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Chapter 491 The wolf is here

This small-scale rebellion in Bashu was a mutiny, not a peasant uprising or a poor official, but Zhao Heng was careful to govern the country. The first step was to divide the world into fifteenth routes, and then to divide Bashu into four routes, which was actually the eighteenth route. From then on, Bashu gradually evolved into Sichuan.

Then recall all the Eighteenth Route Transport Authors and warn them that they will be unable to do anything to stop corvee service from then on, and the construction of civil engineering will be suspended, so that farmers can have a rest time. Then, the Transport Authors encourage them to reclaim wasteland, plant mulberry trees and silkworms, and carry trees and cotton. Don’t say that our land has been merged by the powerful, now you will be given a chance. All wastelands that are opened are yours, and the country also strongly supports you in opening up land and exempts all taxes from the first five years.

You who are good at doing good will have political achievements!

After Ma Yuan's proposal, the "pre-buying silk policy" began to be implemented.

That is, when the people are most unbearable in spring famine, they can ask the government for some money and food, and repay it with silk or other goods after autumn.

In fact, it is an interest-free or low-interest loan specifically issued to poor people. "It is mandatory to buy silk and silk, and it is not allowed to be subscribed to households. Those who request money as they wish will listen!"

When ordinary people ask for money, they must give it to them. However, if ordinary people do not ask for money, they must not use any means to pay.

Song Jiu was very surprised after receiving the imperial edict in Suzhou, which reminded him of Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law.

However, with a bitter smile, the court's economy was abundant at this time. At that time, Wang Anshi's reform was mainly for profit. He didn't know at all that the officials below did it. But they had to make up for the big black holes in the country, otherwise the national finances would collapse immediately, and they would not care about these minor details.

But it is not easy to implement.

Why did Song Jiu deliberately post the names, hometowns and numbers of sponsors and recipients in Suzhou, but he should not force the loan to be recovered in any form? Once the strong use is used, countless problems will arise, and the cost of managing the donations will also increase. At the same time, it will not be operated in any form. Otherwise, it will fall into the pockets of the clerk and be given to Guo Meimei.

This pre-buyed silk is of one nature.

There is an example. Song Renzong exempted the income from Qiongzhou's 1,000 ounces of salt franchise. As a result, the second year, the court paid more than 10,000 ounces of money. Once the officials were exempted, they could not reach their hands, so all kinds of expenses came out.

As a result of this, the court will spend more money on it.

In order to achieve a balance in the country's economy, the money and money must be provided. Zhao Heng did what his father and his uncle did not do, or what Song Jiu thought about it n times, but Zhao Kuangyi still did not implement it.

In just a few years of Xianping, Zhao Heng cut nearly 200,000 officials and clerks.

The clerks do not need the state to pay their salaries, but they don’t make too many money. These money actually comes from the people. Even if one person has an average of 100 yuan a year, the people of the Song Dynasty reduced the pressure of 20 million yuan a year.

As Zhao Heng's status stabilized, several reforms were launched.

The first is the construction of clean government.

Zhao Heng issued seven articles on civil and military affairs. First, be clear-hearted, treat things fairly, and do not control political affairs for their own joys, angers, loves, and hates. Second, be dedicated to the public, be fair and upright, and be honest. Third, cultivate virtue, and be virtuous, and be comparative with virtue, rather than suppressing others with power. Fourth, be pragmatic. Don’t be greedy for fame. Fifth, be clear-minded, be diligent in understanding the people’s conditions. Don’t be harsh taxes and punishments unfair. Sixth, be diligent in teaching, be diligent in political affairs and farming and sericulture. Seventh, be eliminated. We must work hard to eliminate all kinds of disadvantages.

Zhao Heng did not peel it, but he had his anti-corruption measures. He first convicted the crime of embezzlement as a private crime. Officials must be recommended by other officials during the probation period to be formalized. However, no official shall recommend probation officials with private crimes. Officials can take the imperial examination when they are on duty. Those who pass the examination can be formalized in advance or get a higher level, but those who are private crimes are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination. Officials can be promoted with funds, but those who are private crimes are not in this rank. In addition, all performances of officials must be archived and every move is recorded.

The second step is to regularly send supervisory officials to inspect the performance of officials in various places, but a set of dereliction of duty, selection standards and job avoidance systems were formulated for inspecting officials. Once the inspectors took the lead in committing crimes, they would be punished more severely. It is this system that created honest officials such as Bao Zheng.

These systems are not flawless, but at least in these twenty years, they created the most honest and humble era of official style.

Secondly, we attach importance to the ways of speaking, and especially have strict standards for the selection of spoken ministers. First, we must be "spoken and dare to speak out", be honest and selfless, and not avoid the powerful and powerful. Secondly, we must have high cultural quality and practical experience in politics. Third, we must implement the system of personal avoidance. Any person recommended by the prime minister, as well as the children, relatives and subordinate officials, shall not serve as a Taiwanese official. The prime minister shall not recommend the censor, the person recommended by the prime minister shall not be a censor, and those who have personal dislikes with the prime minister, or who have a relationship with the neighbors or are subordinate officials shall not be appointed as a censor.

The third person used and trusted the ruling ministers. He first promoted elders such as Li Geng, Lu Mengzheng, Xiahou Qiao, Yang Li, and retained the positions of famous ministers Zhang Qixian and Lu Duan and others. Then he delegated power to them to govern the world, rather than just like Zhao Kuangyi, who slaughtered the two powers in vain.

The fourth loose usage is that the punishments such as cutting off hands and feet, hooking back and braiding the body are successively abolished, and extra-legal criminal laws are prohibited, and the practices of injuring wrists and smashing the shins of deserters in the army are severely criticized. At the same time, the punishment for serious crimes such as private casting of copper coins and privately building controlled weapons is reduced.

At the same time, a prison guard for inspection is set up in Beijing, and a prison guard for the localities is set up to monitor various criminal trials, punishments and prisons. Any crimes sentenced to imprisonment must be notified to this institution, which has the right to inquire and review. If the preliminary trial official handles it improperly, the institution has the right to file a lawsuit with the court and impeach the official.

Article 5 is the standard reform, expanding the official holidays. It is not good to be tough like Zhu Yuanzhang. With high salaries and sufficient holidays to rest, and with a complete supervision and punishment system, officials can become honest and work more efficiently. Of course, with high salaries, they do not fight corruption, and even corrupt officials will still be hired. Then no matter how high salaries are, they will still be greedy.

If you are greedy from top to bottom, then the noble professions such as teachers and doctors will still receive red envelopes, which seems not very fun, and that is not as good as Zhao Heng’s so-called “virtue governance” in the early days.

The sixth is to attach importance to agriculture. Including his land reclamation order, it was in his hands alone. The national arable land area reached more than 5 million hectares (500 million acres), exceeding the 5 million hectares of the highest in the Tang Dynasty. Not counting hidden fields, hidden fields in the Tang Dynasty were also scary.

In addition, agricultural tools are not included in property taxation, and even try to use military labor service to reduce the labor service of the people.

The seventh, stabilize grain prices, build and close warehouses across the country. In the event of disaster, they will be sold to the people at a fair price to reduce the fish meat of unscrupulous merchants to the people.

Eighth, the increase in tax collection is good, but the country needs to have a source of income. If there is less here, there will be more. Therefore, the increase in taxation method is: tea is expensive, and it will not kill people if it is not drunk, and wine is expensive and it will not kill people if it is not drunk. However, if it is not eaten, the people will rebel. Therefore, the taxation is increased and the commercial taxation is improved. However, while the court increased commercial taxation and taxation, it also encouraged commercial development.

Eight and almost five are related to officials.

The actual officials are ready, and the country will be able to handle it.

After the governance of these policies, Zhao Heng's highest income in history reached 150 million in one year, seven times the economic income at the peak of the Tang Dynasty. However, the land of the Northern Song Dynasty was more than six times the difference between the peak of the Tang Dynasty. The number of households may be more than the time of Tianbao, but considering that there are more hidden households in Tianbao, the two are almost the same. In just six years of Xianping, in less than seven years, the number of households in the country increased by two million. The increase rate reached 30%, which is of course related to the establishment of a good foundation by the first two emperors. At this time, "a large accumulation outbreak."

...

"Official, Your Majesty is more capable than you." Pan Lian'er said.

Song Jiu stayed in Suzhou for almost six years.

This was a terrible time. In just six years, the six counties in Suzhou changed from 40,000 households to 100,000 households in the country, and their tax revenue and arable land area increased by more than three times. But it was Zhao Heng. If Zhao Kuangyi was still alive, he would either be transferred back to the capital or transferred to another state.

However, the increase in the number of households is not only due to the increase in the number of local households, but also the people from other states. However, after Zhao Heng had been lenient in political affairs for three years, there have been fewer fugitive households entering Suzhou this year.

In fact, Song Jiu forced officials from all surrounding prefectures and counties to be extremely miserable.

The Song Dynasty did not prohibit the flow of people and flocked to Suzhou together, and the number of people in its own jurisdiction would decrease.

Moreover, although the new emperor ascended the throne and did not touch Song Jiu, he gave Song Jiu an additional official title. Duke Jin and the subordinate of the Secretariat Pingzhang. Song Jiu was a Duke of the State of China very early, but he was named Duke of the small country, and Jin was the great country. Taishi was the highest official position among all ranks, and was at the top of the third duke. Zhao Pu was just a Taibao during his lifetime!

At the same time, Song Jiu's two sons and several sons-in-law were successively promoted.

Maybe Song Jiu will go back that day.

If others dare to attack Song Jiu, who dares to attack him?

With this force, all the surrounding prefectures and counties had to be careful in governing, and even the transferee of Liangzhe Transportation Commander Liu Wenzhi, said that the 19 officials including Gao Baoyin's son Gao Fuzhi, Li Yizhi, Ai Zhongru, Mei Xun, Gao Yiqing, Jiang Yu, Qi Lun, etc. had been under the jurisdiction of 19 officials.

But it is easy to govern a state and one prefecture, but how difficult it is to govern the world.

Song Jiu smiled slightly, shook his head and said, "Not necessarily!"

He said again: "The wolf is here."

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The wolf is here.

Zhao Kuangyi first suppressed the rebellion of Bashu, then seriously ill, and then Zhao Heng came to power, almost giving the Liao Kingdom a precious ten years of breathing time.

In the past decade, Xiao Yanyan has also been reforming.

Not taking a hostile position, this is a great woman. Without considering the limitations of her territory, her civil and military skills will definitely exceed that of Wu Zetian. Tubo’s Wuyi clan, and Liu E. As for Gao Taotao, it is beyond the reach of everyone.

The main one is four reforms. The first is to learn from Zhao Kuangyin and Qi people's policies, to popularize the slaves in various ministries as much as possible, and reduce conflicts among all classes. Although it is even more impossible to do it well with the conditions of the Liao Kingdom, it ushered in a prosperous era for the Liao Kingdom.

Secondly, we further implemented the Han Dynasty to govern the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty were equal, and the law was equal, and allowed Han officials to enter the top leadership of the country. This led to the complete return of many Han people in the Bohai region and Yanyun region.

The third is the imperial examination. This is a bit hard to say, but this policy has to pay attention to internal governance for the time being.

The fourth is to promote the tax policy in Yanyun area to the whole country, so the Liao Kingdom became richer and richer.

Moreover, with the help of this precious time, he sent troops to the northwest and Goryeo, almost crippled Goryeo, and fully accepted the funding left by the "New Bohai Kingdom" and obtained many Jurchen soldiers.

And Zhao Heng's attitude,
Chapter completed!
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