Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 125
Fan Ning's companions followed the county school Xuezheng to the county school, but Fan Ning stayed.

In the back hall of the county government office, Fan Ning drank tea alone, waiting patiently for Wang Anshi.

Of course, Wang An was going to deal with the shocking cow wounding case, and deployed his subordinates to investigate the person behind the plot of the shocking cow case.

However, Fan Ning found some clues from this incident. From morning to now, he found that almost all Wang Anshi was singing a one-man show alone, and he did not see the figures of the county magistrate and county magistrate, and he did not even see the chief secretary.

Maybe it was just a coincidence, but thinking of the people in Hangzhou suing, and thinking of the shocking cow case that happened this morning, Fan Ning's intuition told Fan Ning that there might be disharmony within the county government.

If my guess is true, then this is not a good sign. If a reform is not implemented with the concerted efforts of the county government, there will be problems in all likelihood, and even major problems.

Even if Wang Anshi relied on the power of the county magistrate to enforce the Green Crop Law, it would not last long. In the final analysis, any reform is a matter of the rule of man.

"Keep my brother waiting for a long time!"

Wang Anshi's tired voice came from behind him.

Fan Ning turned his head and saw Wang Anshi walking quickly into the yard. Although he was smiling, the smile on his face could not conceal the worry in his eyes.

However, Wang Anshi's "good brother" made Fan Ning feel warm in his heart.

He hastily stepped forward to salute, and asked with a smile: "Little brother only came to Yin County now, big brother is not angry, right?"

Wang Anshi put on a straight face, pretending to be angry and said: "Of course I am angry. If you don't come again, I have no choice but to go to Wu County and arrest you myself!"

After speaking, Wang Anshi himself couldn't help laughing, and Fan Ning felt a little relieved, at least Wang Anshi still had a tinge of optimism.

"Sit down, let's talk slowly."

At this time, a yamen servant brought them a jug of wine and some dishes. Wang Anshi picked up a chopstick, dipped some wine in the jug, and tasted it cautiously.

Fan Ning was secretly surprised by this move, and quickly asked, "Brother, is it so serious?"

Wang Anshi smiled, but did not answer his words. Instead, he filled Fan Ning's glass of wine and filled his own.

"Come on! I've been in a bit of a hurry today, and this glass of wine will be treated as a brother to wash away the dust for my younger brother."

"Thank you bro!"

Fanning raised his glass to express his gratitude, and then drank it down in one gulp. The wine was very weak and had almost no strength.

Fan Ning grabbed the jug and filled Wang Anshi's wine. Wang Anshi stared at the wine glass for a long time, and then sighed softly: "I now understand how difficult it is to divide a piece of cake again. This is just a small county, a small county. The money for young crops has touched the interests of so many people."

Fan Ning pondered for a moment and asked, "Are there many farmers borrowing money from young crops?"

Wang Anshi thought for a while and said, "About [-] households, accounting for about [-]% of all farmers."

Fan Ning frowned, and asked puzzledly: "Brother, [-] households is not a small number. Could it be that every household is so poor that they don't even have money to buy seeds after a year?"

Wang Anshi smiled, and asked back: "You are also from the countryside, don't you feel it yourself?"

Fan Ning was silent for a while. Although his family had never borrowed money, in his memory, life was indeed very tight. His mother used the extreme frugality to save money.

But that's because my father is a fisherman. Although a fisherman works very hard, his income is indeed higher than that of ordinary farmers.

But even so, my own family has a very hard life, not to mention those farmers who live by renting and farming, or whose family has only ten or eight acres of land, after a year of hard work, I am afraid that they can only make ends meet.

If there are more people in the family, I am afraid that there may not be enough to make ends meet. Otherwise, how could the poor family be willing to send their seven or eight-year-old daughter to a rich family to be a maid.

Fan Ning was silent for a long time and said: "I just think that the Jiangnan area is relatively rich. Even if there are poor families, they will not account for as much as [-]%."

He stared at Wang Anshi with doubts in his eyes.

Wang Anshi shook his head and said: "It can only show that you don't understand people's sentiments too much. The wealth in the south of the Yangtze River is only relative to the north. The abject poverty in the north accounts for about [-]%, and Yin County only has [-]%. This is not bad.

The average household in Yinzhou has [-] mu of land. It’s better if it’s all in the upper field, but it’s difficult if it’s in the middle or lower fields. I have to eat and dress, see a doctor and take medicine, and rely on this dozen of money all year round. How can I have any spare money to buy seeds? "

Speaking of this, Wang Anshi sighed a long time, "Especially when people are in a desperate situation, many people can't even afford to eat and can only borrow money to survive. Those wealthy families and money shops rely on this to exploit farmers, earning [-]% of their profits. Money! Borrowing one guanqian will turn into four guanqian in three years, and one mu of land will be gone. If things go on like this, families with some property will become abjectly poor.”

Fan Ning pondered for a while and asked again: "Then how do tenant farmers borrow money?"

"The sharecropper can borrow money from the owner!"

Wang Anshi saw that Fan Ning didn't quite understand, so he explained: "Once you really become a poor family, you can't borrow money even if you want to. Just like the tenant farmers you said, you need to use property as collateral to borrow money. Without mortgage, who would be willing to borrow money?" Lend you money? I promote the Green Crop Law to keep the small farmers. The demise of the past dynasties is caused by the disappearance of the small farmers. Without property to withstand disasters, large-scale displacement occurs."

In fact, Fan Ning doesn't really agree with Wang Anshi's arguments, but arguing about these issues is not the top priority now.

What Fan Ning is more concerned about now is, what kind of setbacks did Wang Anshi encounter in Yin County's reform?How did the shocking cow case come about this morning?
Fanning pondered for a moment and asked, "What is the most serious problem that brother is facing now?"

Wang Anshi picked up his wine glass and said slowly: "Governor Li of Mingzhou allowed me to properly implement the Young Crop Law, but his condition was not to cause infighting in the officialdom and social turmoil. The implementation was relatively peaceful in the first year. Although there were conflicts, it was still considered a Controlled.

Conflicts broke out last year, more and more voices of opposition, various means to deal with me emerge in endlessly, even someone poisoned my wine and tea at the beginning of the year, and today there was a shocking cow wounding case, seven people died, I am very sorry I'm worried that Governor Li or the court will suspend the Young Crop Law, so I hope you can come up with a plan for me to see if there is any way to solve the current crisis. "

Although Wang Anshi's tone was gentle, the content of his words was shocking. Poisoning, murder, and various extreme methods appeared. This also shows how fierce the struggle to implement the Young Crop Law is.

Fan Ning didn't know what to do for a moment, he thought for a while and said, "Then let me ask today's shocking cow case first, who do you think brother did it?"

"I don't know yet!"

Wang Anshi shook his head and said, "I'm currently investigating the source of these two green bulls. Once I find out, I will know the murderer of this murder case. I will never let you go lightly."

"But if there is a murder case, shouldn't the state government investigate the case?"

Wang Anshi was silent for a moment and said: "Governor Li went to the capital and will not be back until about three days later. I must catch the murderer before he returns to Mingzhou."

. . . . . . . . .

Desheng money shop is located in the west of Yin County, covering an area of ​​about five acres. It ranks third among the seven money shops in Mingzhou.

Money shops are quite similar to quality banks. They also accept collateral and lend money to small merchants, urban civilians, or farmers.

But the bigger function of the money shop is to save money for others. Of course, in the Song Dynasty, there was no interest on saving money, and there was a handling fee for saving money.

The government-run Jiaozi appeared in the Sichuan area 20 years ago, but it was limited to the Sichuan area and has not been implemented in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It is still difficult to deliver large sums of money between merchants.

Therefore, merchants usually find a money shop, deposit the money first, and then use the tokens given by the money shop to conduct transactions.

Just like the half piece of jade that Zhu Yuanfeng gave Fan Ning, that is the token of Qianpu.

When the big proprietor Qiu Lian heard about the shocking cow wounding case, he was also a little worried, so he hurried back to the money shop.

"Brother, what happened?"

Seeing that her elder brother was worried, Qiu Lin, the second child, stepped forward and asked.

"A major event happened at the county government office, do you know?"

Qiu Lin nodded, "I heard that the cow was frightened, and the casualties were not small."

"Seven people died!"

Qiu Lian stared at his second brother sternly and asked, "Is this the plan you planned?"

Qiu Lin was taken aback, and quickly shook her head in denial, "This is not a case I planned, and my plan has not yet been fully considered."

Seeing her brother's anxious eyes, Qiu Lin suddenly came to her senses, "Could it be that elder brother is worried about third child?"

Qiu Lian nodded. The third brother Qiu Yong is simple-minded and has a bad temper. He is easily taken advantage of by others. Of course he is very worried.

Qiu Lin also became a little worried. He quickly sent someone to find Guanshi Ma. Guanshi Ma usually followed his third brother Qiu Yong to collect debts, and usually he was around Qiu Yong.

After a while, Steward Ma hurried over, bowed and saluted, "See the two proprietors!"

Qiu Lian hurriedly asked, "Let me ask you, where did the third boss go?"

Manager Ma shook his head, "He went out early in the morning, but I don't know exactly where he went."

The two brothers looked at each other, and both of them realized something was wrong.

(End of this chapter)