Prime Minister

Asking someone to write the epitaph shows that the two have a deep friendship, and it is first-class recognition.

During the Zhiping period, although Wang Anshi was not a prime minister, he was able to write an epitaph for Zhang You directly, and compared him to Liezi. The kind of gentleman praised by Zhuang Zhou not only praised his character, but more importantly, the affirmation and praise of the prime minister.

Zhang Youzhi was clearly Liezi, the man praised by Zhuang Zhou as a man of idleness, so he did not pursue fame and fortune, rather than some Southern Tang Dynasty minister who refused to serve in the Song Dynasty because of his hatred for destroying the country.

If you, Deng Runfu, are dissatisfied, you can go to Wang Anshi to settle the score.

This is the advantage of asking celebrities to write epitaphs. Even Wang Anshi himself cannot rashly overturn what he once said.

As for Zhang Yue, he has found a moral solution in a short while.

The officials already thought that this matter was nothing but a non-existent minister. Even if Zhang Gu was a descendant of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhang Youzhi was not.

even if!This also cannot dispel his determination to use Zhang Yue.

But Zhang Yue's heart fluctuated. He was demoted from Bianjing to Fujian thousands of miles away. He had just arrived in his hometown and hadn't even entered the house to chat with his classmates, but he immediately returned to Bianjing because of an imperial edict from the emperor.

It would be fine if there was any urgent dispatch, but at this time Deng Runfu wanted to prevent himself from being reused, so he maliciously claimed that he was a follower of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Is it just to explain to the officials by traveling thousands of miles?
Is the only way to be an official is to ask for it?

Zhang Yuedao: "This matter is extremely absurd. There are treacherous ministers who intend to slander and destroy their reputation, and it involves the teacher's reputation, so analyze the heart. But even if His Majesty trusts you, what's the use of all kinds of words?"

"Even if Baibi is said to be slightly flawed, no matter whether there is any evidence for it?"

The officials knew that Zhang Yue was angry after hearing the words, but how could the reputation of the important officials be doubted.How about Ruo Zhang getting more tempered?

The official couldn't sit comfortably on the dragon chair, so he even comforted him: "Zhang Qing, you don't care about the details in the big business, you don't shy away from the small things in the big gifts, and you don't care about the words of the ministers."

After the official finished speaking, he immediately realized that he had said something wrong, "The big business doesn't care about the details, and the big gifts don't hesitate to make small concessions" shows that Zhang Youzhi's matter is still suspicious.

After Zhang Yue heard the official's words, he narrowed his eyes and turned to say: "Your Majesty, before the fire of the Third Division, when I was in charge of the Accounting Division of the Third Division, besides auditing, I also got something else."

Li Xian, who was at the side, wondered if Zhang Yue was going to show up to attack Lu Huiqing. As far as he knew, Zhang Yue must have evidence against Lu Huiqing, and now he happened to attack Lu Huiqing in the temple.

In fact, the officials guessed that Lu Huiqing instructed Deng Runfu to impeach Zhang Yue when he returned to Beijing, but this is the scope of his permission to stir up different opinions.

But Zhang Yueruo strikes back...

The official said: "Zhang Qing, please tell me!"

Zhang Yue said: "I counted the number of households in the world last year. The first-class households had 350 mu of cultivated land, and the second-class households had 580 mu of cultivated land... Based on this, it is calculated that there are [-] million mu of farmland rented out in the world... "

The official was taken aback and said, "How did Zhang Qing figure it out?"

Li Xian also showed an expression of disbelief. They thought that Zhang Yue went to the third division to audit and check the accounts, but they didn't expect Zhang Yue to use the information he checked in the third division to do another thing.

Zhang Yue didn't look at other things, as if there was a manuscript out of thin air in front of him, he read out in class: "Among them, the cultivated fields of the third-class households and the fourth-class households are respectively [-] mu and [-] mu... and there is a quota for land rent in this dynasty. Land rent, but generally speaking, the two-point system is used, which is the entry of Sui Tian, ​​and the middle division is like civil law. In addition to land rent, there are cattle rents, etc. "

"In terms of folk customs in Jiangxi, five out of ten people are recruited to plow the fields, and six out of ten are used to use cattle..."

"As for the household tax, there are two taxes, the exemption money, the young crop money, and the purchase, and the body money... I calculated that the land tax per mu in the world is 61 yuan."

After hearing this, the officials said: "The land tax per mu in the world is 61 renminbi, so how much is the tax per mu?"

Zhang Yue said: "A medium-sized field, the yield of rice and wheat is one and a half stones per mu, but there are still mountains that are not suitable for growing grain. It is [-]%, taking the Kaifeng government to count about [-] to [-] wen per stone, and about [-] wen for wheat."

"There are many kinds of wheat in the north, and it is also in Shaanxi. Hebei is regarded as Xixia and Liao. Therefore, the people's tax is almost more than [-]%, not counting other apportionments from the government."

I saw that the official didn't ask questions.

Zhang Yue continued: "I have calculated that in addition to farming, rural households in the world also have income from cattle, silk, hemp, tea, straw, etc., with an average annual income of 45 guan and 830 renminbi, among which the first-class households are 630 guan, and the fifth-class households Then there are 31 strings, and the customer is eighteen strings."

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Outsiders don't know what to say, but officials listen with gusto. Not only is Zhang Yue's list of data accurate, but the most important thing is that if these data are accurate, this is a matter of the country's people's livelihood.

There are so many ministers in the world who say things, they are all about the people, citing scriptures and classics, but if they are asked to come up with detailed figures, they are all dumbfounded.

Even Wang Anshi only came up with a general idea, and never enumerated them in detail.

In a word, it is to speak with data.

Whether the people are doing well, whether the country's policy is right or not, the data represent everything, not what the officials say is good or not.Among so many ministers, apart from Zhang Fangping, I am afraid that only Zhang Yue has this ability.

However, Zhang Fangping still needs to read out the detailed statistics from the three divisions in his notebook.

But Zhang Yue didn't need it at all. These economic figures related to the lifeline of the country seemed to be memorized by him before the prelude to the king, and he was familiar with them.

This move really shocked the officials.

What does this mean, the accounts of the world are clear.

The prime minister, what is the slaughter?Aren't you managing the country for the emperor?
The most basic economic figures of the country are not clear?Also worthy of talking about governing the country?

How can Zhang Yue be so well-informed and in control of everything?
Anyway, the official knew that with his own ability, he would never be able to keep all these numbers in his heart, and said like a treasure, that he would never be able to do it in his entire life.

Therefore, the emperor is just an emperor, and the Ninth Five-Year King is just a mortal after all, and the affairs of governing the country need to invite capable people to do it.

Zhang Yue continued: "Among them, the number of first-class households is less than five out of a thousand... The fifth-class households account for at most [-]% of the total number of households in the world, and nearly [-]% of their customers..."

"I divide this arrangement by the number of first-class households to fifth-class households and then divide it by the annual income, and the obtained figure is [-]% of a hundred..."

What Zhang Yue listed is the famous Gini coefficient of later generations. Zero means absolute average, [-] or [-] means relative average between rich and poor. Generally, the gap between rich and poor is relatively good if it is less than [-], and it is quite large if it is above [-]. , more than [-] is extremely large.

In the Song Dynasty, it was [-]. This figure shows that the rich and the poor are indeed more uneven, but the problem is not big.

Zhang Yuedao: "It is well known that this dynasty has never suppressed mergers, and the land is allowed to be bought and sold. Although there are rich people with fields and fields, and the poor have no land to stand on, but the most important thing is to destroy mergers. It is better to suppress mergers."

Lu Huiqing talks about destroying mergers, and thinks that the mergers are extremely powerful and must be eradicated, but the more Zhang talks about restraining them, it is better, and there is no need to chase and fight like Lu Huiqing!
Ps: The data is excerpted from a certain great god on the Internet, some may not be so prepared, just take a look.