The arrival of Wang Jinghui, on the one hand, solved the urgent financial problem by selling luxury goods such as glass, smuggling by the state, setting up Royal Shipping Company to develop foreign trade, and seizing gold, silver and copper mines in Luzon (now the Philippines); on the other hand, he tried to promote three-season rice in Nanyang to solve the food problem, and at the same time suppressed and countered Xixia, so that the country could slowly and gradually implement new laws in an atmosphere of political integrity and peace.
New legal measures
Improved seedling method
Wang Anshi's young crops law stipulates that it is based on the money accumulated by Changping and Guanghui Cang. When food is expensive, it is sold at a price lower than the market price, and when it is cheap, it is purchased at a price higher than the market price. The accumulated cash is divided into two periods every year, that is, the first month and May, when sowing is needed and summer and autumn are immature, and farmers borrow money and goods from the government on a voluntary basis. After the harvest, with the summer and autumn tax, the interest will be increased by two or three tenths to return the food or cash.
The improved young crops law is to hand over the young crops law to businessmen (banks) for implementation and government supervision. After the court broke away from the young crops law, although the income was not as much as that implemented by itself, the young crops money was extra income after all. Benefiting the people, developing production and increasing grain output are the most important issues. At the same time, one of the original intentions of the Young Crop Law was to curb the usury prevailing in the empire. The government has changed from an executor to a supervisor. If businessmen or landlords want to lend usury again, they will face a blow from the government, which is on the side of the people. As long as people and businessmen can trade fairly, the government is also happy to extract fees and taxes from the transaction. The most important thing is to suppress usury with interest as high as 60% to 70% and reduce its interest to a level acceptable to ordinary people, which can stimulate agricultural production.
Reform of imperial examination system
It takes longer to test the classics several times and list accounting, mathematics, physics and other subjects as exams.
As long as the individual donations of businessmen reach a certain amount, they can be awarded medals after verification by the local government, and future generations will also have the opportunity to take the imperial examination.
Reform of official system
The ultimate goal of official system reform is to make government decrees smoother and more efficient. The most important thing is to streamline the huge bureaucratic system in the Song Dynasty, and anti-corruption is also necessary.
The powers and responsibilities of the three ambassadors in the Song Dynasty were too great, and the national financial plan was only owned by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development; Reconstruction of three provinces and six departments. In the three provinces, the left servant archer and the right servant archer of Shangshu served as the official prime minister. The name of Shen Zhi's government affairs was cancelled, and four deputy prime ministers were added: assistant minister under the door, assistant minister in Zhongshu, assistant minister Zuo Cheng of Shangshu and assistant minister You Cheng of Shangshu. After the reconstruction of Six Books, there were six more ministers. In this way, there are eleven prime ministers and deputy prime ministers alone. After the reform, the power of the prime minister has not been enhanced, but has been greatly weakened. At the expense of a slight loss of imperial power, the power of the prime minister has been greatly reduced.
The local supervision department of the original official system has been expanded to make its work more efficient in order to curb the increasingly rampant official corruption.
Set up a circuit court to divert some of the abolished officials and return them to Dali Temple.
Military reform
Foreign intelligence reform and the establishment of foreign intelligence system.
Establish and vigorously develop special forces.
Set up a military supervisor to supervise the manufacture of weapons; And recruit craftsmen to improve weapons.
Abolish the Xiang army and turn it into a professional postal system or a professional civil soldier.
Staff system, the recalled generals form the General Staff Department, which is responsible for training new recruits and cultivating military talents. When there are policemen in the border areas of the country, they give the emperors and ministers the most professional advice according to the feedback information and with the help of sand table simulation. Moreover, when the emperor uses troops abroad, he can choose someone he trusts from the General Staff as the supervisor, and he can give the generals with troops decision-making reference according to the situation in the battlefield ahead.
tax reform
Agricultural tax relief: greatly reduce agricultural tax and reduce farmers' burden.
Tax system: unify the tax rates of various "transit fees" into one tax, which is directly managed by the well-known government. County and county governments have no right to collect. Businessmen who come in and out of the area only need to pay taxes once, so they can pass without barriers.
Personal income tax system: the object of collection is a small number of people whose income is much higher than the average income level in the Song Dynasty, and it is very clear that this new tax law is opposed to being applied to ordinary people (in later generations, this tax law lost its original intention in the process of implementation, and the national personal income tax was mainly collected by middle-income people, while the original tax law had no effect on high-income people). Use personal income tax to balance the disparity between the rich and the poor, and use these taxes to invest in social welfare undertakings.
Personal income tax and agricultural tax are higher than commercial tax, which makes more people transfer their investment from land to business, and also makes the big landlords in Song Dynasty almost lose interest in land merger.
reform in education
Imperial academy is open to private colleges, and special talents are absorbed into imperial academy through examinations.