Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 468 Three Cheaters

"Your Majesty, do you mean Zhao Zhongzhen, Prince of Liang County?"

Although the transmission of the imperial court's ultimatum was relatively slow, thanks to the speed of dissemination of private newspapers, the newspapers in Songcheng County were only one day later than those in the capital. Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing already knew what happened to the imperial court through the newspapers.

"How far has your message reached?" Fanning asked.

Wang Anshi thought for a while and said: "His Royal Highness Prince Liang will serve as the left-behind in Nanjing and inspect Jingdong Road on behalf of the emperor."

Lu Huiqing said cautiously from the side: "Yesterday's tabloids speculated that the Xiang army on Jingdong Road will carry out reforms. I don't know if this guess is right?"

Fan Ning smiled slightly and said: "This news is basically reliable. To be exact, all the appointments are just a cover. His real mission is to carry out reforms with me on the Jingdong Road Army, and in one year, build the Jingdong Road Army into a An elite army."

Only then did Wang Anshi understand, and he said with emotion: "It turns out that it is deeply meaningful for the Fujun to serve as the appeasement envoy of Jingdong Road."

Fan Ning said again: "Jun Wang Liang is only in charge of the reform of the Xiang Army in name, and I am the real implementer. I decided to form the Xiang Army Rectification Department. I hope you two will join."

Wang Anshi was a little hesitant, he was actually mentally prepared, but if he joined the military reform, it would seriously weaken the reform he planned to implement in Yingtian Mansion, but the military reform was also what he longed for, the military expenditure was the largest financial expenditure of the court, and it was a huge Drag, if you can open a gap in the military reform, it will undoubtedly be a great gain.

On the one hand, it was the local reform that he had already prepared, and on the other hand, the temptation of the military reform, which really made Wang Anshi undecided.

But Lu Huiqing said without hesitation: "I would like to join and participate in the military reform!"

Fan Ning secretly sighed in his heart, Lu Huiqing was still too speculative, Fan Ning knew that he didn't want to participate in the reform, but seized this opportunity to make friends with Zhao Zhongzhen, he and Wang Anshi, who was bent on reform, were completely different people.

Historically, the failure of Wang Anshi's later reforms was largely due to Lu Huiqing's betrayal.

Wang Anshi's IQ is extremely high, but his EQ is still a little lacking. For so many years, he has not seen through Lu Huiqing.

However, Lu Huiqing's ability is extremely strong. He is like a sharp knife, which can kill the enemy or injure himself. The key is how to use this knife.

"If Lu Slu and I both participate in the military reform, what will Ying Tianfu do?" Wang Anshi expressed his greatest worry.

Fan Ning smiled slightly and said: "I have a plan, you can see if you can accept it, Lu Silu will be transferred to Yingtian Mansion Sima, the rank and salary will not change, but Sima is a vacant post, so his time and energy will be released, appoint Song Ling Jiu joined the army on behalf of Si Lu, my two staff members still handle the prefect's trivial matters for me, and Wang Tong sentenced half of his energy to continue to manage the daily government affairs of Yingtian Mansion, how about this plan?"

Wang Anshi said angrily: "At the end of the day, you just don't want me to carry out reforms in Yingtian Mansion."

Fan Ning comforted him with a smile and said, "There are some things that can be done! Isn't the rural dental system you implemented before going very smoothly? If you continue to implement it to the end, it will fully stimulate the potential of the village, and there will be work for relief." Build roads, fix the roads, and a lot of agricultural products can be shipped out. I give you six words: "If you want to get rich, build roads first."

If you strengthen the rural rural system and repair the roads, these two things are of great importance. One is information flow and the other is logistics. Before you reform, the development of Yingtianfu will reach another level. "

Wang Anshi thought for a while and said, "Then let's agree. After the reform is over, I will continue to implement the reform in Yingtianfu. You must support it."

Fan Ning's statement was not ambiguous at all. He said without hesitation, "I support everything except the Young Crops Law and the Joint Insurance Law."

Fan Ning saw with his own eyes Wang Anshi’s Green Crop Law in Yin County back then. He did not approve of the government directly granting housing loans to farmers. He could definitely attract large money shops and use the method of regulating the interest rates of money shops to avoid usury, or set up a professional bank like later generations. , That is to say, the imperial court directly establishes a special money shop for young crops. There are many ways.

As for the joint guarantee law, it was the root cause of Wang Anshi's reform failure. The joint guarantee law is also called the joint guarantee law.

Once the poor cannot repay the green crop loan from the government, the rich households should repay it first, and then the rich households should pursue it from the poor households. The voice of opposition to the reform is extremely strong.

This is the typical manifestation of Wang Anshi's low EQ. He didn't realize the selfish side of human nature at all.

Fan Ning's attitude was clear, and Wang Anshi had no choice. After all, Fan Ning was the chief official of Yingtian Mansion, and the decision to change various rules should be made by the prefect. Wang Anshi wanted to carry out reforms in Yingtian Mansion, to a large extent, it was Fan Ning who gave him the power However, once Fan Ning refused to give up power, Wang Anshi's reform would not be implemented.

Wang Anshi had no choice but to nod his head, and said helplessly, "Okay! First concentrate on doing the military reform well."

On the same day, Fan Ning talked to Lu Chunqiu and Li Han separately. The conversation with Li Han was more serious. Li Han himself was the leader of Yingtian Mansion's Three Thousand Chamber Army, and they were the targets of the reform. He was pulled into the reform team. It's a bit like seeking skin from a tiger.

From ancient times to the present, any reform is a struggle of interests. If the reform is successful, either the head is more important than the interests, or it is a false reform, and the deep-seated interests have not been touched, or it is the third kind that Fan Ning has been pursuing. The big cake, on the basis of not touching the old cake, try to tilt the new cake to the court and ordinary people. The essence of this is actually a kind of interest competition, which damages overseas interests.

For example, Fan Ning created Kunzhou and brought great wealth to Song Dynasty, but in fact, he used the powerful warship navy of Song Dynasty to rob Japan's gold and silver, which is essentially a struggle of interests.

Fan Ning had a way to succeed in this reform of the Jingdong Luxiang Army because he opened a cheating tool, cheating tool [-]. This is a partial reform, not a comprehensive reform. Land, food, and money are actually a disguised form of compensation for interests. A reform with compensation is a pseudo-reform and has no value in promoting it among the armies of the world.

The second method of cheating is that there are few people with relevant interests involved in the reform, and it doesn’t matter whether they are emptied of their salaries or deducted from military salaries. How many people will be involved in the [-] army?A few hundred people at the most can be dealt with with a single powerful blow. If the whole country reforms together, there will be tens of thousands of people involved, and the resistance will be earth-shattering.

In order to get Li Han to join the reform group, Fan Ning opened cheat device three.

Li Han's home is also in Songcheng County. It is a small house of three acres. This is a house that he bought himself. He has been in the army for many years. A house in a good location.

At dusk, Fan Ning came to Li Han's house. He had talked with Li Han yesterday, and Li Han said he needed time to think about it.

"Welcome the envoy to the shabby house!"

Li Han seemed very surprised, he didn't expect Fan Ning to come to his house, so he hurriedly invited Fan Ning into the house.

In the yard, Fan Ning saw Li Han's wife and a pair of children. Li Han's wife is the daughter of a tofu shop owner. She sold tofu with her parents since she was a child. Instead, she warmly greeted Fanning to come in for a glass of wine.

As Fan Ning expected, Li Han drank and ate at home. Most of Li Han was in the military camp, but he would go home every few days, either for drinking or loving his wife. It's good on one point, never enters a brothel, and never raises a lover outside.

"Okay then! I'm not going to be polite."

Fan Ning sat down at the dinner table and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law and the children come to eat together."

Fan Ning looked at the house again, nodded and praised: "This house is not bad, the location is good, and the materials are sufficient. It is made of bluestone bricks, and the ventilation is good. It is warm in winter and cool in summer."

Li Han filled a glass of wine for Fan Ning, sighed and said, "To tell you the truth, I bought this house last year and it cost a thousand dollars. In fact, with my salary of twenty dollars a month, at least It took ten years to save to buy this house, but I only saved up to a thousand coins in two years, without borrowing a cent, so you are a smart person, you should understand what I mean."

Li Han's wife was so frightened that her expression changed, and she kicked her husband desperately below to stop him from talking nonsense.

(End of this chapter)