"But it doesn't hurt to say it, I don't think I'm a faint king who can't listen to reason!" Emperor Lizong was squeezed by Hong Tao three times and twice, and he was also a little angry.

"In my opinion, the Great Song Dynasty has been governed very well, at least the overall direction is right, but there are two Achilles' heels. One is that armaments are sloppy, costly, and inefficient. One is that there are too many officials who eat the treasury, and the dynasty is tolerant of scholars, but if the scholars drag down the court, this is putting the cart before the horse. Without the imperial court, what can be used to be lenient with them? Do you expect the Mongol army to come over and be tolerant of them? If I can improve these two aspects a little, then I will definitely give a big gift to the official family, which is the blessing of the people of the entire Great Song Dynasty. Hong Tao heard that Emperor Lizong was a little impatient, so he quickly swallowed all the nonsense, thought for a while, and put forward the suggestions on how to reform the Song Dynasty that had been in his mind.

These things have been constantly supplemented and improved in his mind since he was rescued by Bo Fu and his son, and he knew that he had come to the Song Dynasty. This is like a student who is very good at mathematics, physics and chemistry, but always fails Chinese and English, even if he is talented, it is difficult to pass the college entrance examination. Hong Tao plans to be a Chinese and English tutor for the Great Song Dynasty, so that it can correct the deviation back a little, not too much, just a little.

However, Hong Tao didn't know much about the real decision-making level of the Great Song Dynasty, mainly because he didn't have this opportunity and couldn't fundamentally help the Great Song Dynasty. It can only be figured out from the perspective of a common person. Then he used his not very good at management, but he had a long-term vision to help the Great Song Dynasty analyze the root cause of the disease. By the way, think about how to govern again. As for whether it is right or not, Hong Tao is not clear, whether it can work or not, Hong Tao is not clear. Didn't you say it, he just dug the pit and buried it, and shook his hands to take charge of the shopkeeper, so he didn't worry about that.

"This is not too new a statement, and I have always worried about it before me. I haven't been able to find a suitable solution. This is a stubborn disease, which affects the whole body when it moves, and it cannot be said that it is right or wrong. Emperor Lizong was a little disappointed, he thought that Hong Tao could come up with something new, it was cost-effective for a long time, and it was also a cliché.

"Well, it's true that this matter can't be solved overnight, but it has to be solved. The more you drag on this thing, the more troublesome it becomes. If it really drags on to the point of incorrigibility, it will be too late to regret it. The official family is currently in the most difficult moment of our dynasty. There is a lot of economic pressure inside, and there is an alien invasion outside. As everyone knows, the more such a period, the better the time for change, because many things can be broken with the help of war, and the internal resistance encountered is smaller. I have a few things to try, and I might get unexpected results without too many side effects...... It's just that there won't be much resistance, and ordinary people can't see the mystery in a short period of time, and when they see it, the wood is already in the boat, and it's too late to object. Hong Tao saw that Emperor Lizong was not very interested in his own statement, it didn't matter, how to fool people was Hong Tao's specialty, and the rating was at least eight levels. how to mobilize the emotions of others and make them interested in what they have to say; How to figure out the other party's mind and grasp his core problems are the basic skills of fooling people.

"Oh? Let's hear it. Emperor Lizong was tricked, he said that he was not interested in the problem of redundant soldiers and redundant officials, but in fact, he was most interested in these problems, but there was no good way, so he simply didn't talk about it. Now I heard Hong Tao say that there is a way to deal with it, or a gentle way that the movement is not too big and the rebound is very small, it is strange that he is not interested.

Reform or reform is a practical problem faced by every generation of kings, but how to make a big change a painless flow of people is the key. If you want to reform and change, everyone can understand it, but if you plan to raise a knife and slash and kill people and children without knocking them down, it will obviously outweigh the losses. And if it hurts so much, the body itself will resist, and it is unlikely that it will succeed. Therefore, in the later generations, painless abortions will be performed with anesthetics, and more advanced technology will be used to deceive the body, so that it will not react much. In fact, the essence of reform and abortion is the same, both are to dig out a piece of unwanted meat from the body! But it does not affect the main functions of the entire body.

"The officials can plan well, select the real lack of combat effectiveness, and then set up a construction corps controlled by the imperial court. What does this corps do? Quite simply, it is responsible for building key projects all over the country, such as roads, cities, river embankments, docks, and so on. All these projects were openly purchased by the imperial court, and the corps was allowed to compete with other merchants, and whoever had the best comprehensive conditions would be given to whomever to do it. The money allocated by the imperial court was the business money of this corps, and they could make a profit from it, not only to support themselves, but also to continue to grow and develop. But no matter how they develop, they always belong to the establishment of the imperial court, although they are not soldiers for war, but they are still soldiers, and they can be called engineering soldiers. If the imperial court has no projects to provide them with in the near future, they can break it up into pieces and go to the private sector to contract various projects, and part of the income obtained will be kept for their own use, and the other part will be given to the imperial court. In this way, the quality of key projects will be guaranteed, and the cost will be very clear, which will not only solve the employment problem of some of the van army, but also reduce the harassment of the people, so that they can concentrate on their own lives. The first solution proposed by Hong Tao is to establish a construction corps similar to that of later generations, to transform the surplus army into a semi-militarized professional team managed by the central government, and to use its own advantages of low cost and high efficiency to enter market competition, which can not only solve the problem of redundant troops, but also reduce state financial expenditures, and even create some profits.

"Good! This method is very good! Autarky! Emperor Lizong was happy to hear this, because the method that Hong Tao said was easy to implement and would not encounter too much resistance. This is because the model and management of the armed forces have not changed, but the functions have been changed, which can produce different effects. The most important thing is that these dismissed soldiers have income, lost their weapons, food and grass, and don't worry too much about them making trouble, which makes Emperor Lizong let go of more than half of his heart. What is the emperor most afraid of? Isn't it a people's uprising!

"This is only a part, the company cannot accommodate all the van army that needs to be changed, and the imperial court can also establish some large-scale workshops controlled by the imperial court and managed by professionals, such as the production of cement, the production of gunpowder, and the production of export goods. Then hire as many soldiers as possible to act as ordinary workers in the workshop. These industries are not too high-tech, and only a few craftsmen are needed. And the products that come out are urgently needed by the imperial court, such as cement, which can be repurchased by the imperial court, and then handed over to the construction corps to strengthen the city on the defensive line. This project is very large, and it will not be completed in a few years, and the amount of cement required is also innumerable. If there can be a workshop controlled by the imperial court to produce cement, the cost of the project will be reduced a lot, because the cement workshop will get a profit from selling cement, in addition to withholding costs and personnel wages, it will also be returned to the imperial court according to the imperial court shares. In this way, the imperial court only spent a share of money, which not only solved the problem of redundant troops, but also produced products, and also solved the raw materials of the construction company, and finally received a part of the compensation. As for those gunpowder and export commodities, there is no need to worry about finding a buyer, and the Straits Company can underwrite it, produce as much as it wants, and sell it as much as it wants, and the price does not need to be too low. In the future, the trade routes of the Strait Company will expand farther and farther, and the goods of our Great Song Dynasty will be sold to every country in the world with the merchant ships of the Strait Company, and then the copper, timber, spices, gold, silver, and grain needed by the Great Song Dynasty will be exchanged back. Those porcelain, matches, cement, tea, and silk that were worthless in the Great Song Dynasty were several times or more than ten times the profits when they arrived in foreign countries. You said that let the whole world come to buy the products of the Great Song Dynasty, but you are still worried that you can't sell them? How many workshops do you have to build and how many soldiers do you have to hire to produce it? Seeing that Emperor Lizong was interested in listening to himself continue, Hong Tao's broken mouth was considered to have found an outlet, which was all about spraying. While talking and gesturing, the flying eyebrows were not enough to describe his virtue, and Zheng Qingzhi, who was standing behind the emperor, pulled his beard. He was afraid that Hong Tao would pat the emperor on the shoulder like talking to Wen Nan.

“…… In this case, there is not enough redundant troops! "Emperor Lizong is really not a straw bag, and he is in the prime of life, his brain is not slow, and there are a lot of things in it. Although he doesn't understand some of the terms he doesn't understand the methods Hong Tao said, he can figure out the theme idea, and after a little thought, he can tell whether it is a good way or nonsense. Hong Tao's methods were all used by later generations, but in this era, they must be miracles. The big problem that could have killed several generations of emperors was solved by him, and Emperor Lizong was so happy that he took the initiative to joke.

"Official, it's time for dinner, should you go back to the ship first and then discuss......" Zheng Qingzhi thought more comprehensively than Emperor Lizong, he didn't want his emperor to be too influenced by others, so that his work as a prime minister would be passive in the future. Just as the sun was rising overhead, he whispered to Emperor Lizong to end the conversation.

"Hey, I and Mr. Hong have a good conversation, it's better to come here with a meal, with a good wine, it's also a good story!" It's a pity that Emperor Lizong is talking about it, and he still has a lot of questions to ask in his heart, so he resolutely refuses to go back to eat, and he has to send the food here to eat. (To be continued.) )