Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 40 The Crushing of Ideas

Zhao Kuangyin immediately turned to look at Zhao Dezhao.

At this time, Zhao Dezhao did not return to the line of ministers, but stayed beside the throne. At this time, he immediately bent down and whispered to Zhao Kuangyin's ear, reminding him in a low voice of what he had just discussed:
"If there are violations of orders, negligence, etc., you can ask them immediately."

Zhao Kuangyin nodded slightly, and then repeated loudly: "...If you have violated orders, neglected, etc., you can ask them immediately!"

After Zhao Dezhao's father "Supervisor" announced his appointment and obtained the authority he wanted, he quickly stepped down the steps, turned around and bowed to the throne: "Thank you, Father, my son takes orders!"

The officials in the palace looked at the behavior of the father and son, and couldn't help shaking their heads. This is the solemn court hall as a private room for fun, and the authority given to the king of Tianshui County by the Holy One is too great. Somewhat disorganized.

Almost immediately there were upright ministers who wanted to speak out, but Zhao Kuangyin immediately left his seat, got up and went to the back of the palace, without giving them a chance to speak out

There was a crackling of the whip, and the eunuch who was in charge of the court immediately gave a long shout announcing his withdrawal from the court, and the courtiers retreated one after another.

King Zhao Guangyi of Jin was the last to walk. Before leaving the palace gate, he subconsciously glanced at the empty chair embroidered with dragons on the high steps at the end of the hall.

At this moment, he was stunned in place.

The empty chair high above seemed to have some kind of magical power, which seized all his spirit and soul, making him unable to look away and move his feet.

After a while, Zhao Guangyi showed a silent smile in the empty hall.

He stepped out of the palace gate, today's court meeting was longer than usual, the sun was already high, and the eastern sun was very strong, it was still early spring, but it already had a scorching heat.

Zhao Guangyi was not in a bad mood.

Although at the court meeting just now, he failed to prevent Zhao Dezhao from getting the opportunity to build his career, but the final result was even better than the best situation he expected!
That kid actually wanted to issue a military order, and even said that if it didn't work, he would be willing to absolve him of his crimes. What a strong confidence he must have to make such a big statement!
Are things in the world that easy?Young people are so naive!
Nephew, nephew, it doesn't matter how much you struggle, your father can always protect you in the end, but if you say such things in public today, even if your father wants to protect you, he can't stop the people from all over the world. Yoyo's mouth.

When you fail in this matter, the best outcome is that from now on you will be a good-for-nothing prince waiting to die. If it gets worse, you may not even be able to keep your title as a county king!

Thinking of this, Zhao Guangyi smiled darkly, and walked down the steps quickly.

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On the way back, Zhao Dezhao was full of a sense of accomplishment, and felt the thrill of single-handedly defeating a group of people and winning!
But at the same time, he also had a lot of complicated emotions in his heart.

In his previous life, in the historical posts about the Song Dynasty, he had seen this statement many times: The Song Dynasty was the turning point in ancient China from openness and enterprising to conservative and rigid.

In the past, he was still ignorant of this statement. Today, in the fierce debate with those ministers in the court, it is the first time in his life that he truly understands what is meant by "conservative rigidity".

In fact, it is the conservatism and rigidity of the collective consciousness of literati and bureaucrats, who are unwilling to accept new ideas and new methods, and are absolutely unwilling to take the initiative to improve as long as they can barely make do with their lives.

In Zhao Dezhao's view, ancient governments like the Song Dynasty basically adopted a laissez-faire attitude toward most private economic activities.

The result is anarchy in economic activities, bullying the weak by the strong, bullying the small by the big, rampant fraud and deceit, and frequent lawsuits. The court government needs to bear huge costs for this and consume a lot of resources. It is obviously a loss-making business.

The root cause is not the government's willingness and ability, but the government's ignorance of how to obtain direct and practical benefits from the regulation of economic activities.

Of course, there is no motivation to do things that don't benefit you. This is no different from ancient to modern times.

For commodities such as salt and iron, the Han Dynasty invented a monopoly system, from which the government could obtain a lot of financial revenue. The control was very strict in all dynasties. The government was active in cracking down on smuggling. In the Tang Dynasty, wine and tea were also added. It entered the monopoly market, and by the Song Dynasty even vinegar became a high-priced specialty product.

Let's put it this way, if you like to dip your dumplings in vinegar in Song Dynasty, then you must have mines at home!
The "deed tax" can just solve the problem of "how the ancient court benefited from the supervision of economic activities". In the final analysis, it is just a new concept.

Of course, "government supervision" will definitely bring some new disadvantages, such as corruption and fraud by officials.

But there is one thing Zhao Dezhao is sure of: no supervision is better than no supervision, no order is better than no order!

As for Zhao Guangyi's objection, "It sounds good to say, but it is extremely difficult to put into practice", Zhao Dezhao himself is not worried at all.

The "deed tax" was first implemented in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. Could it be that the Song people at this time were more stupid than the Dutch at that time, so the problem of people must not be a problem.

As for the different technical levels, that is also not an obstacle.The technological level of the Netherlands at that time was not much higher than that of the Song Dynasty today. There were also no telephones, telegraphs or computers. Transportation basically relied on walking and communication basically relied on shouting. Wasn’t the technical condition implemented quite well?The Dutch government even relied on this to solve its financial difficulties.

At that time, Da Song could do it, but there is no reason why Da Song can't do it now.

What's more, Zhao Dezhao had conceived various implementation details long before proposing the deed tax plan, which could completely eliminate most of the artificial interference factors.

In the 21st century, people generally understand that institutional design is controllable and human interference is uncontrollable. The former should be used to minimize the existence space of the latter, so as to ensure the relative efficiency and integrity of the administrative system.

——And this kind of cognition is Zhao Dezhao's complete crushing on the cognition level compared with those opponents of this era!
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Back in the mansion, Zhao Dezhao went straight into the study and started to work.

This time, instead of writing and drawing up plans, he painted instead.

As usual, Wang Xiuzhi waited on the pen and ink, and while she was grinding the ink for Zhao Dezhao, she peeked at her husband's work content.

She found that her husband's painting was different from others'. He used a hard pen to draw meticulously on the paper. The meticulousness was no different from that of women's embroidery. What he drew was only a complicated rectangle smaller than a child's hand. Patterns, one after another, each pattern has a slightly different style, anyway, it's weird no matter how you look at it.

(End of this chapter)