public prosecutor's law.
The national conditions of the two countries are very different, and we cannot copy everything.
However, Yeluliang still believes that without strict laws, tax currency may be difficult to control.
In the end, they came to a conclusion, which was not to reform the judicial system, but to use traditional methods to strictly enforce the law.
At the same time, instead of hastily issuing tax coins, Xizhou's tokens were adopted.
This kind of token is issued in major trading centers for everyone to use for transactions, and a 3% handling fee is charged.
Then, use this to slowly promote banknotes.
But the success of the Xihe area lies in their control of the hard currency of trade such as tea and silk. However, the Liao Kingdom has now cut off contact with the Song Dynasty and has no annual coins, so what can it use to endorse it.
So they chose to contact the Khitan merchants on Taohua Island, and then opened their own seaport, but under official control. In this way, they could secretly maintain trade with the Song Dynasty, and secondly, they could penetrate into Taohua Island and gradually gain control over Taohua Island.
Control of the island.
They sent out troops several times, but they couldn't defeat them. They couldn't defeat them hard, so they had to use soft methods.
After all, many of those smugglers are Khitan people. We are one family. It was just a misunderstanding before. We also give the merchants enough attention and freedom.
It can be seen that there are still many capable and virtuous ministers in the Liao Kingdom. They did not directly copy everything, but carried out reforms based on their own national conditions and were very striving for stability.
News about the Liao Kingdom soon spread to Bianliang, Tokyo.
Zhao Xu was greatly disappointed by this, "It seems that the Liao Kingdom was not fooled."
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, as long as we use banknotes, no matter what method we use, we will get what we want."
Zhao Xu had some doubts about this, "Is it just because they did not implement the public security law?"
Zhang Fei nodded.
Zhao Xu asked curiously: "Are the public security law so important to tax coins?"
Zhang Fei did not answer but asked: "What do you think of the ability of the three envoys in using tax coins?"
Zhao Xu said: "Very good."
Zhang Fei said: "But in fact, when the three envoys were in Hezhong Mansion, they also caused the salt banknotes to flood. I just went there not long ago, and I tried several lawsuits about the salt banknotes. In the end, the court had to pay money to maintain the credibility of the salt banknotes.
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The Third Secretary is so good at using tax coins, why would he still make such a mistake? Doesn’t the Third Secretary know that issuing salt banknotes indiscriminately is not good for salt merchants and banknote merchants? Of course the Third Secretary knows, but what the Third Secretary does
What we protect is finance, not the interests of salt merchants and banknote merchants.
Even after I established the Public Security Bureau in Hezhong Prefecture, Prosecutor General Su continued to spend a lot of manpower and material resources investigating the issuance of salt banknotes and salt bonds every year.
If it weren't for Chief Prosecutor Su, Hezhong Prefecture would definitely be overcharged after the expansion of Xihe River, even if Bachelor Yuan and Magistrate Cai are extremely capable.
In fact, this has nothing to do with ability or morality, because the emergence of the Public Security Bureau, the Procuratorate, and the Procuratorate only draws a bottom line. In other words, without the Public Security Procuratorate and the Procuratorate, there would be no such bottom line. Everything is done according to the needs of the country. It is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
Overshooting is inevitable.
Your Majesty, please rest assured that the Liao Kingdom has already stepped into the abyss, but it will be a little later than we imagined."
Zhao Xu frowned, "If what you say is right, is it the same for me in the Song Dynasty? Once the public security laws are destroyed, tax money will drag us down into the abyss."
Zhang Fei said confidently: "We will definitely get it. Xixia and Liao will show us the consequences of our mistakes one after another. Your Majesty just needs to learn lessons from them."