Zhang Yaozuo told Li Buqi about today's incident, but Master Huang clapped his hands and said, "Isn't it better?" Li Buqi said these words in front of the officials today, and I think that all scholars and doctors would not want to hear it. At the beginning, it was said that the deeper the rift between Li Buqi and the doctor, the more beneficial it was to the officials. If Li doesn't give up such publicity, won't our plan become a small half? ”

Zhang Yaozuo said: "But Li Bu lost the title of Jinshi, and it was difficult to recommend his position." ”

Master Huang said with a smile: "At the beginning, it was said that some people would not give up during the provincial examination. Wouldn't this result be better now than Li Buqi being deposed? ”

"Oh, that's just as well." Zhang Yaozuo nodded, but still said with some annoyance: "But if he doesn't make this one, it will be good to protect him." Now that the reputation of the jinshi is gone, it is necessary to recruit him to become an official, and he must also find a suitable excuse, thinking that there will be opposition to it, and he can only start as a petty official. So when will he be able to get into the center? ”

Master Huang said: "It's easy to find excuses. Isn't Li Buqi a way to make money? Since the finance and taxation are not enough for the country, it is better to recommend him to manage the money in the three divisions. It's hard for others to object to this. As long as he can get the money, he will not be able to make mistakes in the performance evaluation, and he will have the resume of a civil official, and then act at the opportunity, as long as Li Bu is not allowed to become a military attaché. If Li Bu gave up becoming a military attaché, it would be of little use. ”

Zhang Yaozuo stroked his beard and thought for a while: "Yes, the advanced third division is also a method." That's all there is to it now. ”

Master Huang reminded again: "The official's copy of the guarantee should be handed over quickly. Since the official family values Li Buqi, they may soon recruit him, and they must guard against the ministers. ”

Zhang Yaozuo nodded again and again: "The old man will write a chapter." After that, he shook his head and sighed.

At this time, the high-ranking officials of the Great Song Dynasty each had five places to recommend people to be officials, and when they recommended people, the emperor would generally approve them. However, the recommender is responsible for the referee, and if the referee commits something, the referee will also be held responsible and subject to punishment such as demotion.

Therefore, Zhang Yaozuo must let Li Buqi be an official for the sake of the Zhang family's century-old wealth, and he must be a civil official, and he must become a high-ranking official as soon as possible, but with Li Buqi's temperament that he understands, he really can't predict whether Li Buqi will do anything to make him lose his official position after recommending Li Buqi to be an official.

Is it okay to let others recommend Li Bu to give up? If it is someone else, it is still possible, but it is difficult to recommend Li Bu to give up. The vast majority of civil officials who have the right to recommend regard Li Buqi as an outlier, so how can they recommend Li Buqi? Even if he is recommended, he must be a military attaché. The nobles could recommend Li Buqi when the emperor issued an edict asking them to recommend someone who could lead the army, but that could only be a military attaché. If Li Buqi becomes a military attaché, his role in Zhang Yaozuo's plan will be much smaller.

So even if Zhang Yaozuo was drumming in his heart, he had to personally recommend Li Buqi.

The next day, Zhang Yaozuo sent the recommended chapter to the Yintai Division, and returned to the duty room to read the newly arrived newspaper, when a small official who had always been stubborn to him came in with a stack of words to report: "Deputy envoy, early in the morning, Li Buqi posted a post outside the Guozijian and raised several questions about financial planning, to see if anyone could answer them." So a lot of people were there to watch. ”

Zhang Yaozuo hurriedly asked, "What are the problems?" ”

The paper in the arms of the little official was handed over: "I heard that I felt that it was related to my three divisions, and the prime minister and the deputy envoy needed to pay attention, so I sent two scribes to copy it, and the deputy envoy please take a look." ”

Zhang Yaozuo praised the little official, and when he stepped back, he carefully looked at the copied post, and told a story at the beginning.

The story goes that during the flood, a rich man fled with gold on his shoulders to a high ground where there was a farmer who had fled with a dozen cooking cakes. The flood never receded, and the rich man was so hungry that he had to buy bread from the farmer. At first, the farmer refused to buy a cookcake with a tael of gold, but then the rich man gradually rose to the point that he used all the gold to buy a cookcake, but the farmer still did not agree. Eventually, when the waters receded, the rich had starved to death, and all the gold went to the farmers.

Spreading from this story, Li Buqi asked what money is, and is it still money when he can't buy things? The same money can sometimes buy a bucket of rice, and sometimes a liter of rice can't, so how is the value of money determined?

Then Li Buqi asked again, sometimes an expensive copper coin and a cheap iron coin can buy the same thing, does it mean that the copper coin and the iron coin are of the same value? In the past, there were times when the government could write a few words on a piece of cloth and use it as money, so could anything be used as money?

There are many more questions to come. For example, Li Buqi asked about the growing population, and the Great Song Dynasty had to produce an astonishing amount of grain every year, and cloth to support these people. Some people say that there is a lot of wealth in the world, so how much wealth is there, and will it be used up one day?

The more Zhang Yaozuo looked at it, the more he frowned. If he had been asked these questions before today, he would have thought that he would have been able to answer them in a straightforward manner, but Li Buqi's revelation put the phenomena and the problems together, and he found that the conclusions he had drawn from the book could not explain them at all.

How so? Zhang Yaozuo felt that his head was a little big.

The emperor will surely soon learn about Li Buqi's posting outside the Guozi prison. This is all about financial planning, if the emperor has any questions, he must ask the people of the three divisions, who made you the three divisions in charge of the financial planning?

Zhang Yaozuo felt that it was strange that the emperor didn't ask, and the three divisions couldn't answer the question, wasn't the emperor curious? Moreover, Li Buqi These issues are actually related to the country's financial affairs, and the emperor must also care about it for his own world.

He thought that when the emperor asked, he couldn't answer, and it was a headache. However, it is better for Li Buqi to publish the problem than to stab the emperor directly, and he can still have time to prepare. He hurriedly summoned his subordinate officials and old officials to come to discuss, but the public said that the public was reasonable, the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, and everyone was reasonable, but everyone would be found by others to find loopholes, and the discussion was so that the issue of dispersal was not discussed clearly.

As a result, the officials of the three divisions, who were excited after the dismissal, moved the debate venue to the teahouse and the restaurant to continue working. It's just that they find that people in these places are also debating the same thing.

"Ah, don't give up, your question is really interesting. At first glance, there is nothing difficult about these questions, but there is always something wrong with the answers no matter what. I consulted with the housekeeper and the bookkeeper all afternoon, but I couldn't answer a single question. You tell me what the answer is, and I promise not to say it. Cao Yan didn't even care about drinking tea, staring at Li Buqi and asking.

Li Buqi wanted to induce the Song people to discover the laws of the economy by themselves, so he wrote these questions out for them to study, of course, he couldn't say that he already knew the answer, so he spread his hands and said innocently: "If I have the answer, why do I make such a big move?" It's because I can't think of an answer that I'm looking for talent. I think that there are so many moves in the capital now, there is always someone who can answer these questions, right? ”

Cao Tong asked: "Since you don't have an answer, if someone answers, how do you know if he answered correctly?" ”

Li Buqi said: "You can argue." Uncle Guo has read "On Salt and Iron", right? Sang Hongyang and those virtuous literature actually didn't come up with a result in the end, but they made some suggestions and benefited future generations, and that's it. ”

Uncle Cao Guo nodded and said, "That makes sense. With so many questions, you can borrow what you have learned into a book in the future, which will certainly be better than "Treatise on Salt and Iron". ”

Li is neither humble nor modest: "I hope so." ”

Uncle Cao Guo showed that he was well-informed: "I heard a message about you just now. Do you know that Concubine Zhang's uncle, Zhang Yaozuo, the deputy envoy of the Third Division, handed over this chapter and recommended you to be the judge of the Third Division. ”

Li Buqi was really taken aback: "There is such a thing? ”

Li Buqi and Zhang Yaozuo have no friendship. And although Zhang Yaozuo is considered a relative because his niece is a concubine, he climbed up step by step in the civil official sequence anyway, and he is considered an orthodox civil official, how could such a person suddenly remember to recommend Li Bu to give up?

Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief. Be careful.