Chapter 268 Early Warning
Wang Jinghui didn't know about the discussion at Wang Anshi's home in Dong Taishi Lane, but it really made Wang Anguo understand. Due to the great differences between the two sides, although the letters to establish a special forces unit were not abolished, it was difficult to pass it. However, the eyes of important officials of the court were immediately attracted by Wang Anshi. Under the power of Emperor Zhao Xu, Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law and the Law of Exemption of Service were finally approved by the two provinces of the Secretariat. Songbu was trialed on Jingji Road, Jingdong Road, Liangzhe Road, and Huainan East Road.
The only benefit to Wang Anshi's trial of the new law was that the problem of establishing the stalemate was solved by the beginning of the solution of the stalemate's establishment of the special forces. Wang Anshi himself and the officials of the new law were in this plan, and under Wen Yanbo, the conservative officials were also the only objection was the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Councilor Guo Kui and his General Staff. At this time, the opposition power led by Guo Kui seemed too weak. Moreover, the Song Dynasty's political tradition of "governing military affairs with civility" also helped Wang Jinghui. However, as Wang Anguo said, the scale of the special forces was not large. First, establish an experimental army of 1,000 people to observe its effect before deciding whether to abolish this branch or vigorously develop this branch.
It is not the first time to rely on Wang Anshi to divert his attention to achieve his goals, but this time it made Wang Jinghui particularly awkward. The provisions of the Qingmiao Law proposed by Wang Anshi were no different from those in history. The main reason is that when Wang Jinghui improved the Qingmiao Law in Chuzhou, Chuzhou was originally a prosperous place. The people did not need such a change, and the effect was not obvious. Therefore, Wang Anshi did not adopt Wang Jing's provisions of the Qingmiao Law. More importantly, the launch of the Qingmiao Law requires a huge amount of court finance. Although the court's finance has improved, the annual surplus has only just reached the level of 8 million guan. It is obviously not enough to use these 8 million guan to implement the Qingmiao Law. The only way to be clean is to use the historical mobile always-off position to remedy it.
Seeing that the drought next year is coming, it is not a good thing for Wang Jinghui at this time the transfer of national fiscal policy to the new law! However, what comforted him was that he had made sufficient preparations. When the Southern Line of the Royal Sea Freight Line of the Song Dynasty returned to the Song Dynasty, he had already purchased a large amount of grain according to his needs. In the past two years, Goryeo also imported a lot of grain from Goryeo. All the grain actively entered the Song Dynasty to the north Jiaoxian port, and then transferred to the Hebei routes and the northwest through post roads. However, the loss and cost in this were too high.
Wang Jinghui knew this very well. The solution to this is to turn state lending into merchant lending, and to carry out the method of complete market regulation. Although he established the Dasong Xingguo Bank in Chuzhou for this purpose, he dare not mention it now. The big boss behind the empire's lending dealer was a landlord, a local tyrant. After all, he was intricately involved in the court. If the state uses state methods to force the lower interest rates, it will be anger. Wang Jinghui has only waited, waiting for Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law to anger important officials.
According to the political statement of this era, Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law is to "compete with the people for profit" and compete with private lending institutions for lending profits. Although Wang Anshi's price is as high as 20% or 30%, it is indeed much lower than the general interest of private lenders for 67% or 7% of the people. The so-called "Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law" lends more, the more interests of traditional lenders will be violated - of course this does not include Xingguo Bank. The interest of Xingguo Bank has always been 20% to 30%. Although Xingguo Bank is running a lively job, it never promotes lending business in Hebei, and most of them are placed in the south. Most of the bureaucrats in the imperial area are from the north, and the power of the south is much weaker than that, and the big bosses in the court accused Xingguo Bank and their own sphere of influence. As long as they do not cross the boundaries, they will not be hit.
Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law will inevitably destroy this balance. Qingmiao Law is implemented by state forces. He does not care about the local forces on your territory. The vested interest territorial forces are affected. Of course, he will not be left alone. At that time, Wang Anshi's trouble will come. It is not that Wang Jinghui doesn't want to promote Xingguo Bank's low-interest loan business to the north, but he doesn't want to cause this trouble because of the powerful clans of traditional forces.
"The two evils are more important than the minority!" Wang Jinghui took a sip of tea and said slowly to Manager Li on the opposite side: "Of course, those big families in the north will not like Xingguo Bank to go deep into their territory to lend, but they don't like Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Method even more!"
Manager Li smiled and said, "What do you think about changing it? However, the rich people in the north love and hate Xingguo Bank. They want to unite us, but they are afraid that our local banks will lend to their territory. The prevention is very strict!"
Wang Jinghui lowered his head and thought for a while and said, "It's nothing. After Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law is implemented in Jingdong and the two routes, they will have little choice. All we have to do is to clean up the mess in the end! And I am not going to let Xingguo Bank enter such tough areas as Hebei."
Seeing Manager Li being stunned, Wang Jinghui smiled and said, "We can let these rich people bleed and form a bank together with us!"
"Ah?! Then will they reduce the interest rate?"
"The most important function of Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law is to calm down the current high interest rate of lending in the empire. This is a good thing, but Wang Anshi respects the personal ethics of imperial officials too much. Although the interest rate is high when local tyrants borrow from farmers, they will be more polite when repaying the loan. When encountering disasters, they will take the initiative to lower the interest rate of borrowing. However, the lower-level officials of the empire are really... It is estimated that these 20% of the lending interest rates will become high interest rates when farmers hear it. All kinds of methods can be played out. In the end, the unlucky one is the farmers, and Wang Jiefu is the one who takes the blame!" Wang Jinghui said slowly.
Manager Li nodded after hearing this. He had been doing business for many years and had many places to travel to, so he was very clear about the officials at the bottom of the Song Dynasty. "But what does this have to do with the establishment of a bank? At worst, is it okay not to borrow money from Qingmiao?"
"Hehe!" Wang Jinghui sneered and said, "Don't borrow it?! If the Qingmiao money from the court cannot be borrowed, where can the benefits of the Qingmiao Law be reflected?! How can the officials at the bottom who want to be promoted day and night can get the favor of Wang Xianggong?!"
"Can you force a levy? Didn't the new law of the court clearly stipulate that it cannot be forced to levy?" Manager Li is not a fool. Of course, he could understand what Wang Jinghui said. Although he said he did not believe in forcibly levy, he still recognized Wang Jinghui's statement in his heart. Even if he had achieved that position, he had no choice but to do so in order to get a high-speed promotion.
"The superiors have something to do. What's worse! Wang Jiefu would never dream of the Qingmiao Law he used to enrich the country and democracy to become a real tool to harm the people in the hands of the lower-level officials of the empire. At that time, Wang Jiefu will promote a few lower-level officials who have implemented the Qingmiao Law. Humph, that will be even more lively!"
"Things will not evolve as Jianzhi said..." Manager Li comforted him. In fact, even he himself believed that the final outcome of Qingmiao Fa was what Wang Jinghui said.
"Wang Jiefu's road is not working, so I will put this patch on him. It is considered as his previous reward, and he also promoted the bank to the north! Qingmiao Method is to lower interest rates. When the local heroes are almost tossed by Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Method, it will be your turn to come forward!"
"What are the answers to change this?!"
"Brother Zhenquan first prepares a sum of funds for the establishment of a bank. Now it is mainly to establish a good relationship with the big families in the north. When the time is ripe, I will make some arrangements. However, please worry about the shopkeepers of the branch colums across the country to pay attention to the property status of the officials who are capable of implementing the Qingmiao Law. I am useful!" Wang Jinghui said coldly. Wang Jinghui did not believe that the lower-level officials were so clean, and even threw them out with stones and could hit a corrupt official. At least he knew that Lu Huiqing was not such a clean person. Although this guy was still at home, Wang Jinghui was not so relieved about this famous guy in history books. Now Lu Huiqing's official position is not very big, but he already had a lot of evidence of corruption between Lu Huiqing and his two waste brothers. As soon as the time came, he would completely solve this dangerous guy.
Just as Wang Jinghui and Manager Li were discussing, Nie Xin hurriedly walked in and whispered a few words to Wang Jinghui. Wang Jinghui's face looked a little ugly, but he still sent Manager Li to the door in person. When Wang Jinghui returned to the study, Nie Xin handed him a small note. There was a slight drought in all the Hebei routes this year, and there were small locust plagues in Guangxin Army, Ansu Army and Xiongzhou!
After reading it, Wang Jinghui couldn't help but feel a little sank in his heart - the clues of the locust plague have already appeared. Due to the military confrontation between the Song and Liao countries, there has been no news from the Liao side. If it can be proved that the locusts that appeared at the northern end of Hebei Road in the Song Dynasty flew over from the Liao side, then this disaster will break out on a large scale in the Song Dynasty next year. Wang Jinghui did not dare to delay this, and immediately took a car into the palace to face the holy.
"There will be a locust plague next year?" Emperor Zhao Xu said in surprise. Wang Jinghui came to the palace to face the saints and basically would not be released. He successfully met Emperor Zhao Xu. After mysteriously repelling the eunuchs around him, he reported to Zhao Xu about the occurrence of locusts on Hebei Road. Emperor Zhao Xu changed his expression when he heard this.
"It should be. The possibility is very high! Although there has not been any news from the Liao Kingdom, there have been small-scale locust plagues in the military prefectures at the northernmost end of Hebei Road. This should have been flew from the Liao border. As long as the news from the Liao Kingdom is heard for a few days, it can be confirmed!"
Emperor Zhao Xu frowned and walked back and forth in the pavilion for a few times and said, "Your dear, how big will this locust plague be?!"
Emperor Zhao Xu did not have to worry about droughts. After all, there were no need to mention other dynasties, even since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there were many droughts in various places. However, the locust plague was believed by people at that time to incite the emperor to punish the world. Moreover, at the critical moment of the imperial court's major reform, if the emperor had only used a "crime edict" in the past, it could be solved. Emperor Zhao Xu had to pay close attention to this. What he was even more worried about was that the locust plague caused the large-scale impeachment of Wang Anshi's reform by conservative court officials. The reform that had been launched was finally launched and was still in the womb. This was not only difficult for the backbone of the reformists such as Wang Anshi, but even the emperor Zhao Xu, who was determined to be strong, could not accept such a result.
"The scale of the locust plague cannot be determined yet. All of this will have to be roughly estimated when the information returned by the Liao Kingdom will be informed. However, according to past experience, this year's small locust plague may turn into large-scale locust plague next year, especially some small droughts have occurred on Hebei Road this year. If the drought continues to worsen, the locust plague next year will be even more uncontrollable!" Wang Jinghui said seriously.
Emperor Zhao Xu frowned and shouted loudly, "Come here. Please ask Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo, Han Jiang, and Zeng Gongliang to enter the palace!"
Wang Jinghui hurriedly stopped him and said, "Master, these secret matters should not be too spread. Everyone should not know about the two governments and three departments. The situation is not clear now. Just summon Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo. The two ministers in the court will decide the rest. As for Wen Yanbo, it is necessary to go, which is related to the further direction between the Song and Liao countries!"
After hearing this, Emperor Zhao Xu looked at Wang Jinghui and said, "You are very thoughtful. People come to summon Wang Anshi and Sima Guang into the palace!" After hearing the words of Emperor Zhao Xu, the Meat Master immediately ran out to summon Sima Guang, Wang Anshi and Wen Yanbo went.
When Wang Jinghui saw Emperor Zhao Xu frowned, he comforted him: "Your Majesty, don't worry too much, don't worry about drought and locust plagues. I have accumulated more grain on Hebei and the fourth routes in the northwest Shaanxi. Goryeo and Nanyang have been doing well in recent years, and the grain harvest is excellent. I have already instructed the Royal Sea Fleet of the Song Dynasty to purchase local grain at a large amount of low prices. The port of transportation is Jiaoxian. Through the post road, you can directly reach Hebei. It can be said that the food in the Song Dynasty is increasing every day. It is estimated that by next spring, my grain reserves in the north can reach 1.5 million stones, which is more than enough for disaster relief. If it is not enough, there will be Guanghui warehouses in all parts of the north!"
Emperor Zhao Xu, after hearing this, his brows stretched out and said, "Fortunately, my dear is ready for the future. Otherwise, I really don't know what to do! But this time my dear will spend more money!"
"The emperor works hard to govern and take the lead in reducing the cost of the imperial family. I love the emperor and favor him. As a member of the royal family, I should share my worries and solve problems for him! Don't worry about disaster relief, but the consequences caused by this are unpredictable. If you don't plan it in advance, you will inevitably fall. It will not only cause internal strife within the court, but also give the Khitans an opportunity to take advantage of!" Wang Jinghui bowed and said.
After hearing this, Emperor Zhao Xu nodded and said, "If it is really as my dear, the reforms on Wang Xiang's side will indeed be greatly affected, but what is the solution to give the Khitans an opportunity to take advantage of?!"
"If the Khitans learn the inside story at the same time, after learning the inside story, they will inevitably send an envoy to ask for land to increase their annual tribute. If our Song Dynasty does not, we will place hundreds of thousands of troops on the border. How will the emperor deal with it? What should the court officials feel in their hearts? Although the Liao Kingdom is going downhill again, the accumulated power of the Empress Dowager Xiao can still make our Song officials worry! I dare to make bet with the emperor that most of the court officials will agree to surrender to the power of the Khitans - even though the Liao Kingdom does not have the ability to launch a war against our Song Dynasty!" Wang Jinghui said in a solemn manner.
Emperor Zhao Xu waved his hand and said, "I admit defeat! I and my beloved have lost both bets. I have not paid my bets yet. How can I add a new account after I have made the old account clear?!"
Emperor Zhao Xu's mood was much better at this time and he had already relaxed when he spoke. Although there was a disaster next year that was shrouded in his head, his brother-in-law now prepared everything for him in advance. In his eyes, next year's disaster would not hurt the vitality of the Song Dynasty except for the poor harvest.
"Since you can think of it, there must be a solution, so let me tell you by the way!" Emperor Zhao Xu said with a smile.
"Master, I have no good ideas for this matter, but it does not mean that others have no choice. What I mean is..." Just as Wang Jinghui wanted to express his thoughts, the eunuch from afar came over. Wang Jinghui closed his mouth as soon as he saw Wang Anshi, Wen Yanbo and Sima Guang were waiting there in their official uniforms, and they knew that they had entered the palace by the order.
Because Wang Jinghui was going to discuss political affairs with Emperor Zhao Xu when he entered the palace, he was wearing the official uniform of the son-in-law Duwei. Emperor Zhao Xu had become accustomed to his visit, and the place where he met was the imperial garden of the palace, so he was wearing casual clothes. At this time, Wang Anshi and Si Guang were ordered to come to the palace to meet the saint. If he wore casual clothes, he would not have the intention of treating the ministers. So he asked the eunuch to lead Wang Jinghui and four others to wait in Funing Hall first, and he went to change into the dragon robe. Although the summer had passed, Qiu Laohu was still very powerful. Wearing the dragon robe at this time did make Emperor Zhao Xu feel a little uncomfortable.
Wang Jinghui, Wang Anshi and others were waiting for the arrival of Emperor Zhao Xu in the Funing Hall. The three of them didn't know why the emperor hurriedly called them. However, from the expression of the eunuch, you could feel that the summoning of Emperor Zhao Xu was very small, so you came without delay. When you saw the son-in-law Wang Jinghui talking to Emperor Zhao Xu from afar, you realized that today's summoning might have a deep connection with the son-in-law.
Chapter completed!