On both sides of the Qinhuai River is the southern downtown area of Jiankang, not to mention anything else, there are nearly 100 brothels on both sides of the river, which can attract thousands of guests every night. Not to mention the restaurants and shops nearby.

The market is brightly lit, as bright as day, and the people are surging and the sound is like a boil. The sound of music floated out of the small sweet water alley, and the silk and bamboo were like wisps, endlessly. Turning his head to look into the alley, he saw a lantern hanging high, and under the door, the figure was longing. At this glance, people kept passing by and hurriedly walked into the alley.

Many of the prostitutes came by renting horses, and at the beginning of the shift, there were always more people coming and fewer people going, which made it much more convenient for Ganhu and Ganshuo to rent horses.

Riding on the horse, the two brothers gossiped with the renter while looking at the bustling street market around them. Eating, shopping, doing small business, full of people.

Even though you can see it every night these days, every time you see the colorful nightlife in the capital, Gan Shuo can't help but sigh in his heart.

The two brothers entered Taixue half a year ago, and today they just passed the big examination for the outside students, and returned to the house for the first time in half a year.

Even after a thousand years, the night can compare to the Jiankang City at this time, but it is only some first-tier big cities, or the most prosperous streets in the center of ordinary cities.

Gan Tang raised his head. At the zenith, Sirius, tired of seeing, was still twinkling, only faintly overwhelmed by the lights around it. And the other stars, naturally worse than Sirius, disappeared completely without a trace.

Astronomy and geography are all said together, and according to the theory at this time, the division of the stars in the sky corresponds to Kyushu on the earth. If you want to learn astronomy, you must know geography. But the level of geography is excellent, but astronomy is not even able to tell the names of the stars.

This is mainly because Gantang was too deeply influenced by later generations, and when he saw Sirius, he thought of Canis Major, and when he saw Orion on the side, he couldn't remember whether the bright red star was Betelgeuse or Betelgeuse. I just vaguely remember that the belt composed of the three stars in the center of the constellation Orion is called the three stars of Fulushou.

It would be nice if the Chinese star map could be transmitted to the West and replace the 48 constellations of ancient Greece with the 38 walls and 28 constellations. Gan Tang looked up at the endless sky hidden by the lights and thought so.

Emperor Suzong died, the new emperor Qiqi ascended the throne, changed the year name "Xianheng" to Xie Daoqing as the queen mother, assisted Emperor Xianheng to deal with the government, and all the folds of the court were handed over to the political hall for approval and then handed over to the empress dowager for supervision and sealing. This is a result that is relatively acceptable to all parties in the court.

But Gan Tang also understands that repeating a lie a thousand times may not become the truth, but repeating it three or five times can brainwash people, the key is to see who is telling it. He talked about this from experience, whether it was in his past or present life, he had it. If the people around Xie Daoqing said this in unison, don't think that the people in power in Great Xia would be able to see everything clearly. Once the Queen Mother really believes it, the result of Wang Mingzhi's letter this time will never end well, and she will be implicated.

Before the book, Gan Tang did not approve of it, but Wang Mingzhi's book was angry and always had some luck. But Prime Minister Wang Cheng thinks that as long as there is a little noise in the chorus in the ears of the Queen Mother, it will be completely different.

Wang Mingzhi was personally promoted by the emperor and trusted by the queen mother, and his "Paving Ding into the Mu" was more radical than Wang Anshi's "A Whip Law".

Shi Shen Xungui and the common people together to pay grain, the world each person to keep five acres of cultivated land bottom line, within the bottom line no longer pay grain, five to ten acres of grain one percent, ten to fifty acres of grain two percent, fifty to two hundred acres of grain thirty percent, more than 200 acres of grain forty percent. There is some meaning of income tax in later generations.

This strategy is good, but Gan Tong believes that the probability of successful implementation is equal to zero.

But although Wang Mingzhi knew that it was difficult to make the court

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The court accepted and wanted to try the reactions of all parties, but still handed the excerpt to the queen mother first, and the queen mother was also optimistic that this strategy could solve the financial emptiness of the imperial court and the growing land annexation problem in Great Xia. before handing it over to Jia Ru.

First of all, from the procedural point of view, it violated the reverse scale of Jia Ru and others.

From the perspective of human nature, it is impossible for the Queen Mother not to like someone to give Jia Ru and others eye medicine, whether it is right or wrong, as long as someone stands up and fights with those in power, she will give support at this time.

People always hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe. If the political hall revolves around Jia Ru on one side, a different voice appears, which is what the Queen Mother wants to see.

Under the influence of the "Huaxia" newspaper, Wang Mingzhi also made public opinion preparations before he went to the fold, first building momentum among the students, and then publishing an article in the "Huaxia Weekly" stating the harm of land annexation to the country.

Judging from the reactions of various factions these days, although the anti-reform faction is unanimously opposed to "Paving Ding into Mu". But in fact, Wang Mingzhi's opponents are divided into two categories, one is the conflict of interests, and the other is the dispute of ideas, and they cannot be mixed up.

The conflict of interests came from the infringed strata whose interests were infringed upon, mainly the scholars, bureaucrats, large landowners, nobles, and clansmen who owned a large amount of land. They all have a large amount of land in their hands, which not only affects their current income but also affects their continued attachment to the land, so they all hate "Spreading into Acres".

And the battle of ideas is those Confucian scholars who really think that it is wrong to compete with the people for profit. They believed that the tax burden of the Taizu of this dynasty to exempt the scholars from a part of the land was unchangeable, and it was undignified to compete with the people for profit, and the people in their hearts only represented scholars and doctors with meritorious names and above. There are not many of them, but each of them is very famous. It's all part of it.

Gan Tang knew that during this period, such a change could not succeed, but he just wanted to know how effective the public opinion guidance of "Huaxia Weekly" had reached among students and scholars over the years.

Xiangyang Wangfu Jizhong Hall.

For dinner that day, Gan Tang invited his uncle Gan Ke, who presided over the "Huaxia Daily", and Qian Zheng, a family teacher from Chongqing, and several cousins of similar age in the east and west mansions to have dinner together.

Gan Tang invited Gan Ke and Qian Zheng to sit in the first place, and the others were lined up left and right according to their generations, and they were the last to accompany them.

Seeing that the children and grandchildren are getting older, and Gan Ke is also at the age when they are on an errand to marry a daughter-in-law, Gan Ke's eyes can't help but be a little red, he wiped his eyes with a handkerchief, and said to Gan Tang: "Brother Tang, when your grandfather was alive, he nagged about the fact that the descendants of our Gan family were taking the test for fame and marrying a daughter-in-law. Now that you're all older, my eldest brother is no longer ......."

Gan Tang saw that he was sentimental, and his psychology was even more sad.

Qian Zheng was beside him, persuading: "Yes, the old man admires Cao Guogong very much, Gan Shuo has been concentrating on learning for the past two years, this time down, I don't know how to play, I think it will not be a problem to enter Taixue if I can play normally." It is quite a lifting to come out, and it is not difficult to enter the Shi and the first in the future. Among you, Brother Tang'er has the most solid knowledge, and if he ends up, it is possible to get any of the top three. ”

Gan Tang said: "People like us, fame is just icing on the cake, and the picture is good-looking." It does not have to be about how well you take the test, but the main thing is to do a solid job in your studies, so that you will avoid many detours in the future when you join the WTO. ”

As soon as he spoke, Gan Ke's face was full of red light and he nodded. said: "Yes, Brother Tang has always been diligent, and Gan Shuo also praised him when he beat Mr. Xiao." He said. Look at the eldest son Gan Shuo, and then look at the grandchildren of the Gan family, and there is a bit of joy in his eyes.

Gan Hu next to him just lowered his eyebrows more and more, bowed his head and said nothing.

"Uncle Tiger and Uncle Shuo are a little older, other people's families are like their age, and they still take the boy's test. The end is just to see the world, and the eight-strand text taught by Mr. Pingsu is done. and so on in the same age group partners. This is also a lot of talking points are not. Gan Tang saw that Gan Hu's face was wrong, and he diverted from the words.

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After dinner, when everyone dispersed, Gan Tang took several cousins who were studying in Taixue to the study to talk.

When he arrived at the study, Gan Tang pointed to the chair in the study, and Gan Tang invited Gan Hu. Gan Shuo and the others sat down and said, "I invited my uncles over today, and I also had something to ask. ”

Everyone paid attention and waited for Gan Tang's next step.

"Uncle Shuo is dedicated to learning, and he knows that there are fewer things around him, and I usually ask Uncle Tiger to do some things."

"I'm still worried, although you focus on your studies, people like us, we must also pay attention to the trend of the political situation in the court at any time, from the big to the rise and fall of the country, and from the small to the rise and fall of the entire family."

"Although the recent changes advocated by Prime Minister Wang Cheng are less than 10% supported by the court, I want to hear the attitude of tens of thousands of students."

Hearing these words, Gan Shuo and the others were very moved.

Gan Hu heard Gan Tang say this, and said: "As you know, I have been stupid since I was a child, and I didn't want to achieve anything in the imperial examination, but Brother Tang still let me enter the Taixue Waishu through a relationship. It is to keep abreast of the movements of the students. ”

Gan Tang nodded and said, "There are some things, you have also reached the age where you should know." Looking at the rebellion of King Chong'an in the past few years in Great Xia, the impact of the rebellion was only around the capital, and it did not shake the foundation of the imperial court. Everything else is full of flowers. ”

"But just from the surface, you can see that the rural land annexation is serious, and the farmers in the south of the Yangtze River do not want to be like the north of the Yangtze River, so they will not be displaced, and they can mix a share of food and clothing, but from the bottom of their hearts, they are mostly dissatisfied with the imperial court, and most of the social resources are concentrated in the hands of families like us. To the world, the distribution is extremely unreasonable. ”

"Secondly, the land north of the Yellow River has been lost, Daxia is partial to the south of the Yangtze River, and the south of the Yellow River north of the Yangtze River has been harassed by the Yan State for a long time, and the children of my Han family have been displaced, like pigs and dogs, and the contradictions between the north and the south are very sharp. When the Yan State Helian Muye rectifies the interior, he will drive troops south, the treasury is empty, and the ordinary people have not received the corresponding benefits from the imperial court policies, and how many people will die for this country? ”

"At a deep level, since the first emperor unified the six countries and changed the feudal system into counties, two thousand years, to my Daxia Chai family royal family, the feudal system has been brought to the extreme. This policy, which is based on Confucian loyalty and filial piety and morality, can no longer allow society to have room for further improvement. ”

"As the saying goes, when the moon is full, it overflows. This kind of system is not threatened by the Yan Kingdom, and it cannot last long. Da Xia, an old man who exuded a rich and noble aura all over his body, also had a strong robber lying beside him. The threat of the Yan State is only to hasten the demise of this system. ”

"In this case, there are only two ways out, first, the destruction of Great Xia by the Yan Kingdom or the shattering of this Great Xia by a certain ambitious person, everyone starts from being poor and backward together, and has another reincarnation. The second is even more difficult, that is, to completely smash the system created by the First Emperor and form a new social system, which is ten million times more difficult than the first one, but as long as it succeeds, its influence will not lose to the First Emperor. ”

"Prime Minister Wang's change is just tinkering with this old robe full of holes, even if it can succeed, it will not play a big role in the whole society. What's more, the chance of success is equal to zero. ”

"I want to take the second path, a few years ago I started the "Huaxia Weekly" to do ideological guidance, the newspaper is more advanced in this regard than Confucius took his disciples to travel and lecture in the world. This is also a kind of progress of the times. ”

"The officials of the court are just spinal beasts floating at the top of the tower, and the real power is the ordinary scholars from all over the world like Xiang Taixue, as long as we get the support of these people, the chances of success will be greatly increased."

"And Taixue is the elite of these people, I know that Uncle Hu is not keen on the imperial examination, so I still let Uncle Tiger enter Taixue, just to understand the thoughts and dynamics of these people."

When Gan Shuo and the others heard this, they burned like a fire in their hearts, and there was silence in the study for a while.

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