The next morning, at four o'clock in the morning, before dawn, Yan Shu had already arrived with the imperial doctor.
Zhao Jun had just gotten up. He couldn't see anything during this period, and he had already developed the biological clock of the Song Dynasty.
After the old doctor performed acupuncture as usual, Yan Shu asked, "Would you like to take off the gauze and have a look today?"
"good."
Zhao Jun also wanted to see how his eyes were recovering.
Although I just took it off and looked at it a few days ago, just like a person who loses weight wants to weigh himself every day to see if he has lost weight today, a blind person wants to see if his eyes are getting better every day.
The imperial doctor took off the gauze, and Zhao Jun opened his eyes. It was dark and there was only a solitary candle in the room, so he could not see anything clearly.
"Can you see it?"
Yan Shu asked.
Zhao Jun said: "I can see, it's a little better than the previous few days, but it's still blurry and it's too dark today."
"It's morning now, it's still dark."
Yan Shu made an excuse, and then said: "The doctor asked you not to take off the gauze for at least a month. Even if your eyes are healed, you should consolidate them first."
"I see."
Zhao Jun responded. It mattered whether his eyes could recover, but he still obeyed.
Immediately, he put the gauze over his eyes again. All the wounds on his body have now healed, the gauze has been removed, and except for his eyes, everything else is almost healed.
After having breakfast, Zhao Jun took a short rest and then began to attend class. Today he will continue with math and Chinese classes, teaching division and pinyin.
There are 63 pinyin characters, and the teaching progress is relatively slow. You will definitely not be able to learn it in just a few days, so you have to continue.
Next, he plans to teach like this first. His eyes will be healed in a short time, and the road down the mountain should be clear by then. He will go to the county for a checkup first, and then see when the Education Bureau will arrange for a new teacher. .
Soon it was ten o'clock in the morning, the day's classes were over, and Fan Zhongyan came over to deliver food to him.
He helped Zhao Jun clean up the wooden boards used for class and the chairs for the students in the room, and delivered the food to Zhao Jun. Zhao Jun heard his voice and said with some confusion: "Uncle Nima, Uncle Lari Woolen cloth?"
"Larimuzi went to the side of the path to check on the progress of the excavation."
Fan Zhongyan used the excuse he had prepared long ago to excuse him. In fact, it was because Yan Shu had not come to Houyuan or attended the court recently to take care of his wife. The Sansi Yamen has not seen anyone else until now.
Therefore, after Yan Shu comes back, he must go there to do some handover work. Otherwise, even if he is fishing again, it is still necessary to report first and understand the basic situation of the household department.
Zhao Zhen and the others still haven't come today. Recently, the imperial court has been vigorously carrying out some small reforms. Sheng Du is opening a bank and Li Shen is arresting tea merchants.
Although it is not a big change, Zhao Zhen and the others still have to pay attention to the reform situation to make adjustments.
Because they also want to see if the method Zhao Jun said is really effective, and see if he, a young man in his twenties, really has such great talent.
If he has talent, he can be reused quickly after Zhao Jun regains his sight.
If he has no talent and is just a talker, he may still have to practice hard, or simply become a political consultant, which is better than messing with the country in the future and making some radical measures to destabilize the country.
Fortunately, the current situation seems to be that both Jiaoziwu and the Tea Law are going smoothly. The main reason is that these two items do not harm the interests of court officials. Jiaoziwu is considered a good thing for officials who have business dealings between Bianliang and Chengdu Prefecture. It is a good thing, not to mention the tea law, which only harms the interests of border officials.
As for the tea merchants behind the high-ranking officials, they are in the first-level wholesale market and do not need tea importers. Therefore, entering China and France has nothing to do with them. They have solved the tea import problem from the source. This is what the privileged class wants. The power to have.
So the reform has been going on for a while, and so far there has been no trouble, which makes Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian very satisfied.
Soon Zhao Jun had lunch. There were no old men or women at the entrance of the village. Fan Zhongyan said that they had gone to work in the fields, so Zhao Jun could only sit on the ground outside the door, chatting with Fan Zhongyan.
Fan Zhongyan always holds a pen in his hand and must write down important words. This is the habit that Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan maintain as recorders.
Now that Fan Zhongyan has been promoted to the position of Secretary and Young Supervisor, he no longer needs to do his job. His main task is to keep records. Therefore, while Zhao Zhen and the others were not around during this period, he secretly asked Zhao Jun a lot what he wanted. question.
For example, the Qingli New Deal and Li Yuanhao's founding of the country. Currently, Fan Zhongyan has a clear plan for his life. He wants to reform and change the current weak predicament of the Song Dynasty.
But after learning the lessons of his reform failures in history, Fan Zhongyan no longer thought about other things, but concentrated on studying the reform of officials.
Zhao Jun knew that Granima Village Party Secretary was a fan of Fan Zhongyan and knew that he liked to know about the Qingli New Deal. He did not make any reservations and expressed many of his opinions. For example, he affirmed Fan Zhongyan's reforms and also pointed out many shortcomings in Fan Zhongyan's reforms. The place.
"To put it simply, the overall environment of the Song Dynasty was not very good. Fan Zhongyan was able to be reused by Zhao Zhen to start the Qingli New Deal because the war in the northwest was stable, Li Yuanhao officially established the country, and negotiated peace with the Song Dynasty."
"After the foreign aggression came to an end for the time being, Song Renzong wanted to solve the internal worries and alleviate the increasingly acute social conflicts and huge military expenditures."
"Several wars with Xixia led to the people in the Song Dynasty being in dire straits. There were waves of uprisings, and the fiscal deficit was getting worse. Under such circumstances, if changes were not sought, it could have serious consequences. "
"Three redundant problems, redundant costs are directly caused by redundant soldiers and redundant officials. Fan Zhongyan did not dare to take action on the problem of redundant soldiers, so he could only solve the redundant officials first, but his measures were too radical, which led to the opposition of the Manchu Dynasty."
"Actually, it's not that many officials don't want to work, but they don't have the power, and they have nothing to do. As long as we select good officials, let them complete KPIs, and implement a reasonable punishment and reward system, I believe it can mobilize the enthusiasm of officials."
"So it's important to make the pie bigger. Some of his reforms are relatively reasonable, but you can't just dismiss so many officials. That will easily create a sense of crisis and make more than 99% of officials afraid of being dismissed, so that they can be taken advantage of by people with malicious intentions. , instigating an offensive and causing the New Deal to fail."
"Moreover, the promotion system also pays attention to methods. Grandpa Mao said that the correct path is to make a few enemies and many friends. Winning some people over, suppressing some people, and reducing resistance is the right path."
"In addition, the system of the Northern Song Dynasty was very rigid. Fan Zhongyan's reforms actually only made many minor adjustments and were not drastic at all. But even so, they were still so opposed by these conservative bureaucrats. This was because the officialdom of the Song Dynasty lacked vitality. "
"How can we do good politics with a group of insects? So in addition to clear reform lines, we should also inject more vitality. As for how to inject vitality, I don't know. I really don't feel much about "History of the Song Dynasty" Interested, no in-depth research.”
Zhao Jun told Fan Zhongyan everything he knew about the Qingli New Deal, and Fan Zhongyan also carefully wrote down everything. He had been listening to the lectures for a long time these days. These contents not only broadened his horizons, but also made him It helped him a lot to find a practical way.
It wasn't until the afternoon, after Zhao Jun had dinner and went back to his room to rest, that Fan Zhongyan left work with today's gains. On the way back, even while sitting in the sedan, he thought about today's content over and over again. This has become his habit.
At the beginning of the Youshi period, Fan Zhongyan returned to his home in Daguan Lane. The sun was setting, and a ray of sunlight passed through the door of the study, reflecting a long orange wave of light on the ground.
Mottled light falls on the ground, windowsills, bookshelves, desks, and scrolls. Most places in the room are dark, except for the south side near the window sill. Fan Zhongyan's resolute face next to the table, the lower half of the room is dark. The upper part is exposed in the sun, while the upper part is hidden in the shadows, a mixture of light and dark.
He sat solemnly in front of his desk, which was covered with countless papers.
The books recorded in the palace could not be taken out of the palace, because the emperor and the prime ministers had to read them every day, but after he came back, he would write down his thoughts of the day and hide them in a secret room. After returning home from get off work every day, he would lock himself in the book. Take it out in the study and look at it.
It records a lot of things he thinks should be done now and things that need to be changed in the future.
"Zhao Jun said that reform is not a dinner party. What is needed is perseverance and the courage to burn the boat. But now is not the time for reform. He is right. When there are internal and external worries, we still need to calm down the external ones first and then solve the internal ones."
Fan Zhongyan turned his attention to the few pages of paper he picked out on the right side. They were some of his thoughts before going to the northwest to serve as Shaanxi's economic envoy and prepare for Li Yuanhao's founding of the country.
Zhao Jun believed that it was impossible for the Song Dynasty to defeat Li Yuanhao. Fan Zhongyan could only defend Li Yuanhao's attack, but the officials hoped that he could win the battle. This task was still quite difficult, so he made a lot of efforts. .
For example, after he went to the border, he hoped to change the northwest military system, strengthen the training of border soldiers, repair the dilapidated city walls, and allow border residents and the imperial court to send some forbidden troops to the northwest to build water conservancy projects, farm and reclaim wasteland, etc.
The Guanzhong area was extremely prosperous during the Tang Dynasty, but it had declined by the Song Dynasty. Today, there is still a large amount of abandoned farmland. If it can be reclaimed, it can relieve a lot of pressure on grain and grass.
Mainly due to the Anshi Rebellion and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Guanzhong region suffered from wars many times. By the early Song Dynasty, the population of the Guanzhong Basin was less than one-fifth of what it was at the peak of the Tang Dynasty. Chang'an, an international metropolis with a million levels, had a permanent population of Only 120,000.
But there is another problem in reclaiming wasteland, and that is that the Tang Dynasty was too brilliant in Chinese civilization. Guanzhong could not withstand such prosperity. Soil and water loss was extremely serious in the upper reaches of rivers such as the Jing River, Wei River, and Yellow River.
The Jingwei River has clearly appeared since the Zhou Dynasty. By the Song Dynasty, the Wei River had also become turbid. In later generations, the Wei River was even deeper than the Jing River.
Therefore, Fan Zhongyan knew that it was not easy to open up wasteland near the border areas, and water conservancy facilities must also keep up.
There were still two years until Li Yuanhao founded the country and three years before the war started. Fan Zhongyan felt that he could do many, many things in these two or three years.
Then the next step is reform.
Fan Zhongyan looked at the other pile of paper on the left hand side of the desk. Compared with the Northwest War, he paid more attention to the Chongqing Li New Deal.
After all, this is what can change the country's poverty and weakness.
On the paper, he wrote a lot, which he was going to write to the officials.
There are all such as "Ming deposed", "Suppressing luck", "Jinggongju", "Selecting officers", "Equalizing public land", "Enhancing farmers and mulberry trees", "Cultivating military preparations", "Reducing military service", "Stressing orders" and "Extending favors and letters".
And more than ten more items were added.
Such as "abolition of official style", "examination of the total number", "examination of law", "corruption investigation", "field tax", "recruitment of corvee", "general military system", "strict profit tax" and so on.
The following ones borrowed a lot from Wang Anshi's reform, and also included some suggestions from Zhao Jun.
Fan Zhongyan scrolled over the note for a moment, and then added "reduce weak troops", "guaranteed armor system", "market affairs", "transported uniformly", "entered the grassroots", "regularly mobilized", "settled accounts" and "three houses system" "etc.
These contents almost cover many reforms such as officials, land, law, military, economy, education, etc., which are more radical than the Qingli New Deal in history.
According to Zhao Jun, at least twenty items must be crossed out, and less than ten items must be retained.
But Fan Zhongyan looked at the content above and had no intention of changing it at all.
Because he knows one thing.
In the past few days, the officials and the others only came here occasionally, and Fan Zhongyan was always by Zhao Jun's side.
So I can often hear some interesting words from Zhao Jun in private.
"Chinese people always like to make compromises. For example, if you say that this room is too dark and a window must be opened here, no one will allow it. But if you advocate removing the roof, they will come to make compromises and be willing to do so. Open the window.”
This sentence gave Fan Zhongyan a great inspiration.
He heard that the reason why he was able to celebrate the failure of the New Deal in history was that it touched the entire interest group.
Since just such a small change caused huge waves, why didn't I break the news?
Fan Zhongyan looked at the sheets of paper on his desk. He wrote hundreds of words on each item, adding up to tens of thousands of words.
If those corrupt officials, mediocre and lazy officials, landlords and businessmen, and incompetent soldiers saw this, they would probably be heartbroken.
"I heard from Zhao Jun that Wang Anshi later had a title, Mr. Ao, and he was said to be as stubborn as an ox."
"But they don't know that anyone who has the ambition to reform the country must have such stubbornness. Otherwise, if he cannot persist to the end and the reform is abandoned halfway, the harm to the country will be great."
"Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law cannot be implemented because of poor governance. Zhao Jun is right. If you want to change the country, you must first have political clarity."
"The political arena cannot be a pool of stagnant water. Everyone is thinking about doing nothing and doing nothing. Then can this country survive for a long time?"
"In this case, it is better for me to take on the reputation of being a stubborn man. The officials asked me to take a long-term approach to reform, but I want to go against the grain and implement the reform to the end."
"I think even if Zhao Jun's eyes recover, he will support my idea. I hope he can be on my side by then!"
Fan Zhongyan raised the brush on his hands and feet and stained it with some ink. After adding details and content to the new articles he wrote, he took out a blank folder from under the table next to him. After thinking for a while, he began to write vigorously. Start writing quickly.
