Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

"His Majesty."

"came back."

"This is presented to His Majesty by the Lord of Xixia."

Zhao Ning opened and read Li Qianshun's letter.

After talking a lot of nonsense, the last useful thing is, when can the trade of salt and silk be expanded?

Li Ruoshui said: "Your Majesty, Sun Fu sent people to investigate in Xixia a few months ago. After I bought silk at a low price, the Xixia people sold it to the northwest barbarians at a high price."

Northwest barbarians?

Xizhou Uighur?

Zhao Ning said with a smile: "It seems that Li Qianshun is ambitious!"

Selling silk at a low price and then selling it at a high price is making money.

Xixia also made a lot of money selling salt.

If such a trade structure continues, it will inevitably make Xixia richer and richer.

When Xixia has money, it can expand its military force and strengthen its military equipment.

Once this bird place becomes strong, they will turn their faces and deny people, and grab them as soon as they can.

Regarding Xixia's handling method, Zhao Ning actually already has a plan, so there is no need to worry now.

Zhao Ning said: "Promise them to expand the mutual market."

"Your Majesty, this is inappropriate..."

"It's okay, promise them first."

"I'm afraid..."

"Li Qing, don't worry too much. When the Song and Jin truces, the people's livelihood in the north eases, and the production of salt in the Song Dynasty increases, I can also set the price of salt for him. He sells it for 4 yuan, and I sell it for 2 yuan!"

"Your Majesty, I don't have so many salt ponds in my dynasty, I'm afraid..."

"You don't have to worry too much, I have my own way."

On the 25th of the first lunar month, Weng Yanguo entered Beijing.

For a time, everyone was watching.

Chapter 258 Zhao Guan's Means (Part [-])

When Weng Yanguo entered Beijing, the sensation caused in the officialdom was unprecedented.

As early as half a month ago, when the Zhao official family announced that Weng Yanguo would come to Beijing, the news spread in the official circles, and some people even sent secret letters to various places around Gyeonggi.

Many officials are paying close attention to Weng Yanguo's movements, even on his way to Beijing, many local officials along the way wrote to him.

Everyone knows that Weng Yanguo is the person who governs Cai Mao.

Cai Mao is the leader of the conservative faction. The Cai family is a big family in the capital, and they are also deeply rooted in the officialdom.

Huainan West Road is one of the most affluent roads in the Song Dynasty, and the people who can go there as transfer envoys are naturally not ordinary people.

You can understand it as a leader sent to the most developed regions in the 21st century.

It is not yet known that this is the real reason why Weng Yanguo's entry into Beijing has attracted widespread attention.

The real reason is the "Concern for the Country and the People" memorial that he played to the imperial court on the first day of September last year.

That memorial immediately turned him into a leading figure against the New Deal faction, and aroused the praise of countless old school officials.

It's fine if it's just officials' praise. The most important thing is to arouse the wide recognition and support of the old forces.

The old forces include old-school officials, local gentry, landlords, big businessmen, and so on.

This is a huge group, and they are connected with each other with diamond iron chains, forming a complex chain of interests. For example, Wang Anshi, who violated their interests, was also beaten into the head of the treacherous officials.

Not only do they have land resources and resell imperial assets, but they also have sufficient public opinion and moral authority among the people, and they often use the righteousness of the world as an excuse to do other people's things and gain their own benefits.

It is such a group that Weng Yanguo really pleases.

Zhao Ning was not a stupefied young man either. He called Weng Yanguo to Beijing not because of Huaixi tax matters, but in the name of Weng Yanguo's memorial to promote him to Beijing to discuss the people's livelihood matters he said.

It has the meaning of commending and praising Weng Yanguo.

This made the officials along the way even more unscrupulous in wanting to have a relationship with Weng Yanguo, and it made Weng Yanguo, who had just entered the Gyeonggi border and had not yet arrived in Tokyo, a group of officials went to greet him and praised him by the state scholars.

But in fact, Zhao Ning now has good reasons to dismiss Weng Yanguo.

Just for what Li Qing said in front of him that day, Zhao Ning could immediately send someone to arrest Li Qing and interrogate him. As long as Weng Yanguo was found to have abused his power in Huaixi, he could be dismissed and let him go.

But this is not what Zhao Ning wants, what is a Weng Yanguo?

He is just a figure put on the table.

He represents the intertwined forces in the local area, and is also a pawn of the conservatives in the DPRK and China. Just dismissing him will shake the situation insignificantly.

The letter written by Li Qing and how many fields the person sent by Gao Qiu can buy from Wang Zhongheng are the key points.

The key to the whole chain will only surface when the person who executes it below is caught.

There are also a series of cases investigated and dealt with by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Su Provincial People's Court in Shouzhou and Luzhou, which are the key points.

Especially in Luzhou, Wang Jing, the prefect of Luzhou, hanged himself. Who in the world got hold of Wang Jing and made Wang Jing willing to be a sacrifice to drive away the investigation team sent by the imperial court?

On the day Weng Yanguo entered Beijing, the secret report of Huangcheng Division in Luzhou was also sent to Tokyo.

Wang Jing's home in Luzhou caught fire.

The time of the fire was on the fourth day of the first lunar month, and the folk rumors were that it caught fire accidentally.

After all, it's cold, dry, and prone to water leakage.

Wang Jing hanged himself on the first day of the first lunar month, and his home in Luzhou caught fire on the fourth day of the first lunar month.

If you say there is no contact, the dog will not believe it.

In any case, under Zhao Ding's arrangement, the Ministry of Household Affairs dispatched another group of people to Luzhou, and the Su Provincial Court also transferred several people to Luzhou.

The controversy in Shouchun Prefecture continued, and Tokyo official circles became lively again.

Recently, the ministers of the old school took advantage of Wang Jing's death to bombard the officials of the New Deal school.

Everything looks chaotic.

But only looks.

The reason why Zhao Ning summoned Weng Yanguo to the capital was actually to temporarily transfer Weng Yanguo away from Huaixi.

Without Weng Yanguo's support, the people below would have no backbone, and it would be easy for them to go their own way, and some people's behavior would easily make outrageous acts or reveal flaws.

This greatly reduced the resistance of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Su Provincial People's Court in Huaixi.

On the 26th day of the first lunar month, the second day after Weng Yanguo entered Beijing, I will see you in the palace.

Zhao Ning and Wang Zongyi just went to inspect the Shaofu Supervisor, the "state-owned manufacturing yamen of the Great Song Dynasty". After inspecting the production mode of the soap assembly line, they returned to Wende Hall and saw Weng Yanguo listening to the propaganda outside.

"Weng Qing."

Weng Yanguo looked up and saw Zhao Guan's family coming, he hurried forward and said excitedly: "Minister Weng Yanguo sees Your Majesty, Sheng'an."

"Quick and free."

Zhao Ning was very enthusiastic and kind.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Go, let's talk inside."

Weng Yanguo thought that the Zhao family would question the taxation matters and talk about Wang Jing's death, and they would look ugly.

But right now, Zhao Guanjia looked indifferent, seeing that instead of being angry, he was very happy.

He followed Zhao Guan's family into Wende Hall.

"Your Majesty, I am guilty."

After Weng Yanguo entered, he immediately knelt down.

Zhao Ning was taken aback, and quickly said, "What is your crime?"

"The tax in Huaixi was greatly reduced last summer. This is the first crime of the minister. Wang Jing, the magistrate of Luzhou, hanged himself in Shouchun. This is the second crime of the minister!"

On the surface, Weng Yanguo said that he was guilty, but in fact, the two things he mentioned cannot be regarded as his crimes in detail.

As far as the tax issue is concerned, there are tax issues in all walks of life. If Zhao Ning really wants to punish him with taxation, wouldn't all the transshipment envoys be punished?

Needless to say, Wang Jing hanged himself. On the surface, he knew that the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Su Provincial Court forced him to do so.

But he took the initiative to plead guilty. This is how politics often retreats.

Zhao Ning quickly helped him up: "Your words are serious, you can't blame you for this. In the second year of Jingkang, it was Qing who cooperated with the court to mobilize food and survive the food crisis on Gyeonggi Road. You have made great achievements, so why should you be guilty!"

When Weng Yanguo heard the emperor say this, he still maintained an expression of "I'm guilty" on the surface, but he was already relaxed and happy in his heart.

"Thanks to Your Majesty for not giving up, I will go through fire and water." Weng Yanguo stood up.

Zhao Ning asked: "I have read all your memorials, how is the people's livelihood in Huaixi?"

"Your Majesty, the people of Huaixi are suffering. Last year, the people heard that the Jin army had attacked Xuzhou. Everyone was in danger. Some people dragged their families and fled south overnight."

Weng Yanguo, an old fox, seems to be concerned about the country and the people on the surface, but he is actually telling Zhao Ning that the Jin army is a great threat to the people of our dynasty. If the court wants to push the New Deal to Huaixi, it will only cause greater chaos.

If it were another emperor, hearing this, he would definitely be shaken by the New Deal, and think that Weng Yanguo is really a good official who cares about the country and the people.

But I won't, after all, I am a person who almost went to the north to live in a seven-star thatched cottage.

And I have personally seen Weng Yanguo your good nephew, and heard him say that with you in Huaixi, he can do anything he wants!

Even [-] mu of land, if you can buy it, you can buy it!

If you don't pay the tax, you won't pay it!

Chapter 259 I really bought a field! (Second more)

Zhao Ning sighed and said: "I know that the people in Huaixi are suffering, and the imperial court has been fighting every year for the past few years, and I can't bear it."

Weng Yanguo observed the words of Zhao officials, and he was indeed worried. He thought to himself: The officials thought that the implementation of the New Deal would solve the people's livelihood problems.In this way, Zhao Ding will be relegated!

In the early days of Wang Jiefu's reform, the young Song Shenzong and Wang Jiefu hit it off, and the two monarchs and ministers opened the prelude to the vigorous reform.

It was also in that situation that Wang Anshi uttered the famous saying that is astonishing in the past and the present: the changes of the sky are not to be feared, the ancestors are not to be lawful, and the words of people are not to be sympathetic!

It means: the change of the way of heaven is not enough to fear, the existing legal system of the previous generation does not need to be copied, and the opposition voices that arise during the reform do not need to be afraid.

This is the simple materialist philosophy and dialectical thinking of ancient China, and it is also the social speculation of the elites of this era.

At first, Song Shenzong was also full of expectations for Wang Jiefu's reform.

However, with the large number of problems in the reform and the strong opposition from the old school, Shenzong wavered several times, and Wang Anshi was demoted later.

With Wang Anshi's failure in the past, Weng Yanguo naturally believes that as long as the current New Deal cannot immediately solve the people's livelihood issues that Zhao officials are most worried about, the status of Zhao Ding and other New Deal factions will definitely be shaken.

Next, the monarch and his ministers chatted about some issues about the people's livelihood in Huaixi, and Weng Yanguo resigned.

From this face-to-face meeting, Weng Yanguo deduced that Zhao Guan's family seemed to be shaken by the current New Deal.

The purpose of the New Deal is to solve the problems of people's livelihood. However, the problems of people's livelihood are becoming more and more serious now. Although the New Deal has not been pushed through, the court and the people are panicking because of the New Deal.

In the evening, Gao Lian went to the palace to report.

Gao Qiu said: "Many officials from the three provinces and six ministries attended the banquet. There were also some idle officials who helped Weng Yanguo clean up the dust. At the banquet, they all praised him for his loyalty and love for the people."

"There are also people who suggest that the ministers recommend Weng Yanguo to enter Beijing and enter the political affairs hall."

Into the government affairs hall?

It seems that people are really easy to drift!

So soon it's like entering the political affairs hall to be the governor?

"I know, you just need to pay close attention, and don't startle the snake."

"Yes."

In the early morning of the second day, a luxurious carriage stopped at the gate of Li's house in Tokyo City, and a middle-aged man with a majestic face stepped down.

This middle-aged man is naturally the very popular Weng Yanguo.

Li Ji, the chairman of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce, took the whole Li family and welcomed his brother-in-law Weng Yanguo in.