Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 318 Wang Anshi’s unwillingness
"I had no choice but to go to each county to supervise in person. However, there were still very few people in each county who were willing to come to the government to borrow money. I sent people to inquire secretly and learned that those landlords and squires sent people to threaten the people. As long as they borrow money from the government, Yes, they will take back the fields rented to the people.

Nearly 80% of the entire land in Yuzhou is in the hands of landlords, squires and local aristocratic families, while less than 20% of the land is in the hands of the common people. The land in the hands of most people is not enough to support their families, so they need to rent land from landlords and gentry.

With this threat, people simply did not dare to borrow money from the government. In desperation, I came up with this strategy. "Wang Anshi sighed.

Although he is stubborn, he is not stupid. He naturally knows that inventorying the land will arouse resistance from the landlords and gentry.

Nowadays, there is no official support, and it is basically impossible to measure the resistance of the land.

He did this just to threaten the landowners and gentry so that they would not stop him from implementing the Green Crops Law.

Experiments also have to produce results. If he can't prove that his green seedling method is feasible, how can he get the officials to support him?
Li An shook his head and said: "Brother Jiefu, everything is too much and too little is not enough. The behavior of the landlords and squires hiding their fields is not a secret. If you are going to drain the fire, how can they sit still?"

"But if I don't do this and they do this, the Green Seedlings Law will become empty talk." Wang Anshi said.

"Teacher, the student has been thinking hard recently, but he has thought of a way, maybe he can give it a try."

At this moment, Zhao Ceying on the side spoke.

"Oh?"

Wang Anshi glanced at Zhao Ceying in surprise, looked at Li An and said, "Zi Qian, let's listen to Ceying's method first."

Generally speaking, a man's first name is given to him when he reaches his twenties.

It is also possible if the elders choose the words for them in advance.

Zhao Ceying still has no characters, so Wang Anshi called her by her name.

Li An nodded. He also wanted to see what Zhao Ceying could do.

"Landlords and gentry annexed land, and most of the methods were disgraceful. As long as some injured people were found to sue them, the teacher, as the official of Yuzhou, naturally had to make decisions for the people." Zhao Ceying said.

Li An frowned slightly, Zhao Ceying's method was nothing more than killing the chicken to scare the monkey.

Once this is done, it will only further anger the landlords and gentry in Yuzhou.

Wang Anshi didn't say anything after hearing this. He pondered for a while and looked at Li An and asked, "Zi Qian, do you think this plan is feasible?"

"It may have some effect, but it doesn't mean much."

Li An shook his head and said: "Now the people have been threatened by the landlords and gentry. Even if the landlords and gentry relent, the people are afraid of them and will not dare to borrow money from the government."

The Green Crops Law is indeed a good policy and can effectively alleviate land annexation.

But now it is the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, and land annexation is already very serious.

A small number of people hold a large amount of land, and the people can only survive by relying on them.

Even if the landlords and squires do not stop it, the Green Crops Law still has a big drawback.

That means the people can't afford it.

The common people had little land of their own and had to rent land from landlords and gentry.

Before the Green Crops Law, they were short of grain and had to borrow it from the landlords and gentry. If they could not repay it, the landlords and gentry would annex their fields, and they would have to become tenants.

But the landlords and gentry can do this kind of thing, but the government cannot.

Once the people cannot afford to repay, if the government does not force them to take over their land to pay off the debt, how can this shortfall be made up for?
Even if the government can give the people time, they will not have the money to continue lending to the people. At that time, the people will have no choice but to borrow from the landlords and gentry.

"Zi Qian, I think this method is feasible. There are many obstacles to reform. Even if we do this, the people still dare not borrow money from the government, but it can scare them. Once they are submissive and compromise with them, these people will undoubtedly become more arrogant. "Gu Tingye said.

"Zhong Huai, things are not as simple as you think. The reason for the impeachment of Brother Jiefu is because of Brother Jiefu's actions in Yuzhou. But after all, it is only Yuzhou, and the officials have not shown that they want to reform the law again. That's why there are still many people waiting and watching. Once the Yuzhou landlords and squires are attacked, those people will not be able to sit still. Have you considered what the consequences will be?" Li An said.

Gu Tingye and Zhao Ceying were both stunned when they heard this. After thinking about it carefully, they both fell silent.

Ang Lee is right, they think the problem is too simple.

At first, Prime Minister Fan had official support, but it ultimately failed. Now that Wang Anshi has no official support, if he really takes action against the landlords and gentry, he is afraid that he will be impeached by more people.

At that time, even if Wang Anshi was not charged, he would be recalled to Bianjing by the officials.

"Zi Qian, is there no other way?" Wang Anshi said with a look of reluctance.

When he first came to Yuzhou, Wang Anshi was full of confidence.

Over the years, he has been studying the failure experience of Fan Daxiangong, and at the same time improving his own reform ideas.

The problem of three redundancies in the Song Dynasty was very serious. Fan Daxiangong’s original new policy was to solve the problem of three redundancies.

But to solve the problem of redundancy, we must start from the three departments of military and civilian officials.

Wang Anshi took a different approach. His reform measures mainly dealt with the military and civilians.

Even so, there will still be resistance, but as long as the interests of civil servants are not affected, he feels that the resistance should be much smaller.

Only now did he realize that he had thought of the problem too simply.

It’s just a young seedling method and it’s difficult to implement it.

The attitude of Bianjing officials also greatly exceeded his expectations.

He just made some noise in Yuzhou. When word spread to Bianjing, many officials couldn't sit still and began to impeach him.

Wang Anshi later figured out that for those officials, the New Deal implemented by Grand Prime Minister Fan made them very sensitive to reforms now.

However, if a single Green Seed Law cannot be implemented, how can we talk about reform?
It can be said that this incident had a huge impact on Wang Anshi.

Historically, when Wang Anshi presided over the reform, he was already the prime minister.

Wang Anshi was in Bianjing, so he naturally did not understand the problems encountered in the local implementation of the New Deal.

In addition, there was great resistance to reform. Even if some bad remarks reached his ears, in Wang Anshi's view, it was only deliberately made by the conservatives.

The purpose is to prevent the implementation of the New Deal.

Therefore, he firmly believed that there was nothing wrong with his policies, but instead he was used by others to exclude dissidents in the name of reform.

In the end, the name Ao Xianggong was left behind.

Now it is difficult for him to implement it personally, so how can he promote it to the world?

Li An fell silent after hearing this. The problem of land annexation has been difficult to solve in all dynasties.

After all, the land was concentrated in the hands of a few people, and all the court could do was find ways to contain it and slow down this annexation, but there was no way to stop it.

Unless the land is nationalized, people only have the right to cultivate it and cannot buy or sell it.

But Wang Mang has done this kind of thing in history, but failed in the end.

Because if we do this, not only the landlords and gentry will object, but even ordinary people will not agree.

After all, no matter how little land the people have, they still have some.

These lands were regarded as property in the eyes of the people. If the court wanted to take them back, they would naturally not agree.

Ordinary people don't have such a long-term vision. They don't think that even if the land is in their hands, it will eventually be annexed by the landlords and gentry.

After a long silence, Li An said: "Actually, it's not impossible."

Wang Anshi, Gu Tingye and Zhao Ceying looked at Li An after hearing this.

(End of this chapter)