Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 215
Shenzong decreed to maintain the old proposal.

The place where the deed tax is paid must be paid in accordance with the law.

This immediately caused fierce opposition from many ministers in the DPRK and China. They believed that this would not help ease the situation, but would further aggravate the situation and cause more public grievances.

But Shenzong was unmoved.

The reformers led by Wang Anshi naturally fought back in the court. The court collected taxes according to the law. What's wrong?

If you are so excited, you are also evading taxes.

He even went to Shenzong, saying that he would check the taxation of those ministers who opposed the court's taxation.

Of course, Shenzong didn't care about this.

If we have to investigate this, there will be no way to end it.

And this made Fu Bi and other Qingli ex-officials very worried, as if the Qingli party struggle was imminent.

They knew very well why Wang Anshi refused to back down, and they also knew why the other party was aggressive.

There is no solution to this problem.

Sima Guang, who is a conservative, has not made any remarks on this, and he has been busy with legal aid.

Very smooth.

In fact, not everyone agrees to this matter, and many people have reservations about it, and even oppose it.

This is clearly a wind of litigation.

Er Bi and Zhang San, who have all kinds of bad deeds, can still be vividly remembered.

Instead of suppressing litigation, it arouses litigation.

Isn't this putting the cart before the horse.

However, this timing is too good to choose the lesser of these two evils.

Now that everyone is united to fight against Wang Anshi, if this matter is stirred up again to distract everyone's attention, Wang Anshi may succeed.

Furthermore, Sima Guang occupies the moral high ground, even if there is no interest in litigation, just like before, people who cannot afford tea and eat people to write pleadings will suffer, this is not fair, people who cannot read and write, It's a disadvantage in terms of litigation.

Nowadays, the imperial court can provide the common people with help in this area without spending any money, and it can also gain a good reputation, so why not do it.

This was also supported by Zhao Bian, Wen Yanbo, Fan Chunren, Su Shi, Su Zhe and others.

Easy.

Wang Anshi cried with envy. They are both reforms, so why is there such a big difference.

Hanlin Academy.

Sima Guang, who stood on the last shift, was sitting in the house, flipping through books on litigation.

Although he has decided to promote legal aid and give legal status to litigation, he still has some reservations in his heart. He consults some views on litigation in the past dynasties to see if he can avoid the disadvantages caused by litigation.

Suddenly, the door opened from the outside.

Sima Guang looked up and saw Wang Anshi walking in angrily.

The two look at each other.

One lowered his head and continued to read, while the other turned his face arrogantly to one side.

It's a tacit understanding.

After a while, Wang Anshi sat down opposite Sima Guang and asked, "Why are you here?"

Sima replied without raising his head, "The Zhengshi hall is too noisy."

Wang Anshi looked around and said sarcastically, "Isn't it noisy here?"

Sima Guang closed the book, "It's a bit noisy now."

Wang Anshi glanced at Sima Guang, and asked, "You've been relatively quiet recently, are you plotting some conspiracy in secret again?"

Sima Guang heheed twice: "You may not be able to stop this conspiracy, do you need a conspiracy?"

Wang Anshi asked, "What conspiracy?"

Sima Guang asked: "Do you have to collect this summer tax now?"

Wang Anshi nodded: "Not bad."

Sima Guang said: "If someone secretly instigated those subordinate officials to take the opportunity to exploit the people and arouse even greater public resentment, what would you do?"

Wang Anshi dismissed it: "At the feet of the emperor, they dare."

Sima Guang said with a smile: "Don't forget, you are the one who forced them to pay the tax, and those tenant farmers can't pay the tax, so they have to do whatever they can."

Before Wang Anshi started to reform, he had already thought of this day.

Taking history as a mirror, we can know routines.

Wang Anshi said: "Sima Junshi, you are also a member of political affairs. You know that they will do this, but you wait for me to see a joke. Are you perverting the law for personal gain?"

Sima Guang said: "I remember that I told you a long time ago that to govern the country, you must first govern the officials. If the officials are not well-informed, a good law can also become a bad law. What's more, you can't even talk about a good law."

Wang Anshi said: "Let's wait and see."

After saying that, he got up and left.

After leaving the Hanlin Academy, Wang Anshi hurriedly found Lu Huiqing, and ordered: "You immediately lead the Xiangdu officials to inspect the matter of urging the payment of the summer tax. Don't let anyone hinder you."

Why did he establish the Department of Regulations of the Second Government and the post of Minister of Interests and Interests? This is the way to prevent it. He expected that there would definitely be problems in terms of implementation, but this matter was not in his plan at all. Just forget about it.

Lu Huiqing understood as soon as she heard it, "Could it be that my mentor is worried that someone will take the opportunity to make trouble."

Wang Anshi nodded.

Lu Huiqing said: "Teacher, don't worry, the students will not give them a chance."

When Lu Huiqing was about to go out, Wang Anshi suddenly stopped Lu Huiqing again, "Wait a minute."

Lu Huiqing turned around and asked, "What else is there to tell you, Master?"

"No, no, no!"

Wang Anshi shook his head again and again, "You can't do this!"

Lu Huiqing asked: "What do you mean by this teacher?"

Wang Anshi said: "I promised before that if the people don't increase the tax and the country uses it, the new law will not get the support of those landlords. If there is no public support, it will not be successful."

Lu Huiqing immediately said: "But this matter has benefited many people. They don't have to bear the taxes that do not belong to their own land. In comparison, the taxes borne by those tenant farmers are not worth mentioning at all. Besides, they This is also tax evasion, and it is only natural for them to pay taxes."

Wang Anshi sighed: "It is true to say so, but if we go to collect taxes, we will stand on the opposite side of the people. This is absolutely unacceptable."

Having said that, he shook his head and sighed: "It's my fault too, I was too impatient to ignore this point."

Lu Huiqing said: "But if the order is changed from day to day, there will be endless troubles."

"I also know this, the tax must be collected."

Wang Anshi nodded, and said again: "But don't go to pay the taxes first, you should take someone with the Kaifeng government to conduct a comprehensive census to find out the current plight of the tenant farmers. Difficult, we have to find a way to get this amount of money from those landlords.”

Shocked by Sima Guang, he calmed down instead. The idea of ​​his new law was to reduce the burden on the common people, while at the same time increasing the tax revenue of the wealthy gentry and landlords, filling the national treasury.

The transfer of taxes is something he must prevent. If it is said that he is forcing the people to pay taxes in order to seek his own authority, it is tantamount to putting the cart before the horse.

It is absolutely impossible, his new law must win the support of public opinion.

He must not let this happen.

As for Shenzong Zhao Xu, although he firmly supported Wang Anshi on the surface, he now has another choice.

There are three people sitting at the table.

That day and night, Zhao Xu quietly ordered Zhang Fei to be called into the palace.

Zhao Xu asked directly: "What do you think of this matter?"

Zhang Fei replied: "I thought that if this matter is not resolved, His Majesty will always be trapped here."

Zhao Xu nodded and said: "You are right. This is exactly what I am worried about. As long as I make a little move, they can threaten me with the people. In the end, I can only follow the light corvee and the light tax, but the imperial court is light. What's the point of the landlord's intensification of the poor Fu, I will never do this."

Why did he support Wang Anshi and not Sima Guang? Poor, but wealth is linked to power.

Without money, even the army can't move.

As he said that, he looked at Zhang Fei again and said, "Can you solve it?"

Zhang Fei pondered for a while, and replied: "Recently, I have read all the laws about tenant farmers, but without exception, they are all beneficial to landlords. If you want to fight, you can only make a white contract to violate the law, but the court has explained in advance that as long as you make up Pay the deed tax, and forget the past."

From the perspective of the law, the government and the landlord are one. For example, in the Xingtong of the Song Dynasty, it was clearly stated that if the tenant farmers did not pay taxes, the government would intervene to urge them to pay.

After hearing this, Zhao Xu couldn't help frowning.

Zhang Fei glanced at Zhao Xu and thought, if I can't help him solve this problem, I'm afraid I won't be qualified to sit at this poker table in the future.

Zhao Xu came to him, proving that he was still sitting at the poker table and could be relied upon.

But if Zhao Xu can't share his worries, Zhao Xu will gradually alienate him naturally.

He pondered for a while, and said: "Your Majesty, I have two strategies, one strategy can solve the short-term advantages, and the other strategy can solve the long-term concerns. I don't know which strategy your Majesty wants to listen to first?"

Zhao Xu was overjoyed immediately, and pondered for a while, "Listen to Jinyou first."

Zhang Fei said: "The key to your Majesty's concern at the moment is that the power of public opinion is controlled by them. In fact, many tenant farmers have been exploited by the landlords, but there has been no such disturbance. Now that the imperial court takes action and still collects taxes according to law, Public opinion is like a torrent, if His Majesty cannot control the power of public opinion, it will be difficult to reverse the current situation."

Zhao Xu nodded repeatedly when he heard that, and said: "But I just open my mouth, so how can I talk to them."

Zhang Fei said: "I have a strategy, which can help His Majesty regain the power of public opinion, at least to draw with them."

Zhao Xu hurriedly said, "Say it quickly."

Zhang Fei said: "It's just printing and distributing tabloids."

"Publish tabloids?"

"Correct."

Zhang Fei said: "Your Majesty, have you ever heard of a type of movable type printing?"

Zhao Xu thought for a while before saying, "I've heard of it."

Zhang Fei said: "My genuine bookstore has been researching this technology recently, and it is now mature, and this technology can quickly print articles."

When Zhao Xu heard this, he waved his hands again and again and said, "It's useless, and public opinion has to be reasonable. Even if you print the article on paper, they can still refute you to pieces."

You must know that he is sitting on the top civil servant team, you are crazy if you compare writing articles with them.

It's better to go to court.

Zhang Fei said: "So it's a risky move to write about topics that they dare not debate."

Zhao Xu asked, "For example?"

"For example, scholar-bureaucrats are useless."

"What's the meaning of this?"

Zhao Xu looked at Zhang Fei suspiciously.

"Ahem, what I mean is that it is useless to write about scholar-bureaucrats. They are selfish and selfish. They are thieves who steal the country. You cannot rely heavily on scholar-bureaucrats."

".?"

Zhao Xu was in a cold sweat, "If you write like that, can they let you go?"

Zhang Fei said: "I didn't say I'll post it!"

Zhao Xu asked: "Then who will send it!"

"No one but you, Your Majesty, would dare to say this."

"I'm here to post?"

Zhao Xu couldn't help turning livid, "Aren't you hurting me?"

Zhang Fei said: "How dare the little people, I mean, this has to be posted secretly, and they cannot be found out. Only your Majesty, you have the ability to do it. I can only provide some techniques and ideas."

Zhao Xu glared at him immediately.

If this is caught, then he will be finished, and offend the scholars of the world, I am afraid that he will not be able to sit firmly on the throne.

However, scolding those scholar-bureaucrats is quite cool.

After thinking about it, Zhao Xu came up with a clever plan, "How about this, I will give you people and money, but you still do it."

"what?"

(End of this chapter)