Chapter 59 Section VI

The cause of the incident was a landslide that occurred in Shaohua Mountain a few months ago. In the 21st century, a landslide is really insignificant, but in the second half of the 11th century, a landslide is not just a landslide, but also a warning from heaven to people. "Xijing Review" has persistently published "comments" on this matter for several months, although at the time because of Wang Shao's victory, people did not take it seriously.And Wang Anshi also retorted unceremoniously, saying that it was indeed God warning some villains, but those villains were attacking the new law.For this reason, Wang Yu also wrote an acrimonious editorial, satirizing the "Xijing Review" for its self-righteousness and morality, but in fact it is just some self-righteous rotten scholars.

But in February, the "Xijing Review" finally found a breakthrough. Wei Zezong, who initially advocated the market trade law, faced Lu Jiawen's various exploitation and restraint in proposing the market trade division, and angrily lamented that his proposition had been completely changed, and asked Wang Anshi The statement failed——Wang Anshi trusted Lu Jiawen very much. In a rage, he contributed articles to "Xijing Review" and "Bianjing News" at the same time, angrily condemning the city's Yifa for exploiting merchants. The source of this has trapped everyone from top to bottom, and the number of vendors in Bianjing City has decreased by more than 30%.And Shi Yisi forced to buy and sell, and the people complained even more. "Bianjing News" is in Bianjing, and has paid attention to this topic for a long time. When it got the opportunity, it immediately made a special topic to criticize the various disadvantages of the market change law.The "Xijing Review" even talked about the law of protecting horses, the law of protecting Jia, and the law of immunity from the market change law, and attacked the new law.

The matter was quickly noticed by Zhao Xu who read the newspaper every day. He immediately ordered Li Xiang'an and other servants to visit the people, and secretly summoned Zeng Bu to investigate Lu Jia.Zeng Bu was secretly summoned and did not dare to tell Wang Anshi, but only conducted a detailed investigation, and he and Li Xiangan proved all the facts with one voice, and wrote in the memorial to the emperor: "The disadvantages of today's market change law are exactly as Shi Yue said that day. ", clearly recommending the abolition of the Market Exchange Law! Zhao Xu quickly dug out Shi Yue's memorials at that time, and compared them one by one, what made him feel unbelievable was that the disadvantages of the Market Change Law were really like Shi Yue's ability to foretell, exactly as Shi Yue said.When people buy things, it is true that "if you buy a comb, it will be expensive, and if you buy sesame, it will be expensive."Although marveling at Shi Yue's talent, the emperor who wanted to save some face still issued an internal approval to Wang Anshi, asking him to urge Lu Jiawen to follow Wei Zezong's original plan.

Wang Anshi was preparing to discuss the Fangtian average tax law with the emperor, and immediately entered the palace after receiving the internal approval. Seeing Zhao Xu, he was not polite, and asked directly: "Your Majesty, in the internal approval, there is a statement that 'the business is extremely strict, and the people in the market complain about it, thinking that the lawsuit is soaked in all the world's goods, and they are doing their own business' If your Majesty said so, there must be facts, so please make it clear." Zhao Xu saw that Wang Anshi didn't reflect on himself first, but instead questioned him. He was already displeased, and asked Li Xiangan to hand Wang Anshi two newspapers. It is said that the Shiyi Division has rewarded money and arrested merchants who do not go to the Shiyi Division to buy goods. This kind of thing can be done, which is far from the original intention of the Shiyi Law."

However, Wang Anshi just glanced at the two newspapers with the corner of his eyes, and then said in a high voice: "If this is the case, then the minister is a minister who collects money, and he is responsible for His Majesty. Your Majesty knows the nature of the minister, how could he do such a thing? " Zhao Xu didn't expect Wang Anshi to think of trust in him, and felt helpless.He stared at Wang Anshi for a long time, and sighed: "Prime Minister, I am not suspicious of the Prime Minister. I am afraid that the people used by the Prime Minister will not understand the deep meaning of the court and only know how to collect money." He almost lost his reputation as Lu Jiawen.

When Wang Anshi heard the emperor's words, he knew that his suspicions were deep, so he said: "Please investigate this matter carefully. If there is such a thing, it must be strictly restrained." However, Wang Anshi only agreed with his mouth, but he didn't really investigate in detail. He didn't know that Zeng Bu, the third envoy, had already found out that the implementation of the Market Exchange Law had been implemented for only one year, and that more than 20,000 merchants owed at least one year to the Market Exchange Division. More than 200,000 yuan in capital, and Lu Jiawen is likely to play a part in it.That's why Zeng Bucai believed that the Market Change Law must be abolished: it has been like this for a year, and it is only Kaifeng Prefecture. If it is implemented nationwide, the national finances may be dragged down by the Market Change Law and collapsed.Wang Anshi didn't even know that, taking this as an opportunity, memorials from various northern state capitals requesting the abolition of the Exemption Law, the Baojia Law, and the Baoma Law once again flew to the emperor's table in thousands.Han Qi wrote a few memorials, almost to the point of tearing up, lamenting the shortcomings of the new law.And Wang Anshi's in-laws, Wu Chong, the privy envoy, even told the emperor several times about the disadvantages of the horse protection law-almost exactly as Shi Yue had expected.