Spring is here and school is beginning. Because all the princes over twelve years old go to school, and the princes over 7 years old have to attend elementary school every day, the hustle and bustle of the past is gone in the palace during the day.

Li Li had to escape from the "divine beasts return to his position", but he had to do what he should do, including teaching the crown prince Li Fang.

Li Fang had already started a family, so he did not live in the palace. He had a world with the Crown Princess Wu in the East Palace.

However, Li Fang would enter the palace every day to pay tribute to his parents and learn to deal with government affairs from his father.

Today, Li Li wanted to teach his son what "fishing project" is and what cost control is, so the father and son came to the Ministry of War and had a conversation in the same hall.

"There are still problems with the actual cost exceeding the budget cost in large projects, but it is just the degree."

Li Li stood in front of a wall, looked at the map hanging on the wall, and explained his son.

Next to them, many soldiers in military uniforms were busy on a flat sand table.

"However, some projects have no intention from the start of the project establishment. The planner, who knew that the project cost would inevitably be very high, deliberately gave a lower price to deceive the company to agree to the implementation."

"As a result, when the project starts, the arrow has been turned on. The original investment is obviously insufficient, but the work cannot be stopped. Otherwise, the early investment will be wasted."

"So, the court had to increase the amount of money and increase the investment in manpower and material resources."

"This kind of additional addition can be once, twice, or even several times. The extra price paid for this may be indeed spent on the project, but it may also be that people at all levels take the opportunity to share the money and spend money in vain."

Li Fang had already understood the situation mentioned by Li Li before. When his father went out to war, he supervised the country and presided over the State Council.

In fact, it is just listening to how the prime ministers discuss state affairs.

Among them, there are discussions on various large-scale projects.

The prime ministers have been in office for many years and have never seen any storms. They are especially concerned about the cost of such large-scale projects. He has gained a lot of knowledge during the listening process.

To put it bluntly, this is a problem of cost control and risk control. Of course, he heard from his father about these two words.

"Cost control and risk control are easy to say, but hard to do." Li Li pointed to the river on the map, and said slowly.

"Especially, after the construction starts, no one can predict what emergencies will happen during the construction process."

"For example, the geological conditions at a certain place are more complicated than expected, the direction of the terrain is different from the initial survey, etc."

"So, no matter how careful the cost estimate is, after the project starts construction, it is easy to increase the cost due to one or another, and you have to increase the cost."

"This kind of increase is actually very reasonable. There is no need to blame the officials in charge of the project. After all, many times, you get what you pay for."

"However, how to determine the increase in the cost is within a reasonable range? Instead of when the construction plan was initially formulated, knowing that the cost could not be lower than a certain amount, he deliberately lowered the estimate?"

Li Xin replied: "Someone needs to conduct cost accounting and supervise during the construction process. Based on the actual situation, whether the project cost increases will rise normally or the initial plan deliberately underreported."

"Of course, in order to prevent favoritism and fraud, those who conduct cost accounting must have special management and form their own systems, and it is best not to be easily affected by the outside world."

Li Li nodded: "This is right. There must be a system. People who can implement the system are people. If people have problems, the system will also have problems."

"There will be various beneficiaries behind large-scale projects, so fishing projects appear, and it is unrealistic to have a few cost accounting personnel fight against these interest groups."

"The other party can make external moves, threaten and induce both soft and hard, so that a project with a noticeable price can be obtained through reconsideration."

"Then, during the construction process, we continued to invest additionally due to ‘accidents’. Later, Party A found that the project exceeded the expenditure several times, but after picking it, we really couldn't find any obvious faults."

"All kinds of price increases have reasonable and objective reasons."

"But it is a fact that the cost of construction has skyrocketed, so Party A can only kill the teeth and swallow the blood."

"If the project is a civil engineering project, the cost will soar, and you will endure it."

"At worst, you can save money for a while and make up for the loss. But if this kind of project is a war, once the cost is out of control, it is not a trivial matter."

The father and son came to the sand table. The sand table was used as a teaching practice tool. It currently simulates the situation in the area bordering the grasslands, and is not the real terrain.

Li Li pointed to the "open space" above (representing the grassland) and said:

"If one day in the future, a minister will write a letter to you, saying that he can control the grasslands of the south of the Chinan without using the fortress to advance tactics..."

"It's very clear and analyze all possibilities and expenses clearly."

"Let you realize that if you spend less military spending, you can reconcile it in a few years... control the grasslands in the south of Chi, are you moved?"

Li Fang believed that the word "futra" was a mistake in his father's tongue, and the father's question pointed out that there was obviously something wrong with the question just in terms of the question.

However, after he "substituted himself" and nodded: "The child will definitely be moved, because it sounds very reasonable and can save money to do big things, so of course he will be moved."

Li Li smiled: "Yes, it makes sense, because the dialect is so conclusive that the proposal proposed is very feasible."

Then the topic changed: "But in fact, it was fishing."

Li Li specifically gave an example, referring to the example he had heard in his life, which is about "budget quotation".

The person who gave an example quoted something from the Ming Dynasty:

During the Jiajing period, the Hetao area was controlled by the Mongolian Altan Khan. The other party used this as a stronghold to harass Shaanxi and Shanxi, which put a lot of pressure on the border defense.

Zeng Xian, the Minister of War, who was the governor of Shaanxi Military Affairs, submitted a "Reply to the Hetao Memorial" and requested the repentance from Emperor Zhu Houcong (Ming Emperor Shizong, also known as Emperor Jiajing).

The emperor wanted to do something and realized that the imperial court could greatly improve the border town situation in Shaanxi and Shaanxi. After reading Zeng Xian's "Request for Reply to Hetao Shu" and was very happy.

In addition, Zeng Xian defeated Altan Khan, who led the invaders, performed well, and then appeared in "Revised the Hetao Shu" and the emperor was moved.

But not long after, the treacherous minister Yan Song launched a minion to impeach Zeng Xian's move to "lightly initiate border provocation", and instructed people to slander Zeng Xian's actual military information for concealing the defeated war, withholding military pay, and bribing the chief assistant Xia Yan.

So the emperor first dismissed the chief assistant Xia Yan and ordered the court officials to discuss Zeng Xian's crimes.

A department official "understood the superior's intention" and reported that Zeng Xin was inevitably guilty of being punished, so Zeng Xin was imprisoned and was eventually killed.

The government and the people shouted for justice.

This incident seems to be a loyal minister who was framed by a treacherous minister and died unjustly, but there are other details inside: Zeng Xian's reconnaissance was a fishing project.

Some people once believed that a re-condom would require three million silver, three hundred thousand soldiers, three million stones of grain, three million taels of silver, and a castle would have to be built along the river.

But Zeng Xian told the emperor that the Wei minister’s plan for reconciliation does not require so much money.

With careful calculations, 60,000 troops can handle the reconciliation, and the military expenditure is less than 400,000 taels. This is Zeng Mian's "first project budget."

When the emperor allocated a deposit and waited for the follow-up with great anticipation, Zeng Xian's "project budget" reported again changed, which increased by more than ten times.

Among them, if the troops doubled and became 120,000, the military expenditure would naturally double. The follow-up expenses would be just one thing to build a city along the river, and at least two million taels of silver would be invested every year.

Now, the emperor, who had a strong sense of self-esteem and high self-esteem, realized that he had been deceived and was furious.

But it is impossible to admit that he was "fished". So, with the help of "white gloves" Yan Song, he killed Zeng Xian to serve as a warning to You, without any criticism:

The person who killed Zeng Xian was Yan Song. What does it have to do with me, Zhu Houcong?

This example is a typical fishing project, so I'll summarize it: Workers should never fool the boss on the budget.

Of course, Zeng Xian’s intention was for the country, because it is really necessary to reconcile the contract, and this move was not for himself to make money, but was entirely out of public interest.

But he knew that the emperor was so lucky, so he wanted to use a "low quotation" to get the emperor allowed to "project" first, and then wait for the subsequent additional funds.

Li Li remembered this example, and now he has changed it to educate his son.

"In the future, when you take office, there will always be ministers who will apply for 'project project' to you for various purposes, but in order to obtain consent, fishing will inevitably be inevitable."

"You first quote a low price to make you feel good, so the project was launched and as a result, you found that the situation was wrong and you found that the project was about to be completed, so you had to pay more."

"If this project is a civil engineering project, such as a water conservancy project, or a road opening, just bear with it. After a few years of delay, the finances will be able to recover."

"But if it's a war, it's not a joke."

"If you don't talk about anything else, just talk about logistics. If you have started the war, the estimated food and grass consumption is three million stones, and the troops are 150,000, and you will be killed in four months."

"As a result, after the war started, the actual consumption exceeded 6 million stones, and the additional food and grass had to be added to three million stones and 150,000 troops. It will be postponed for at least half a year. Do you add it or not?"

"If you don't add up, the army fighting against the enemy on the front line will be exhausted and the food will be over. Without reinforcements, it will be over. Even if you can't evacuate."

"Add, is the huge expense that suddenly appears? Is it just adding? "

"Emergency dispatch of troops will make their original garrison empty, and more flaws will easily be revealed."

"Emergency transfer of grain must be used to store stocks that are often closed in various places. What if the disaster year cannot be used to provide relief to the victims?"

"The additional logistics and transportation burden has to be mobilized to bear manpower, and the joint expenses have increased sharply."

"After this series of events, the state affairs were delayed, and the original governance plan was completely disrupted. This is not a question of whether to add or not. It is a problem of losing control of war costs and causing national government to lose control."

Li Fang understood his father's meaning, and Sun Tzu's Art of War also said: War is a major event of the country, a place of life and death, and a way of survival and death.

But how to prevent people from being "fishing" and prevent costs from getting out of control in the matter of war?

He felt that no matter who becomes the emperor, he is blatantly deceived or "fished" in front of everyone, he may want to kill people!

Li Li said: "War, no one is sure to win, or end the war within the expected time, so the risk is high and risk control is difficult, which is understandable."

"However, if you can't even control the cost of logistics transportation, fighting is gambling, especially national wars, which becomes gambling for national fortunes. Once the cost is out of control, it is not a question of whether to add money or not."

"The sudden increase in burden will inevitably be passed on to the people, leading to the increase in the number of people serving labor and military service, affecting farm work, and even increasing the burden on the people, leading to the destruction of family members."

"Once this situation occurs on a large scale, the country's foundation will inevitably be significantly weakened and it will not be able to recover for many years. Do you think, is it serious?"

Li Li said this and looked at the soldiers:

"So, these professionals and professional teams are required to account for project quotations and ensure cost control and risk control during the process of the project..."
Chapter completed!