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Chapter 101 Letter

Now Chuzhou has gradually exerted its vitality and is thriving, but not everything satisfies Wang Jinghui: the biogas pool he had high hopes for was defeated, and government offices in various places have only established biogas demonstration zones according to what Wang Jinghui has. Unfortunately, the people are not interested in it. The local officials under his command like these things very much. Anyway, the demonstration zone is a disaster reduction government office or nearby, and it happened to be used to replace the original firewood and peat as fuel, which made Wang Jinghui a little amused.

In contrast to what Wang Jinghui imagined, the rich families in the city were more popular with biogas. The main purpose was to be used for lighting in addition to cooking and heating. In this era, the lighting in the courtyard of rich families at night was not the lighting in the lanterns that Wang Jinghui imagined, but two bowls with heavy inside and outside, filled with whales, and used asbestos as wicks for burning and lighting, while the bowl outside was filled with water to cool the bowl inside and prevent the whale oil from evaporating faster due to heat. Using biogas lighting can save a lot of money, and is not as troublesome as using whale oil or other fuels to light it.

Unexpectedly, the biogas tank project that he was preparing to increase grain production actually died silently. Wang Jinghui felt very depressed, but he also knew that there were many problems with the biogas tank itself that had not been solved. For farmers in the countryside today, it was more troublesome to take care of it, and it was reasonable that it could not be promoted on a large scale.

Compared with Wang Jinghui, who was harvesting the early fruits in Chuzhou, Zeng Gongzhu, who was in Kaifeng Prefecture on Gyeonggi Road, did not have as comfortable life as Wang Jinghui: since the implementation of the exemption law for three or four months, the small Gyeonggi Road has reported incidents about the exemption law disturbing the people. It has made Kaifeng Prefecture a mess all day long.

Zeng Gongzhu did not care about these disturbing incidents at the beginning. But there were more and more such incidents. Kaifeng Prefecture, where he was in charge, was a very sensitive place, so he couldn't help but ignore it. So he handed over the complaint of the disturbing incident in the reaction to the exemption law of the civilians and handed it over to Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu to find the sage.

Of course, Yingzong Zhao Shu heard about the exemption law on the Gyeonggi Road disturbing the people. What puzzled him was Chuzhou, which also conducted the trial of the exemption law. Why did this happen under the leadership of the son-in-law Wang Jinghui, and even absorbed thousands of soldiers to find food? The most important thing is that this exemption law is still very profitable. The exemption money in Chuzhou is much less than that of Gyeonggi Road, but there are also tens of thousands of coins, which is not as good as hundreds of thousands of coins of coins on the Gyeonggi Road. But if you think about how many nobles and wealthy businessmen there are on Kaifeng Prefecture alone, they can achieve tens of thousands of coins without any problems, this is a capable official.

According to the secret news of the return of the imperial guards who were protecting the princess of Shu, Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu learned that the officials in Chuzhou were under the control of Wang Jinghui, and the official atmosphere in the officialdom could be said to be a sudden change. Moreover, when he received the imperial edict of the Immunity Law, he did not rush to start work. Instead, he spent a month asking officials from all over his subordinates to strictly count the actual situation of the people's lives under his rule, and then divided the levels. He also arranged the imperial guards he arranged were sent out to randomly check them everywhere. The prince consort and the princess also wandered around the territory with light and simple clothes, which almost scared the officials of his subordinates. He was sent to the example of his colleagues on the frontier a few months ago, so how could they still dare to cheat?

When Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu and Prime Minister Han Qi and others held a small meeting in Funing Hall to discuss the effectiveness of the trial of the exemption law of Jingji Road and Chuzhou, the two can be compared to see the advantages. This made Zeng Gong, who was listening on the side, blushed and wanted to find a hole to drill in. At this Funing Hall meeting, the top leaders of the Song Dynasty reached the first agreement that the exemption law is a good law and must not be abolished. Not to mention that the exemption money can increase income to the treasury, the wing army alone is of great significance to the nationwide elimination of the wing army, and it also makes everyone present unable to vote against it.

Although the exemption law cannot be abolished, the current situation on Jingji Road cannot be ignored. Everyone knows why there is such a big difference between the two places: administration! Thinking of the warnings on administration in Wang Jinghui's policy theory a few months ago, everyone feels a little uncomfortable: This is a big hedgehog, a powerful old minister like Han Qi and Fu Bi, who dare not make any moves on it, because the overall atmosphere of the empire is like this. Tradition cannot be violated at will, otherwise it will be a huge price. Wang Jinghui also considered this and did not discuss this matter in the memorial, but instead put it in the policy theory indirectly. Wang Jinghui's policy theory was only circulated among the high-level rulers, and the memorial was to be exposed to the world. There is too much difference between the two. Obviously, the prince consort took this into consideration.

Yingzong Zhao Shu asked on the imperial case: "Dear friends, now everyone on Jingji Road is reporting that the law is exempted from vocational affairs and disturbing the people. What solutions can I do?"

The ministers in the palace were silent, and the prime minister Han Qi was helpless: the law of exemption has extraordinary significance for the empire's finances and must not be abolished! He and the capable and cheap son Wang Jinghui are now wearing a pair of pants. If he criticizes the law of exemption at this time, it is equivalent to slapping himself in the face. What's more, the son-in-law doing a very vivid job in Chuzhou. Not to mention, the thousands of soldiers solved by the law of exemption alone saved the court hundreds of thousands of yuan in fiscal expenditures a year. The law of exemption is called "good law" in the mouths of the people of Chuzhou. In this case, what's wrong with the son-in-law? Why do you start with me?!

Sima Guang next to him is now a political affairs officer. When he saw Han Qi frowning there and not talking, he stepped forward and said, "Master, the exemption law of the son-in-law in the son-in-law is a good law, but why is there no problem in the trial in Chuzhou? But the trial in Jingji Road has become a disturbing the people, because of the administration! I have also read the policy of the son-in-law. The son-in-law has predicted this. To date, the results of the two places have compared each other, and it can be seen that the son-in-law is a mature and steady person. The public grievance caused by the trial of the exemption law of the Jingji Road must be ignored. I suggest that the emperor stop the trial of the exemption law of the Jingji Road first, and Chuzhou will follow the action after the observation. If there is no mistake in a few months, the court will ask the son-in-law to preach the memorial and strictly follow the Chuzhou method to test the exemption law of the Zhengji Road!"

When Emperor Renzong died in Funing Hall, he supported Zhao Shu, who was still the crown prince at that time, as the new emperor, and Sima Guang was one of them. His reputation in the court also began to rise. It was impossible for Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu to ignore his opinions, but he was very unhappy about the abolition of the exemption law. Zhao Shu was very unhappy in his heart. The fiscal revenue that had just begun to increase and the transformation of the wing soldiers were all thinking about money, so it was really difficult for him to make up his mind to abolish the exemption law on Jingji Road.

Ouyang Xiu, the deputy governor, said: "I think it is possible to temporarily stop collecting the exemption money from Jingji Road for one month. In this month, the prosecutor and censor will be sent to follow the local methods used in the trial implementation of the exemption law in Chuzhou, and carefully check and re-dividing the levels of the village households, and then the exemption law will be implemented. This will avoid disturbing the people!"

Compared with Sima Guang's change-oriented shooting and exemption law, Ouyang Xiu's suggestion was obviously more tempting to Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu, especially when the prime minister Han Qi and Privy Councilor Fu Bi nodded in agreement, Zhao Shu finally made a decision, asking Zeng Gongzhe to start the purging of the Chuzhou model on Jingji Road, and sent ten prosecutors and censors to assist to determine whether the classification of the village households is objective.

"Fortunately, the exemption law is the most gentler of all the new laws and regulations Wang Anshi introduced. If all the square fields are lost, the market law will be released, and it will be even more ugly!" Wang Jinghui learned about the problem of the trial of the exemption law on Jingji Road through a letter from King Zhao Xu of Ying. In his eyes, this was basically the same as the situation Wang Anshi encountered when he first implemented the new law.

"The key is the administration of officials. In history, Wang Anshi ignored this aspect, so he was controversial in history." In his letter, King Zhao Xu of Ying wanted to see what good ways Wang Jinghui had for these disturbing incidents on the Gyeonggi Road, and where did Wang Jinghui have any good ways? After relied on handling several officials in the last water conservancy project, the official atmosphere in Chuzhou became much better. If he put himself in the position of Zeng Gong, it would be the crater! Kaifeng, Biandu, concentrated one-fifth of the national officials, and countless wealthy businessmen, who exercised the exemption law there, Wang Jinghui had ten courage to do it rashly, otherwise he would not even know what was going on.

King Zhao Xu of Ying wanted him to find a way. What can Wang Jinghui do? This is completely a matter of administration. Since ancient times, people are not satisfied with their hearts. Corrupt officials will not give up their pursuit of money and power because of high salaries. Even if they put a knife on their necks, the same is true. Moreover, the Song Dynasty has always treated officials of scholars very generously. Even if they make huge mistakes, they have not been on the guillotine. Therefore, becoming an official in this era can be regarded as the most drought-resistant era in Chinese history when officials are in the profession of Chinese officials.

Wang Jinghui knew that even if he was valued by Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu and his son, if he had to take action on the administration, he would probably not have any effective actions. After all, he had made such an attempt a few months ago. Now Zhao Xu wanted a solution to him, and Wang Jinghui was not a god. Faced with such a social background, he could not come up with any good plans. However, he still took a try-out attitude and wrote a policy statement, reiterating the importance of administration to the stable rule of the country. Among them, he quoted some famous quotes from "Han Feizi" by the predecessor of the Legalist sage. He knew that Zhao Xu liked to read "Han Feizi" and pointed to his father-in-law's generation to change this situation. Slowly infiltration and influence were the most suitable.

Although Wang Jinghui quoted the views of the Legalists in his strategy theory, he also considered the existence of "pure Confucianism" like Wang Tao, a teacher who has been promoted to the group shepherd, and he also focused on governing officials in the strategy theory in a "benevolent and righteous way". He also thought of the current situation of corrupt officials in later generations under the threat of death penalty, and advocated that instead of chopping off the corrupt officials' heads, it was better to let corrupt officials lose everything and make their descendants shame them. This could more shock officials and achieve good results. The most specific example was the methods he used in Chuzhou.

When Wang Jinghui wrote a reply to Zhao Xu, Han Wei, a scholar from Longtu Pavilion, was also writing a letter to Wang Anshi who was far away in Jinling. In addition to exchanging the movements in the court, the letter focused on recommending the current son-in-law Wang Jinghui, and detailed the deeds he knew about Wang Jinghui. The memorial to the law of service that needed change proposed by his brother Han Jiang, who was the envoy of the Three Sessions, brought a detailed explanation of Wang Jinghui's law of exemption from service. He also believed that the son-in-law Wang Jinghui was far from a mediocre talent who believed that the outside world was to obtain official positions by relying on the title of princess and son-in-law, but a great talent. I hope that Wang Anshi could have more contact with him.

Han Jiang was watching his brother write a letter from time to time, and Han Wei made suggestions on the content of the letter written by Wang Anshi, because although Han Jiang had never seen Wang Jinghui, he was one of the teachers of the crown prince Ying Wang Zhao Xu. Naturally, he knew that Zhao Xu's admiration for Wang Jinghui was far beyond anyone's imagination. He had also seen some of Wang Jinghui's strategy. Although he had never seen important strategy, it was just the part he had seen, the talent revealed between the lines. It was enough to move Han Jiang.

Especially after Han Jiang was appointed as the envoy of the Three Sessions, he did not expect that Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu actually copied a copy of his memorial to Chuzhou, and Wang Jinghui's reply was the trial exemption law. After this incident, Han Jiang paid more and more attention to this son-in-law who was originally famous for his poetry. Usually, Han Jiang and his brother Han Wei talked about who could turn the tide to save the declining Song Dynasty today, Han Jiang even proposed: "When today only Jiepu and Jiezhi are competent, cherishing that Jiepu is young as the son-in-law, otherwise he will be another Wang Jiepu twenty years later, and the Song Dynasty is very lucky!"

Originally, Han Wei was a little dissatisfied when he heard his younger brother Han Jiang praise Wang Jinghui like this, but as a direct scholar of Longtu Pavilion, he also had a lot of news about Chuzhou. In his eyes, the current priest, Prime Minister Han Qi, Privy Councilor Fu Bi, and several senior officials seemed to be particularly sensitive to the news about Chuzhou, and held small-scale meetings in Funing Hall from time to time. If such meeting content is not related to the overall situation, the content of the meeting will be leaked soon, and there are many discussions about what Wang Jinghui did in Chuzhou. Moreover, the son-in-law Wang Jinghui has only been in office for more than half a year in Chuzhou, and his political achievements have long been spread, especially Wang Jinghui repaired various schools in Chuzhou and helped the poor and poor scholars, which has won the favor of officials in the court. So gradually, Han Wei also paid attention to Wang Jinghui.

As Han Wei learned more about Wang Jinghui, the more interested he is in the current Holy Family Youlong son-in-law. Especially Han Wei discovered that since Wang Jinghui began to appear quietly in the sight of everyone, the financial situation of the Song Dynasty seemed to be changing in a good direction. When he learned from his younger brother Han Jiang, who was a "scheming", Wang Jinghui gave Yingzong Zhao Shu several ideas, which could increase the financial income of the Song Dynasty by nearly one million yuan out of thin air every month. This also made him feel relieved that Wang Jinghui was still able to be a son-in-law, and he was relieved of his suspicion of being a Holy Family Youlong.

Early summer in Jinling is very pleasant. In Wang Anshi's sorrowful place, Wang Anshi, who was already forty-six years old, was still calmly here and teaching students. Wang Anshi, who seemed to be at the center of the court, was always paying attention to the changes in the Biandu court in the heart of the Song Dynasty in the northern part. Through close interactions with the Lu family and the Han family, he knew all the important events in the court. Of course, this also included the rise of Wang Jinghui, and what Wang Anshi paid more attention to was the political achievements Wang Jinghui had made in the past six months of taking office in Chuzhou.

An Shi admired this son-in-law who was just in his early twenties and his proud son Wang Li, especially the exemption law introduced by Wang Jinghui during his tenure in Chuzhou. Although some of the regulations of this exemption law were tried in the Renzong era, Li Fugui, the transferee of Liangzhe Road and Zhang Shi, the governor of Yuezhou, and Zhang Shu, the governor of Yuezhou, were all tried in some areas, but there is no doubt that Wang Jinghui's exemption law was obviously introduced to the court after careful consideration. Its integrity and operability were far beyond the methods of Li Fugui and others.

When Wang Jinghui became famous for his poetry in Kaifeng, Biandu, his son Wang Li mentioned this person in his letter to him, but it may be because of the problem of "literati's neglect", Wang Li did not have a good feeling about Wang Jinghui, so he did not have a high evaluation of Wang Jinghui in the letter. However, Wang Anshi's younger brother Wang Anguo had a high evaluation of Wang Jinghui, because when Wang Jinghui first became famous, he used his financial resources to support the release of "Mei Xue", and Wang Anguo was a member of the jury of "Mei Xue" and also taught at Huaying Academy opened by Wang Jinghui.

A person who actively engages in cultural undertakings like Wang Jinghui has a reputation for poetry. In the context of the Song Dynasty's emphasis on civil affairs, he was very fond of scholars all over the world, although he also had a background as a businessman. For Wang Anshi, these were all good deeds and were not enough to impress him. When Wang Anshi truly remembered Wang Jinghui's name, it was when Wang Jinghui was sent to Chuzhou by his father-in-law, and his political achievements were heard even by Wang Anshi, who was far away in Jinling.
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