During the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty used Yu Wenrong to issue a purchase restriction order in Kaiyuan, prohibiting land sales. If people occupied too much land, the state could forcibly confiscate it and then distribute it to the refugees.
During the prosperous Kaiyuan era, this purchase restriction order contributed a lot.
This Kaiyuan purchase restriction order is to break the merger.
The Song Dynasty never suppressed annexation. As long as you had money, you could buy as much land as you wanted. There should be big landowners, but the information Zhang Yue gave to the emperor showed that in fact there were still 30% to 50% of the local farmers.
In other words, the gap between the rich and the poor in the Song Dynasty was not serious enough to warrant annexation.
In the past, the first practical law in the Tang Dynasty was for the people to register by themselves, and later it was for the head of the household to register by hand. Lu Huiqing wanted to conduct a large-scale inventory of property among the people, and even allowed people to inform people. This method would cause panic among wealthy households and the common people.
This also breaks the merger.
The first thing Wang Anshi did after he returned to office was to stop his tactics.
Zhang Yue said: "Governing a country is like good medicine. Disruption and annexation are like medicine for tigers and wolves. They must be done as a last resort, but using mild methods to supplement them will not help. Therefore, they must be treated according to the symptoms. But people who don't understand only think that it is
It is the harmony of thin mud, and the middle is the middle."
The official was convinced by Zhang Yue. His data was so detailed that he couldn't help but believe it.
Officials asked: "How to suppress mergers instead of destroying them?"
Zhang Yue said: "I believe that the taxes collected by the court should be used to benefit the people. As long as we do this, we will take it from the people and use it for the people."
The official said: "That's true, but how difficult it is!"
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, today's money shortage (deflation) is partly because the imperial court has too few copper coins, and partly because the people have no money. As long as the people have money, the money shortage will solve itself."
There are two ways to deal with the money shortage. A country can increase the amount of money invested. For example, Lu Huiqing’s method is to pay two, five, or ten coins.
Wang Anshi printed more salt banknotes, Zhang Yue wanted to stabilize Jiaozi's currency credit, and Zeng Bu wanted to abolish official coinage and allow private coinage. This is what he meant.
There is a joke here. If the imperial court mints a coin and the price is 100 million guan, then the money shortage among the people will be solved.
Increasing currency injection can alleviate the problem, but fundamentally there is still a problem with the distribution method, because the money is in the hands of wealthy households and not in the hands of ordinary people.
Another way is to break the annexation. This method is more direct. The court directly plunders the money of wealthy households, just like the Kaiyuan purchase restriction order created the great Kaiyuan era.
However, the side effects of breaking the merger are very serious, that is, tiger and wolf medicine. If not used properly, it will kill people. Zhang Yue used data as an example, but he does not agree with the use of this tiger and wolf medicine. After all, it has not reached this level, so why bother yourself so much.
Zhang Yue said: "To take it from the people and to use it for the people means that the court will give money directly to the people. There are two methods. One is the work-for-relief method mentioned by Wang Xianggong, and the other is the farmland water conservancy law!"
The relief-for-work and farmland water conservancy laws, to put it bluntly, involve massive infrastructure construction. These two points are also strongly advocated by Wang Anshi.
The officials were very moved and pleased after hearing this.
Zhang Yue knew that he had many differences with Wang Anshi in his political views, but he did not return to the court to stir up trouble, and he did not come to confront Wang Anshi. The most important thing was that everyone wanted to agree on common ground while reserving differences.
Find the areas where everyone has the same views and work on them together, instead of looking at the areas that both sides don't deal with and trying to deal with each other.
In this way, there will be more and more friends, and the road will become wider and wider.
Zhang Yue said: "I think these water conservancy projects can be left to the private sector instead of being supervised by the government. The government can set up a project and let private businessmen contract the project through buying and selling."
The officials frowned, this was another area of disagreement between Zhang Yue, Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing.
Wang Anshi still wanted the court to take charge of all this.
Wang Anshi would definitely object. The method of buying and selling? The imperial court gives money to businessmen to build water conservancy projects? Then it is better to do it yourself, and save the middlemen to make the difference.
