Chapter 582: The great monk’s money is divided into three to seven accounts
Wen Yanbo and Han Jiang were talking, and Feng Jing, who was sitting next to him, was carefully observing the situation behind the curtains in the hall with the corner of his eye.
Because he found that Empress Dowager Xiang seemed to have said something to the Empress Dowager.
Then, they saw the Queen Mother getting up and going to bed.
So Feng Jing quickly pulled Wen Yanbo's sleeve.
The latter immediately understood and shut his mouth.
The other elders and prime ministers also put down the memorials in their hands thoughtfully.
Sure enough, a moment later, the sound of a big Diao Ding Shi Deyi was heard: "The official ascended to the palace, and the ministers respectfully welcomed him."
Feng Jing quickly stood up and took the Chao Hut in his hand. The other elders and ministers also stood up.
Then he saw a small official wearing a plain white crimson gauze robe and a folded turban, surrounded by the Empress Dowager and the ministers with royal equipment, entering the curtain from the corridor on one side.
Feng Jing hurriedly came forward with fluorine and followed the crowd in bowing four times: "I respectfully welcome the official to the palace."
After the young official sat down, he said: "Without courtesy, please sit down and talk."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." The ministers bowed again, and Feng Jing slowly returned to his seat and sat down.
He looked around the palace.
Among the prime ministers, Han Jiang, the left prime minister, and Lv Gongzu, the right prime minister, will all retire within the next two years.
Among the remaining governors, there is almost no one who can safely take over the position of prime minister.
Therefore, in the future, the prime minister will still be chosen from among the important ministers outside.
Cai Que and Zhang Dun were the most vocal.
Pu Zongmeng, Lu Huiqing, Wang Cun, and Han Zhongyan were also ready to make a move.
And the senior ministers...
Feng Jing thought of Han Wei in Daming Mansion. Like him, he also dreamed of returning to the court.
But Nai brother Han Jiang can't come back until he retreats.
Wang Anli of Jiangning heard that he was also preparing to become an official and wanted to return to the court as a senator and serve as an adviser to the emperor.
In Zhiping and Xining ministers, those 'young people' who are expected to be in power are also ready to take action.
Kumamoto on Jingdong Road, Cai Jing on Kaifeng Prefecture, and Zeng Bu on Yangzhou are just like chicken feathers.
Such a complicated situation, not to mention the young emperor, even the adult monarch may not be able to control it.
However, this petty official managed to control it. Not only did he control it, he also made the capital not as messy as it was during the Yuanfeng era.
The new party and the old party still criticize each other.
Even the crows on the censor's stage, Feng Jingdu felt, were gentler and more pleasing to the eye than before.
Although the crows are still noisy, few people will casually slap others.
Frequent criticism of traitors and evil practices is now rare.
With these thoughts in his mind, Feng Jing just listened to the little official in the curtain: "I lost my composure for a moment today and made the merciful saints of the two palaces and all the ministers worried. I am really ashamed."
Is this going to be a review?
Feng Jing's eyelids twitched and something came to his mind.
Confucius said: I will examine myself three times a day!
The standard Confucian sage-king style has also been the requirement of scholar-bureaucrats for the emperor since ancient times.
Feng Jing hurriedly stood up with Wen Yanbo and bowed with his hands in hand: "Your Majesty cares about all people and is benevolent and virtuous. The ministers are frightened and frightened. I only beg Your Majesty to take care of your body and keep the holy body for the country."
This is the standard answer.
Something that everyone is familiar with.
However, it used to be a false story, but now even Feng Jing himself can't help but bring some sincerity.
Such a good emperor is so rare.
After taking a deep breath, Feng Jing followed the ministers and sat back.
During this process, Wen Yanbo seemed to look back at him.
I don’t know what it means?
Feng Jingzheng was trying to figure out what Wen Yanbo meant, and then he listened to the little official in the curtain saying: "Now that the Duke has entered the palace, let's discuss how to deal with the aftermath on Huainan Road!"
"Prime Minister of the Left!" He directly named him: "You are the Prime Minister of the Left, my arm. Come and discuss the opinions of the capital."
Then he saw Han Jiang getting up and bowing with fluorine in his hand: "In my humble opinion, I should follow the stories and the old rules, and order a responsible person to be good at governing..."
"Baoning Army's Jiedushi envoys judged the capital of Henan Prefecture, and they just made some suggestions, but they were empty. Han Wenzhonggong was once ordered to comfort the victims of Jingdong during the Qing Dynasty. He wrote a book "Qingzhou Relief Policy", which contains consistent articles.
They are all here..."
Feng Jing was called by Han Jiang and felt his scalp numb.
"Han Zihua! You old man!" He cursed in his heart.
However, Feng Jing also knows that this is officialdom, the capital!
Back then, in order to get promoted, he even accused Taishan Fu Bi of being treacherous in public.
Now, it is reasonable for Han Jiang to use him as a raft and borrow his head.
With no other choice, Feng Jing had no choice but to stand up and bow to your majesty: "I would like to inform your majesty that the "Qingzhou Relief Policy" left by Lord Taishan consists of three volumes. The original manuscript is in the hands of his son Shaoting. I dare to beg your majesty.
I issued an edict to obtain this book for the imperial court’s reference.”
There was nothing he could do.
The most taboo thing in official circles is to vacillate between Chao Qin and Mu Chu.
Especially for a minister with a bad reputation like him, once he is found guilty of a shaky crime, he will be labeled as a treacherous minister.
Therefore, many years of experience in officialdom have taught him that even if he does something wrong, it is better than regretting it.
I heard the little official in the curtain ponder for a moment and then said: "What Mr. Feng said is very much in line with my wishes."
"That is... when Duke Fuwen and Zhong were in Qingzhou, he was fighting floods, but now Huainan is suffering from drought."
Feng Jing could only bite the bullet and continue: "I foolishly believe that although disasters are different, the methods of dealing with the aftermath are always the same."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Right Prime Minister Lu Gongzhu stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I would like to inform you that the two palaces are kind and sage, and Fuwen Zhonggong appeases Qingzhou. Although he is a model for the country, it has been decades ago...
…And the situation in Huainan is different from that in Qingzhou, so it may not be generalized.”
It seems that Lu Gongzhu is very objective.
But in fact, I still use him as a raft.
However, he had no way to reply, so he could only say: "Even if decades have passed, even though the situation in Huainan is different from that of Jingdong, disaster relief and aftermath are always the same."
"For example, after a disaster, the victims are displaced and have no clothes. Since our ancestors, they have all been tattooed."
"It's also like the people who have no food and open warehouses to survive..."
When he finished speaking, Feng Jing found that the Prime Minister in the palace looked at him a little strangely.
What did I say wrong?
Feng Jing soon knew the answer.
"There's no need to recruit young people with tattoos." After pondering for a moment, the little official in the curtain suddenly said: "As early as the beginning of April, I ordered Song Yongchen to go south, with Cai Bian as the capital of Dajiang-Huai Sixth Road and Deputy Shipping Envoy. The imperial edict ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Fengzhuang Treasury to allocate one million yuan each as a base. Cai Bian and Song Yongchen were ordered to recruit young and strong victims of the Huainan disaster to work on river control and canal construction, and to pay their wages at Bianjing wages. , give half money and half rice."
This is why the people on Huainan Road have maintained stability despite a severe drought.
A large number of young and strong people were recruited to the construction site of river construction and canal management.
Not only that, Song Yongchen also organized them to build roads, bridges, inns, and repair government offices and warehouses in Huainan.
Even locally, a large number of human transportation tools such as wheelbarrows were manufactured using local materials.
Young people have jobs and can receive wages and life-saving food.
There won't be any trouble!
Feng Jing was shocked when he heard this.
Because in the past, even when the Song Dynasty court recruited young men, they always gave money.
However, the wages paid vary from place to place.
For example, in Bianjing, if you recruit a young man to build a river, the starting salary is two hundred a day. Normally, for heavy manual labor, you have to pay more than two hundred and thirty to recruit someone.
But in Henan Prefecture, the salary of a young man has plummeted to one hundred yuan a day.
In the Yongxing Army, you can hire a young man for seventy or eighty yuan.
Feng Jing remembered that when he was in the Yongxing Army, he hired young men to build a walled city along the border.
A heavy reward of one hundred cash per day was offered, but very few people responded. In the end, they could only add two liters of rice per day and barely hired people.
But these are normal wages in peacetime.
In places like Huainan Road that have been hit by disasters, wages will definitely fall off a cliff.
In fact, as long as the government provides a meal, there will be many people willing to work!
If you don’t do it, there are people who are willing to do it!
However, this official allocated two million yuan and was still willing to use Bianjing wages to settle wages for the Huainan victims?
Although it is half a meter, it is unprecedented.
When did the Song Dynasty court become so generous?
But how did he know that Zhao Xu had offered a high price?
However, workers’ consumption on the construction site is also high.
Especially those young men from local Shezhe families often spend huge sums of money in Goulan and casinos.
And because of the severe drought, local protectionism in Huainan was weakened.
So, dried fish and sea salt poured in.
Fortunately, the workers had money, which allowed them to afford dried fish and sea salt.
As a result, a big market was formed.
At the same time, the two million guan allocation followed this ecological chain and eventually flowed to Jingdong and Liangzhe Road, further promoting the local fishery and shipbuilding industries.
There is a market and demand, and the authorities are still giving the green light and even encouraging everyone to roll up their sleeves and work hard. The shipbuilding and fishery ecology of Jingdong Road and Liangzhe Road have developed rapidly through this severe drought.
Those two million yuan mobilized private wealth and capital, at least tens of millions of yuan!
And because the people had the lubrication of two million more copper coins, the commodity economy was miraculously not affected.
The handicraft industry in some places has even experienced growth against the trend.
Of course, agricultural production still inevitably suffered a devastating blow.
Hundreds of thousands of hectares of land were affected, more than half of which suffered crop failure or no harvest.
This directly brings about a chain reaction.
The local small and medium-sized landowners were directly wiped out by this wave.
The accumulation of generations of ancestors was once emptied out, and even fell directly into the predicament of bankruptcy.
How did Feng Jing know about these things that were impossible to appear in the newspaper?
However, he still reacted quickly and hurriedly bowed: "Old minister, I beg your majesty to punish you."
Young people have wages and can also get rice.
There is no need to mention the matters of soliciting assassinations and opening regular positions.
Because the imperial court has completed the pacification and relief work by recruiting them to work.
Generally speaking, when it reaches this point, the government has fulfilled its responsibilities.
This is a natural disaster!
It is normal for thousands of old, weak, women and children to die, and it is also normal for the local economy to be in recession for several years.
So, what else does Xiaoguanjia want to do?
Is it possible... that he still wants to resume production in the disaster-stricken areas?
is it possible?
Then I just heard the little official in the curtain say: "What crime is Mr. Feng guilty of?"
"It just so happens that after this incident, I want to gather all the disaster relief, disaster preparation, and aftermath matters in the world, prepare a book, and publish it all over the world. I think it is a must-read book for all ministers in the world. I also want to set up a separate book in the capital and among the Imperial College.
This class is dedicated to teaching Tai students disaster preparedness, disaster relief, and aftermath measures.”
"Young Master is a senior official and an important minister of the three dynasties. I wonder if I would like to preside over the compilation of this book? And later, preside over this course of the Imperial College?"
Feng Jing listened, his heart was extremely hot, and he immediately bowed: "Old minister, I will never give up even if I die!"
This is a good job!
Not only can he stay in Beijing and assist the government as a senator.
At the same time, this master compiled a book that collects regulations on disaster preparedness, disaster relief, and aftermath in the world, making it a must-read book for officials all over the world.
In the future, we will open a new discipline in Taixue and let him preside over the construction of this new Taixue subject.
This is to send him to leave his name in history and win immortality!
Feng Jing suddenly felt happy.
I just feel that when I am an official in the court, I am really a holy master and a wise king, and I really know people and make good use of them.
At the same time, I regretted even more in my heart that I ran away with a bucket because of my timidity last year.
Other governors and elders were also looking at Feng Jing with strange eyes at this time.
"What kind of fate did this golden-haired rat have?" Even Wen Yanbo couldn't help but examine it.
But how do you know that Zhao Xu was repaying Feng Jing for his role in his previous life? In order to help him, the young master, establish his prestige, he performed with his own funeral and set off the Tongwenguan case?
Sitting in the curtain, Zhao Xu looked at Feng Jing's happy appearance in the palace.
"Everyone says that Feng is the golden-haired rat in this world."
"How many people can be as loyal to the country as he is?"
From Zhao Xu's perspective, Feng Jing is a loyal minister!
A loyal minister who was willing to use his own funeral as a stage for the emperor!
Dare I ask, how many people can do this?
Feng Jing had benefited, so he knew that he should repay him.
How to reward?
He thought of what he heard about Wen Yanbo's actions in the capital after he entered the capital.
To sum it up in one sentence - the elders set up the stage and the emperor sings the opera!
Whenever the young master wanted to do something, Wen Yanbo would always endorse it in a considerate and considerate manner, citing scriptures and making arguments. This was in line with the ancestral system and a good thing in line with the teachings of the saints.
Especially the Bianjing Academy in Jing'anfang was guaranteed by the Grand Master and the two prime ministers in Shilin with their own reputation.
Therefore, Feng Jing bowed his head without hesitation and asked: "I dare to ask Your Majesty, what does the Holy Heart think should be done in the aftermath of the Huainan disaster?"
When Zhao Xu heard this, he immediately glanced at Feng Jing appreciatively.
He is truly worthy of the nickname of the Golden Mouse, and he still does not fall, but rises step by step!
So, Zhao Xu followed Feng Jing's words and said: "I am young and don't know the country or the stories of my ancestors, but..."
"When Huang Kao was here, he often taught me..."
"The teaching of saints lies in benevolence, and benevolent people love others."
"The loving saints of the two palaces protect and support me, and they also personally taught me the way of a saint!" He turned around and looked at the two palaces behind him: "My mother taught me that as a king, you should benefit the people and benefit the people.
It’s your responsibility.”
The Queen Mother suddenly laughed.
"My mother also taught me that the people are my subjects, and the ministers are my brothers and sisters. I should love them, pity them, and treat them kindly..."
"Huainan is suffering from a disaster today, and although the imperial court has appeased it, I read historical records and observed what Jia Yi of the Han Dynasty said: A farmer will have one year's worth of harvest after three years of farming, and only three years' worth of land will be gained after nine years of farming."
"Sima Gong also wrote a letter saying: Among the four people, farmers suffer the most..."
Sima Guang only had more than a month to live.
If we don’t quickly pull him out to endorse, how can we use his banner to do things in the future?
"So I was thinking, is it possible for the capital to make arrangements to reduce or reduce taxes for farmers affected by the disaster in Huainan Prefecture?"
"For example, we will exempt them from rent and miscellaneous taxes this year and next year, and exempt them from labor money..."
Tax reductions and exemptions from additional levies are the reasons why Hongli, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was able to maintain a stable position even though he was extravagant and extravagant, constantly deployed troops to foreign countries, and established a literary prison!
Of course Zhao Xu must learn!
This is the best way to maintain stability!
When farmers suffer from disasters, they are directly exempted from taxes and given time to recuperate and recover.
The ministers listened and looked at each other in confusion.
It's okay to be exempt from rent tax, this is the norm.
However, exemption from military service and other additional taxes are difficult to achieve.
Because this money is actually the funds to maintain the operation of local government.
However, no one dared to object.
Don’t even dare to question it!
The ministers could only bow their heads and worship: "Your Majesty is wise."
It was written by Han Jiang and Lu Gong, and my scalp felt numb.
Without money, how can local governments function?
Does the Ministry of Accounts get money?
Can’t get it out!
Just increase taxes!
But to whom?
Jiangnan Road? Liangzhe Road? Or Jingdongdu Road?
It won’t be Kaifeng Mansion anyway!
Zhao Xu smiled and continued: "In addition, considering that the Huainan states have been exempted from additional taxes and exemptions, the local states and counties may have no money to operate. I was wondering if I could still issue an edict to encourage the world. Righteous merchants and righteous people enthusiastically donated money and rice to lose to Huainan?"
"At the same time, in order to prevent the women and children in Huainan from suffering from freezing and poverty, is it possible for a department in the capital to send personnel to Huainan to recruit women and children who are good at weaving and spinning to come to the capital and serve as female workers?"
Zhao Xu Tuqiong saw him and revealed his purpose.
This is a combination punch.
Call on righteous businessmen and citizens to donate enthusiastically to subsidize the Huainan government's operating funds.
In fact, this is for the great monks' treasury.
Naturally, there will be righteous businessmen and righteous people who will destroy families and relieve people from difficulties.
Zhao Xu has already found someone to support him.
Just wait for the imperial court to pass it, then issue an edict and announce it, and then the envoys will appear to create momentum.
In conjunction with the pressure exerted by the Kaifeng Mansion, the great monks were forced to bow their heads, pay, and at the same time hand over the treasury in their hands.
This means that the gentry's money should be paid back in full, and the monk's money should be divided into 30 and 70 cents.
Of course, things won't work out forever.
Zhao Xu also needs the support and cooperation of the great monks in the religious field.
So I will order it till I finish it, and I won’t cut off all the leek roots, leaving some soup for the monks.
But if they want to continue to monopolize the financial, pawn, and loan industries of Song Dynasty, they are just dreaming.
Zhao Xu has already divided this piece of fat.
As for recruiting women and children to Beijing, this was done by Lou Cao Big Rabbit. At the same time, he was also preparing for Xihe Cotton who was about to enter Beijing.
The textile industry is still a labor-intensive industry in modern times.
Today, there are no exceptions!
Xihe's cotton and Guangxi's cane sugar bear the important task of becoming new sources of national fiscal revenue.
Especially cotton!
As long as you master the raw materials, you can achieve a monopoly!
