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

"We're going to change the law again!"

When Di Bao officially announced that the area in the capital was to be used as a pilot project to implement rural labor service, the city of Kaifeng was in an uproar.

Many people couldn't help but flash back to the painful scenes of Shenzong's political reform eight years ago. At that time, people were very angry. Wang Anshi was called Ao Xianggong. This was not a slander by the world, but a true portrayal of his character.

When he first implemented the immunity money, Wang Anshi was extremely stubborn. Everyone was treated equally. No matter they were rich or poor, they all had to pay the immunity money.

After all, no one wanted to pay, and naturally everyone slandered him. Wang Anshi's reform had a very bad reputation, and no one wanted to support it.

"Shared labor? Aren't you collecting immunity money?"

The people in Kaifeng were in an uproar. After all, the levy of immunity money was really outrageous. This slave laborer would not change the medicine without changing the soup!

"Blessed are you mud-legged people. When the farmers join the mu, the immunity money will no longer be collected. Instead, the immunity money will be evenly distributed to the fields according to the eight years of Yuanfeng. This is called the farmers entering the mu!" A scholar had a confused look on his face. Mingdao.

The eighth year of Yuanfeng was the last year that the new law was implemented. After the old party came to power, it abolished the exemption law that everyone clamored for.

"What if there is no field?" an old man with a miserable face asked tremblingly.

The scholar said impatiently: "If you work on an acre basis, of course, if you don't have any land, you don't need to collect immunity money. Those with less land will pay less, and those with more land will pay more!"

The miserable old man's face lit up with joy, and he shouted: "What a great idea! This is a great way!"

The poor people have always been the targets of oppression and exploitation, and now a good plan has finally come out to favor them, the poor people.

The crowd of onlookers applauded.

Someone did some calculations and found that according to the regulations on sharing the land, a family owning about 100 acres would pay the same amount of taxes as before. The fewer the fields, the lower the taxes borne by the common people, and the higher the taxes borne by the landowners with more fields.

Most of the land in Gyeonggi is occupied by powerful people, and the land is very concentrated. About 70% of the households have less than 100 acres.

In other words, at least 70% of the farmers support the farming households. In addition, Kaifeng City has strong commerce and many families do not rely on the land. Based on this calculation, at least 80% of the people in the entire Gyeonggi area support the farming households. .

"What a good law, it is simply a bad law!" A group of wealthy landowners said angrily.

The landowners with large fields would have to bear several times more taxes than under the new law.

"Deserve it!"

If landlords collect more taxes, ordinary people will naturally be happy to see it happen.

A group of big landowners regretted that according to the original draft law, they were able to evade a lot of taxes by virtue of their status and power. When Wang Anshi carried out the reform, he treated them equally and paid the same taxes. However, they were still not satisfied and instigated the poor people to oppose the new law.

It's better now. The new law has been repealed. Once the slaves come in and out, they have to pay several times more.

"How about we continue..." A wealthy landowner said unwillingly, wanting to encourage the people to slander the tenants again. I think they used this trick to destroy the exemption law.

Some enlightened people frowned and said: "It is beneficial to 80% of the mud-legged people to work as slaves. Who will follow you?"

"Evil doctor Fan Zheng!"

All the landowners were filled with hatred, thinking about how great King Anshi had been when he defeated the prime minister, but in the end he was defeated by them and dismissed from the prime minister several times.

However, facing the extremely evil Fan Zhengxin Fa, they felt helpless.

"This matter is not over yet!" A group of landowners said coldly.

Inside the Chui Gong Hall.

"It was reported to the officials that when the servants came in and out, everyone applauded the people who had more land and more people! But the people who had more land but less people complained quite a lot!" Su Shi was in charge of collecting folk news for the Di newspaper and reported it solemnly.

"Reporting to the officials, most of the families with a little land and a lot of land are poor families, and one mu of labor service is enough to reduce their taxes. However, most of the people with a lot of land and a little land are rich families, and the increased taxes will reduce their taxes. It won’t have much impact, this strategy is feasible!” Zhang Dun was the first to support.

Lu Dafang frowned and said: "If the rich suddenly pay more taxes, I'm afraid they will feel resentful! It is not good for the official's reputation."

The officials nodded slightly. After all, they all came from wealthy landowners, so naturally they didn't want to see their own interests damaged.

Zhao Xu's face also darkened. He naturally knew that this strategy would cause dissatisfaction among wealthy households and landowners. However, in order to enrich the country and strengthen the army, he could not care about this.

Seeing this, Lu Dafang said again: "The policy of assigning slaves to farmland came from Fan Taicheng. If the old minister remembers correctly, Fan Taicheng once said that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. Since everyone is responsible, how can we assign responsibility to him?" They all return to the rich."

"Ms. Lu's words make sense!"

"Please give the officials a second thought!"

The ministers were overjoyed. Lu Dafang was worthy of being the leader of hundreds of officials, and he had found a loophole so quickly that he could work as a slave.

Use the spear of the son to attack the shield of the son! Let’s see how Fan Zheng can quibble this time.

The officials do not trust Fan Zheng the most, but they want to see how the officials protect Fan Zheng.

Zhao Xu frowned. He didn't expect that Lu Dafang would find a loophole in sharing labor with his mother, and attack the new law at a critical moment.

Fan Zheng couldn't help but was stunned. He didn't expect that he was already hiding in the corner of the court. Lu Dafang still refused to let him go, so he had no choice but to step out and said: "So, Prime Minister Lu admitted that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. .

"Fan Taicheng's words are of great significance and thought-provoking. I naturally agree with him." Lu Dafang looked at him admiring his younger generation, which made Fan Zheng extremely resentful.

The other officials also looked astonished and praised Fan Zheng highly.

However, everyone in the new party frowned. How could they not see the sinister intentions of the old party.

"Everyone has the same responsibility as a lower official, but not everyone has the same responsibility. Does Mr. Lu think that the responsibility of the prime minister and the responsibility of the imperial physician are the same?" Fan Zheng asked rhetorically.

Lu Dafang couldn't help but be stunned.

Fan Zheng continued: "The prime minister is responsible for managing the world's officials and assisting the officials in handling the world's government affairs, while the minister, the Imperial Physician, is responsible for the doctors, providing medical treatment to the people of the world, and is responsible for the health of the officials. They are also responsible, But the responsibilities are not the same, and the responsibilities of the prime minister are naturally greater than those of the subordinate officials."

Zhao Xu's heart moved, and he immediately understood the main point of Fan Zheng's rebuttal.

Sure enough, Fan Zheng looked around at the ministers and said: "In the same way, the responsibilities of the officials are also different. A seventh-rank official only needs to be responsible for one county, while Mr. Su, the prefect of Kaifeng, is a second-rank official and is responsible for the entire Kaifeng capital." How can the two of them have the same responsibilities? Naturally, the greater the official position, the greater the responsibility."

"And the officials are like this, and the people are not the same. The more fields, the greater the responsibility! Rich households have more fields, and the stronger their ability to bear taxes. Naturally, they have to bear more taxes. Poor households have less fields, and their ability to bear taxes is weak. You can bear less taxes.”

"This is true for all officials, this is true for the people, and this is true for all the families. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility!"

As Fan Zheng spoke loudly in the court, all the officials fell into silence.

Su Zhe, the right minister, solemnly said: "The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. I agree with this statement! It may seem unfair to divide the labor into the land, but in fact it is the great justice of the world."

Following Su Che's statement, the neutral factions in the court expressed their support for the work being brought into the family.

Seeing this, Lu Dafang sighed helplessly: "Fan Taicheng is so talented, I really admire him!"

"Okay! Su Aiqing, you will publish today's discussion in the imperial court in the imperial newspaper, so that people in the world will understand that with greater ability comes greater responsibility, and understand the method of working as a slave to the mother." Zhao Xu said in his heart.

"I obey the decree!" Su Shi said solemnly.