"On top of that, when a project is expensive, the finance department has to step in and monitor the flow of funds in real time. On the one hand, it is necessary to prevent corruption among personnel, and on the other hand, it is also possible to ensure that project expenditures do not deviate from the budget, and if there are signs of this, it is easier to detect and make adjustments in the early stage -- all these things related to economic activities require the intervention of the financial department. How can we be idle -- although our financial department has several hundred people, they are usually as busy as dogs. One of the most common phrases they say is 'In the treasury, women are used as men, and men are used as livestock!' ’”

Guo Yi ended his introduction with a small joke in accordance with his habit of enlivening the classroom atmosphere in the past, but none of the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty could laugh. They were all pondering, thinking, trying to understand everything Guo Yi had said.

Among them, Bi Ziyan's expression is particularly rich: while thinking with a sad face, he sketches on the paper from time to time, but from time to time he pulls his hair and mustache. It's probably because some words are difficult to understand and feel pain, but after all, I can't pull down my head to ask Guo Yi, a young man, which looks really pitiful.

Several other bureaucrats looked at Bi with sympathy, as political veterans, they can actually fully understand Bi Ziyan's actions today -- they first came up with miscellaneous gossip, and it seemed that they were talking about this big gossip, but in fact, it was to be able to find out the truth of Shorthair, and it would be even better if they could also probe Shorthair's family background by the way. It's like doing business between merchants, and you always need to know the general strength of the other party to deal with each other.

In the past few days, Guo Yi and others have chatted through small talk. felt that these Ming Dynasty officials were nothing more than that, but they didn't know that the other party was also testing them. After a few contacts, I felt that these short-haired guys generally had no scheming. Of course, it can't be said to be stupid, but in terms of dealing with people, it seems to be too naïve, and it feels like those who grew up in rich and noble families, have not suffered anything, and don't know the sinister kind of world.

Of course, there are different levels, and Chen Tao is the most scheming. Guo Yi is second, and he has a higher evaluation of Lin Hanlong. But in general, by the standards of Ming officialdom. These people can only be regarded as "silly white sweet" - if Zhou Yanru knew this modern word.

-- It's just a bunch of hairy boys who have mastered some strange tricks and don't know how thick the sky is. If you really enter the Ming officialdom to work hard, it is estimated that it will not be long before you will play life and death -- when Lin Hanlong and others are quietly despising the economic minds of these Ming bureaucrats, they don't know that the other party's smile is like a warm spring breeze. It's also full of disdain for them.

It's just that these people all respect their identities. After all, they are high-ranking officials of the imperial court and leaders of Shilin, so they always have to cherish some feathers, and it is inconvenient to use some small means. But Bi Ziyan is different -- at least for now, he is still white, unofficial and light, so he has no scruples.

Therefore, it is most appropriate for Lao Bi to make a temptation, but with the rich experience of Old Man Bi's eunuchs, it is not easy to deal with these hairy young men - when Bi Ziyan was talking to Guo Yi. Zhou Yanru and the others were all smiling and looking at them with a kind of fishing look.

Sure enough, Lao Bi teased him a little, and the young man surnamed Guo took the bait.

He began to speak......

He's still talking......

He's endless!

…… What am I doing with this kid? Do you treat us like a bunch of Mengtong? lest we not understand his words? It's all from the two rankings! And the champion!

I don't think I really understand...... But it seems to be very important! This kid surnamed Guo really told a lot of inside information about shorthair. Even the core body, the "committee," was explained in the most understandable way possible.

It doesn't seem to be fake, because it sounds too reasonable, but it makes people feel even more frightening -- how can this art of governing the country be learned by ordinary people? There is no scholar in the world who will teach this kind of knowledge casually, even in the emperor's house, if it is not a promising lineage, ordinary concubines should not come into contact with this.

――Does this kid surnamed Guo know what he said? As far as he is talking about today, it is enough to be used as an uninherited secret to maintain the family for a hundred years! Even Zhou Yanru, Qian Qianyi, and other top literati of the Ming Dynasty were silently remembering at this time, and they planned to quickly copy down these contents first thing after they went back, so as not to omit anything.

Those people are still like this, let alone Old Man Bi - he has completely immersed himself in what Guo Yi said. The Ming Empire was a standard family system, and the Son of Heaven held all the power as the patriarch, and the financial power was no exception. The household department only has the responsibility of custody and statistics, and to put it bluntly, it is only a warehouse. In fact, the household department does not have any jurisdiction over how to dispose of the money, grain, and materials in the warehouse, and how to use them after they are sent, and they do not even have the right to make suggestions -- if the household department is not included in the cabinet.

However, as the most outstanding expert in the empire's finances, Bi Ziyan realized early on that by sorting out and recording the country's financial situation, the household department should have been able to play a great role in the operation of the entire country. Finance is the foundation of all policies, and no national policy can be separated from the support of money and materials. If someone can grasp the rules and summarize certain rules, they can provide some optimal or sub-optimal solutions for those who make decisions, the Son of Heaven or the cabinet, for them to choose when making decisions. It would be even better if there was still some right to supervise the use of money and goods.

But he only vaguely felt this way before, and he still hasn't been able to figure out how to operate it. In Bi Ziyan's mind, even he can only get a glimpse of the doorway, and there are probably few people in the world who can think of this aspect. In the future, I am afraid that only when a certain genius is born out of nowhere, such as Wang Yangming, can he not look down on the way of economic practice, and it will be possible to truly perfect this knowledge.

Today, however, a young man in his twenties smashed the perfect answer directly in his face: budget, final accounts, financial supervision - the biggest advantage of Chinese is that it can "look at the meaning of the text", even if Bi Ziyan has never been exposed to these modern terms before, just hearing the words themselves can imagine their meaning. Guo Yi explained a little more, and he immediately understood the gist of it - as long as it was related to finance, his understanding was absolutely unparalleled.

For a while, everyone else in the small flower hall was quiet, and I heard Lao Bi chattering alone, muttering to himself while scribbling on the paper. Seeing the posture of the old man Bi who was obsessed with it, the other three high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty looked at each other helplessly - Lao Bi can be regarded as planted today, and he caught a big shark from fishing, but he dragged himself down. What's even more annoying is that Xiao Guo on the other side still looks stupid, and he doesn't know what a heavy blow his "casual example" has caused to the main players here. If it weren't for pretending, it could only be said that I am afraid that even these shorthairs themselves don't know how thick their background is.

In any case, today's negotiations will definitely not be able to continue, so Zhou Yanru came forward again, chatted with Lin Hanlong again, and saw that the time was almost up, so he announced that he would stop here today and continue tomorrow.

The three of them left on the Qiong Haijun side, and several high-ranking officials on the Ming side had all returned to their respective homes very quickly--the relationship between these people had not yet reached the point where they had to talk at night. However, this time, several of them sat in the Qian family's small living room for a long time without moving, their faces were complicated, and their minds were full of thoughts.

Several people sat for a while, and Zhou Yanru suddenly raised the teacup in his hand to Qian Qianyi:

"Brother Mu Zhai, let the students replace the wine with tea, and toast you."

Qian Qianyi was a little surprised, there has always been a lot of Yuliang between him and Zhou Yanru, his current status and reputation in the literary world are already higher than those of the other party, and his official position is not much worse, not to mention the big advantage of the relationship with Shorthair. And yet - the other party is the champion! It's the champion! It's the champion!

With this layer of aura protection, Zhou Yanru can always have a condescending advantage among civil servants like them, and he also vaguely maintained an arrogance when talking to Qian Qianyi in the past - after all, he is the first assistant of the empire, but how could he suddenly put on such a polite attitude today?

Qian Qianyi was puzzled, but he still raised his glass and toasted each other, and then listened to Zhou Yanru explain himself:

"A few years ago, Brother Mu Zhai asked the Son of Heaven for grace to bestow on those people who raised their sons, but the students at that time were very disapproving. However, as I see today, I am afraid that it is still low, even if it is a jinshi, it is not impossible. At least, there is no problem in releasing any state or county. ”

This sentence made Qian secretly proud in his heart - those short hairs were all fame in his hands, although they were not serious scientific examinations, but according to the habits of Da Ming, they could also be called his protégés to some extent. Now that Zhou Yanru has admitted the knowledge of those people, he is undoubtedly praising his eyesight.

Although he was overjoyed in his heart, he still said humbly according to the habits of literati:

"The praise of the jade rope is too much, I think they are still very immature in dealing with people, and they are not of great use."

Zhou Yanru smiled:

"Except for those who only made the list at the age of forty or fifty, which of the new science and technology scholars is not immature? Do you deal with people, you can always learn it after a few years of training in the sea of eunuchs. But the phrase 'the government is a tool that embodies the will of the ruling class', how many people in the Ming Dynasty can say it clearly? (To be continued.) )

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