"Officials and gentry pay the grain together, is this to take back the benefits of being exempted from corvee to the scholar-bureaucrats?"
Li Qingzhao added, "It sounds similar to the law of collecting labor, which exempts the people from corvee and collects money instead. However, in this way, the officials, gentlemen and officials will also have to pay the labor. If these two methods are followed, I'm afraid that the old and new factional disputes will happen again after the Ban Shan Gong Reform."
At the end of the sentence, she couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
Lin Daiyu looked at sister Qingzhao in surprise.
Chu Zhen also looked at her with a strange expression.
"What, what's wrong?"
Li Qingzhao, who was looked at by the two people like this, couldn't help but blush slightly.
Lin Daiyu smiled and said: "My sister is really a woman who was like Yao and Shun."
"ah!"
Li Qingzhao illuminated Xiafei's cheeks, glanced at Chu Zhen shyly, and stretched out his hand to pinch her. Lin Daiyu dodged with a smile and waved the fan in her hand to block her hand.
Chu Zhen admired the fun scene of the two girls playing around and said with a smile:
"I know the allusion to Yao and Shun in the female middle school. It comes from the queen of Song Yingzong. Am I remembering it correctly?"
No wonder Li Qingzhao wanted to pinch Lin Daiyu. Although Yao and Shun among women were praised, sister Lin was clearly talking nonsense. Li Qingzhao didn't marry anyone, let alone an emperor. How could he be "Yao and Shun among women"?
But what Chu Zhen didn’t know was.
Li Qingzhao understood Lin Daiyu's bad intentions better than he did.
Among the girls, Yao and Shun were Empress Dowager Gao, and her husband was Song Yingzong.
Lin Daiyu compared her to Empress Dowager Gao, so who else could be the "Song Yingzong" talking about court affairs in the room?
It can only be Chu Zhen.
Looking at Sister Lin who is frail and polite, she actually has a very smart little mouth.
Therefore, after Li Qingzhao caught her, he rubbed her hard!
A long while.
Li Qingzhao couldn't help but glance at Chu Zhen again, and when he saw Chu Langjun looking at them, he couldn't help but panic, and stopped his movements, but Lin Daiyu succeeded in counterattacking.
Under Chu Zhen's gaze, the two girls stopped playing around.
Lin Daiyu also blushed and pulled Li Qingzhao to stand up.
"Just sit there!"
Chu Zhen smiled at them.
"Uncle Chu, do you think our gifts are not enough?" Lin Daiyu stood still, looking slightly aggrieved, but no longer crying like before.
"I don't mind...you want to explain these gifts? I didn't know...just sit there and I'll take them over!"
Chu Zhen is really afraid of the sensitive Sister Lin!
He stood up, took the two boxes of gifts brought by Zhu Yuanzhang to their table, turned around and took the two boxes of new year's gifts brought by the weak and weak sister Lin next to them, and took them there as well.
"Uncle Chu is..." Lin Daiyu hesitated.
"I'm shameless and sit here, okay?"
Chu Zhen patted the single sofa next to them and asked with a smile.
"Uncle Chu is the host and we are the guests. Naturally, the guests do as the host does~"
Lin Daiyu said, seeming a little shy.
The same goes for Li Qingzhao on the side.
"Then sit down."
Chu Zhen greeted them. After they both sat down, he took out four large gold ingots sent by Zhu Yuanzhang and patted them on the table in front of them.
Snap, snap, snap, snap!
The sound of the four gold ingots is wonderful, and the orange-yellow luster is even more eye-catching.
"Chu Langjun, this is..." Li Qingzhao looked at him.
"Everyone who meets you has a share!"
Chu Zhen smiled and said: "You're welcome, just take it back and exchange it for silver flowers. The remaining six yuan is mine."
"..."
"..."
Li Qingzhao and Lin Daiyu were stunned for a moment. They didn't know whether they were frightened by the gold ingot or shocked by Chu Zhen's boldness.
"Mrs. Li, the recruitment law you mentioned just now is a reform implemented by Wang Anshi?"
Chu Zhen changed the topic and asked her.
Li Qingzhao laughed out loud, looked at him and said: "Banshan is the nickname of the Prime Minister of the Xifeng Reform King. The recruitment method is similar to the one-whip method and the method of spreading small pieces into acres mentioned by Chu Langjun. I don't want the gold ingots." .”
She pushed the two gold ingots in front of her back to Chu Zhen.
"Sister, you know so much. I have taels of silver, and my mother gave me five taels of silver per month."
Lin Daiyu said, and pushed the gold ingot back to Chu Zhen.
"Wang Anshi is reforming..."
Chu Zhen sighed with emotion, "This is another huge reform movement since Qin Shang Yang, but unfortunately it offended the interests of the landlord class and ultimately failed. Among Wang Anshi's many measures, I was only impressed by the Qingmiao Law. There are those who have said it. share!"
The gold ingots were pushed to them again.
"Young Seedling Method..."
Li Qingzhao hesitated for a moment and then said: "Su Weng once objected to this method. There are two memorials, one is "The Emperor Shenzong's Letter" and the other is "The Emperor Shenzong's Letter Again". Su Weng also sent a letter to Ban Shanggong, which contains Said: 'Young seedlings take two points of interest, and when they are promoted and dispersed, they are rewarded, so they set quotas for each county, but this has the disadvantage of suppressing the distribution.' No merit will be rewarded."
She pushed the gold ingot back to Chu Zhen.
The Su Weng mentioned by Li Qingzhao is Su Shi and Su Dongpo.
He was one of the opponents of Wang Anshi's reform, and was even demoted from Bianjing by Wang Anshi and went to Hangzhou.
Interestingly, after Wang Anshi stepped down, the two became close friends.
"Ha ha!"
Chu Zhen said with a smile: "In our era, the Qingmiao Law is the central bank, which regulates mortgage loans across the country and curbs private loan sharking. It is correct from a development perspective. However, Wang Anshi was too hasty and forcibly assigned the Qingmiao Law to the lower officials. On top of the head, the officials distributed it to the subordinate officials below.
The end result is that wealthy households who are not short of money are also forced to borrow money, and have to repay the money to poor households who cannot afford to repay the money - because poor households need the guarantee of rich households to borrow money, causing complaints from the people. Are you still polite to me? Take it! "
Chu Zhen gave her the gold ingot again.
Thinking about Li Qingzhao's words, he subconsciously picked it up and said: "My father also followed Su Weng to explain the harm of the Qingmiao Law. But now that Su Weng has been demoted to Lingnan, Cai Fei is in power and has erected an inscription on it to list Yuan Youdang, saying The traitor..."
"etc!"
Chu Zhen finally heard something was wrong and looked at her in surprise: "Su Shi is still in Lingnan?"
Li Dacai, a disciple of the next generation from the Su clan, nodded.
"Cai Jing has become the prime minister, and he has also erected a monument to Yuanyou's party membership?!"
"Su Weng, teacher, Huang Weng - Huang Tingjian are all ranked above them."
"Who is your teacher?"
"The surname is Chao, it's taboo to make up for it!"
It was Lin Daiyu who spoke. She pushed the gold ingot back to Chu Zhen, put it into Li Qingzhao's hand, and said with a smile: "Sister Qingzhao also has a cousin-in-law named Cai Jing, and a cousin-in-law named Qin Hui."
"..."
"..."
Chu Zhen called him a good guy.
Where there is a crouching dragon, there must be a phoenix chick! This is it!
Cai Jing left Cai Jing and Qin Hui right, Chao Buzhi was her teacher, and Su Dongpo was her father's teacher. The struggle between the old and new parties in the Song Dynasty was closely related to her family.
"Cousin-in-law Qin Hui? No."
Li Qingzhao was a little embarrassed and said in a low voice: "It is because of the relationship with Mrs. Cai Xiang, my cousin, that my father was not demoted... But my father's recent stay in Bianjing has not been good, and neither the old nor the new are tolerated."
It would be strange to tolerate it.
Chu Zhen felt numb just hearing about her family's connections. It was Su Shi from the old party, and Cai Jing from the new party. Yes, Cai Jing supported Wang Anshi's new party, and it was he who erected the Yuanyou party membership monument.
Of course, rather than saying that Cai Jing is a new party, it is better to say that he was once a new party.
After Cai Jing became prime minister, he only wanted to please Song Huizong. Song Huizong thought the new party was good, so Cai Jing took the opportunity to support the new party.
"Please let me take a moment."
Chu Zhen rubbed his temples, "If I remember correctly, the Yuanyou party membership monument was erected in 1105, when you were already... Cai Jing was the prime minister at that time, and Prime Minister Zhao Tingzhi was deposed."
"Zhao Tingzhi is now the censor Zhongcheng."
"Who is the emperor?"
"Duanwang tabooed Zhao Ji. He ascended the throne five years ago. His first title was Jianzhong Jingguo, and later it was changed to Chongning."
Li Qingzhao spoke very artistically. Because she wanted to introduce the emperor's name to Chu Zhen, she called him Prince Duan Zhao Ji.
Chu Zhen confirmed that the history of the Song Dynasty where Li Qingzhao lived was in chaos. No, it should be said that the time and space where Li Qingzhao lived was different from the history books he had read.
No wonder Li Qingzhao said before that the three kingdoms of Song, Liao and Jin were in harmony, and he was worried about the Jin invaders going south.
"So, the Song Dynasty is planning to join forces with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty?" Chu Zhen asked her.
Li Qingzhao replied: "My father mentioned it a little bit, saying that someone in the court wrote a letter, but now there are two thieves Fangla and Song Jiang, and the Northern Expedition is unable to do what it wants. Therefore, Prime Minister Cai is pushing the Ban Shan Gong's square field equalization tax law to fill the national treasury."
"Did you say this, or did your father say this?"
"It's been rumored outside, why does Chu Langjun ask like this?"
"Because Cai Jing is one of the six thieves! The traitor!"
Lin Daiyu said in a clear and soft voice that she had not read the history of Song Dynasty too carefully, but Cai Jing's reputation was so famous that it was difficult not to remember it.
"……ah?"
Li Qingzhao looked surprised, "Is Prime Minister Cai a traitor?"
She also thought that the Yuanyou party monument that denounced Su Weng and her teacher was caused by the incompatibility between the old and new parties.
No wonder my father was always vague when it came to Prime Minister Cai and didn't want to say more.
