"Your current fiscal revenue is only a few tens of millions of guan. If you use it all to support these people, it will definitely create a deformed and unhealthy social environment. But what if the fiscal revenue is several hundred million guan? Wouldn't the social system become a healthy and positive society?"
"Wang Anshi's reforms were a way to make the pie bigger, increasing fiscal revenue through reform. The direction was certainly right, but his fundamental approach was wrong. Without first addressing the most basic issues of civil service, it would be difficult to implement the reforms. Simply changing the law will not bring those interest groups to heel."
"Fan Zhongyan's reforms were fundamentally sound, but they were going in the wrong direction. He only focused on reducing the number of officials, not expanding the economy. This was bound to lead to widespread opposition, especially since he targeted the scholar-official class. Their collective opposition directly cost him the support of the ruling class."
"As the saying goes, 'When water is too clear, there are no fish; when a person is too strict, there are no followers.' A country is so large that it's inevitable that there will be some flaws. But as long as the society is generally positive and progressive, it's a healthy society. You can have some flaws, but the entire country cannot be flawed."
"The Song Dynasty's three redundancies were so deep-rooted that they had severely impacted the national finances and had become a problem for the entire country. It's difficult to solve this situation in one go. There are certainly solutions, but they can only be taken step by step. Taking too big a step could easily lead to setbacks."
"So it's important to find the right direction. As for what specific direction, if you come here and ask me now, I actually don't know how to solve it."
"First, we are now in the new China, so it makes no sense to solve the three redundancies of the Song Dynasty. Second, I only know from history books that the three redundancies existed, but I have no idea who and what were the people involved, or how to solve them."
"In the final analysis, this is a problem that the Song Dynasty has to face, not a problem we have to face. It has nothing to do with us. So unless I travel back to the Song Dynasty and personally understand the social changes in the Song Dynasty, otherwise, no matter how much I say, it will just be empty talk."
Zhao Jun said a lot in one breath. After listening, Zhao Zhen and others looked at each other in surprise.
Because after listening to him talk, I found that what he said was actually right.
That is the three redundancies problem, which is not a stubborn disease of the Song Dynasty, but the fundamental lifeline of the Song Dynasty.
It is like a medicine that can be both a life-saving remedy and a deadly poison.
This medicine has been taken since the time of the brothers Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi, and its toxins have caused tumors.
Zhao Zhen now only sees the cancer that exists on the surface and wants to eradicate it, but he does not see deeply that the cancer has already penetrated deep into the human body.
If you want to cut out the cancer, it will be like chemotherapy for advanced cancer. People will die and the Song Dynasty will perish.
Therefore, the three redundant dangers have formed a symbiotic relationship with the Song Dynasty.
The problem is that even without chemotherapy, advanced cancer will still kill Da Song. So is there really no cure for this medicine?
However, Zhao Jun only talked about the general direction and did not discuss the specific content of the reform.
Because he was right about one thing, that is, he was a person from the new China more than a thousand years ago, not a person from the Song Dynasty. What does the problems of the Song Dynasty have to do with him?
Although he is in the history department, there are so many history books in China that he cannot memorize all of them even if he studies history.
Besides, those who study history are not omniscient and omnipotent. The history of the Song Dynasty is just a small ripple in the 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization. At most, it is one of the main components of Chinese civilization and is not very important.
Compared with the Song Dynasty, Zhao Jun's academic research focused on the basic theories and knowledge of Marxism, history, ancient philology, historical geography, as well as general history of China and foreign countries, period history, history of Chinese and Western historiography, and selected readings of Chinese and foreign historical documents.
Who has nothing better to do than study the history of the Song Dynasty?
If you have that much free time, you might as well study the history of the Han and Tang dynasties. These two dynasties are the ones that the Han people are proud of.
But what he didn't know was that after he finished speaking these words in one breath, Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian, Yan Shu, Fan Zhongyan and others around him were first shocked by the symbiotic relationship between the Three Redundancies and the Song Dynasty, and then they looked at each other with inexplicable strange light flashing in their eyes.
Does this kid still think he is in New China?
Now they still say that Zhao Kuangyin came to power in an illegitimate way and insult their own ancestors.
When his eyesight recovers in the future, I wonder what he would think if he knew that he had really traveled back to the Song Dynasty.
The expression on his face at that time must be very interesting...
Anyway, no matter what.
Zhao Zhen has already decided that when Zhao Jun regains his glory, he will definitely not have a good time.
But it would be different if he could honestly help me solve the three redundancies.
hey-hey.
Zhao Zhen smiled evilly in his heart.
"Why, am I wrong?"
Zhao Jun keenly sensed that after he finished speaking, the whole audience fell silent, leaving him confused.
"Yes, yes, but aren't we discussing history and studying history?"
Yan Shu quickly took over the conversation and said, "Everyone in our village is very fond of history. I heard that Teacher Zhao is a history major, and everyone is very interested. The history of the Song Dynasty is particularly valuable for research. If there are some things I don't understand, I will definitely ask the teacher for advice."
"I don't deserve your advice, let's discuss and learn together."
Zhao Jun has been here for more than ten days and has relaxed a lot. He is not as reserved as he was at the beginning.
Because he found that the villagers were quite easy to talk to. Even if he said bad things about Zhao Guangyi, the village chief, as a fan of the Donkey Cart God of War, didn't say anything.
It seems that they are quite nice people.
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