Right! That's it! If you want to do great things, you have to concentrate your forces, and you must centralize power! The imperial court must have absolute authority. Geng Xiaofan summed up.

"It's a pity that my brother is not that material." Yang Ah sighed.

"Yang, don't think so much. At this point, we can only take one step at a time. Mencius said that if you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are good, you will help the world. You get Yonsei back first, and live your own little life first, and then you can take care of anything else. ”

"You kid is alive and well! Use the truth of being a man to be an official! Yang Ah understood what Geng Xiaofan meant.

"To be an official is to be a person first, and if a person does a good job, the official will naturally do a good job."

"Hey, you really should explain these truths to those courtiers who are vegetarian, everyone is like you, how can the government be so unbearable."

"It's simple, it's hard to do. I think most of the courtiers understood this, but they couldn't do it. It's not that they don't want to, it's that they can't help it. This is, it is the system, that is, the system and the rules are restricting. ”

"The system and rules are not dead, they can all be changed, wouldn't it be good to change them? What's so hard. ”

"Yang, I can't tell you clearly for a while. The system and rules are not arbitrarily changed, they must be related to the situation...... Geng Xiaofan scratched his ears and cheeks, he didn't know how to explain it to Yang A concisely.

Yang Ah also looked confused.

"To put it simply, the economy is the foundation. Take your family and say, how much money you have, how much you can harvest, how much you can do. When your harvest is good, you can be more lenient in managing your subordinates, so that they will be happy and motivated. If the harvest is not good, you have to set the rules strictly, so that you can ensure that there is no chaos. Do you understand? ”

Geng Xiaofan almost took out the political economy he had studied to "show off".

"The economy is the foundation? I think I've heard someone say that! Yang Ah seemed to understand whether he understood or not, but he was suddenly interested in Geng Xiaofan's words.

Geng Xiaofan smiled, at this time, there would be no one else who could say such things except Wang Jingyan.

"That's it! Leave that alone. Geng Xiaofan saw that the time was almost up, and he was about to finish the "teaching" with Yang A, he had to go home and prepare for the New Year.

"Bring a message to Yonsei, let him not hold on, he can come back early, come back early. This year, everyone's harvest was not good, and I consciously stored grain in the second half of the year, reducing the output of the brewery. If you don't have enough food, go to the workshop to pull it, at least don't let the farmers go hungry. Geng Xiaofan confessed and got up to leave.

"It turns out that the reduction in production of the workshop is not because you can't receive food, but because you did it on purpose!" Yang A saw that Geng Xiaofan was leaving, so he grabbed it again.

"Scarcity is precious! The grain is not good, so I must not save some. Geng Xiaofan felt that this truth was too simple and did not need to be explained.

"It's okay if you don't have wine, but you can't do without food! I have to get the court to issue a ban on alcohol, and I can't let all the precious grain be used to make wine! Yang Ah frowned and began to calculate.

"There's something wrong with you! You're not cutting yourself off! Geng Xiaofan was taken aback. Ever since the autumn grain harvest failed, he had been worried that the imperial court would ban alcohol. Unexpectedly, the court didn't go down, but Yang Ah wanted to suggest it.

"You can't ignore the lives of the people for your own selfish interests!" Yang Ah Zhenzhen has words.

"My dear princess! It has nothing to do with whether or not it is brewed, at least it doesn't matter much! Even if the prohibition of alcohol is issued, the people who should have no food to eat will not have food to eat. Moreover, if you ban alcohol in spite of everything, maybe the common people will have no food to eat! ”

"You're bullshit. If you ban alcohol and save food, how can you have no food to eat? Yang Ah felt that Geng Xiaofan was still thinking about his own brewing workshop.

Geng Xiaofan sighed, it seems that he won't be able to leave for a while, and he has to popularize the "market economy" for Yang A again.

"Yang, the price of grain can only determine the cost of wine, not the price of wine. If the grain is not harvested, it will naturally be expensive, and the cost of brewing will be high, and the price will rise. When alcohol is expensive, many people have to consider whether to drink it or not, so they will buy less. If the wine can't be sold, the price will naturally have to fall, and it will be unprofitable to drop to the winemaking workshop, so naturally no one will make it. Naturally, there will be more grain in the market, and the price will also fall. This is the law of the market, and it is much stronger than your forced pricing. ”

"On the other hand, if you ban alcohol, there will be less alcohol in the market, and the price of alcohol will inevitably rise. It is inevitable that some people will hoard wine and grain, and the price of grain will rise sharply. ”

Geng Xiaofan patiently explained for a long time.

"I don't understand! But in the past, every time there was a disaster, the imperial court would ban alcohol! It was difficult for Yang A to understand Geng Xiaofan's theory for a while.

"Every time alcohol is banned, does the price of alcohol increase several times? Food prices are also rising? You have money and food, you can't feel it, it's the people who suffer. ”

"Forget it, I don't care!" Yang Ah thinks about it, it seems to be the same reason.

The next day, Yang A went to Changxin Palace, wanting her husband to come back as soon as possible, but she was afraid that she would have to get the support of the Queen Mother.

Unexpectedly, my younger brother was also there, and he was accompanying the Queen Mother to listen to Wang Mang talk about the prohibition of alcohol!

I also had this plan, but I didn't expect to be persuaded by Geng Xiaofan yesterday, but at this time, Wang Mang was the first to mention it.

Wang Mang seemed to be fully prepared, and talked about the benefits of alcohol prohibition in a "basket", and even the Queen Mother couldn't help nodding.

After Wang Mang finished speaking, he glanced at Yang A carefully, he seemed to be a little timid, and he hesitated to explain to Yang A. If the imperial court really wants to issue a ban on alcohol, it is not certain whether others will have losses, but Yang A will definitely have losses.

"You don't have to look at me! Prohibition is really as you said, all benefits are harmless, and I am the first to take the lead in supporting it. Moreover, my winery has been reducing production since the second half of the year. Yang A glanced at Wang Mang, and his tone was very calm.

"However, even if you ban alcohol and don't use the grain to make wine, you can ensure that the people can eat food?" Yang Ah asked rhetorically.

"Hehe, in the early years, the imperial court also banned alcohol, but the mourning family doesn't seem to have much effect. It seems that Yang Ah has an opinion! Seeing Yang A's calm tone, the Queen Mother knew that she must have an idea.

"Queen Mother, I don't have any opinions, but I happened to talk to Marquis Geng about this topic yesterday. There seems to be some truth in what he said. "Yang Ah is not ready to bury Geng Xiaofan.

"What does he think?" The Queen Mother was interested.

"I don't understand what he said. However, it roughly means that if alcohol is banned, the price of alcohol will rise, and food will also rise, and the people still may not have food to eat. Yang Ah replied.

"How is that possible! If the grain is no longer used to make wine, there will naturally be more, and if there is more, it will naturally be cheaper. Wang Mang cautiously retorted.

"The truth in this is so profound that I don't understand it. However, as the Queen Mother just said, it has been banned before, but it has little effect. Yang Ah said nonchalantly.