Looking at the detailed regulations on the exemption law that Sinong Temple produced overnight, Zhang Yue also lamented that this law was hard-won.
Su Che, who was studying official business in the household, frowned after reading the regulations. Zhang Yue looked at Su Che's expression and said, "Ziyou, is there anything wrong?"
Su Zhe said: "Da Shen, Zhe and my brother all think about the method of servitude, but the method of collecting servitude for the fields is the best."
Zhang Yue laughed dumbly when he heard this and said: "Ziyou, you are out of your mind. This method was advocated by Lu Jifu!"
As we all know, Lu Huiqing and Su Che are mortal enemies.
Su Zhe said: "Ziyou knows one thing. You should not negate your words because of others, let alone negate your laws because of others."
Zhang Yue nodded secretly when he heard this. The brothers Su Shi and Su Che were really "non-opinionists". They often went beyond their positions and told the facts, so they were criticized miserably by both the new party and the old party.
No wonder Wang Anshi said that they had no "needs" in their studies, but only the way of strategists during the Warring States Period.
In the history of another time and space, Su Che was better off, but Su Shi's attitude towards the exemption law can only be said to be wavering. In December of the eighth year of Yuanfeng, he wrote "On the Recruitment of Land for Recruitment", expressing his support for the Recruitment of Land for Recruitment.
In May of the first year of Yuanyou's reign, he wrote the "Zhaozi on Beggar's Detailed Service Law". At that time, he was unwilling to formulate a service law and did not agree with the recruitment law and the service law.
Later, when Su Shi wrote to criticize Lu Huiqing, he listed the other party's implementation of the recruitment law as a crime, expressing his opposition to the recruitment law.
However, after Sima Guang died in December of the first year of Yuanyou, Su Shi began to demand the restoration of the immunity from military service, and even roped in his younger brother Su Che.
Su Shi's series of mysterious operations have simply confused people. In just one year, your attitude towards the law of military service has changed many times. Today, all Su Shi's memorials will be compiled into a detailed document, and a system will be created. In this bound edition, let’s see how today’s Su Shi overthrew yesterday’s Su Shi.
Zhang Yue said to Su Che: "I have received the letter from Zizhan about the implementation of the land collection law in the local area."
"Zizhan said that there are five benefits to the method of collecting labor for the fields."
"If you follow the service-free method, every time you recruit one person, you will save one person's labor money, and the labor money can be greatly reduced. If you implement the labor service method, every time you recruit one person, you will save one person as a sex worker. The farmers will be lenient, and they will benefit one person."
"The people who are recruited are no different from the archers. They bring food and clothing to their families and come from the official land. They usually break the law and dare not flee. This has two advantages."
"Nowadays, the low price of grain hurts the farmers. When farmers sell their fields, they are often miserable and do not sell. If the officials buy it, the fields and grains will be heavy, and the farmers will be able to make a small living. This has three benefits."
"Money accumulated in officials often suffers from a heavy coin. If it is scattered to buy land, the money will be slightly balanced, which will benefit four things."
"Now that this method is implemented, the people will enjoy its benefits. This is the meaning of the government taking the leftover money. It has five benefits."
Su Che was overjoyed when he saw Zhang Yue explaining the main points in Su Shi's memorial.
In fact, Su Shi made it very clear at the beginning that the land collection law can be used as a supplement to the recruitment law and the labor service law, and can be used in conjunction with any grade of service law.
The law of land recruitment means that the government buys land from the people, and then uses the official land to hire people to serve. When Zhang Yue opened up Xihe Road, he also asked the local Tibetan people where to buy land, and then gave it to Han people or Tibetan people for cultivation. Archers perform military service.
The imperial court used the money raised to buy land from the private sector, which not only prevented farmers from selling their land at low prices, but also used the money accumulated by the imperial court in the treasury to solve the problem of money shortage.
Su Shi's analysis is very thorough, but is it feasible?
In some cases, during the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi's Green Miao Law was abolished and local governments adopted the Shecang Law.
What about the service law? In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were both hired service and errand service in various places, but the voluntary service law was vigorously promoted.
The so-called voluntary service law means that all the people in a village or township who want to serve in the army jointly buy the land for service, and then use the land rent as service money to hire people to serve.
This is similar to the Shecang method in that it was formed spontaneously by the people and was not assigned by the court.
This is closely related to the land collection method advocated by Lu Huiqing and Su Shi. It can be seen that these two people are very talented.
Therefore, the suggestions of Su Shi and Su Che are absolutely reasonable, and they can be described as being dedicated to serving the people. In fact, the Su Shi brothers both discuss matters based on their practicality, and their political ability is stronger than that of Sima Guang, who is single-minded.
Su Che continued: "When my brother first learned about Mizhou, the imperial court issued a law to raise land for military service. My brother used the leftover money from his exemption from military service to buy fields and hire people to serve in the state. The people found it very convenient, but later the officials stopped raising land for military service.
My brother is very sorry about the military service law, and now I ask Da Shen to adopt it. If you add one more sentence to the regulations, the people of the world will be grateful to Da Shen."
Zhang Yue listened to Su Che's words and said: "What your brother said is indeed correct, but the imperial court is waiting to use the service exemption law to fund the northwest military expenditure. If the service money is used to buy land, the military expenditure will be less."
"What's more, the government only abolished the exemption law in the eighth year of Xining, and now it is promoted again. Your Majesty is not good-looking."
Su Zhe immediately showed disappointment when he heard this and asked: "Isn't the original intention of Da Shen Mingzhe to cultivate [Mencius' justice] just to [benefit the people]?"
"Why did Da Shen do something contrary to his original intention? May I ask how Da Shen can rectify his heart and name?"
Zhang Yue said: "Ziyou, if a man wants to conquer the world, between "thinking" and "getting", there is another word called "doing it"!
"No one is completely right at the beginning, so I have only one way to deal with things. I do it first and then talk about it. I never seek perfection."
Su Zhe heard this and said: "But for ginseng, it does not cost much to buy land with labor money. You can buy it step by step and buy some every year. The benefits will be endless."
"I have spent so much effort on the big ginseng, but I can't get the full result. I am really unwilling to do so."
Su Che repeatedly asked Zhang Yue to add an article to the regulations, which could trial the land collection law in prefectures and counties as a supplement to the labor exemption law, but Zhang Yue still did not agree.
Su Che was extremely disappointed and left.
Zhang Yue looked at Su Che's leaving figure and said to himself in silence for a moment, "Su Che still blames me for not persisting."
Finally, Zhang Yue showed Han Jiang the regulations revised by Sinong Temple, and then asked: "Prime Minister, are you planning to make a formal declaration?"
The regulations of Sinong Temple were drafted into a mature form, and then the ministers signed their signatures one by one, and finally they were submitted to the officials for preview. However, once the officials were dissatisfied, the regulations were sent back to be drafted again, which was a blow to the prestige of the two parties.
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One is to take the message in person, the other is to prepare a familiar statement. It is an awkward choice.
Han Jiang said: "Your Majesty is not very firm about the exemption from military service. If you plan to make it familiar, I'm afraid the officials will be unhappy."
Zhang Yue said: "That's why we need to prepare a familiar form to show that the regulations and details cannot be changed!"
"Uh-huh, there's no room for this. It's impossible for the officials to have no objections to such a big thing as changing the military service law," Han Jiang hesitated again and again, but still couldn't insist, "This is the last level.
If you are half-ninety, don't fall short at this step."
Zhang Yue said: "Prime Minister, I have read it carefully and there is nothing in it that would offend His Majesty."
"What's more, these detailed rules have been carefully weighed and weighed. It would be inconvenient for the officials to change any of them."
Han Jiang looked at the details of the regulations and found that it was true that this had gone through several internal games, and there was no room left for the emperor to operate.
Han Jiang said: "Since that's the case, let's polish the words a little and then show it to Wang Xiang and Yuan Can."
After Zhang Yue polished the text of the regulations, he asked Cai Jing to show it to Wang Gui and Yuan Jiang.
Of course, Wang Gui had no objection as always. Yuan Jiang had no objection, after all, it had been discussed before. But he said: "The details of the regulations are like this, but it is a big matter to levy Fazi, and we can't draft it in person."
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Cai Jing smiled and said: "This is all planned according to His Majesty's instructions. It has been discussed in the palace before."
Yuan Jiang said: "For major matters, we will take orders face to face, and for small matters, we will act as if we are familiar with them. Chief Yuan is also a familiar official. Don't you even know this?"
Seeing Yuan Jiang derogating him as a subordinate official, Cai Jing couldn't help but hate him. Cai Jing was a Zhongshu Jianzheng. Although he served the ministers, he was also a serious official, but he was demoted to an official by Yuan Jiang.
Cai Jing lowered his head and said, "Xiang Yuan has seen it and found nothing wrong, so he submitted it to the Prime Minister for signature."
Yuan Jiang said: "Are you instructing Yuan to do something?"
After becoming Zhongshu Jianzheng, only Cai Jing was looked upon by others, how could anyone look upon him by looking down upon him?
"I don't dare to be humble!"
Cai Jing lowered his head, and Yuan Jiang finally signed and threw the cooked form back to Cai Jing.
Cai Jing returned the familiar certificates signed by various prime ministers to Zhang Yue, and reported to Zhang Yue more details about what Yuan Jiang had just said, which showed that he had a grudge against Yuan Jiang.
Zhang Yue thought to himself that Yuan Jiang was always harboring alien intentions and would definitely be in trouble in the future.
However, Zhang Yue had no intention of touching Yuan Jiang at the moment. He had more important things to do at the moment and said, "Let him alone."
After the two parts of the book were monogrammed, Zhang Yue did not directly submit it to the official, but waited for five days.
It wasn't until one day after the affairs of the government were discussed that the official asked Zhang Yue: "I heard that the details of the military service regulations have been drawn up in Sinong Temple, why didn't I see you come to me?"
Zhang Yue immediately said: "I have indeed prepared a proposal to submit to Your Majesty, but these days I have been discussing the Xia Kingdom's invasion of the country. I would like to submit it to Your Majesty in a few days."
Hearing this, Han Jiang looked at Zhang Yue and thought to herself, the good boy is playing tricks again.
The official laughed and said: "It's not bad for these skills! I just ordered people to take it from Zhongshu."
Soon after the draft was obtained, the officials reviewed the regulations on the draft law. Zhang Yue said aside: "The purpose of the exemption law after the reform of the draft law is to provide money and strength, which is convenient for the people and useful for the court."
Let’s start with Shaanxi and Zhejiang first. If there are no obstacles, then we can spread it all over the country!”
The officials had no reaction after hearing this.
But if he thinks about it carefully, he will know what it means to change from the law of recruitment to the law of exemption from service. Isn't it the same as Shen Kuo's method of parallel employment and employment? Shen Kuo was dismissed from the position of three envoys because of parallel employment, and now he mentions this again.
Things can easily remind officials of unhappy memories.
Therefore, Zhang Yue referred to it as a law of exemption from service from beginning to end, and did not mention the parallel employment of employees, carefully avoiding the points that were displeasing to the officials.
However, what the officials are most concerned about at the moment is of course how much money will be lost after the recruitment law is changed to the exemption law.
After seeing that the income dropped from 18 million guan to 9 million guan, the officials were unhappy in their hearts, but when they saw that the surplus was still over 3 million guan, they felt better.
However, the official family is still feeling a lot of pain, but the free service money is actually my money!
Thinking of this, the officials felt remorseful, but as soon as they read the letter, they were ready to refute it because they were afraid of hurting the face of their husbands.