Physician of the Song Dynasty: Zhang Kai and Li Qingzhao have a private life-long contract

Redundant officials were the most difficult problem in the Song Dynasty. After all, no one wanted to lose their official positions. I think Fan Zhongyan fell into this problem at the beginning. As a result, hundreds of officials opposed him and finally resigned sadly.

Wang Anshi's reform also learned from Fan Zhongyan's lesson, putting all the emphasis on redundant soldiers and redundant expenses, and was extremely gentle on redundant officials. Even so, it was still difficult to escape defeat.

The method of becoming an official at sixty is probably the only way to alleviate the redundancy of officials in the Song Dynasty without arousing opposition from hundreds of officials.

"I am already sixty-seven this year, and as the head of a hundred officials, I should set an example and actively cooperate with the strategy of becoming an official at sixty. I sincerely ask for the official's permission."

At this moment, Fan Chunren resigned from the post for the third time.

Ancient etiquette, three words and three concessions.

In Chui Gong Hall, all the civil and military officials understood that it was Fan Chunren's third resignation. This time, General Zhao Xu would have no reason to retain him.

Sure enough, Zhao Xu sighed and said: "Master Fan has worked hard and made great achievements. When he resigned, he still offered me this good recipe. Since this method was presented by Fan Xianggong, and Fan Xianggong and Fan Taicheng are uncles and nephews, why not leave it to Fan? How about my husband taking charge!"

The Sixty-year-old official was associated with all the officials and doctors in the court. Fan Chunren was the prime minister of the dynasty, so he was naturally very familiar with the court. In addition, he and Fan Zhengnai were uncle-nephew, so he was naturally the most suitable candidate.

"I am not very honored!" Fan Chunren said solemnly.

All the officials couldn't help but look at Fan Chunren with confused expressions. According to the tradition of the Song Dynasty, once the prime minister was dismissed, the usual behavior was to add an honorific title and be demoted to another place as a prefect. However, Fan Chunren was rare to be dismissed and still entrusted with important tasks. Prime Minister.

Lu Dafang was shocked. He secretly took refuge in Zhao Xu and put Fan Chunren in an embarrassing position. He once secretly mocked Fan Chunren for being deeply influenced by Fan Zhongyan, but that was nothing more than that.

Now Fan Chunren has succeeded in making a comeback by relying on his sixty-year-old career strategy, which makes him feel full of emotions.

However, this feeling was quickly diluted by the joy in his heart, because after Fan Chunren resigned, according to Zhao Xu's promise, he would take a further step and become a highly respected minister.

However, to his great disappointment, Zhao Xu did not immediately fulfill his promise to make him prime minister, but instead left the prime minister's position vacant.

After going down to court, Yang Wei, the censor who was attached to Lu Dafeng, said impatiently: "That shouldn't be the case! Since the officials have made a promise, how can they break it?"

Lu Dafang said with a solemn expression: "Master Yang, haven't you noticed yet? The officials are trying to use their position as prime minister to ask Lu to take the initiative to write a letter to agree to the new law."

"The slaves are here!"

Yang Wei couldn't help but exclaimed that the motive of renting out acres of land for labor service was extremely sinister. Which official in the Manchu Dynasty didn't have thousands of acres of fertile land? Once it was implemented, he didn't know how much more grain would be needed.

Lu Dafang nodded heavily.

"This method is very harmful, Mr. Lu must not agree to it!" Yang Wei frowned.

What Lu Dafang represents is the interests of the old party, and behind the old party are the support of big landowners. Only in this way can they completely overthrow Wang Anshi and other new parties.

If Lu Dafang implements the idea of ​​​​sharing the labor force into the mu, I am afraid that he will be abandoned by the old party immediately.

"Of course I know how powerful it is." Lu Dafang said helplessly.

For several days, Lu Dafang and Zhao Xu were in a stalemate with each other. The position of prime minister in the court was vacant, and no one recommended a candidate for prime minister.

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"Lu Dafang is really ignorant. Everyone in the world knows that sharing the labor service with the mother is a good medicine for a hundred years. Lu Dafang actually acted for his own selfishness and wasted the divine grace!"

In the Imperial Garden, Zhao Xu ran around the Imperial Lake several times and sweated profusely, still unable to quell the anger in his heart.

He had been suppressed by Empress Dowager Gao for several years. Now that he was in power and had new laws, he was naturally eager to show off his ambitions.

And Lu Dafang's ignorance made him very angry. If he had not promised to make Lu Dafang the prime minister, he would have directly made Zhang Dun the prime minister, and what happened today would not happen.

Fan Zheng handed over a sweat scarf and said, "Don't worry, officials. All we need to do is find the source of the disease and it will be solved. First of all, the position of prime minister must be what Mr. Lu wishes in his heart, otherwise he would not side with the officials."

Zhao Xu wiped his sweat and snorted coldly: "He wants the position of prime minister, but he is unwilling to do things for me. How can there be such an easy thing."

"The wishes represented by Lu Dafang are not his own, but the old party's. Why do the old parties oppose the labor service?" Fan Zheng asked rhetorically.

Zhao Xu sneered and said: "What else could it be for, other than to avoid taxes and immunity money!"

"In that case, let them not have to pay taxes and immunity money." Fan Zheng said calmly.

"No! If that's the case, wouldn't it be empty talk to work as a slave to the mother?" Zhao Xu frowned.

Fan Zheng smiled bitterly and said: "The officials take it too much for granted. If the officials want to implement the system of dividing labor into acres, they must rely on officials from all over the world to implement it. Most of the officials in the world have abundant land and they can't cut their own meat. Since In this case, why don't the officials follow the trend and exempt officials from a certain amount of land tax? According to the grade, high officials are exempted from the land tax of a thousand acres, and low grade officials are exempted from the land tax of a hundred acres. In this way, the overall situation of the world will not be harmed. Mr. Lu also has a step to climb, and the officials of the world will naturally There is no more reason to object.”

"Officials protect each other!" Zhao Xu said with a displeased expression: "I have agreed to the sixty-year official policy and treated him so favorably, but he is still so greedy."

Fan Zheng was moved in his heart and said: "If the officials come up with this evil intention, Wei Chen has an idea."

"Come quickly!" Zhao Xu said impatiently.

Fan Zheng chuckled and said, "Involution!"

"Involution?" Zhao Xu asked doubtfully.

Fan Zheng sneered and said: "Officials have protected each other since ancient times, but there is one benefit except for official position. Many officials will do anything to get official position. However, there are two situations for our officials in the Song Dynasty. One is an official in office, and the other is an official. The second kind is a redundant official who is idle and has nothing to do. The second uncle's sixty-year career strategy is just a temporary solution for redundant officials, and two thousand official positions are simply a drop in the bucket."

Zhao Xu nodded. There were nearly 40,000 officials in the Song Dynasty, including about 5,000 redundant officials. Even if 2,000 positions were vacated, there would probably be 3,000 officials waiting to be resettled.

"These redundant officials can only wait for official positions when there are vacancies. Some are unlucky and have waited for more than ten years without a real vacancy. Naturally, they are very eager to get official positions. Why don't the officials entrust these alternate officials with important tasks and patrol the world's officials? Once the case of dereliction of duty and corruption is verified, the alternate official will immediately take over." Fan Zheng said coldly.

"Wonderful! This is a wonderful recipe. The redundant official has been waiting for this day for more than ten years, and finally got the opportunity. Naturally, he went to great lengths to investigate. Only in this way can he obtain the official position. Moreover, after the predecessor's accounts were checked, it was natural for him to replace him with ease. "Zhao Xu slapped the case and exclaimed.

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "And in this way, we can not only clean up the officialdom, but also solve the redundant officials. The officials will soon implement the method of sharing the labor into the acres. If there are officials who violate the law, this method will be enough to make them suffer the consequences."

Fan Zheng sneered in his heart, since he had given Yongzheng's idea of ​​sharing the family with his mother, he would then take advantage of the situation and throw out Yongzheng's cruel move of 'immediate compensation'.

"Uchimaki, what an evil person..., no! This is the right side, absolutely the right side!"

Zhao Xu Longyan said happily.

"The officials still know about me!"

Fan Zheng and Zhao Xu looked at each other and smiled, feeling like they were close friends.