Wang Anshi just followed the officials, walking step by step towards Chui Gong Hall.
At this moment, Wang Anshi knew that the officials had seen his Qingmiao method and were really interested in innovating it.
Lu Huiqing also had this idea. When he stayed with Wang Jiefu in the official family, he knew that Wang Anshi had handed over the Qingmiao method to the official family.
As for whether the officials would support it, Lu Huiqing had never worried about it.
Is Wang Anshi excited? Probably a little bit. He is not only excited that his idea can be realized, but also excited for the common people of the country.
Wang Anshi still has the consciousness of caring about the country and the people, otherwise he would not be able to see the shortcomings of the current dynasty, or he would not say anything about it if he saw it.
"Da Shen, I have read the excerpts of the Qingmiao Law. How should I put it, I support it in the general direction of reforming some of the bad policies of the country."
"At the same time, I also ask for your understanding. As we all know, I grew up in Neiyuan. Although I went on an expedition to southern Xinjiang and left Qinzhou in the west, there were city walls everywhere I went. I don't understand the real situation in the countryside."
"To put it bluntly, the so-called tending to the crops is just to make the Queen Mother happy, just to go around the Imperial Manor at will."
"Therefore, I cannot confirm the situation mentioned by Da Shen in the memorial, and I dare not confirm it at will."
"Da Shen also knows that such a young plant is a national policy. Once promulgated, it will be implemented in all military, prefectures and counties of the country. Da Shen doesn't think that this matter can be decided by you and me, right?"
Zhao Xi spoke very sincerely, and his tone, demeanor, and all his actions after entering Chui Gong Hall expressed his heart-to-heart feelings towards Wang Anshi.
A great sage of a generation who cared about the country and the people, although Zhao Xi was not optimistic about Wang Anshi's young seedling method... there were too many flaws.
But Mr. Wang definitely deserves his respect.
Besides, Comrade Lao Wang, or his reform team, does not only have the Green Seeding Method.
If he wants to pull it off one by one and serve as Zhao Xi's vanguard to change the country's bad governance, Zhao Xi must show some sincerity so that Wang Anshi can feel like he is on the same chariot as him.
In this memorial, Wang Anshi mentioned heavy punishments and heavy penalties during supervision. Zhao Xi wondered whether Mr. Wang had added them temporarily.
Taking Chen Changzhi as an example, Wang Jiefu would inevitably use his power to deal with Chen Changzhi.
You have to look down.
"I am terrified..."
Regarding the official's attitude, Wang Anshi needed to show some symbolic courtesy.
"The official family and the state did not establish the land system and did not suppress mergers... I have no objection to the failure of the Taiguo system."
“The land policy of the imperial dynasty caused the cultivated land of the dynasty to change owners frequently, even to the extent that the land had no fixed owner.”
It seems that this has nothing to do with the Green Seeding Law? Go on...go on.
The details of the Green Crops Law only mention what the Green Crops Law is and how it should be implemented. As for the background of the introduction of the Green Crops Law, that is what Wang Anshi needs to explain clearly to Zhao Xi now.
There is also the idea of land transfer in future generations, and Zhao Xi doesn't think there is anything wrong with it. Of course, future generations are not comparable to the present.
We are still a small-scale peasant economy, and we still rely on digging food from the soil.
People are very dependent on the land, which Zhao Xi is deeply aware of.
"For the official family, the two taxes now account for less than 30% of the state's tax revenue. In recent years, due to the creation of new industries by the government, the two taxes have become even more negligible."
"Compared to the beginning of the dynasty, the reduction was as much as 70% to 80%, and even the reduction was 40% to 50% compared to the Zhenzong Dynasty. If the government's actions such as official property are included, the fact is that this is not the case, but the annexation of farmland
result."
"If the annexation of farmland is a transaction based on the price of the farmland, then it is not! Or it is a forced purchase and sale. Naturally, there will be government intervention. That is not the case."
"When powerful officials and rich surnames meet, whenever there is an opportunity, they will lend money to farmers in the name of charity, forcing them to repay the loan money and grain. Year after year, they will eventually have to pay back the loan with farmland, and the farmers will become tenant farmers..."
Zhao Xi really wanted to say that Guochao did not have a dual household registration system. If people lost their fields, they could go to the city to make a living, and then...
I really don't dare to speak, for fear that I will become another king who eats minced meat.
Just listen to Wang Anshi's impassioned speech...
How can it be?
In later generations, the Song Dynasty, which was known as having an extremely developed economy, rapid development of science and technology, and people's living standards ranking first in the world, was in dire straits in Wang Anshi's words, and the people were in dire straits?
Yes, the evil feudal society is in dire straits.
Zhao Xi has seen in later generations that some people said that the per capita GDP of the Song Dynasty reached more than 2,000 US dollars per capita...
Some people say that the economic aggregate of the Song Dynasty was 70% of the entire world at that time...
Some people say that throughout history, the Song Dynasty is the most desirable era...
But in Wang Anshi's statement, people were displaced and even felt that they were almost starving.
Is this still the Song Dynasty under my own governance? Is this still the Song Dynasty in my impression?
"In the official family, the country has 5 million cultivated land, but those who do not pay taxes account for seventy-eight percent of it. Due to the excessive concentration of cultivated land, the cultivators have no land and have to leave their hometowns. Those who have land do not cultivate it, and those who want to cultivate it have no land."
"As a result, the cultivated land in the country has been reduced year by year, and most of it has been abandoned..."
At this time, Zhao Xi no longer cared to think that Wang Anshi was trying to promote his Green Seeding Method, but was truly infected by him.
From the perspective of a king, facing the situation described by Wang Anshi, it is absolutely impossible to remain indifferent.
Zhao Xi was polite to Wang Anshi at the beginning, saying that he grew up in the palace. That was really polite.
In later generations, he was born into a farmer's family, so how could he not know what farm work was like?
But after hearing what Wang Anshi said, he realized that maybe he really didn't know what was going on with the farmers.
I thought that even after a thousand years, rural areas would still be rural areas, but what Wang Anshi said was completely different from what he experienced.
Wang Anshi would not fabricate, Zhao Xi was sure of this. Then, he was the only one who really didn’t understand.
Zhao Xi always thought that he understood the countryside, and thought that he understood that the backwardness of this era was due to material scarcity.
Therefore, he has been committed to innovative industries, thereby guiding people of this era and opening a window for them.
However, the rural areas that Wang Anshi learned from his mouth were a different story.
Zhao Xi has personally made a second pot of tea for Wang Anshi, but Wang Anshi hasn't finished speaking yet.
He started with individual cases, with names and surnames, summed them up to the current situation of the country, and then implemented the benefits of Qingmiao Law, and gradually introduced Zhao Xi to Qingmiao Law.
There are those who sell their sons and daughters, some whose families are ruined, some whose lavish land is comparable to that of the royal family, and some whose farmland in a county has been reduced to one family name... This is alarmist, at least Zhao Xi thinks it is alarmist.
"Da Shen, as Da Shen said, innovation is inevitable. But the method of young crops cannot be determined by you and me..."
"There are more than 400 people in the country, dynasty, military and state. From decision-making to execution, the whole court cannot do it. What do you think, is it a court meeting or a collective meeting?"
It shows the level of a king who listens and understands. In fact, he is not sure what Zhao Xi's thoughts are now. He still needs to think and deliberate.
Wang Anshi's method of handing over banknotes was not to make arbitrary decisions, but to obtain accurate information from the officials about whether they supported the decision.