Chapter 354: The Little Scholar in Disguise as a Man and the Amazing Emperor 11
Only then did Cha Jiu gently brush off the non-existent dust on his robe, stood up calmly, and met Lin Qinglan's confident gaze.
He said, "Since Miss Lin has raised the three drawbacks of government-run enterprises, I also have three questions about governing a country."
"First, the Yuan Dynasty is just being established, and money is needed everywhere, but the treasury is empty. If we don't use the government-run policy to fill the treasury, where will the money come from?"
Lin Qinglan answered without hesitation: "Of course, the people should pay taxes. The policy of private ownership is a long-term policy to enrich the people. When the people are rich, taxes will increase, and the national treasury will naturally be filled."
Cha Jiu asked: "How long will this process take?"
Lin Qinglan smiled: "The policies of a country can only be known after they are implemented. Qinglan is not an immortal, so how can he predict the future?"
Others at the table thought that Cha Jiu was deliberately making things difficult for him, so they stepped forward to defend him, saying, "This question is off topic."
Cha Jiu sneered at the man and said, "The implementation of national policies depends on timeliness. If it takes hundreds of years for this policy to achieve the desired effect, then what is the point?"
The man choked, but quickly reacted and said, "Since you support the government-run strategy, you must be able to calculate the effect of this strategy."
Lin Qinglan looked at the person who spoke up to defend him, nodded and smiled.
The latter immediately blushed and his heart beat faster.
This was a very clever counterattack.
If Cha Jiu himself cannot calculate the effectiveness of the strategy he supports, Lin Qinglan naturally does not need to answer this question.
And no one present thought she could calculate it.
After all, the issue of national treasury money involves many issues and complicated data. Moreover, after the policy is implemented, the situation in each state is different. As Lin Qinglan said, how can we predict in advance and calculate when the national treasury will be full?
"I can figure it out." Cha Jiu uttered a sentence that shocked everyone.
What
Everyone at the table was stunned.
Suspicion flashed across Lin Qinglan's eyes.
Yelu Zongzheng shook his head and laughed, then picked up the teacup and took a sip.
After spending some time together, he knew Yan Yang's temperament very well.
Don't be fooled by the fact that he usually acts reserved, calm and modest in front of you, looking like a mature young man.
But if anyone dared to question his ability, he would never give in and would definitely stand up and fight to defend it. The young man's indelible pride was fully revealed at this time.
Yelu Zongzhen did not like people who were arrogant because of their talent.
But the fresh pride in the top scholar made him feel more and more rare the more he looked at him.
Lin Qinglan calmed himself and told the servant beside him to fetch paper, pen and abacus.
But Cha Jiu only glanced at it lightly, then looked away, and said arrogantly: "No need to calculate, I like to calculate in my mind."
"Just bragging!" someone at the table sneered.
But the next moment, he couldn't laugh anymore.
Cha Jiu spoke fluently and without any pause, summarizing the expenditures needed by the court in the next three years, comparing them with the current treasury gap, and counting the population, economic level, administrative efficiency, etc. of each of the 43 prefectures of the Yuan Dynasty. He finally came to the conclusion of how long it would take to fill the treasury by implementing the official management policy.
Ten years at most.
This data is not obtained by simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Chajiu also used a modern economic model, but because he was worried that everyone would not understand, he just passed it over.
The expressions of the crowd changed from anticipation at first to suspicion, and then to disbelief and astonishment.
He can recite the situation of various prefectures and the huge and complicated data of the Ministry of Revenue by heart, and he has such a terrifying mental arithmetic ability, no wonder he is so arrogant!
Who is this person?
The smile on Lin Qinglan's face disappeared.
She really wanted to deny Cha Jiu's ability.
But I know in my heart that everything the other person says is right.
She was born in the Grand Tutor's Mansion, so she had heard about the annual situation of the court and the prefectures. If Cha Jiu was making up stories, she would be able to see through it at a glance. But not only was he not talking nonsense, but he also knew much more about the Yuan Kingdom than she did!
"Is his calculation correct? Could it be that he is just making up nonsense numbers or doing random calculations?" Some people murmured in doubt, unwilling to believe that such a genius could exist in the world.
But he was soon slapped in the face.
A gentleman in a moon-white brocade robe stood up to speak for Cha Jiu: "My father works in the Ministry of Revenue, and I have some knowledge of the court and the prefectures. I can prove that what this gentleman said and calculated is not false."
Everyone recognized him, the eldest son of the Minister of Revenue, Li Yuanlang.
He was born to a slave, so he was not loved by his father, but he had an amazing talent in arithmetic and money management. Therefore, the Minister of Finance no longer liked him, but still handed over the family shop to him to manage. As expected, he made money every year, and the accounts that passed through his hands would never make mistakes. Everyone in the capital knew it.
Therefore, if Li Yuanlang said that Cha Jiu's calculation was correct, then it was really correct.
No one dared to question it anymore.
Yelu Zongzheng never doubted Cha Jiu's arithmetic ability, but he was curious about another point.
"You have only been in office for half a month, how can you know everything about the court and the prefecture?"
Cha Jiu confessed honestly: "Some time ago, you asked me to handle the donation matter, so I stayed in the Ministry of Revenue for a few days and read all the files from the court and the prefecture."
Yelu Zongzheng was surprised: "I finished reading it in just a few days and I know it by heart"
Cha Jiu said modestly: "I have been able to read books faster and memorize faster since I was a child."
Yelu Zongzheng was at a loss whether to laugh or cry: "How can you say 'fast' here? It's obvious that you have a photographic memory."
Cha Jiu smiled.
She was already thirsty from the output just now. Seeing the full cup of tea on the table, she picked it up and drank it all without thinking too much.
However, this cup of tea was drunk by Yelu Zongzhen.
Yelu Zongzheng's eyes darkened, but he didn't say anything.
Xiao Shunzi, who was standing by, was hesitating whether to change a clean cup for His Majesty, but Yelu Zongzheng tapped the table with his fingertips, indicating that he would continue to fill the empty teacup.
Xiao Shunzi did as he was told.
The next moment, he saw His Majesty pick up the teacup that Lord He had drunk from, put it to his lips, and continue sipping.
Xiao Shunzi: “!”
Godfather!
Help!
Is it normal for the emperor and his subjects to drink a cup of tea together?
Unfortunately, Eunuch Zhang, who was working far away in the palace, could not give him any advice except a sudden sneeze.
Cha Jiu didn't see this scene.
She drank the tea, moistened her throat, and continued to look at Lin Qinglan, who had a stiff expression, and asked, "I have calculated my result, Miss Lin can also start calculating."
Lin Qinglan didn't understand Cha Jiu's calculation logic at all, and didn't have a specific understanding of the profit of the private operation strategy, so how could he calculate it?
Cha Jiu raised her eyebrows: "It doesn't count."
Lin Qinglan's face turned pale and blue: "I..."
Cha Jiu didn't want to waste time, so he said straightforwardly: "Then I'll do the math for you."
Having said that, she continued to bring out the relevant data and did another analysis and mental arithmetic.
Li Yuanlang also calculated with an abacus, his fingers flying, and his shadow was almost invisible, but in the end he was still one step slower than Cha Jiu in getting the answer.
The look of surprise in his eyes became even more intense.
"Sixty years."
"Sixty years."
The two of them spoke one after the other and gave their respective calculation results.
This time no one questioned it.
Cha Jiu looked at Lin Qinglan and said jokingly, "The most urgent things for the court now are to save the victims, stabilize the borders, and keep the country safe. If we do these things sixty years later, the victims will probably starve to death, the borders will be breached, and it is unknown whether the Yuan Kingdom will still be called 'Yuan'."
This is simply outrageous.
But when Lin Qinglan subconsciously looked at Yelu Zongzheng, she only saw a helpless yet tolerant smile on the latter's face!
She was shocked.
His Majesty and He Yanyang have such a deep relationship
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That's right! It was too cold this morning so I turned off the alarm. The update is late.
The next chapter has been reviewed, I will post it around 7am tomorrow, mullet roe
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