Jiawu, the fourth month of the first year of Yuanyou.
Yesterday, the correct text was sent from the Secretary's supervision to the Prime Minister, the Six Ministers, and the Minister of the Capital.
When Sima Guang was in the Yamen, he got his share.
Opening the wooden box, there were stacks of papers lying inside.
Sima Guang picked it up, put it in his hand and looked at it carefully.
"Wen Kuanfu, an old man, still only knows how to flatter."
"Zhang Andao, this old fox!"
"Sun Yunzhong...how can he become so smooth?"
Sima Guang looked at the content of the duel between the elders and suddenly felt a little high blood pressure.
Because the three senators were all singing praises to the two palaces.
I dare to say anything explicit, and I am willing to say anything disgusting.
All the achievements of Zhang Dun's southern expedition will be attributed to the two palaces!
It’s really hateful!
It is enough to take Zhang Dun to the south and pretend to be a benevolent and righteous teacher.
Unexpectedly, he didn’t even mention the merits of today’s emperor.
Sima Guang took a sip of tea to calm down.
Looking at the duet written by Han Jiang and Lu Gong again, he felt a little relieved.
Especially when he saw Han Jiang in front of the emperor, speaking out about the problems encountered in the implementation of the Military Law and the Green Crop Law.
He nodded: "This Han Zihua is quite a gentleman. He doesn't hide his illness or avoid medical treatment."
His biggest dissatisfaction with Wang Anshi was that Wang Anshi simply could not listen to other people's opinions (from Sima Guang's perspective, Wang Anshi's perspective was a different matter).
As he continued to read, his brows furrowed again.
Especially when he saw that the Empress Dowager wanted to return to the police force, but was stopped by Han Jiang and Lu Gongzhu.
Sima Guang's blood pressure increased again.
What is the status of the Servant Law? Sima Guang knew it clearly in his heart.
During the Jiayou era, he was also a minister who loudly called for the reform of the police service law.
But the problem is that under the past draft law, only first- and second-class households suffered.
It will not affect other people, and it will not be like now, where everyone has to pay to be exempted from military service.
City households, single households, female households, monk households, and official households must pay taxes according to household class and property according to the requirements of the Service Exemption Law.
In Sima Guang's eyes, this was a variation of the Two Taxes Law of the Tang Dynasty.
When Yang Ren enacted the Two Taxes Law, he said that everything was included in the two taxes.
From now on, only two taxes will be collected. All the corvee and miscellaneous taxes will be included in the two taxes!
But what's the result?
The people's money was paid, but the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes that should be paid, and the corvee that should be performed, instead of decreasing, began to increase.
Therefore, Sima Guang's opposition to the immunity from service law was based on this lesson.
Although, since the Xining Reform, the local prefectures and counties in the Song Dynasty had received exemption money and hired people to serve, and it was rare to force people to serve.
However, the lessons learned from the two tax laws are still fresh in our minds.
Sima Guang has always insisted that if there is nothing now, it does not mean there will be nothing in the future.
Therefore, this hole must be blocked.
As for those first-class and second-class households who are suffering?
Sima Guang believed that they were originally wealthy people and their ability to bear was stronger than that of ordinary people.
So, just accept it as bad luck.
At least it's better than everyone having money now.
It is also better than in the future, if there is a bad king and there is not enough money to spend, the exemption money will be used to live and drink, and then change the trick to let the people continue to serve.
Moreover, Han Jiang said it.
Last year, the amount of exemption money was 18.72 million guan a year, but in the ninth year of Xining, the amount of immunization money for prefectures and counties in the world was only about 12 million guan.
In just eight or nine years, it increased by more than six million yuan.
This is the ironclad evidence that the government is knocking the bones and sucking out the marrow!
In particular, the surplus of millions of dollars in free service money every year is sent to the pile-sealing warehouse in Bianjing.
What kind of behavior is this?
In Sima Guang's view, it was simply the government that put money that originally belonged to the people into their own pockets.
There is a fixed amount of money in the world.
Now that the government has more than a few million guans every year, the people will naturally lose millions of guans.
The people have no money to begin with, and if they lose these millions of dollars, their lives will naturally become even more difficult.
With this thought in mind, Sima Guang continued to read.
Then, he saw the exchange between the emperor and Han Jiang, and the two palaces.
Sima Guang's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Using the Xiang army and wealthy households as a means of fighting, and using the method of ancestors to buy off government servants?"
"Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!"
He immediately praised it.
The Xiang Army was originally a product of the Song Dynasty's last resort, and it was a typical policy of spending money to eliminate disasters.
Therefore, Xiangjun is completely a big spender and a financial drain.
Not only that, Xiangjun is also a good place for many people to eat empty pay and drink the blood of soldiers.
As far as Sima Guang knew, there were Xiang armies in every state and county in the world.
Most of them are just sergeants who are trapped in the military camp and barely survive starvation.
Moreover, they have to be exploited at every level by local officials.
In local areas, it is very common to drive Xiang troops to camp, farm, and serve.
Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, no one would want to be a Xiang soldier if possible.
Those who were recruited into the Xiang Army were those who had suffered a disaster and had no choice but to survive.
In fact, the Song Dynasty has been trying every means to abolish the Xiang army.
However, the resistance up and down is very large!
Local officials are reluctant to use free labor.
The military ministers were reluctant to part with such a good errand who could comfortably earn an empty salary.
Therefore, it is very difficult to dismantle the Xiang army every time.
Now, the emperor has come up with such a brilliant plan.
It can be said that killing two birds with one stone can not only reduce the number of soldiers in the Xiang army, reduce expenditures, but also allow the soldiers who have been laid off to make a living.
Especially the emperor’s sentence: Take it from the people and use it for the people.
Sima Guang was very excited.
"This is what the Holy Emperor should do!" Sima Guang murmured, feeling full of energy.
Since I got seriously ill at the beginning of the year, my willpower, which has been depressed, has started to rejuvenate.
…
That night, the detailed process of the official imperial edict against the prime minister had almost spread throughout Bianjing City.
The nobles in Bianjing City became excited after finding out the contents through various channels.
"This is the Holy Emperor!"
Countless people are convinced and extremely satisfied.
That's...why do the officials want to put the pilot project on Jingdong Road?
Do those guys on Jingdong Road deserve to enjoy such a good policy first?
Pooh!
I don’t even urinate and look at myself.
Just a group of country guards (the slang term for "donkey" in the Song Dynasty)!
so……
“We must not let the pilot fall to JD.com!”
The nobles of the Song Dynasty may not know how to fight, but they know how to make money.
Any profitable business, as long as it is discovered by them, they will never let it go.
To them, the idea proposed by the officials was almost the same as giving them money to spend.
It doesn't require any effort or effort.
As long as the so-called Dou Niu is established, then rely on one's own connections and familiarity with Bianjing.
It's easy to earn thousands of dollars a year casually.
The key is that this business is long-lasting, stable, and can be passed down to future generations!
If you calculate it this way, this transaction is comparable to buying land.
It may even be more cost-effective than buying land.
After all, after buying land, you still have to hire tenant farmers to work it, and it depends on God’s face.
Especially the land along the Yellow River may be flooded and buried by sand that day.
But this business guarantees harvests despite droughts and floods.
As long as the family can still gain a foothold in Bianjing City, it will still be a member of the noble family.
Don't worry about no profit.
After these people reacted, they immediately began to take action.
On the one hand, he continued to encourage the wife of the family to enter the palace and behave in front of the two palaces.
On the other hand, they continue to build momentum among the public.
After a few days, even the children in Bianjing City knew that the imperial court was preparing a good law that would benefit the country and the people.
Just waiting for the capital to come to an agreement, then the good days for the people of Bianjing are about to come.
