Chapter 419: Wenqing is a disease and can be cured

The journey back was less fresh when I came. I got on the boat and my mood was different. Zhao Ji stood on the deck in the wind, his hand on the side of the boat, his eyes deep and looked at the scenery along the coast that was retreating, and his mind seemed to have endless emotion.

"Chen Ao."

Chen Ao was basking in the sun with his homemade toothpick in his mouth. When he heard Zhao Ji call him, he said lazily: "I'm here."

Zhao Ji was in a deep mood and said, "This private tour made me feel even more depressed. Tell me, why is this?"

Chen Ao complained in his heart: "I am not the worm in your belly, God knows why." He said: "Maybe in His Majesty's eyes, this world is different from what His Majesty imagined."

Zhao Ji smiled and said, "I'm only half right." He sighed, and walked a few steps on the side of the ship, saying, "For example, the tricks of deceivers from the superiors and subordinates, and the arrogant and domineering prefect of Hongzhou, these people are really helpless, and I will never forgive them."

Zhao Ji paused and said, "It was only then that I understood the painstaking efforts of the late Emperor of Shenzong. If you do not innovate, the Song Dynasty will be unable to continue."

It was rare that the emperor discussed national affairs with Shen Ao so seriously. Chen Ao stroked a strand of hair that was blown by the wind and looked at the lonely mountain in the distance and was fascinated.

"Chen Ao, why don't you speak?"

Chen Ao thought for a while: "There is nothing to say."

"Um?"

Chen Ao said: "These things are not something that the weal ministers can discuss."

Zhao Ji was both angry and funny: "I usually see you being so brave, so I'm cautious at this time."

Chen Ao shook his head and said seriously: "It's not that I dare not discuss it, but that the weak minister is a little talented and indifferent to his knowledge and wants to discuss it but cannot."

Reform? How easy is it to talk about? On such a heavy topic, Chen Ao cannot bear this relationship. Throughout history, how many reformers have had a good ending?

This is fine. The most important question is that in Shen Ao's heart, the national system of the Song Dynasty was already ahead of its reach. Not to mention the alien races around who drank Mao Ru blood, even the other major civilizations in the world, they were still in the most barbaric national system. For example, the current Western Ocean is still in the full dark medieval period. The national system they implemented was actually the feudal system that our ancestors had long stopped playing a thousand years ago. The son of the Count was still the Count, and the son of the Baron was still the Baron. A country was always controlled by a few guys with bloodlines or even ignorant words.

The civil service system of the Song Dynasty was profound, and a thousand years later, the whole world was still playing with what it was left of.

How to change such a national system?

As for the germination of capitalism and the industrial revolution, if Chen Ao was still very young and simple, he might have tried his best to try it out. Unfortunately, although he is still very young now, he is no longer simple.

Anything that has lost its foundation in reality is nothing but a group of short-sighted people fantasized. The Song people are no more than the English people in later generations. English dares to drive farmers into the city, and the king can issue decrees to execute farmers who cannot find jobs in the city.

But if the Song Dynasty issued such a decree, I am afraid that someone in the world would have climbed up and raised his arms: "If you die now, you will die, and if you take a big plan, you will die. If you wait for death, will you die in the country?" So countless people raised their arms and shouted and went together.

The tradition here is that kings, princes, generals and ministers are more prosperous than three generations, and they are not fertile ground for the reproduction of aristocratic styles that have been around for generations. No matter what kings and princes you are, they will inevitably be thrown into the garbage dump of history every dozens or hundreds of years.

If you dare to play this trick of sheep eating people here, you really think that Your Highness Jin’s dry fire is not strong enough.

What's more, the British turned fertile fields into pastures, raised sheep to build textile factories, and after making money, they could buy grain from abroad to promote circulation. However, if the Song Dynasty abandoned fertile fields and planted mulberry trees to make silk, even if they made money, where would they buy food for millions and tens of millions of people? Once the grain production is insufficient, it will be a time of war.

Those who fantasize about the so-called capital germination and learning to walk in Handan are nothing more than naive and always believe that if you put a theoretical model on it, you can get it done once and for all.

Chen Ao served as the county magistrate and also as the chief minister of the Honglu Temple. He only thought about the word "reality" in his mind. As for the unrealistic fantasy, he didn't have much interest.

Zhao Ji sighed: "Since the new law is not enough, I want to follow the example of the Shenzong Emperor and look for the second Wang Jiefu. Grandmaster Cai failed. Although he advocated the new law, he was not very brave, and he did not have the courage of Shang Yang and Wang Jiefu."

Chen Ao secretly complained in his heart: "Teacher Cai does not have the courage to govern the country, but when it comes to making money and slandering people, no one in the world has more courage than him." He smiled slightly and said to Zhao Ji: "Why must Your Majesty find a new method?"

Zhao Ji looked at Chen Ao strangely: "There is no new law, how can we reform the bad policies?"

"Then Your Majesty believes that, from ancient times to the present, who has the best new law?"

Zhao Ji couldn't answer this for a while.

Chen Ao said: "The best new law is Wang Mang's restructuring. In the eyes of Weichen, Wang Mang is indeed a genius. If the new law he proposed can be implemented, it is not impossible for the new dynasty to be in all things."

Zhao Ji was surprised: "Is that true? But..."

Chen Ao interrupted Zhao Ji and said, "No need, but because Wang Mang's new law is too perfect, all places have stirred up civil unrest, and as a result he ended up with a country and a family destruction." Thinking of Wang Mang a thousand years ago, Chen Ao couldn't help but sigh, and thought in his heart: "Wang Mang is probably a time traveler like himself. Unfortunately, this guy is not satisfied with traveling through time well, but he has to play naive political tricks. Only then will there be ghosts if he can't finish it."

This fresh theory stunned Zhao Ji. Although there were many ministers who advocated the law of ancestors, the truth of the arrogance made it difficult for him to digest.

"In this way, Shang Yang's reforms were also wrong?" Zhao Ji had always advocated new laws after all, otherwise the new party would not have controlled the government after he ascended the throne, and he was quite dissatisfied with Chen Ao's words.

Chen Ao shook his head: "That's right, the difference between Shang Yang and Wang Mang lies in one word - simple. The law is not about complexity, but about simplicity. Just like the law, when Emperor Gaozu of Han entered Xianyang, he made three rules with his fathers; those who killed people died, injured people and stealing their crimes. From then on, Guanzhong quickly settled. On the contrary, after Emperor Yang of Sui ascended the throne, he immediately asked people to revise the Great Sui law. The simple law became complicated, but the result was that thieves were everywhere. Why is this?"

Zhao Ji was silent and thought to himself: "Just just now, this guy said that the weak ministers could not discuss, but they were out of control." However, Zhao Ji had to accept Chen Ao's great remarks. People quoted classics and made a series of remarks. Even if Zhao Ji didn't agree, he had to admire him for his powerful speech.

Chen Ao continued: "When I was a county magistrate, I often encountered this situation. Because the law was too complicated and ambiguous, the lawsuits and those who were sued often had disputes and had to go to the litigator. It is important to know that the litigator had to spend money, so the rich often had litigators to defend them, while the poor could not even hand over a piece of paper. So, I dare to ask Your Majesty, is the lawsuit between the poor and the rich more likely to win, or is the poor more likely to win?"

Zhao Ji pondered: "Of course, they are rich."

Chen Ao continued to ask with a smile: "That's it. The lawyer is proficient in Song Dynasty and is very good at speaking. Even if he turns black and white, he points to a deer as a horse, and the prosecutor may not be able to distinguish it. In this way, the poor will naturally be in trouble. In addition, there is a crime in Song Dynasty called adultery. In the law, the judgment is assassinated as a mating, and the severe punishment is assassinated as a maiden. But who should judge the severity of this crime? Of course, it is the prosecutor, so there is another phenomenon: if the rich commit a crime and secretly use money, then the prosecutor often chooses to be sentenced lightly. If the poor commit a crime, because there is no way, the sentence is often the most severe. "

When Zhao Ji heard about these tricks for the first time, he laughed and said, "I heard what you said, the more complicated the law is, the more unfair it is?"

Chen Ao said decisively: "The same is true for the national system, just like Wang Mang. Although the new law designed was extremely complex, he forgot that powerful people can take advantage of loopholes, and where do ordinary people take advantage of loopholes? So although his new law seems perfect, it is full of loopholes and ridiculous. On the contrary, Shang Yang's reform was simple and ultimately achieved the hegemony of the Qin people. Therefore, in the eyes of the empress, Your Majesty's reform is really a matter of seeking fish from a tree. Rather than doing this, it is better to have a simple method."

"Simple method?"

"It is to delete the existing laws and regulations as much as possible to make it easy for the people to understand. As long as the lawyers die, the greatest justice is the reason why the state system was clearly simple when the country was first established, but its national strength continued to increase. When the laws and regulations became more and more perfect, the problems were reborn."

Chen Ao didn't know whether he was right or wrong. He just put forward his own opinions based on his own reality. As for whether Zhao Ji was willing to accept it, he didn't care. Although every man was responsible for the rise and fall of the world, the rise and fall of the world was not controlled by the wisdom of a time traveler. Any country would have a day of rise and fall. All this has been done throughout history. What he had to do was to care about the present and try his best to do his own thing. As for things five hundred years later, he believed that he did not have the ability to take care of it. That was the business of dynamic superman and fantasy, and it was not within his scope.

Zhao Ji thought for a moment and said, "I must think carefully."

Along the way, Chen Ao and Zhao Ji had countless conversations. Sometimes they talked about calligraphy and painting, sometimes they talked about the past and the present, and occasionally they looked at the newspapers and talked about the national affairs of the court with a stern face. It was not until half a month later that the imperial carriage finally arrived in Bianjing. When they got off the sampan, they saw the crowd of black people at the dock, and they could not see the end at once.

Zhao Ji couldn't help but smile bitterly and said to Chen Ao: "Walking off this sampan, I feel like a different life. Then I remembered that I am the emperor, not a traveler wandering around the world."

Chen Ao coughed and said simply: "Your Majesty, you should do the peaceful things quickly."

Zhao Ji had a stern face: "What did you ask when you got off the boat just now? I have already said that I don't care about this matter. If you want to ask, just ask the Queen Mother."

Chen Ao was thick-skinned and immediately beat the snake and went on the stick: "Then I will follow His Majesty to enter the palace now and go and greet the Queen Mother."

Zhao Ji shook his head helplessly, took his hands to step into the pier first, and looked like he could not help with this guy.

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Chapter completed!