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Chapter 10 Reform 8 Laws

Jiang Zhe listened quietly to Lu Yunhai's words, and then he regained his attention to this slovenly middle-aged man, because it is true that it is not ordinary people who can see these disadvantages in this era, even he who has traveled through time does not have it for a while. Think of so much.It seems that this Lu Yunhai is indeed available.

After a while, Jiang Zhe asked again: "How long have you been preparing for this performance?"

Lu Yunhai found that the thinking of the young emperor in front of him was really different from others, logically he should have been eager to ask for the solution after hearing his statement, I really don't know if he is an elusive emperor, or simply Did not listen.I had no choice but to answer honestly again: "Since I entered the official career, I have been thinking about the way to strengthen the country all the time. These are all my thoughts for more than ten years."

Jiang Zhe nodded and said: "This is honest. I don't believe that you just thought of those words just now."

"Your majesty is wise." Lu Yunhai patted Jiang Zhe on the occasion.

Jiang Zhe waved his hand and said, "Sage is not holy, it's not based on other people's words. Since you have discovered so many hidden dangers in this dynasty, you probably have a solution."

Lu Yunhai respectfully said: "Go back to the emperor, yes."

"Then talk about it." Jiang Zhe picked up the teacup again.

Lu Yunhai had prepared a full stomach of theories over the years, intending to use them to persuade the emperor one day, but he didn't expect to have the opportunity to present himself to the emperor today, but he couldn't use a single word, and the emperor let himself speak out his heart very smoothly. But the emperor himself was noncommittal, and he couldn't see his happiness or anger at all.

This made Lu Yunhai feel underestimated, so he didn't want to talk about it, but he couldn't bear this opportunity, so he took a long breath and said: "I have six ways to make a country rich, and two ways to strengthen a military. cut."

Jiang Zhe took a sip of tea and said lightly, "Say, I'm listening."

Lu Yunhai swallowed a mouthful of saliva, cheered himself up, and confided all his hard work of more than ten years: "One is the Farmland Water Conservancy Law. Send personnel to branch out to deal with farmland water conservancy, reclamation of wasteland, dredging ditches, promotion of departments as appropriate, officials People who serve together must not hide and escape.

The second is the average input method.The official food transported by Fanzhou and the county, the official has to move to the expensive or the cheap, because it is close to the distance, and it is predicted that the warehouse in Beijing will be able to store and buy it cheaply.

The third is the young crop method.When farmers sow young crops, if they have no money to sow, the state will loan them out, and the income will be divided into two. When the grain is ripe, the summer and autumn taxes will be repaid to the state.

The fourth is the exemption method.The people pay the exemption money to the state according to their grades, and they are exempted from hard labor. The state uses the exemption money to recruit unemployed people to serve as servants.

The fifth is the law of market change.The capital set up a market exchange, so that the purchased and unsold items were exchanged with the officials, or exchanged with the officials, and the funds were loaned to the merchants, and the principal was repaid with interest according to the limit.

The sixth is the method of square fields: take the southeast, northwest, and thousands of steps as a side, measure the fields, and determine the five grades of taxes according to the fertility and goodness of the land, and the people pay according to the tax rules.

The seventh is the Baojia Law.Adopting the ancient militia system, ten families are the guarantors, and [-] families are the capital guarantors. The chief guarantors and the deputy are assigned to the capital guarantors, who lead the guarantors to store bows and arrows and practice martial arts.

The eighth is the method of protecting horses.Official horses are set up. Anyone who is willing to raise a horse in Baojia can adopt one horse per family. Those who are willing to raise two horses will be inspected at the first year of the year, and there will be compensation for death and disease. "

Jiang Zhe almost spit out all the tea in his mouth. He is familiar with the history, and he is too familiar with these eight new laws. Isn't this the new law of Wang Anshi in the Song Dynasty?I have also done some research myself.Didn't this dude Lu Yunhai also come through time travel?

To be honest, if you don't look at these new laws with colored glasses, it is not difficult to see that these eight new laws are not only reasonable, but also feasible.If these new laws are implemented in a consistent manner, it is not just a dream to make the country rich and the army strong in this era.This is also the reason why Song Shenzong was able to reuse Wang Anshi in the history he knew.

Take this exemption law as an example. This new law is a reform of the labor law.Official labor is also called forced labor, corvee, and public service. In fact, it is voluntary labor, and it only works without wages.The well-known "grab the strong man" has this meaning.

The reason for implementing this labor service law at the beginning may be to make up for the deficiency of the low tax system, or it may be that considering that the people cannot afford so much money and food, they replace it with their labor.But in this way, in order to ensure the operation of the state apparatus, the common people have to contribute not only money (taxes) but also labor (corvement), which is really overwhelming.

However, the exemption law is very progressive. It is to change "send service" to "employment", that is, ordinary people convert the corvee they should have served into "exemption money" and hand it over to the government, and the government hires people to serve.There are three advantages to doing this.First, farmers don’t have to work hard to pay money, so they don’t delay production; second, everyone contributes money, which is more fair; third, people who are too busy free up time, and idle people in society have an extra way of life, the best of both worlds .

Regardless of where Lu Yunhai plagiarized this reform plan, it can be said that this reform plan is not impulsive, nor is it done behind closed doors, but the result of careful consideration. It is quite scientific and at least theoretically feasible.

Jiang Zhe is also very clear that if he wants to establish his own great cause, it is impossible to change the law, so he is still very eager to face the eight new laws, but he also knows that there is no rush to change the law. If you are in a hurry, you will definitely fail.

Therefore, although Jiang Zhe was already beating gongs and drums in his heart, he didn't show it at all on his face, and asked indifferently: "If I let you, Qing Lu, preside over the reform, how long do you think it will take to implement the new law?"

Although Jiang Zhe's tone was flat, it stirred up great waves in Lu Yunhai's heart. He immediately knelt on the ground and said, "If the emperor wants to rejuvenate our dynasty, he must reform. Who is the minister? If I let the minister preside over the reform, I dare to guarantee that within three years the emperor can win the rule of the three generations."

What Jiang Zhe was afraid of was that Lu Yunhai's self-confidence was too strong. What he said was not just self-confidence but outright conceited, so he didn't immediately make a decision to implement the new law as Lu Yunhai expected, but asked He said: "If someone comes out to obstruct the implementation of the new law, according to Lu Qing's opinion, how should we deal with it?"

Lu Yunhai who asked this question was stunned, because he hadn't thought about this question at all, and immediately replied truthfully: "My minister's new laws are all for the sake of the country and the people of the world, who would object?"

"I mean if." Jiang Zhe felt that Lu Yunhai was taking things for granted.

"I don't think there will be any ifs, even if there are ifs, it's not a big deal. The ancestral law is no longer obeyable, and the reform is imminent. A mere word is not enough to be sympathetic, and even if the sky changes, it is not a big deal." Talking about his new law, Lu Yunhai He is already full of confidence and fearless, even disregarding the etiquette before the emperor.

Jiang Zhe shook his head involuntarily, thinking: With your attitude and temper, no matter how good the new method is, you have to toss it to pieces.It seems that although Lu Yunhai has the talent of Wang Zuo, he really doesn't have the stamina of a prime minister. He is far behind Li Gang in this regard.

Thinking of this, he laughed, stood up and said, "Although there are tens of thousands of people, I admire Lu Qing's spirit very much. I am tired today, so I will come here, and I will listen to Lu Qing's high-level speech another day." Said Without waiting for Lu Yunhai's reaction, he walked out the door.

This change from heaven to earth completely confused Lu Yunhai, what does the emperor mean by this?Are you kidding yourself?This is too hurtful, right?It was like knocking over a condiment shop in my heart, momentarily sour and momentarily bitter, but I just knelt there in a daze, forgetting the etiquette of getting up to send each other off.

Jiang Zhe walked to the door, turned around suddenly, and said with a smile: "Lu Qing calls himself Mencius, and I think he has studied the book "Mencius". I'm going to go, what's the previous sentence?"

Only then did Lu Yunhai realize that he was very familiar with "Mencius", so he didn't need to think about it immediately, and replied: "I don't shrink back, even though it's brown and broad, I'm not worried?"

"Oh." Jiang Zhe made a sudden realization, "So it's this sentence. Lu Qing is really knowledgeable, someday I'll tell you what it means when I'm free." While speaking, he opened the door and stepped out.

Jiang Zhe went out and saw that Li Min and other officials of the household department were still standing in the square in front of the door, so he beckoned Li Min to come over and said: "Yesterday morning, Ai Qing said that the treasury had less than 200 million taels of silver in it. I want to know How much income and expenditure does my Great Tang Dynasty have in a year, why is it only in October that the national treasury is basically empty."

Li Min hurriedly replied: "Back to the emperor, my yearly income of the Tang Dynasty..."

Jiang Zhe didn't wait for him to finish, and interrupted: "I have other things to do now, I don't have time to listen to you, and you probably don't quite understand what you say. In this way, you can make a detailed statement, Come back to Hongdexuan, I want to have a private interview with you. Oh, whenever you are ready, you can come to see me."

"Yes. I would like to obey the imperial edict!" Li Min replied with a bow.

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