Nowadays, although the price of salt banknotes has dropped to ten guan per seat, eighty salt banknotes are equivalent to 800 guan.
Although Ouyang Xiu was very kind, the officials also wanted benefits. As soon as the money arrived, the officials immediately arranged for Huang Lu to try out the position of county magistrate in Qiantang County.
It should be noted that Shen Kuo is from Qiantang.
Zhang Yue's intention of stuffing money is self-evident.
After Huang Lu's official position as county magistrate was confirmed, Shen Kuo immediately went to talk to Zhang Yue and revealed Shen Kuo's intention to recruit Huang Lu as his son-in-law.
Zhang Yue was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately he successfully acted as a matchmaker and quickly arranged the marriage of his good brother.
Huang Lu would leave Beijing immediately after being awarded the official title, so he had no time to talk about the three matchmakers and Liu Ping. Besides, Shen Kuo's wife had passed away, and he was a straight man who couldn't make decisions. Huang Lu was fine with anything. .
So the two parties hit it off immediately and quickly got married without any rules.
On the day of Huang Lu's wedding, he rented a house outside Bianjing. Zhang Yue transferred all the people in his house to help Huang Lu. Then Guo Lin and other classmates and friends came to celebrate and make fun of the wedding ceremony.
As Huang Lu's home was too cramped for a banquet, the banquet was held in a nearby wine shop.
Shen Tuo, Shen Kuo and other women also held banquets here.
Zhang Yue helped Huang Lu socialize for a while and finally sat down and drank tea, but he saw Wang Anshi being invited by the master of ceremonies to sit at the table with him.
Zhang Yue stood up and greeted Wang Anshi. Wang Anshi glanced at Zhang Yue and said, "Oh, it's to save him!"
Immediately Zhang Yue and Wang Anshi sat down together.
Zhang Yue wondered in his heart, how did Wang Anshi come? When Shen Liao arrived, he found out that Wang Anshi was a relative of Shen Kuo.
Why do you say that?
It turns out that Wang Anshi's younger brother Wang Anli married Xie Jiang's daughter.
Xie Jiang's mother was the sister of Shen Kuo's father, Shen Zhou's wife, and was Shen Kuo's aunt, so Wang Anli's wife was also Shen Kuo's aunt and niece.
Shen Zhou's epitaph was written by Wang Anshi. At the same time, in the Jinshi examination in the eighth year of Jiayou, Wang Anshi was a fellow scholar, so Shen Kuo was still Wang Anshi's student.
Wang Anshi once learned calligraphy from Shen Liao, and the two had a good relationship. However, Wang Anshi was very unkind to Shen Liao.
There is a poem by Wang Anshi about Shen Tuan, "Lying on a couch with a book under his pillow, until he rides home on horseback at sunset." Shen Tuan is said to have no ability. He only sleeps with a book under his pillow at work all day long, and then rides back on horseback after dark.
This is the style of Shen Yu's work for the Kaifeng Mansion. History books say that when Shen Yu knew the Kaifeng Mansion, he "looked at things day and night, and there was no one left in the court during the day. He went out to thank all the guests and smiled calmly."
That is, except for working during the day and night, he is not in the government office the rest of the time. What does Shen Tao do? He goes out to thank all the guests and smiles calmly.
This move seemed excessive, but Shen Dun was a quick-witted person. Once he fell ill, so he took out the squeezed case files to correct them, and judged hundreds of pages in a row. That's it.
However, Wang Anshi just didn't like Shen Tao. In addition to writing poems and ridiculing him, the Shen family historically asked Wang Anshi to write an epitaph for Shen Tao. Wang Anshi wrote, "Although I don't know how to read," the Shen family couldn't stand it. Shen Tao almost became a child. He won the top prize, why do you say he stopped studying?
After the Shen family protested, Wang Anshi changed reading to reading. That's what Fang Zheng meant. I, Wang Anshi, despise you!
Zhang Yue and Wang Anshi ate at the same table, and it was as if they had their backs on their backs. However, there is an advantage to eating with Wang Anshi. I heard that he only eats the dish in front of him, so I will not be polite to the rest of the dishes.
At this time, I saw Shen Yu walking over with a lamp in his hand. He was the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture. King Anshi of Zhang Yue also stood up.
Shen Yu first toasted to Wang Anshi and said, "Thank you very much, Jiefu, for coming!"
Wang Anshi said: "Brother Wentong, my brother cannot be present under the Tang Zifang curtain now, so I, my brother, will do it for you."
Zhang Yue thought to himself that there was no such thing.
Shen Tuo didn't take it seriously at all, but said: "Jiefu said that, it's a big deal. With Bachelor Zhang here today, I believe you won't be lonely at the banquet."
Hearing this, Zhang Yue reluctantly showed a smile to Shen Yu, but in his heart, he thought, how about sitting at the same table with him, Alexander?
Shen Yue exchanged a few words with Wang Anshi, and the two of them chatted and laughed and had a good relationship. Zhang Yue thought that the relationship between the two was not as bad as he heard from hearsay.
It seems that Wang Anshi is a person who only complains, but his personal relationship is still good, just like joking between good friends, otherwise he would not write your epitaph.
Wang Anshi and Zhang Yue took their seats again, and soon the banquet started. Shen Liao was talking to the two of them. The atmosphere at the banquet was not that bad. Soon after Shen Liao left the banquet, it suddenly became dull.
Out of politeness, Zhang Yue picked up the tea cup and toasted Wang Anshi. Wang Anshi also took a sip of tea and said, "Du Zhi, I heard about your exchange."
Zhang Yue heard Wang Anshi mention the Citation Office, so he said: "A small fight is not worth mentioning."
As Zhang Yue spoke, he counted 'twelve' silently in his heart.
But when he saw Wang Anshi holding the twelfth chopstick to the shamisen in front of him, Zhang Yue secretly chuckled. But he heard Wang Anshi say: "There is a saying in Zhou Li, the master of Quan Mansion uses the market to levy the goods, and collects the goods without selling them. When goods are stagnant for civilian use, the arrangement of the exchange can be imitated by the Zhou rites."
Zhang Yue knew in his heart that Wang Anshi was a great expert in Zhou rites. Just when he was about to say something, an idea suddenly came to his mind.
That's right, the Jiao Chong Institute is being criticized very urgently by the court officials. Isn't it because the name is unfair and it is regarded as a tool for the imperial court to levy and extort money?
If the name of the Citation Office was imitated after Zhou Li Zhongquan Mansion, then the difficulty of passing through the temple would be reduced. Wang Anshi is really a master, and he inspired himself with just one sentence.
Zhang Yue said with great joy in his heart: "Your Majesty's words really solved my problem."
Wang Anshi said calmly: "I just have something to say. I have heard Yuan Du relay Yuan Chang's theory of surplus value. Although it is a bit fresh, in the final analysis it is still the way to suppress mergers and collect surplus."
Zhang Yue listened and realized that what he said to Cai Jing had reached Wang Anshi's ears. Oh, he's thirteen!
After counting, Wang Anshi silently picked up the thirteenth chopstick, chewing the tender bamboo shoots in his mouth, and said: "But what Yuan Du said seems to be ill-intentioned. I want to hear what Du Zhi said..."
Zhang Yue thought carefully, why did Wang Anshi help him? Thinking carefully, Wang Anshi was Xue Xiang's die-hard supporter.
Xue Xiang was handing out salt money indiscriminately in Shaanxi Province to buy horses on his own. Wang Anshi told lies with his eyes wide open. He did not hesitate to fall out with his old friend Ouyang Xiu but also supported Xue Xiang. Therefore, Wang Anshi also had to record this account.
The existence of the Exchange can ensure that Xue Xiang continues to issue salt banknotes in Shaanxi indiscriminately.
Zhang Yue thought for a while and said: "Actually, it doesn't matter. I heard the prince's theory, the main point is the words 'the people do not add taxes, but the country uses the land'. It only talks about suppressing mergers, collecting surpluses, and referring to the settings.
Same but different.”
Anyway, since Xue Xiang's approach, Zhang Yue has cast a considerable shadow on the idea that "the people do not add taxes but the country uses enough".
Wang Anshi heard the words and said in a sonorous voice: "It is better to increase revenue than to reduce expenditure. It is necessary to combine mergers and financial management. This is to make the country use enough money without adding wealth to the people. This is also my ambition!"
"If we don't overdo it, what is the difference between suppressing mergers and collecting profits?"
Zhang Yue had no intention of discussing it with Wang Anshi. Anyway, his words were in vain and he could not convince him.
So Zhang Yue responded casually: "My lord, Qin was able to annex the six kingdoms, but it couldn't suppress the annexation. Instead, the widow Qing built a platform. Why has it been so difficult to suppress annexation in the past? Because he got the whole story wrong."
"I regard the world's money as two classes. One class is money produced by work, and the other class is money produced by money. The so-called people do not add taxes but the country uses enough, which means that the money produced by money in the world is taken.
Give some of it for the country’s use. Prince, eat the vegetables!”
Wang Anshi showed an expression on his face that I had expected. After picking up the fourteenth chopstick, he said: "The money generated by hard work is for agriculture, and the money generated by money is for industry and commerce. Therefore, those who are chasing the last in industry and commerce should pay heavy taxes to
When people are embarrassed and humiliated, they see the futility of their last karma, and in order to punish them, they have no choice but to go to the fields. Is this what the purpose of saving them is?"
"No!" Zhang Yue shook his head.
Wang Anshi asked: "How is that?"
Zhang Yue ate a piece of venison, and as he continued chatting with Wang Anshi, everyone else took away the good food.
He said casually: "My lord, there is a man in the south of the Yangtze River who is good at farming and mulberry farming. He rented a hundred acres of land from a landlord. His family provided seeds for farming and cattle, and hired five people who were not good at farming to work on the land."
"At the autumn harvest, this person will receive one hundred guan, of which 50 guan will be used to pay the land rent, 30 guan will be given to the farm laborers, 10 guan will be used to pay for the seeds and cattle, and the last 10 guan will be the surplus for one year."
"My lord, the income of the world generally comes from these three things, namely land rent, labor expenses, and what I call the surplus. I dare to ask the lord if this suppression of business towards acres of land refers to these ten thousand surpluses.
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Although Zhang Yue kept urging the dishes, Wang Anshi was not worried about the dishes at all. Instead, he said: "If you sow and reap, you will receive insufficient subsidies. You will have to wait for someone who has the strength to do it. Of course, you cannot suppress it."
While Zhang Yue was eating happily, he held the bowl and pointed with the chopsticks in his hands and said: "However, there is a difference between a wise man and a foolish man, just like things are uneven, this is the state of things. A wise man suffers from the inability to be independent.
A fool is ignorant of the way to make money. If the two are combined, they will benefit, but if they are divided, the land will be destroyed. Don't overpower the wise and foolish by suppressing and merging them with one sentence."
"How can the people manage production if they don't have capable people to organize themselves? This surplus is also money generated by hard work, but this land rent is money generated by money!"
Zhang Yue spoke quickly, and quickly took a bite of food. While chewing, he said: "Therefore, suppressing annexation is something that is difficult to do under the Qin law. If you do it in this way, you are abandoning the basic and chasing the weak. Where is the root?
On top of suppressing land rent. Land rent is money made from money. All things that use money to make money, the court can take care of it! In order to suppress mergers and foster the work style, this is how to manage finances and open up new sources of income!"
After hearing Zhang Yue's words, even Wang Anshi, who was always known as a strong argumenter, felt a little unable to refute.
Wang Anshi repeated Zhang Yue's words seriously: "To put it into perspective, what I just said is land rent, surplus, and labor expenses. All income in the world falls into these three categories."
Zhang Yue vomited out a piece of sheep spine and said: "Of course, the money from selling an acre of rice field is divided among these three people. The income from selling the labor is the income from farming seeds and cattle, and the income from land rent is the income of the world."
No one in the world can have more wealth than these three things, and no one in the world can live on more than these three things!"
