After traveling through time, I became Han Zhang’s grandson?

King Huan and his entourage suddenly changed their goal and turned their attention to "land surveying", which no one expected.

As a result, Zhao Ceying and others, under Yong'an's guidance, easily obtained real information about the land and population in the Jianghuai area.

Before the local officials and gentry in the Jianghuai area could figure out what was going on, Prince Huan Zhao Ceying, along with Gu Tingye and others, fled the area and headed towards Liangzhe Road to continue their "salt inspection".

It was precisely because it did not cause too much conflict and problems in the Jianghuai area that both the court and the local people took the King Huan and others who came to inspect the salt lightly.

Most of them tried their best to block and interfere with the patrol direction of the salt affairs, but ignored Sheng Changbai and Liang Han who had disappeared from the entire team.

With this mutual cover, both open and covert, King Huan Zhao Ceying and his entourage lived up to everyone's expectations.

In order to carry out this work better, Han Ming also invested heavily in the court.

On the issue of "financial reform" under the pretext, Han Ming had a disagreement with the old school, so that the big pot fell on Wang Jiefu and Lu Haoqing who cheered for him.

Wang Jiefu was directly sentenced to Jiangxi and demoted.

Even if it was his own grandson, as long as he had different political views, Grandpa Lu would not hold back and would directly exile Lu Haoqing to Hengzhou and send him to Jinghu.

This was exactly part of Han Ming's plan. With the help of Wang Jiefu, a native of Jiangxi, and Lu Haoqing, who had studied at Yuelu Academy, the work of King Huan and others in surveying the land made rapid progress.

King Huan and his entourage made a whole circle from Jianghuai, Liangzhe, Fujian, Jinghu, Guangdong and Guangxi, Sichuan and Guizhou, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong, and finally returned to Jingji Road from Jingdongxi Road.

This big circle lasted from the end of July in the first year of Yongxing (the eighth year of Jiayou) to the spring of March in the second year of Zhiping, a full year and eight months.

In Han Ming's view, this is a rapid action and gratifying progress.

After all, being able to clear most of the country's major land within nearly two years is truly amazingly efficient.

Of course, the main credit and suggestions here are also due to Sheng Changbai, Wang Jiefu and others.

They stressed that the local land inventory work must be adapted to local conditions and carried out in conjunction with ordinary local people, thus saving a lot of manpower and material resources.

Following the general direction of a thorough investigation of the salt business, King Huan Zhao Ceying and others took advantage of the situation to obtain the fish scale books from various places in order to better carry out the survey work.

The so-called fish scale book, also known as the fish scale map, fish scale map, fish scale map, fish scale book, and measurement book, is a kind of land registration book in ancient China.

Houses, mountains, forests, ponds, and fields are drawn in order and connected, with the corresponding names marked. This is the general register of private fields.

The field is named after its shape which resembles fish scales.

Based on the old "Fish Scale Book of the Tiansheng Year" of the Renzong Dynasty, Prince Huan Zhao Ceying and others surveyed the land again and compiled a new "Fish Scale Book of the Zhiping Year".

By the end of the period, that is, at the beginning of the second year of Zhiping, this work had basically been exposed by someone with ulterior motives.

The conservatives knew that this matter must have been tacitly approved by Emperor Yingzong, but they could not speak out against the emperor directly, so in the end the blame fell on a certain Han.

This caused Han Ming to be criticized and condemned by countless people in and out of the government, who believed that he had bad intentions and was harming the country.

Han Ming also acted like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water, saying, "What?! If you have the ability, just kill me and I'll beg you!!!"

As a result, officials headed by the Censors basically made a small remonstration every three days and a big remonstration every five days, and all the documents they submitted were criticisms of Han Ming.

This annoyed Emperor Yingzong, who was already in poor health, so much that he asked Han if he wanted to continue.

"Your Majesty, Prince Huan and his entourage have now reached the Gyeonggi-do region, and the land survey across the country is essentially complete."

"Now that we have the latest 'Fish Scale Atlas', we can reorganize the land taxes across the country, changing the various complicated and harsh taxes that have been in place since the Five Dynasties, and implement the Single Whip System!"

"The land tax, corvée and other miscellaneous levies of each prefecture and county were consolidated into one, and the 'Qingli Chongbao' was collected and paid on a per-acre basis."

"This greatly simplifies the tax system and makes it easier to collect taxes. It also makes it harder for local officials to cheat, thereby increasing fiscal revenue."

Han Ming was not very worried about his situation. After all, as the old saying goes, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Anyway, he is not infringing on the interests of any class now. It is not that easy to kill him just by saying he has bad intentions.

As for why Han Ming started from the "Single Whip System" to promote reform, it was because he felt that the current Song Dynasty society was similar to the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty when Zhang Juzheng was in it.

Land was annexed and concealed, the population fled and lost, the household registers were chaotic and distorted, "the rich had land but no food, and the poor suffered from the burden of burdens."

The land and population controlled by the imperial court were shrinking day by day, and its financial resources were being exhausted. As the saying goes, "Private households are getting richer, public offices are getting poorer, the country is in poverty and the people are impoverished, and the real problem lies here."

Therefore, it was decided to implement the Single Whip System in accordance with Zhang Juzheng's reforms, rectify the tax and service system, and reverse the financial crisis.

In this way, the contradictions and conflicts among different classes can be eased and the interests of the ruling class can be more effectively safeguarded.

As for why "Qingli Chongbao" was used instead of silver, Jiaozi and other currencies, the main reason was that silver was not as widely circulated in the Song Dynasty as in the Ming Dynasty.

The second is that paper money such as "Jiaozi" is too unstable and can easily be exploited by local officials, turning them into intermediaries for plundering the people's wealth.

For example, in modern times, Chiang Kai-shek’s original "legal currency" depreciated to the point of becoming a piece of waste paper after the Anti-Japanese War.

Finally, during the War of Liberation, they even issued more "legal currency" to plunder and exploit the gold and silver hard currencies in the hands of the people.

This kind of paper currency has completely become a symbol for bureaucrats and landlords to increase their exploitative income.

In order to obtain more income from the people and solve the fiscal deficit, the government has adopted many different forms of usury.

The government tried every possible way to exploit the people, such as early usury, tea advance loans, purchases on credit, official money and land rent usury in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Han Ming really did not want to disrupt the entire monetary system of the Song Dynasty, so he could only make revisions based on the original basis, and "Qingli Chongbao" was his choice.

This currency was minted during the Qingli period of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty (1041-1048 AD) and was named "Qingli Chongbao" iron coins.

According to the history of the Song Dynasty, a currency was issued for each reign title, including the "Tiansheng Tongbao" during the Renzong period, "Zhihe Tongbao", "Jiayou Tongbao" and other currencies.

The reason why Han Ming chose 'Qingli Chongbao' is that it was minted in large quantities, the coin text is regular, there are many in existence, it is a hard currency that maintains its value, and it has been in circulation in the Song Dynasty for a long time, so it is easily accepted by the people.

In this way, it will be possible to effectively calm market prices, maintain social stability, save a lot of time in minting new coins, and thoroughly standardize the monetary system.

"Marquis Han is calm and steady, and he's still thinking about reforms."

Emperor Yingzong looked speechlessly at Han Ming, who was full of energy and not at all nervous or worried.

"Your Majesty, what are you talking about? I am worried and anxious every day, afraid that one wrong move will lead to a complete failure and ruin the good situation."

"This is a disgrace to the late emperor and the ancestors of the Han family!"

Han Ming pretended to cover his face with his sleeves and sobbed quietly, but in fact he didn't cry a single tear and even felt like laughing.

"Stop pretending in front of me!"

Emperor Yingzong was furious when he saw Han Ming's attitude. Why could he, the one who took the blame, be happy every day while he, his immediate superior, was worried and distressed all day long?

"His Majesty!"

Han Ming put down his sleeves and chuckled.

"If you don't even have this kind of mentality to find joy in adversity, the greater difficulties in the future will overwhelm you."

Listening to Han Ming's gentle voice, Emperor Yingzong rubbed his forehead with a headache.

"Frankly speaking, I really didn't expect these conservative forces to react so strongly."

"It's just a nationwide land survey, it's like cutting flesh from their bodies. They're throwing tantrums and making a scene in the court like women!"

Han Ming couldn't help but grin when he heard this.

"dare you laugh!"

"Do you know how many memorials I have suppressed for you? They are all accusations against you!!!"

Emperor Yingzong was furious and deliberately threatened Han Ming.

"Your Majesty, I have said before that the people of the Song Dynasty are more attached to their land than anyone else, so you should be mentally prepared for this situation."

"No matter what happens next, we must push forward with drastic tax reforms, reclaim the miscellaneous currencies from various regions, and recast the 'Qingli Treasures'."

Unified currency is a good thing left by our ancestors. I really can’t understand why the rulers of the two Song dynasties had to come up with so many reign-named currencies!

Han Ming's words brought the topic back to the main topic and made Emperor Yingzong think.

"This is a necessary measure, but you still have to pay attention to the method."

There is nothing much to say about Emperor Yingzong. Reform and change must be done, but as for the means and methods, caution is still needed.

"Yes, Your Majesty, rest assured. I will discuss these issues with the ministers of the Secretariat this time!"

"That's good. I'm still confident in your work, but you must be careful not to clash with those old ministers. I really don't have the energy anymore!"

Emperor Yingzong took a deep breath and tried hard to force a smile.

However, Han Ming felt uncomfortable with this forced smile, a bit like the twitching of Nicholas Zhao Si...