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

"Restart the Qingli New Deal!"

When the news of the court spread, not only did the entire officialdom explode again, many officials gathered to discuss it.

"The Qingli New Deal is just an old law. Our government has already succeeded in reforming the law, so why bother with this!"

"In my opinion, the Qingli New Deal is just a tool used by the old party to compete with the new party! It's just a pain for me!"

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Many scholar-bureaucrats complained about this.

Compared with the new law that only targets financial management, the Qingli New Deal targets the power of officials. However, money is just a vassal of power. If you lose money, as long as you have power, you can always have a chance to make a comeback. But if you lose power, it may be difficult to make a comeback. .

"Fortunately, Fan Chunli learned wisely, summed up the lessons of his father Fan Zhongyan's failure, and learned from the successful experience of the new law and reform. The restarted Qingli New Deal is still a good strategy."

There are also enlightened scholar-bureaucrats who support the restart of the Qingli New Deal. After all, the new law has caused them to lose money, but the restarted Qingli New Deal has increased their income a lot. As for the policy of passing the law and getting into the law, many officials who have no ambitions have been disappointed. In order to be excited, they found a way to advance, otherwise they would not be able to compete with senior officials just based on their family background.

Suddenly, there was a lot of talk about restarting the Qingli New Deal. In addition, the old party had been suppressed by the new party for too long. They had long been holding back their anger, and they all shared the same hatred and supported the restart of the New Deal.

Fan Chunli breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the resumption of the Qingli New Deal was not attacked by the Manchu literati.

Seeing this, the new party quickly gathered and began to discuss countermeasures.

"The Fan family is so scheming that they took the opportunity to restart the Qingli New Deal!" Zhang Dun said solemnly in the Zhang Mansion.

Although Zhang Dun implemented the new law, Wang Anshi, the founder of the new law, had passed away. Wang Yu, the leader of the second generation of the Wang family, died early. The third generation was not effective, and all the power of the new law fell into the hands of the new party.

This is not the case for the Fan family. Fan Zhongyan is the prime minister, his second son Fan Chunren is the prime minister, his third son Fan Chunli is one of the three prime ministers of the dynasty, and his fourth son Fan Chunli is the Minister of Household Affairs. It can be said that the second generation of the Fan family is full of talents. .

Not to mention that among the three generations of the Fan family, Fan Zheng was at the top of his game. He was a confidant of the official family and a staunch reformer. It was a foregone conclusion that he would be granted the title of Marquis and Prime Minister in the future.

There will be four prime ministers among the three generations of the Fan family, and the status of the Qingli New Deal will be as stable as Mount Tai.

"Mr. Zhang, how should the New Party respond to this matter?" Cai Jing frowned.

Zhang Dun frowned and said: "Even if the Qingli New Deal is changed, it will still put shackles on the scholar-bureaucrats. Are those old diehards from the old party really willing to make wedding dresses for the Fan family!"

Cai Bian on the side smiled bitterly and said: "In recent years, the new party has been in full swing and has suppressed the old party too hard. The old and new parties have been grudges for a long time. Now that there is the Qingli New Deal that competes with the new law, it is like a drowning man grabbing a straw. , not willing to give up at all.”

Although Cai Bian was also a member of the New Party, he acted extremely mildly. Naturally, he knew that the New Party and the Old Party were already on the same level. Zhang Dun, in particular, suppressed many members of the Old Party in order to avenge his demotion to Lingnan.

Cai Jing frowned and said, "What if we are willing to reconcile with the old party?"

Cai Bian shook his head helplessly and said, "The old party won't believe it."

Now that the old party has found a weapon to fight back, it is naturally unwilling to give up. Even if the new party promises to give up some of its interests, it still cannot move the old party. After all, they have been attacked by the new party. How can they put their own destiny in others just because of the new party's frivolous promises? in hand.

Zhang Dun said bitterly: "The current situation is probably what the evil doctor Fan Zheng expected. No wonder he strongly supports the new party's reform and even takes the initiative to help the new party succeed. Because he knows that if the new party's reform is successful, the interests of the old party will be If the damage is serious, the contradiction between the new party and the old party will become greater. When the new party is satisfied and the old party is gone, the Fan family will take advantage of the situation and restart the Qingli New Deal, and everything will go as planned."

Cai Jing snorted coldly: "Although it was Fan Chunli who proposed restarting the Qingli New Deal, no one in the court knows that Fan Chunli is just a puppet of the evil doctor Fan Zheng."

Fan Chunli had already been ostracized by the court and was demoted to an official position in Bozhou on his own initiative. It was the evil doctor Fan Zheng who became a forensic doctor and made Bozhou a new medicine capital, making Fan Chunli a political star. Only then was he able to return to Kaifeng and serve as the prefect of Kaifeng. , Fan Chunli is the one who implements Fan Zheng's medical treatment, and Fan Zheng is also known as Fan Yanei.

Even later, Fan Chunli provided disaster relief and regulated the Yellow River, and Fan Zheng, the evil doctor, was behind it. But this time he restarted the Qingli New Deal, these are obviously the style of the evil doctor Fan Zheng. In addition, the most radical reformist in the Fan family is not Fan Chunli has always been the evil doctor Fan Zheng.

After all, the evil doctor Fan Zheng was in power when Empress Dowager Gao was in power, and when the old party was at its peak, he had the audacity to become a forensic expert, and even directly rebuked the Fan family for forgetting Fan Zhongyan's ancestral precepts.

"In this case, we might as well use this to impeach the evil doctor Fan Zheng. If the following is committed, it will bring trouble to the government!" A member of the New Party offered advice.

"It's useless!" Zhang Dun looked up to the sky and sighed: "Not to mention that Fan Zheng is the successor of Fan Zhongyan, the Qingli New Deal was originally Fan Zhongyan's old law, and the evil doctor Fan Zhengsu has a golden body that is undefeated by the evil side. We use this to impeach, not only will we not It will cause any damage to the Qingli New Deal, but will increase the credibility of restarting the Qingli New Deal.”

Cai Bian nodded deeply and said: "Yes, and the evil doctor Fan Zheng has won the trust of the officials, and the implementation of the new law by us also benefited from the evil prescription of the evil doctor Fan Zheng. If that is the case, wouldn't our The new law must also be repealed.”

"Uh!"

Suddenly, everyone in the New Party felt helpless. They discovered that the New Party had nothing to do about restarting the Qingli New Deal. They did not want to agree, but they could not find any reason to oppose it.

"Then are we just going to watch the old party come back?" Cai Jing said angrily.

In the past, they used Fan Zheng's evil methods to successfully implement the new law, leaving the old party to just stare and worry.

But now they have finally realized the feeling of the new party back then, and can only watch helplessly as the court restarts the Qingli New Deal.

"I'm afraid we all fell into the trap of the evil doctor Fan Zheng! Now for the sake of party struggle, the old and new laws have been changed beyond recognition. How can this still be the belief we insisted on back then? I'm afraid that the old and new laws are mixed together and become the evil doctor Fan Zheng." Medical treatment!" Zhang Dun sighed with emotion.

A group of people from the New Party couldn't help but fell into deep thought. In order to implement the new law, they accepted many evil prescriptions from the evil doctor Fan Zheng, such as sharing slave labor into the mother's house, etc., and put a deep imprint of medical doctors on the new law. But now Isn't this the case with the old law?

With the tacit approval of the new law, the Qingli New Deal was successfully restarted!

Inside the Chui Gong Hall.

"Your Majesty, our court has always given preferential treatment to scholar-bureaucrats and specially established the milling and surveying system. However, it has been a hundred years. The milling and surveying system has been a hundred years old and it still needs to keep pace with the times. I proposed the milling and surveying system to formulate official salaries. In addition to the various regulations stipulated by the Song Dynasty, In addition to the salary of grade-level officials, based on the number of years they have served as an official, for example, one hundred cents per year will be paid monthly, with an increase every three years. When they retire, they will be paid 80% of their salary."

Prime Minister Fan Chunli became the most dazzling presence, and he stated the new policy of grinding and surveying to Baiguan and Zhao Xu with high spirits. "One hundred cents a year!"

Many officials calculated slightly that the average age for becoming a Jinshi in the Song Dynasty was twenty-nine years old, and it took about thirty years to retire at the age of sixty. In this way, that is an extra three thousand coins per month.

The purchasing power of copper coins in the Song Dynasty was extremely strong, and three thousand copper coins was not much. The basic salary of officials at all levels, plus the seniority salary with increasing age, was enough to greatly improve the living standards of ordinary officials.

"Take the money earned by the New Party to win people's hearts!" Cai Jing suddenly snorted coldly.

However, such conditions are indeed a good thing in the eyes of lower-level officials. However, who can enter the Chui Gong Hall and care about your three thousand coins? What makes Cai Jing even more angry is that Fan Chunli took the opportunity to increase the officials' salaries. The biggest confidence is that the New Party's reform has succeeded , which improved the Song Dynasty's finances.

Other officials are not too happy. Although the increase in salary is a good thing, compared with the house price of thousands of dollars in Kaifeng City, the income of three more dollars is really a drop in the bucket. They may not be able to own a property in Kaifeng City in their lifetime. .

The New Party couldn't help but sneer when they saw that the officials in the Manchu Dynasty were not very interested. In the Song Dynasty, most of the decisions about government affairs were made in the Chui Gong Hall. A few more coins per month would probably not satisfy the officials at all.

When the old party officials saw this, they couldn't help but frown. They didn't expect that Mokan's new policy had changed a lot and increased salaries for officials, but these officials still refused to cooperate.

Seeing this, Fan Chunli did not panic, because he still had a sure-fire weapon, which was Yanglianyin!

"Once the money for raising integrity is released, it can allow officials to concentrate on serving the country without having to care about their official land. It can also make officials honest and serve the public. WeChat officials believe that the money for raising money must be more and the number of people should be small. They can only control important civil and military officials above the seventh rank. , his salary is about ten times that of his salary!" Fan Chunli said solemnly.

"An important official of rank seven or above!"

"More than ten times the salary!"

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As soon as Fan Chunli said this, all the officials in the court were in an uproar, and everyone looked at Fan Chunli in shock.

Officials with important positions above the seventh rank, that is to say, in the Song Dynasty, only county magistrates of the seventh rank and above could receive the Integrity Silver. However, a salary of more than ten times was too terrifying. A county magistrate had an annual salary of hundreds of dollars, and just the Integrity Silver If it's ten times that, wouldn't that be enough?

"This is too much!"

A county magistrate needs thousands of guan of silver a year, and the salary of a prime minister is as high as 10,000 guan.

"I am impeaching Prime Minister Fan for using the public service for personal gain and taking advantage of the opportunity to make money! He has no intention of doing so!" Cai Jing heard this and immediately took the opportunity to report.

Zhao Xu frowned. The money for raising integrity was ten times the salary. Although it was only paid to officials above the county magistrate, it was not a small sum.

Other officials who opposed Qingli's New Deal also came forward to impeach Fan Chunli.

Suddenly, Fan Chunli's Qingli New Deal encountered the biggest crisis just after it was implemented. The reason turned out to be too much money given to officials.

"Uh!" Fan Chunli couldn't help being stunned.

He originally thought that the introduction of Yanglianyin would gain the support of all officials, but he did not expect that the effect would be exactly the opposite.

"How much does a county magistrate earn thousands of dollars a year? You must know that in the medical field, a famous doctor can earn thousands of dollars a year. If a new drug can be developed and promoted by doctors, tens of thousands of dollars a year is not an illusion. In comparison, The county magistrate’s salary is no more than a hundred dollars.”

Seeing his father in trouble, Fan Zheng spoke to help.

Cai Jing said coldly: "We officials are studying the way of saints and value righteousness over profit. How can we be greedy for money? In my opinion, today's doctors have deteriorated and are no longer the doctors who used to help the world."

Faced with Cai Jing's responsibilities, Fan Zheng didn't take it seriously and said: "Who said you have to be poor to practice medicine? A famous doctor earns thousands of dollars a year. That's because he works day and night to save countless people, and the reward is countless. Isn’t it worth these thousands of dollars to save a human life? Moreover, doctors’ high salaries can attract more talents to study medicine, prevent quack doctors from harming people, and prevent doctors from being corrupted. There is no need to collect red envelopes and get stuck. thing."

"As for the corruption of officials, I'm afraid it's even more serious. There are even rumors among the people that for three years to become a county magistrate, it costs one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver. With the county magistrate's annual salary of one hundred guan, I'm afraid it would take a thousand years to be a county magistrate without eating or drinking." Save it!”

"Three years of clearing the county, one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver!"

Zhao Xu couldn't help but tremble when he heard this. One hundred thousand taels, that's one hundred thousand guan of money. A county magistrate actually has one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver in three years. What is this if not outright corruption?
All the officials in the court suddenly looked at Fan Zheng in disbelief. No one expected that Fan Zheng would openly reveal the corruption of officials, and write the famous saying that in three years of clearing the county magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver would be paid. As soon as this sentence came out , I’m afraid the good days of officials all over the world are coming to an end.

"Officials know that if an official embezzles one hundred thousand taels of silver, the losses caused will be even greater. Although the salaries of hundreds of officials in the Song Dynasty are high, the housing prices in Kaifeng City are as high as ten thousand taels. Many officials may not be able to survive their entire lives on their salaries alone. It was impossible to buy a house in Kaifeng City, and the salary accumulated over the years as a bachelor at Su University was not enough. In the end, I had to raise money from various sources to buy a house in Kaifeng. This is also the reason why many officials took risks and took risks in corruption! "

Fan Zheng once again used the example of Su Shi's purchase of a house. Many officials nodded with sadness. The housing prices in Kaifeng City were too terrifying. Even their officials could only stay away from it.

"Although there is a lot of money to support integrity, the current finances of the Song Dynasty are enough to support it. At the same time, it can also greatly reduce the harm caused by officials' corruption and bending the law. People who live in warehouses know etiquette, and people who have enough food and clothing know honor and disgrace. The teachings of saints prevent them from being greedy for official salaries. It is rich enough that he does not want to be greedy and does not need to be greedy. Only by being high-minded and honest can the government of the Song Dynasty be harmonious and all industries prosper. "

"If the government is harmonious and people are harmonious, all industries will prosper!"

Hundreds of officials in the Song Dynasty could say this sentence very loudly. This was Fan Zhongyan's famous saying in Yueyang Tower, but he never imagined that his grandson would use it to pay officials high salaries.

"Gao Xin Yang Lian!"

When Zhao Xu heard this, he couldn't help but move slightly. As Fan Zheng said, the Song Dynasty now has sufficient wealth, and there is not much burden in distributing the Integrity Silver.

Moreover, he has been an emperor for many years, so he naturally knows the seriousness and harm of official corruption. If he can solve the problem of official corruption with a little money, that would be great.

Moreover, the Song Dynasty was best at using money to solve problems. When the Liao and Xia countries were aggressive, the Song Dynasty used annual coins to solve problems. Not to mention that now it distributes integrity silver to its officials, so naturally there is not much psychological burden.

When Zhao Xu's heart was pounding, Su Song, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said: "Fan Taicheng is too optimistic. Doctors have been studying human nature recently. As the leader of the medical family, you should understand that being extravagant and greedy are also part of human nature, even if it is I’m afraid even the high-paying Yanglian Bank will not be able to eradicate corruption.”

All the officials were stunned. No one expected that the person who finally questioned Fan Zheng was Su Song, the leader of the Medical Party. (End of chapter)