The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 766 Kaiyuan New Deal

Lu Heng's continuous frantic summons will not affect the world's major events, and there will be memorials and approvals. Soon Lu Heng received a reply from the cabinet, in addition to affirming the strategies of Tian Feng, Ju Shou, Wen Huanzhang, Xu Shu and others in all aspects In addition, there is another news that Liu Zhang sent Qin Mi as an envoy again and has arrived in Shouchun, and now he is being received by Zhao Defang from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is obviously a big deal.

In addition to the Chengdu direction, the cabinet also jointly signed a memorial to themselves, sincerely hoping that Lu Heng will return to Shouchun as soon as possible to discuss important matters.

Lu Heng looked at the copy of the memorial very puzzled and then slowly fell into deep thought after reading it carefully!
Because this time the cabinet, headed by Fan Zhongyan, assisted by Yu Yunwen, Kou Chen, Zhang Hong, Zhao Ding and others, jointly outlined and proposed a new reform policy.

The New Deal is comprehensively introduced from the three directions of clarifying the administration of officials, enriching the country and strengthening the military, and strictly implementing the rule of law.

Let me talk about clarifying the administration of officials first, which is divided into three major items: "Ming Chu Zhi", "Suppressing luck", and "Jing Gong Ju".

'Ming Chuzhi' Fan Zhongyan believes that the promotion of all the officials in the Song Dynasty is relatively vague, and the new empire is not yet obvious. Long-term accumulation is not a long-term strategy. The Ministry of Household Affairs and local states and counties have sorted out a series of promotion systems.

"Suppressing luck" The number of Xiaolian and Maocai recommended by local imperial examinations needs to be reduced. Fan Zhongyan gave an example that now a state can recommend one Xiaolian and one Maocai each time, which shows that only from the perspective of the first imperial examination, it includes Huaizhou, Huaizhou, Yangzhou, Minzhou, Jiaozhou, Guangzhou, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Jizhou, Youzhou, Liaozhou, and Yuzhou have a total of 11 states and 22 people. This is not counting Liangzhou, Bingzhou, Guanzhong, and Yizhou, which were still at war and had no unity. In the four places, according to Lu Heng's practice, there will definitely be more 'special cases' quotas in the states that will be split.

"Jing Gong Ju" Fan Zhongyan proposed the reform of the scientific examination system, restricting the recommendation of only one Maocai and Xiaolian every two imperial examinations. Now the new Song Dynasty needs a lot of talents, and the progress of the imperial examinations will be slowed down in the future. The frequent establishment of imperial examinations will attract talents Reduced quality.

After the three imperial examinations, it is set that students must study in the Royal Academy for two years before they can take the provincial examination, and they can take the local provincial examination and state examination two years before the centralized examination every three years, so as to reduce the frequency.

A rich country and a strong army are divided into three major aspects: 'thick farming and mulberry', 'emphasizing merchants', and 'cultivating military equipment'.

Among them, "thick farming and mulberry" strengthened farming and mulberry legislation. On the basis that all land in Lu Heng is state-owned, he suggested measuring land, confiscating the land in the hands of aristocratic families, and ordering all officials in the country to make the townships and counties under their jurisdiction really pay attention to farming and mulberry. Reward farmers and mulberry, making the quality of agriculture an important part of examining officials and officials.

It is suggested to implement the "Fangtian Average Tax Law" in order to solve the uneven taxation of land in various places in the past, and tax households to hide their land from each other, especially for the tax evasion of aristocratic families. The cultivated land in each prefecture and county should be checked and measured. On the 1000st side, the amount of land occupied by each household is verified, and then divided into ten grades according to the terrain, soil quality and other conditions to compile the cadastre and various books, and determine the tax amount per mu for each grade of land.

The 'Farmland Water Conservancy Law' encourages land reclamation and construction of water conservancy projects. Local households pay for the construction of water conservancy projects according to their level of wealth, and they can also borrow from state and county governments.

"Focus on merchants" is to strengthen the collection of commercial taxes and implement the "Merchant Law", especially grain, salt, sugar, tea, iron, copper, horses, cattle, etc. must be government-run, and other industries must also receive commercial taxes according to the proportion of income .

We recommend the "green crop method" to establish a central treasury. In February and May of each year, the government will give farmers loans and grain loans, and take two or three cents of the interest every six months, which will be returned with the summer and autumn taxes respectively.

"Repairing military preparations" means that the Song Dynasty has not yet been unified, and there are nomads such as Cao Cao at home and Jurchen outside. Although the strategy of "weaking Cao for three years" is good, the fundamental strategy is to strengthen the country.

Fan Zhongyan advocated the "Military System of Gyeonggi Prefecture", and suggested that strong men should be recruited in the area near Shouchun to serve as Gyeonggi guards to assist the regular army. These guards spend about three seasons a year farming and one season coaching combat Soldiers in agriculture.

Except for the Gyeonggi border area, the "Baojia Law" is implemented for rural households everywhere. No matter the main household or the customer, every five households form one insurance, five insurances constitute one large insurance, ten major insurances constitute one capital insurance, and every family has two households. Among the above, one person will be named Baoding.During the slack season, Baoding was assembled for military training; at night, patrols took turns to maintain law and order.

In addition, there are all kinds of things such as the "market change law", "equal loss law", "disarmament law", "horse protection law", and "arms supervision law" from the aspects of economy, transportation, military resources, war horses, weapons, etc. Various angles to establish legal mechanisms.

Looking at these new policies, Lu Heng saw that they were not only Fan Zhongyan's new policies, but also Wang Anshi's reforms. The most typical ones were the 'Baojia Law' and 'Young Crop Law', which were too typical for Lu Heng to recognize.

Counting the days, I summoned Wang Anshi for more than ten days at most, but I didn't expect to have such a major influence. Obviously, this person has a certain connection with Fan Zhongyan.

The continuous failure of this integrated new policy in the Northern Song Dynasty was due to the many years of accumulation of the old policy that moved the interests of too many people, so it was hindered.

But now his own Great Song Xinli, although there are resistances, is definitely much better than the Northern Song Dynasty in history. The only resistance is that there will be varying degrees of obstacles in joining his own family.

Both Fan Zhongyan and Wang Anshi have said one thing is "land nationalization". This is exactly what Lu Heng has been doing on the sidelines but has not made it public. (That is, the three families of Gu, Zhu, and Zhang), the Zhen family in Hebei, the Fang family in Xiangzhou, and the Kuai family in Jingzhou, etc. were all beaten once, and a large amount of land was recovered.

However, with the implementation of land measurement, many hidden lands will definitely be discovered. This is the biggest resistance. It seems that I need an unselfish figure to implement these reform laws from the bottom.

Lu Heng clearly remembered that many historians had analyzed that Wang Anshi's reforms were not bad. In addition to involving the interests of many people, there were also major problems in the implementation of the bottom-level people, which made the bottom-level people not support the new policies.

As for the other 'Gyeonggi Military System', 'Baojia Law', 'Farmland Water Conservancy Law', 'Merchants Law', 'Young Crop Law', etc., Lu Heng is in favor of both.

In this way, the central bank system must be established to implement the "Youth Law"; otherwise, important problems will arise in the entire financial management.

Now that the general policy of destroying Cao Cao has been set, it is meaningless for the emperor to stay in Jiangling, and Shouchun has so many important matters to deal with by himself. It seems that it is time to return to Shouchun, but an army must be left in Jiangling Constantly harassing Cao Cao.

(End of this chapter)