"My husband, how could you agree to the government spend so much money to repair Qionglin Garden and Jin Mingchi?"

After the court meeting, Han Zhongyan returned to the political affairs hall, and Deputy Prime Minister Fan Chunli hurriedly argued with him.

"Yi Su, this matter does not cost money from the Ministry of Revenue and Taifu Temple. Moreover, Kaifeng Prefecture can collect tens of thousands of deeds and municipal taxes. What's wrong with it?" Han Zhongyan sat down in the main seat of the central hall, picked up a memorial that had just been sent by the Jinzuoyuan, and said while looking, "Besides, there are so many treacherous ministers in the court now. If we stop the official from letting the repair of Qionglinyuan and Jin Mingchi, we might let the treacherous ministers succeed."

"My husband, although I didn't spend money on the treasury and Taifu Temple this time, the land in Dutingyi is also from the country, and is worth at least 2 million now."

Han Zhongyan put down the memorial, picked up the tea soup sent by the minor official, took a sip, and shook his head and said, "In the past, the late emperor wanted to build a mansion for the Gao family. Empress Xuanren refused several times and then gave him an official land. The Gao family paid for the construction. Didn't he say that it was useless to use a penny of the national treasury? Didn't we also commend Empress Xuanren for his virtues?

Now the officials are just using the same method to cultivate good gardens for themselves. Although it is not done by the wise king, they have not spent money on the treasury and will not affect their friendship with the Liao Kingdom. What's wrong?

Yishu, I know that your brothers are all upright gentlemen and cannot rub sand in their eyes. But it is not possible to be flexible. As long as the official does not implement new laws that harm the people, does not provoke wars with the Khitan, so that the people can rest and recuperate, and sell a few pieces of land and make some money to spend, don’t worry about it.”

It is not unreasonable that Han Zhongyan was rated as "cowardly" by historical books. His bottom line is relatively low. As long as he can live a more relaxed life, he can't compare with his father Han Qi who is so fierce that no one dares to fight against him.

Fan Chunli just shook his head: "My husband, how many days have you been in power now? He has tried every means to build a garden for himself. If it takes time, wouldn't he have to gather and squander..."

"Don't say it, don't say it..." Han Zhongyan waved his hands repeatedly, "If you say too much, Zhang Zihou will be back! Then the world will be more miserable. We are an upright gentleman, and we will have to go to Haizhou to retire."

...

At the same time, in the Privy Council, Zeng Bu, An Tao, Zhang Feng, and Hanlin scholar Jiang Zhiqi also gathered together to discuss the "demolition of the capital Pavilion and Post".

Song Huizong actually thought of demolishing Duting Post and selling land for himself to build a palace... Is this too smart? Although everyone knows that today's saints are very smart, and if you combine literary and martial arts, you will definitely rank first among the emperors of ancient and modern times, and Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin is not as good as that.

But this cleverness is not used anywhere!

"To clash with Yuan, what happened today is very inappropriate! You should be forced to return the word "return" and you will firmly stop it."

As soon as An Tao, the Minister of the Privy Council, sat down, he proposed to Xu Jiang, the Minister of the Secretariat who ran to the Western Prefecture to "visit the family".

The sale of Dutingyi land to raise money to build a new office and repair the Qionglin Garden and the Jinmingchi also requires the Secretariat to draft an edict and review it. Now, Han Zhongyan, the theoretical highest official of the Menxia Province, has already expressed his willingness to release it, so it is not easy for the Menxia Province to seal the edict.

However, Zeng Bu has not made any statement yet, so the Secretariat could entrust the title of "return" and refuse to recruit. However, the Secretariat would easily annoy the officials and would go to Haizhou by then.

"Houqing," Xu Jiang, the Minister of the Secretariat, was startled by An Tao's proposal, "Even Han Shipu nodded, why are we evil people?"

Since the Shenzong Dynasty, those who did not allow the officials to spend money were generally the old party and the old party hated the court to make money, so they had to control the country's expenditure. Not only did the emperor himself have to be more frugal, but even the normal expenses of the country, such as wars, and the management of the Yellow River (the method of governing the Yellow River in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty was abnormal) were all saved as much as possible.

However, Wu Haogu’s idea for Song Huizong this time was to “real estate to promote the country”. If you ask the real estate industry to get money, if the Ministry of Users and Taifu Temple are not issued, then there will be no problem of the court making money. Therefore, Han Zhongyan’s failure to stop it would not be considered contrary to the purpose of the old party.

Zeng Bu, who went to Xifu to "visit" with General Xu, also said: "Houqing, now the censors are mainly in the hands of the Yuanyou Party. The memorials that impeached me and Chong Yuan are almost piled up on the official's desk. If we block the official's way in repairing Qionglin Garden, we are afraid we will have to go to Haizhou."

"It's not that the garden is not suitable," An Tao shook his head repeatedly, "but it's that it's not suitable to take the land of Dutingyi to Christie's store to sing and sell it!"

Zeng Bu shook his head, "Huqing, isn't this the same thing? If you don't sell the land, where will the official get 2 million?"

An Tao said: "Zixuan, who do you think you will buy this land? Who can afford a huge sum of 2 million yuan at a time?"

"Houqing, you are also a son of Bianliang. Why don't you know that there are many rich merchants in Bianliang City?" Xu Jiang smiled, "You can get 100 million yuan in just one Jieshi Lane."

"Of course I know!" An Tao said seriously, "I also know that when the land reaches the hands of profiteers, it will definitely become a tool for them to exploit fish and meat to the people."

"Businessmen buy land for sale, so they naturally need to make profits," Zeng Bu said. "Businessmen buy land for profits does not mean harming the people."

Although Zeng Bu was a general of the New Party, his ideas were different from those of Wang Anshi, An Tao and others. He did not agree with the monopoly of official business. In the seventh year of Xining, he wrote a letter to point out the problems of the "City Law". Therefore, he was regarded as a traitor to the New Party and kicked out of the court by Wang Anshi to become a magistrate in Guangzhou.

Although An Tao was a son of Bianliang, he advocated strengthening official business operations. So in his opinion, the so-called "Shaoshu" led by Zhang Dun and Zeng Bu were just a mere appearance and had no essence of the Xining New Policy at all.

An Tao said angrily: "This matter must not be what the official family thought of, but the two villains around the official family Pan Xiao'an and Wu Haogu were planning!

Although Pan Xiao'an was a general, his father and son were not doing their jobs in both generations. In Xining and Yuanfeng period, his family's gold, silver and silk shop colluded with illegitimate officials, destroying Wang Jinggong's "Qingmiao Law", took the opportunity to manipulate grain prices, and then borrowed money with high profits, forcing many small farmers in Daming, Yingtian, Haizhou and other places to lose their fortunes, and even many poor households committed suicide due to their family!

Later, his family's Jiekuai also lent money to grain merchants in Kaifeng Prefecture to hoard goods and manipulate grain prices to fight against the "Current Law", which made the public resentment.

Such a tyrant should have been arrested and severely punished, but because he was a hero and had an official position, he was left alone. Now his son and son-in-law are confused by the government and want to continue to harm the people!"

It turned out that Pan Xiao'an and Pan Qiaolian's father were not a good person, and they were also a big tyrant businessman in Kaifeng Prefecture when they were alive! When Wang Anshi was working on the "Qingmiao Law", he colluded with local wealthy officials and manipulated grain prices in Daming, Yingtian, Haizhou and other places.

Before farmers lend grain from Changping Warehouse (need to be converted into money), the grain price has been greatly increased, resulting in the discount on grain loans from farmers too high. In summer and autumn, farmers pay back their loans, the grain price has been lowered, resulting in too much grain (also required to be discounted) needed for farmers to repay their loans.

In this way, the interest that farmers actually have to bear is far more than the specified 20%. The extra part will naturally be divided by the Pan family’s unscrupulous merchants, local wealthy families and corrupt officials... Well, this kind of Qingmiao loan that is obviously a loss is levied in many places, and it is impossible not to borrow it! Not only will the farmers be levied with Qingmiao loans, but even the Kufang households will be levied with it.

By the way, Ximen Qing’s grandfather Ximen He also did the same bad thing in Yanggu County, but he forced many honest farmers to lose their fortunes!

Therefore, Wang Anshi's new policy was mainly the crime of the unscrupulous businessmen and illegitimate officials... No matter how big the loopholes in Wang Anshi's new policy were, no matter how many missed it during the implementation process, the starting point was for the country and the people, and it was in line with the political correctness of the official business and "protecting" small farmers, so it was naturally good. If there were no unscrupulous businessmen and illegitimate officials to make trouble, the new policy would definitely be a great success.

Now the unscrupulous businessman has become the confidant of the official family and plans to engage in real estate in Kaifeng Prefecture. How can this continue?

"Houqing," Zeng Bu said with a frown, "Or let the censor impeach Pan Xiao'an and Wu Haogu."

Of course, there is also the mouthpiece of the new party in the Censorate. The current Censor General Zhao Tingzhi is a member of the New Party.

However, it is useless to impeach Wu Haogu and a close minister like Pan Xiao'an, so the official just keeps the bullet stamp.

"There is no need for impeachment now," An Tao said. "Now the villain's tricks should be stopped, and Dutingyi must not be allowed to fall into their hands. The shops and houses in Kaifeng Prefecture should take over Dutingyi."

"Let the store office take over?"

Zeng Bu and Xu looked at each other and felt a little uneasy. To be honest, it was the easiest and least easy to make mistakes by selling Dutingyi for 2 million yuan. Moreover, the official proposed selling is also good. If you openly shout for a price, you will get the highest price. You will pay the money with one hand and get the land with the other. There is nothing wrong with it.

"Let the store office sell Dutingyi?" Zeng Bu asked.

An Tao nodded: "It's not just selling it, but..."

But An Tao couldn't remember it for a moment, and he didn't know how to make the country prosperous in real estate in the future, and he had never even done business.

"The unscrupulous businessman must have a way to seek huge profits," said An Tao. "But the officials of the shop and house affairs must know. Zixuan, you just need to call them to the mansion to ask questions and figure out how the merchants make profits, and you can get the shop and house affairs to handle the same."

"But the income from the business operations of the left and right stores in Kaifeng Prefecture is also for the ban." Zeng Bu said, "Anyway, it's just that we are building gardens for the official family, why should we do this more than we can do?"
Chapter completed!