People in the Song Dynasty were lawless

Chapter 323 Development of the Song Dynasty and National Debt

In November of the fifth year of Qingli, Du Qi, the transfer envoy of the two Zhejiang roads, received a reply from Zhao Jun and followed his instructions to start communicating with the landlords.

But obviously the effect was not very satisfactory, and the landowners did not accept the court's suggestion.

Du Qi was quite patient at first. He invited more than a dozen big landowners who took the lead to the Chunfeng Tower in the east of Yandingfang, Hangzhou, and had detailed discussions with them in person.

However, on the surface, these landlords were respectful to Du Qi, but when it came to the court's policies, they were squeaking and resisting. It’s just that all kinds of people say that they naturally support the imperial court, but they hope that the imperial court will slow down and talk about it later.

After discussing this matter several times, but seeing that nothing came of it, Du Qi lost his patience.

He did not continue to discuss with them, but went to the countryside himself, to various states and counties, inspected the countryside, measured the land, and strictly urged local officials to implement the court's policy of dividing land into acres.

In fact, many local officials are also resistant to this matter, mainly because this matter is inherently thankless.

Although the imperial court has been trying to weaken the influence of these big landowners in recent years, such as paying salaries to officials, providing promotion channels for officials, strictly investigating the corruption of local officials, cracking down on collusion between officials and businessmen, etc.

But Zhao Jun only cracked down on official corruption, and did not crack down on these big landowners and so many local officials across the country.

Officials at the road level did not dare to neglect. They continued to implement policies in their own roads, forced state and county governments to fulfill their obligations, and strictly urged the following to pay autumn taxes this year.

"Dasun, this is not exploiting the people."

They have been operating in the local area for so many years, and their relationship is deeply entangled. It does not mean that it can be solved overnight.

Although the laptop will not suffer too much loss as long as it does not play large-scale 3A games, CPU silicone grease is a big problem, and DaSong cannot produce silicone grease.

No matter how unhappy he is, the Constitutional Yuan is watching this matter, and the pressure is on the various transfer envoys, inspection envoys and other four departments.

Therefore, for the safety of your notebook, use it as little as possible unless necessary.

For example, in the fifth year of Qingli, the imperial court investigated and punished as many as 86 officials and deputy officials from various supervisory units such as local censors, imperial city departments, prefectures, and road stations.

It mainly produces glass products, such as magnifying glasses, glasses, telescopes, etc., which are exclusively used by the rich and powerful.

The decree that was conveyed in this way in June was basically completed successfully by the time autumn taxes were paid in November.

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "As productivity increases, it is normal for taxes to gradually catch up. This shows that we have made the cake bigger and are no longer as indifferent to the people as before. As a result, only the fiscal revenue is good, but the private sector is. It’s a mess.”

But officials have to go home to celebrate the New Year. In addition to the Chinese New Year holiday, there is also the Lantern Festival holiday.

By December, it is almost the end of the new year and it is the busiest time of the year.

Regular meeting of Chongzheng Hall in the afternoon.

So recently, including the Constitutional Yuan, everyone is busy with data matters.

Zhu Yuanzhang killed so many corrupt officials, but corrupt officials were banned repeatedly when he was alive, and even more so after his death.

"Your Majesty, this is the data report from last month. Since the implementation of the New Deal in November, agricultural taxes in the second half of the year have skyrocketed, reaching 40 million yuan, an increase of % compared to last year."

High-purity glass requires soda, but no one synthesizes soda. Only natural soda from nature is used. Naturally, there is no way to produce transparent glass on a large scale.

On December 14th, the weather became colder and colder, and it started to snow in Bianliang. But the wind and snow only lasted for three days. On the fourth day, it cleared up and the snow melted away quickly.

So this is the case for now, and it will be popularized after the synthetic alkali comes out.

An iron table for the coal stove was also installed in the house, which was covered with cotton cloth. Everyone gathered around the big iron table, stepped on the warm pedals, and started working at close range.

Even though Zhao Jun has still cracked down hard over the years and introduced a number of supervision measures, as the saying goes, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. Nowadays, corrupt officials are not only more covert in their corruption methods, but even the supervision sent by the court may be corrupted.

The mountains outside the city are lush and lush. Although some bare deciduous trees ruin the scenery, the presence of evergreen trees prevents the world from being filled with loneliness.

This forces all departments to complete the statistics from January to October last year within the two months of November and December, and then wait until the next year to count November and December last year.

Instead, old men with bad eyesight such as Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, Li Di, and Zhang Shixun benefited.

As for crystals, there are very few high-purity crystals without a trace of impurities in nature, and they cannot meet the demand.

At this moment, Lu Yijian continued to report: "If you calculate it this way, plus the summer tax in the first half of the year, this year's agricultural tax can reach almost 40 million yuan. The statistics of commercial tax, levy and foreign trade tax have not yet been calculated, but according to previous years' calculations, this year The tax revenue should exceed 100 million yuan."

Zhao Zhen plays computer less and less now, mainly due to computer wear and tear.

This has been found out, but I don’t know how many have not been found out.

And the data is easy to falsify. Wu Yu has a relatively upright personality and can't get rid of the dirt in his eyes. He has been the head of the Statistics Department for several years, and he has indeed done a good job, which is reassuring.

In addition to the original required data on population, birth rate, mortality, economy, employment, education, health, culture, etc., new data requirements such as steel production, textile production, and total grain production will also be added.

Lu Yijian touched his reading glasses. Since Zhao Zhen invented high-purity glass, and with the application of trona, the imperial court also opened a small glass factory.

In many cases, data governance is not necessarily correct, but data must be an important measure in governing the country.

Today, Zhao Zhen was in the study in the morning reading the papers that were handled by the Constitutional Council yesterday, and put forward some of his own opinions to prove his sense of existence. He will discuss the matter in the afternoon.

no way.

However, the appearance of a small amount of glass is naturally enough for Zhao Jun to show off his talents. Using his junior high school physics knowledge, he can easily invent these things.

After returning to the Constitutional Yuan, I had to check last month’s data report again.

The current statistics of the imperial court require all departments to complete the data for the twelve months of last year before February of the next year.

During the vacation that lasted for more than half a month in January, it was impossible to go to work to solve the problem.

Therefore, in many places, when faced with the new policy of the imperial court, officials from the state government to the county government officials were more or less reluctant.

Zhao Zhen looked at Zhao Jun.

Zhao Jun went to the Statistics Department in the morning and asked Wu Yu, the Minister of Statistics, to add some new statistics starting from next year.

"That's good, that's good."

Zhao Zhen felt relieved and said to everyone with a smile: "I have always been worried that the new policy will harm the interests of the people, so I feel at ease."

"Now everyone understands the benefits of making the cake bigger."

Zhao Jun looked around at everyone.

"But I still feel it's too slow."

Zhao Zhen sighed and said: "I really hope that soon there will be trains, planes, ships and even high-speed rail, mobile phones, and computers."

"take it easy."

Zhao Jun comforted him.

Starting from the third year of Jingyou's reign, it will now be the sixth year of Qingli's reign, which is exactly ten years.

There is no doubt that the reform process of a country in ten years has undergone tremendous changes.

In the three decades from the 90s to 2020, our country will be as different as the world has changed.

But Zhao Jun is still not very satisfied with the status quo, because in addition to improvements in productivity, industrial reform is only the beginning. If you want to achieve the great achievements of later generations, I am afraid it will take at least ten years, maybe even twenty years.

But no matter what, from an agricultural society with nothing to an industrial society with everything, the most important thing is to lay a good foundation.

Our achievements in future generations are inseparable from the fact that there have been several rounds of industrial revolutions around the world. We can learn from the experience of our predecessors and grow rapidly.

But this was not possible in the Song Dynasty. He had to complete the process of starting from nothing step by step. This was obviously an extremely difficult road.

"In addition to this year's tax revenue, starting from June, most areas have also reported new statistics on the number of people working on a farm, except for remote areas such as Guangxi, Guangzhou, and Fujian."

Lu Yijian continued: "Before the tenants entered the land, the census in the second year of Qingli showed that the population of the Song Dynasty was 1219 million households and 71926493 people. After the New Deal, excluding the three places, there were an increase of 173 million households and 935 million people. People, the total population of the Song Dynasty has now exceeded million."

"This is good news."

Zhao Jun said: "Looking at this year's situation, next year's total population will be more than enough for more than 8000 million people. After sharing the land, people will have children with confidence and boldness. It should be no problem to exceed million people in the next ten years, and In the next ten years from the sixth year of Qingli, the Song Dynasty will enter a period of rapid development, which will require a huge population."

"Ah."

Zhao Zhen nodded slightly and then asked: "Dasun, I read a novel before, saying that after industrialization, it is often necessary to dump the production areas. The idea is to develop colonies everywhere and dump them in the colonies to make huge profits. We have entered the industrial age. , is there a colony?”

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "It is easy for a small country with few people to saturate the market, so naturally it can only expand externally. The Song Dynasty has a large population and a large territory, and in the future, the annexation of neighboring countries such as Xixia, Liao, Dali, and Annan will be on the agenda. It is completely possible. Let’s carry out internal circulation first to make life better for the people of the Song Dynasty.”

“What about the raw materials?”

"Isn't it available in neighboring countries? And you can also buy it from the Maritime Silk Road. What do you have to worry about when you have a ship?"

"That's true."

"Our country's market is still far away from saturation. This is too long-term. What we have to do now is to introduce a large amount of raw materials from abroad. Anyway, countries in this era probably don't understand trade barriers and tariffs. Just give them some benefits. sold."

"Then let's take a look at the group data report."

Zhao Zhen said.

Lu Yijian continued to report.

Now that the Song Dynasty is booming, and after the cake becomes bigger, there is no guarantee that every common person will have enough food and clothing, but at least most of the common people will still live a better life.

Data shows that this year has only collected most of the data from January to October, but the GDP has already exceeded last year, reaching 33 billion yuan, a growth of 9%. There should be no problem with the annual growth exceeding 12%. .

of course.

The current surge in GDP every year is due to the large-scale promotion of sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn and other high-yielding crops a few years ago, coupled with the substantial reduction of agricultural taxes and the creation of a large amount of new land, which has increased the enthusiasm of the people for production. Improved a lot.

And this growth rate is expected to continue for several years, but after all, this is the explosion of agricultural productivity. If industry is not promoted, it will still be impossible to change the nature of agriculture that depends on the weather.

So Zhao Jun's current idea is very simple. Taking advantage of the strong momentum of agriculture, first use agriculture to subsidize industry and increase industrial productivity.

In addition to GDP, other data also vary greatly.

There have been massive military layoffs. The Song Dynasty now only maintains a standing army of more than 600,000 people. Starting this year, it is slowly training a new firearms team. According to Zhao Jun, starting next year, the standing army of more than 600,000 people will be replaced by half. Cold weapons are half firearms.

Within three years, the entire army will mainly use thermal weapons. Although cold weapons are still retained, it is enough to just wear a straight sword around the waist, so as to increase the combat effectiveness of the entire Song Dynasty army. Floors.

Economically, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce reports that more and more companies have been registered. Several industrial and commercial bureaus in Guangbianliang have registered more than 30,000 people, and there are also many registered shops. Under the relatively loose business policy in the second year of Qingli, business has prospered. The degree is increasing day by day.

Other education, culture, and science and technology have also improved. For example, in science and technology, the School of Chemistry and the School of Physics are making new breakthroughs every day. Especially for the School of Chemistry, the imperial glass factory gave them priority in supplying equipment. With the equipment, various elements The extraction is also much easier.

All things considered, although the current overall situation of the Song Dynasty has not improved much and cannot be compared to the level of the first industrial revolution, it has taken solid steps and is expected to officially enter industrialization in the next ten years.

"The growth in all data is very gratifying."

Zhao Zhen was very happy after hearing the report. This year's growth is much greater than last year, and it will increase again next year. It will skyrocket every year and improve every year. The future of the Song Dynasty is just around the corner.

"Seeing that the current data has indeed improved a lot, I have an idea."

Zhao Jun said while touching his chin.

"what idea?"

"I think it's time to issue national debt."

"Do you want to start publishing now?"

"Well, in order to prepare for next year, but to be on the safe side, we will not issue national bonds to ordinary people, only to large landowners."

"Big landowners?"

Everyone was at a loss. Big landowners across the country are now boycotting the idea of ​​renting their own acres. Will they be willing to do so?

"This also gives them a new way of living."

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "They are unwilling to accept high taxes or sell land to invest in industry. They can invest in national bonds and give them stable interest. Although the interest is not high, it is more stable and can make up for part of the tax deficit."

"Well."

Everyone understood immediately.

This is a win-win approach, which also makes the treasury richer.

"In addition, we have to find ways to make business more active."

Zhao Jun thought for a while and said: "In this way, we will cancel the deposit custody fee. Starting next year, you will no longer have to pay the bank to save money."

"Then how do banks make profits? Rely on lending like this to future generations? But the country currently has no plans for housing loans in the Song Dynasty. This is difficult both from a regulatory and operational perspective."

Zhao Zhen raised objections.

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "Isn't there a national debt? Let Jiaoziwu handle it. Part of the national bonds purchased will be used as Jiaoziwu's operating expenses. As more and more Jiaoziwu save money, the country will also lend money in the future. . Such as agricultural loans and commercial loans, which can also suppress the high private interest rates."

State lending is something that must be done, and the essence of Wang Anshi's reform is state lending.

In this way, because the country's interest rates are low, the people are naturally willing to seek loans from the court, and they are no longer exploited by wealthy landlords at extremely high interest rates as before.

Therefore, although there are certain problems in both national debt and lending, such as supervision, corruption, bad debts, etc., compared with the good operation of the entire country's financial system, the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages.

Otherwise, in the future, national banks around the world will not have lending business. This must be a progressive process.

"Ah."

Seeing Zhao Jun's resolute attitude, Zhao Zhen did not object and said: "Okay, then listen to Da Sun. Anyway, Wang Anshi's reform was like this. Now that the government is well organized, there should be no mistakes like his."

"Well, we will officially continue to expand the scale of development next year. I must let everyone see the train in operation by the end of next year, or the year after that!"

Zhao Jun won a guaranteed vote, which also moved many prime ministers present.

they.

I really want to see this prosperous age that I have never seen before I die!

(End of this chapter)