Chapter two hundred and fourteenth deep palace secret performance
What kind of duet requires a saint to bring Ye An back to Funing Palace?
Lan Jizong couldn't figure it out and didn't dare to think about it...
He did not deny that Ye An was handsome and charming, but... once this matter was spread, not only would the saint's reputation be damaged, but Ye An's reputation would also become shameful and would never recover.
Back then, Empress Wu's "favouring favor" had already become a lingering infamy for her. Now that the saint has brought a young and handsome foreign minister back to the palace, it is very likely to become a heart-breaking remark!
The most private place in the entire palace is nowhere else but the bedroom of Queen Mother Liu E. In order to clear up the palace restrictions, the entire palace was cleaned inside and out.
But there is no airtight wall in the world. Once the news spread that foreign ministers had entered the Queen Mother's palace, the consequences would be disastrous. Fortunately, the officials were still with her.
It is precisely because of this that Lan Jizong dared to take Ye An all the way through the palace gate to Funing Palace.
In fact, in Ye An's view, there was no difference between Liu E's palace and Zishan Hall. The only difference was that it was deep in the palace. He didn't see many people along the way. Most of them had been sent by Lan Jizong.
Went away.
Today he said he was giving lectures to officials, but in fact it had a different purpose. He was admonishing Liu E, and at the same time he was describing a future for her.
As a ruler, Liu E's vision was much further than that of Zhao Zhen, a fledgling official, and she also had a keener political sense than him.
So she saw the future of the Song Dynasty in Ye An's simple compound interest problem, and she also saw this little flash of inspiration related to the prosperity of the dynasty.
"With potatoes and sweet potatoes, the annual food output of the Song Dynasty will be astonishing. If there is more food, food prices will fall, and people will have more food. In this way, the country will be more stable. Ye An's
Is that what you meant?"
Ye An smiled and nodded: "Sage, saint! There is more food and lower food prices. The biggest change is not that people have enough food and drink, but that there will be surplus labor..."
Liu E couldn't understand what Ye An said, but she was waiting for Ye An to explain, because this was his family knowledge, and he wanted to express it in words he could understand.
Sure enough, Ye An said with a serious face: "Sages, officials, and the state of the country are inseparable from the scholars, farmers, industry, and commerce, and apart from the scholars, the three of them are the country's economy!"
Zhao Zhen asked curiously: "What is economy?"
Ye An knew he would ask this question, and said slowly: "This is the combination of "economic state", "economic state" and "benefiting the world" and "benefiting the people". In the final analysis, it is the affairs under the jurisdiction of the three departments. Farmers,
Hundreds of workers and merchants formed the economy of our Song Dynasty and were the key to governing the country!"
"Although your statement is novel, it is also something that has existed for a long time. Let's talk about the specific changes, such as the changes that potatoes and sweet potatoes will bring to the country."
Liu E agreed with Ye An's statement, but she wanted to know more about the changes, so her eyes shone with excitement.
"Farmers have more grain. In addition to keeping part of it as needed grain storage and turning over part as tax, selling the rest also means that farmers have more money."
Liu E nodded and said: "This is natural, but what happens next?"
"Farmers will spend money when they have more money! Spending money will make the market prosperous, and people will have more demand for goods. In this way, the demand for workers will be greater, and the labor required will be greater.
There will be more.”
Before Ye An finished speaking, Liu E understood what he meant. This is a very simple truth, and it is also the most intuitive change brought about by increased grain production.
"What Ye Hou means is that with the promotion of potatoes and sweet potatoes, the entire country will become rich?"
Ye An nodded and said: "This is what I mean. The country is rich and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Farmers no longer have to work on the land all day long. They have one more way out, which is to work and produce goods, all kinds of
goods!
This will solve the problem of farmers not being able to make money or eat, and it will also give them another way out when they lose their land and will not be forced to rebel!"
Although Ye An never mentioned "land annexation" from beginning to end, Liu E knew what he meant.
This is the ultimate answer she wants. In fact, like most emperors of the Han family, she knows the harm that land annexation brings to the dynasty, but unfortunately she doesn't know how to solve it.
The most direct change caused by land annexation is that the land in the hands of farmers is getting less and less, and the land in the hands of rich people, officials, and nobles is getting more and more.
What will the country's dynasty look like in the long run? Liu E can only imagine the outcome with her heels.
Land annexation has always been a concern for Ye An. It is a "loophole" hidden in history and a "ticking time bomb" in all dynasties.
From "compound interest" to auspiciousness, from potatoes and sweet potatoes to the economy of the Song Dynasty, Ye An has been guiding the topic to the land, and has always taken the initiative in the topic.
Although he was the one being questioned, Ye An kept throwing out bait to guide Liu E.
Judging from Liu E's current attitude, he succeeded. Liu E is not a dull person. On the contrary, she has been in a high position for many years. Of course she can see through Ye An's tricks, but now she is completely surrounded by another huge surprise.
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Does Ye An understand Liu E?
Of course he did, he knew many secrets about Liu E, knew her origins, knew her desire for power, knew her relationship with Zhao Zhen, and even knew that she had no intention of proclaiming herself emperor.
This woman is just extremely eager for power, and she is also extremely eager for fame!
She wants to leave a strong mark in the history of painting. How can such a person miss a piece of the "big pie"?
So Ye An drew a huge "blueprint" in front of her. This blueprint was the beginning of changing everything. It was the beginning of changing the haze that Ye An didn't want to see in the history books that hung over China!
He always remembered what the professor once said: "There will be no China after Yashan, and there will be no China after the fall of Ming Dynasty!"
If the Song Dynasty was replaced by other Han dynasties, Ye An would not regret it. This was a historical choice and the natural law of survival of the fittest.
But he couldn't accept being replaced by a foreigner. The more he got used to living in the Song Dynasty and became more comfortable, the more intense his sense of crisis became.
The Yuan and Mongols were foreigners, and the Manchus and Qing Dynasties were also foreigners. What they brought to Chinese civilization was not integration, but destruction. Any integration of foreign civilization with China must be led by the Han family, otherwise it will lead to degradation.
The prototype of thermal weapons had already appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and they were even formally involved in the war. Why did the Manchu Qing Dynasty not only not develop but also decline, until hundreds of years later, the powerful ships and guns of the Westerners opened the country?
Because foreigners have no benefit at all to the development of Han civilization. They are only destroying and retaining the dross of supporting the rule!
In the Song Dynasty, Ye An had already seen the development of Confucianism. Confucianism in this era did not have perverted constraints and absurd theories, nor was it the extreme of destroying human beings to preserve natural principles.
On the contrary, applying what you have learned can be seen everywhere in Confucianism of this era, and the idea of serving the country and the people runs through it. It can be said that the current Confucianism is positive and comprehensive, which is far from the Confucianism in Ye An's impression!