Chapter 1025

"You guys, impeach Wang Wushan?" Emperor Zhao Xu looked at the memorial placed on the imperial case with some pain, looked at the three people with righteousness and stood up proudly, as if they were the censors of the most loyal ministers of the Song Dynasty.

"Yes, the reason why I impeached Lord Wang was because Lord Wang was ignorant of the court's laws and regulations, and actually ran a school without authorization on the North Road of Shaanxi. Moreover, in the college, he did not teach the Four Books and Five Classics, and practiced some business affairs. If the court did not take action, then those merchants would follow suit in the future and the future was in a turbulent life. How could this be great?"

"Yes, I also think it is inappropriate for Wang Jingluo to establish such colleges on Shaanxi North Road..."

"I am also the two great masters who have the same idea. I also asked Your Majesty to issue an order to denounce Wang Jingluo and ask him to stop the establishment of that technical training school to demonstrate the national law."

"Three Qing families, I am just curious. Which law of my Song Dynasty law has been violated by Wang Wushan, running a school on the North Shaanxi Road?" Emperor Zhao Xu calmed down, narrowed his eyes, and asked slowly.

"Your Majesty, although he does not violate the law, he despises the learning of sages. In that school, he only teaches business affairs. Isn't this the way of being a Song Dynasty based on Confucianism and governing the country with filial piety?"

Of course, if you dare to jump out and criticize, Wang Yang has to make up some reasonable, at least reasonable reasons. But now this is really reasonable.

The emperor was also quite distressed. Before, he could directly retaliate against Wang Yang and Wang Wushan, but now, the attack points of these censors really made him feel like he was meddling with other people's business with rats, but he didn't know how to retaliate.

After thinking about it, Emperor Zhao Xu cleared his throat. "I will ask Wang Wushan personally, let's do this for now. Well, Chen Qing, it's been over New Year's Day. I wonder what the court tax income last year?"

The emperor's eyes fell on the Minister of Revenue.

The Minister of Revenue glanced at the three censors who had retreated in disappointment, and then he stepped forward and started talking to the emperor after celebrating him.

Although there was a shocking war in Shaanxi last year, fortunately, there have been no major problems in the war.

Moreover, last year, the Song Dynasty was considered a good weather, a prosperous country and a peaceful country, and tax revenue even increased slightly compared with the previous year.

However, last year, due to the war in northern Shaanxi Road, military expenditures suddenly increased by 1.5 million yuan. After hearing this news, the emperor Zhao Xu's heart was bleeding.

However, just as the emperor Zhao Xu's little heart had just dripped a few drops of blood, Chen Shangshu's words once again made Emperor Zhao Xu come back to his senses.

"...Since last year, 70,000 xiang soldiers on the North Road of Shaanxi were transferred to the people. The military pay for each xiang army was reduced by half as the military pay for the imperial guards, which was about 1.96 million jin a year. In other words, in the last six months, our Song Dynasty saved 980,000 jin in military pay.

In addition, the relocation of the Xiang army this year has been going very smoothly. If the subsequent 120,000 Xiang army can be transferred to the people before April, I expect that this year, I can save about 4.5 million knots of military pay. By next year, this number will become 5.32 million knots..."

Chen Hubu stood in the court with an expressionless face, talking nonsense, and when he heard the news, all the big guys in the court changed their qualities, and some even exclaimed in surprise.

Even though the emperor Zhao Xu, who sat peacefully behind the imperial case, had carefully calculated the amount, now, he couldn't help but want to take a deep breath and save 5.32 million jin of military expenditure every year.

This is really not a small amount. You should know that one of the important taxes in the Song Dynasty today: tea tax, and its annual income is only about 2.5 million guan.

Wang Yang did one thing in the six prefectures on the north road of Shaanxi, which was to migrate the Xiang army to fill the six prefectures. Tens of thousands of Xiang army were transferred to the people, which added nearly one million people to work in the north road of Shaanxi, and also reduced the heavy burden of the Song Dynasty by almost 70% of the Xiang army.

This was still strongly opposed by various states, and the number of people was finally determined after repeated bargaining with the emperor.

But no one expected that Wang Yang did not ask the court for a grain of food. The usual subsidy was just relying on selling deserted fields, so he collected enough money to migrate and resettle the tens of thousands of soldiers and his family. It also allowed the Song Dynasty to reduce the expenditure of 5.32 million guan a year.

Such credit is really, at least among the civil and military officials in the court, those ministers who were full of malice and evil intentions towards Wang Yang and Wang Wushan were truly envious and jealous at this moment.

No one expected that when Wang Yang mentioned that when he asked the Xiang army to migrate to the three states of Yan, You and Hong, the first thought of the civil and military officials in the court was to think that guy was crazy. The second thought was, OK, you can come and see what you can do. At that time, the civil and military officials in the court were just right to see the joke of you, a young man who didn't know the world.

As a result, this guy actually made a fussy ginning machine, which could easily turn the cotton that could only be removed by hand, which was only hard to use, into a new fabric that could enter the homes of ordinary people.

What’s important is that when the emergence of hydraulic floral mills and hydraulic textile machines made everyone in the world shocked to find that the thing actually made the production process of cotton fabrics far lower than that of hemp products.

Therefore, the low-priced and durable cotton products have begun to radiate into the Song Dynasty through the three states.

What makes people even more helpless is that the three states of Yan, Yu and Hongna are located in a bitter and cold place. Most areas have drought and rainy rain, but there is plenty of sunshine. Therefore, the deserted fields there have become the best place for growing cotton, a drought-loving crop.

Therefore, by selling barren fields, Wang Yang completely solved the funds for migrating hundreds of thousands of people, and was able to renovate and build the important city roads in the six states.

Nowadays, not only vendors from Shaanxi Road are rushing in the land of Yanzhou, but even vendors from Tokyo Bianliang, and even in Jiangnan, the most talked about are the green salt from Yanzhou, as well as the cotton products with excellent quality, good quality and affordable prices.

Now, Wang Yang not only perfectly solved the cost of migrating hundreds of thousands of people, but also saved the court 3.8 million jin of military expenditure.

"The war between the Liao and Xia last year led to an increase of 1.5 million guan of military expenditure in the Song Dynasty, but the migration of the Xiang army saved 950,000 guan. In addition, the annual grants spent about 120,000 guan to the Western Xia were stopped, so the income and expenditure were only equivalent to an additional 430,000 guan. So, the tax surplus of our Song Dynasty last year was about 170,000 guan..."
Chapter completed!