Chapter 380 Confrontation (Part 2)
Zhao Pu is very smart and has not sentenced Zhang Wangbei to death. He has insufficient crimes. If Zhang Wangbei is sentenced to abandon the market, he must obtain Zhao Kuangyi's consent, which will cause variables.
But even if he was sentenced to exile to Shaman Island and replaced Song Jiu in the Secretariat, he would not dare to convict Liushaman Island without Zhao Kuangyi's consent, but Zhao Pu dared. The matter was a foregone conclusion. Zhao Kuangyi still needed Zhao Pu now, and Song Jiu started to make trouble. Will the verdict be changed?
However, Zhao Pu may be good at being smart, but he did not know the specific origins and outs of Zhao Kuangyi and the Zhang brothers and sisters, so he misjudged it.
Song Jiu's methods are also very simple.
First, he asked Guo Da to investigate in Yu County, and made some other arrangements, and then asked Qi to appeal. Not to mention that Zhang Wangbei's judgment was unfair, but to say that someone intended to dig a dike, it had nothing to do with the judgment of the Secretariat, but became a case, and if it became a case, it could be overturned again.
He found Zhao Kuangyi again, told him about the incident, and then said that he had opened 900 hectares of silted fields.
The number of 900 hectares is not high. It is impossible to count how much cultivated land in the Song Dynasty. If you grasp it tightly, you will have a little more, and if you grasp it loosely, you will have a little less. There are many hidden fields, and the purpose of hidden fields is to evade taxes. However, some people estimate that the cultivated land will reach more than 8 million hectares at the peak of the Song Dynasty, and the average arable land in a county will be close to 8,000 hectares.
However, there were only more than 1,700 households in Yun County. This was because Song Jiu captured many people in Zhuozhou City and placed them in Hebei and Hedong. It turned out that there were only more than 900 households. There were only 30,000 households in the entire Northern Han Dynasty. How many people might be there in Yun County?
If there are about 1,700 households with 900 hectares of fertile silt fields, then they will go to the original mulberry and madi land, how rich will the lives of the people in the county become? People will die. However, if there are no more than 900 hectares of silt fields in a year, how many people will die of poverty and death from illness. How many people will die of old age early and have no money to get married and leave their hometowns? Who will be older and who will be younger?
Someone went to Yu County to deliberately instigate, and even Qi's appeal. Something bad may have happened...
Enough.
Sun Rixin's ugly performance made Zhao Kuangyi very dissatisfied, so he took over the case himself.
He also sent Hao Zheng, the envoy from Rujing, to go to Yu County to investigate.
Hao Jing went down to see and got the results soon.
Zhang Wangbei not only has the effect of silting fields, but also the entire Yun County is not entirely a barren place. There are also some natural small river valley basins that can be cultivated and cultivated. After two years of governance in Zhang Wangbei, the people have basically settled down. However, some people mainly hunted. Zhang Wangbei was deeply influenced by Song Jiu and was mainly quiet. They tried their best to persuade them, but they did not force them. So they encouraged merchants to build some shops in the county town for these hunters to sell what they hunted. Last year, they did something to plant grapes in Yun County, intending to introduce wine brewing technology in the future. In Liangzhou and Taiyuan wines in the Tang Dynasty were the best in the world. During the Five Dynasties, these industries were lost, but the technology became backward and the scale of the industry was very small. Zhang Wangbei wanted to recreate the grand scene of the Tang Dynasty.
This is still early, it has been planted, the scale is not too large, and it will not be officially achieved until next year.
The victim of the dead was unhappy, but other people saw these changes, and they usually looked at the fairness of the case, and were not greedy or impolite. Guo Da went to Yu County and secretly pointed out a few more words.
As soon as Hao Jing arrived, countless people begged for pardon to Zhao Kuangyi and asked the emperor to ask Zhang Wangbei to come back.
How dare Hao Jing agree? Even if this matter is forgiven Zhang Wangbei's crime, Zhang Wangbei will not be able to stay in Yu County.
Some gentry wrote books on the people and asked Zujing to bring it to Zhao Kuangyi.
Hao Jing looked around and saw that this kid was doing well, so he curiously detoured Lingshi County. Zhang Wangbei was the first magistrate of Lingshi, and he was a little awkward, but he also had political voices.
After looking at it, Hao Jing returned to the capital and reported the situation to Zhao Kuangyi.
Zhao Kuangyi was silent for most of the day.
At this moment, he suddenly thought of the earliest students in the academy.
I deliberately suppressed it. Think about it, there are only two or three thousand families in the river. Now there are seven magistrates, twenty-one magistrates, and other officials, such as the county magistrates Bo, the county magistrates, the judicial department of each state, the chief magistrates of each state, and some Beijing officials, almost nearly a hundred people. Don’t talk about yourself, if you change to Emperor Jing of Han, you will also suppress it.
However, it is undeniable that almost 90% of the students in the Song Jiu Academy performed very well. Later, when they arrived at the academy, Song Jiu let go. Although it was good, it became an important official base in the Song Dynasty, but it gradually became worse than before.
After a long period of sadness, he said, "Please avoid looking at Bei's sin."
After thinking about it, he said, "It just so happens that Taigu County is vacant, let him know Taigu County."
Taigu is a county in Ji. Not only did he betray Zhang Wangbei's crime, he also slightly increased, at least he was paid higher than Xiao Kou now.
After another edict was issued, Sun Rixin was dismissed from his official position.
As a dignified censor and an important state supervisor, his performance was too ugly this time.
Zhang Wangbei returned from Dengzhou after the New Year. He did not suffer much, so he took it to Shamen Island. However, Pan Weizheng was deliberately detained in Dengzhou. Before the island was even posted, the new imperial edict of the court arrived.
The benefits are still to come.
In this trouble, Zhang Wangbei entered Zhao Kuangyi's vision. As long as he continued to maintain his style in Yu County, he would have a bright future in his career.
If it comes to popularity, Song Jiu is definitely ten times more popular than Zhao Pu.
However, the problem is to offend Song Jiu. As long as it is not harboring evil intentions, it doesn’t matter if you shout Song Jiu that you did something wrong. Maybe Song Jiu would still communicate with you modestly, what’s wrong with me?
But if you offend Zhao Pu, you will die.
Therefore, there were people who dared to help Zhao Pu in the dispute in the court, but few people dared to help Song Jiu. Even if they were unfair, they could only watch from the wall.
However, there are some people, such as Lei Dexiang and Hou Zhi, who are different. Even without Song Jiu, Zhao Pu also wants to force them to death.
Seeing that Zhao Pu lost a game, some people began to be moved.
When the Lantern Festival is approaching, a banquet is held in the palace, and Hou Zhi suddenly writes a letter at the banquet.
He compared the income and expenditure of the three departments in Taiping Xingguo in three years with the last year.
That year was almost the best time since the founding of the Song Dynasty.
The revenue of copper supervision, steel supervision, Hezhou industry, Maritime Industry, Sugar Industry, Cement, and various pit mine production surged. Another point is that under the suggestion of Song Jiu, various pit mine supervision with low profits or deficits, as well as unimportant Hedu, some auctioned to private contracts, and obtained a large amount of income from one in and out, and at the same time relaxed the labor of the people. However, this article was implemented earlier. Compared with the Song Dynasty in history, they directly or indirectly increased the income of nearly 20 million yuan to the Song Dynasty.
This is definitely not comparable, even Song Jiu cannot compare.
Hou Zhi compared the surplus and the purpose of the expenditure.
The two taxes did not increase that year, but in fact it was equivalent to a loose tax. Under the promotion of the Song Dynasty, many places were developing and developing water conservancy, surrounds in the south of the Yangtze River, cotton in the north, and the population increased, and the arable land area increased, and the two taxes did not increase, which meant that the two taxes in the people were reduced.
But that year, the country's surplus almost reached more than 17 million, and the income count of the Song Dynasty was a bit messy, money was shredded, gold and silver were two, grass was bunch, grain was stone, and cloth was horses. Because the two taxes were relatively reduced, the actual value of this more than 20 million was heavier.
This does not include that year the state allocated a lot of finances to local construction, build water conservancy, build school buildings, pave roads and bridges, otherwise the surplus would be more.
This is income.
There is also the officialdom. Song Jiu's approach made some people laugh at it, but inadvertently, the entire officialdom became sunny and many officials were striving for progress.
Then last year.
In terms of income, the income in the year last year increased by nearly 20 million compared with the third year of Xingguo, but what about the surplus? It was barely only about 3 million. Not to mention the military expenditure last year, Taiping Xingguo reformed the military system in the third year of Xingguo, which also cost a lot of money.
However, the gap between in and out is nearly 30 to 40 million yuan, and where is more than 20 million yuan of money gone? The salary of officials has increased, the pension and reward fees for soldiers has increased, and the disaster relief costs have increased, but it is more unnecessary waste.
As for the officialdom, the situation is getting worse and worse.
Some officials took urgent restraint as a good rule, and the people suffered as a result. Then Hou Zhi listed a lot of evidence.
Hou Zhi has one thing that has not been mentioned yet, that is, the even taxation.
It should be said that the Song Dynasty was more reasonable in taxation, and the Ming Dynasty was strange. The country was poor and the people were rich. But what kind of people were this? The gentry, the big family, the powerful, and even the country was almost over. These big families were unwilling to give a penny to the country. As a result, everyone was finished together.
In fact, Song Jiu reminded Zhao Kuangyin from an earlier time and used Hezhou as a demonstration. After he entered the Secretariat, he also deliberately adjusted it to make the tax collection more reasonable. However, the commercial tax ratio has declined, not because business is no longer good, but better than before. However, the people who collected taxes in the court made historical mistakes. The dignitaries and nobles dared to collect taxes or levy less, and they were small and medium-sized businessmen. The proportion of the two taxes is increasing. Therefore, the data mentioned by Hou Zhi is still not standardized. Although it has increased by more than 20,000 yuan compared with the third year of Xingguo, the actual cost-effectiveness has decreased, but it has only increased by about 10 million yuan. In addition, the various expenses listed by Hou Zhi have resulted in almost no financial savings.
But it cannot be said that it was Zhao Pu's mistake, and there were also Lu Duosun's mistakes. If Song Jiu came, but someone else would come, the mistake might be even bigger.
Listening to Hou Zhi finishing reading this memorial, Zhao Kuangyi's face turned dark.
Song Jiu's face also became gloomy.
What Hou Zhi did may not be a good thing.
Now Song Jiu can see some of Zhao Kuangyi's feelings.
What he wants is a balance.
You are not afraid of fighting, you are afraid of fighting too much.
Zhao Pu attacked Zhang Wangbei. If he succeeded, he not only attacked Song Jiu, but also took away others and turned against him and fired at Song Jiu. And he attacked Song Jiu's relatives.
And Zhao Kuangyi's psychology towards the Zhang brothers and sisters was reversed in time.
But it was not found out who went to Yu County to instigate him. The meaning was very clear. Give me a little quieter and don’t cross the red line.
Now Hou Zhi also crossed the red line, and he pointed out that Prime Minister Zhao Pu did not meet the requirements.
Even Zhao Kuangyi would think that he was forming a clique.
However, Song Jiu could not explain.
Chapter completed!