Chapter 71 Choice
Wang Anshi still didn't let Wang Rong leave, but picked up the newspaper on the table and took a look, then looked at his baby son again.
Wang Rong felt strange and walked up to take a look. This newspaper from somewhere should have a direct and indirect connection with my Dalian?
Wang Anshi didn't object, "Yu'er then looked carefully, and after reading it, tell your thoughts as a father."
Wang Yun took a look and found that this was probably the first time that the cruel official Li Shen was in charge of his sensitive rule.
Wang Yun pointed to a word on the newspaper and said, "Dad, you have to tell me what word is this first?"
After hearing what the prodigy asked, Geng Tianzhi almost fell down.
Wang Anshi was kind and explained the source to his son. He looked at Geng Tianqi again and said, "No need to do this. When this church was a state verdict under Han Qi, Han Qi also had many rare words that he didn't know, but he was not ashamed to come to me for advice. It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand, but he was afraid that he would pretend to understand if he doesn't understand."
"Yes." Geng Tianqiu was in the waterfall and even Han Qi didn't recognize many words. Ouyang Xiu, the master of Wenzong, also scolded those scholars all day long for showing off and using unusual characters. It seems that literary youth is really sick.
After asking a few places, Wang Rong passed the study.
This is about the loan of Li Shen, the transferee of Shaanxi Metro.
He brought the word "du", so this guy's official is one level older than Yiqiu Dad. He is a real chief official and a commander in the border guard.
In principle, this is a good news, which was submitted by Li Shen to the court to report his merits and used as materials for the summary of the annual grand court. Then Zhang Fangping is now in Shuzhou, so the newspaper is transferred here.
Thinking of this, Wang Rong shook his head and continued to look.
In fact, it is good news. Li Shen distributed "green seedling money" to the people of Shaanxi before spring plowing this year, which means loans, so that the people will not be controlled by usury and landlord grain traders. Later, the autumn harvest was booming.
"Tell me what you think." Wang Anshi asked again.
Wang Rong said: "This situation is called the so-called "green and yellow" failure. The people of the country have no spare money and have too low risk resistance. In order to buy seedlings, rent plowing oxen, and eat before the autumn harvest. They usually only have to borrow money to live, but loans of up to four cents of interest continue to spring plowing to autumn harvest, with a time span of more than half a year. Calculated interest exceeding two cents, which means they have lost two layers of income for no reason."
Seeing this boy just glanced at him and said it directly to the core. Wang Anshi and Geng Tianzhi nodded frequently while twisting their beards.
Wang Rong continued: "It's not really that you only lose two layers, it's just the beginning. The urinary nature of usury will definitely be stuck in farmers' debt collection before selling autumn grain. Then under the rule of suing the stick, usury debt collection is protected by the government. At the same time, if you are not wrong, the local grain merchant alliance will uniformly sell grain, causing a sharp drop in grain prices. People who are pursuing debt collection by the vibrant organization have no ability to resist risks, and can only sell the grain in their hands at a low price to repay loans. From the perspective of interest, about 20% of the loss, but with the manipulation of grain prices, combined with this weighting.
"So the people of the big head pay more than 40% of the price for this green seedling money. Then they pay the government tax and grain. Even though the autumn harvest is basically a waste of effort and nothing will be left. At most, they start borrowing money to buy green seedlings again for half a year, and then they continue to cycle year after year, and the government taxes will actually die."
Geng Tianqi suddenly interrupted, "Young Master, why do you say that the government's tax revenue has also died? Haven't you paid it all the time?"
Wang Rong said: "What you said is that the grain tax and body tax are fixed. But our dynasty has a characteristic: the prosperity of the commodity economy has made our dynasty commercial tax exceed the sum of all other taxes. Then commercial tax comes from transactions, so it is obvious that as the largest tax in the dynasty, it directly determines that the dynasty's finances are sufficient or exhausted. How to ensure that the dynasty's replenishment is easy? It is very simple. It requires the people to have money in their hands, and money is not circulated. If Wang Er's grain is not exploited by the vitality organization and sold at a good price, then he will buy Li Si's meat. When Li Si makes money in selling meat, he will buy Zhang San's seasonings. In fact, this is how the money of the government and the people."
"..." Wang Anshi and Geng Tianqiu couldn't help but look at each other.
Wang Rong said again: "That is to say, because the ruling officials did not act, it was a large amount of money that the court had owned, and entered the hands of vibrant organizations and merchants who manipulated food. They harmed not only the court, but also the interests of countless people. The country was based on the people and the people were the most important. In fact, there was no need to deduce what would happen in the future."
"But I want to hear what happen if you say in person?" A voice came from behind the bookshelf. It turned out that Zhang Fangping was also hiding here, but now he has come out.
"I've met my uncle and my husband, so the kid will continue."
After seeing the ceremony, Wang Rong said, "What I mentioned above is a vicious cycle. These things happened to make me, the court hawks and dogs look stupid. The people who were hurt don't trust us. After the people are hurt, they will not distinguish the reasons. They will only blame the court and the emperor. After they can't survive, there is a group called "fledged households". These people hide in the mountains and never come out again, do not participate in the court economic circle, do not serve the government, and do not pay food to the government. The victims are ultimately us court hawks and dogs. They pay protection fees to the court, and they are the emperor's people. If they don't protect them well, they are unfaithful, dereliction of duty, treason, and the government's work is not done well."
Zhang Fangping sat down and said, "It seems that you have a positive view of the Qingmiao money that Li Chan has released this time?"
Wang Rong was a little nervous about this. With his temper, he would not ask this question or bring Shaanxi's government affairs to Huaixi for discussion. Perhaps Lao Zhang had a negative view on this.
Speaking of which, the cruel official Li Shen was indeed brave and very smart. So he really implemented the Qingmiao money in this historical year, which greatly increased the fiscal and taxation of Shaanxi border areas and the finances were in full bloom.
Li Shen's activities are the first form of the "Qingmiao Method" in the hearts of the great devil in the future.
The reason why Li Chan was smarter than Wang Anshi was that he did not "reform" but quietly entered the village without shooting. He just kept doing things with his head down, only told the court that he had made money, and did not say "I reform". So Li Chan is not the target of the world for the time being, and few people were thrust at him.
Then, when Zhang Fangping was in the popularity of Shaanxi's finance and taxation, he did not fully hold a positive attitude towards Qingmiao money. Wang Rong suddenly understood why Zhang Fangping later opposed Wang Anshi's reform.
The core is that Zhang Fangping saw that Wang Anshi was covered in bruises and the court gradually went from political struggle to party struggles. Many officials were making random things under the jurisdiction of the new law. So with Lao Zhang's personality, regardless of whether Wang Anshi did the right thing, he applied his usual logic: if he was in his position, he could not settle the officials under his command, causing all kinds of troubles to happen, which was a crime against the state and the system.
As a little treacherous minister, this is a political choice, and it is okay to call this a sideline.
However, before taking the team, Wang Rong also needed to analyze and determine the final analysis: Is Lao Zhang questioning Li Shen’s political achievements?
Could it be that my Dalian made a mistake, and Lao Zhang deliberately tested it for clichés?
Chapter completed!