Chapter 163: Theories that are divorced from reality are meaningless (Subscribe)
Yue Fei was working hard in Xinde Prefecture.
Military preparations and war preparations are secondary. The development of Nanniwan is very successful.
Mountains were blasted to open mines, steel was smelted, cement was made, roads and bridges were built, and houses were erected. A young industrial city sprouted here.
The Song Dynasty version of Roosevelt's New Deal was certainly not intended to solve the economic crisis, but to allow the people to participate in national construction, earn money, and survive.
For the Song Dynasty, it was also a matter of concentrating resources to accomplish major tasks.
Eunuch Cao has already gone to inform the manager of the imperial farm, the old village chief Lu Tao.
Soon, all the men working in the fields gathered at the edge of the fields, looking cautiously at the group of nobles in front of them.
"Ergou, what are you doing? I was irrigating the fields right now, and the village chief asked me to come over quickly."
"Who says it isn't? If we keep doing this, I guess we won't be able to finish it before dark."
"Stop talking nonsense, you two. You are both nobles from the capital. If you offend them with your words, watch out for your heads."
In fact, no one paid any attention to their whispers and murmurs.
On the side of the road, Zhao Huan said to Grand Secretary Liu Fang, "Grand Secretary Liu, come on, help the farmers!"
Liu Fang took a few steps forward, standing before the hundreds of farmers, and said in a loud voice, "I am Grand Secretary Liu Fang, and I have come here to encourage farming by the order of Your Majesty."
"To promote the good and teach the incompetent is to encourage. This means that if a ruler can promote and employ good people, place them in positions of honor, and teach the incompetent so that they can become competent, then the people will be encouraged to do good. Agriculture is the foundation of all industries. When agriculture flourishes, all industries flourish. When agriculture declines, the world of prosperity and chaos will not last long..."
Liu Fang read with passion and explained seriously.
He just looked at the bewildered eyes of the people below, feeling helpless: "What a bunch of untouchables, they don't understand education, they are really playing the lute to a cow, they don't know how to appreciate it."
"Your Majesty, I have finished my explanation."
Liu Fang discovered that the way His Majesty and other people looked at him was different.
What's wrong? Is there something wrong?
Liu Fang looked at His Majesty, Prime Minister Yang, Liu Yong, and other officials, and found that their eyes were full of strangeness.
"Grand Scholar Liu Fang just gave a lecture on encouraging farmers. Why aren't you encouraged?" Zhao Huan randomly chose a farmer, who was Ergou who had whispered before.
"What book are you talking about?"
"A book to encourage agriculture."
"You've never been educated, so I don't understand. What is bird sashimi soup? Why do birds sashimi fish?"
"It's Yao, Shun, Yu and Tang!"
"What kind of soup is that?"
Zhao Huan was also speechless. What a fool!
"Master Liu, what do you want to say?"
"I am guilty!" Liu Fang knelt on the ground. At this time, he already knew why other people looked at him strangely. This was not a book to encourage farming, but a book from heaven.
"Not guilty, I will not pursue the matter. I am merely warning you and all the other gentlemen not to become alienated from the masses. If you are advocating for agricultural studies, your advice must be meaningful! Writings cannot be used to feed the people!"
"Your Highness and I are aware of this."
"I'm going back to the palace now, so you won't worry."
At this moment, everyone felt that His Majesty had planned this long ago to give his ministers a warning.
Cai Jing had a blank expression on his face, wondering if he had made a mistake as well.
Instead, the person involved, Liu Fang, showed a hint of smile on her trembling face, which quickly disappeared.
With Shao Chengzhang's shout of "dismiss the court", Zhao Huan's first grand court meeting ended.
The atmosphere at the grand court meeting was good. Both conservatives and reformists spoke enthusiastically, and the young emperor also showed his edge for the first time.
Should we train the people of the Song Dynasty in some modern enterprise management tools? CIMC's eight-step problem-solving method is a good choice, as is the 5W2Y analysis method. This way, we won't look at problems so one-sidedly.
Zhao Huan thought it might be interesting to manage the vast Song Dynasty like a company. He would train the Ministry of Personnel in performance appraisal, the Ministry of Works in standard operating procedures, the Ministry of Rites in corporate culture, the Ministry of War in last-place elimination, the Ministry of Justice in the presumption of innocence, and the Ministry of Revenue in financial analysis.
Zhao Huan walked out of the Fengtian Hall with a smile. When he returned to the warm room, the eunuch said that Lu Bing and Eunuch Cao had returned from their mission.
After Zhao Huan had breakfast, he asked the two to come for an audience.
When being the top leader, the most important thing is to keep personnel and finances firmly in your hands.
As one of Zhao Huan's right-hand men, it was natural for Cao Zhengchun to go to the Neichengyun Warehouse in person to take inventory of the gold and silver.
"Your Majesty, I was ordered to inspect the inner transport warehouse. It took four days and I have thoroughly counted everything. The amount of gold, silver, and copper reported by the eunuch Zhang Fang, the seal-bearing eunuch, matches the actual inventory."
"I have divided the inner transport warehouse into sections according to your majesty's instructions. Each type of gold, silver, and copper has been assigned its original unit and neatly sorted. I have also drawn up an atlas of the inner warehouse's supplies for easy viewing."
Eunuch Cao handed over the atlas. Zhao Huan took it, glanced at it, and then put it on the desk.
"Xiao Cao, you've worked hard on this trip. From now on, you'll have to take on this responsibility. Go to the internal shipping warehouse every quarter to check whether the account books match the actual items, whether the items are arranged in accordance with the regulations, and whether the income and expenditure are complete."
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty. I will definitely complete the task assigned by Your Majesty and make sure that the money is paid exactly."
"Okay, go and rest. Song Tian will come and accompany you."
Lu Bing walked into the warm room and Zhao Huan gestured for him to do whatever he wanted.
"How is the situation in Wangping Village?"
"After Your Majesty returned to the capital, I followed the farmer's directions and found the abandoned coal pile by the river."
"According to what Your Majesty said, based on the analysis of color, weight, and combustion degree, the high-quality coal accounts for 70%, far higher than the 10% found in Taiping Village."
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