Kaifeng Prefecture immediately sent someone to drag Hua Qin to Kaifeng Prefecture for interrogation. Hua Qin scolded him endlessly, but Hua Qin was different from Zhang Jian. He was from the third-class Jinshi. He was a real scholar-official, so Kaifeng Prefecture had no choice but to criticize the South.

However, a news came soon, that Hua Qin was not demoted to the south as an official, but was placed, so there would be yamen runners accompanying him. However, several yamen runners may have been instructed by some people and gradually went to the south with few people. Several yamen runners began to torture Hua Qin on the way. Before they reached their destination, Hua Qin died of torture by these yamen runners.

Another life!

After hearing this, Cai Que sighed for a long time: "Where is the gentle Renzong atmosphere that he had agreed to be?"

But it was not over yet. After less than three months of Huazhong's death, another news came that Hedong general Xue Yi died of illness because he was not adapted to the southern weather. He was a military general, and few scholars and officials cared about it, but soon another person died, Kumamoto.

Shen Kuo can say that he is one of the criminals who suffered a crushing defeat in Yongle City.

Hua Zhen can say that he is a small official.

Xue Yi can say that he is a military general.

However, Kumamoto was different. He was the first hero in pacifying the Luzhou barbarians, the second master general in pacifying Dali, and the third master general in the Battle of Shuozheng. However, Kumamoto was not only a martial arts master, but also made great achievements in internal governance. He not only served as the governor and the commander of the former Ministry of Works, but also the first in charge of the former Ministry of Works. If he was not a scholar-official, then Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi could not be considered scholar-official. Not only was a scholar-official, but also the top scholar-official in the Song Dynasty.

The news spread to the court and the whole court was in a state of solemnity.

Wang Ju's approach to becoming a prime minister was to win over most people by making compromises. However, this kind of seeking peace also has its disadvantages. Because people's hearts are insufficient, a very small number of officials were demoted overseas to shock them. That is, what he often said about using both kindness and power, with grace as the main one and power as the auxiliary one.

This effectively guaranteed the success of his reform.

However, he said again and again, that is, don't let anyone die.

Including Xiao Cheng, Wang Ju didn't want him to come back, but just in case, he moved Xiao Cheng to the other side as soon as he went to the other side. Therefore, the imperial edict was issued, and Wang Ju agreed, but it would not be until next spring that Xiao Cheng would be sent back.

At that time, Zhao Xu had grown up and Xiao Cheng was not harmful. Besides, the Luo Party ministers were demoted by the dispute between the two parties of Luoshu. Almost no one cares whether Xiao Cheng can come back. But that's it. Wang Ju has always arranged Xiao Cheng in a lukewarm place. Of course, the ultraviolet rays in the beautiful city were very strong, but they didn't hurt the yellow people. At most, the skin would become slightly red. All of this is for five words: No one can die!

Once someone dies, and the one who dies is a minister like Kumamoto, this means the future. At the same time, Wen Yanbo can also die, and Liu Zhi can also die!

Lu Dafang couldn't help but frowned, but although most people felt bad, they didn't care too much, because the little emperor did a good job and was too confusing.

But the problem is that the following is a big fuss.

If according to Sima Guang's theory, the cake remains unchanged, then it is divided into four pieces, including the country, the landlords, the powerful, the literati, the literati, the small and medium-sized landlords, and the common people.

In the end, this group should not go on stage. If you can avoid starving to death, you have to thank the country. What are the rights?

Wen Yanbo and Sima Guang maintain a second group, and all national interests are placed behind this.

As for Wang Anshi, what he defended was not small and medium-sized landlords and merchants, but the country.

Wang Juqi roared loudly, but he actually maintained all groups, even strictly speaking, the first three groups and the last group. What Wang Ju did was just to give them more life as much as possible, and there was no real maintenance, even though this cake was indeed bigger in his hands.

If according to Sima Guang's theory, the interests of this group increase, the interests of another group will inevitably decrease.

In the beginning of Yonghe, as the interests of several other groups decreased, the interests of the second group were increasing.

However, the problem is that the cake shrank rapidly. It turned out that the cake was 500 grams, and the second group could still eat 200 grams, but now the cake was reduced to 100 grams. Even if the second group had 70% of the profit, it was only 70 grams.

Moreover, the national finances are becoming increasingly unhealthy. In order to make up for the country's expenditure, the court had to focus on the two taxes again. The two taxes quickly rose from the original 30 million to more than 50 million. In fact, it is not much. After all, the farmland in the Song Dynasty increased a lot and the territory was also expanding. Compared with the original two taxes, the two taxes are still considered lighter now.

However, the execution was not what the court officials thought.

It turned out that the court cut two taxes one after another, but it could not meet the needs of the court. So the officials of the Shipping Department, the Promotion Department, and the Transport Department cooperated with each other and sent people to check the grain output and prices of each state. The local grain harvest was bumper and the grain prices fell. Officials immediately sent to buy food. First, they ensured the court's food and grass demand, and second, they regulated the grain prices to prevent low grain prices from hurting farmers. The implementation effect was not as good as Wang Ju thought, but there were no major problems. In general, it benefited the people.

Now the two taxes have increased by nearly 60 million, and there is no relevant merchandise and regulation of grain prices. Moreover, because of the protection of the second group, not only the two taxes have increased, but they have all increased to small and medium-sized main households and even tenant farmers. The income of these people is very pitiful, almost relying on the weather, the weather is good, the food prices are low, and there are more disasters, and they do not have enough grain storage in their hands to make profits, so most of the time they cannot even maintain food and clothing. One stone of taxes will make the whole family live, and one stone of taxes will make the whole family go hungry soon.

So later the Tian Dynasty exempted the agricultural tax. In fact, the proportion of agricultural tax in the country's income was very small, but this move won praise from the whole country. This is also the reason why these low-income groups are good even if they are 100 yuan.

It’s okay if there is no comparison, but countless people are disappointed after comparison.

As a result, more and more people were disappointed with the new imperial court, including the second group that Wen Yanbo and others tried hard to defend.

Even more deadly news came out that when the court demoted Kumamoto to the south, Kumamoto was already sick because he had been traveling all year round. Under the imperial edict, Mrs. Xiong told the envoy that the official of the emperor was seriously ill, how could he go to the south? However, the envoy disagreed and forced Kumamoto to the south, causing the condition to worsen and eventually died of illness.

Wen Yanbo has a high IQ, and the country has problems everywhere when it comes to this point, and he can't even cover up.

So he wrote a letter repeatedly and requested to retire.

Wen Yanbo finally retreated, but the national fiscal crisis is aggravating.

Autumn is coming.

There are really no fleets on the other side, but this is not good news. Don’t look at these fleets, one side is the Song Dynasty, and on the other side, there are also huge Indians and the countries that are big in the world. Therefore, the trade volume is amazing and the industries it drives are countless.

Trade has been suspended, and these industries have been cooking together.

Not only this, the fleet on the other side did not come, but more and more small and medium-sized owners and merchants became difficult to live, so they continued to sell industries. There were no fleets on the other side, but there were sea ships from the Song Dynasty, and then they jointly hired their ships to leave the Song Dynasty and defected to the other side, and even a ticket worth hundreds of coins!

After hearing this, Liu Zhi frantically ordered the ban on the sea.

Under the promotion of Wang Ju, the navigation industry on the other side was developed, and the navigation industry in the Song Dynasty also became developed, not just the sailing of foreign trade. After all, the imperial court took back Jiaozhi. Even though the city was not occupied, it still surrendered to the Song Dynasty, and the north-south dispatch became very huge.

How many people would have to be killed by this stick?

There are still loyal and righteous people. After receiving the imperial edict, Cao Yi, a member of the Hangzhou Prefecture, rode a horse to the capital, bought a coffin, and then came to Xuande Gate with the coffin and read aloud. The general idea was that in recent years, the country was more cruel than the Qin Dynasty and darker than when Emperor Yang of Sui. Today I am here to advise, knowing that it will die, but "if the country is beneficial to life and death, how can it avoid it because of misfortune and fortune." I hope I can use my life to awaken the Empress Dowager and the Emperor with my life, and the Song Dynasty cannot continue like this.

If it is beneficial to the country's life and death, how can it avoid it because of misfortune and fortune? It was written by Lin Zexu. However, when Wang Ju was prime minister, he once used it as a quote, so it became widely known.

Before he finished reading, the soldiers were about to drag him to Kaifeng Prefecture.

As a result, countless onlookers forced apart the soldiers and wanted to protect Cao Yi.

The matter quickly reached the ears of several prime ministers. Lu Dafang became more and more afraid, so he said that the ban on the sea could not be implemented, which led to a conflict with Liu Zhi.

The two prime ministers clashed and found out that one of them was Xing Shu.

The court has been in chaos in recent years. The ministers are not ministers, but a group of mad dogs. Even the honest people Fan Chunren and Wang Cun were bitten into Wang Ju Party, so let alone Xing Shu. He became Wang Anshi Party and Cai Que Party, and then demoted to Yongzhou.

What was Yongzhou like in ancient times? Xing Shu was unwilling to go. He thought for a while and thought that he still had some friendship with Liu Zhi, so he wrote to Liu Zhi, hoping that Liu Zhi would ask for some love for him. Liu Zhi replied that Yongzhou is a good place, and he will go to the next day to wait for a rest. Yongzhou is a good place. You go, and you can transform it with peace of mind and wait for good luck in the future. Xing Shu was so angry that he went to Yongzhou with a strong anger.

Now that he heard all kinds of things in the court, he saw the opportunity.

The opportunity is that the party is dominant and there is no need to bite it. There is a division within it. That is, the relatively gentle party and the radical party have begun to disagree. So I wrote a letter to the court. This place is the best place in Yongzhou, and the "rest" that was waiting for a rest and restoration has become "rest and restoration". As for the crooked building, everyone can write it. However, the group of scholars and officials in the Song Dynasty are knowledgeable and have a good level of knowledge. Then this sentence means completely differently, and it becomes a good place for Yongzhou. You go and wait for the Empress Dowager to return the power that day...

The letter came to the hands of the Lu Party Censor Yang Wei, and Yang Wei found another thing. Before the new and old parties intensified, Liu Zhi also guided Zhang Dun's son's studies at home.

Since Zhang Dun is the leader of a treacherous party, why do you still have to give advice on his son’s homework? Because you were not successful at that time, you cursed Zhang Dun, which shows your character problem. If you have bad character, how can you become the prime minister of the country?

Liu Zhi discerned himself, but he has been too crazy in recent years. Not only did he have the "Lu Party" in the court, but there were also a large number of low-level officials. They were not the Lu Party or the Shuo Party boss, and they had a sound in their hearts. It was just that because they had a low official position and had no right to speak, they dared not speak.

Now Yang Wei and a group of big parties attacked Liu Zhi, the opportunity came and they wrote letters.

So the Liu Zhi party member list also appeared, Wang Yansou, Liu Anshi, Liang Tao, Zhu Guangting, Jia Yi... There were more than 30 people in total, which were the big guys who had jumped more powerfully in recent years. After this group of people were finished, Liu Zhi and others were demoted from the court one after another.

At this time, Gao Taotao calmed down. She didn't know whether it was as dark as Emperor Yang of Sui and as cruel as the Qin Dynasty, but she knew that the court was so chaotic, which had never happened since ancient times, at least it had not appeared in the normal era of the unified dynasty.

After repeated consideration, Gao Taotao issued an edict to recall the "giant party" Fan Chunren, Wang Cun, Su Dongpo and others back to the capital. After all, Fan Chunren was the leader of the moderate faction and wanted to use him to ease the conflicts in the Song Dynasty.

However, even Fan Chunren came back, he was too angry. The court is now too fierce, so he dare not do anything.

The country continued to decline. In the spring of the following year, Gao Taotao did another thing in order to alleviate public grievances, asking his grandson to marry the young lady of the Di family, and wanted to use the emperor's marriage and the country's joys to further ease the conflict.

However, because she was extremely disliked by the little lady of the Di family, the marriage caused controversy. Because she was disliked, the marriage was very low-key, and almost only used a sedan to carry Di to the palace, and then the marriage ended.

Fan Chunren then wrote a letter to the Empress Dowager, this is the emperor's wedding, and it is very inappropriate to do this. The national finance is very difficult, but no matter how difficult it is, there is still a cost to squeeze a marriage. Gao Taotao loudly scolded Fan Chunren again, and Gao Taotao felt very wronged. I let my grandson get married. What does this mean? It means that I am also preparing to return the power to the emperor. What else do you have to do!

At this time, Zhang Jian went to Beijing to report his work.

In the Song Dynasty, the county was established, and there were two official positions, magistrate and lord Bo, and there were also county magistrates. According to the situation of each county, some small counties did not place lieutenant, and lieutenant was not placed, and lieutenant was not placed, and lieutenant was placed under lieutenant. However, with the large population, it was difficult for only three officials to manage one county. Therefore, when Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty was emperor, he issued an imperial edict to establish a county magistrate for all large counties with more than 20,000 households, and lieutenant was placed above lieutenant. But this could be placed, but it was not necessary to establish a chief.

Huating County did not establish a chief, but Bo and Wei were appointed.

The original county lieutenant was an old Jinshi, who was ranked 5th and 5th. The fifth one was not valuable anymore and he was older and had no disputes with Zhang Duan.

Last year, the old county lieutenant died, and the court sent a new county lieutenant. This county lieutenant Wang was from a good background and was a Jinshi of the third grade.

Therefore, after arriving in Huating County, I was very unhappy when I saw two clerks on my side, so I had a vicious thought.

In fact, Zhang Jian did a good job, and this water conservancy project was better than Cai Que and Wang Ju expected. First of all, Cai Que stayed until the winter of the first year of Yonghe and did not retire, which ensured that Liangzhe Road provided supplies for this water conservancy project for three years.

As Cai Que went down, a major purge began inside and outside the government and the country, including Chen Jiayang, and three officials, were also cleaned up and left Liangzhe Road. The newly appointed magistrate Su Weicong was a disciple of Liu Zhi. However, under Zhang Jian's praise, Su Weicong did not make things difficult for Zhang Jian. Especially when Su Weicong went to Huating for inspection, Zhang Jian intended to lead a group of gentry to entertain Su Weicong, and during the meal, he praised Su Weicong and his mentor Liu Zhi, which made Su Weicong very happy and even allocated some funds to continue to support the construction of this water conservancy.

Liu Zhi went down, Su Weicong was transferred away, and the new magistrate Zhu Gai was said to be a disciple of Fan Zuyu.

Now the disciple of the Song Dynasty should not take it seriously. Very few people have real teaching relationships. Most of them recognize a big boss as a disciple to make relationships. Big bosses also need these "disciples" to do things and broaden their rights.

At this time, Wang County Wei also discovered a truth.

Huating County's water conservancy is very low-key, but its actual scale is not as long as two hundred miles. In fact, this length is not a small scale. What is more important is its depth and width, which is several hundred meters wide, more than ten meters deep, and nearly twenty meters deep, and many tributaries need to be renovated.

So the cost is very high. It seems that the source of the use is very clear from the perspective of the situation. First, the material support from Xiuzhou and Liangzhe Road, and second, the "donation" of local tyrants. Especially later, even the powerful people in Suzhou came to "donate", not for donations, but for the fertile land.

China's arable land is too weak, especially those in the north. They have been working for thousands of years, and many fields are "malnutrition". In Wang Ju's words, if the survival of thousands of households is not considered, he would like to persuade the officials to issue an edict to let all the arable land in the north plant purple clouds in winter and then plant beans after fermenting in spring. Only after ten years of rest can the people cultivate, otherwise the yield will never keep up.

And unlike Jiangdongwei, this is a pond field, close to the sea and has a short flood season. As long as this Huangpu River picks up the entire water conservancy, they will instantly become the top fertile land in the Song Dynasty.

Finally, Huating County's taxes were taxed. As the Huangpu River extended upstream, at least large sea boats could sail to Shanghai. In addition, the continuous increase in arable land, immigration, commercial taxes, and taxes were gradually increased every year. Although the court asked Su Weicong to be the governor, because Zhang Jian was good at flattering, Su Weicong continued to agree that Huating County's income outside the original tax base would be transferred out for water conservancy construction.

However, with these, it was still not enough to build this large-scale water conservancy project. Wang County Wei searched and found the donations from the thirty merchants. So the more he checked, the more he asked, the more he was involved, and finally determined that these thirty merchants had a relationship with the other side.

He reported to Zhu Gai with these evidences, but at this time, the spring was officially in charge, the project had stopped, and it was about to be completed. Zhu Gai thought about it and reported to the court.

The court summoned Zhang Jian to the capital to inquire.

Zhang Jian was very smart. He did not say that Cai Que was instructed, but said that at the invitation of the local gentry, this water conservancy project was launched. As for the dozens of merchants, he was not very clear. In exchange for money and silk for water conservancy repairs, Zhang Jian introduced the practice of exchanging money and silk for farmland. These dozens of merchants also used money and silk for farmland. This was normal, so Zhang Jian did not investigate carefully. If the court had any questions, he could send an envoy to investigate the origins of these dozens of merchants.

There were also ministers to question it, but now the Prime Minister has become Lu Dafang and Fan Chunren. All kinds of practices are not so radical. The water conservancy construction has indeed produced many benefits. Lu Dafang thought about it and did not issue an edict to investigate the origins of the dozens of merchants. Would he be against Wang Ju? So he asked Zhang Jian to return to Huating County and complete the remaining thirty miles of water conservancy construction in the autumn.

Moreover, the capital was already very strict at this time, and Lu Dafang had no intention of continuing to question the water conservancy.

Zhang Jian left the capital, and Lu Dafang, Fan Chunren, Fan Zuyu and others broke into the palace.
To be continued...