Starting from the second half of August, rumors of the Jin army going south began to circulate in Hebei.

It was not until August 22 that Zhaozhou detected traces of a large-scale Jin army and officially confirmed the Jin army's march south.

By August 27, the news reached Tokyo, and a heated debate quickly formed in the Tokyo court.

The topic of this debate was initially about how to fight, but after a few days, the topic suddenly changed.

The reason for the change of topic was that the Ministry of Household Affairs submitted a summary of the summer tax collection in the political hall.

It shows that summer tax collection on Jingdong East Road, Jingxi East Road, Jingxi North Road, Jingxi South Road, Shaanxi Road, Huainan East Road, and Huainan West Road has dropped by at least half compared with last year.

(The two taxes refer to the summer tax in the north and the autumn tax in the south. Some of the summer taxes and some of the autumn taxes in the Huaihe and Huaihe areas are levied)

And Hebei Road and Hedong Road were exempted from taxes for ten years by Zhao Guan's family.

This time it was a blast.

In previous years, the north could collect at least 17 million shi in taxes and grain, but the figure reported this year was actually only 800 shi.

Damn it, this data has traveled directly to the Chongzhen period?

On the first day of September, Huainan West Road transfer envoy Weng Yanguo's memorial also arrived in Tokyo.

This is a memorial that reads "concerned about the country and the people."

Weng Yanguo first stated the current people's livelihood on Huainan West Road. In one sentence: the people's hearts are uneasy.

Weng Yanguo then stated the current local security situation on Huainan Lower Road. In one sentence: Bandits are everywhere.

Immediately, Weng Yanguo stated the concerns of the local people with lofty ideals: the imperial system has collapsed internally, treacherous ministers are in power, barbarians are peering into the Central Plains externally, the people of the world are living in fire and water, and the country is in danger.

Finally, Weng Yanguo stated the situation about this tax collection: I am guilty of death, but I have tried my best, and I hope that your Majesty will grant me death.

The general content is these four points.

It was this memorial that shifted the court's attention from how to support the front line to the New Deal.

The "Gyeonggi Road New Agricultural Policy Regulations" were released on the sixth day of June, and it is already the beginning of September.

After three months, almost all the resistance on Gyeonggi Road was quickly suppressed.

Different from Wang Anshi's reform, this time the "Gyeonggi-Road New Agricultural Policy Regulations" were implemented by Zhao Guanjia personally behind the scenes, with speed, precision and ruthlessness.

But if the road to reform is so simple, wouldn't it mean that emperors of all dynasties could casually save a weakened dynasty?

The difficulty with reform is that it is easy to affect the whole body.

After the Gyeonggi Road was implemented, the impact it had was finally reflected in this summer tax collection.

The details are condensed in this memorial written by Weng Yanguo.

On the surface, this memorial talks about people's livelihood, but in fact, every item of this memorial alludes to the bad effects brought about by the Gyeonggi Road New Deal.

For example, the people's hearts are uneasy, which means that the imperial court randomly killed people on Gyeonggi Road, causing panic among the people.

For example, local people with lofty ideals are worried about the corruption of the government, treacherous ministers harming the country, and constant foreign troubles. This is a direct criticism of the New Dealers, especially Gao Qiu, Qin Hui and others, for flattering and exercising power, instituting large-scale prisons, and harming loyal people.

This memorial, coupled with the collection of taxes this summer, immediately made some people in the court find excitement.

Taxes could not be raised in the summer, and people's livelihood on Huainan Road was in dire straits. All the blame was directed at the New Deal in the three months of June, July, and August.

And in just a few days, they went from criticizing the New Deal to writing petitions hoping that Zhao Guan’s family would stop the New Deal.

Li Chunyou, the right minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said seriously: If the huge internal differences cannot be calmed down immediately and all parties are stabilized, it will bring huge harm to the anti-golden movement.

On the ninth day of September, the day after Han Shizhong on the Eastern Front had just annihilated Wan Yan Zongmin, Zhao Ning in Tokyo received a hundred memorials, all of which asked him to stop the New Deal.

Zhao Ning threw all these memorials on the ground and said angrily: "Write down the names of these officials. If they are officials in the capital, go and check their obvious property immediately!"

"If you are a local official, the Ministry of Revenue will send someone to check the local tax revenue!"

These hundred memorials are all under the banner of "anti-gold", which is really irrefutable!

Originally, public opinion in Gyeonggi Road had already made the new coup the most feared thing among gold thieves, but now, the direction of public opinion seems to have turned again.

It seems that the New Deal has become the biggest stumbling block to the "anti-gold movement" overnight, and must be dealt with quickly.

Zhao Ning had not only a hundred letters calling for the suspension of the New Deal, but also a hundred public sentiment surveys reported from various places by the Imperial City Bureau sent by Gao Qiu.

As well as the public sentiment survey reported by the Dongfu Zhongshu Provincial Department.

There are also surveys on public sentiment reported by the Shaanxi General Procurement and Construction Department and the Hebei and Hedong General Procurement and Procurement Department.

Judging from various indications, Weng Yanguo’s “little composition” had other motives.

It is a counterattack by the old forces.

Zhao Ning chopped up all the government and status households who resisted the New Deal on Gyeonggi Road like chickens and ducks, irritating the nerves of other landlords and squires.

It happened that the Jin army was about to move south. From this window, it was best to put pressure on Tokyo based on the panic among the people inside.

Weng Yanguo was not a treacherous and evil minister, but he clearly represented the interests of a group of people. On the surface, he was speaking, but behind the scenes it was Huainan West Road officials, landlords, and squires who were speaking.

Now it has caused a big discussion in the court.

Officials from various state governments on Jingxi East Road, Jingxi North Road, and Jingxin South Road successively submitted memorials.

Seeing that this matter continues to heat up.

Obviously, with the gold thieves going south, the pressure on the imperial court to resist the gold increased, and they were not afraid to confront the imperial court on this matter.

Mei, the Minister of Household Affairs, stood aside in silence for a moment, and then said: "The officials, why don't we stop the New Deal first to stabilize people's hearts, drive out the gold thieves, and then resume it again?"

"No! We must not stop it!" Zhao Ning said firmly, "You don't understand! This is a war! If I take one step back, they will take ten steps forward! If I abolish the New Deal, who will have the energy to come forward and preside over it in the future?

New Deal?”

"Have you remembered what I just said?" Zhao Guanjia turned around and stared at Mei Zhili sharply, "The Ministry of Household Affairs immediately sent someone to investigate! Investigate local taxation. If anyone dares to evade taxes or evade taxes, hand over all the lists to me.

!”

Mei Zhili immediately said: "Yes! I will go to Dongfu to discuss it with Mr. Zhao and get it done immediately."

After Mei went down with the ceremony, Zhao Ning turned around and summoned someone.

who?

Chen Guoting, the censor doctor.

Can this matter be solved by sending the household department to investigate?

Can't solve it!

Can you count on those officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs?

It's obviously enough.

"Official family."

"Have you heard about the northern summer tax?"

"I have heard a little bit about it."

"Okay, the censor station will be sent to various supervisory censors for me to check carefully to see who dares to evade taxes!"

"I'll do it now!"

It’s not over yet, can we just rely on local supervisory censors?

If possible, would the administration of the Song Dynasty have collapsed to such an extent?

Zhao Ning immediately announced to meet another person.

who?

Nie Chang!

What to do?

Form the Su Provincial Yuan and immediately send people to local governments to audit accounts in the name of anti-corruption and clean government!

Some time ago, Zhao Ding reported on the actual local situation after returning from Huainan. Didn't Zhao Ning already send people to Huainan to inspect the land in a low-key manner?

It's time to make progress.

In this case, it’s time for the anti-corruption departments to take action!

Are you playing tricks with me?

How to do it?
Chapter completed!