In the third year of Song Lizong Shaoding (1230), Lu Zi, who was then the head of a certain county in a certain province, expropriated 6,000 mu of peasant land and sold it to a developer at a price of 10,000 yuan per mu. The requisitioned land should be compensated, and the compensation standard set by Luzhi County was only five hundred yuan per mu, which was twenty times different from the transfer price. Of course, the landless peasants did not do anything, and went to Luzhi County to reason, but Luzhi County did not accept it, so they petitioned and sued The Prime Minister Shi Miyuan. Shi Zaixiang first scolded the local officials for making a fool of himself and distorted his good policy ideas, and then, in front of everyone, wrote a letter to Luzhi County, asking him to correct his mistakes and handle them impartially, and finally shook hands one by one and sent them back.
These petitioners returned home happily, but what they waited for was not reasonable land compensation, but the fast catchers and archers brought by Luzhi County, and all the petitioners, as well as those who were coaxed below, were named, led cattle, demolished houses, burned houses, and went into "study classes" with their parents, brothers, wives, and children, and used large dung to sneak through.
Coming out of the study class, some people wondered why Shi Zaixiang's handwritten letter was not used, and when they inquired, they knew that shi Zaixiang was the developer who bought land. This time he completely obeyed, obediently handed over the title deed, and obediently signed the agreement. As for compensation, there was originally one, but everyone wanted to make trouble, and Luzhi County was enraged, and no money was given.
Speaking of Shi Miyuan, everyone may have heard that he was a famous adulterer in the Southern Song Dynasty. The vast majority of high-ranking people in the Southern Song Dynasty had a strong love for buying land, and Shi Zaixiang, as the head of the high-ranking people, was also reasonable to buy land. That Lu Zi Was lu zhi county, the "History of Song" has no legend, he is not very famous, but his father is the famous Lu You Lu Fangweng. However, this land requisition did not give money, and he also ruthlessly ruled the people, losing the face of his father Lu You. Therefore, the poet Liu Zai, who was his contemporary, scolded:
"The man has his own idle field, why don't you go home and take care of the old books?"
Another lyricist, Wei Yiweng, also scolded him, saying that he "took advantage of the plunder, greatly hurt the yin and virtue, and the loss was the father's many things." However, the "Yin Virtue" thing is false, Shi Miyuan is not afraid of others wearing a "traitorous" hat for him, and Lu Ziyi is not afraid of "losing his father". In the above case, through this land expropriation, both Shi Zaixiang and Luzhi County reaped a lot of benefits. Remember the first year of Shaoding (1228), Shi Miyuan bought twenty-five mu of land on the outskirts of Lin'an City, paid a price of two million yuan, and spent eighty thousand yuan per mu; this time he bought land from Luzhi County, and only spent 10,000 yuan per mu, a total of 6,000 mu of land, saving four hundred million yuan at once. And Lu Zisuan sold land at 10,000 yuan per mu, the compensation payment was zero, and there was no need to engage in any "three links and one level", and the sale of 60 million mu of land was completely in vain. Of these sixty million, the financial reserve at this level is a little, the superior supervisor sends a little, and then gives a little to the county lieutenants and headhunters who run the study class, and the rest, of course, is the pocket of the fortress Luzhi County!
In addition to the economic benefits, there are also political benefits. Lu ZhiXian let Shi Zaixiang save four hundred million yuan, and then used thunderous means to quell the petitioning incident, will Shi Zaixiang forget him? At that time, there was a big plan for three years, a transfer in five years, a big plan was an assessment, and a transfer was a change of term, whether it was an assessment or a change of term, Shi Zaixiang would take care of the officials: "Who is that, shrewd and capable, very courageous, let go of the Thousand Mile Colt of the Weng family, turn around and study it!" "Lu Zhixian is not whizzing up?"
Of course, Luzhi County's achievement of these benefits is not entirely risk-free. According to the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, the official government expropriated private land without compensation, or the compensation was lower than the market price, which was "the crime of embezzling private land by officials", and if it was embezzled within one mu, it was subject to sixty rods; more than one mu, it received seventy rods; more than three acres, one hundred rods; more than five acres, one and a half years. "Cane" is to put a board on the buttocks, and "disciple" is to reform through labor. Lu Zi forcibly requisitioned 6,000 acres of civilian land, the board could break his ass, the labor camp allowed him to sit on the bottom of the prison, and if someone really wanted to sue the Punishment Department, the risk was still quite large. But the law is the law, real life is real life, his brother runs several study classes, which itchy dare to petition? Even if he petitions, there is still the support of Shi Zaixiang, and the officials of the Punishment Department dare to convict him, do not want to go forward!
The Enlightenment thinker Rousseau said that every official has three wills, one is the will of the people, one is the will of his superiors, and the other is his own will. Lu Ziyi also had these three kinds of wills in his body.
Through checking the Fang Zhi of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was found that when this person first became an official, he "built a school, practiced etiquette, customs and revolutions, and the people relied on peace" and conscientiously did a lot of good things. Why did it go bad? The explanation I can give is: Lu Ziyi was still a raw hand at the beginning, thinking that there was a court at the top and the people below, and everyone could supervise him, and if he was a good official, the court promoted and the people supported; if he was a bad official, the court punished and the people reported, so it was better to be a good official. In other words, he must obey the will of his superiors and the will of the people in order to fulfill his own will. However, after doing so, it was finally understood that the will of his superiors was not necessarily related to whether he was honest and honest; as for the will of the people, although the people were numerous, they did not have the votes, which was basically negligible. Since these two wills do not have to be obeyed, then his own will will has popped out, whether it is for promotion or to get rich, there are many tricks!
To prevent officials from obeying only his own will, Rousseau devised a system of dual supervision. In this system, the superior's inspection alone does not count, and the future of an official depends on the votes of the common people. Whether it is the Western world or here, this system is used, although the effect of use is different, but there are not many absurd things like land acquisition without giving money. But you have to understand that Lu Ziyi lived in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was unrealistic to pull him into the dual supervision system.