A military attache friend fell from the sky, Su Rong was in a very good mood, and enthusiastically asked Di Yong where he was on duty now, and invited Di Yong to come often when he was free.

Di Yong was naturally moved by such hospitality, stayed for a while after eating, ate snacks and drank tea before leaving.

Su Jian didn't plan to interfere with his son's friendship, but seeing that Su Yan was so enthusiastic about Di Yong, he couldn't help but warn him a few words, asking him not to get too close to the military attache as much as possible.

Su Lu quickly understood his father's obscure words, civil officials can promote military attachés, which means that you have a good eye and are quite accomplished in military affairs; But if you have a good relationship with the military attaché, and your brain is hot and you lead the military attache as a confidant, then it is easy to be blocked by others!

It seems that the discrimination of the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty against the warriors is deep-rooted!

Su Lu said: "I'm still young, don't tell me this, alas, why do you want to tell me all kinds of sinisters in this world early, it's not conducive to my healthy growth, you know?" ”

Su Jian glanced at him, and he didn't see where he had grown up healthily, and he had never seen such a crooked child.

Su Lu ignored his father and ran out.

In the blink of an eye, autumn went to winter, and Su Bubuli's family finally arrived in Kaifeng.

Su Lu was very happy to see his eldest brother's family, and recognized people one by one, so he asked people to take out the gifts and send them out one by one, the gifts of the nieces were rouge jewelry and the like, with different patterns, and the nephews were relatively unified, one person had a large stack of books, and the top was the "Imperial Examination Book" that Su Lu specially asked someone to transcribe for them.

The five nephews had different expressions, some were moved, some were happy, some were shocked, and some were so excited that tears fell.

"You're welcome, you're welcome, I didn't bother much." Su Lu held his chest and humbly let his nephews be thanked too much.

He told his eldest brother and sister-in-law about the origin of these reference books, most of which were selected by his teacher, that is, his cousin Su Shi and Su Zhe's imperial examination tutor Zhang Fangping.

As for the "Imperial Examination Treasure Book", he synthesized Ouyang Xiu's comments and sorted it out, and Fan Wen in it made a mistake that many men in the world would make.

He still feels very enlightening about himself, and it is more meaningful to learn than directly giving a perfect sample essay!

Ouyang Xiu knows no, the chief examiner of this year's provincial exam, just ask you believe it or not!

Su Buyu and his sister-in-law Pu Shi listened to the origin of these books, and their eyes became serious when they looked at their sons, and their faces obviously said, "Look, show me immediately, read them all to me."

Pu Shi was quite fond of this little uncle, and gave Su Bu a deceptive look.

Su Bubao gave the prepared meeting gift to Su Rong, which is a good inkstone, not only the material is good, but the carving is also quite charming.

Su Bu smiled and said: "Big brother didn't shine in the last place, but the inkstone is more distinctive, this inkstone is the most famous local old Taoist who has opened the light, I guarantee that you will write like a god!" ”

Su Lu was not interested in inkstones and feudal superstitions, but he was very interested in inkstones that looked expensive, so he immediately took them over and played them repeatedly, and politely excused himself twice: "How is this embarrassing?" Why don't you leave it to your nephew? ”

Su Bu smiled and said, "They have it themselves, this is for you." ”

Su Lu said happily: "Then I'll take it!" ”

Su Buyu and his wife both laughed.

After Su Buyu's family settled down, Su Lu had one more fun every day, that is, after school, he paced to find a few of his nephews and asked enthusiastically: "Do your nephews read books today?" Which ones did you see? Come, I'll test you guys. ”

The eldest nephew, Su Qiancheng, was poisoned the most.

What made Su Qiancheng even more desperate was that although his uncle was young, he memorized the scriptures and the like a stream, as if the four books and five classics were all in his mind, and the questions were easy to come up with, and he was often caught off guard!

Terrifying!

You know, Su Lu is only ten years old this year!

Under Su Lu's diligent supervision, the five nephews cried and read every day, and never rested until the lamp oil was lit, which was very gratifying to Su Lu.

Young people, you should study diligently, and don't mess around all day long.

After Su Lu urged his nephew, he was worried that his daughter-in-law had already started to take care of the shop, so he couldn't help but paced to his father to inquire about the recent movements of the three divisions and see if there was anything worth doing.

Su Jian knew that Su Fang had a lot of ideas, so he didn't drive him away, but told him about what Zhang Fangping had discussed with them recently.

Zhang Fangping was ready to reuse Fan Xiang and turned out the money method for use.

Su Lu listened and praised: "This method is good, I like it." Seeing money and seeing money means that you can see money, right? ”

Su Jian scolded: "I think you are looking for money." ”

He explained to Su Lu, saying that this was a reform of the cross-quotation method, and it had been used several times in the past, but some people lost their interests, so they raised the banner of opposition and destroyed it.

Zhang Fangping saw that he hadn't made any political achievements, and remembered this method of seeing money, so he wanted to use Fan Xiang, who was proficient in this method, again!

"After talking for a long time, you didn't say what was going on!" Su Lu unceremoniously criticized his father's level of expression.

Su Jian told him in depth.

It turned out that the method used by the imperial court was called the cross-citation method, that is, the merchants were responsible for transporting grain, salt and tea and other goods to the locality, and the government over there issued the merchants as a voucher and asked them to go back to the relevant departments in Kaifeng to receive money.

Since the imperial court needed to transport these materials to the border, local officials would add a "false price" to the actual price when valuing, that is, to make up for the transportation costs, wear and tear costs, labor costs, and so on.

This leaves a lot of holes to exploit.

The merchants colluded with local officials to inflate the valuation indefinitely, and the merchants easily took a bunch of handovers back to exchange for money.

As a direct result, the imperial court has no money!

In other words, their three divisions are poor!

Zhang Fangping took over the third division, of course, he had to find a way to make money.

It's not easy to make money.

The original method of cross-quotation has been thoroughly understood by officials and wealthy businessmen, who can obtain huge profits from it through various methods.

If they change it, whether it's good or bad, why don't they have to take some time to figure out the specific rules, right?

Regardless of whether they can find out whether the new law is beneficial or not, these people will lose a lot of benefits during this time, so they strongly oppose the new law, and come one by one!

If you bring it up, isn't it just picking money out of other people's money bags?

At this moment, only one thought popped up in Su Lu's mind-

Father-in-law, danger!

Su Jian then told Su Lu about Zhang Fangping's plan.

The scope of application of the cross-citation method is salt, wine, grain, tea, spices, etc., and Zhang Fangping mainly wants to start with salt.

Salt is actually not very rare, and the Xixia side even often smuggles some green and white salt, the price is low, the quality is good, and the people are fools if they don't secretly use smuggled salt.

The reason why Zhang Fangping wanted to reform the salt administration was that he hoped to return the salt profits to the hands of the imperial court, instead of letting the merchants and smugglers make money!

Su Lu thought that this idea was very good, but it was a bit difficult to operate.

First of all, this moves other people's cakes, and cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, which is definitely a common hatred!

The second is this "money law", which sounds too ungentle, literati value righteousness over profit, what is the matter with money when you open your mouth and close your mouth? This will definitely make many Qingliu civil officials who disdain to talk about money directly oppose it!

If you don't have a good face, who will support you?

Su Lu stood up, paced back and forth in the study with his little hands behind his back, shook his head and said, "It's not appropriate, it's not appropriate." ”

Su Jian scolded: "Don't pretend, if you have something to say, you can say it directly." ”

Su Lu stood up and said: "Thinking that it is good for the imperial court's finances, it will be implemented directly, just like when you see a girl on the road who is good-looking, you rush up to the overlord and make a bow, do you think it is reasonable?" It's easy to beat the chicken and fly that way! ”

Su Jian always felt that this egg and chicken fly were not quite right.

Su Lu didn't give his father a chance to think deeply, and then said: "So, we can't come hard, at least we have to win over people who are enough to compete with the original vested interests, so as not to destroy ourselves." ”

Su Jian frowned: "Isn't that changed equal to not changed?" ”

Dare to love their hard work to carry out reforms, that is, to let those guys who collude and unite to dig the corners of the imperial court with their left hands and right hands?

Su Lu said: "This has to mention another point. My own things can't compare to others, I don't want to improve and improve, what's the use of just blindly banning them? Salt is good, your salt is good! If you really can't get better, you can get more! In this way, both the imperial court and the new salt merchants could make a lot of money, and the old and new salt merchants would compete, and the people everywhere would be able to get better salt at a fairer price. ”

Su Jian said: "To put it simply, you can talk about how to make the salt more and better?" ”

Su Lu said with a deep face: "Why don't you and the teacher jointly write a letter to the official family and let the imperial court knock down the West Sea?" I don't think it's far, it's just a little bit away from Xining Prefecture, and I can't really get it if I send a batch of elite soldiers out to make a wave. Think about it, the West Sea, it's all salt! It's a lot of money to beat it down! ”

Su Jian began to look for a ring ruler.

This dead boy didn't speak seriously, so he thought he really had a good idea!

Seeing that Su Lian was about to beat his son, Su Yan hurriedly said: "Dad, don't worry, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, I'll go back and think about it, sort out my thoughts, and write it to you later." ”