, also made the people complain.

As paper money in feudal society, everyone knows that Jiaozi and Ming Dynasty money failed, but they don't know that Huizi in the Southern Song Dynasty succeeded.

There were also days when Huizi was overused and devalued wildly. For example, during the Longxing Northern Expedition and Duanping's entry into the Luojian court, Huizi was overused for more than ten times, causing Huizi to collapse for a time.

However, the Southern Song Dynasty court still attached great importance to currency and credit, and used real money and silver to buy back Huizi from the private sector in large quantities, and restored the currency and credit. Of course, by the end of the dynasty, when the economy collapsed before the regime, even modern countries would inevitably lose currency.

A pile of waste paper. What’s more, modern countries have not yet collapsed, and there are many currencies that have become paper, including and not limited to Zimbabwe.

At least before the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, Huizi was quite successful.

In order to ensure the circulation and use of salt banknotes, it is necessary to severely crack down on private coinage and official coinage as N money.

Theory must precede practice, and practice in turn better complements and improves theory.

All in all, what you choose to do is always more important than what you do.

Zhang Yue wrote his theory to the officials at the beginning of the Xining Reform.

It's a pity that the officials didn't read it carefully. When I told it to Lao Wang, he was half-convinced, but at least he didn't bother Zhang Yue about the matter of the Citation Office.

Now Zhang Yue is taking advantage of his free time to reorganize things in the temple. With the current popularity of the Exchange and the reputation of the Green Seed Law and the Market Change Law, the officials should re-recognize their own theory.

In the past three years, Zhang Yue has been checking in on party matters while carefully testing out reforms.

To find a way for the New Deal, through testing and improvement, Zhang Yue has preliminarily determined what is feasible.

Now is the time to become famous after three years of silence.

After returning to prime ministership, this set the tone for Yuanfeng's government.

However, Zhang Yue also understood that things were not so easy.

Historically, the most important achievement of Zhang Juzheng's reform, which extended the life of the Ming Dynasty for twenty years, was not a whipping method or a test, but the clearing of land.

Zhang Juzheng's Qingzhang suddenly increased the 5.18 million acres recorded by the imperial court in the early Wanli period to 7.86 million acres, and discovered 2.68 million hidden acres.

In order to clear the land? It is to start with the land rent.

Known as the first good reform law in feudal reform, the method of apportioning ding into mu is to spread the ding tax into the field tax.

The Ding tax paid on a per capita basis was exempted and all was allocated to the land tax, which was mainly land rent.

This reform led to an explosive increase in the population of the Qing Dynasty. After it was implemented in the Yongzheng year, it exceeded 100 million in the early years of Qianlong's reign, and directly exceeded 300 million in the later years of Qianlong's reign.

Both of these successful reforms targeted land rent, extending the life of the dynasty and even reviving it. Their essence was to minimize the proportion of land rent in value and maximize the proportion of labor.

But these two reforms also touched the interests of the landlord and bureaucratic class.

Yongzheng has always been under suspicion, but he was the emperor and the imperial power of the Qing Dynasty was at its peak, so there was no problem.

And what about Zhang Juzheng?

Without Zhang Juzheng's power, this reform could not be implemented, but with this power, it touched the imperial power. After Zhang Juzheng was liquidated, this policy gradually ceased.

Now Zhang Yue's authority is far inferior to that of Zhang Juzheng, and not as good as that of Wang Anshi in the early days of Xining.

However, to do great things, you must have great power!

Zhang Yue said to himself: "If this reform can be implemented during my time in power, it will undoubtedly be more difficult and more challenging than destroying Dangxiang and conquering Youyan."

"Wang Jinggong had taken the first step back then, and this was the square field equalization tax law in the Xining Reform."

"It is a pity that this policy has been implemented intermittently. It has been implemented since Jingyou, Qingli, Huangyou, and Jiayou, but it has always been abandoned."

"Xining did not vigorously promote it at the beginning, but there were many opponents. Landowners, bureaucrats and local governments all opposed it, and now it has basically stagnated."

"There are indeed some good and bad among the new laws. For example, the Green Crops Law, the Market Change Law, and the Equalization Law all have problems, but the Labor Exemption Law, the Farmland Water Conservancy Law, and the Farmland Equalization Tax Law are all good laws."

"But both the old and new parties now view the new law as a whole."

"If something is good, say it is good. If it is bad, say it is bad. You cannot choose the good ones and follow them, and choose the bad ones to change them."

When Zhang Yue said this, the tip of his pen was suspended above the paper, and he sighed slightly at the end.

After a while, Zhang Yue put his pen on the inkstone, nodded, and wrote on the paper.

No matter what, people still have to move forward.

Can't stop!

…

After discussing it at Wang Anli’s house that day.

There is an undercurrent in the capital.

Bianjing's restaurants, teahouses and Imperial College were places where public opinion concentrated or spread, and where the Imperial City Secretary spied on.

As for media channels, they are storytellers, social dramas, newspapers and tabloids, etc.

But no one thought that the discussion started in Taixue.

Too learned!

After the Xining Reform, the number of students in Taixue was expanded to 2,400.

It was also the time for the provincial examination, so most of the scholars stayed in the capital and did not leave.

Most of the imperial students and scholars are young scholars. This age is also the time when they are most sincere.

When word spread in Beijing that the imperial court wanted to abandon Liangzhou and negotiate peace with Liao, these people could not sit still.

When news of Lu Huiqing's great victory in Hedong came, the scholars could not understand why the imperial court had to give up territory to the party members despite repeated victories in the west.

Why did we obviously win?

Instead, they have to make concessions to the party and even pay compensation!

There are traitors in the imperial court!

Who is the traitor?

That is Privy Councilor Sun Gu!

…

Privy Councilor Sun Gu sat in a carriage and went to court.

Sun Gu is now responsible for negotiating peace with Liao. Now the Liao envoy is about to enter the capital, but the aggressiveness of the Liao envoy gives him a headache.

Once your own conditions cannot meet the requirements of the Liao Kingdom, what will you do? What other conditions can you offer?

While thinking carefully, Sun Gu's carriage stopped.

"What's going on?"

"Prime Minister! There are soldiers blocking the way in front of the carriage!"

Sun Gu frowned and said, "Just rebuke him!"

"Reporting to the Prime Minister, there are too many people and we can't keep up!"

Hearing this, Sun Gu opened the car curtain and took a look.

But in front of him, he saw a dense crowd of scholars wearing white robes and black crowns. They stood neatly and solemnly on both sides of the road, and there were many people watching outside.

Sun Gu felt bad because he was stopped.

Sun Gu had not yet spoken, but he saw the first scholar parting the hem of his gown, bowing down on the muddy road and saying: "Prime Minister, this is a document jointly written by Cao Min and others. I hope the Prime Minister will hear it!"

"

Sun Gu said vaguely from behind the car curtain: "I understand. You can disperse!"

Sun Gu thought to himself, okay, if you openly write a letter to express your opinion, or threaten the court ministers in the street, your career will be over from now on.

Sun Gu then thought again, forget it, what does a commoner know? It is impossible for the imperial court to attack Liao and Dangxiang at the same time.

Otherwise, there is a danger of national subjugation.

What does a scholar know about national affairs?

I will never stop doing something. Once I have made a decision, I must stick to it. There will be people who will comment on the merits and demerits of what I have done.

When the document was handed to Sun Gu, the scholars slowly dispersed as ordered...

Sun Gu breathed a sigh of relief and opened the car curtain and was about to say a few words when he saw the scholar who handed over the blood letter said loudly: "Prime Minister, people can endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens! Is this the same for the country?"

"As the saying goes, a scholar can be killed but not humiliated! Students are willing to serve the imperial court with all their blood!"

After a pause, the scholar chanted: "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the people, carry forward the unique knowledge of the saints, and create peace for all generations!"

Sun Gu thought to himself, is he a disciple of Hengqu? Is he a student of Taipei?

But seeing the look of determination in this man's eyes, he suddenly drew his sword and struck it at his neck.

Sun Gu was shocked and wanted to say something to stop him, but it was too late. The scholar did not even hesitate for a moment, and he really spilled his blood on the road.

Seeing this, his classmates rushed forward in panic and fell beside his body, crying loudly.

The people watching on the side also shook their heads. They all regarded the other party as a loyal minister and Sun Gu as a traitor.

Seeing this scene, Sun Gu was so horrified that he couldn't speak. His hand holding the document shook a few times, and then his expression disappeared again. He urged the people around him: "Go quickly! Go quickly!"
To be continued...