According to his previous life, the emperor was the head of the landlord class and feudal bureaucrats. Zhao Bing, who had always received this kind of education, also thought that this was the case. However, after the emperor became a decade, it was a bit unfair to take the blame. According to his current understanding, the emperor and the bureaucrats should have a relationship of cooperation and confrontation, and the two sides were not so harmonious.

After entering the Song Dynasty in history, after Zhao Kuangyin established the national policy of governing the world with scholars and officials, the status of scholars should have begun to truly enter the golden period, and they should also live in peace with the emperor. However, in fact, the struggle between imperial power and ministerial power in the Song Dynasty has never subsided, and it has become increasingly fierce, almost irreconcilable, and even triggered a political crisis. Of course, there are also progressive factors, because the emperors of the Song Dynasty were not all wise and powerful, but on the contrary, they produced many foolish monarchs.

The reason for the confrontation between the emperor and the scholars cannot escape the routine of disputes of interests, because the emperor represents the country and maintains the situation of the family and the world. This requires them to maintain the fairness of the entire society and take care of the interests of all classes, at least on the surface. There are many famous officials and great scholars in the scholar class who care about the world, but they also need to protect the interests of the entire class to ensure the support of the class they are in, let alone the scum and treacherous among the scholars.

In terms of land policy, the emperor always hoped to obtain stable and increasing taxes through land and maintain huge national expenses because of land annexation. He did not want the land annexation to make the land bankrupt and the self-cultivated farmers who mainly bear the national taxes. However, the land policy that did not suppress the annexation of the Song Dynasty actually made the most profits from the scholar class, and the protagonist engaged in the annexation was the bureaucratic landlords.

Bureaucratic landlords, in modern understanding, should be the occupants of private means of production in their family whose family is an official. People often call the elite class of this society "literati and official". This title focuses on showing the political and cultural characteristics of the elite class, while "bureaucratic landlords" show the political and economic status of the elite class.

This elite class combines political, economic and cultural advantages. It is keen on leadership positions at all levels, and never tires of searching for various education levels on its high ground. It is also good at accumulating means of production. It can be said that power, money and literature are all taken advantage of. Once the literati and officials rely on the powerful bureaucratic machine, once the butt is sitting in a crooked manner, they will ignore the overall safety of the dynasty for their own interests, and let go of the annexation of the land, and engage in "primitive accumulation" so that a very small number of powerful people "the rich are connected to the fields", while more and more people "the poor have no place to stand."

In this case, the result is that the country's financial difficulties can only be maintained through excessive tax collection, which intensifies social conflicts, leads to national turmoil, and threatens the emperor's rule over the country. From this perspective, Zhao Bing's statement that there are only slander ministers and no straitors is still very correct. Then, whether those in power are straitors or wise monarchs, they will not allow them to be arbitrarily by the scholars and officials, and will inevitably impose suppression, and confrontation between the monarch and the ministers will inevitably arise.

The importance of land in this era is unquestionable, and as a commoner with farming as the main business, it is almost equivalent to life. Therefore, Zhao Bing's land policy naturally curbed annexation, so that the land could not be concentrated in the hands of bureaucrats and gentry through transactions. Of course, there is also the purpose of obtaining stable fiscal revenue. Otherwise, why would he support so many officials and let the soldiers charge for him?

From another perspective, the emperor must stand on the side of the scholars and officials or the people. Whether Zhao Bing has brought the concept from modern times or for the purpose of consolidating the new regime, he will inevitably stand on the side of the people and gain the support of the majority by seeking benefits for them.

In other words, if the emperor wants to maintain social stability, he must create class conflicts, and Zhao Bing pleases the vast majority of ordinary people, he will inevitably suppress the bureaucratic and gentry group. In fact, this method is very common. The Tsarist Russian emperor was very good at doing this. For example, he wanted to prove that the powerful Tsar made sense. He told the workers, if we had no us and without strong imperial power, how could you get an eight-hour working system.

This was carried out by our powerful tsar. Then he told the master, if there were no powerful tsars, how could you deal with the union by the workers, and we were to help you deal with the union. He told both groups of people that the government was your backer, and to the workers, your enemy was the employer, and to the employer, your enemy was the worker.

Zhao Bing's land policy is different from this logic

Not many. However, he thought that his policies were based on maintaining his own rule, strengthening imperial power, and focusing on social stability, which could also be the so-called concept of sustainable exploitation; while the gentry group focused on the personal selfishness in front of him, not the national justice and the interests of the people.

He also knew very well that he was of high power, but the other party was large and powerful. If he did not suppress it, social assets would quickly concentrate on a few privileged scholars. He would no longer have the ability to curb their development, and it would threaten the survival of the dynasty. This was not groundless. When Shenzong supported Wang Anshi's reform, the policy was to target those privileged classes. Unfortunately, because the scholar group was powerful, it failed and failed.

At present, the gentry groups want to usurp more land and earn huge wealth from it is nothing more than relying on political power to dominate, buy forcibly, or obtain more land through tricks. Then they use political privileges to reduce tax exemptions, evade taxes, or rely on their special identities to break the ban and operate industry and commerce illegally. And the land policy formulated by Zhao Bing just hit their key points.

First, Zhao Bing made land grants according to the method of plagiarism, and made it difficult for land to transfer by limiting the years; secondly, he changed the tax system and abolished the tax on the tax on the land. At the same time, he abolished the privileges of officials and implemented the tax payment of officials and gentry. In addition, he retained a large amount of official land and some means of production, and rented it to refugees or land-lost people to cultivate.

These policies can be said to hit the point of land annexation. The age limit of land makes land ownership impossible to be completely transferred, making the gentry unwilling to spend money to buy it. The cancellation of tax-free privileges has made officials and gentry pay taxes, while tenants only pay rent but will not bear taxes. The more land they own, the more taxes they pay, and the rate of return is greatly reduced. Since gentry loses privileges, they have to pay taxes, which makes them lose the motivation to annex the land and will no longer take in small landlords and self-cultivated farmers.

In addition, since the tenants who rented official land paid rent directly to the court, the burden was much lower than that of the gentry's land, which made it difficult for the gentry to find people to cultivate even if they own land. This would lead to the abandonment of the land, but the taxes paid would not be less, and if they were not done well, it would lead to bankruptcy. As the tenants got rid of their dependence on the landlords and instead depended on the country, the landlords could not find support even if they wanted to make trouble, which was equivalent to weakening their strength in disguise.

Therefore, Zhao Bing has figured out that this incident is a dispute between Ma Zheng on the surface, but in fact it is still a battle between the emperor and the scholar group. He is worried that he will continue to promote existing land policies in Lianghuai and his rights and interests will be further suppressed. Therefore, he must curb his suppression by pointing out the surface and maintain the status and interests of the scholar group.

However, Zhao Bing knew that he could not compromise at this time. The scholar group, which was once in the prime of life, had been severely weakened after the invasion of the Mongol Yuan, and his social status was much worse than before. After he recovered Jiangnan, he increased his position as a warrior and increased their voice in the court. When he entered Jiangnan, he suppressed the powerful families with iron-blooded means in the name of punishing traitors and traitors, and cleaned the scholar group, weakening their strength.

At the same time, Zhao Bing also divided the scholar group through various means. When selecting officials, he abandoned the so-called famous scholars with poor moral character and did not have to leave it aside. Instead, he activated the scholar team he had cultivated in Qiongzhou, sent them to various places to serve, strengthen the local centripetal force, and improve his voice in the court. In addition, he was also preparing to weaken the imperial examination and elect officials system, divert scholars by opening various professional schools, and breaking the traditional concept that learning is the purpose of becoming an official.

Zhao Bing's arrangement now seems to have shown results. The dynasty struggle seems to be coming in a fierce manner, but compared with the previous few times, it is no longer a big wave. From the perspective of personnel, the main ones were the old officials left in the court, the Tai students who had just passed the imperial examination, and the gentry in the village. The reason why they resisted it was because the policies affected their vested interests and broke the ideal of some people having their own golden houses in their books, that is, they could make money by becoming officials. Moreover, the sinking of the ruling power has reduced the status of the gentry in the village and lost their past dominance.

Moreover, these opponents have no new tricks. In addition to writing a long and long-form discussion on the benefits of the ancestral system, they are arguing with each other in court discussions, and then they are mobilizing the tai students who lack official experience to march on the streets and conducting public opinion on the public. In addition, they are mobilizing public opinion and putting pressure on the court, so as to

Public opinion threatened Zhao Bing to compromise.

On the other hand, few senior officials and local officials in the court participated, and the people who gained benefits were even more unstoppable and almost no one responded. However, many people criticized the gentry for not being the case. However, the military group expressed their support for Zhao Bing one-sidedly, and wrote letters to express their loyalty, and even suggested using force to suppress the opponents to clean up.

Now Zhao Bing not only sat firmly on the dragon throne, but also had the ability to control the imperial court, but also held hundreds of thousands of elite troops, and won consecutive battles, recovered the two Huai Rivers, Jingxiang, and expanded the border thousands of miles. If it weren't for the former Wu Xia Ameng, how could he compromise on such a big deal and the fate of the dynasty?
Chapter completed!