Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 325 0320 [Fang Seven Buddhas Come Back]

The 200 million military expenditures cannot be paid in full at once.

It's impossible for a year!
The official ships and horses came out everywhere, sending orders as quickly as possible, and all the transshipment envoys received their tasks.

Cai Yi put down the four-hundred-mile urgent document, his expression a little ugly.

According to the number of Dingkou, Guangxi needs to collect 60 Guan.Evenly divided, regardless of the main customer, each Dingkou is about 450 Wen.

How can the people at the bottom get it out?
In the remote areas of Guangxi, many people are still bartering, and they can't afford a hundred coins!
What's more, even if all the officials are not greedy, the subordinate officials still have to take the opportunity to make money, and it is impossible for the subordinate officials to do it for nothing.

If Guangxi wants to collect 60 guan in full, the people have to spend at least a million guan.

even more.

Cai Yi called all the officials of the Guangxi Transshipment Department, took out the official document and said, "Wait, let's make arrangements. The imperial court is going to fight, and all parties have to pay the exempt money."

All the officials felt a headache after reading the official document.

Guangxi is too poor, and the richest people in some remote states and counties have a total net worth of only a few thousand.Even if the rich households are asked to apportion, they really can't share much.

But the imperial court has already assigned a task, no matter how much they lie down, they still have to pretend to carry out the order.

If the collection is insufficient, just wait for punishment.

Cai Yi's psychological expectation is to collect 40 guan, and at least 60% of the amount must be completed.

Within a month, all prefectures in Guangxi received the order, and then it was conveyed to all counties.The pressure is applied layer by layer, one level at a time, and it is still increasing. After all, state and county officials also get kickbacks.

The task of tax collection is ultimately on the grassroots Baojia chiefs.

The head of the Baojia can only force the farmers to their death. If they really can't complete the task, they have to pay for it themselves.

A large number of Baojia chiefs and Luncha Yaqian fled, and they couldn't live through this day. They didn't care about any family property, and the whole family directly hid in the mountains as fugitives.

Fang Qifo led the remnants of the Fang La uprising and fled all the way to Daozhou and Lanshan.

Due to the influence of the miasma, only a few hundred people were left to die.The government exempted the husband's money so forcefully, and immediately provided Fang Qifo with a source of troops, and even joined the Liao people, the Yao people, and the Wuxi Man.

At the border of Jingnan South Road, Fang Qifo actually pulled out thousands of troops, and the flames of the uprising soon spread to the northeast of Guangxi.

Guiling and Fuzhou were successively attacked by rebels of various ethnic groups, and more than 2 rebels surrounded Hezhou. The magistrate of Hezhou urgently asked Cai Yi for rescue.

There is also a famous general in Guangxi, named Li Gong.Wu Jinshi was born and moved to Rongzhou Zhizhou due to his hard work, and he also had the false title of Zhongzhou Governor.

Historically, Li Gong recruited [-] soldiers to King Qin, and he was sentenced to lead the soldiers away halfway.

He went all the way north from Guangxi, and when he arrived in Hengyang, he had less than [-] troops.Tens of thousands of Jin soldiers occupied Hengyang, so Li Gong could only withdraw to neighboring counties, but the civil officials refused to let him enter the city, and only wanted to provide a little food and grass.

The generals persuaded Li Gong to withdraw his troops, but Li Gong insisted on resisting the gold, and finally died in Hunan.

At this moment, Cai Yi managed to recruit more than [-] guan. Because Hezhou was surrounded by rebels, he could only use money to quell the chaos, and urgently dispatched Li Gong to suppress it.

……

Seven Star Academy.

More than 200 students, regardless of class, gathered around Ju Ming cross-legged and formed a circle.

Zhu Ming said: "Today, I will make an appointment with all living beings. If we don't talk about anything else, we will talk about making the country rich and the army strong, and benevolent government and loving the people. Why did Mencius say that those who can expand the territory and enrich the treasury for the monarch are not good ministers but thieves of the people? Who Can you explain why?"

Chen Dong stood up abruptly: "Expanding the territory is at the cost of military arrogance, and enriching the treasury is by exploiting the people. It looks like a rich country and a strong army, but in fact it is cruel and ruthless. It gains dominance for a while, but loses the kingly way of a century!"

Zhu Ming nodded and said: "I often say that the words of sages and sages should not be speculated on one's own. You have to look at the era in which the sages lived. The principles are all the same and have never changed. But there are some principles that need to be adapted. Three emperors and five emperors, a small country with few people, Can it be the same as now?"

"Mencius said that there was no righteous war in the Spring and Autumn Period, because the princes from all walks of life are all Xia. They fight, just like Guangdong fighting Guangxi. What results can they achieve? It is nothing more than laboring people and money in exchange for their own dominance."

"Fighting against the barbarians is different. It is fighting against foreigners, protecting the Chinese etiquette system, and opening up land for the Chinese descendants."

"That's why Zi Gong said that Guan Zhong is not a benevolent man. Confucius said that Guan Zhong ruled the world, and the people have been blessed by him. If there is no Guan Zhong, the Chinese people can only wear their left coats and be enslaved by those barbarians. known."

"Can all the students understand?"

Lei Guan said: "It is an unjust war internally, but a just war externally."

Zhu Ming asked again: "The imperial court plans to attack Liao, is it a righteous war?"

Lei Guan replied: "Although Song and Liao are a state of brothers, the Liao country has bullied me and the Song Dynasty a lot. Defeating Liao is a righteous war!"

"Can justice be fought?" Zhu Ming asked again.

Wei Liangchen said: "Naturally, a righteous war must be fought, but the timing must be seized. Now that the country is exhausted and the people are poor, they are like a seriously ill person. How can you fight a strong neighbor when you are seriously ill? Even if you want to take back the land occupied by the strong neighbor, You should recover from your illness before you go. The imperial court ordered the forced expropriation of your husband’s money, which is like a seriously ill person who sells iron. Even if you win, so what? The rice cooker has been smashed, what will I eat in the future? I am already seriously ill and have no food Eat, sooner or later you will get sick and starve to death!"

Zhu Ming clapped his hands and said, "That's a wonderful statement!"

Fu Yuanheng said: "If you sell everything you want, you can defeat the strong neighbors and regain your own property. It's fine to endure the hunger, as long as you live a better life in the future. But today's holy emperor, will he really rest after the war? Before killing them all, Hua Shi Gang was restored. And it was intensified, and money was collected in the southeast. People in the southeast live in even more hardship, what did this man do?"

Fu Yuanheng's words were the most violent, because his house was robbed by Fang La and the officers and soldiers back and forth, and after the war, the government confiscated economic money.Huashi Gang has not stopped yet, and his family has to pay the husband's money for exempting Liao.

Zhu Ming said again: "Mencius said that people have a constant saying, and they all call it 'the country of the world'. The foundation of the world lies in the country, the foundation of the country lies in the family, and the foundation of the family lies in the body. What is the explanation for this statement?"

Chen Dong quoted the "Book of History" and replied: "The people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is the foundation of the country."

Zhu Ming nodded: "So, we can interpret the two paragraphs of "University" together..."

"One paragraph is, if there is virtue, there are people, there are people, there is soil, there is soil, there is wealth, and wealth is useful... Therefore, if wealth gathers, people will disperse, and wealth will disperse, and people will gather."

"One paragraph is, there is a way to make wealth. Those who live are many, those who eat are few, those who eat it are sick, and those who use it are comfortable, then there will be enough wealth."

"There are thousands of people who make money, so it is said that there are many people who live. The people are the foundation of the country. If there are people, there will be land, and if there are land, there will be wealth. Why is the population in the Song Dynasty prosperous, but the country is struggling?"

"It's because there are so many rentiers! The king gathers money, and the officials are greedy. They have to pay the old coins, and they have to support the army. How can the treasury not be empty?"

"Cai Jing and Wang Fu are the prime ministers, and they are the ones who use the money. Before they conquered Xixia, and later they went north to attack Liao. During this period, Fangla was also pacified. Why should they be used? These battles should be fought, but they can't be fought like this. A chance for the people to breathe."

"To exempt the husband's money today, the wealth gathered by the people will be dispersed."

"The people are the foundation of the country, and if the people are scattered, the country will be in chaos. That's why there is a saying, one family is benevolent, one country prospers benevolence; one family gives way, one country prospers; one person is greedy, one country creates chaos. Who is 'one person'? This king also!"

The students nodded one after another, they were all dissatisfied with the courtiers and ministers.

Even if they are local students, this time their families were apportioned, and they really didn't have a good impression of the emperor.

But that's the only way I dare not say more.

Li Bao suddenly said: "I'm afraid I have to change the official family."

The expressions of the teachers who were sitting next to him suddenly changed, and Fan Zhiming coughed, "Speak carefully!"

Zhu Ming cupped his hands towards Fan Zhiming: "The country has changed, and I want to go north, so I will leave today."

Fan Zhiming asked suspiciously: "If you are successfully resettled in Guizhou, what can you do even if you go north?"

Zhu Ming said: "Admonish the king, if you don't succeed, you will be benevolent."

"Admonishment" is also an admonition, of course, if it is not successful, it will be benevolent.

Fan Zhiming was in awe, and persuaded: "Why should success be like this, you should keep a useful body for the future."

Zhu Ming also said to the students: "I want to go north to help the world. Those who follow can go there, and those who don't want to stay. There is Fan Tuanlian in Qixing Academy, and he can continue to study."

"Someone is willing to follow Mr.!" Chen Dong stood up first.

Fu Yuanheng was the second to stand up.

The 27 expelled Taixue all chose to follow the left and right.

As for the local students, there are also two who are willing to follow.

When they find out what Ju Ming wants to do, their jaws will drop in shock. Only then will they face a real choice.

Over the past year, Zhu Ming has subtly brainwashed and instilled the idea that the people are more important than the king.

It is heard that a husband was punished by Zhou, but he was not heard of killing the king.This sentence has been mentioned many times, not to encourage the students to kill the emperor, but to let the students downplay their obedience to the emperor.

The effect is not bad, even Zhang Tong is often "disrespectful", privately complaining about Song Huizong's various coquettish operations.

The ship has been connected, and Zhu Ming left with his entourage and students.

He didn't even bother to go to the government to apply to go home to visit his relatives. Anyway, the state and county officials were busy collecting taxes and couldn't care about Ju Ming's affairs at all.

Zhu Guoxiang also sent someone to deliver a letter, but the letter was still on the way, far inferior to the urgent official document of the imperial court four hundred miles away.

When Zhu Ming left Guizhou, Cai You had just headed north with an army of 15.

He passed Lingqu and came to Quanzhou, and heard that Fang Qifo had revived in the next door Daozhou.When Zhu Ming passed Yongzhou, Fang Qifo had captured Daozhou City and led his army to Yongzhou.

The ethnic minorities in Daozhou and Lanshan parted ways with Fang Qifo after the uprising.

Fang Qifo went north, and the volunteers of various ethnic groups went south, and soon captured Fuchuan County.

It wasn't until Zhu Ming passed Dongting Lake that Wu Jinshi Li Gong finally led his troops to quell the chaos.

The two sides fought outside the city of Hezhou. With [-] miscellaneous soldiers, Li Gong defeated [-] rebels of all ethnic groups with few victories.

After regaining Fuchuan County, Li Gong stopped marching.Because the further north is the border of Hunan, without the permission of the transfer envoy of Jinghu Road, he cannot lead troops across the border to fight against Fang Qifo.

In two months, Fang Qifo occupied Yongzhou, Quanzhou, and Daozhou, owning three states and nine counties.

And also under the banner of Fang La.

Fang Layi's army came back to life in Hunan, all relying on Wang Fu's forced collection of war funds.

(End of this chapter)