King of Song

Chapter 182 Pros and cons of young crops
The visitors were the little girl's parents. A family of three came from Fuyang County to watch the lanterns by the West Lake, but they got separated on the way because there were too many tourists.

The couple were looking for their daughter all over the world, and they were very anxious. When the mother of the child was still crying, the official messenger of Qiantang County appeared.Asked if they had lost their daughter, someone over there found one, so the parents scrambled to see if it was the daughter...  

They met their daughter as they wished, but they did not expect to meet Hangzhou Tongju and Qiantang County Magistrate at the same time.The couple were just ordinary country gentry, their lives were fairly affluent, but their status was average, so it was unnatural to suddenly see two high-ranking officials.But what shocked them even more came later. After hearing what their daughter did just now, the couple were a little shocked, so why don't they keep their mouths open!

Although the daughter is a bit knowledgeable and smart, they have long been used to it, and they feel that there is something special, and they don't care.But I didn't expect that my daughter was so capable and made such a big move.What surprised him even more was his daughter's courage. Dozens of dollars is not a small sum, and more importantly, she actually bet on herself.

At such a young age, let alone a girl, it is too courageous to do such a thing.It seems that she must be restrained, otherwise I don't know what she will do to leave the cabinet in the future?What if I can't get married in the future?

"Chaoyun, you're messing around too..." Although the king loved his daughter, he was a little displeased. Of course, he should be worried more.

"Daddy, this is thirty pennies, it can cure Xiao Fei!" Wang Chaoyun pointed to the copper coins on the ground and said.I saw that her eyes were full of guilt, and at the same time, there was a kind of pure kindness, which made people like it at a glance...

Wang Run stepped forward and said: "Your daughter is very kind, and this matter is also to help them. Don't blame Wang Yuanwai too much, just guide her."

"Yes, Madam Su's teachings will be kept in mind!" Wang Yuanwai already knew their identities, so he acted very modestly.Although he was worried and even scolded, as a person who had read sage books, Wang Yuanwai also knew that his daughter's kind behavior was very good, and he appreciated it a lot.

"Not only is she kind, but little sister Chaoyun is also bold, careful, and very confident. This kind of strong quality is unmatched by others!" Lin Zhao joked: "Teach her well, maybe she will become a heroine in the future!"

Wang Yuanwai's wife shook her head secretly, it's better for a girl's house to be quiet.My daughter is very courageous, so she must guard against doing things unexpectedly.In case you get more and more courageous, you may cause some disasters in the future because of this.

Lin Zhao ordered softly: "Okay, today's matter is also complete, you go back! But be careful in the future, don't let the children wander around and leave the sight of the adults."

"Okay, thank you Su Tongjuan, thank you County Magistrate Lin, we are leaving..." Then they took their children and left.

Su Shi looked at the background of the child's departure and said, "This girl is really extraordinary..."

Hearing what Su Shi said, Lin Zhao immediately remembered something, but after a while, he seemed not to be very clear.His eyes fell on the faces of Su Shi and Wang Runzhi, and he suddenly came back to his senses.

This girl is called Wang Chaoyun, that's right!Wang Chaoyun...

Seeing Su Shi and Wang Runzhi, Lin Zhao also thought of a woman with the same name and surname——Wang Chaoyun.

In the original history, in the seventh year of Xining, Wang Runzhi, wife of Su Shi in Hangzhou at that time, bought a woman named Wang Chaoyun from the singing and dancing troupe and took her as a maid. At that time, Wang Runzhi was only 12 years old, 26 years younger than Su Shi.

When Wang Chaoyun grew up, he was taken as a concubine by Su Shi around Huangzhou.Su Shi also named her "Zixia".

When Su Shi was 49 years old and Wang Chaoyun was 22 years old, they had a son.Su Shi was ecstatic to have a son when he was old, and said to his friends: "Little Yunlan will give birth to a son soon, and I want to hear it." He named the child Su Dun, and the baby name was "Gan'er", and it was three days after birth according to the custom. While taking a bath, I wrote "Xi'er Xi Zuo": "Everyone adopts a son to look smart, and I have been fooled by being smart all my life. I hope the child is stupid and rude, and he will come to Gongqing without disaster or difficulty."

It can be seen that Su Shi loves and expects his youngest son, but there are always some things in this world that make people regret and sad.Unfortunately, Su Shi's youngest son Gan'er died of illness when he was eleven months old.He cried: "I was 49 years old, and I lost my youngest son. The youngest son is really my son, and the corners of his eyebrows are already resembling. I didn't expect to see what I liked, and I was chasing books and history. Shaking my head but pears and chestnuts, it seems shameful. I am always happy. I am happy because of this. Suddenly I was taken away, and I was tired of bad karma. The clothes and salary are so uncommon, and they will disappear for a moment. When I return, my arms are empty, and my old tears are like running water. My tears can still be wiped away, and I will forget them when the sun is far away. My mother cried I can't hear it, I want to die with you. Therefore, the clothes are still hanging, and the breasts have flowed out of the bed. Feeling this, I want to forget my life, and I lie down all day. I am middle-aged. Seek more ways. Still cut the old intestines with the blade of love. If you know your obsession and self-reflection, you will mourn the rest of your wounds."

Of course, the saddest should belong to the child's mother Wang Chaoyun. Su Shi once had such a record: "My tears can still be wiped away, and I will forget them in the future. The mother's crying is inaudible, and she wants to die with you. The old clothes are still hanging The breasts have already flowed out of the bed. Feeling this, I want to forget my life, and I will lie down all day stiff..."

It can be seen from this that there is an unusual woman named Wang Chaoyun, who is Su Shi's concubine.Together with Wang Fu and Wang Runzhi, they are the three most important women in Su Shi's vitality.

When Su Shi was at his worst, the concubines around him left one after another, but Wang Chaoyun stayed with him all the time.She is Su Shi's concubine, and even Su Shi's confidante. Su Shi wrote the most poems to Wang Chaoyun, calling her "Heavenly Maid Vimo".

It is said that when Su Dongpo was demoted to Huizhou, Wang Chaoyun often sang the lyrics of "Butterfly Love Flower" to relieve Su Shi's worries.Whenever Chaoyun sang "There are few willows blowing on the branches", he suppressed his melancholy, was so sad that he stopped crying.

Su Shi asked why, and Chaoyun replied: "What a concubine can't do is, 'Where is there no fragrant grass sentence in the end of the world'".Su Shi laughed loudly: "I am mourning autumn, and you are beginning to mourn spring again!" Unfortunately, Chao Yun also died of illness in Huizhou before Su Shi.After Chaoyun's death, Su Shi "never listened to this word again" and lived in widowhood all the time.From this point of view, Su Shi's life was not a happy life. Every woman he loved left him first, leaving a person alone to die.

In accordance with Chaoyun's last wish, Su Shi buried him in the pine forest under the Dasheng Pagoda of Qichan Temple at the southern foot of Gushan Mountain in West Lake, Huizhou, and built Liuru Pavilion beside the tomb to commemorate. Know me; play old tunes alone, miss you every time it rains."

This shows how much Su Shi loves Wang Chaoyun!In the previous life, because his girlfriend liked Su Ci and knew more about Su Shi's love story, he still knew a thing or two about this Wang Chaoyun.

So is the little girl I met today Su Shi's concubine?Wang Runzhi was only 12 years old when he bought it from Hangzhou.At that time, it was the seventh year of Xining, and now because of Lin Zhao's time travel, many things have changed, some have been advanced, and some have been delayed.

For example, the time when Su Shi became the general judge in Hangzhou was brought forward two years in Xining.After Zhengdan, it has been three years since Xining, and the difference between the years does not seem to be very big.

The little girl who guessed the lantern riddles looked less than ten years old. Judging by the age alone, she was indeed very similar. It was very likely that she was the Wang Chaoyun who gave birth to Su Shi's youngest son a few years later.

It seems that it is really fate, it is really a coincidence, if you go out to play, you can meet a concubine many years later, Su Shi's luck and love affair are definitely not so good.

Moreover, this little girl is very smart, obviously educated, very similar to Su Shi's concubine in the records.I know more about Su Shi. There used to be such a story...

One day when Su Shi retired from court, had dinner, and walked slowly with his belly, Gu Wei's attendant said, "What is there in the way, my generation?" A maid suddenly said: "It's all articles", Su Shi disagreed.

Another person said: 'full of knowledge'.Poe didn't think so either.

When it came to Wang Chaoyun, the answer was: "It's not appropriate for a bachelor to have a belly." Su Shi laughed out loud.

It can be seen from this that there is still a tacit understanding between their "husband and wife", and they love each other presumably!
It can be seen that this Wang Chaoyun is quite famous.Qin Guan also specially wrote a song "Nangezi" for Chaoyun: Misty mist is in the state of spring, melting and beautifying dawn.When is it easy to go to Wuyang.I'm afraid that the envoy's previous life was King Xiang.Temporarily staying for Qing Ge, but also busy with the evening rain.I glanced back and broke my heart.Kong envoys Lantai son, Fu Gaotang.

The only difference is that Su Shi's concubine came from a family background and met at a banquet by the West Lake one day.There is also a saying: the water is shining and the sun is good, and the mountains are empty and rainy.If you want to compare the West Lake to the West Lake, it is always suitable to wear light makeup and heavy makeup.This song "The First Sunshine and Later Rain on the Drinking Lake" was written for Wang Chaoyun, a prostitute.

But this Wang Chaoyun is still young and not a prostitute, so there are still some differences.This kind of thing is really not sure, since we met, it can only be said to be a coincidence.The world is so wonderful, some things are just so coincidental, so unexpected, but there is God's will in the dark...

Perhaps Wang Chaoyun and Su Shi have crossed ages, and the love affair between each other has been doomed since then!
But Lin Zhao forgot one thing, that is, history is changing after all, every small action or behavior of every person may lead to reform, especially the time traveler.

The time when Su Shi took office in Hangzhou has changed, and the time when Wang Runzhi met Wang Chaoyun has also changed, so will the subsequent situation also change?What kind of change?

The incident by the West Lake was considered a small episode, and no one cared about it.After returning to the county government office that night, Lin Zhao and Mu Sihong had a good time of affection and lingering love.

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In this way, Xining's three-year Zhengdan New Year festival is over.

Officials' holidays are over. Regardless of whether the New Year is good or not, another year of busy government work will begin.

A series of dispatches and imperial edicts from the imperial court gradually spread to all parts of the country. Because Han Qi wrote a letter against it, the emperor Zhao Xu believed that there was no need for the establishment of the three divisions and regulations to overlap with the functions of the three divisions, so he issued an edict to abolish it.

When many people think that it is the official who wavered about the reform.Zhao Xu immediately came to a big turning point, canonizing Wang Anshi, the political adviser, as prime minister.

The prime minister is an official with one person under one person and over ten thousand people, with great status and power.No matter what others think, in the eyes of Emperor Zhao Xu, Wang Anshi deserves his name as prime minister.More importantly, because the Three Divisions of the System and Regulations no longer exist, the reform lacks an overall leading organization.

Emperor Zhao Xu thought about it for a long time, and decided to turn the entire Song Dynasty into a reform organization. The first thing is to arrange personnel, so that it will not be so obscure, and it will not be clear-cut.

So Prime Minister Wang Anshi became the guide, and all institutions throughout the Song Dynasty will be obliged to serve the reform.

Lin Zhao, who was far away in Hangzhou, could tell that this was a kind of compensation from Emperor Zhao Xu to Wang Anshi, and to be precise, it was a kind of compensation to all reformist officials.Although the organization is gone, they will still insist on doing things and sticking to the object of support, as long as Wang Xianggong does not fall down.

Now that Wang Anshi is the prime minister, the signal is clear enough, and the law of reform is carried out quickly and triumphantly.The emperor was no longer satisfied with the fact that it was as simple as trying out the young crop method in a few areas. After all, it would take a year to delay, which can be said to be a waste of time.

Zhao Xu felt that the trial of the Green Crop Method was almost done. Although there were some small problems in the middle, it did not affect the overall situation.Therefore, it was decided to increase the promotion areas of the young crop method, hoping to achieve more obvious results.Therefore, the entire Liangzhe Road has also become a test field for the young crop method, and the scale has expanded from the original Qiantang and Yuhang counties to the entire Liangzhe Road.

Emperor Zhao Xu specially sent news to Lin Zhao, asking him to implement the Young Crop Law as soon as possible, which made Lin Zhao panic and anxious.

So Lin Zhao found Yu Xuan in time to help him clarify the content and method of the implementation of the Young Crop Law, as well as the countermeasures for related problems and the arrangement of related matters.

"My lord, the so-called green crop method..." Yu Xuan explained: "Every household in Fanzhou County can go to the local government to borrow cash or grain to subsidize farming before the two harvests in summer and autumn every year. The borrowers match the rich and the poor, Ten people are guarantees and check each other. The loan amount is divided into five grades according to the assets of each household. That's the important rule!"

"What do you think about this, or have you figured out any precautions?" Lin Zhao assigned Yu Xuan a long time ago.It is to let Yu Xuan, who understands financial management and legal studies, carefully study the Young Crop Law, analyze the pros and cons, and find problems from it, especially the problems in the specific implementation process.

Although Lin Zhao didn't know much about the Young Crop Law in his previous life, he did know that many contents of Wang Anshi's Reform Law are actually desirable.The reason for the failure is that there were problems in the specific implementation process, so that the reform was out of shape, and it failed in the end.

If these problems can be found before, a little attention, the situation may be much better.But Lin Zhao had a lot of things to do every day, and he didn't know much about them, so he entrusted all of them to Yu Xuan.But he forgot that Yu Xuan has not been easy recently, so it really is hard for Master Yu!
"My lord, I think the two most important points in the implementation of the Green Crop Law are that the most important thing to pay attention to is not to forcibly suppress the allocation, and the second is the collection of interest and principal..." It is obvious that Yu Xuan has studied it carefully.

It has to be said that Yu Xuan's research is really on point.This is the main reason why the implementation of the good young crop method failed.

The forced apportionment is very serious in the implementation of the Young Crops Law.In order to ensure the recyclability of young crop money, the new law originally stipulated that "more than five households are one guarantee", and discuss how much money to borrow, and everyone guarantees each other.But in the implementation process, it becomes the government forcing rich households to provide guarantees for poor households of all levels, and apportioning young crop money to private households of all levels.When collecting money, if the poor households are unable to repay, they will ask the rich households for it, which will eventually lead to the misery of all the people.Usually farmers can barely support this apportionment, but once a famine hits, they can no longer sustain it and go bankrupt one after another.However, the government is still mercilessly chasing after them, and the disaster-stricken farmers go bankrupt, selling their sons and daughters and wives in endlessly.

The imperial court has made repeated orders and repeated requests not to suppress the matching, and the people "give it if they want it, and if they don't want it, they can't force it." The interest is only [-]%, why are the local officials turning a deaf ear to it?When Wang Anshi was an official in Yin County, he once conducted an experiment similar to the young crop method, "loaning grain to the people and paying interest immediately", and the effect was very good. Why did it cause a big problem when it was extended to the whole country?
In fact, the truth is not difficult to understand.What Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi wanted was the success of the new law, the prosperity of the country, and the well-being of the people, but what many officials wanted was their own promotion and wealth.In order for these officials to work hard to implement the new law, Wang Anshi must give them some sweetness.Those who opposed the new law were exiled from Beijing one by one, while officials who were positive about the new law were rewarded with promotions.

This idea is not bad at all. If you want someone to work, you need to give some encouragement, so that they can work hard.However, incentivizing government officials must be done carefully.Because government officials have many responsibilities, many of which are "soft" items that are difficult to measure directly, if only one or a few items that are easy to measure are encouraged, then officials will definitely devote all their energy to it. Focus on these items, and ignore other responsibilities that are not motivating or have weak motivation.

Especially where officials wield enormous power with limited oversight of that power, they may even pursue high performance in the duties they are incentivized at the expense of failing in other areas.

The responsibilities of local officials naturally include not only ensuring that the people live and work in peace and contentment, but also implementing the Young Crop Law.However, if Wang Anshi only encouraged the implementation of the Young Crops Law, but did not or could not encourage the people to live and work in peace and contentment, officials would definitely only care about the implementation of the Young Crops Law and ignore the lives of the people.

Even for the implementation of the Green Crop Law, there are many small responsibilities, including strict implementation of the regulations of no suppression of distribution and no interest rate increase, as well as the distribution of young crop money as much as possible, and the recovery of principal and interest when due.It is difficult to measure how the regulations are being implemented, and it is also difficult to motivate them. What Wang Anshi can see is often only the figures of how much money for young crops has been distributed, how much has been withdrawn, and how much interest has been earned.

Therefore, there is a small problem in the fundamental concept of the reform!

(End of this chapter)