Prime Minister

Suppress mergers rather than break mergers.

In the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty used Yuwen Rong to issue the Kaiyuan Purchase Restriction Order, prohibiting the sale of land. If the people occupy too much land, the state can forcibly confiscate it and distribute it to refugees.

Kaiyuan Prosperity has a credit for this purchase restriction order.

This Kaiyuan purchase restriction order is to break the merger.

The Song Dynasty never suppressed mergers, as long as you have the money to buy as much land as you want, there is no limit to purchase.In this way, there should be big landlords, but according to the information Zhang Yue gave to the emperor, there are still [-] to [-]% of self-cultivating farmers in the area.

In other words, the gap between the rich and the poor in the Song Dynasty was not serious enough to break the merger.

In the past, in the Tang Dynasty, the law was practiced first, and it was registered by the common people themselves, followed by household heads and scribes.Lu Huiqing wants to investigate property on a large scale among the people, and even allows people to inform people. This method will cause panic among wealthy households and common people.

This is also a broken merger.

The first thing Wang Anshi did after he regained his phase was to stop the manual practice.

Zhang Yue said: "Governing the country is like a good medicine. This kind of annexation is like a medicine for tigers and wolves. It must be done as a last resort, but it will not help to make up for it with gentle methods, so it must be treated according to the symptoms. But people who don't understand it just think It’s harmony and mud, with the middle as the middle.”

The official was convinced by Zhang Yue, his data was so detailed, he couldn't help but not believe it.

Officials asked: "How to suppress mergers instead of breaking mergers?"

Zhang Yue said: "I think that the taxes collected by the court should be used to benefit the people. As long as this is done, it will be taken from the people and used for the people."

The official said: "That's the case, but how difficult it is!"

Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, there is a shortage of money (deflation) in the world today. One is because the imperial court has too little copper money, and the other is because the common people have no money. As long as the common people have money, the money shortage will resolve itself."

There are two ways to deal with the money shortage. A country increases the amount of currency, such as Lu Huiqing's two, five, and ten coins.

Wang Anshi increased the printing of salt banknotes, Zhang Yue wanted to stabilize Jiaozi's currency credit, and Zeng Bu wanted to abolish official minted currency and allow private minting.

There is a joke here. If the imperial court mints a currency with a price tag of [-] million guan, will it mean that the folk money shortage will be solved by itself.

Increasing money supply can alleviate the problem, but fundamentally there is still a problem with the distribution method, because the money is in the hands of the rich, but not in the hands of the common people.

Another way is to break the merger.This method is relatively straightforward. The imperial court directly seized the money of the wealthy households, just like the Kaiyuan purchase restriction order made the great Kaiyuan prosperous age.

But the side effects of breaking the merger are very serious, that is, tiger wolf medicine. If it is not used well, it will kill people. Zhang Yue used the data as an example, but he does not approve of the use of this tiger wolf medicine.After all, I haven't reached this point yet, so why bother myself so much.

Zhang Yuedao: "To take from the people and to use it for the people means that the court will give money directly to the people. There are two ways. The first is the work-for-relief that Wang Xianggong said, and the other is the farmland water conservancy law!"

Work-for-relief and farmland water conservancy law, to put it bluntly, is to carry out infrastructure construction, and these two points are also strongly advocated by Wang Anshi.

The officials were very moved and very pleased.

Zhang Yue knew that he had many discrepancies with Wang Anshi in terms of political views, but he didn't come back to court to cause trouble, and he didn't come to confront Wang Anshi. The most important thing was that everyone asked for common ground while reserving differences.

Find out where everyone agrees, and work it out together, instead of looking at the areas where the two sides are not at odds, and going back and forth with each other.

In this way, there will be more and more friends, and the road will become wider and wider.

Zhang Yue said: "I think these water conservancy projects can be handed over to the people instead of being supervised by the government. The government can set up a project and let private businessmen contract the matter by buying and selling."

The officials frowned, this is where Zhang Yue, Wang Anshi, and Lu Huiqing disagreed again.

Wang Anshi still wants the court to lead all this.

Wang Anshi will definitely object, the method of buying and selling?Did the imperial court give money to businessmen to build water conservancy projects?It's better to do it yourself, and you can save the middleman to make the difference.

However, officials feel that disputes in these areas can be shelved.

The official said to Zhang Yue: "It's really commendable for Zhang Qing to have such considerations, but I called you back to Beijing not for the political reform, but to deal with the affairs of the Liao Kingdom."

"You also know that the Liao Kingdom is powerful and has repeatedly bullied the dynasty. It was not enough to increase the 20-year-old currency during the peace talks during the celebration of the calendar year. Now it is forcing our dynasty to cede land. If we move, we will threaten it with troops."

"But the small state of Cochin has invaded our borders. Last year, during the severe drought and locust plague in our dynasty, its lord unexpectedly raised 20 troops to capture Qinzhou, the two cities of Lianzhou, and besieged Yongzhou."

"I have already decided to attack Jiaozhi, but in order to prevent the Liao Kingdom from taking advantage of the situation, I called you back to Beijing. With you here, I can rest assured."

"Of course this is one thing, and another thing is that the second government is short of people, so I decided to ask you to be the deputy envoy of the Privy Council."

Hearing this, Li Xian on the side had a thought.

Everyone guessed that Zhang Yue's sudden recall to Beijing might be due to other errands, but he didn't expect that he would directly worship him as the ruler.

How many officials have waited for this step, until the blue hair turns white, and the white hair goes to the ground.

Zhang Yue took a deep breath, tried his best to calmly say: "The minister has not had a real job, so he dare not ask for his leadership."

There are generally three envoys in the ruling resume, who know the process of the Kaifeng government, but Zhang Yue does not have this position, he is only a scholar of the Imperial Academy, which is called running the pen.

Sima Guang resigned N times as deputy privy envoy, and Wang Anshi also resigned N times as Hanlin bachelor. This is a process.

The refusal also depends on the excuse. Zhang Yue's excuse is obviously not firm.

The official smiled.

Now in the Second House, Han Jiang and Feng Jing have resigned successively, Wang Gui is not up to the task, Cai Ting and Chen Shengzhi are sick, Wu Chong remains neutral, and is also Wang Anshi's in-law.

Therefore, in order to check and balance Wang Anshi after the complex phase, and prevent his phase from being too large, it is still necessary to use the ancestor's different theory of phase interference.

The officials thought of several candidates. For example, Sima Guang would definitely not work, and he and Wang Anshi would definitely turn the tables when they were in court.

So how can we find people who are not part of Wang Anshi's party without opposing the new law?

Feng Jing would have been a good candidate.

Although Feng Jing opposed Wang Anshi, but after all, the personal relationship between the two is actually okay.

Although the two quarreled back and forth in the official house and the Zhengshitang, one time Wang Anshi fell ill and Feng Jing went to visit him.

Officials thought that Wang Anshi would nominate Feng Jing for prime minister this time when he returned to Beijing.

When the officials asked Feng Jing to be the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, Wang Anshi also opposed it.But then I asked Wang Anshi which one would you choose, Sima Guang or Feng Jing?Wang Anshi said it was still Feng Jing.

But unexpectedly, Wang Anshi learned to answer before he asked this time.After Wang Anshi returned to Beijing, the first thing the king did was to recommend Zhang Yue to the court.

That's right, Wang Anshi did not recommend Feng Jing, but Zhang Yue.

As expected by the officials, the political views of the two are at odds, but they can be compatible in some areas.

It happened that the officials had always wanted to use Zhang Yue, but Wang Anshi hadn't made a statement before.Zhang Yuexihe made great contributions, and he intended to worship Zhang Yue as his prime minister, but Zhang Yue refused.

However, there were seven people in total in the Second House Chief, so it wasn't too short of people.

This time there happened to be a vacancy, and the officials decided to use Zhang Yue to make up for it, and it was better to use their own people. At this moment, he waited for Zhang Yue to agree.