"So it is necessary to limit that Zhongming Ding Food House does not care about the high and low amount of firewood, and uses as much as you like every day. Once firewood becomes more expensive, it is second to burn the fire and cook. Once there is no firewood to keep warm in winter, it will be in danger of freezing to death. Therefore, it must be restricted."

Zhang Zhi saw a report from Kaifeng Prefecture last year - more than 300 people were frozen to death around the winter solstice. He blurted out: "There was my uncle who vigorously recommended the use of carbon stone to replace the wages."

Zhang Yue nodded. In fact, since the reign of Emperor Zhenzong, Bianjing began to try to use coal to keep warm. Now, nearly half of the million households in the capital have used coal to replace firewood.

"The carbonite you mentioned is a solution, but what if there is no carbonite?" Zhang Yue pointed at the bare mountains in the distance, and his voice sank.

Zhang looked straight at his uncle's solemn face, and he wanted to speak but stopped.

Zhang Yue said: "Only by strictly enforcing the method of limiting wages, this method will inevitably be attacked by the powerful and the people will inevitably be resentful."

Seeing that his nephew bowed his head and said earnestly, Zhang Yue said: "I know that everyone likes to adapt and do things that offend people. However, governing a big country is like cooking small fresh food. If the temperature is slightest, it will be a thousand miles away."

He pointed to the dry riverbed: "The water in the pond is about to dry up, and the fish are growing day by day. It is said that it is better to forget each other than to support each other."

"But the pool is so big, and it will soon dry up, and there will be more and more fish? How do you survive until the tide rises? At this time, someone will come out to bear the infamy."

Zhang Zhi nodded and said, "What my uncle said is the most reasonable. Although the new policy hurts the present, is it a hundred years of plan?"

Zhang Yue said: "Even if there are any mistakes in the new law, there are still areas where we have to do it. Although there are any past experiences in front of us, it will be successful in the long run. We are all people who have read history. We cannot only look at the past few years or more than ten years, but we must look at the career of a hundred years."

"Those who do not plan for the whole world cannot plan for a moment."

Zhang Yue looked at Zhang Zhi's expression and Tan Sitong said, "It has been the Qin system for two thousand years."

This sentence is what makes him dissatisfied with, and it also has his roots.

After two thousand years of rise and fall, the empire went from prosperity to decline, and from decline to prosperity, and the population increased and fell several times.

To maintain such a large territory and rule so much, no one has more experience than us.

Zhang Zhi's face turned red and he whispered: "My nephew is even more convinced by what Emperor Xuan of Han said. My Han family has its own system, and it is a combination of kings and dominances."

Zhang Yue nodded and said, "That's right. This is what Sima Junshi said, 'Study the relationship between heaven and man, and understand the changes of ancient and modern times'."

"But you must remember that the king's way is ahead of domineering."

Zhang Zhi was overjoyed when he heard this, "I am the same as my nephew..."

Zhang Yue looked at Zhang Zhi and his face turned cold: "But in terms of means, domineering should be the first priority!"

Zhang Zhi heard this and said, "My uncle always said that governing should be based on kingly ways, and doing things should be based on dominance! My nephew always remembers it in his heart."

"Zi Zheng, those who accomplish great things will either use thunderbolt methods to show the heart of the Bodhisattva, or vice versa." Zhang Yue's fingers rushing around the Yellow River:

"And if we are political countries, we should be like the mainstay of the Yellow River, not being transferred by torrents, but being able to transfer torrents!"

...

In the late autumn of the eighth year of Yuanfeng, the debate on the law of the market in the Bianjing court gradually became increasingly fierce.

First, Su Shi was appointed as a Hanlin bachelor and attendant.

Zeng Zhao was appointed as a doctor in the Ministry of Personnel.

Lin Xi served as a doctor in the Ministry of Rites.

This is just a prelude. As the old party is filled with rumors, the original Sima Guang has not yet stopped. Liu Zhi, Wang Yansou and others have begun to work here.

The old party first criticized the most controversial market law among the new law.

The Market Yi Law began to be implemented in the fifth year of Xining and has been implemented for more than ten years. Zhang Yue, Wen Yanbo and Zeng Bu have been trying to stop.

The Shiyi Law claimed that it could earn more than 2 million guan interest per year, but in fact, by the eighth year of Yuanfeng, the principal of 12 million guan had been recovered, and the additional interest was charged for 410,000 guan.

At the same time, there are still two million kilns of interest that have not been recovered.

At present, 27,000 small merchants still have owed money to the court.

This good law, which originally meant to "calm prices and curb mergers", has become a tool for cruel officials to exploit merchants in practice.

In order to collect money from the market, the imperial court placed seventy officials, and these officials hired people on their own, ranging from ten people to more than thirty people, totaling more than one thousand people.

Half of the interest collected by the court compensated these officials.

These officials are corrupt and use the name of merchants' arrears to directly take over. Merchants are willing to let others go if they take money, but they will not let others go if they don't take money.

Nowadays, merchants are still in debt and are urged by the Municipal Information Department every day.

This is the current situation after the implementation of the Market Law.

It is also the most criticized one of Wang Anshi's new laws. Even after Shaosheng, the new laws were restored, the Shiyi law was not activated.

It took thirteen years from the fifth year of Xining to the eighth year of Yuanfeng, and only 12 million guan of principal was recovered until now, and the people still owed more than 2 million guan.

The court did not make much money, which instead led to the bankruptcy of countless merchants among the people. More than 27,000 merchants still owed the court money.

Later, officials in the court also realized that the market law was not good, but why did it not be abolished?

The new party believes that although the market change law has problems, the interest rate of the imperial court cannot be abolished before it is recovered. At the same time, abolishing the market change law is like opening a hole and giving the old party a tribute.

The new party and the old party are both hard on the other side. One is to insist on one and not to abolish the other, and the other is to insist on everything that must be abolished.

This practice is like one with a full position and one with a clear position and a short position.

There were also opinions within the New Party, believing that Cai could follow the general trend, give in slightly in the market law, or use a compromise plan.

For example, Su Che, the Party of the Party, proposed that it would exempt the interest owed by merchants with less than 200 chunks of 100 chunks of 100 chunks of 100 chunks of 100 chunks of 100 chunks of 100 chunks of 100 chunks of 100 chunks of 100 chunks of 100 chunks of

This argument was praised by Zhang Yue.

"This is an evil policy of competing with the people for profit!" Liu Zhi made a sound in the court's discussion, "Please abolish it immediately to relieve the people's worries."

"If all the green seedlings are abandoned, the market will be changed, and the annual income of households will be reduced by millions of chunks. Where will the border troops come from? How should the war in the northwest be maintained? How can the country be sustained?" Cai Que's question echoed in the hall.

Liu Zhi immediately responded: "Di Ping, during the Jiayou period, the national use was not scarce. How dare you ask Cai Xiang what explanation?"

Cai Que sneered at the news. What was the situation of Jiayou Zhiping, which was praised by the old party? Wang Anshi had already said that after the Qingli period, the court's deficit was 3 million jin per year, and the governance period reached 15 million jin per year.

Wang Anshi once said, "The world's financial resources are becoming increasingly poor, while customs are becoming increasingly declining."

Cai Que said: "Is Censor Liu trying to use the boat to carve a sword? How can the world be more happy to see the old view?"

Liu Zhi is a junior of the old party, and Cai Que was disdainful to answer, but in front of all officials, in front of the Empress Dowager and the Emperor, he still had to explain as the prime minister.

He looked around his ministers and his voice became heavier: "At that time, could there be a Xihe army? Could there be an iron cavalry in Liangzhou? If the iron forest in Liaoxia and the iron kalpa went south, what would you do to resist?"

At this moment, Han Wei, a great scholar in the Zizheng Hall, stood up with a stick and said with a white hair.

"Mencius said that the world could be protected by the big and small matters. Guangwu's edict was the same, and they were all the most important opinions of ancient sages. Fan Kuai of the former Han Dynasty wanted to obtain 100,000 people and run rampant among the Huns. In the Five Dynasties, Jing Yanguang claimed that Jin had 100,000 large swords. These were all the rash words of the martial artists of the previous generation, which made them laugh in history!"

Han Wei was an old minister during the reign of Emperor Renzong, and Wang Anshi, the leader of the new party, was recommended to the late emperor.

When Han Wei came forward, the old party became more powerful.

Fan Chunren also came out and said, "Your Majesty loves life and virtues to alive, and the ancestors and the country enjoy the peace of the world for all generations, all thanks to you by your Majesty's words."

Han Wei said: "I heard that Gu Gong's father lived in Bin and was attacked by Rong Di. He wanted to get the land and the people, but the people were angry and wanted to fight. Gu Gong said: If there is a people who have established a king, they will benefit him. Now the attacks and battles of Rong Di, what is the difference between my land and the people and the people? The people want to fight for me, kill the father and son and the king, but I can't bear it. So I left Feng with my private relatives and stopped at Qi. The people of the Bin support the elderly and the young, and returned to the Gu Gong's subordinates."

Facing Han Wei and Fan Chunren's questioning, Cai Que said in a humble and arrogant manner: "Han Gong's words are wrong. Wang Jinggong once said: "It seems ordinary and the most strange, but it is easy but difficult." Today's peace scene is not easy to obtain?" He pointed to the palace wall vaguely outside the hall, "The bricks and tiles were all exchanged for blood and sweat by the soldiers in the northwest."

...

A few days later.

Empress Dowager Gao demoted Li Xian and Song Yongchen out of the palace one after another.

Li Xian was the biggest contributor to the officials to seize Xihe Road, while Song Yongchen presided over the Luoluo Tongbian project and the restructuring of the military, and the other party had a very good relationship with the new party.

Li Xian and Song Yongchen were both internal officials, so Empress Dowager Gao was demoted in one sentence.

This is the family affairs of the imperial family, and the ministers have no way to interrupt, but this is a signal.

Li Xian and Song Yongchen left, so can the other new parties in the court leave?

Empress Dowager Gao also told the prime ministers: "The law of protecting horses and disturbing the people should be discontinued early. At the same time, if there is any inappropriateness in the new law, it will be revised immediately (if the law is inconvenient to the people, it will be revised)."

Since the market changed the law, the old party has pointed the finger at the Baoma Law.

Is the horse protection law disturbing the people?

During the reign of Emperor Renzong, the pastoral supervision system was adopted, and 30,000 to 40,000 horses were supervised, occupying 90,000 hectares of fertile land, with an annual expense of one million.

The court raised a horse with 500 stags almost every year.

Why is there no problem in the country implementing Ma’s administration at the beginning, but not in the later period?

It is because of the large population that the people of the Song Dynasty have now exceeded 100 million, but the population was only a few at the beginning of the country.

With more population, there is not enough land.

The people must turn in.

It goes without saying which one hectares of pasture or one hectares of farmland is higher, and which one the people choose to plant.

It is common to operate the ranch and farm.

According to statistics during the Xining period, there were only 68,000 hectares of pasture left, which is the number of residence, but in fact it was only 55,000, and the rest were hidden by the people.

Therefore, Wang Anshi's method of protecting horses was derived and put forward the idea of ​​"storing it in the people".

I came up with a way to get third-class and fourth-class households among the people to raise horses.

However, Shen Kuo criticized many times about the horse protection law. The horses raised by ordinary people are the same as those raised by grassland and ethnic pastures? Do you use such cavalry to fight against the Liao Kingdom?
To be continued...