Moreover, due to the limitation of productivity level, the winter calendar has always been a forbidden area for agricultural production. Once agricultural society is unable to carry out agricultural production, the countryside will inevitably appear withered and desolate. However, relatively speaking, in cities and villages, it will be Because the leisure time is suitable for holding large-scale gatherings that cannot be held on weekdays, and then carrying out corresponding political and religious activities.
A heavy snow came unexpectedly and cleared up quickly. Regardless of Qin Hui, Hong Ya and others on the north bank of the Yellow River, they were determined to fight unyieldingly for their own future and that of their families. Almost at the same time, Qin Hui, Hong Ya and others on the south bank of the Yellow River were determined to fight for their future. In the Zhao and Song Dynasties, cities and villages gradually became lively.
Among them, the one who fired the first gunpowder shell in winter was none other than the official Zhao Song... At the beginning of November, after announcing that all the national debt last year had been repaid correctly, this official once again started selling the so-called "winter special national debt" in the capital. .
Regarding this matter, the Di newspaper gave a detailed and detailed explanation...According to what the Di newspaper said, this debt is still a serious national debt personally pledged by the official, and this time the purchaser needs to have detailed household registration such as the head of the household and the composition of the family. The information is entered into the Ministry of Household Affairs and cannot be sold exclusively. It can only be delivered and exchanged with the Ministry of Households on a household basis.
As for the purpose of this national debt, it is also clearly stated that it is to be used for winter relief, garrison and city community annual festival activities, Imperial College discussions and other daily winter affairs.
Even the Di newspaper simply stated the reasons for this "special national debt" without any concealment. One was the impact of last year's Yaoshan War, which cost a lot and rewarded a lot. For this reason, the Bashu roads advanced one year's wealth in advance. , so after the war of Yaoshan, Bashu could only receive half of the wealth within two years; secondly, it was the Dongting Lake rebellion that led to a financial gap in the Jingxiang area; thirdly, after the comprehensive reorganization of the army, there was more room for the laid-off troops. An additional expense.
Therefore, towards the end of the year, there was a gap of about two million yuan.
After discussion among the prime ministers, the government promised to be more lenient and issued a total of three million treasury bonds for a period of half a year or one year, with an annual profit of three cents.
Among them, 900,000 yuan is the official share, and the Zongzheng Zhao Shi??, the outside family member Pan, and the outside family member Wu are responsible for the purchase and sale; the remaining 2.1 million yuan, all of them are one thousand yuan, with a denomination of two thousand yuan. It is still signed by the official handwriting, and then directly supervised and recorded by the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will come forward to conduct public sales in the leftmost door of Xuande Building. It is limited to thirty days, and the share is 70,000 guan per day.
Back to the follow-up, to be honest, this time the national debt is still a passive and helpless move, because there is indeed a financial gap again, and the gap is so big this time that Zhao Guan's family and several husband-in-laws have some doubts and worries.
And this is also reflected in some details of this national debt.
For example, the name of the so-called winter special national debt is a bit confusing... After all, the main reasons behind the financial gap are not mentioned, they are indeed those, but the ongoing Dongting Lake counterinsurgency must be one of them. However, you It makes sense to say that the imperial court used winter daily expenses as military expenses, and then the expenses were gone when winter started.
However, the following facts proved that the popularity of this kind of government bond market was far beyond everyone's imagination.
The 900,000 yuan that Zhao Jiu had acquired for himself had been cleared away by verbal agreements with many dignitaries who had been waiting at the homes of three powerful families for a long time before they were issued.
A more intuitive scene appeared downstairs in Xuande. After the sale started, the share of 70,000 yuan on the first day was instantly secured by three merchants who came from Quanzhou to deliver overseas goods.
For this reason, Zhao Guan's family had to post a notice limiting the daily purchase of each household to 5,000 yuan.
So, starting from the second day, helpers lined up on their behalf, but this time they were immediately stopped by Gozenban Nao.
Starting from the third day, scenes similar to on-the-spot transfers with increased prices began to appear. Many people were willing to pay directly and ask the person in front to give up their position, in exchange for no profit at all, or even some losses at actual costs.
An opportunity for the Ministry of Finance to pledge to purchase a certain share of Treasury bonds.
In this regard, Zhao Jiu, who had already been mentally prepared, hesitated for a moment, and immediately asked the Imperial Banzhi to stop this kind of thing, and use the safest and most basic way to maintain financial order... In other words, they still have to queue up to buy, and they still have to queue up to buy.
It was on a first-come, first-served basis, so the Imperial Banzhi had to take over a small half of Imperial Street for maintenance.
But soon, Zhao Guan's family slapped him in the face with his own hands, because on the fifth day, suddenly a middle-aged man burst into tears directly on the imperial street... Only after Yang Yizhong paid close attention to the matter and came forward to inquire did he find out.
, this person did not buy it for himself, but was pushed out by the public, and used his household registration to buy it from hundreds of villagers in a village converted from a military camp near Xiyue Terrace, asking only for a treasury bond of one thousand guan.
After entering the city, he couldn't succeed for several days, and he couldn't go back empty-handed to meet his elders, so he burst into tears in the street.
The households in the villages transferred to the military camps are basically refugees from Hebei and retired sergeants. It is impossible to ignore this kind of thing.
So the Zhao Guan family immediately slapped themselves in the face and changed the rules again. Instead, they set up a queue specifically for this kind of collective household in the second door on the left. There was a limit of ten opportunities per day, and each household was allowed to purchase a maximum of two thousand-guan shares of treasury bonds.
Then it is specially filed and legally treated as a family property invented by Fan Zhongyan, a righteous village. In other words, during the period of holding the national debt, the personal crime of the nominal holder will not affect the actual ownership and safety of the money.
As soon as this policy came out, it immediately set off a second round of purchasing climax, because after many officials and imperial students woke up, they did not hesitate to purchase in the name of the clan... After all, clan property is a special semi-collective property.
, as early as Fan Zhongyan invented it, it was immediately widely praised and recognized, and it has a strong publicity effect and a further value-preserving effect.
However, that's all.
In other words, by now, Zhao Jiu and the smart officials in the court have basically realized the problem.
This is not a matter of patriotism or not. For a small number of dignitaries, this matter may also mean the status of their family in the hearts of Zhao Guan's family, and the distance between their family and the official family. But for everyone, including all dignitaries,
From a human perspective, the root of the problem is that currently there is no more reliable means of saving than government bonds personally pledged by officials.
In the past six years, there have been constant wars. Not to mention Hebei, Henan, Guanxi, and Jingdong, which were directly affected by the war, nor the ordinary people at the bottom who lost almost everything, but also the high-ranking officials who have been able to avoid the war.
People's and family wealth have also suffered severe declines.
Now that Zhao Jiu is using the emperor's name as a credit guarantee, and the Ministry of Revenue is using the world's taxes as a guarantee of actual wealth, it's no wonder that these people are chasing each other.
Of course, there is still some credit that must be attributed to the imperial court and Zhao Guan's family... If you think about it carefully, you will know that if the two emperors in Jingkangzhong who plundered the city's wealth and gave it to the Jin people were sitting behind Xuande Tower
, who dares to believe it? If Jingkangzhong is still in a shaky situation, who dares to buy it?
The victory of the war, the resolute attitude of the imperial court that had not wavered since its exile from Huaishang, and the long-term stability of the political situation were the foundation behind the sudden emergence of this reasonable economic phenomenon.
It was precisely based on this consideration that Zhao Ding proposed to expand the scale and maturity of national debt and set up a special share of national debt for officials; Zhang Jun proposed to relax certain local restrictions and expand the scope of sales to local areas; the Ministry of Household Affairs directly reported,
The seemingly reasonable suggestions such as extending the maturity of the national debt, lowering the interest rate on the national debt, etc... were all rejected by the Zhao family.
Because Zhao Jiu feels that the current political and military foundation is still very fragile, it is not the time to engage in financial innovation, and no one knows where the power of this kind of thing lies, so there is no need to forcefully test it, which will be self-defeating.
And besides, he is too young and has enough time to institutionalize this thing steadily.
Back to the present, after the national debt, the court had money, so some messy things were immediately put on the agenda.
For example, the Zhao Guan family personally issued an order to ask the province to allocate money and food, and then hold large-scale, institutionalized Cuju competitions and sumo wrestling competitions in Henan... Among them, Jingxi North Road and Jingxi West Road are divided into prefectures, prefectures, and military.
This level is the basic unit; Kaifeng Prefecture, Huazhou, and the Henan part of Kaide Prefecture are based on counties; the imperial camp troops stationed in Henan are based on the units directly led by the commander. They first hold internal knockout competitions, and finally select
The four selected teams will represent their respective teams and gather in Tokyo in the late twelfth lunar month to compete in the finals in a round-robin competition in front of Gozen.
The Zhao Guan family obviously wanted to enjoy themselves with the people, and of course they also deliberately comforted Henan, the place that suffered the most war disasters.
But no matter what happened, the effect was immediate, and the entire Henan area immediately became lively. During the slack time, people, old and young, poured into the city, just to see the victory or defeat.
At the same time, the scholar-bureaucrats also began to become active.
After all, Zhao Guan's family had mentioned that they would hold Taixue political discussions again before the treasury bond sale... Not only that, this time, Zhao Guan's family seemed to have evolved even more, and he actually raised many issues in the Di Bao in advance.
It ranges from the strategy of eliminating money, from the issuance of Jiaozi and whether to set up special agencies for national debt, from the discussion of the coexistence of the Sanshefa and the imperial examination, to the trivial question of whether a special Cuju league should be established...almost everything is asked.
In doing so, one is to heat up the topic and make the focus of Taixue's political discussions focus on these things; the other is equivalent to fishing for future generations... By bringing these issues up in the newspaper, naturally countless officials will understand them.
Writing a letter to discuss these matters will also make it easier for Zhao Guan's family to appoint someone in Imperial College to respond.
"The officials' methods are becoming more and more sophisticated, and Editor Hu's writing style is becoming more and more skillful and skillful."
As the twelfth lunar month approaches, clans gradually gather together, and a poetry gathering is being held in the increasingly lively back garden of the Prime Minister's Mansion. However, it is said to be a poetry gathering, but it inevitably involves discussing the current affairs of the mansion. At this time, many descendants of the Lu family are quietly
I heard a middle-aged man in his forties with a slender face sitting at the top and jokingly said: "I threw out the issue in advance, and I have watched the Imperial College discuss politics for a few days, and the two princes Zhao and Zhang are fighting again...
"
Just when he was talking about it, he suddenly heard a loud noise in the front yard, causing everyone in the backyard to frown... At this time, Mr. Lu was lying on the newly built kang in his house, and all the descendants of the Lu family were there.
Participating in a poetry gathering in the backyard, who dares to be so bold?
However, Buddhism is almost second only to Confucianism among Lu family schools. It emphasizes a casual attitude, and many people are even vegetarians and ordained. Therefore, even if the noise in the front becomes louder and louder, the people behind them just frown and watch.
No one or two people got up to investigate.
Of course, there was no need to investigate. After a while, all the Lu family members, relatives and friends saw Lu Haowen, dressed in home clothes, personally accompanying an elegant young man in cotton uniform along the corridor into the backyard, and this person
Behind Lu Haowen were many burly men wearing cotton robes, including some civil servants and boys, and behind them were countless armored warriors holding swords... You didn't need to ask to know who the leader was.
Who, and how did the commotion happen before?
As a result, the descendants of the Lu family, relatives and friends no longer dared to neglect, and stood up in a hurry, avoiding the seats and standing in awe.
Zhao Jiu was not polite at all and sat directly on the seat of the middle-aged man before. Then he waved his hands and pointed at Lu Haowen, who sat in the first place on the left. Han Shizhong, who was wearing a jade belt, sat in the first place on the right, followed by Zhang Jun and Zhang Rong.
, Qu Duan, Yang Yizhong, Liu Yan, Wang De, Li Qiong, lined up along the lines of the Yan'an County Prince, and the Lu family's children also stood up seven or eight at the signal of Zhao Guan's family, following the order of the Duke and the Prime Minister.
Sat down.
As for the remaining people, they stood at the starting position opposite Zhao Guan's house and lined up in a respectful manner.
"Are you composing a poem?" Zhao Jiu lowered his head and looked at the pen and paper on the case, but he laughed for a moment.
"Children are idle in winter, so they have to do these things." Lu Haowen said with a smile. "It makes the officials laugh."
"It's really funny." Zhao Jiu nodded and became solemn again. "Writing poems can't save the Song Dynasty, and it can't revive Lianghe!"
Relatives and friends of the Lu clan looked at each other in awe, and Li Qiong, who saw such a scene for the first time, was also a little numb. Of course, Lu Haowen had already adapted to this official family, but he just chuckled and didn't say much.
"Why are they all vegetarian porridge and pickles?" Zhao Jiu clicked on the topic of poetry, looked around, and smiled again.
"Most of my family believe in Buddhism, and many of them are vegetarians." Lu Haowen smiled more and more bitterly. He had already imagined that he would be scolded again at Zhao Guan's house.
"If you believe in Buddhism, you still have to eat meat." Zhao Jiu shook his head as expected. "How can you be considered a good monk if you don't eat meat? I told Xianggong Lu whether... I have seen the most Buddha-like monk in my life.
A person who eats wine and meat, before Jingkang, it is said that this person uprooted a weeping willow tree at Daxiangguo Temple."
Lu Haowen shook his head helplessly, and on the right side, except for Zhang Rong and two imperial commanders with slightly strange expressions, the others were all whispering to each other for a while.
"Guan family." After a pause, Han Shizhong couldn't help but look at him sternly. "There is no monk in the world who can uproot a weeping willow... The official family is afraid that they were deceived by that bald thief. Dare you ask the origin of this great monk?"
Are you so arrogant?"
"A native of Weizhou, he served as an officer under Laozhong of Yan'an Prefecture in his early years, and later transferred to Xiaozhong of Weizhou..." Zhao Jiu almost blurted out his treasures. "Later, he escaped because he killed a butcher named Zhen Guanxi.
Go to Mount Wutai, then escape to Daxiangguo Temple to manage the vegetable garden."
Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun looked at each other. After a moment, Zhang Jun insisted: "Guan, this person is indeed a liar who only knows how to deceive his eyes. I have been working under the old manager Xianggong for half my life. If there is really an officer to kill him."
A butcher from Guanxi escaped and became a monk, how could I not know the details?"
"That's right." Zhao Jiu was thoughtful and nodded for a moment. "Scholar Dasu said it well. Since ancient times, if you are not poisonous, you will not be bald. If you are not bald, you will not be poisonous. If you turn poisonous, you will turn bald. If you turn bald, you will turn poisonous. Poison will lead to baldness, and baldness will lead to baldness.
Poison... The words of this monk cannot be believed at all. You should also take a lesson from it. As for the Buddhist language, it is enough to just recite a few words of Buddha to show off. As a good man of our generation, we must not be a vegetarian and accept the precepts.
Yeah, what does that look like?"
Five or six of the generals on the right nodded their heads together, while Lu Haowen just had no choice but to say nothing... Scholar Da Su's words were obviously a joke to his Buddhist friends and were not easy to argue with.
"Ms. Lu." After talking nonsense, Zhao Jiu turned around and continued to talk nonsense. "At the foot of Shaoshi Mountain, in front of Yiyou Gate, didn't you promise me one after another that you would give me all the students from your Lu family's school?"
Are you going to excerpt some of the Buddhist teachings and add some new ones? Why are you still allowing your children to become vegetarians?"
Lu Haowen instinctively wanted to refute such absurd and incomprehensible words, but the thought just turned around in his mind for a moment, and the Pingzhang military official immediately fell silent.
But Zhao Jiu didn't stop at all, but urged on the spot: "The foundation of the country lies in new learning. As the prime minister, Lu Qing should set an example for the world! From now on, you must not drink porridge and follow a vegetarian diet. It is better to eat more meat!"
Lu Haowen knew that he was being pressed for debt by the officials today and had no choice but to escape. He had no choice but to sigh and prepare to have a serious talk with the officials.
But just when the prime minister was forced into a corner, beside him, the middle-aged man who was sitting in the first place took the initiative to stand up and avoid the table to salute, as if he was preparing to defend Lu Haowen:
"Official..."
"Who is this?" Zhao Jiu asked curiously before the other party finished speaking.
"My eldest son, Lu Benzhong." Lu Haowen quickly explained.
"Why have I never seen him before?" Zhao Jiu continued to ask.
"First, when Cai Jing was in power, the Six Thieves were rampant. As a member of the Yuanyou party, I was not allowed to make progress, and the ministers were naturally implicated. Later, Yuan Sheng and the officials tried their best to promote love, but I was suddenly lucky enough to be promoted to prime minister and assistant, so he had no choice but to
To avoid taboos... I have been guarding the door of my hometown in Huainan before, and I only let him come here recently." Lu Haowen gave a brief introduction.
Zhao Jiu nodded, but suddenly slapped the case, pointing at Lu Benzhong and looking at Lu Haowen. The so-called words were conclusive and nonsense: "I think Lu Xianggong's son has a face with a face like a field. He obviously wants to have the face of a marquis."
?!"
Lu Benzhong raised his head, stunned and speechless for a moment. As for Lu Haowen, the surrounding relatives and friends of the Lu family, and even several handsome ministers and generals, looking at Lu Benzhong's long face, they didn't know what to say.
However, none of these people feel as absurd and powerless as Lv Benzhong, a famous figure in the Jiangxi Poetry School... You must know that "My face is like a field, my character is not my prime minister, I don't want Banchao to be named a prince", this is exactly what Lv Benzhong himself wrote thousands of times
The original sentence of an old work of poetry!
By now, not to mention Lu Haowen, even Lu Benzhong, who was meeting the emperor face to face for the first time, knew that this official had taken advantage of the New Year to close the door and press for debts!
The kind that can't be avoided!
Ps: I have been taking online classes at Luyuan since the day before yesterday...the schedule is getting tighter...awkward...