It is rare for Fahe to stand out, but as soon as the theory of "helping the rich and the poor" came out, it immediately gained the support of many people. There was a lot of discussion in the hall for a while, and many nobles, monks and Taoists took the opportunity to speak.

Let's say that up to now, due to the extra performance of several unplanned ministers, the plot development of "The Legend of White Snake" has already exceeded expectations, but Zhao Jiu and the ministers who have been silent for a long time have all

There were no overly exaggerated remarks or expressions, but rather some sighs... The reason was very simple. They had discussed many things over and over again in the past half month.

Today's remarks, whether they are fierce, solemn, upright or extremely shameless, have not been discussed in detail before by the Emperor and the Prime Ministers!

And the ridiculous thing is that they know very well that whether it is 'making a profit', or 'practice shall prevail', or Fahe's shameless theory of loan sharking as 'helping the rich and the poor', they all

Appeared in their discussions... In other words, even at the highest level, there are differences, and every theory seems to be right, at least within a certain range!

It's really right.

The logic behind the discussion between the emperor and the governors at that time was as follows:

The country's first priority, discussed and discussed, is to have sufficient finances;

And having sufficient finances means opening up new ways of making money;

If you open up new ways of making money, you can only take profits from property owners;

If you want to get profits from the property owners, you should not take it by force, let alone enforce the law and break the law yourself. That is really destroying the foundation. Instead, you should use legal and reasonable means to seize the property owners' biggest, fastest, but also

The most shameless means of economic income is based on the basic concept of making a profit, and it is adopted as state affairs and allows the country to make money;

This business, or means of aggregation, can only be usury, so if we want to expand our finances quickly and massively, we should let the state replace these property owners in occupying the usury market.

When it came to this point, Zhao Jiu and several prime ministers immediately realized...it has been these routines since ancient times, and Wang Anshi thought of it decades earlier than them.

As a result, the discussion immediately evolved into a discussion on the "Green Crops Law".

But, again, the "Green Crops Law", as the core of Wang Anshi's reform, is not that simple... Some people, that is, from the beginning of the Zhao Guan family, and Zhang Jun, like Chen Kangbo in front of them, insist that,

The failure of the "Young Crops Law" touched on the core interests of the property owners and attracted an alliance between the property owners and the old party. Therefore, the failure was a purely political failure.

It may not be possible to implement it now.

At the same time, almost every experienced pragmatic official is firmly opposed to this... Lu Haowen, Zhao Ding, Liu Ji, Li Guang, and even those who now have more military responsibilities but have rich experience in local governance

The old regulations have firmly and clearly expressed their attitude, that is, the failure of the "Young Crops Law" is directly related to the regulations themselves.

The "Young Crops Law" itself is not effective.

What's the problem?

The truth became clearer with each argument. After many arguments and taking many notes, Zhao Jiu had already figured out the key points and gradually changed his attitude. Then he reached a general consensus with several prime ministers.

Or maybe everyone said they convinced each other - the problem actually lies in the bureaucracy.

The relationship between the bureaucracy and the failure of the "Young Crops Law" can be analyzed from two perspectives.

First of all, the imperial power did not go to the countryside. As an extension of the imperial power, the bureaucracy that enforced the law would not be able to confront the property-owning classes in the countryside if it really followed the law. The common people also trusted and obeyed these temples and landlords more, and even if

Even in the market, it is difficult for grassroots officials to compete with wealthy businessmen who have been in business for many years.

From this perspective, it is indeed the reactionary forces that are too powerful.

However, at the same time, one thing that has to be admitted is that compared with temples, landlords, and wealthy businessmen, the bureaucrats, or grassroots officials, are probably the most reactionary group of people in this era!

Not to mention that they must collect cash, but they can lend money with a limit of 30%, etc. The most frightening thing is that when they implement Qingmiao Loan, they often directly change it to malicious apportionment, and some evil officials use this policy

There is no difference between them and other policies in their hands. They are just a means for them to annex land and extort money... In fact, Qingmiao Loan is more convenient to use and has more room for maneuver.

Therefore, for the common people, monks, Taoist priests, wealthy businessmen, and landlords may still be able to talk about favors, and they can be restrained by clans and neighbors, and they are good people who can use millet and fresh fish as interest; but the government is

The Sangmenxing, who easily ruins people's homes and families, is not short of money, and forces you to take out a loan. What he gives out is moldy seeds, but when he gets it back, he asks for cash. If he dares to say anything, he will let you go immediately.

Working as laborers... Even if there are some bullies, evil monks, evil businessmen, and evil ways, I am afraid they must have colluded with the government before they can become evil.

Therefore, once the assumption that the imperial power, the government, and the grassroots officials are the real villains is taken into consideration, even the "rich and poor" used by Fahe to defend usury will become more reasonable.

After all, the people are extremely poor, and when it comes time to harvest crops and prepare for spring plowing, they really need to borrow money to make ends meet.

In the eyes of ordinary people, a 30% loan for young crops that can easily lead to the destruction of one's family is far less appropriate than a 40% loan from a nearby temple... What's more, a large temple like the Shaolin Temple that has been prosperous for hundreds of years has its own prestige and is guaranteed by force.

and religious demagogy.

Of course, the problem arises. The Zhao Guan family wants to learn to eat this bowl of rice with caution, so how can they eat it safely?

"I know what you mean." Zhao Jiu spoke slowly. "I also understand your agility, but there are some things that I don't allow you to say more... Fa He presided over and made a point about helping the rich and the poor.

, I can only get out one hole!"

Fahe was originally ready to defend himself, but he opened his mouth in silence - because the officials had already spoken and they were not allowed to say anything.

"Why don't you speak?" Zhao Jiu asked coldly.

Host Fahe was completely helpless and could only respond: "I understand, little monk."

"You know nothing!" Zhao Jiu said angrily.

Not to mention that this is inside a military camp, and it is not to mention how frightening it is to have so many braziers around and so many soldiers on the side of the brazier... Even if there is no official, the sudden appearance of the officials is enough to make these people who are already worried...

People were frightened.

"The young monk is scared." Fa He lamented in his heart, but he could only kneel down helplessly. "The country is in a difficult situation, and if the government wants anything, the Shaolin Temple is willing to give it all. We only ask that the government preserve the temple tradition and prevent the young monk from becoming the ruin of the temple...

…”

"It is a big problem to make a hole, but the key is to help the rich and the poor. To me, these four words are the most shameless and terrifying in the world, and they are also the most important thing for me as an official.

Intolerable things!" Zhao Jiu ignored Fahe's pretense. He didn't really want to show off his power over a mere Shaolin Temple abbot. It was too shameful.

In fact, after saying this, the current emperor directly closed the notes in front of him, and then looked around proudly in the audience: "I ask you people, who gave you the face to say that 40% interest is to help the rich and the poor?

Do you really think that I don’t understand people’s livelihood? Don’t you understand arithmetic? The poor people have a few acres of thin fields, and all year round, they only get a few stones and buckets of harvest, but they still can’t do everything properly, so they asked you to borrow money to prepare for the plowing. Before this spring plowing

If you borrow three dou, you have to pay back four more. When the harvest fails, will there be a shortfall of four dou? If you borrow another four and a half dou, will you have to pay back six more? After all, this year has been a good harvest, and several acres of land have been harvested.

After three to five dou, are you going to join forces to lower the price again, forcing the people to sell at low prices, and easily wipe out these three to five dou? So within one year, three dou became four dou, four dou became six dou; within two years, six dou became eight dou.

Dou, eight dou can turn into one stone... Even if there is no famine, will you be forced to sell your children to raise your wife in three to five years? Will you have to sell your land to tenants in ten or ten years? To whom will your wife and children be sold? To whom will the land be sold?

Who? Is it you who lend money?! As for the poor people in the city, I don’t even bother to say it again, so as not to be criticized by others.”

Having said this, Zhao Jiu took a long breath, glanced coldly at the people of different shapes in the hall, and sneered: "Do you want to say, even so, it has been like this since ancient times, so what? What can be done? Li Qiong

!”

Li Qiong never imagined that he would be called out at this time, and he was also terrified to say: "Guan family."

"Why did you say that before?" Zhao Jiu seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

Li Qiong suddenly understood and hurriedly responded: "The two major disturbances in this dynasty, one in Fang La, were caused by the poor people in the southeastern market; one was caused by Zhongxiang Yang Yao, and the cause of the cause was the fishermen and farmers in Jingxiang..."

"Did you hear that?!" Zhao Jiu suddenly shouted, shouting loudly in the hall. "This is where my anger lies today, because you people are digging up my roots! I never care about you making money! What I care about is

The poor are forced by you to have no place to stand! If there is no place to stand, they will rebel! If they rebel, my throne will not be stable! When I killed Liu Guangshi that day, some people said that I was cutting off the legs of my throne.

Du Chong actually cut off the legs of his own chair, waited for me to imprison the two saints, repelled seventy or eighty courtiers, and even said that I was pouring excrement on my own throne! Now tell me, what are you doing?

Why don't you just dig my grave directly?!"

The sudden attack made many people, including Li Qiong, tremble.

"Today I will teach you what imperial knowledge is!" Zhao Jiu's face was ashen, he stood up and moved forward with his hands behind his back, past the panicked ministers, and then looked around coldly. Everyone he saw, no matter what position they were in.

Dodge. "Then those who value literature over military affairs, preferential treatment to scholar-bureaucrats, confuse different opinions, keep one's inner emptiness inside, and share the world with scholar-bureaucrats are all things from above! The poor and the common people are the most basic foundation! The emperor also

Well, whether it is a scholar-bureaucrat or a distinguished businessman, whether it is Buddhism or Taoism or a wealthy businessman, don’t they all have to stand above the common people? Water can carry a boat and it can capsize it. This has been true for hundreds of years. Is it true that Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was just pretending to say nice things?

?Is he able to become an emperor through the ages just by talking nice words? I ascended the throne as an idle prince, and I am as ignorant as the Taishang Daojun Emperor, as frivolous and harmful to the country, and as a result, I am fooled by you? There are some things that you don’t understand about me.

I understand! I have just decided that your "rich and poor people" are digging into my foundation, and I have decided that this is the most intolerable thing in the world!"

"Di Bao praises me every day as Guangwu Zhongxing..." Zhao Jiu suddenly turned around and looked at Lin Qi. "Lin Shangshu, you are knowledgeable. You said that Guangwu conquered the fields and forced dozens of counties to rebel, but why would you rather move?

Daozi, do you want to continue to farm?"

When Lin Qi was asked about it, he could only respond bravely: "This is exactly what the officials say."

"Yes." Zhao Jiu said thoughtfully. "The former Han Dynasty has been helping the rich and the poor for more than two hundred years. As a result, many poor people have no place to stand, so green forests and red eyebrows have sprung up. Guangwu started in Longmu, Nanyang.

Of course I know what's going on, so I would rather let the powerful people who followed me rebel, and would rather use the knife to suppress it than to sort out the fields... And I cut off the soil from Nanyang in Huaishang, and consecrated the fields in the Central Plains and Kansai.

This makes sense. However, it is more difficult for me than Guangwu, because this dynasty is only a hundred years old, and it has not yet reached the situation where everyone in the world is rebelling. It seems that it can still be maintained. So I can't say anything in the south, and shout at Baima

After saying that I wanted to introduce the Song Dynasty, everyone thought that I just wanted to encircle the two saints and eliminate dissent. But they didn’t know that what I really wanted to go to were those comfortable people who thought that they could go back to Fengheng Henan. I really wanted to rebuild the country.

Clean up so that you can become a new Song Dynasty! What nonsense can you keep and be harmonious? Don’t you just want to be stable? But you don’t know that the current situation is caused by internal and external troubles. If you don’t advance, you will die... Write a letter to Li Gang about today’s matter

Say it, word for word, and ask him to comment again! Just say that I am waiting for his reply!"

Lin Qi's heart was restless and his chest was beating wildly, but he could only bow his head.

Zhao Jiu paid no attention to him, walked directly to the only person kneeling on the ground, and said coldly: "Fahe Arhat, I have collected thousands of acres of land in Shaolin Temple before, and you seem to have a lot of land... This

How did nearly 10,000 acres of fertile land come from? Are they all offered by good men and women for free? Or do you follow this method, year after year, helping the rich and the poor, giving alms to the poor? Do you feel that your temples span dynasties?

From the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, those of us who were officials were the ones who suffered the troubles caused anyway? So we can rest assured that the rich and the poor should help each other? Dig out my roots? Do all my ancestral graves around Luoyang count as being dug up by your Shaolin Temple?

of?"

Fahe was lying on the ground, not daring to answer.
To be continued...