Chapter 117 It’s hard to travel! (Here we come! Please vote for me!)

Now that the account was settled, Wu Yu also understood Zhang Heng's firm will, so he stopped trying to persuade him, but turned around and found Zhao Zhen.

When Wu Yu saw Zhao Zhen, he started to rant: "...I heard that [a one-year plan is better than planting valleys; a ten-year plan is better than trees; a lifelong plan is better than cultivating people], and Your Majesty agrees with this."

Huh?"

Good guy, this is the standard starting move for a monarch-minister match.

Zhao Zhen immediately straightened up and acted like a monarch and his ministers were at odds: "Of course I agree, and I did the same thing. Please tell me carefully, is it possible that I did something wrong?"

"A one-year plan is better than planting a valley; a ten-year plan is better than growing trees; a lifelong plan is better than planting people." This sentence simply means "Ten years to grow trees, a hundred years to cultivate people", which comes from "

Guanzi Quanxiu No. 3".

When Wu Yu asked this question, he was criticizing Zhao Zhen for not paying attention to talents. In the Song Dynasty, a court that was ultimately dominated by civil rule in history, if an emperor was considered not to pay attention to talents, this would already shake the foundation of the country.

Wu Yu immediately followed: "Since the beginning of the imperial examination, only a few people have passed the Three Yuan Dynasty. Since the Song Dynasty, there have been only four people who have passed the Three Yuan Dynasty. But for such talented and beautiful people, we should not put them in the same position."

The state and county trained him to be a future prime minister, but instead abandoned him in the ditch?"

When Zhao Zhen heard this, he immediately understood that this was a grievance against Zhang Heng. However, when Zhang Heng was placed in the Kaifeng government office, he was criticized by many people for being a high-ranking professor, and was considered to be a low-ranking professor. Wu Yu

But it was the first one, and I suddenly became interested.

"Ah, what kind of statement is this? Wu Qing, please elaborate on it."

Wu Yu said angrily: "It would not be a big problem if Zhang Juzheng was just appointed as a judge, but why should the government let him rectify the warehouse and treasury affairs? Although those are official affairs, in the end they are just

A clerk in a car and ship shop, a disciple of the Emperor, is sent to do such lowly tasks as a clerk in a car and ship shop?"

After hearing this, Zhao Zhen suddenly became angry and twisted his nose. He pointed at Wu Yu and said: "What do you mean by xiasanwan? What do you call a car and boat shop? Without such xiasanwan, how could you, Wu Yu, eat delicious food on your way to work as an official in another place?"

It’s delicious, but it’s also dirty!

Also, it was Zeng Mingzhong who brought up the matter of running the warehouse and treasury. He was Zhang Juzheng’s teacher. He got the job, and Zhang Juzheng had no problem with it. Now his teacher thinks there is no problem, and I think there is no problem.

Zhang Juzheng himself thinks there is no problem, but you think there is a problem, what's going on!"

Wu Yu was shocked when Zhao Zhen criticized him like this: Oh my god, officials have always been the target of criticism. Why did I get criticized instead? Is it because I can't learn the skills to criticize others?

No, there must be something wrong with this!

Wu Yu quickly started thinking.

Hey! That’s right, the key is not this, but Zhang Heng’s need to rectify the minister’s treasury!

But because he had just been criticized by Zhao Zhen, Wu Yu didn't dare to be presumptuous, so he had to curb his arrogance and honestly talk about Zhang Heng's reforms one by one.

Zhao Zhen felt happy now: If I don’t show off my power to my mother, I think she is really a sick cat, and everyone wants to criticize me, hahaha!

Zhao Zhen was proud in his heart, but after listening to Wu Yu's words, the pride in his heart disappeared. He already understood where Wu Yu's anger came from.

He pondered, and was a little hesitant. Zhang Heng was indeed a young man he liked very much. His poems were excellent, and there was no one like him in the Song Dynasty.

The words of the article are not as good as his poetry, but the pattern in the article is indeed great.

Zhao Zhen was the emperor, and he was used to seeing things from a very high perspective. However, Zhang Heng gave him a very strange feeling. He always felt that the height of Zhang Heng's articles seemed to be beyond the current world, and had a sense of precipitation that lasted for thousands of years.

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If it were just these, that would be it. There are always some talented people who are far superior to the world in terms of poetry and articles, but in fact, their ability to do things is far inferior to their literary talent.

Zhao Zhen also understands this. Some people are just for face, such as people like Li Bai. He decorated the entire prosperous Tang Dynasty, but if Li Bai was allowed to manage politics, he might not be able to do a good job.

The person who really wants to manage politics is Li Zi.

For example, people like Kou Xianggong during the Zhenzong period and Lu Xianggong in this dynasty were not top-notch in terms of writing and poetry, but in terms of their ability to govern the country, they were infinitely superior to poets like Li Bai.

However, Zhang Heng was different.

Zhang Heng is really capable of doing things.

Recently, Lu Yining recommended Zhang Heng, so he paid more attention to Zhang Heng, especially after reading a beautifully bound book sent by Lu Yining, titled "The Theory of Food and Goods" (actually, Lu Yining mobilized his men to

Zhang Heng’s shopping mall planning book has been re-edited, and the theories involved in it have been extracted and re-explained from the perspective of the entire business).

Zhao Zhen read this book and studied it very carefully. Others may only see the business aspects, but Zhao Zhen saw from it that the author has a very deep understanding of human nature and is very good at management. If he will

The theories contained in it are still valid when applied to official administration!

To understand a person, don't just look at his words and deeds. If he writes a book, then through his book, you can truly see a person's talent, knowledge structure, and person.

The extent of knowledge.

Zhao Zhen even doubted that the things shown in this book "The Theory of Food and Goods" could not have been written by one person (in fact, it was not the case. This was something Zhang Heng had studied many business classics and mixed together for the purpose of running a shopping mall.

In fact, even after Zhang Heng wrote it, it was edited by at least dozens of people including Lu Yining. In fact, it was localized and is already two different things from Zhang Heng's planning book).

From these things, Zhao Zhen can basically confirm one thing: Zhang Heng, a young man, is a capable person.

Not only that, Zhao Zhen asked Zeng Gongliang to learn about Zhang Heng's origins.

Although they are members of Pucheng Zhang's family, they are a branch of the branch and are not taken seriously at all. After a natural disaster in their hometown, the three brothers had no choice but to come to Bianjing to make a living. The three brothers opened an egg-filled cake stall.

maintain life.

But even with such a starting point, the three brothers were able to worship Zeng Gongliang as their teacher. From Zeng Gongliang's vague words, Zhao Zhen could probably know that this was Zhang Heng's contribution.

From the following events such as Liang Yuan Elegant Gathering, Fan Lou Nostalgic, Qing Xing Yuan Poetry Society, etc., we can get a glimpse of one thing, that is, Zhang Heng was a good dancer and was not aloof.

Zhao Zhen pieced together Zhang Heng's appearance from various aspects: a young man who was talented in poetry and articles, had outstanding ability to do practical things, and had a humble and gregarious character.

Except for some flaws in his birth... No, his birth is not a flaw. A birth that is ignored by the family is a perfect birth!

From the emperor's point of view, only with a humble background can he be loyal to himself!

Therefore, such a young man worth looking forward to must be well protected.

He finally nodded and said: "I know about this matter, I will handle it."

Wu Yu was overjoyed when he heard this.

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Zhang Heng didn't know that Wu Yu actually went to criticize Zhao Zhen. He thought he had removed the obstacles from the upper level and could show off his talents.

So his work has already begun.

He asked the Treasury Department and the Ministry of Finance to second some personnel to sort out the account books of the Ministry of Finance.

Regarding the management of the ministerial treasury, during the Song Dynasty, there was no institution specifically set up to manage the ministerial treasury, and there were not even officials who directly managed the ministerial treasury. However, as a type of warehouse, the ministerial treasury obviously also needed to meet the overall warehouse management requirements.

Zhang Heng learned from Bao Maolun that although there was no specialized management agency, there were supervision agencies, namely the Treasury Department and the Bibu Department of the Ministry of Punishment.

It is precisely because they are responsible for supervision that they have accounting data over the years, which is what Zhang Heng needs.

Zhang Heng wanted to contract out the embassies in various places in the embassy library, but this could not be done by just patting his head on his head. He needed to find the most suitable data from the massive amount of data.

The data he needs include but are not limited to the money, food, wine, vinegar and various materials consumed by each legation each year, the number and levels of past officials, the location of the legation, local economic data, etc. These are the basis for formulating the proportion of profits to be turned over from contracting.

The data must be reasonable so that the contractor can make a profit, but it will not lead to a loss of national assets.

The key is that Zhang Heng certainly knew that doing this would make officials complain about him, so he formulated a standard treatment according to the official level.

Officials can use this treatment to determine whether the embassy has treated them harshly. If the embassy has treated them harshly, they can complain to the embassy. Once the embassy is complained, they will be fined to ensure that they do not dare to deduct the treatment that officials deserve.

However, this step can be saved, because the ministerial library already has a standard treatment, which is a very detailed treatment standard. It even indicates the size and quantity of fruits and vegetables for each meal. However, there are very few such standard ministerial libraries.

It's just execution, because the money belongs to the country, but if you sell it to the officials, the favor is yours, so why not do it.

This made Zhang Heng's workload much lighter, but the remaining work still left the Treasury Department and Department of Finance staff scratching their heads.

It's not all about the workload, it's mainly about the things Zhang Heng wants, and they don't know how to get them.

Zhang Heng had no choice but to do it himself and create a set of algorithms for them. According to the algorithm, the data such as location, local economy, local population, number of officials received, official levels, etc. were graded. Each level was given a certain score, and these data were graded.

Substituting the fractions in, the final profit ratio can be calculated according to the algorithm.

However, this workload is too big, and all the seconded people are working overtime to catch up. It is estimated that it may not be completed by the end of the year, because the workload is really too big!

If the location of the embassy, ​​local economy, local population, number of officials received, official levels, etc. have been graded and scored, then the workload is actually not large, but the difficulty is in scoring at this level.

This requires re-checking the information, statistics, and verification before we can finally draw a conclusion, and then score according to the classification, and finally enter the stage of algorithmic settlement. There are hundreds of embassies in the embassy database across the country, that is to say,

Similar work has to be done hundreds of times, and even Zhang Heng is daunted by the workload.

Fortunately, these can be solved by adding more manpower. Zhang Heng took a wide circle and finally fixed his sights on Wu Yu.

There are many people in Kaifeng Mansion, and they are all old officials. If these people are mobilized, no matter how much work is done, they can be done well.

But Wu Yu was indifferent to Zhang Heng's request. He just excused himself by saying that everyone in Kaifeng Mansion had their own work and it was impossible to delay other things for these things. Therefore, Zhang Heng could just do this slowly for a hundred years. It was really not possible.

, just ask someone from within the Ministry of Public Affairs to do it.

No matter how this chapter is approved, these statistics will be used as the basis for profit sharing when the time comes. Let those who may participate in the contracting participate in formulating these data, which may eventually lead to the loss of a large amount of national assets!

So Zhang Heng pestered Wu Yu to ask for someone, but Wu Yu refused to let go. While he was pestering him, someone from the Xiaohuang Sect in the palace came to announce that he was being summoned by officials.

Zhang Heng could only go to the palace first, make up his mind to come back and then continue to pester. He always had to achieve his goal.

Zhang Heng is such a person. If he wants to accomplish something, he must accomplish it.

In his previous life, when he had just graduated, he was just a young man who was very motivated to do things.
To be continued...