In late spring, it was drizzling like smoke, and the rain fell all day long. I couldn't finish the fish I caught, so I made fish sashimi and asked several young officials to take them back. These fish looked inconspicuous, and it would cost a few cents of money to buy them.

Everyone returned home with great pleasure, and arrived near the Imperial College in Zhouqiao and bowed to his goodbye.

Xu Ping took Liu Xiaoyi and a few shopkeepers to walk slowly on the avenue, thinking about his thoughts in the spring rain like smoke and fog. Today, Jin Mingchi's party was to contact the lower-level library and pavilion ministers, and the other was to exchange opinions with Fan Zhongyan.

Politics has never been without parties, it is just a close relationship or a loose one. As the general trend is, Lu Yijian has become a target for many years of control of the government. Due to various reasons, middle-level officials were unable to form a joint force to confront it, so they gave the chance of a museum staff who had a relatively high political status not long after entering the official career. Fan Zhongyan became the co-leader of these people by chance.

Fan Zhongyan did not build a private party. Young officials gathered around him because of the same political views, and some were attracted by his personal character. Fan Zhongyan himself was pushed to the position of co-lord.

Due to the relationship between the Three Departments Regulation Editing Institute, a group of young officials gathered around Xu Ping, and there were many overlaps between the two. In this reality, they had to make some things clear.

Xu Ping's political views are unclear and his attitude seems a bit ambiguous, which aroused dissatisfaction among some people around him. But Xu Ping did not intend to change. To put it bluntly, whether Lu Yijian is still not defeated, it has no impact on his political future. Why should he jump out and be that evil person? Especially when he knew Fan Zhongyan's failure from his previous life history.

What Xu Ping needs to do now is to use the three departments as an institution to straighten out the social order related to the economy. As long as this is achieved, many problems in the government will not be a problem.

Financial management is another sensitive issue. Xu Ping can feel it from today’s conversation with Fan Zhongyan.

In the final analysis, it is what Fan Zhongyan said. The world's wealth is worthwhile, but it is not the people. If the court's fiscal revenue is too much, it will definitely harm people's livelihood. If this problem is not solved, deep conflicts with Fan Zhongyan's thoughts have always existed. Fan Zhongyan is willing to take a step back when promoting the big farmlands because Xu Ping's financial management achievements over the years, whether it is the sugar sugar business in Yongzhou or the new farms and shops opened by the Sansi in the capital, have not harmed people's livelihood, but also benefited people's livelihood.

Once there is a problem at this point, the basis for cooperation between the two parties will no longer exist.

During the day, Xu Ping wanted to answer Fan Zhongyan's words: Labor creates value, and all wealth is based on human labor. Since labor can create value and wealth can be created, then the increase in effective labor force and the increase in labor productivity can increase wealth.

This was common sense in Xu Ping's previous life, but this era may not be the case.

Recognizing that wealth can be created is crucial for social development, and later economic development and economic policies are based on this foundation. Only by understanding this can we get rid of economic problems from focusing on wealth distribution and transfer them to expanding production and productivity development.

In ancient China, economists and capable financial officials focused on the redistribution of wealth. This was the case for agriculture and commerce, the suppression of mergers, the same as salt and iron franchise, and even more so for advocated light taxes and levies. From Guan Zhongsang Hongyang to Liu Yan, a capable financial minister in the Tang Dynasty, this idea has been passed down unchanged.

They cannot answer where wealth comes from, and policies lose their continuity.

Every fiscal reform faces the torture of "competing for profit with the people", and the root of the thought is here. If you can't tell where the official wealth comes from, you can't clearly state that it was not stolen from the mouths of the people, and the reform will be wiped out.

Labor creates value, which is not just a sentence, but the foundation of the economic system. A complete set of theories must be developed based on this sentence to show the power of this sentence. Explaining the production and proliferation of wealth and making it a social consensus will point out the path of economic development. Without Xu Ping's efforts to come up with any ideas for making money, other officials can come up with endless ways. They are all excellent talents, but they have not found the way.

Xu Ping is not able to complete this set of theories now. No matter what you learned in your previous life or your learning of classics in this life, Xu Ping's knowledge is not systematic. It is okay to occasionally say something that makes people unconscious. It is possible to systematically explain an academic issue but fail to achieve it. This is Xu Ping's helplessness. Sometimes he feels powerless.

When he returned to the gate of his own courtyard in the city, Xu Ping said to Liu Xiaoyi: "I'll stop here today. You go back and tell your home, don't wait for me."

Liu Xiaoyi turned to him and took a few shopkeepers. He also had to take care of the restaurant outside the city and could not stay with Xu Ping at all times. Today, he called him over because he wanted a capable person to do it.

The servant came out and led the horse, and Xu Ping entered the yard.

After entering the living room, wiped the wet water vapor on his face, Xu Ping breathed out and sat down on the chair. It was quite artistic to go out for a trip in misty weather, but it was really not very comfortable.

It was not until he took a hot bath and changed his clothes, and his whole body was completely cooled down and Xu Ping truly sootheed. He took a basin of charcoal fire and placed it in front of him. Xu Ping roasted the fire, and his whole body was warm, and he leaned on the chair and fell asleep unknowingly.

At some point, the sound of footsteps outside the door woke Xu Ping up. He sat up straight before he saw Li Lu reaching the door outside.

After seeing the gift, Xu Ping asked the servant to bring a chair and let Li Lu sit down opposite him.

After roasting for a while, Xu Ping asked Li Xu: "What do you think about today's palace examination?"

Li Xu replied respectfully: "The students themselves think that although the article is not outstanding, there is nothing out of the ordinary."

"Well, just be sure there are no miscellaneous offenders."

"I kept the instructions in my heart after writing them. After I checked them over and over again. There was no rhyme or other words, and there should be no miscellaneous crimes."

Miscellaneous offenders are the first time that literati who participated in the imperial examination are frightening to make mistakes. They make rhymes, different characters, or write words that violate taboos. They are all selected in advance before the marking, and they are directly dismissed, and there is no chance to participate in the evaluation. Li Di's luck, if he is miscellaneous offenders, he can still win the top scorer, which is the only one in many years.

It was almost evening, and the light rain that had been heavy like thick fog began to get a little heavy, and gradually there was a drizzle. Spring was a time when it was warm and cold, and this kind of weather would inevitably be cold at this time.

It is precisely because of the cold air that it feels particularly comfortable to roast the fire on rainy nights.

Xu Ping sat on the chair, feeling warm and bored all over. He said to Li Xu: "There is nothing to do on the rainy night. Please write the article on the palace examination with paper and pen. I will have a clear idea in my heart."

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Chapter completed!