"A choice?" Li Yu asked suspiciously, reached out and took the paper ball, stretched it flat, and handed it to Li Jing.

Li Jing took it slowly and looked at the piece of paper solemnly, there were only three names on it: Dongfang Shuo, Guo Huai, and Wu Qi.

Li Jing stood up suddenly, glared at Lin Feng and asked, "What do you mean, let me choose which of the three will you be?" ”

Lin Feng replied in a loud voice: "Your Majesty is really wise and powerful, and his eyes are like torches!" To put it mildly, my Datang has struggled to simply defend itself and be in a safe corner, and if you want to win the world, you need more talents, a stronger army, and a better system, so you must change. The grass people are conceited and enthusiastic, and they are willing to serve the country with their bodies, but whether to use it or not, how to use it, the decision is held between the palms of your majesty. Do you abandon it, or choose to be a Haiyu who is idle to relieve boredom, or a talent benchmark who buys thousands of miles to buy horses, or is it a reformer and practitioner who is determined to reform? ”

These three people are the characters who made Lin Feng sigh when he read the ancient books.

Dongfang Shuo, the Western Han Dynasty Cifu family. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, he recruited scholars from all over the world, Dongfang Shuo wrote a book to recommend himself, and worshiped Lang, and later served as a regular servant Lang and Taizhong doctor. Dongfang Shuo has a witty personality, quick words, funny and wise, and often talks and laughs in front of Emperor Wu for fun, which is very popular with Emperor Wu. He "then observed the color from time to time, and bluntly admonished", Emperor Wu became extravagant, built a large forest garden, Dongfang Shuo bluntly admonished, thinking that this is "to take the people's anointed land, lack the use of the country, to seize the agricultural industry, abandon success, and lose". He also once said that political gains and losses, Chen Nong's plan to strengthen the country, but in the eyes of the eloquent Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he has always been a haiyu used to relieve boredom happily, and he has never really been reused.

As for Guo Huai, there is also a famous story. In 313 B.C., King Yan Zhao planned to spend a lot of money to recruit talents. At this time, Guo Huai, a virtuous man beside him, said: "In ancient times, there was a king who sent his cronies to buy a thousand horses, and after his cronies found a thousand horses, the horse died, so he bought the skull of a thousand miles with five hundred gold. The monarch was very angry when he saw it. But his confidants said, 'The skull of a dead horse is worth five hundred gold, how much more of a living horse?' Now Maxima is coming. Sure enough, within a year, three horses were delivered. Now that the king is recruiting sages, you might as well start with me, if even I, Guo Huai, are valued by you, aren't those who are stronger than me coming from afar? So, King Yan Zhao, who was from the advice of Ruliu, regarded Guo Huai as a horse-bone talent purchased by a thousand gold, built a high platform on the edge of Yishui, and placed gold on it to show that "heavy money seeks talents". Talents from all over the world really rushed to Yan State, and achieved the strong road of Yan State.

And Wu Qi's change of law happened in the Chu State in the early Warring States period. At that time, Chu was in trouble at home and abroad, and Wu Qi, a politician and military strategist in the Central Plains, went from Wei to Chu. Wu Qi legislated for the king of Chu Mourning, reduced the prestige of the ministers, dismissed the incompetent, abolished the useless, damaged the officials who were not in a hurry, stuffed the private door, the customs of the Chu country, the people who banned tourists, and the people who cultivated intensively. ("Wu started to mourn the king, so that the private does not harm the public, slander does not hide loyalty, does not take fornication, does not take forbearance, does not solidify the reputation of righteousness, there will be a lord to strengthen the country, do not resign the culprit"). Of course, change has always been a redistribution of vested political and economic interests, and Wu Qi strengthened the state of Chu, but completely angered the great nobles, who were killed by the rebels' random arrows.

"At the beginning of my accession to the throne, I had ambitions in the mountains and forests, and at the beginning of my accession, I also wanted to be angry and strong, and I destroyed the Fujian State in the fourth year of Baoda, but then everything began to go wrong, and there were many fetters. How difficult is it to change? Li Jing said in a low voice, and sat down slowly.

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, there have been many people who want to change, and there are many successes, but there are even more failures. Analyzing the unsuccessful, the grass people believe that there are three reasons inside: First, they only focus on redividing the inherent interests, which will inevitably lead to the obstruction of vested interest groups. Second, there is no unity among the broadest possible support groups. The third is to be too eager to achieve results, which in turn leads to failure. Lin Feng further analyzed.

"Oh, what do you mean by that?" Li Jing's father and son both looked at Lin Feng with wide eyes, and Li Jing suddenly remembered that a guard at the command door moved a brocade stool, "Mr. Lin, please take a seat." ”

For example, the first reason is that changemakers tend to only see the interests in the bowl in front of them, focusing on how to redivide these interests, without thinking about how to turn the interests of a bowl into a bucket, a tank, or even a sea of interests, so that all people can benefit from it, and on the other hand, the interests of any person or class are touched, and there is no doubt that they will rise up to fight back. This is also the reason why the law changers Shang Ying and Wu Qi were finally destroyed in history. Lin Feng sat down and analyzed carefully.

For example, the second reason is that the purpose of the reformers has always been to enrich the country and strengthen the people, which is not wrong, but it is easy to lose the way in the essence of the country and the people, and it is often easy to simply regard the strength of the country as the amount of military strength, money, food, and resources in the hands of the country, especially in enriching the people, and it is easy to transform the rich people into a rich part of the people, and this part of the people is often the representative of the interests of a certain faction of Shinong, industry and commerce. And the grass people believe that this people should be the most secure to unite and lead all the people with lofty ideals regardless of composition and class. Only when the broadest masses of people have benefited from your change, won their status, and united as one, the success of the change will naturally come naturally. ”

Speaking of which, Lin Feng almost cited the key to China's success. looked at Li Jing's father and son, who were listening carefully, nodded quietly with satisfaction, and continued his personal opinion.

"The third reason lies in the eagerness for quick success, the great joy, the desire to change today, the dominance tomorrow, and the hegemony the day after tomorrow. But you must know that illness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread. Change is like seeing a doctor for a country, you can't be in a hurry, you can't be impatient. At this point, Lin Feng told all three possibilities that led to the failure of the change, and then looked at Li Jing with hope.

Li Jing pondered for a long time, and felt that what Lin Feng said was very reasonable, but there were also more doubts in his mind: "Then how does Mr. Lin think we can ensure the success of the reform?" ”

"The change has always been a lot of ups and downs, many difficulties, there is no inevitable way to success, but according to the views of the grass people, we can make the most adequate preparations before the change, come up with the most comprehensive plan, win the support of the majority of the people, start from a pilot in one field, constantly adjust and correct in practice, and then gradually replicate the successful experience to other regions, and then select other areas for pilot promotion. On one or two key points, we will drive the whole society to change forward. Lin Feng said while thinking. Yes, change has always been bloodshed and sacrificed, such as the reformers Wu Qi and Shang Ying; Taking a step back, even if he was spared, it would inevitably affect future generations, just like Zhang Juzheng, who brought Wanli Zhongxing to the Ming Dynasty, but his bones were not cold, his home was raided, his son was forced to die, and the whole family starved to death for more than ten people.

"Well, it's a safe way to go. In Mr. Elin's opinion, which area will you start from and how will you implement it? Li Jing groaned for a moment and asked again.

"In times of war, soldiers come first. The grass people will start from the army, explore the strategy of strengthening the army, and explore the changes in logistics support, so that the army can be invincible like an arm and fingers, and first practice self-defense and killing. Then, develop science and technology, stimulate business, practice internal affairs, and then strengthen the body, and win with strength. Lin Feng clenched his fist hard and said categorically.

Li Jing didn't speak again, just kept touching the short beard under his mouth with his hand. Suddenly, he stood up and walked straight out of the small hall. Then, without stopping or saying anything to anyone, he hurried out of the banquet hall surrounded by the guards, leaving behind a room of bewildered guests.