Chapter 556 Jinghu Suggestion

When you come, you have to do things, and when there are too many people, there will be confusion. It is not easy to cause partiality in Zhao Xu's place. The internal affairs are open and the affairs are fair. It is fair whether there is a younger brother or not. In this way, the emperor and his ministers can trust each other.

Therefore, Zhao Xu was not interested in the impeachment of the imperial censor at all. It is also my private person.

Su You didn't defend himself. Now he could be said to be as stable as Mount Tai. As long as he didn't stir up trouble, he was basically in an invincible position.

Because the thunderbolt barrel was successfully bored.

When Shi Fu arrived, the reform of the Thunderbolt gun's rear loading method was put on the agenda.

The previous thunderbolts were of the Ming Dynasty's style of a mother-and-child gun. The child guns were loaded from above and did not fit tightly. Suyou simply added a screw bottom plug behind it to provide a slow-fire mode.

With the work of Shi Fu, a master craftsman, and the three mathematicians Chen Zhaoming, Couro, and Alp, as well as the loading methods he knew from later generations, the design of the breech-loading gun's breech was put on the agenda.

After this transformation, the mother blunderbuss became a barrel cannon of later generations, and the child blunderbuss was transformed into a cannonball with a primer. The appearance of the thunderbolt blunderbuss on the drawing is getting closer and closer to that of later Italian cannons.

In the court, three new laws were introduced one after another. One was unanimously praised, one did not attract everyone's attention, and the other aroused great controversy.

"Law on the Abolition of Clan and Appointment of Officials", "Treaty on Farmland Interests", and "Law on Young Crops".

The "Law on the Abolition of Clan and the Appointment of Officials" was a ground-breaking act on Tai Sui's head. Wang Anshi did not hesitate to attack the royal family first to declare his determination to unswervingly promote the reform.

The problem of excessive appointment of officials to relatives of the emperor has plagued the Song Dynasty for decades.

The rulers of the Song Dynasty treated the royal family very well. As long as they were members of the Zhao royal family, regardless of whether they had real talent or knowledge, they could be "ranked high nobility and placed in important positions" by virtue of their bloodline and enjoy high official status and generous salaries.

Especially members of the royal family can be "named and appointed officials" starting from the age of seven, and even infant babies are appointed as imperial officials.

After they grew up, they were promoted quickly. "From the beginning, they eliminated the junior generals and moved to Jiedu envoys seven times, so they became custom-made."

The "Law on the Appointment of Officials in the Clan" formulated by Wang Anshi clearly stipulates that each descendant of the three clans of Zhao Hongyin, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi can only reserve one quota in each generation, and select a virtuous person as a duke, and all other dukes will be abolished.

In addition, clan children outside the fifth server will no longer be given names, officials, and enjoy special treatment from state subsidies. From now on, clan clan children must pass examinations and selections before they can serve as officials.

After the promulgation of these regulations, the imperial government's financial expenditure was reduced by nearly 40%, and the results were very significant.

However, Wang Anshi's suppression and reform of the royal family seriously damaged the vested interests of the royal family members.

These people did not dare to argue with Zhao Xu. After some conspiracy, the descendants of the clan collectively guarded Wang Anshi's only way to go to court. They swarmed up and stopped in front of Wang Anshi's horse, shouting and crying: "We are all descendants of the ancestral temple.

I tell my husband to look at the face of our ancestors."

Wang Anshi was unmoved and shouted righteously and sternly: "Even if our ancestors are far away for generations, they still have to move out of their ancestral temples, let alone you!"

These pampered dragons and phoenixes cried and had no choice but to disperse, but their hatred for Wang Anshi remained buried in their hearts.

However, this clan reform has rarely received widespread praise. Even Fu Bi, Sima Guang and others believed that this move won the hearts of the people and expressed their firm support.

Su Shi even spoke highly of it with the words "careful and far-sighted, caring for the people".

When the clan members were in mourning, Su You took action.

Su You wrote that not all the clan members were parasites, and those with a middle-class status would not have much of a problem managing a workshop.

What they need is professional skills and professionalism.

If any of the descendants of the royal family are willing to engage in science and engineering, they can come to Songyang Academy for employment training, and then be appointed according to their ability, and become management talents for many industries of the royal family in the future.

Zhao Xu breathed a sigh of relief, as the scholar-bureaucrats' praise was of no use. The pressure exerted on him by the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager in the harem was almost too much for him to withstand.

With a wave of his hand, why go to Songyang Academy? We might as well establish a Royal Institute of Technology in Beijing!

The Royal Institute of Technology was designed to solve the re-employment problem of clan disciples and help the Song Dynasty cultivate talents with practical knowledge. However, Zhao Xu named one person and named Su Xiaomei the Queen of Huarong County, and she was appointed as the Royal Institute of Technology.

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The psychological shadow left by the past is too big!

While everyone was focusing on the "Young Crops Law", Su You focused on the "Farmland Interest Treaty".

This is a tailor-made way for promotion and wealth in Sichuan. Support it, support it strongly!

There had been commotion before, and Zhao Xu issued an edict: "The road supervisors are visiting Xunzhou and counties to revive water conservancy. If they can try to induce the construction of ponds and weirs and polders, and the benefits are practical, they should be discussed and favored."

Then he learned about Gao Fu in Tangzhou and was given an imperial edict. Because in the five years he stayed in Tangzhou, he increased the number of households by 1,000 yuan, created more than 30,000 hectares of farmland, earned taxes of 22,000 yuan per year, and built forty Piyans.

There are four.

The Treaty on Farmland Interests stipulates that both officials and citizens, as long as they are familiar with agricultural farming technology or water conservancy project construction technology, can state their opinions to governments at all levels.

After consultation by officials at all levels, or after clear inspection by personnel sent by the central government, if it is indeed beneficial to agricultural production, these people's opinions will be implemented immediately by the state and county governments.

After the project is completed, those who express their opinions will be given certain rewards based on the utility of the water conservancy project.

Those who bring great profits will be hired by the government based on their talents.

Each state and county conducts detailed surveys and maps of abandoned fields within their jurisdiction, as well as water conservancy projects that need to be dredged or can be constructed, such as pit ponds and weirs, and draw maps. At the same time, they formulate specific construction plans and submit them to the higher-level bureaucratic government for approval.

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For issues that cannot be dealt with by one state or county, one can state one's views and let the court handle them;

For each project, work and materials are allocated according to the level of each household. If the local government cannot build a certain water conservancy project due to lack of financial resources, the first-level transportation department will lend a certain amount of money to young people;

If road-level financial resources are insufficient, fund-raising methods can also be used, allowing some wealthy landlords to lend money to the poor, paying a certain amount of interest as usual, and the government is responsible for urging the landlords;

If private individuals can contribute money to build water conservancy projects, they will be rewarded by the government depending on their utility.

This method is great, especially for merchants in Sichuan.

The people of Shuzhong have been trained in the maintenance of the Dujiangyan water conservancy project for thousands of years, and coupled with the large-scale terrace building movement for more than ten years, now the engineering technology is developed, the methods are scientific, and the machinery is advanced.

We all know what you said!

As soon as the regulations came out, countless engineering teams immediately went down the Yangtze River under the guise of seeking political achievements for various states and counties. They colluded with Wuzhong merchants and Jinghu local tigers early on to occupy the north and south roads of Jinghu.

Favorable areas.

Su You wrote a memorial, indicating that farmland and water conservancy are the foundation of the country. This is a plan to increase revenue and benefit future generations.

The Song Dynasty also had a huge area surrounding Dongting, Pengli Lake and the surrounding watershed areas, the land of ancient Chu, known as Zeguo.

The land is currently underdeveloped and half of it is occupied by primitive wilderness and crocodiles.

There is a lot of miasma in the area. After research, it was found that the so-called miasma is actually caused by mosquitoes. To be precise, it is malaria.

The weapons inspector has now developed a miracle drug called artemisinin, which is a good way to resist malaria.

In addition, a simple contraption, a mosquito net, was invented to protect against mosquitoes.

The local climate is particularly suitable for growing rice, and water transportation is convenient.

If it is managed properly, it will be transferred northward and it will be another Jianghuai.

The manpower to develop the land can be drawn from the imperial army in Weizhou, Hebei, and Beijing to form an army to station the food in the fields.

Anyone who has meritorious service and is old enough to retire has a military rank or above and can serve as the backbone;

As for the soldiers, they were those who were too old to retire, those who were disabled and unable to stay in the army for a long time, or the fifth-class households and customers in the areas where annexation was serious, as well as the refugees who had been accommodated by the imperial court in the past.

The required funds and grain were donated by wealthy merchants from various places, and the new land was distributed in the proportion of 20% going to the merchants, 30% going to government land, and 50% being used to house the military.

All land is exempted from tax for five years, which is used to build families for soldiers and merchants to invest in.

Officials to be elected from various walks of life who are willing to serve will be allowed to accompany the army and serve as managers.

After five years, these people will automatically be transferred to household registration, establish counties and armies, and these candidates for election will automatically be transferred to local county magistrates and supervise the army.

The prominent figures in the middle are promoted according to the "Farmland Interest Treaty".

Wang Anshi was overjoyed to receive the report, and then he was shocked and called Su You over: "Mingrun, this is a bit whimsical, isn't it?"
Chapter completed!