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Chapter 447: Hand over money and go to the countryside?

Although Xu Han is a little less capable, he is famous for being outspoken, responsible and public-spirited.

Such people may not have outstanding political achievements when placed in the position of ruler, but they can be objective and fair when dealing with many things.

It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and people are all selfish.

Officialdom, a place full of power and money, is the easiest place to magnify the evil of human nature.

Being able to keep your true heart in this kind of place is like having a knife hanging in your heart.

Just as Qin Hui said in very simple words: Although some people on the street are scolding Li Chunyou, Wang Shoude and others have misused power and ruined the country. If it were them, it might not be much better.

Zhao Ding and Xu Han were silent for a moment, and Xu Han said: "Your Majesty, the prince is kind and virtuous, but he is not good enough to take on a big responsibility."

"How do you say this?" Zhao Ning asked.

He actually already knew it in his heart, but he had to get the answer from Zhao Ding and Xu Han, and he had to let them say it.

The Wang Shoude incident is officially defined as collaboration with the enemy and treason, and the prince's involvement with Wang Shoude is unclear. If Zhao Chen is not dealt with, there will be no way to give an explanation to those who are promoting the New Deal in the world.

As an emperor, you must consider the emotions and thoughts of many forces.

Xu Han said: "The prince is frivolous and not worthy of ruling the world."

The last time he said something similar was Zhang Dun, the prime minister during the period of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty and his brother Zhezong of the Song Dynasty. Zhang Dun's original words were this: King Duan is frivolous and cannot rule the world.

King Duan here is talking about Zhao Ji.

But when Xu Han said that Zhao Chen was frivolous, the implication was obvious.

However, the frivolity of both parties may be different.

Zhao Ji is playful and likes playing chess, calligraphy and painting.

As for Zhao Chen, at best he is straightforward, but at worst he is impulsive.

Zhao Ning asked Zhao Ding again: "What does Mr. Zhao think?"

"I feel that it is not a bad thing for a young person to have an upright temperament, but today is different from the past, and the political situation between the government and the opposition is ups and downs. It is very dangerous for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to continue to be in the court."

Zhao Ning nodded.

The evaluations of these two people can be said to be very objective.

They did not say that the prince was on the side of the old party and therefore they wanted to depose him.

Xu Han described the prince's character from his behavior.

Zhao Ding believes that it is really not a big deal for young people to be upright.

But the current imperial court is not the imperial court during the Zhenzong and Renzong era. The current imperial court is more turbulent than the imperial court during the Shenzong era. The New Deal faction and the stubborn old faction are in a life-and-death situation.

All aspects of the world are innovating, and the turmoil in the future will only increase as the scope of the New Deal becomes larger.

In such a general environment, the fourteen-year-old and impulsive prince is not suitable to be within the scope of power.

Even if Your Majesty only gives him a position as head of the Ministry of Civil Affairs for him to experience, he will still be easily taken advantage of.

Zhao Ning was silent for a moment and said, "I already know what you two said."

After staying at Xu Han's house for a while, Zhao Ning got up and returned to the palace.

On the carriage back to the palace, Zhao Guanjia said to Zhao Ding: "When Xu Han becomes an official, who is suitable to be the Minister Youcheng?"

Zhao Ding said: "Qin Hui can do it."

"Why?"

"This man is decisive and prudent in his actions, and he is very popular among the people. Moreover, two months ago, he proposed to the minister that he should pay the money and go to the countryside."

Zhao Ning asked: "Pay the money and go to the countryside?"

Zhao Ding said: "Now the Seventh Road is implementing the new agricultural policy, which involves the renting of equal land. After renting the land, many people need money to buy farm tools and seeds. During this time, I went to the countryside of Yingtianfu for a special trip.

Now that agricultural policies are being fully deepened, the biggest obstacle is no longer the obstruction of court officials, but the actual sentiment of the people."

Zhao Ning immediately knew what Qin Hui wanted to do: provide loans to farmers.

How could the Zhao Guan family not think about this?

When Chen Dong was asked to deal with the clan's farmland on Gyeonggi Road, he had already considered it.

However, the time was not yet mature at that time. Qin Hui later mentioned it to him in private, but he did not agree at that time.

The reason for disagreement is also very simple. Wang Anshi’s Green Seedling Method failed first.

What is the specific content of Wang Anshi’s Green Miao Method?

Those who practice the Miao method use Changping Bianben as green seedling money and scatter it among households, so that the outgoing breath is divided into two parts, and the money is scattered in the spring and collected in the autumn.

This means that the imperial court will lend the grain from the Changping Division to the farmers at an interest rate of 20% when the crops are in decline to ease the public sentiment, and will collect it together when the agricultural tax is collected in the autumn.

Under what background did Wang Anshi propose the Green Seedling Method?

As we all know, the Song Dynasty’s century-old efforts to open up fertile farmland were unprecedented, so naturally the support for agriculture was also unprecedented.

Farmers need money to buy farm tools and seeds. Sometimes when there is a war, taxes are heavy and farmers go bankrupt and have to borrow money to live.

As a result, the private lending industry was very developed in the Song Dynasty.

And because of the serious land annexation in the Song Dynasty, most farmers were tenants, and tenants had more exchanges with landlords, so the main subjects of loans were landlords and tenants.

Landlords further exploited farmers through loans.

Wang Anshi believed that the imperial court could introduce loans to unify and regulate the market.

This would not only curb private usury, but also allow the grain stored in the Tiju Changping Division to become commodities, increasing revenue for the court.

It can enrich the country, reduce the pressure on the people, and achieve the goal of having enough money for the country without increasing taxes on the people.

So the Green Seed Law came out, and then the Green Seed Law failed.

Ultimately, the Green Crops Law was the first major breakthrough in agricultural financial credit in ancient China.

Although it failed, its significance was significant.

The most important reason for the failure of the Young Crops Law is also very simple: it is the poor who really need loans, and the government does not dare to lend food and money to the real poor on a large scale because it is worried that the loaned money will not be recovered.

The government wants to lend money to rich people, and rich people don't need loans.

Therefore, according to Huang Zongxi's Law, the Young Crops Law later turned into a kind of tax and was finally forced to stop.

Zhao Ning said: "What is the difference between Qin Hui's proposal of handing money to the countryside and Wang Jiefu's Green Crops Law?"

Zhao Ding said: "In the past, the Qingmiao Law was to convert the grain raised by the Changping Division into money and lend it to the people. The court actually took out the grain and converted it into money. If the people could not repay it, the court would suffer huge losses. But at this moment...

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Zhao Ning immediately asked: "How are you doing at this moment?"

Zhao Ding said in a firm tone: "At this moment, it is like private loans and banknotes, which are printed by the imperial court."

Zhao Ning silently explained to Mr. Zhao for a moment, Zhao Ding was a little nervous and said: "Your Majesty, if the bank comes to control the payment of banknotes into the countryside, firstly, the court does not need to really spend the cost, and secondly, by limiting the lending objects to farmers, more people can

The amount of money paid by the people will flow part of the wealth into the hands of farmers, which can ease the tension in the world."

"So you agree with Qin Hui's policy of paying money to the countryside?"

"I agree."

Zhao Ning really thinks that Zhao Ding is an excellent New Deal executor.

After the bank's new policy was stabilized, he originally planned to launch the next new agricultural loan policy, but he did not expect that Zhao Ding and Qin Hui had already thought of it in advance.

However, when Zhao Ding recommended Qin Hui, Zhao Ning couldn't help but sigh.

Qin Hui is not a good person!
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