Chapter 175: Historical Research Society

He was not dissatisfied with Tan Weiming's performance, but he wanted to change the prince, and it was impossible to provoke the relationship between the two brothers in such a clumsy way, but compared to Tan Weiming, he was more optimistic about Tan Weiran's performance in this debate. Indeed, because of Tan Weiran's identity, although he is very enthusiastic and diligent about various things, it is difficult for him to gather a team of staff around him. Whether it is now or in the future, Tan Weiran is bound to be the kind of character who picks up the missing and makes up for the shortcomings. It's just that he hasn't had much experience now, although he has handled many things in the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, the Blood Qi Army, the Danyang City Defense Army, and the Inner Government in the past few years, but he has not yet settled his own temperament, but after he has a preliminary insight in many aspects, he has more room to think about those comprehensive, overall, but more pragmatic content. Tan Weiran is much more serious and in-depth than Tan Weiming in learning economics and accounting with Tan Weixin, especially the principles of the national economic system, core competitiveness, macroeconomic regulation and control, economic leverage, etc., mentioned by Tan Weixin. For the Thunder Yin Demon Sect and related systems that Ye Tao made out at that time, he also put a lot of effort into studying. It can be said that purely in terms of concept, Tan Weiran is more avant-garde and comprehensive than Tan Weiming.

After all, the roles of the two brothers are completely different. Tan Weiming is required to understand and grasp the overall situation, understand all aspects of knowledge, and understand how to efficiently use and allocate resources to achieve the goal, and his knowledge construction and way of thinking are based on practicality and feasibility. And in such a debate, it doesn't matter what Tan Weiming performs, the important thing is that he can further grasp the ability and character of those under him. How to make good use of these people and how to discover their other talents in addition to their eloquence is what Tan Weiming needs to pay attention to.

Tan Weiming will be the emperor of the future land, and Tan Weiran ...... In Tan Xiaopei's thinking, he hopes to cultivate this equally smart and diligent son into an assistant who has a thorough understanding and in-depth thinking about national politics and policies. And when it comes to the most critical and critical moment, he needs to be the one who can stand up, shoulder all the pressure, and do things against all the doubts and pressures. Tan Xiaopei himself failed to do this back then...... And he now believed that with the deep friendship of their brothers, with the influence and teaching of their gifted sister Tan Weixin, and with his consistent long-term training program, the two men would be able to end the war in their generation.

Say it's a debate. In fact, however, this event had a very distinct nature of discussion, and only in the form of a debate. And the format of the debate itself is constantly changing. In the beginning, the three parties took turns to speak, each side made a statement, and then the part of the statement was debated. The presentation is made twice, the first time in its entirety and cannot be interrupted, and the second time when it can be interrupted at any time. Ask questions. This form of debate is too lengthy, mainly because no matter how well prepared you are, there will always be something that cannot convince the other party, and there will always be doubtful material. No one can convince anyone. Then, after a day of discussing the rules of the debate, they all agreed on the option of introducing a 12-member review in addition to the tripartite debate. After a three-way debate, a vote is held to decide which side wins. Being able to sit on the floor is not a simple character. Most of them are patriarchs and senior deacons of major families, ministers of the three grades of the court, Taixue and Guozijian and even Yong'an Palace, sacrificial wine, senior subordinate officials with more than 15 years of work experience in various ministries, Dongping celebrities, representatives of businessmen whose business is so big that it has an impact on the country's economy, and old people with high prestige...... And so on and so forth.

And since the review team that had occurred after the first debate in this format had completely disregarded the outcome of the debate and the authenticity of the material, they quickly adopted additional provisions. Before we begin the debate. Any party may request a change in the members of the review in order to ensure that the outcome of the review is fair and valid.

This...... Basically, it is a reproduction of the jury system and the method of debate, so that the debate gradually becomes formal. For each debate topic, everyone needs to analyze and prepare to the greatest extent within the time limit, and they need to summarize and refine the materials to be presented in a very concise manner, and they also need to devise various debate strategies in the debate......

Although it may damage the academic meaning of debate or discussion because of its rather performative nature, the collision of a large number of ideas and materials in a limited time and space is extremely wonderful. It is true that the seat of the deliberative mission is a place that many people who feel they are qualified to apply for. to later. Even auditoriums are hard to find.

And those debates are even more acute than the other. Some are even somewhat rebellious. For example, the first debate topic is "Justice and Legitimacy", which focuses on the various countries that were also split from the unified country at that time, including Dongping, which is a topic that everyone usually sweats cold sweat even if they think about it, let alone debate in broad daylight. Then there are "extravagance", "development and excessive development", "from reunification to division", "war and national development", "policy consistency and policy consistency", "the achievements of traitors", "collecting, organizing and fabricating evidence", ...... Wait a minute. These topics involve all aspects of a country, but because they are some big historical propositions, they do not limit the time and space of the material, and everyone has great room to play. As the debate progressed, Ye Tao and Tan Weixin had to participate more and more deeply and enthusiastically, and the debate not only discussed history, but also added a lot of reflections on various policies of Dongping, and even reflections on historical research itself. When theories such as "practice is the only criterion for testing truth," "crossing the river by feeling the stones," "macroeconomic regulation and control," and "finance, liquidity, and excessive mobility" emerged one after another, everyone realized that this debate might have a far-reaching impact on the future of Dongping.

What is even more enlightening is that after a lot of analysis and collation work, Ye Tao Tan Weixin came up with extremely solid data, which irrefutably illustrate how much the great unified dynasty was corrupted when the countries, including Dongping, were separated from the unified country, to what extent was the living standard of ordinary people low, and to what extent was the wealth of corrupt officials and corrupt officials concentrated......

What shocked them was that through some public data research, they found the truth about the so-called retreat of the Diju clan after the fall of the empire, Chen Jia, who was considered to be the last loyal minister of the empire: although the Chen family disappeared somewhat inexplicably, almost all the families and industries related to the Chen family were prosperous and wealthy in the following decades and hundreds of years. Although the last years of the dynasty and after the collapse of the dynasty. There were no detailed documents and records for a long time, which made it impossible to trace the whereabouts of the Chen family, but through the local chronicles of various places and the accounts of the changes in the surrounding situation by local literati and celebrities collected from various places, the family that suddenly rose in the years after the collapse of the empire still entered Nie Rui's field of vision...... Such a thing is really sensational, when the news spreads, not only the Dongping government and the opposition, but also the Northern Liao, Xiling, and Chunnan countries have been touched. But the evidence is there. I can't help but believe it.

This may be the first time in this time and space that the study of history has been carried out not by one or two highly learned scholars in their own homes, but by several teams working together to analyze it. It may also be the first time that the knowledge of accounting and economics has entered the scope of historical research, but the numbers are so shocking.

At the same time as the debates are going on, and in less than ten days after each debate is over, the "Historical Research" printed by Hobundo will inevitably turn the entire process of the debate into a fine print. Sent to the shelves. This series of debates is really impossible to keep secret because there are too many people involved, and in the case that it is impossible to keep it secret, Tan Weixin's choice is that it is better to take the official release into her own hands. lest the outside spread more and more mysterious. "Historical Research" is probably the first kind of academic journal in this time and space from time to time, although because historical research is in the form of on-the-spot records, in terms of reading, in terms of understanding the views of all parties. It's not very concise, especially under the rules of debate, and not being able to see it is a great loss in itself, and "Historical Research" is far from reflecting the whole picture of the debate, but this series of books still became the first bestseller of this time and space. The first volume, for example, was first printed in 3,000 copies, and then reprinted eleven more times, in the two years following its publication. The total print run exceeded 40,000 copies. Although Hobundo has begun to use a series of technologies such as lead type, coated paper, color printing, and hot glue binding, it has not been able to solve the problem of plate making. Every time it is printed, it needs to be re-plated, and a total of 22 editions each time have some slight changes due to differences in technical details, and there are also problems such as typos because of the process flow, which has caused many scholars headaches, and some bibliophiles in this era are proud to be able to take out all the editions and treasure them......

"Historical Research" was not only widely disseminated in Dongping, but also spread to surrounding countries. The latter three debate groups have published a series of books based on their own research. For example, "The Empire is Melancholy" (the author talks about Weiming). "Salvation and Escape" (author Feng Hao), "Imperial Sunset" (author Qin Zeheng). "Chen Jia's Deception" (author Shi Wei, Li Mian), "History of the Imperial System" (author Qu Yan), "Natural Disaster**" (author Mu Anlong) ...... In a short period of time, this series of books, known as the "Great Historical Library", occupied the desks of almost all the princes and nobles in the whole of Middle-earth, from the lords of the kingdom to the ambitious minions. After adding a large number of solid materials, the papers originally dictated by Ye Tao and written by Feng Wei were finally published, and the first two-volume edition of "Essays on Thunder Cliff" was signed by Tan Weixin after Ye Tao and Feng Wei. This set of books not only made Ye Tao a famous scholar and historian in addition to his identity as the world's greatest craftsman, but also spread this research method and attitude towards history.

Although in the past two months or so, a large number of results have been produced in extremely fierce debates that are of great reference value for governing the country, Tan Xiaopei feels that the gains outweigh the losses. Indeed, if it were not for the fact that in this extremely fierce confrontation, when everyone had worked hard to organize and collect materials, and under the guidance and induction of a large number of doers with experience, ability, and viewpoint, it is estimated that I would not know when they would have come out. In the debate, the fierce collision of various ideas of governing the country, especially the summary and reflection of Dongping's rapid development over the past ten years, as well as the prospects and plans for the future, all made everyone have a sense of broadening their horizons. However, with the spread of these materials, other countries other than Dongping also knew these ideas, knew why Dongping was strong, and knew why Dongping could be more powerful...... That's not a good thing.

Fortunately, there are still a lot of people who are old and serious, and when the debate is still in full swing, the two brothers Tan Weiming and Tan Weiran themselves feel that something is wrong, and the two brothers rarely jointly write a book, proposing to set up a permanent historical and cultural research institution, and at the same time superficialize the topics of the debate and gradually dilute the impact. Those who have participated in the review team can be regularly invited to make suggestions and discussions on national policies to understand the reactions of all parties in Dongping to different policies.

In this way, the "Historical Research Society" was established in a low-key manner, and this organization, which has no real power and only has relatively high access to materials, has gathered experts and scholars from all walks of life, and has very sufficient funds so that the people who work in it can not only live well, but also conduct extensive field investigations and research, or invite relevant experts and scholars to give lectures and lectures...... In general, this is an institution that is much more open than Taixue, Guozijian, and Yong'an Palace, but it is far away from the official career. But no matter which side you are, you can see the prospect of this institution, which must be the predecessor of the "Dongping Academy of Social Sciences".

Even after dealing with it like this, Tan Xiaopei still felt unsafe, so he stopped the debate under the pretext of preparing for the wedding of Tan Weixin and Ye Tao, and then asked Tan Weiran to be in charge of the Historical Research Association, and sent Tan Weiming back to his Canal Governor's Mansion until Tan Weixin's wedding. But before Tan Weiming went to Wind City, he earnestly asked Tan Xiaopei to reuse Ye Tao.

"Those who learn from me live, and those who are like me die." Tan Weiming relayed Ye Tao and Tan Weixin's extremely confident words in unison at that time, and said: "Father, my sister and brother-in-law have never worried about others becoming stronger. That's what they say. …… I don't know where their faith comes from, maybe I never understand the depth of their power. I never doubted that my sister knew how to develop the country better than I did, and I also knew that my father's evaluation of my sister was very pertinent. In fact, if my sister is a man and has a healthy body, I am afraid it will not be as simple as a generation of male masters. It may be an exaggeration to say that the situation has never been seen in the ages, but it is not difficult to make the four seas clear. Father, when I was in the Canal Governor's Palace, I realized that there are some things that cannot be understood by other people's words without really experiencing and understanding them. Indeed, when Ye Tao becomes a colt, it is inevitable that he will gossip a lot if he is reused, but it is a pity to idle Ye Taotou. Isn't it enough that my father trusted him, and I will trust him in the future? Father, I understand your ambitions and assumptions, but if you have the chance, you can see the unification of the four countries in your lifetime, wouldn't it? ”

Tan Xiaopei sighed and said, "After ten years, the post of prime minister will be re-established, and it will be given to Ye Tao, how about it?" ”

Tan Weiming frowned and said, "What about the next ten years?" How many years can the Road and Bridge Division hide him? I'm afraid it won't be able to pass this year. Father, I have a bold idea......"