Sima Guang's traditional philosophy of governing the country is to pursue the realm of hiding wealth among the people.

But this “people” is worthy of discussion.

Does it mean ordinary people?

It can only be said that it is included, but it is not the main group.

Ordinary people only have such a small amount of money, which has nothing to do with "wealth", so why should they hide it? No one will snatch it if it is exposed.

Mainly refers to squires and landowners.

They conservatives have a concept that if this money is placed in the hands of these gentry and landlords, they and the country will become a community and interdependent. Then they will become the backbone of the country, have a sense of social responsibility, can be trusted, and can make people

The country is more stable.

For example, when a local disaster occurs, they are on the front line and can help the affected people tide over the difficulties in a timely manner.

If feedback is first sent to the central government, and then the central government issues a disaster relief plan, this back and forth will delay a lot of things.

Today's information is very closed.

In fact, they are not just whimsical and talking nonsense. There are indeed many such cases. When a disaster occurs in this place, the government will ask the gentry and the gentry to donate money for disaster relief. They will donate more or less. Some are forced to do so, and some are forced to donate money.

It's proactive.

This was indeed a very common thing in the Song Dynasty.

But compared to their privileges and illegal gains, this ratio is really very large, and it is still expanding.

The plate is only so big, if you have more, I will have less.

As a result, the country's finances have become very difficult, which in turn has led to the country being unable to do anything else and can only sit quietly.

This is stagnation.

Conservatives are content to stagnate.

But Wang Anshi is not content with the status quo. He is very opposed to the concept of hiding wealth among the people. Putting money in your pocket is your personal property. Whether you give it to others or not depends on your mood.

This is not the way to govern a country.

Wang Anshi's idea is that the state should control everything, and the wealth should be concentrated in the central government, and then uniformly distributed by the central government, so that the top and bottom can be twisted into a rope, so that great things can be done.

He himself admitted that he only wanted to make money for the country, but he was targeting these wealthy businessmen and landowners.

Zhang Fei's plan is to take advantage of the landowners and squires, and the national treasury will also benefit from it. Of course Wang Anshi is willing to do so.

Where is Sima Guang?

This is contradictory to his philosophy!

Therefore, Zhang Fei emphasized "legitimacy" to him.

You support judicial reform, but the result is to defend illegal behavior. So what is the meaning of your reform?

This sentence left Sima Guang speechless.

He and Wang Anshi fought every day over whether to increase taxes. Wang Anshi definitely wanted to increase taxes on the wealthy, but he was using a roundabout strategy, changing methods to increase taxes. He either stated it clearly or wanted to increase taxes on the wealthy.

This is a structural contradiction with the conservative idea of ​​hiding wealth among the people.

But Zhang Fei is not.

Zhang Fei wants to recover legal taxes.

Sima Guang can't say that tax evasion is also about hiding wealth from the people, right?

The key point is that he doesn’t think so himself. He is asking not to increase taxes, or even reduce taxes, but this is two different things from tax evasion.

Moreover, his judicial reform will definitely have to face tax evasion. From this point of view, if Wang Anshi and Zhang Fei are willing to be the bad guys, and at the same time they can fight for judicial independence, they can really enjoy the benefits.

…But it will indeed make many people fear his judicial reforms.

Just like Lu Huiqing, it's really hard to judge the pros and cons of this matter.

Therefore, Sima Guang did not give any reply, but he also did not continue to stop Zhang Fei.

It is difficult to judge this matter, we have to wait and see first.

But this is enough for Zhang Fei.

When he explained to Sima Guang, it was not that he was afraid of Sima Guang's obstruction. This was just a secondary reason. He just wanted to continue to win Sima Guang's trust. If he didn't explain this matter clearly, Sima Guang would definitely doubt him.

As for Sima Guang's judicial reform, it was Zhang Fei who single-handedly promoted it.

After seeing off Sima Guang, Zhang Fei returned to the back hall, looked at the decadent Fan Li, walked over, and said with a smile: "There is no need to be depressed outside the army. At least we are still alive, which proves that we are still very capable."

Fan Li sighed: "How can I not be clear about this, but I always feel that, Sanlang, you should stop when you are ready. If you keep walking on the edge of the cliff, something will happen sooner or later."

Zhang Fei nodded with a smile and said: "Every time I learn a lesson, I will learn from it."

"real?"

Fan Li didn't believe it.

Zhang Fei smiled bitterly and said, "Do the members think I'm a fool? I've already fallen into this pit and I want to step on me again."

Fan Li nodded slightly. Zhang San didn't look stupid and couldn't make the same mistake.

Don't worry, of course I won't step on it. I just filled it up so that no one needs to be afraid. Zhang Fei asked again: "By the way! Didn't Ma Yuanwai and the others come to ask about the situation?"

Fan Li was immediately happy, "They have also been tortured by you, but recently they have learned to behave. They don't dare to offend us, but they don't dare to get too close to us, but they should cooperate.

"

Ma Tianhao, Chen Maoqian, they are really stupid.

The ups and downs were so huge that they almost had a nervous breakdown, so they simply treated it as an ordinary business cooperation and kept a certain distance.

Zhang Fei nodded and said with a smile: "This is the best. It is just a business, and I don't want them to be affected by this."

While they were chatting, Xu Zhiqian suddenly hurried into the store.

"What's up?"

Zhang Fei asked.

Xu Zhiqian came to Zhang Fei and whispered: "Go back with me quickly, my senior brother is here."

"Senior brother? Oh."

Zhang Fei spoke to Fan Li and left with Xu Zhiqian.

Due to the presence of Gao Wenyin and others, it was naturally inconvenient for Zhao Xu to go to Zhang's house, so he could only choose to go to Xu's house quietly.

When I arrived at Xu Mansion, I saw Zhao Xu sitting alone in the backyard drinking wine, looking particularly lonely.

"Xiaomin!"

"sit down!"

Zhao Xu pointed to the opposite side listlessly.

"yes."

After Zhang Fei sat down.

Zhao Xu asked again: "Has the fine matter been dealt with?"

"It's all done." Zhang Fei nodded, and seeing Zhao Xu was in an extremely low mood, he cupped his fists and said, "This little citizen deserves death for his crime. Your Majesty has been implicated, so please punish him."

Zhao Xu sighed deeply and said: "You did do something reckless in this matter, but I know very well how serious the consequences will be. In fact, if they mention it even a little bit, I will stop you for the sake of the overall situation.

However, they are threatening me with the security of the country. I really can’t swallow this tone.”

...Although he was very hesitant to compromise at the time, that was because he was a monarch and had to put the world first, and he could not act out of anger just because of such a trivial matter.

but.

He was actually very, very angry inside.

Because what he pursues is to assert imperial power, he is very sensitive to this situation.

After all, he had just given a royal plaque to Zhang Fei, and those who were more sensible would just keep it secret.

They prefer not to.

Just slap it in the face.

They just want to say, Zhang Fei, don't think that you can do whatever you want with the imperial plaque.

We are not afraid at all.

Zhang Fei immediately said: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, I will definitely make up for it."

Zhao Xu looked happy, "It seems you have already thought of a countermeasure."

He came today with one purpose: to get things back together. The matter must not be left alone. In fact, he also understood Zhang Fei's character, but he was worried that Zhang Fei would choose to settle the matter if he took care of him, so he came here

Show your attitude, as long as you have the means, we will fight back.

This was something neither Wang Anshi nor Sima Guang thought of.

Zhao Xu's acting skills were indeed at the level of a movie actor. At that time, he didn't put up much resistance, and his attitude was to minimize big problems and trivial matters.
To be continued...