Doctor of the Great Song Dynasty: In the beginning, Li Qingzhao and Li Qingzhao made a private decis

Chapter 142 'Square' Immediate Supplement
Redundancy of officials is the most difficult problem in the Song Dynasty. After all, no one wants to lose an official. Fan Zhongyan fell into this aspect at the beginning. As a result, all the officials opposed him and finally resigned sadly.

And Wang Anshi's reform has learned from Fan Zhongyan's lessons, and put all the focus on redundant troops and redundant expenses, and the aspect of redundant officials is extremely relaxed. Even so, it is still impossible to escape defeat.

And the method of becoming an official at sixty is probably the only way to alleviate the redundancy of officials in the Song Dynasty, and not to arouse opposition from all officials.

"This minister is already sixty-seven this year, and as the head of a hundred officials, he should lead by example and actively cooperate with the strategy of becoming an official at sixty. I sincerely ask the officials for permission."

At this moment, Fan Chunren resigned as prime minister for the third time.

Ancient etiquette, three words and three concessions.

Inside the Chui Gong Palace, all civil and military officials knew that this was Fan Chunren's third resignation as prime minister, and this time, Zhao Xu would have no reason to keep him.

Sure enough, Zhao Xu sighed and said: "Master Fan has worked hard and made great achievements. When he resigned, he still offered me this recipe. Since this recipe was offered by Fan Xianggong, and Fan Xianggong and Fan Taicheng are uncles and nephews. How about Xianggong to take charge!"

Sixty-year-old officials are related to the court officials and doctors. Fan Chunren is the prime minister of the court, and he is naturally very familiar with the court. In addition, he and Fan Zhengnai are uncles and nephews, so he is naturally the most suitable candidate.

"I'm not very honored!" Fan Chunren said solemnly.

All the officials looked at Fan Chunren with puzzled expressions. According to the tradition of the Song Dynasty, once a prime minister was dismissed, the usual behavior was to add an honorary title and be relegated to other places to serve as magistrates. However, Fan Chunren was still entrusted with important tasks after dismissing the prime minister. the prime minister.

Lu Dafang's heart was shocked. He secretly took refuge in Zhao Xu and put Fan Chunren in an awkward position. He once secretly ridiculed Fan Chunren for being deeply fascinated by Fan Zhongyan, but that's all.

Now, Fan Chunren has succeeded in making a comeback by relying on the sixty-year-old strategy, which made him feel full of emotions.

However, this feeling was quickly diluted by the joy in his heart, because after Fan Chunren resigned, according to Zhao Xu's promise, he would go one step further and become an extremely human minister.

However, to his great disappointment, Zhao Xu did not fulfill his promise immediately and made him the prime minister, instead leaving the position of prime minister vacant.

After coming down to court, Yang Wei, the censor attached to Lu Dafang, said impatiently: "It shouldn't be! Since the officials have made a promise, how can they break it."

Lu Dafang said solemnly: "Master Yang, haven't you noticed that the officials want to use the position of prime minister to let Lu take the initiative to write a letter to agree to the new law?"

"The service is paid into the mu!"

Yang Wei couldn't help but exclaimed, the intentions of apportioning labor into the mu were extremely sinister, any family of the Manchu officials didn't have ten thousand mu of fertile land, once it was implemented, they didn't know how much more food they would need to pay.

Lu Dafang nodded heavily.

"This method is very harmful, Lord Lu must not agree to it!" Yang Wei frowned.

Lu Dafang represented the interests of the old party, and behind the old party was the support of big landlords. Only in this way could they completely overthrow Wang Anshi and other new parties.

If Lu Dafang implements servitude, he will be abandoned by the old party immediately.

"The old man naturally knows how powerful it is." Lu Dafang said helplessly.

For several days in a row, Lu Dafang and Zhao Xu were in a stalemate with each other, the position of prime minister in the court was vacant, and no one recommended a candidate for prime minister.

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"Lu Dafang really doesn't know what's good and what's wrong. Everyone in the world knows that it's a century-old recipe to spread servitude to one's mother, but Lu Dafang turned out to be doing nothing for his own selfishness!"

In the imperial garden, Zhao Xu ran around the imperial lake for several laps and sweated profusely, but he still couldn't get rid of the anger in his heart.

He was suppressed by Empress Dowager Gao for several years, and now that he is in power and has obtained a new law, he can't wait to show his ambition.

And Lu Dafang's ignorance made him very annoyed, if he hadn't promised to make Lu Dafang the prime minister, he would have directly appointed Zhang Dun as the prime minister, what would have happened today.

Fan Zheng handed over a scarf and said, "Don't be in a hurry, all you need is to find the source of the disease, and it will be solved. First of all, the position of prime minister must be what Master Lu wishes in his heart, otherwise he would not be on the side of the officials."

Zhao Xu wiped his sweat and snorted coldly, "He wants to be prime minister, but he doesn't want to do things for me. How can it be so easy."

"The wish represented by Lu Dafang is not his individual, but a group of old parties, and why the old party opposes the contribution of labor to the mother!" Fan Zheng asked rhetorically.

Zhao Xu snorted and said, "What else could it be for? Isn't it just to avoid taxes and immunity money!"

"In that case, let them not have to pay taxes and immunization money." Fan Zheng said lightly.

"No! If that's the case, wouldn't it be empty talk to serve the mother?" Zhao Xu frowned.

Fan Zheng smiled wryly and said: "The officials take it for granted. If the officials want to implement the tax payment, they must rely on the officials of the world to implement it. Most of the officials in the world have a lot of land. Naturally, they can't do it by cutting their own flesh. Since In this way, why don't the officials go along with the flow and exempt officials from a certain amount of land tax, according to their rank, senior officials will be exempted from taxation of thousands of acres, and low ranks will be exempted from taxation of hundreds of acres. There is no longer any objection."

"Officials and officials protect each other!" Zhao Xu said with a displeased face, "I have agreed to the sixty-year-old policy and treated him so favorably, yet he is so greedy."

Fan Zheng was moved in his heart and said: "If the officials think of such a bad idea, the humble minister has an idea."

"Quickly tell me!" Zhao Xu said impatiently.

Fan Zheng chuckled and said, "Introduction!"

"Introduction?" Zhao Xu asked suspiciously.

Fan Zheng sneered and said: "Since ancient times, officials and officials have protected each other, but there is one benefit except for the official position. For the official position, many officials will do everything they can. However, there are two situations in the officials of my Great Song Dynasty, one is serving officials, and the other is The second kind is a redundant official who has nothing to do. Erbo’s sixty-year-old policy is only a palliative for redundant officials, and two thousand official positions are simply a drop in the bucket.”

Zhao Xu nodded. There are nearly 4 officials in the Song Dynasty, including about 5000 redundant officials. Even if [-] positions are vacated, there are probably [-] officials waiting to be resettled.

"These redundant officials can only wait until the vacancies are available. Some of them are unlucky. After waiting for more than ten years, there is no real vacancy. Naturally, they are extremely eager to get official positions. Why don't the officials entrust these alternate officials with important tasks to inspect the officials of the world? Once the dereliction of duty and corruption are verified, the alternate officials will immediately step up." Fan Zheng said coldly.

"Wonderful! This is wonderful. The redundant official has waited for this day for more than ten years, and finally got the chance. Naturally, he went all out to investigate. Only in this way can he obtain the official position. Moreover, after checking the accounts of the predecessor, it is easy for him to replace him. " Zhao Xu exclaimed.

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "Moreover, in this way, we can not only clean up the administration of officials, but also solve redundant officials. The officials will soon implement the allocation of servitude to the mu. If any official violates the law, this method is enough for him to reap the consequences."

Fan Zheng sneered in his heart, since he had already given Yongzheng's share of the land, he took advantage of the opportunity to throw out Yongzheng's ruthless move 'immediate compensation'.

"Introduction, what an evil..., no! This is the square, definitely the square!"

Zhao Xulong said happily.

"The officials still know me!"

Fan Zheng and Zhao Xu looked at each other and smiled, feeling like they were confidants.

(End of this chapter)