Qi Tai got things done today and went home very early in the afternoon.
He sat on a rattan chair in his study, drinking tea for a long time.
Next to him is an Imperial College Supervisor, who is studying for him. He reads "Tongjian", and the version is from Jingyou, the Southern Song Dynasty.
He had read this book a long time ago, but sometimes he wanted to review it but was unwilling to try his best; he would find someone to read it, just sit and listen.
The Qi Mansion often comes to walk around. If those scholars who are not yet in the position can serve in front of Qi Tai, it will be a job they can't afford.
The supervisor chosen by Qi Tai has a good voice and a straightforward and sounds very comfortable.
Sometimes, Qi Tai would listen to some popular books, such as the book "Song Jiang" written by the modern literati Shi Nai'an, who wrote the anti-uprising, which Qi Tai found very interesting.
The content is exaggerated, but why the people in the book rebelled is written in a reasonable and reasonable way.
The supervisor finished reading a volume and stopped for a while.Qi Tai said: I'll just read this today.
The student immediately bowed respectfully, put the book together and put it back on the shelf, then bowed with his fists, lifted up the hem of his robe, and walked out of the threshold.
Qi Tai continued to stay in the study. He turned the chair in a direction and faced the wall. He stared at the fake painting of the Snow Creek Wandu, while looking at it while pondering.
At this moment, his young and beautiful wife, Yang Yunniang, who was as young as her daughter, walked into the study. She came up to take away the cold tea and said: Husband is back early today.
Qi Tai turned around and said: The matter is done, come back soon.
The couple didn't say much, and they usually said something like this, such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, and they did their own things after a few words.
But today Yang suddenly said something deeper: Why is your husband always unhappy?
Qi Tai said in surprise: Is there any?
Yang pointed to her face and said: Every day seems to be very worried, but everyone in the world envies her husband.
Qi Tai glanced at her and said: You are hard to repay your kindness.
As soon as he finished speaking, a servant in a common man with a bun walked to the door of the study and bent down and said, "Master, Lord Gao is here to visit."
Yang immediately said: It's Xianning.
Qi Tai said: Let him come in.
yes.The slave responded and retreated.
Yang welcomes Qi Tai's students and Gao Xianning to visit, because Gao Xianning is more interesting after coming. He often speaks lightly and laughs, and also talks about some anecdotes and interesting things, but he is not that serious.
After a while, Gao Xianning arrived and walked straight into the study and came up to see him.Then Gao Xianning bowed to Yang again: Hello, Master’s wife.Qi Tai said casually: Let’s sit down.
Yang said: When you teachers and students talk, I will go to make a pot of tea and ask someone to prepare a table of wine and food.Xianning will have dinner at home today.
Gao Xianning smiled and said: How can you be so embarrassed?Students come to eat and drink from time to time. Should they pay some food to their master’s wife?
Yang said: Then you can't just talk but not move.
Gao Xianning smiled and said: You are busy first.After saying that, he looked at Qi Tai's chair, and turned to look at the fake painting on the wall.
Seeing this, Qi Tai also followed Gao Xianning to take a look. After the two of them looked at each other for a while, the atmosphere was a bit strange.Gao Xianning then stepped forward and sat down on a chair.
Today, the money envoy from the Guardian Department has come to me and we have a long talk.Qi Tai spoke.He then re-articled the story of Qian Xun's deficit and the whole story with Gao Xianning.
After hearing this, Gao Xianning said: The student thinks that this matter is an opportunity.
How to say it?Qi Tai immediately asked with great interest.
Gao Xianning thought for a while and said: The wall bricks on the inner city wall of the capital have inscriptions on them, and the names of the five or six officials above the brick makers are on them.This was done by Taizu when he built the city walls of the capital to ensure the reliability of bricks and stones.
Qi Tai nodded and signaled him to continue speaking.
Gao Xianning said: Just turn your head in a simple way, this method must be used; it is because those turn heads come from countless prefectures and counties, with different sources and scattered supply from various places.The imperial court has always been assigned in this way to build city walls and houses and make armour.
Now the emperor requires that the armor and firearms be excellent. If Taizu's method is used, it will not be possible.
A set of armor, from feeding materials to forging armor pieces, assembled into a set, how can each armor be engraved with a name?
The materials used have been fire forged, so how can I check the source of the iron?
Therefore, to create a set of excellent and reliable armor or to make a fire gun of accurate size, many rules will be needed.
Qi Tai said: Qian Xun lacked experience in the officialdom and was very loyal to the emperor, so he kept doing it himself.He got things done roughly, but he left a mess and only came to ask me for help now.
Gao Xianning said: My teacher has a clear understanding, there is only one Qian Xun.If this matter is changed, it will be difficult to handle. Even if Qian Xun does it again, it may not be possible.
Qi Tai nodded and said yes.
Gao Xianning said: If the emperor asks for things like this every time, he will have to change the rules.Next time, let Xiabutang or Rubutang do it, and see what he will do.Is this an opportunity?
When Qi Tai heard this, his half-closed eyes opened and looked at Gao Xianning with a strange look.
Gao Xianning bowed and showed a meaningful smile on his face.
Qi Tai pondered: The emperor said some things, some of which are very novel and difficult to explain, about industry and commerce, and about currency.At first I was often confused when I heard it, but later I thought it a few more times and felt it was quite reasonable and meaningful.Gradually, it seemed that I could understand what the emperor wanted.
He paused and said, "At first, I didn't understand because I didn't expect that the emperor would think so deeply about the specific affairs inside and outside the court in the army."
The two of them fell silent, still sitting there, as if they were thinking and recalling.
At this time, Yang Yunniang walked in with a teapot and cup in person.Seeing the teacher and student sitting silently, she said nothing, she was surprised and said: Are you arguing with Xianning?
Gao Xianning came to his senses, smiled, and bowed: No, no.It was a shame for the teacher’s wife to serve tea in person, and the student was rude.
Yang Yunniang shook her head, walked to the next few cases, and poured two cups of tea with her own hands.After covering the cup lid, she left the study and did not disturb the conversation between the two.
Qi Tai said: You can start reforms from the South Railway Station from small to large.Qian Xun's approach is right and it also conforms to the emperor's intention.Use currency and profit as the connection between various links and divide the work and cooperate.
Spend money to buy iron and charcoal from the private mines or official mines of the Shangbang. In order to make a deal, the other party will find ways to provide good materials by themselves; rather than being forced to deal with it.
The method of hiring craftsmen with money can also screen craftsmen and obtain skilled craftsmen.
However, the original method of passing government orders and stipulating the distribution of supply costs in each county; the court did not have to pay, and passed the costs to local governments, but the results were obviously very poor.Moreover, there is a lack of room for space, and localities are delayed and short of supply, so the upper party cannot continue; if one error occurs, it will drag down the overall situation.
Gao Xianning frowned and said: Students think there are three difficulties in Qian Xun's method.First, if the iron plant produces more military weapons, or this method is expanded to various government offices, the court undoubtedly needs a large amount of coins to maintain.
The original method for the imperial court to make profits from local areas was to allow local governments to supply physical goods regularly to various military garrisons and yamen, and the other was to corvee labor and requisition manpower for free.
Once the court changes to currency to maintain the situation, taxes, taxes, labor and labor service will be changed.
In the past few years, it was able to be maintained through the central bank's mint. In the future, the court was worried that too much money would be issued and that the coins would be unprofitable, so it could only try to increase its income.
Second, the law must be changed and private merchants such as merchants and private mine owners must be allowed to legally hire manpower; in this way, the court can purchase a large amount of expenses and materials.
This proposal may be very obstacle.This allows private people to gather a large number of Dingkou, and the court has to be wary of their rebellion; or they are wary of their livelihoods to coerce a large number of people and seek power from the government.
Throughout the dynasties, the court has been committed to maintaining the scattered number of self-cultivated farmers and weakening the power of the rich, believing that it is a plan for long-term stability.Now that I do the opposite, there is inevitably criticism.
Third, the students thought that the issues mentioned by Jianbutang were not slanderous.A large amount of coins flows in all links to maintain the situation; then there will inevitably be corrupt officials who will do their best to make money and relax purchases for the benefit.If the result is still inferior as good ones, which adds a lot of problems, it will be more than worth the loss.
Qi Tai nodded and said: Xianning made a lot of sense and thought it through very thoroughly; therefore I did not object to the Xia Yuanji Party too much.If the reform does not improve, those real benefits in the end may fall into the hands of the so-called new party, but they will be harmful to the court.
Qi Tai thought for a while, looked at Gao Xianning and said: What do you think is the way to restrict the power of each yamen?
Gao Xianning immediately smiled and said: Did his mentor once teach students the way to balance?
Qi Tai said with a good memory: You remember very well.When making arrangements in the future, you must consider checks and balances between multiple parties, otherwise you cannot change the law.
The two of them stopped talking fiercely for the time being, and Qi Tai stood up from the chair and paced among piles of books for a while.
Gao Xianning said with a serious expression: This layout and thoughts are unprecedented.The wide range of involvement and the serious consequences are unpredictable.Is it good or bad?
Qi Tai said in a deep voice: The emperor wants to achieve great things, and this is what he wants to accomplish.I have been tactfully persuading the priest to be cautious, but since the priest is determined not to regret it, I just repay my kindness with myself.
After hearing this, Gao Xianning stood up and bowed to Qi Tai and bowed respectfully: The student is willing to help his mentor.
Qi Tai walked to the door, looked at the scene outside, and with his hands behind his back, the study room fell into a long silence again.Gao Xianning picked up the tea that his master's wife placed on a few tables, put it next to her mouth and drank it.
He sat on a rattan chair in his study, drinking tea for a long time.
Next to him is an Imperial College Supervisor, who is studying for him. He reads "Tongjian", and the version is from Jingyou, the Southern Song Dynasty.
He had read this book a long time ago, but sometimes he wanted to review it but was unwilling to try his best; he would find someone to read it, just sit and listen.
The Qi Mansion often comes to walk around. If those scholars who are not yet in the position can serve in front of Qi Tai, it will be a job they can't afford.
The supervisor chosen by Qi Tai has a good voice and a straightforward and sounds very comfortable.
Sometimes, Qi Tai would listen to some popular books, such as the book "Song Jiang" written by the modern literati Shi Nai'an, who wrote the anti-uprising, which Qi Tai found very interesting.
The content is exaggerated, but why the people in the book rebelled is written in a reasonable and reasonable way.
The supervisor finished reading a volume and stopped for a while.Qi Tai said: I'll just read this today.
The student immediately bowed respectfully, put the book together and put it back on the shelf, then bowed with his fists, lifted up the hem of his robe, and walked out of the threshold.
Qi Tai continued to stay in the study. He turned the chair in a direction and faced the wall. He stared at the fake painting of the Snow Creek Wandu, while looking at it while pondering.
At this moment, his young and beautiful wife, Yang Yunniang, who was as young as her daughter, walked into the study. She came up to take away the cold tea and said: Husband is back early today.
Qi Tai turned around and said: The matter is done, come back soon.
The couple didn't say much, and they usually said something like this, such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, and they did their own things after a few words.
But today Yang suddenly said something deeper: Why is your husband always unhappy?
Qi Tai said in surprise: Is there any?
Yang pointed to her face and said: Every day seems to be very worried, but everyone in the world envies her husband.
Qi Tai glanced at her and said: You are hard to repay your kindness.
As soon as he finished speaking, a servant in a common man with a bun walked to the door of the study and bent down and said, "Master, Lord Gao is here to visit."
Yang immediately said: It's Xianning.
Qi Tai said: Let him come in.
yes.The slave responded and retreated.
Yang welcomes Qi Tai's students and Gao Xianning to visit, because Gao Xianning is more interesting after coming. He often speaks lightly and laughs, and also talks about some anecdotes and interesting things, but he is not that serious.
After a while, Gao Xianning arrived and walked straight into the study and came up to see him.Then Gao Xianning bowed to Yang again: Hello, Master’s wife.Qi Tai said casually: Let’s sit down.
Yang said: When you teachers and students talk, I will go to make a pot of tea and ask someone to prepare a table of wine and food.Xianning will have dinner at home today.
Gao Xianning smiled and said: How can you be so embarrassed?Students come to eat and drink from time to time. Should they pay some food to their master’s wife?
Yang said: Then you can't just talk but not move.
Gao Xianning smiled and said: You are busy first.After saying that, he looked at Qi Tai's chair, and turned to look at the fake painting on the wall.
Seeing this, Qi Tai also followed Gao Xianning to take a look. After the two of them looked at each other for a while, the atmosphere was a bit strange.Gao Xianning then stepped forward and sat down on a chair.
Today, the money envoy from the Guardian Department has come to me and we have a long talk.Qi Tai spoke.He then re-articled the story of Qian Xun's deficit and the whole story with Gao Xianning.
After hearing this, Gao Xianning said: The student thinks that this matter is an opportunity.
How to say it?Qi Tai immediately asked with great interest.
Gao Xianning thought for a while and said: The wall bricks on the inner city wall of the capital have inscriptions on them, and the names of the five or six officials above the brick makers are on them.This was done by Taizu when he built the city walls of the capital to ensure the reliability of bricks and stones.
Qi Tai nodded and signaled him to continue speaking.
Gao Xianning said: Just turn your head in a simple way, this method must be used; it is because those turn heads come from countless prefectures and counties, with different sources and scattered supply from various places.The imperial court has always been assigned in this way to build city walls and houses and make armour.
Now the emperor requires that the armor and firearms be excellent. If Taizu's method is used, it will not be possible.
A set of armor, from feeding materials to forging armor pieces, assembled into a set, how can each armor be engraved with a name?
The materials used have been fire forged, so how can I check the source of the iron?
Therefore, to create a set of excellent and reliable armor or to make a fire gun of accurate size, many rules will be needed.
Qi Tai said: Qian Xun lacked experience in the officialdom and was very loyal to the emperor, so he kept doing it himself.He got things done roughly, but he left a mess and only came to ask me for help now.
Gao Xianning said: My teacher has a clear understanding, there is only one Qian Xun.If this matter is changed, it will be difficult to handle. Even if Qian Xun does it again, it may not be possible.
Qi Tai nodded and said yes.
Gao Xianning said: If the emperor asks for things like this every time, he will have to change the rules.Next time, let Xiabutang or Rubutang do it, and see what he will do.Is this an opportunity?
When Qi Tai heard this, his half-closed eyes opened and looked at Gao Xianning with a strange look.
Gao Xianning bowed and showed a meaningful smile on his face.
Qi Tai pondered: The emperor said some things, some of which are very novel and difficult to explain, about industry and commerce, and about currency.At first I was often confused when I heard it, but later I thought it a few more times and felt it was quite reasonable and meaningful.Gradually, it seemed that I could understand what the emperor wanted.
He paused and said, "At first, I didn't understand because I didn't expect that the emperor would think so deeply about the specific affairs inside and outside the court in the army."
The two of them fell silent, still sitting there, as if they were thinking and recalling.
At this time, Yang Yunniang walked in with a teapot and cup in person.Seeing the teacher and student sitting silently, she said nothing, she was surprised and said: Are you arguing with Xianning?
Gao Xianning came to his senses, smiled, and bowed: No, no.It was a shame for the teacher’s wife to serve tea in person, and the student was rude.
Yang Yunniang shook her head, walked to the next few cases, and poured two cups of tea with her own hands.After covering the cup lid, she left the study and did not disturb the conversation between the two.
Qi Tai said: You can start reforms from the South Railway Station from small to large.Qian Xun's approach is right and it also conforms to the emperor's intention.Use currency and profit as the connection between various links and divide the work and cooperate.
Spend money to buy iron and charcoal from the private mines or official mines of the Shangbang. In order to make a deal, the other party will find ways to provide good materials by themselves; rather than being forced to deal with it.
The method of hiring craftsmen with money can also screen craftsmen and obtain skilled craftsmen.
However, the original method of passing government orders and stipulating the distribution of supply costs in each county; the court did not have to pay, and passed the costs to local governments, but the results were obviously very poor.Moreover, there is a lack of room for space, and localities are delayed and short of supply, so the upper party cannot continue; if one error occurs, it will drag down the overall situation.
Gao Xianning frowned and said: Students think there are three difficulties in Qian Xun's method.First, if the iron plant produces more military weapons, or this method is expanded to various government offices, the court undoubtedly needs a large amount of coins to maintain.
The original method for the imperial court to make profits from local areas was to allow local governments to supply physical goods regularly to various military garrisons and yamen, and the other was to corvee labor and requisition manpower for free.
Once the court changes to currency to maintain the situation, taxes, taxes, labor and labor service will be changed.
In the past few years, it was able to be maintained through the central bank's mint. In the future, the court was worried that too much money would be issued and that the coins would be unprofitable, so it could only try to increase its income.
Second, the law must be changed and private merchants such as merchants and private mine owners must be allowed to legally hire manpower; in this way, the court can purchase a large amount of expenses and materials.
This proposal may be very obstacle.This allows private people to gather a large number of Dingkou, and the court has to be wary of their rebellion; or they are wary of their livelihoods to coerce a large number of people and seek power from the government.
Throughout the dynasties, the court has been committed to maintaining the scattered number of self-cultivated farmers and weakening the power of the rich, believing that it is a plan for long-term stability.Now that I do the opposite, there is inevitably criticism.
Third, the students thought that the issues mentioned by Jianbutang were not slanderous.A large amount of coins flows in all links to maintain the situation; then there will inevitably be corrupt officials who will do their best to make money and relax purchases for the benefit.If the result is still inferior as good ones, which adds a lot of problems, it will be more than worth the loss.
Qi Tai nodded and said: Xianning made a lot of sense and thought it through very thoroughly; therefore I did not object to the Xia Yuanji Party too much.If the reform does not improve, those real benefits in the end may fall into the hands of the so-called new party, but they will be harmful to the court.
Qi Tai thought for a while, looked at Gao Xianning and said: What do you think is the way to restrict the power of each yamen?
Gao Xianning immediately smiled and said: Did his mentor once teach students the way to balance?
Qi Tai said with a good memory: You remember very well.When making arrangements in the future, you must consider checks and balances between multiple parties, otherwise you cannot change the law.
The two of them stopped talking fiercely for the time being, and Qi Tai stood up from the chair and paced among piles of books for a while.
Gao Xianning said with a serious expression: This layout and thoughts are unprecedented.The wide range of involvement and the serious consequences are unpredictable.Is it good or bad?
Qi Tai said in a deep voice: The emperor wants to achieve great things, and this is what he wants to accomplish.I have been tactfully persuading the priest to be cautious, but since the priest is determined not to regret it, I just repay my kindness with myself.
After hearing this, Gao Xianning stood up and bowed to Qi Tai and bowed respectfully: The student is willing to help his mentor.
Qi Tai walked to the door, looked at the scene outside, and with his hands behind his back, the study room fell into a long silence again.Gao Xianning picked up the tea that his master's wife placed on a few tables, put it next to her mouth and drank it.
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