There was already a special eunuch next to him who wrote down the reward that the Son of Heaven said, and naturally notified Yousi to implement it.

Zhang Bin hurriedly knelt down, looked grateful, and said loudly: "Minister Zhang Bin thank Your Majesty for your grace, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live." ”

"Aiqing, let's be flat!" Zhao Ji just wanted to reward a thousand guan money, but recently the treasury is short of money, so it was changed to a hundred guan, at this time, seeing Zhang Bin's grateful look, thinking that as the son of heaven, he only rewarded a hundred guan, a little reluctant, so he said: "Recently, the imperial court's finances have been unable to make ends meet, otherwise I will definitely give you more rewards, and after Aiqing has taken the imperial examination high school, I will definitely give you a satisfactory send." ”

Zhang Bin hesitated slightly, a flash of determination flashed in his eyes, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a strategy, which can make Your Majesty have two million guan in one month, and you can get two million guan in this month every year in the future." ”

Zhao Ji was stunned for a moment and said, "What did you say?" ”

Zhang Bin repeated what he had just said.

Zhao Ji looked at Zhang Bin in disbelief, and there were not many surprises, and there was a look of dissatisfaction in his eyes, because he was full of doubts about Zhang Bin's words.

"I thought that although you were young, you were calm, and you liked to talk big if you didn't want to, but you know that if you say some nonsense in front of me, I can cure you of the crime of bullying the king." Zhao Ji looked at Zhang Bin full of disappointment.

This time, it was Zhang Bin's turn to be stunned, he didn't expect that the emperor wouldn't believe him at all. If you think about it, it is reasonable that the Son of Heaven does not believe him.

Kou Zhun, Ouyang Xiu, Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Wen Yanbo, Wang Anshi, etc., these people are all the top people in the world in terms of intelligence and knowledge, and they have tried their best to solve the financial problems of the imperial court.

Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu also tried to reform, but in the end they failed, and the end was miserable.

Wang Anshi also wants to change the law now, but there are many difficulties and troubles, and he also got some money in the first year of losing the law, and he can't pay much money in the second year, and he has caused a lot of chaos in the process of implementation.

It can be seen how difficult this thing is and how difficult it is to do.

Although Zhang Bin has made great contributions in Dashun City and proved his ability, in the eyes of the Son of Heaven, there is still too much difference between Wang Anshi, Han Qi, Wen Yanbo and other prime ministers, and the three generations of monarchs and ministers of the imperial court cannot solve the problem.

You must know that the imperial court only pays more than 20 million yuan in taxes a year, and Zhao Ji can immediately believe what Zhang Bin said, which is illogical.

"Your Majesty, the minister guarantees with his head, it is not nonsense, please give Weichen a chance to explain." Zhang Bin knelt down directly and said with a solemn face.

He naturally knew that it was very abrupt to say such things to the Son of Heaven in his own capacity, but he had a reason to say it.

First of all, the Great Song Dynasty has begun to go downhill and has begun to decline significantly, not to mention facing the threat of Western Xia and Liao, when the Jurchens and Yuanmeng rise one after another, it will be the disaster of destroying the country and destroying the clan, leaving him Zhang Bin with little time.

And now that the equalization method is about to enter the third year of implementation, Zhang Bin knows that the 'good medicine' given by Wang Anshi to the Son of Heaven has deteriorated and will soon become a 'tumor' of the Great Song Dynasty, so he must stop it, otherwise the Great Song Dynasty has reached the 'terminal stage of cancer', even if he is a person who has crossed the hanging, there is nothing he can do.

Secondly, through this face-to-face saint, he found that it was too difficult for ordinary officials to meet the Son of Heaven, and the next time he saw the Son of Heaven in his capacity, he didn't know when, he missed this opportunity to offer advice, and I am afraid it will be too late to see the Son of Heaven again.

In the end, he had listened to the conversation between the Son of Heaven and Han Qi outside the palace before, and knew that the emperor's state of mind at this time was the best time for him to offer advice.

Zhao Ji looked at Zhang Bin's solemn expression, and looked at Zhang Bin's deep gaze that showed eagerness, and somehow, he suddenly had a little more trust in Zhang Bin in his heart, and said, "It's okay, I'll listen to what you have to say first." ”

Zhang Bin secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, it is a good policy to lose the law, but it is a pity that no matter how good the scriptures are, they will be read crookedly by the crooked monks. ”

Zhao Ji sighed, nodded and said, "That's true, but this is a secret matter of the imperial court, and you shouldn't know it in your identity, but if you guess it yourself......"

Speaking of this, Zhao Ji's heart suddenly moved, and said: "Zhang Bin, don't you have a way to know the crux of the even-loss method, I asked Wang Anshi, and the person he sent to investigate has not returned." ”

Zhang Bin said: "Your Majesty, Wechen does know the crux of the problem, and Wechen also knows that the money given to the court by several major transfer divisions is not as good as January, and one day it will not only be difficult to hand over the money to the court, but also the money of those officials of the transfer department will be issued to them by the court." ”

Zhao Ji's face suddenly became ugly, and he wanted to refute, but he vaguely felt that it might be true.

But Zhao Ji, as the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, couldn't listen to empty words and vernacular, and said in a deep voice: "Say your reasons." ”

Zhang Bin said: "Your Majesty can order people to thoroughly investigate three things. ”

"First, whether the major transit agencies newly established to implement the equalization law are becoming more and more bloated than they were at the beginning, and whether there are many more officials than at the beginning.

If Weichen is not mistaken, there are too many officials up and down who will insert a foot in the transfer agency, and relatives and friends will stuff it in, resulting in a lot of empty positions that only take money and have no effect, or even only add to the chaos.

The most important thing is that the wages of petty officials and petty officials are much higher than the wages of the petty workers and shopkeepers who used to do the same thing, so that after the profits taken from the gentry and wealthy merchants are handed over to the imperial court, there is not much left. ”

Zhang Bin also had some things that were inconvenient for Zhao Ji to say, for example, the New Party, which promoted the equalization law, would also suffer from the backlash and retaliation of businessmen and the big landlords, big nobles, and officials behind them, which would naturally affect the profits of the transfer agencies.

"Li Shunju, you send someone to the Third Division to ask how many officials there were when each transfer division was established more than a year ago, and how many officials are now." When Zhao Ji thought of the virtues of the imperial court and local officials, he faintly felt that what Zhang Bin said was right, but as the Son of Heaven, he really couldn't believe such a fact.

Li Shunju, the official of the inner chamberlain, agreed, and sent a eunuch as quickly as possible, and the eunuch ran to the Sansi Yamen, who was in charge of the finances of the Great Song Dynasty, where he could find out the number of all the officials who received the imperial court.

"You move on to the second one." Zhao Ji's face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said.

Zhang Bin said: "The second point, and the most fundamental problem, Your Majesty can also send someone to verify whether a large number of important positions in the transfer agency are occupied by officials who do not know how to do business and only know how to compose poetry, and these officials still look down on business one by one, and have never swooped down to study business, which is naturally incompetent, and the problems caused by this are countless, and the profits are naturally greatly reduced." ”

"Let's talk about the third point." Zhao Ji's face became more and more gloomy, but this point really needs to be investigated, after all, every time Wang Anshi and other officials of the New Party appoint transfer agencies, they say that they are capable officials.

Zhang Bin said: "Third, Weichen doesn't need to investigate, he knows that the transshipment divisions of various industries have no sense of operation most of the time, because they are all monopoly industries and have no competitors. As for officials and petty officials, no matter how much they make a profit, they will not be affected, and there is no enthusiasm. As a result, the Transit Division's profitability was worse than in January. ”

When Zhang Bin said this, he thought of some of the shortcomings of state-owned enterprises in the nineties, because it was a monopoly industry, the lack of performance reward mechanism, the most important talent introduction and management innovation in the enterprise for decades, there was no improvement at all, and the result was a serious loss, and it has been surviving on government subsidies.

This third point, Zhao Ji thought about it for a while, and he didn't need to investigate, and he felt that what Zhang Bin said was probably right, because human nature is like this.

"What is the fourth point?" Zhao Ji's face was already cloudy, the cold light in his eyes flickered, and there was a faint flash of murderous intent, but he didn't know who it was aimed at.

Zhang Bin took a slight breath and said, "Your Majesty, this fourth and most fundamental point is that the transshipment agency is like a monopoly business run by the government, and there is a serious lack of supervision.

In the past, the wealthy and wealthy people did these businesses, and out of consideration for their own interests, they would find ways to develop and grow their businesses.

However, the transfer division produced by the equalization method is different, relying on the supervision of the yamen such as Yushitai, Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, Weichen thinks that the effect is very small. ”

When he said this, Zhang Bin remembered what a certain big leader said when talking about the problem of state-owned enterprises in a teleconference in later generations: It is impossible to maintain efficient operation without supervision, just as it can be kept clean without cleaning the toilet.