Nowadays, although the price of salt banknotes has dropped to ten guan per seat, 80 salt banknotes are equivalent to 800 guan.
Although Ouyang Xiu was very kind, the officials also wanted benefits. As soon as the money arrived, the officials immediately arranged for Huang Lu to try out the position of county magistrate in Qiantang County.
It should be noted that Shen Kuo is from Qiantang.
Zhang Yue's intention of stuffing money is self-evident.
After Huang Lu's official position as county magistrate was confirmed, Shen Kuo immediately went to talk to Zhang Yue and revealed Shen Kuo's intention to recruit Huang Lu as his son-in-law.
Zhang Yue was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately he successfully acted as a matchmaker and quickly arranged the marriage of his good brother.
Huang Lu would leave Beijing immediately after being appointed as an official, so he had no time to talk about the three matchmakers and Liu Ping. Besides, Shen Kuo's wife had passed away, and he was a straight man who couldn't make decisions. Huang Lu was fine with anything. .
So the two parties hit it off immediately, and quickly got married without any rules.
On the day of Huang Lu's wedding, he rented a house outside Bianjing. Zhang Yue transferred all the people in his house to help Huang Lu, and then Guo Lin and other classmates and friends came to support him and make fun of the wedding ceremony.
As Huang Lu's home was too cramped for a banquet, the banquet was held in a nearby wine shop.
Shen Yu, Shen Kuo and other women also held banquets here.
Zhang Yue helped Huang Lu socialize for a while and finally sat down and took a sip of tea, but saw Wang Anshi being invited by the master of ceremonies to sit at the table with him.
Zhang Yue stood up and greeted Wang Anshi. Wang Anshi glanced at Zhang Yue and said, "Oh, it's to save him!"
Immediately Zhang Yue and Wang Anshi sat down together.
Zhang Yue wondered in his heart, how did Wang Anshi come? When Shen Liao arrived at the scene, he inquired and found out that Wang Anshi was a relative of Shen Kuo.
Why do you say that?
It turns out that Wang Anshi's younger brother Wang Anli married Xie Jiang's daughter.
Xie Jiang's mother is the sister of Shen Kuo's father, Shen Zhou's wife, and is Shen Kuo's aunt, so Wang Anli's wife is also Shen Kuo's aunt and niece.
Shen Zhou's epitaph was written by Wang Anshi. At the same time, Wang Anshi was a fellow scholar in the Jinshi examination in the eighth year of Jiayou, so Shen Kuo was still Wang Anshi's student.
Wang Anshi once learned calligraphy from Shen Liao, and the two had a good relationship. But Wang Anshi didn't like Shen Yu very much.
There is a poem written by Wang Anshi that says: "I leaned on a couch and slept with a book on my back, until I rode back home on horseback at sunset." ' Shen Tuo was said to have no abilities. He worked all day long and slept with a book on his head, and then rode back home at dusk.
This is the style of Shen Tao's work for Kaifeng Mansion. History books say that when Shen Tao knew about Kaifeng Mansion, he "looked at things day and night, and there was no one left in the court during the day. He went out to thank all the guests and smiled calmly."
That is, except for working during the day and night, he is not in the government office the rest of the time. What is Shen Tao doing? Thank all the guests and smile calmly.
This move seemed excessive, but Shen Tuo was a man of great urgency. Once when he was ill, he took out the squeezed case files and corrected them. He judged hundreds of pages in a row. His writing was like wind and rain, and he was sweating as soon as he got sick. That's it.
However, Wang Anshi just didn't like Shen Tao. In addition to writing poems and ridiculing him, the Shen family historically asked Wang Anshi to write an epitaph for Shen Tao. Wang Anshi wrote, "Although I don't know how to read," the Shen family couldn't stand it. Shen Yu almost became the number one scholar. How do you say he doesn't want to study?
After the Shen family protested, Wang Anshi changed reading to reading. That's what Fang Zheng meant. I, Wang Anshi, despise you!
Zhang Yue and Wang Anshi ate at the same table, it could be said that they were like rays of light on their backs. But there is an advantage to eating with Wang Anshi. I heard that he only eats the dish in front of him, so I will not be polite to the rest of the dishes.
At this time, I saw Shen Yu walking over with a lamp in his hand. He was the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture. Zhang Yue Wang Anshi also stood up.
Shen Yu first toasted to Wang Anshi and said, "Thank you very much, Jiefu, for coming!"
Wang Anshi said: "Brother Wentong, my brother cannot be present under the Tang Zifang curtain now, so I, my brother, will do it for me."
Zhang Yue thought to himself that there was no such thing.
Shen Tuo didn't take it seriously at all, but said: "Jiefu said that, it's a big deal. With Bachelor Zhang here today, I believe you won't be lonely at the banquet."
Hearing this, Zhang Yue reluctantly showed a smile to Shen Tuo, but in his heart, he thought, would it be better for me, Alexander, to sit at the same table with him?
Shen Tuo exchanged a few words with Wang Anshi, and the two of them chatted and laughed and had a good relationship. Zhang Yue thought that the relationship between the two was not as bad as what he heard.
It seems that Wang Anshi is a person who complains about things, but his personal relationship is still good, just like joking between good friends, otherwise he wouldn't write your epitaph.
Wang Anshi and Zhang Yue took their seats again, and soon the banquet started. Shen Liao was talking to the two of them at the banquet. The atmosphere at the banquet was not that bad. Soon after Shen Liao left the banquet, it suddenly became dull.
Out of politeness, Zhang Yue picked up the tea cup and toasted Wang Anshi. Wang Anshi also took a sip of tea and said, "Du Zhi, I heard about your exchange."
Zhang Yue heard Wang Anshi mention the Citation Office, so he said: "A small fight is not worth mentioning."
Zhang Yue was counting 'twelve' silently in his heart as he spoke.
But after seeing Wang Anshi holding the twelfth chopstick to the shamisen in front of him, Zhang Yue secretly chuckled. But I heard Wang Anshi say: "There is a saying in Zhou Rites. The Quanfu is in charge of collecting and spreading goods in the market, collecting the goods in the market and not selling them, and keeping the goods stagnant for people's use. The design of this exchange can be imitated by the Zhou Rites."
Zhang Yue knew in his heart that Wang Anshi was a great expert in Zhou rites. Just when he was about to say something, an idea suddenly came to his mind.
That’s right, now the Jiao Chong Institute is being criticized very urgently by the princes in the court. Isn’t it because the name is unfair and it is regarded as a tool of the imperial court to levy and extort money?
If the name of the Citation Office was imitated after Zhou Li's Zhongquan Mansion, then the difficulty of passing through the temple would be reduced. Wang Anshi is really a master, and he reminded himself with just one sentence.
Zhang Yue said with great joy in his heart: "The prince's words really solved my problem."
Wang Anshi said calmly: "I just have something to say. I have heard Yuan Du relay Yuan Chang's theory of surplus value. Although it is a bit fresh, in the final analysis it is still the way to suppress mergers and collect its surplus."
Zhang Yue listened and realized that what he said to Cai Jing had reached Wang Anshi's ears. Oh, he's thirteen!
After counting, Wang Anshi silently picked up the thirteenth chopstick, chewed the tender bamboo shoots in his mouth, and said: "But what Yuan Du said seems to be ill-intentioned. I want to hear what Du Zhi said..."
Zhang Yue thought carefully, why did Wang Anshi help him? If you think about it carefully, Wang Anshi is a die-hard supporter of Xue Xiang.
Xue Xiang was handing out salt money to buy horses on his own in Shaanxi. Wang Anshi told lies with his eyes wide open. He did not hesitate to fall out with his old friend Ouyang Xiu, but also supported Xue Xiang. Therefore, Wang Anshi also had to record this account.
The existence of the Exchange can ensure that Xue Xiang continues to issue salt notes indiscriminately in Shaanxi.
Zhang Yue thought for a while and said: "Actually, it doesn't matter. I heard that the princes' comments mainly focus on the words 'the people do not add taxes but the state uses the resources'. They only talk about restraining annexations and collecting surpluses, and refer to the settings. Same but different.”
Anyway, since Xue Xiang's approach, Zhang Yue has cast a considerable shadow on "the people do not add taxes but the country uses enough".
Wang Anshi heard the words and said loudly and authentically: "It is better to reduce expenditures than to increase revenue. Mergers and financial management should be combined with what is necessary. This is to make the country use enough money without adding wealth to the people. This is also my ambition!"
“If we don’t overdo it, what is the difference between suppressing mergers and collecting profits?”
Zhang Yue had no intention of discussing it with Wang Anshi. Anyway, his words were in vain and he could not convince him.
So Zhang Yue responded casually: "My lord, Qin can annex the six kingdoms, but it can't suppress the annexation. Instead, the widow Qing built a platform. Why has it been so difficult to suppress annexation in the past? Because he is wrong."
"I regard the money in the world as two categories, one is money generated by hard work, and the other is money generated by money. The so-called people do not add taxes but the country uses enough, which means that the money generated by money in the world is taken. Give some of it for the country’s use. Prince, eat vegetables!”
Wang Anshi showed a look on his face that I had expected. After picking up the fourteenth chopstick, he said: "The money generated by hard work is for agriculture, and the money generated by money is for industry and commerce. Therefore, those who chase the last in industry and commerce should pay heavy taxes to When people are embarrassed and humiliated, they see the futility of their last karma, and in order to punish the humiliation, they have no choice but to go to the fields. Is this what the purpose of saving it is?"
"No!" Zhang Yue shook his head.
Wang Anshi asked: "How is that?"
Zhang Yue ate a piece of venison, and as he continued chatting with Wang Anshi, everyone else took away the good food.
He said casually: "My lord, there is a man in the south of the Yangtze River who is good at farming and mulberry farming. He rented a hundred acres of land from a landowner. His family provided seeds for farming and cattle, and hired five people who were not good at farming to work on the land."
"At the autumn harvest, this person will receive one hundred guan, of which 50 guan will be used to pay the land rent, 30 guan will be given to the farmhands, 10 guan will be used to pay for the seeds and cattle, and the last 10 guan will be the surplus for one year."
"Your Majesty, the world's income generally comes from these three things, namely land rent, labor expenses, and what I call surplus. May I ask your Majesty, what do you mean by the suppression of business and the tendency of land acres? ?”
Although Zhang Yue kept urging the dishes, Wang Anshi was not worried about the dishes at all. Instead, he said: "If you sow and reap, you will receive insufficient subsidies. You will have to wait for someone who has the strength to do it. Of course, it cannot be suppressed."
While Zhang Yue was feasting, he held the bowl and pointed with the chopsticks in his hand and said: "However, there is a difference between a wise man and a foolish man, just like things are uneven, this is the state of things. A wise man suffers from the inability to be independent. A fool is ignorant of the way to make money. If the two are combined, they will benefit, but if they are divided, the land will be destroyed. Don't overpower the wise and foolish by suppressing and merging them with one sentence."
"If the people don't have capable people to organize themselves, how can they manage production? This surplus is also the money generated by labor, but this land rent is money generated by money!"
Zhang Yue spoke quickly, and quickly took a bite of his food. As he chewed, he said: "Therefore, suppressing annexation is something that is difficult to do under Qin's law. If you do it this way, you are abandoning the basic and chasing the weak. Where is the root?" On top of suppressing land rent. Land rent is money made from money, and the court can take care of everything that uses money to make money! In order to suppress mergers and foster the work style, this is also a way to manage finances and open up new sources of income!"
After listening to Zhang Yue's words, even Wang Anshi, who was always known as a strong argumenter, felt a little unable to refute.
Wang Anshi repeated Zhang Yue's words seriously: "To put it into perspective, what I just said is land rent, surplus, and labor expenses. All income in the world falls into these three categories."
Zhang Yue vomited out a piece of sheep spine and said: "Of course, the money from the sale of an acre of rice field is divided among these three people. The income from selling the labor, the income from farming seeds and cattle, and the income from land rent, the world No one in the world can have more wealth than these three things, and no one in the world can make a living by eating these three things!"
