Shao Song

Vol 2 Chapter 7: debt

Moreover, due to the limitation of the level of productivity, the winter calendar has been a kind of forbidden area for agricultural production, and once the agricultural society is unable to carry out agricultural production, the countryside will inevitably appear to be withered and depressed. However, relatively speaking, in cities and villages, because the slack is suitable for holding large-scale gatherings that cannot be held on weekdays, corresponding political and religious activities will be carried out.

A heavy snow came unexpectedly, and it cleared up in a hurry, and Qin Hui, Hong Ya and others on the north bank of the Yellow River were determined to fight for the future of themselves and their families with an indomitable destiny, almost at the same time, on the south bank of the Yellow River. Within Zhao Song, the city and villages gradually became lively.

Among them, it was the Zhao Song official who fired the first gunpowder cannonball in the winter. In early November, after announcing that all the national debt was repaid last year, the official again sold the so-called'winter special national debt' in Beijing. .

Regarding this matter, the Dibao made a detailed and detailed explanation...According to the Dibao, this debt is still a serious national debt drawn by the official family, and this time, the buyer's household head, family composition and other detailed household registration The information is entered into the household department and cannot be monopolized. It can only be delivered and replaced with the household department on a family basis.

As for the use of the national debt, it is also very clear that it will be used for winter relief, garrison and city community New Year activities, Taixue discussion and other daily affairs in winter.

Even, the Di Bao simply and unobtrusively stated the reason for the “special national debt”. One was the impact of the Yaoshan War last year, which cost a lot of money and rewards. For this reason, the Bashu roads advanced a year in advance. Therefore, after the Yaoshan war, Bashu can only be half-deserved within two years; second, it was the Dongting Lake rebellion that caused the financial gap in Jingxiang area; third, after the comprehensive reorganization of the troops, there was more money for the placement of layoffs. An extra cost.

Therefore, at the end of the year, there was a gap of about two million yuan.

However, after discussion by the governors, the official promised, and then leniently, hereby issued a total of three million yuan, a period of six months or one year, counted as a three-cent adult interest.

Among them, 900,000 yuan is the official's own share, and Zongzheng Zhao Shi??, foreign family Pan family, and foreign family Wu family will purchase and sell on their behalf; the remaining 2.1 million yuan, all in thousand yuan, two thousand yuan in denominations, It is still drawn by the official, and then directly supervised by the Ministry of Households and recorded by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is publicly sold in the leftmost door of Xuande Building. It is limited to 30 days and has a daily share of 70,000.

Going back to the following, frankly speaking, the national debt is still a passive and helpless move, because there has indeed been a financial gap, and this time the gap is so large that Zhao Guanjia and several comrades have some doubts and concerns.

This is also reflected in some details of the national debt.

For example, the name of the so-called winter special national debt is a bit confusing... After all, the main reason behind the financial gap is not mentioned, it is indeed those, but the ongoing Dongting Lake rebellion is definitely one of them. It's just that you said that the imperial court used the winter daily expenses as military expenses, and then the winter daily expenses disappeared, which is still reasonable.

However, the following facts proved that the popularity of this treasury bond market far exceeded everyone's imagination.

Zhao Jiu himself took the 900,000 pieces that hadn't been sent out, but they were swept away by verbal agreement by many high-ranking officials who had been waiting for a long time in the homes of the three powerful dignitaries.

A more intuitive scene appeared downstairs in Xuande. After the sale started, the 70,000 yuan share on the first day was instantly rounded up by three merchants who came from Quanzhou to deliver seafood.

For this reason, Zhao Guanjia had to post a notice, and each household was restricted to purchase five thousand yuan per day.

As a result, from the second day on, there was a queue of helpers on their behalf, but this time they were immediately stopped by the royal squad.

From the third day onwards, a scene similar to on-the-spot transfers began to appear. Many people were willing to pay directly to obtain the position of the people in front of them, with no gains at all, and even some losses, in exchange for actual costs. The government pledged the opportunity to purchase a certain share of national debt.

In this regard, Zhao Jiu, who was already psychologically prepared, hesitated for a while, and immediately let the prince squad stop this kind of thing and use the safest and most basic way to maintain financial order... In other words, he still has to line up to buy. It was a first-come-first-served basis, for which the Imperial Front had to take over the small half of the Imperial Street to maintain it.

But soon, Zhao Guanjia personally slapped himself in the face, because on the fifth day, suddenly a middle-aged man was crying and crying directly on the imperial street... After watching the matter personally, Yang Yizhong stepped forward to find out. This person did not buy it for himself, but was publicly introduced and used his household registration on behalf of hundreds of households in a village converted from a military garrison near Yuetai, Xicheng, to buy it. He only asked for a one-thousand-consistent national debt. After entering Decheng, I couldn't succeed for a few days, and I couldn't go back empty-handed to see Father Yuetai, so I burst into tears in the street.

The villagers who have been converted from military camps are basically refugees from Hebei and retired sergeants. It is impossible to ignore this kind of thing.

So Zhao Guan’s family immediately drew his face and changed the rules again, but set up a special queue for this kind of collective households in the second door on the left. There are ten opportunities per day, and each family is allowed to purchase up to two thousand tranches of national debt. Then, the documents are specifically filed and treated as the family property and righteous village invented by Fan Zhongyan in law. That is to say, the personal crime of the nominal holder during the holding of the national debt does not affect the actual ownership and safety of the money.

And as soon as this policy came out, the second round of purchases was immediately set off, because many officials and students did not hesitate to make purchases in the name of clan after waking up... After all, clan property is a special semi-collective system property. As early as after Fan Zhongyan's invention, it was immediately widely praised and recognized, and it has a strong propaganda effect and a further value-preserving effect.

However, that's all.

In other words, so far, whether Zhao Jiu or the shrewd officials of the court, have basically realized the problem.

This is not a question of patriotism or patriotism at all. For a small number of high-ranking officials, this matter may also mean their own position in the hearts of Zhao Guan’s family, and the distance between themselves and the official family, but for all including all high-ranking officials. In terms of people, the root of the problem is that there is no safer means of saving than the official handwriting of government bonds.

In the previous six years, wars have continued. Not to mention Hebei, Henan, Guanxi, Jingdong and other areas that have been directly affected by military disasters, nor to say that the low-level people who have almost lost everything are the high-ranking officials who can always avoid military disasters. People, family wealth has also suffered a serious shrinkage.

Zhao Jiu now guarantees credibility in the name of the emperor, and the Ministry of Households uses the world's taxes as the actual wealth guarantee. It is no wonder that these people are chasing after him.

Of course, there is still some credit for the imperial court and Zhao official’s house...think about it and you’ll know, if it was really the two Taishang emperors in Jingkang who had scouted the city’s wealth and gave them to the gold people, sitting behind this Xuande building , Who can believe it? If it is still the shaky situation in Jingkang, who would dare to buy it?

The victory of the war, and the imperial court's unwavering resolute attitude since its exile from the Huai River, including the long-term stability of the chief political officer, are the basis behind this sudden emergence of a reasonable economic phenomenon.

Based on this consideration, Zhao Ding then proposed to expand the scale and maturity of the national debt, and specifically set up a share of the national debt for officials; Zhang Jun proposed to loosen certain local restrictions and expand the scope of sale to local governments; the Ministry of Households directly played, Proposals to extend the term of the national debt, reduce the interest on the national debt, etc. seem to be reasonable suggestions...all were rejected by the Zhao officials.

Because Zhao Jiu feels that the current political and military foundations are still very fragile. It is not the time to engage in financial innovation, and no one knows where the bottom line of this kind of thing is. There is no need to forcibly try to make it self-defeating.

Besides, he is too young and has enough time to institutionalize this thing safely.

Back to the front, after the national debt, the court had money, so some messy things were immediately put on the agenda.

For example, Zhao Guan’s family made an order to allocate money and food to the province, and then to hold large-scale and institutionalized Cuju tournaments and sumo tournaments in Henan... Among them, Beijing Northwest Road and Jingdongxi Road are based on the prefecture, state, and army. This layer is the basic unit; Kaifeng Prefecture, Huazhou, and the Henan part of Kaide Prefecture are based on counties; the imperial army stationed in Henan is based on the commander’s direct leadership. The four teams that came out represented their own in the late twelfth lunar month, gathered in Tokyo, and played the finals in a round-robin tournament.

The Zhao official family obviously wanted to have fun with the people, and of course they also deliberately pacified Henan, which has suffered the most military disasters.

But no matter what, the effect was immediate. The entire Henan region immediately became bustling with excitement. The people in the slack hours of the farming period helped the old and the young, flocking to the city one after another, just for a glimpse of the victory or defeat.

At the same time, scholar-officials also began to become active.

After all, Zhao Guan's family had mentioned before this national debt sale that they would conduct Taixue discussion again... not only that, this time, Zhao Guan's family seemed to have evolved even more. He actually raised many issues in the Di Bao in advance.

It can be as large as the gold-killing strategy, whether it is necessary to set up a special institution for the issuance of Zhongdao Jiaozi and the national debt, as small as the discussion of the coexistence of the three-segment method and the imperial examination, and whether it should be a special Cuju league...It is almost everything.

In doing so, one is to stir up topics and make the Taixue’s focus on politics to rely on these things; the other is equivalent to something like fishing for later generations... So if these issues are pulled out in the Di Bao, countless officials naturally understand. Discussing these matters in the letter will also make it convenient for the Zhao official's family to call someone out to respond when the time comes.

"The official methods are really getting more and more skillful, and the writing styles edited by Hu have become more and more ingenious."

As the twelfth lunar month is approaching, the clans are gradually gathering, and a poem meeting is being held in the backyard of the public minister’s mansion, which is becoming more and more enthusiastic. However, it is said that it is a poem meeting, but it is inevitable to talk about the diaspora. At this time, many of the Lu family’s children are quietly Listening to a middle-aged man with a slender face who was more than 40 years old sitting at the top, jokingly opened his mouth. "Throwing out the issue in advance, and after seeing Taixue discussing politics for a few days, it is Zhao Zhang and the two princes and dragons fighting each other..."

As I was talking about the joyous brows, suddenly there was a roaring in the front yard, each yelling, and everyone in the back yard was frowned...At this time, Duke Lu was at ease on the newly built Kang in the mansion, and the Lu family’s children were all there. Who dares to be so presumptuous in the backyard participating in the poetry meeting?

However, Buddhism in Lu’s family school is almost second only to Confucianism. What is emphasized is a casual nature. Many people even take vegetarian precepts. So even if the noise in the front is getting louder and louder, these people in the back just frowned and watched. None of them got up to explore.

Of course, there is no need to explore. After a while, all the Lu family’s children, relatives and friends saw Lu Haowen, who was dressed in home clothes, personally accompanied a handsome young man in cotton uniform along the corridor into the backyard, and this person Behind Lu Haowen there are many burly people wearing cotton robes, some of them are civil servants, boys and others, and there are countless armored samurai behind them with their swords... No need to ask, you know that the leader is Who, and how did the noise come out before?

As a result, the Lu's children, relatives and friends no longer dared to neglect, so they hurriedly got up and stood upright.

Zhao Jiu was not at all polite. He sat directly in the seat of the middle-aged man before, then waved his hand again and again, pointing at Lu Haowen to sit first on the left, Han Shizhong with a jade belt took the first place on the right, followed by Zhang Jun and Zhang Rong. , Qu Duan, Yang Yizhong, Liu Yan, Wang De, and Li Qiong lined up along the line of the Yan’an Junwang, and the Lu family’s children also stood out seven or eight under the sign of the Zhao official’s house, following the order of the prime minister. Sat down.

As for the remaining people, they honestly stood at the starting position opposite Zhao Guan's house and stood in order.

"Are you waiting for a poem?" Zhao Jiu looked down at the pen and paper on the case, but laughed momentarily.

"The children are idle in winter, so they have to do these things." Lu Hao asked with a smile. "Let the officials laugh."

"It was indeed a laugh." Zhao Jiu nodded, and got up again in awe. "Composing a poem can't save the Song Dynasty, nor can it restore Lianghe!"

The relatives and friends of the Lu clan stared at each other, each with awe-inspiring expressions. Li Qiong who saw this kind of scene for the first time was also a little bit awkward. Of course, Lu Haowen had already adapted to this official, but he just chuckled and didn't speak much.

"How is it all plain porridge and pickles?" Zhao Jiu pressed the topic of the poem, looked around, then laughed again.

"Many family members believe in Buddhism, and many people have become a habit of vegetarianism." Lu Haowen smiled more and more bitterly. He had imagined that Zhao Guan's house would be criticized again.

"Believe in Buddha and convert to Buddha, but you still have to eat meat." Zhao Jiu really shook his head. "How can I be considered a good monk if I don’t eat meat? Did I tell Lu Xianggong... the monk I have seen the most in my life is wine and meat. Before Jingkang, it was said that this person had pulled up weeping willows at Daxiangguo Temple. ."

Lu Haowen shook his head helplessly, and on the right hand side, except for a slightly weird expression on Zhang Rong and two imperial commanders, the others whispered for a while.

"Official family." After a pause, Han Shizhong couldn't help but face each other sternly. "The world is absolutely incompetent to the monk who pulls down the willows... The official is afraid that the bald thief was deceived, so dare to ask what the origin of this monk is from the Daxiangguo, dare to speak so boldly?"

"Weizhou people, in the early years, served as officers under the old species of Yan'an Mansion, and later transferred to Weizhou Souchong..." Zhao Jiu almost blurted out like a few treasures. "Later, because he killed a butcher called Guanxi in the town, he fled to Wutai Mountain and then to the Daxiangguo Temple to manage the vegetable garden."

Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun looked at each other, and after a while, Zhang Jun insisted: "Officials, this person is indeed a liar who can only blindfold his eyes. The minister has been under the authority of the old economics for half his life. If there is an officer to kill him. After passing through the town, the butcher in Guanxi fled to become a monk, how could the minister not know the details?"

"Yes." Zhao Jiu nodded thoughtfully. "Bachelor Dasu said well. Since ancient times, no poison is not bald, no baldness is not poisonous, poisonous to baldness, baldness to poisonous, poisonous to baldness, and baldness to poisonous... This monk's words are unbelievable at all. , You should also learn from it. As for the Buddhist language, it is enough to say a few words about the Buddha and behave like a Buddha. A good man of my generation must not really be a vegetarian and take the precepts. What does it look like."

On the right, there were five or six military commanders who were nodding their heads together, and Lu Haowen was helpless.... The words of Dasu Bachelor were obviously joking with Buddhist friends, not easy to care about.

"Lu Xianggong." Zhao Jiu turned his head after a bullshit, and continued to hold on to this messy bullshit. "Under the Shaoshi Mountain and in front of the Yiyou Gate, didn't you promise me one by one to take a bit of the Buddhist language from your family's Lu family studies, and then stuff in some new ones? How can you still let the children in your family be vegetarian? ?"

Lu Haowen instinctively wanted to refute such an absurd and inexplicable remark, but only a momentary thought turned half a circle in his heart, and the Pingzhang military state's important matter immediately fell silent.

However, Zhao Jiu kept urging on the spot: "The country's fundamental lies in new learning, and Lu Qing is the public minister, as a demonstrator! From now on, you must not eat porridge and eat more meat, it is better to eat more meat!"

Lu Haowen knew that today he was forced into debt by the official, and he couldn't hide it in any way. It was also helpless for a while, so he sighed and prepared to have a serious talk with the official.

And when the public minister was forced to the corner, the middle-aged man who was sitting in the first place on his side took the initiative to get up and abstained from the seat to salute, as if he was preparing to defend Lu Haowen: "Officials..."

"Who is this?" Before the other party finished speaking, Zhao Jiu asked curiously.

"The eldest son of the minister, Lu Benzhong." Lu Hao asked quickly explained.

"How come I haven't seen it before?" Zhao Jiu kept asking.

"First, Cai Jing was in power, and the six thieves were rampant. The minister was not enterprising as a member of the Yuanyou party, and the courtier was naturally implicated~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Later, Yuansheng and the official family tried their best to promote love, but the minister suddenly fortunately moved in. Zaifu, he had no choice but to avoid one or two... He had been guarding the gate in his hometown in Huainan before, and he was only allowed to come over recently." Lu Haowen gave a rough introduction.

Zhao Jiu nodded, but suddenly he shot the case, pointing at Lu Benzhong while looking at Lu Haowen. The so-called slanderous, nonsense: "I see this son Lu Xianggong, his face is like a field, he obviously wants to seal the face of the lord. ?!"

But Lu Benzhong raised his head and was speechless for a while. As for Lu Haowen, his relatives and friends of the Lu clan, and even a few handsome officers and generals, looking at Lu Benzhong's long face, they didn't know what to say.

However, these people are not as good as the Jiangxi poetry school who pointed out that the celebrity Lu Benzhong himself felt absurd and powerless... You must know, "The face is like a field, but Mo Xian Ban Chao Liehou." This is exactly the thousands of his own Lu Benzhong. The original sentence of an old piece of poetry work!

Even now, Lu Haowen said that Lu Benzhong, who had been in front of the emperor for the first time, knew that this official had closed the door and forced the debt in the new year!

The kind that can't be avoided!

Ps: I have been in Shanghai Luyuan Online Class since the day before yesterday...The schedule is getting tighter...Embarrassed...

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