Sima Guang’s traditional philosophy of governing a country is to pursue the goal of sharing wealth with the people.
But this "people" is worth discussing.
Does it refer to ordinary people?
It can only be said that they are included, but not the main group.
Ordinary people only have so little money that it has nothing to do with being rich. Why do they need to hide it? No one will snatch it away if they show it.
It mainly refers to gentry and landlords.
They are conservatives and have an idea that if the money is placed in the hands of these gentry and landlords, they and the country will become a community and be interdependent. Then they will become the country's most solid force, have a sense of social responsibility, be trustworthy, and make the country more stable.
For example, when a disaster occurs in a local area, they are on the front line and can help the affected people overcome difficulties in a timely manner.
If we first feedback to the central government and then have the central government issue a disaster relief plan, this back and forth will delay many things.
The information today is very blocked.
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In fact, they are not fanciful or talking nonsense. There are indeed many such examples. When a place suffers a disaster, the government will ask the gentry and scholars to donate money for disaster relief, and they will donate some money, some of which are forced and some of which are voluntary.
This was indeed a very common thing in the Song Dynasty.
But compared with their privileges and illegal gains, this proportion is really very large, and it is still expanding further.
The plate is this big, if you have more, I will have less.
This caused the country's finances to become extremely tight, which in turn made the country unable to do anything else and could only sit back and do nothing.
This is stagnation.
Conservatives are content to remain stagnant.
But Wang Anshi was not satisfied with the status quo. He was very opposed to the idea of keeping wealth among the people. The money in your pocket is your private property. It depends on the person you give it to or not, and how much you give depends on your mood.
This is not how you govern a country.
Wang Anshi's idea is that the state should control everything, with wealth concentrated in the central government and then distributed uniformly by the central government, so that the top and the bottom can work together and great things can be accomplished.
He himself admitted that he was just making money for the country, but his targets were the wealthy businessmen and landowners.
Zhang Fei's plan was to take advantage of the landlords and gentry, and the national treasury would also benefit from it, so Wang Anshi was certainly willing.
What about Sima Guang?
This is contradictory to his philosophy!
Therefore, what Zhang Fei emphasized to him was "legitimacy".
You support judicial reform, but the result is defending illegal behavior. What is the point of your reform?
This sentence left Sima Guang speechless.
He argued with Wang Anshi every day about whether to increase taxes or not. Wang Anshi definitely wanted to increase taxes on the rich, but he used a roundabout strategy and increased taxes in various ways without explicitly stating that he wanted to increase taxes on the rich.
This is in structural contradiction with the conservative view of keeping wealth among the people.
But Zhang Fei is not.
Zhang Fei wants to recover legal taxes.
Sima Guang couldn't say that tax evasion was also a way of sharing wealth with the people, right?
The key point is that he himself doesn't think so. He asks for no tax increase, or even tax reduction, but this is different from tax evasion.
Moreover, his judicial reform will certainly have to deal with tax evasion. From this point of view, Wang Anshi and Zhang Fei are willing to be the bad guys and at the same time they can fight for judicial independence. He can indeed reap the benefits.
….But it will indeed make many people wary of his judicial reforms.
Just like Lu Huiqing, it is really difficult to judge the pros and cons of this matter.
Therefore, Sima Guang did not give any reply, but he did not continue to stop Zhang Fei.
This matter is difficult to judge, so we have to wait and see.
But this is enough for Zhang Fei.
The reason he explained to Sima Guang was not because he was afraid that Sima Guang would stop him. This was just a secondary reason. He just wanted to continue to win Sima Guang's trust. If he didn't explain the matter clearly, Sima Guang would definitely suspect him.
Sima Guang's judicial reform was pushed forward by Zhang Fei.
After seeing Sima Guang off, Zhang Fei returned to the back hall, looked at the dejected Fan Li, walked over, and said with a smile: "You don't have to be depressed, at least we are still alive, which proves that we are still very powerful."
Fan Li sighed, "How could I not know this, but...but I always feel that, Sanlang, you should quit while you are ahead. If you keep walking on the edge of the cliff, something bad will happen sooner or later."
Zhang Fei smiled and nodded, saying, "Every failure is a learning experience. I will definitely learn from this lesson."
"real?"
Fan Li was a little bit unconvinced.
Zhang Fei smiled bitterly and said, "Does the official think I'm a fool? I've already fallen into this pit, and I want to step on it again."
Fan Li nodded slightly. Zhang San didn't look stupid and it was impossible for him to make the same mistake again.
Don't worry, I won't step on it, I just fill it up so that no one has to be afraid. Zhang Fei asked again: "By the way! Didn't Mr. Ma and the others come to ask about the situation?"
Fan Li was immediately amused. "They have also suffered a lot from you, but they have learned their lesson recently. They dare not offend us, but they also dare not get too close to us. However, we will still cooperate if we need to."
Ma Tianhao, Chen Maoqian and others are really confused.
The ups and downs were so huge that they were almost going to have a nervous breakdown, so they simply treated it as an ordinary business cooperation and kept a certain distance.
Zhang Fei nodded and smiled: "This is the best. It's just a business deal, and I don't want them to be affected by this."
As they were chatting, Xu Zhiqian suddenly came into the store in a hurry.
"What's up?"
Zhang Fei asked.
Xu Zhiqian came to Zhang Fei and whispered, "Come back with me quickly, my senior brother is here."
"Brother? Oh..."
Zhang Fei said something to Fan Li, then left with Xu Zhiqian.
Since Gao Wenyin and the others had moved in, it was naturally inconvenient for Zhao Xu to go to the Zhang family again, so he could only choose to go to the Xu family quietly.
When I arrived at Xu's house, I saw Zhao Xu sitting alone in the backyard drinking, looking particularly lonely.
“Xiaomin…!”
"Sit down!"
Zhao Xu pointed to the opposite side listlessly.
"yes."
After Zhang Fei sat down.
Zhao Xu asked again: "Have you finished dealing with the fine?"
"It's all done." Zhang Fei nodded, and seeing that Zhao Xu was in a very low mood, he clasped his fists and said, "I deserve to die. I have implicated Your Majesty. Please punish me."
Zhao Xu sighed deeply and said, "You did act rashly in this matter, but I know very well how serious the consequences will be. In fact, if they had mentioned it, I would have stopped you for the sake of the overall situation. But they threatened me with the stability of the country. I really can't swallow this."
…Although he compromised very clumsily at that time, it was because he was the monarch and had to put the world first. It was impossible for him to act on impulse because of such a small matter.
but.
He was actually very, very angry in his heart.
Because what he was pursuing was to assert imperial power, he was very sensitive to this situation.
After all, he had just bestowed the imperial plaque on Zhang Fei, and those who were a little sensible spoke in a whisper.
They just don't.
Just hit him in the face.
What they wanted to say was, Zhang Fei, don't think you can do whatever you want just because you have the imperial plaque.
We are not afraid at all.
Zhang Fei immediately said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will definitely make amends."
Zhao Xu's face lit up, "It seems you have already thought of a solution."
He came here today with only one purpose, which was to get revenge. This matter must not be let go. In fact, he also understood Zhang Fei's character, but he was worried that Zhang Fei would choose to keep quiet out of consideration for him. Therefore, he came to make his attitude clear: as long as you have the means, we will fight back.
This was something that neither Wang Anshi nor Sima Guang had thought of.
Zhao Xu's acting skills were truly at the level of an award-winning actor. At the time, he did not resist much. His attitude was to make a big deal out of a small matter and nothing happen.
The Three Departments dared to be so arrogant and even sent people to count, as if they were afraid that the citizens didn't know.
Zhang Fei immediately informed Zhao Xu of the entire plan and how he had lobbied Wang Anshi and Sima Guang.
He was jumping back and forth between Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, but he had a different relationship with Zhao Xu. It was different with the emperor. Unless you wanted to rebel, you had to get the emperor's support for everything you did, and try not to hide anything if you could.
Once the emperor becomes suspicious of you, it would be very scary. However, no matter what an honest envoy says, the emperor will not care too much. After all, he can only talk but cannot accomplish anything.
After hearing this, Zhao Xu could not help but be overjoyed. If this matter turned into a struggle between the judiciary and the administration, or a struggle between government offices, it would not pose too much of a threat to him. Instead, he could control the situation. He said, "You are worthy of being the ear-pen Zhang San. You actually convinced Wang Jiefu and Sima Junshi at the same time. Awesome! Awesome!"
Zhang Fei smiled modestly and said: "Although there are many contradictions in their governing philosophies, they certainly do not support tax evasion."
Zhao Xu nodded slightly and asked, "Do you need my help?"
Zhang Fei hurriedly said, "I dare not trouble your majesty. This is all caused by me, and I have the responsibility to make up for it."
Zhao Xu nodded and said, "Just go ahead and do it this time. I will protect you from behind."
As he said this, he raised his glass and said, "I wish you a great victory."
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Lu Huiqing was definitely Wang Anshi's right-hand man. Within a few days, he brought both Ren and An here.
"Master, do you know Mr. Wei from Luomapo, Kaifeng County?"
"Mr. Wei?"
Wang Anshi shook his head: "I have never heard of it."
Lu Huiqing said: "This man is called Wei Yushan, a native of Tokyo. His great-grandfather passed the imperial examination during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong, but was demoted from the capital due to corruption and bribery. After his death, his son sent him to his hometown for burial. But later, his descendants started doing business in Bianjing again. With the help of his father's connections in the court, they soon became a well-known wealthy family in Kaifeng County.
…Now Wei Yushan is a bully in the village. No one dares to mess with him, let alone collect taxes from his home. Until three years ago, a yamen runner named Geng Ming went to the Wei family to collect taxes because he couldn't stand what Wei Yushan did. As a result, not only did he not receive the taxes, Wei Yushan also charged Geng Ming for part of his own land taxes.
Although Geng Ming was a well-off family, he could not afford the taxes from the Wei family, which eventually forced him to divorce his wife and let her take their son back to her parents' home. He then became a monk in a Taoist temple, thus avoiding the Wei family's revenge."
After hearing this, Wang Anshi was immediately excited and asked, "Didn't that fool go to the authorities to file a complaint?"
Lu Huiqing said: "It is the government that charged the tax to Geng Ming. Master, you should know that many government servants cannot collect taxes and end up having to pay for it themselves."
Wang Anshi frowned and asked, "Does he dare to sue?"
Lu Huiqing said: "Although Geng Ming has become a monk, he has always been thinking about revenge and reuniting with his wife and children."
Wang Anshi nodded and said, "It's him."
Lu Huiqing said: "But Master, Wei Yushan is also a prominent figure."
Wang Anshi asked: "Isn't he just a wealthy family? His ancestors were only minor scholars, so there is no need to worry about him."
Lu Huiqing said: "Wei Yushan has always admired Wang Hong very much. He believes that torture should be used to deal with unruly people, so the two have a good relationship. In addition, his second daughter is the favorite concubine of Prince Chang, so he dares to be so arrogant and domineering."
Wang Anshi couldn't help but glance at Lu Huiqing sideways, you are deliberately trying to make fun of me.
The harsh words have already been spoken, you better give me a royal relative.
What do you want me to do?
This Prince Chang is Zhao Xu’s younger brother, he is not an ordinary prince!
Lu Huiqing explained: "The reason why I chose this case is threefold. First, it is also related to the Yaqian service, and it can provide support for my teacher's reform.
Secondly, although it involves royal relatives, this struggle stems from judicial reform, which may make Sima Guang even more embarrassed. Sima Guang always speaks with justice and for the country and the people. It will be interesting to see whether he can keep his word when facing royal relatives.
Third, if we can take over Wei Yu Mountain, the other landlords will no longer dare to act arrogantly, and we can solve the problem once and for all."
His methods were extremely cruel.
Since I, Lu Huiqing, took action personally, this could not be a small case.
Wang Anshi was a little hesitant. He wanted to trip Sima Guang and make him fall on his back to make everyone laugh. That was fine, but to say that he was pushing Sima Guang into a ditch seemed a bit too much.
But he was also looking forward to it. If he really met a royal relative, could Sima Guang be as impartial and just as Bao Zheng? After all, he and Sima Guang had both served as Bao Zheng's subordinates.
In addition, he was very unhappy with Wei Yushan's behavior. It would be fine if you didn't pay it, but you let others kill you. After thinking it over again and again, he said, "Go talk to Zhang San first and ask for his opinion."
Lu Huiqing nodded.
Wang Anshi asked again: "Have you found anyone in Kaifeng County?"
According to Zhang Fei's plan, they had to find a judicial officer in the criminal justice department to stand up and raise the banner and confront the county government.
Lu Huiqing said, "Found it, Judicial Officer Lu Jia asked."
Wang Anshi frowned and asked, "Uncle Lu Hui's nephew?"
Lu Huiqing nodded and said, "I have asked around, and among the criminal justice officials in Kaifeng County, only Lu Jiawen is speaking up for Zhang Fei. I have also talked to Lu Jiawen before, and he has always supported our teacher's reforms."
Wang Anshi sighed, "You are really making things more and more complicated."
Everyone has a background.
This is really a big deal.
Lu Huiqing said, "If we simply ask a landlord to pay taxes, even if we win, it won't have a deterrent effect, and there's no need for our mentor to do it personally."
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