Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 312

"My nephew has two strategies to secure the world. But when I asked him, he said he got Lin'an, and then told the officials that he is now on his way to Lin'an." Wang Boyan said to Zhao Gou.

"However, Qin Hui has two clever strategies to secure the world, and the minister also has two clever strategies to secure the world."

"The first rule of my minister is to recruit a group of thieves and destroy the thieves. This is to divide these rebel armies."

"Not all of these rebel armies are thinking of rebellion. Many of them are coerced by their neighbors. At this time, we can recruit them as soldiers, and those who can contribute to the policy of destroying part of the rebel army will be officials."

Wang Boyan contributed the first ingenious plan to secure the world.

Recruit a group of thieves to kill thieves.

He thinks this move is extremely clever, using the enemy to destroy the enemy, without having to produce people or food.You can destroy the rebels.

This was his idea. Wang Boyan elaborated on his recruitment brochure, and Zhao Gou nodded after listening.

"This strategy is very good." Zhao Gou nodded.

Although he can't be angry, this is the real problem he is facing now.

The soldiers and horses in his hands are a bunch of trash, and the official ships, vehicles and boats were beaten by fishing boats and returned home in defeat.

What can he do?
Problems always have to be solved.

Wang Boyan saw that Zhao Gou had listened to his advice, and continued: "The second point of my minister is to shrink the salt administration. We should restore some of the old official system and official selling method. The current rush to buy will cause a huge loss to the Song court. .”

"Salt is produced in the lower four prefectures, and households with salt booths collect salt for four renminbi a catty. If it is transported to Bianjing, it can be sold for forty renminbi per catty. However, the state treasury pays only ten renminbi per catty for salt. There is too much loss. gone."

"During Emperor Taizong's time, there was a case that can be used as a reference. If he prepared and sold two catties of salt without permission, the criminals would be escorted back to Beijing. And those who knew about the private salt dealers but did not report to the officials would be sent back to Beijing with ink punishment. I think it is acceptable. For reference."

"Returning ink to Beijing? Is it too harsh? After all, in the Renzong dynasty, because tens of thousands of people prepared private salt, Emperor Renzong was not willing to punish these tens of thousands of people. If I do this, is it too harsh? gone?"

Zhao Gou was taken aback for a moment, then asked.

As for the money bag, Zhao Gou has specially studied it, that is, on the matter of bare salt, he can collect 500 million guan from the lower four states every year at the price of ten Wen per catty.

Wang Boyan said heartbrokenly: "Officials, they are stealing the country for their own personal gain! No matter if they are bringing Yanting households or buying people outside, they are all involved in it, and there are many people who are greedy for ink."

"I think it's the best way to revive Emperor Taizong's policy, to rule officials and sell laws."

Zhao Gou thought for a while and said: "Then Wang Dazai, I will trouble you with this matter. Get the government system and officials to supervise it. If the salt policy is implemented smoothly, the iron and iron will follow the government system and officials' sales method you said. Increase the revenue of the national treasury. .”

Zhao Gou's decision was definitely not because of Wang Boyan's persuasion, but because he himself had already talked about it with the squires and other officials before he became the king of Wu.

And he has been thinking about when he will be able to fully implement the official system and sell the law.

And Wang Boyan's proposal hits exactly what he wanted.

Official system and official sales of laws can greatly increase the revenue of the court, but it does not involve competing with the people for profit.

Because the government makes salt, and the government sells salt, people need to dispatch and escort it.How much to sell at that time, the court will decide in one word, as long as it can greatly increase the income of the court.

Although Zhao Gou has some money donated by the gentry, it is still too little.

As for his many letters to Bianjing, he will send the taxes due to Bianjing, in fact, that's all.

He just wanted the canonization from the Great Song Dynasty. He has been thinking about the issue of legitimacy. Now Zhao Gou's small court has no legitimacy at all.

Therefore, Zhao Gou decided to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, and accepted the canonization from the Kingdom of Jin, which meant that he had legitimacy.

It doesn't matter which emperor he is canonized, anyway, he doesn't intend to escort the other party to pay taxes.

Zhao Gou was worried, his small imperial court was too short of a talented person, not to mention a famous minister of Li Gang's level, even a person like Cai Jing would be fine!But there is no.

If so, he wouldn't have to be so stretched now.

"When will your nephew Qin Hui come to Lin'an?" Zhao Gou asked.

He desperately hopes that a minister who understands what he means will come out to help him.

"Soon. Official, he has already set off from Bianjing City." Wang Boyan said with a smile.

He is Qin Hui's teacher, and also Qin Hui's uncle. With prosperity and wealth, he naturally wants to think about his nephew.

For example, the Yanzheng, a bureaucratic bureaucracy who he stopped in his arms, had several methods to get benefits from it.

"That's good, that's good." Zhao Gou said.

And Qin Hui walked faster than Zhao Cong thought, the reason is that he met Zhao Ying who came from the palace on the way.

After he saw Zhao Ying, he went south as fast as he had seen a ghost.

He thought that what he did was done without anyone noticing, but in fact he didn't know that the chazi of the Imperial City Division had already been eyeing him.

Even Wang Boyan's letter to him, Chazi from the Imperial City Division, read it earlier than Qin Hui.

When Zhao Ying saw him, she gave him eight words: "If you do evil, you will be punished by heaven and earth."

Zhao Ying left immediately after saying this, but Qin Hui was so frightened that his legs trembled!

He met the official once, and although he didn't say a few words, he already felt the killing intent from the official's words!
But now, he has accepted Wang Boyan's recruitment, which means that he has already resigned from his official position at the Great Song Dynasty Hall.

To put it more bluntly, this is a horseman who is dissatisfied with the arrangements made by the government for him. He wants to resign and return home.

After all, although Qin Hui himself is not the number one scholar, he is also a Jinshi and ranked first. It is too humiliating to arrange a horseman.

Moreover, Qin Hui himself is from Jiangning, that is, Jiankang, so he resigned from office and returned to his hometown.

But the officials already knew that he was going to become an official in the small imperial court in the south, so this was a defection!

The nature changed, he was afraid that the officials would suddenly change their minds, and they stole and killed him on the way.

He always thought that Tong Guan's suicide, Cai Jing's death from illness, and Cai You's murder were all arranged by the official who sat firmly on the Diaoyutai in the palace.

Therefore, he was very frightened, and felt Lin'an day and night.

As soon as he settled down, he saw his uncle, Wang Boyan, who had already served as Shangshu Zuocheng in the Southern Dynasty.

"Uncle." Qin Hui saluted respectfully. As the saying goes, three relatives are not three relatives, and uncle is the oldest.

This is the reason why Wang Boyan has developed and has not forgotten himself.

Wang Boyan was very satisfied with Qin Hui's thoughtful etiquette, and said with a smile, "Why is your nephew in such a hurry?"

"It's hard to explain in one word. It's a long story. Although I guessed it, I think the officials want to kill me." Qin Hui said with a frown.

No talent is not enough to help rape.

Qin Hui is the No. 1 traitor in the ages, if he has nothing, how can he be called a traitor?He felt very sensitively that Emperor Bianjing wanted to kill him.

(End of this chapter)