In the past, emperors had a fear that they would not be able to leave the palace.
For example, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was directly ignored by Cao Cao. He could only make decisions within the palace city, not outside the palace city.
The officials of the Song Dynasty appointed scholars as prime ministers and suppressed groups such as relatives, generals, aristocratic families, eunuchs, clans, etc. From the Song Dynasty, all the orthodox dynasties in the Central Plains found the trick, and the imperial power has firmly controlled the political power since then.
Yingzong and Shenzong all used small sects to become large sects, but they never let their power fall aside.
This was the cleverness of the power design of the Song Dynasty. As soon as the new emperor took over, he immediately took control of the overall situation.
But for Han Jiang and Zhang Yue, how can they take over the baton from Wang Anshi, take full control of the government, and convince the people below?
When Emperor Yingzong came to the throne, he held the "Pu Yi" to confirm his legitimacy by recognizing his father.
Those who support Pu Yi are our own people and should be promoted. Those who do not support Pu Yi are not our own people and should be demoted. This is to clarify the 'ruling'.
Later Ming Shizong's "Great Rites Discussion" was exactly the same. He also moved from a small sect to a large sect.
The only difference is that Jiajing won and Yingzong lost.
But what about the prime minister? What the prime minister upholds is the ‘tradition’.
What is Taoism? It is the meaning of scriptures.
As long as Wang Anshi's new meaning of the Three Classics is established, the reform will continue.
Zhang Yue confirmed it by revising "Mencius' Justice", telling the world that times have changed and the court's policy has turned.
Of course, the emperor has not yet issued the decree "Mencius' justice" to the world, but Zhang Yue has promoted Su Che to the middle school room to study official affairs.
But before Mencius promulgated justice, Zhang Yue had to reform the law of service. After going through Tianzhang Pavilion's political inquiry, it was impossible for Zhang Yue to rashly throw out the "Tao Tong" without doing anything practical.
The difference between the new meaning of the Three Classics and Mencius' justice is the difference between "benefiting the country" and "benefiting the people".
The difference between Wang Anshi's "Recruitment Law" and Han Jiang's and Zhang Yue's "Exemption from Service" versions is also the difference between "benefiting the country" and "benefiting the people". This is also the reason why Han Jiang broke with Wang Anshi in the first place.
If the reform of the service law cannot be carried out, then the promulgation of Mencius' justice will have to be postponed or even reversed. Pragmatism means action, and pragmatism means knowledge. This is like buttoning buttons one by one.
Ever since Shen Kuo thought that it was necessary to reform the recruitment law by implementing the concurrent recruitment and recruitment of servicemen, the court had been arguing for more than a year. Now the top-level design of the reform of the service law has finally been completed. The Zhongshu has approved it and the emperor has confirmed that the three divisions and Sinong Temple will no longer be
If you object, the next step is for Sinong Temple to come up with detailed regulations.
According to Zhang Yue's knowledge, Cai Que has instructed Huang Yan, Liu Zuo and others to compile the regulations of Sinong Temple these days. Officials of Sinong Temple are very active in this matter. For example, the "Yuanfeng Sinong Edict" is almost completed and has been approved by the emperor.
Appreciate.
However, Zhang Yue has not even seen the draft text of the charter for reforming the exemption law, let alone written it in detail and promulgated it to the world.
Why do Sinong Temple officials oppose it?
As I just said, Sinong Temple has an independent financial system.
For example, money for young crops, money for buying bullfights, and money for exemption from military service are all collected by Sinong Temple to the central government through the Changping Department, bypassing the Transfer Department. Moreover, Sinong Temple has the right to evaluate Sinong Temple's subordinate officials and various Changping Departments.
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How is it assessed?
The KPI set by Sinong Temple is that whoever can receive more money from Sinong Temple's subordinate officials and various promotion departments will be able to get favorable reviews on their academic performance and be qualified for promotion.
Now that Zhang Yue is exempting the fifth-class households from the service money, he will inevitably be opposed by the officials of Sinong Temple and the Changping officials from all walks of life.
If the fifth-class households are exempted from the service fee, the service fee will be reduced by one dollar. The following targets from Sinong Temple to various places to promote Changping Division officials this year will not be achieved.
So don't listen to what these Sinong Temple officials say.
He talks about doctrine, but his heart is all about business.
Shu Yu, Huang Yan and other Sinong Temple officials made a lot of excuses, and their reasons were all high-sounding, but Xiao Jiujiu didn't say anything in his heart.
These officials are very clever in their calculations.
Of course this is all due to Wang Anshi.
In order to implement the exemption law, Wang Anshi established such a system, from the Sinong Temple to the Changping Division, to state and county officials, binding all the interests of officials with the interests of the imperial court.
In order to encourage local officials to collect money, Wang Anshi allowed the surplus money for exemption from military service to be included in the local financial system. As a result, most state and county officials actually received 20% and 50%.
This is already a new system.
In the political hall.
The court officials served tea soup to all the officials. After the discussion just now, everyone was a little thirsty.
Taking advantage of the tea break, Zhang Yue said to everyone: "You have worked hard just now. Before the recruitment law was promulgated, we ordered the officials to coordinate their interests with the supervisors, prefectures and counties."
"However, the imperial court is open to the public, and officials all over the world can only see what they see. They cannot fully understand the court's laws and regulations, and there is a disadvantage of seeing the leopard through the lens."
"Now I have changed the recruitment law to the exemption law. Doing this again will be a house-building strategy and will be difficult to achieve. I invite you to come here today to listen to me. It can be said that I have benefited a lot."
All the officials stood up and said: "Mr. Zhang has been promoted!"
Zhang Yue pressed his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down.
Zhang Yue said to everyone: "This guide said that if, that is, if the fifth-class household service fee is waived, and the remaining money for the exemption fee of the prefecture and county is limited to 20%, what do you think?"
The officials fell silent.
Zhang Yue said again: "Officials have said many times, 'The affairs of Si Nong Temple are very good, but they have not yet completed five points of affairs. If Si Nong's affairs are completed, the affairs of the world will be settled.'"
"The original intention of Prime Minister Han's participation was that the Conscription Law was to alleviate the people's insecurities, but in the end it ended up enriching the people. The Conscription Law was established in the fourth year of Xining, and in the seventh year of Xining, the one-year revenue of the Conscription Law was reached.
More than 10.4 million guan. Now in the Yuanfeng period, it is 18 million guan."
"Of course the immunity from service law is still a good law, there is no doubt about this."
Huang Yan said: "My lord, since the eighth year of Xining, the Shiyisi has been unable to make ends meet. Originally, the money for the heavy salary law came from the Shiyi money, and later it was changed to recruitment money. Now that the fifth-class households have less money, then the world's subordinate officials
How can I make up for my salary?"
The money for exemption from military service is now the largest income of the imperial court, but this money is reserved for the officials to fight the northwest.
Wang Anshi implemented the Chonglu Law to increase the salary of subordinate officials. This money was the market change money collected after the market change law. However, the market change law had essentially failed in the eighth year of Xining, and the market change money could not be collected.
.Therefore, the exemption money was used to pay the salaries of subordinate officials.
Then we can only reduce the cost of using troops in the northwest.
Therefore, Fu Bi and Sima Guang still make sense. As long as the war in the northwest stops, the court will actually have a lot of money left.
Zhang Yue said: "The imperial court originally planned to collect 12.34 million guan for exemption from military service and spend 925 guan, so there will be a surplus of 3 million guan every year."
"In the seventh year of Xining, Sinong Temple collected 10.43 million guan from the service fee, spent 6.48 million guan, and had a surplus of 3.95 million. In the ninth year of Xining, the imperial court received 1,200 qian from the service fee.
100,000 guan, with an expenditure of 6.59 million guan and a surplus of 5.51 million guan. Next year, which is also the second year of Yuanfeng, the income from the exemption money will reach 18.5 million guan, but the expenditure will still be six.
The number is close to 1.6 million guan, with a surplus of nearly 120 million guan."
"This shows how loyal you and all the officials who promoted Chang Ping are to the affairs of the country."
The increase from 10.43 million guan of free labor money to 18 million guan shows how actively the officials of the Changping Division below Sinong Temple were in implementing their goals. For mining private money, it can be described as digging three feet into the ground.
Zhang Yue said: "I and the third envoy have calculated before. If the fifth-class households are subtracted, there will be a shortage of 9 million yuan in exemption money. Moreover, if the fifth-class households use their strength to replace the service, the expenditure can be greatly reduced. In the end, it will still be enough."
A surplus of three million dollars!"
"By the way, the third envoy has just agreed to waive the fifth-class household service fee and limit the remaining service fee to 20%."
By saying this, Zhang Yue told everyone that the Third Division fully agreed with his reform.
Prefectures and counties all over the country will only charge 20% of the remaining leniency money, instead of floating between 50% and 20%.
To exempt the fifth-class households from the service fee is to attack the Sinong Temple, and to limit the remaining 20% of the service exemption to the third-level si.
Zhang Yue used his knife to cut down both Sinong Temple and Sansi. He cut down both sides, leaving you speechless.
The opposition of the Third Division was not as resolute as that of Sinong Temple. Shen Kuo, the envoy of the Third Division, was dismissed after raising this matter. After all, there were only so many local tax sources. Sinong Temple got the big part, and the Third Division took the small part as compensation.
, and in the end the pressure to collect taxes was given to the Third Division.
Therefore, the three envoys in the past dynasties all left because of their opposition to the new law. Xue Xiang was dismissed by Wang Anshi, Zeng Bu was dismissed by Lu Huiqing, and Shen Kuo was dismissed by Cai Que.
Even Xue Xiang, Zeng Bu, and Shen Kuo all came from the New Party, but they all ended up getting slapped in the face.
At this moment, Zhang Yue seemed to be telling the officials of Sinong Temple, Sansina has fully supported me, and I will put all the pressure on you.
If you continue to object, you are being ignorant.
Cai Que and Xiong Ben saw the chapter and advanced through the ranks, and personally 'persuaded' them as they were political leaders, but they were all silent. They were not able to speak, so it depends on whether the Sinong Temple officials are willing to accept this new set of rules.
Zhang Yue saw that all the officials were giving in, and he threw out the last trump card: "I know that the affairs of Sinong Temple are very complicated, and the minister's money can be increased from the original 3,500 guan to 5,000 guan. As for the additional money, please
The money for the residence is also paid at twice the rate of the same official."
The envoy money of Kaifeng Mansion and the Third Secretary is only 10,000 guan. When Sinong Temple adds 5,000 guan, it is second only to the Second Yamen.
As for additional money and house money, they are also benefits for officials. Sinong Temple has a huge workload, so Zhang Yue's stroke of a pen on this was also a favor.
"As for your performance this year, don't worry too much. I, together with Xiong and Cai, have discussed and drafted the plan to not only make a profit but also reduce the burden on the people. But the ugly words are ahead. If there is anything wrong with these two things,
For those who are strong, this ginseng will treat them seriously!
The Sinong Temple officials were most concerned about their academic performance. Now that they heard that Zhang Yue wanted to personally assess his academic performance, it hit home.
"Do you have any objections?"
Having said this, Zhang Yue glanced at everyone with a look of disdain.
Shu Yu, Huang Yan and other officials were all upset. Just now Zhang Yue had been talking to them nicely, but now they knew how powerful the prime minister was.
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That night, Sinong Temple officials rushed to draft the detailed regulations for the exemption law and submitted them to Zhang Yue's desk the next day.