To a certain extent, Zhao Huan's task was almost impossible to complete. If he did not forcibly abolish corvee, the Eastern Palace could also make money by exploiting the people. However, in the words of the emperor, if the emperor abolished corvee, the ministers of the Eastern Palace would all collapse.

Fortunately, the emperor promised to abolish miscellaneous taxes for two years. Otherwise, Wang Boyan, Tang Ke and others would really hang themselves.

However, the court in the Song Dynasty was in chaos for a time, and the news that the emperor was about to reorganize was spread quickly through the strict imperial city. For a time, there were many discussions in the city of Tokyo, and officials from various prefectures and counties were firmly in the government office, but they were not as worried as those of the Beijing officials.

After all, the people below are high and the emperor is far away, and the influence is not great. At most, Tokyo will do whatever policy comes, and it will do whatever it takes. As for whether it can be done or not, there is no need to think about it. Anyway, everything is up to the husbands above. No matter what, it is not my turn to be a small official. Let's continue to collect my own rent, count the money, play with women, the life and death of the Song Dynasty is my nonsense!

As for how to change it, no definite news has been revealed. However, what is certain now is that this corvee service was definitely abolished.

The grain transport case started because of labor service. The emperor took more than a thousand heads and expressed his determination to the whole world. Even those officials who were full of money now dared not to indulge the people below to publicly tell the people that they would do labor service.

At most, the people do their work and deduct their wages first, and then find some reasons to make things difficult for them to say that the work is not done well, and the salary must be reduced by half. In short, if the money stripped by the court reaches the hands of the people, it must be scraped down a few layers, otherwise how could they be a qualified official of the Song Dynasty?

After discussing with the ministers of the two palaces, the emperor Zhao Huan was not idle for a moment, so he summoned Qin Hui.

"I am here to see the Emperor's peace."

"You are exempt from courtesy."

"Thank you, the emperor summoned me and didn't know what was wrong?"

"What do you think Bi Sheng is right?"

Qin Hui's mind was running like lightning. From not knowing why the emperor asked this to guessing the emperor's meaning, he quickly replied: "Report to Your Majesty, although Bi Sheng is a civilian and has a status as inferior to an official, his improved printing technique has played a great role in the inheritance of our dynasty's culture. At the same time, he has greatly reduced the loss of raw materials and time in commercial printing. This is a great achievement!"

"What do you think Shen Kuo?"

Qin Hui secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that he had guessed correctly. The young emperor wanted to build fortifications, so he mentioned Bi Sheng, and now he mentioned Shen Kuo.

"Mr. Cunzhong is a great talent. "Mengxi Bitan" is a masterpiece in the world. If future generations study it diligently, they can produce the second one and the third one. Bi Sheng. I think it is fortifications that benefit the people and the country. The court should prosper!"

"What do you say?"

"Your Majesty, I think that you should educate yourself with righteousness and govern the world with profit, so that you can only prosper the country!"

I was a little confused by Qin Hui's sudden words. I was asking you why you commented on Shen Kuo and Bi Sheng like this. You suddenly told me about governing the country. Your brain circuit is almost the same as mine.

"You will tell me in detail."

"Your Majesty, the authority of the scholars and officials should be taught with righteousness and bound with law before they can be reused. However, your Majesty's ambition is to make the country rich and the people rich. Now the people are no longer able to eat. In order to survive, how can they talk about righteousness and etiquette?"

"What does your words have to do with Bi Sheng and Shen Kuo?"

"Bi Sheng Yijie, but he made a printing technique for the Song Dynasty that could reduce materials and save time. His contribution to the Song Dynasty was no less than that of some loyal and righteous scholars in the court!"

Zhao Huan was shocked and thought that Qin Hui was really a fucking talent. No wonder Zhao Gou could not beat those people. This person's brain circuit was so unrestrained that he could make such shocking remarks in the Song Dynasty, which had such rigorous education of interests.

Zhao Huan did not immediately agree with Qin Hui, but said with a stern face: "In this way, do you think loyalty and righteousness are the least and interests are the most important?"

"This is not the case. The authority of the scholars and officials should be taught with righteousness and bound with the law before they can be reused. However, the people have no food to fill their stomachs, and only for profit can they be enriched. Therefore, the court should combine profit and etiquette, rather than just removing the righteousness as the gentlemen said!"

Qin Hui said something, but he was sweating for himself. What was he doing? He was openly opposing Mencius' theory of pronunciation in front of the emperor. You must know, which scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty did not regard Mencius as a saint? Although he was a semi-saint, he was also a wise man in the spiritual realm. How could you, a little Zuo Sijian, talk nonsense here?

It was a good thing that the dynasty of the literati and officials in the court had been shattered halfway through the dynasty of Song Huizong. If this was placed in the dynasty of Shenzong, there would be a moral model Sima Guang. If this was heard by Sima Junshi, it would not be the same as the world to criticize you to death, and it would be a shame for thousands of years!

Zhao Huan agreed with Qin Hui's statement in his heart, etiquette education is naturally indispensable, but if etiquette education is used as a food, it would be nonsense. Many ordinary people in the Song Dynasty were already miserable enough. You still tell him every day, hold on, you are a good person! What? Are you hungry? Think about the words of the saints and you are not hungry, think about you being honest, you are not hungry!

Although gentlemen do not govern the country directly, isn’t this the underlying logic of their ideological structure?

Just talking about Sima Guang, he believed that since ancient times, the method of governing the country was only to make all officials say their duties and be assigned to them, and the method of enabling farmers to maintain their health was to light taxes and pay owes owed money.

He believed that if a person has political achievements, Wang Jiefu chose good officials to appoint them, all political disadvantages will naturally disappear. If an official does not have good people, then you will give him a new law every day and there will be no good results in the end.

This is Sima Junshi's political views. Look, all his ideas are based on high standards for other people's morality. In his mind, human nature is glorious. His starting point is to govern the country with benevolence and righteousness. Benevolence and righteousness are in the political field, but they cannot let the people have food to eat, and eventually become his own self-satisfaction.

Ironically, he set a benchmark for benevolence and righteousness and also won a good reputation in the literati class. It would be fine if everyone imitated each other, but benevolence and righteousness are the most likely to be used as a new political costume. Cai Jing seized this point and was proud to rise to power.

Therefore, what Qin Hui said, people like Bi Sheng and Shen Kuo have made greater contributions to making the people of the country rich than Sima Guang, because Bi Sheng and Shen Kuo solved the actual problems, rather than governing the country with slogans.

This is also what Zhao Huan thinks is desirable. Human nature has a good side and a bad side. It is educated by etiquette and restrained by law. A large number of corrupt officials will also appear, but only by setting assessment standards based on actual contributions can the country be prosperous.

Of course, Zhao Huan did not completely deny Sima Guang, at least his "Zizhi Tongjian" is a masterpiece.

Zhao Huan asked again: "How can we make the Song Dynasty more Shen Kuo and Bi Sheng?"

Qin Hui said: "There are many scholars in the temple, and the talent of fortifications arose among the people."
Chapter completed!