No one knows the reason for Ye An's special status in the palace. Even the officials in the court can see that no matter officials or saints, they have an inexplicable regard for Ye An.
But today, Cao Yi and Li Zunxu discovered something strange. A high-ranking official in the palace like Chen Lin actually had a very close relationship with Ye An. What if ordinary people dared to say this to him?
They knew that Chen Lin lived in Ye An's house, but they didn't expect this kind of relationship. They originally thought that Liu E was spying on Ye An openly, but they didn't expect that there was actually some intimacy involved.
Lan Jizong and Chen Lin, who knows their status in the palace?
These two people happened to have a close relationship with Ye An, which Cao and Li could not help but guess.
Of course, Li Zunxu knew more than Cao Yi, and Zhao Qingyi got quite a wealth of information from the palace.
She knew the special status of Ye An and Qin Mumu in the Tian family. Although she didn't know the details, one thing she made clear to Li Zunxu was that the Tian family had special trust and even belief in Ye An and Qin Mumu.
This is the most difficult thing for foreign ministers to obtain, regardless of whether they are born noble or not, or what their rank is.
No matter how the Tian family employs people, they all have their own bottom line. It is difficult to have a relationship with a foreign minister as close as a foreign relative. Although a foreign relative is close to the Tian family, he is feared by the Tian family.
The couple in the Yunzhong County Marquis Mansion were completely different. Neither Ye An nor Qin Mumu were relatives, nor were they high-ranking officials. However, they were able to gain trust that all courtiers could not match. This could not help but surprise Li Zunxu.
After looking at Cao Yi beside him, Li Zunxu still didn't say the words. This was a secret, a secret that even his own son didn't know. There was no need to tell others about it.
In fact, Ye An's visit to Cao and Li for fishing was more about exchanging information. Recently, there have been many disputes between the DPRK and China on whether to abolish the shooting law, and it was related to Sun Shi, so Ye An was a little unsure.
Of course the news Chen Lin gave him was true, but Ye An would not believe what the family said. The reason why Ye An attached so much importance to this matter was not only because Sun Shi, a great Confucian scholar, was more concerned about the reform of the law.
The pasting method was a reform of the tax law of the Song Dynasty. Although it only involved tea tax, it was already a very successful model.
The current attacks are obviously due to the vested interests who did not want their privileges to be taken back, and the failure of the Song Dynasty's reform often came from this.
This is an excellent observation opportunity for Ye An.
If you want to reform, you must learn from experience. There is almost no precedent for observing successful reforms in the Song Dynasty. There are more experiences of failure, but who says that failed experience is useless?
Many lessons learned from failures are of great use to Ye An, a person who is preparing for reform!
Observe the opposition of Sun Xi and others, as well as the reactions of other people in the DPRK. The most important thing is to observe the determination of Liu E and Zhao Zhen towards the reform.
Without the support of the Heavenly Family, trying to reform is nothing more than wishful thinking, but even with the support of the Heavenly Family, the question lies in the strength of the Heavenly Family's support.
The failure of the Song Dynasty's reform was not only a matter of execution and the interference of external forces, but also a matter of the ruler's determination to withstand the tremendous pressure.
Although Cao Yi and Li Zunxu were not civil servants, one of them was a military commander and the other was a relative, so they had a much clearer view of what was going on in the court.
"Sun Shi's opposition to the Tieshe Law was not out of selfish interests. Since the implementation of the Tieshe Law, tea growers have been unable to pay fixed fees to the court, and these tea farmers are often poor people and cannot pay to the government.
The state pays taxes, so some profiteers also forcefully buy tea and sell it in the name of tea. This not only exploits the tea farmers, but also steals the tea tax of the state, so Sun Hanlin strongly opposed it."
Li Zunxu's words were polite and proper, just as Ye An expected, but Cao Yi smiled and said: "Even so, the Sun family is a big one among the tea merchants in the southeast. Many tea houses follow the Sun family's lead, and their interests are involved.
, who knows whether he really cares about the country’s laws or whether he is pretending to be a public servant for personal gain?!”
Ye An smiled. He already had the answer in his heart. What both of them said may be right. Even Chen Lin doubted Sun Shi's purpose. But one thing is undeniable. There are problems with the sticking method itself.
Tea is a government-run monopoly, and since the tea dealers in the Southeast Tea Farm can make huge profits from it, it can be seen that this system is inherently flawed, and who knows this flaw best?
Ye An bit the handle of his pen and looked at the copy of Sun Shi's memorial in front of him. This thing was copied from the Zhongshu Province through Li Zunxu's help. Although it was a memorial, it was not considered a secret. It didn't hurt to take a look. Chen Lin just glanced at it.
He stopped talking and pretended not to have seen him.
He simply circled a few places with a pen and connected them together to get the result of Ye An's analysis. He looked up at the gray sky and sighed: "No one can make mistakes without being a sage! After all, you can't escape the word profit!"
After saying that, he threw the memorial into the stream and watched the document tumbling in the water and floating away.
Cao Yi looked at Li Zunxu in surprise, while Chen Lin sneered and said nothing. This was what he expected. He already felt that Sun Xi's objection to the sticking method had an impure purpose.
"What did Brother Changsheng see?"
"Nothing, I just know that what you two said is correct. Sun Xueshi's reasons for opposing the sticking method are very good. There is nothing to criticize, but... he is also a person with interests. Although the sticking method is not perfect,
But it’s not to the point of abolishing it, he just said that the sticking method is not good and that it should be abolished and replaced by the refraction method.”
As soon as Ye An finished speaking, Li Zunxu who was standing next to him said, "Then there is a right and a wrong?"
"Since we know the disadvantages of sticking shooting method, why is it not that we should improve the sticking shooting method, but should completely abolish the one-stick shooting method?!"
Cao Yi chuckled: "That's right! My second uncle has said this a long time ago. Brother Changsheng is not simple! He knows the subtleties and finds out the key points from the documents!"
Li Zunxu shook his head slightly and said: "Hey! I didn't expect that a great scholar of a generation would lose his life due to the possessions outside his body..."
"But don't say that. It won't matter if Wan Jie is not guaranteed. It's just a choice involving his own interests." Ye An still didn't want to say that Sun Shi was wrong. After all, he had learned a lot from him, and it was Wang Yuan.
My husband is my master on the path of literature and art.
Cao Yi naturally knew what he was concerned about, and nodded slightly: "What Brother Changsheng said is that this matter has not been decided yet, we can't say it to death, and we can't say whether it is right or wrong? Who dares to taint those civil servants!"
Ye An rolled his eyes: "How do you say this? Am I, Ye Changsheng, not a civil servant?"
"Are you a civil servant?!"
Cao Yi, Li Zunxu, and Chen Lin almost all asked in unison, which made Ye Anwen speechless. He was obviously from a literary background, but he couldn't get into the ranks of literary officials...
Even someone like Xia Song, whose father was a military official and became an official, can be regarded as a civil servant, but he can't do it. Ye An is so angry!