Chapter 17 The Difficulty of Change
The two of them are too familiar with Lin Feng to be more familiar, one is Zhou Jing, the third son of Situ Zhou Zongfu, and the other is his sworn eldest brother, Han Xizai, a member of the Yu Department.
Lin Feng laughed, patted Zhou Jing's shoulder first, punched Han Xizai again, pulled the two of them to sit down in the main hall, and then instructed Cheng Yuehai, who followed the door, to inform the room to prepare dinner, and instructed Shu Ya to go to the left drawer in the desk in the study to get a stack of papers.
Zhou Jing's mood was obviously much more enthusiastic than when Lin Feng arrived in Situ two days ago, without him, he made a special trip to ask Lin Feng for advice on banking business.
After Lin Feng learned of Zhou Jing's intention, he recognized his positive attitude, took the stack of papers that Shu Ya had taken, took out a few of them and handed them to Zhou Jing. These were sorted out by Lin Feng in his free time in the first two days, and he briefly listed the operating process, daily management, business development, capital security, personnel training and other contents of his impression of the future bank.
Zhou actually took the paper and immediately buried his head in a closer look.
Lin Feng took the teapot brought by Xiao Fei'er, refilled Han Xizai's cup with water, and asked him softly how the various measures of the reform were progressing.
Hearing this topic, Han Xizai's face suddenly darkened a lot, and he sighed and said, "Zhishan, your steps of change are too big, and the people in the Qingsi Hall are a little unable to keep up!" ”
"Well, what do you mean by that?" Lin Feng asked. He knew that if change could happen overnight, it would not be real change.
"The two ugly ghosts of the Song Party in the Qingsi Temple are now purely ornamental, but even if the rest are all supporters of change, they are arguing about specific change measures every day, even if they change a word, the two friends may argue according to the scriptures, and even turn against each other on the spot. The reform measures have been reversed several times by the Holy Lord. Han Xizai shook his head helplessly, picked up the teacup but didn't drink it, and put it down again.
"For example?" Lin Feng asked.
"Or those old questions, such as whether the Honorary Lordship system is integrated with the existing Lordship system, the criteria for determining the rank of the Lord and the corresponding treatment, where does the money come from? How does the city law collect taxes and the ratio of the court to the locality? And so on and so forth. Han Xizai couldn't help scratching his head, they were arguing and arguing in the Qingsi Hall every day, but there was still no conclusive result.
At this time, Lin Feng saw that Zhou Jing had already looked up, so he smiled at Zhou Jing first: "Brother Zhou, how is it, can you understand?" ”
"Although the things prepared by Lord Lin are brief, the context of everything is clear, and it has benefited a lot. But the first person ......" Zhou actually looked at Lin Feng with some embarrassment.
"Don't worry, I have paid great attention to the candidates in this area for this recruitment, and I will carefully select some of the personnel for you at that time." Lin Feng said with a smile.
"Besides, I don't know what these words mean?" Zhou actually handed over the pieces of paper, pointed to a few of them, and said.
When Lin Feng saw it, he immediately laughed dumbly, it was his own carelessness.
Since coming to this era, Lin Feng's biggest thing is the conversion of simplified Chinese characters to traditional Chinese characters. I used to write simplified Chinese characters in the past, but now my eyes are full of traditional Chinese characters, which makes Lin Feng always feel that the traditional Chinese characters he learned in college before are really not enough. Previously, Lin Feng's daily solution was two: one was to write it in simplified Chinese characters first, and then change the characters in it to traditional Chinese characters according to the ancient books, and then write it again after the most remarkable; The second is to talk more and write less. Anyway, I learned Mandarin based on the northern dialect in later generations, and I didn't show too many horses' feet, as for writing, after Shu Ya and Wu Qiao came, they let them write everything they could write. It's just that the things Lin Feng wrote in the past two days were too confidential and couldn't find someone to do it for him, and he was in too much of a hurry, so he forgot to change a few words to traditional characters.
It seems that we have to find an opportunity to promote simplified Chinese characters! Lin Feng thought in his heart, and said to Zhou Jing with a smile: "When I wrote it, I felt that those words were too cumbersome, so I simplified it casually. Then, he talked about the traditional Chinese characters corresponding to those words.
At this moment, Han Xizai also put down the teacup and came over, nodding intently and saying: "Although it is not easy to see the original meaning of the words, it is obviously much less than the original strokes!" ”
Lin Feng couldn't help but glance at Lao Han, and his heart moved. Perhaps, simplified Chinese characters can find a breakthrough from Lao Han, after all, he is a famous Han official!
Perhaps sensing the malice in Lin Feng's gaze, Han Xizai took two steps back and sat back again.
Lin Feng simply took the pieces of paper, and then explained the key points one by one, and Zhou actually nodded again and again.
"I really admire Lord Lin!" Zhou Jing stood up, respectfully saluted Lin Feng, and then took out two pieces of paper from his arms and handed them to Lin Feng.
"These are two tunes composed by her sister, I knew that I came to your mansion and asked me to bring them." Zhou Jing explained.
Lin Feng flipped through it roughly, it was the score of the two songs he was going to let Ling Feifei and Lu Chenyang sing. While flipping, Lin Feng found a line of shallow and beautiful small words on the third page of the music score: "As soon as Jin Feng and Yulu meet, they will win countless in the world." It was the sentence he had written to Emperor Zhou E to express his heart, and now, it has been returned.
Lin Feng couldn't help grinning, Zhou Ehuang's little girl was thinking, and he couldn't help but feel a burst of tenderness and happiness.
Lin Feng turned to Zhou Jing, who was a little inexplicable, and said, "Xie Lu, Brother Zhou." When the supermarket opens, I will always send an invitation card and a gift to show my appreciation! ”
Zhou Jing nodded and said that he wanted to go back.
Lin Feng deliberately pretended not to be very happy, and asked rhetorically, "What, do you think the food in my house is not delicious?" ”
"Of course not, my father has been in much better spirits in the past two days, and I have made an appointment with our brother to talk in the study after dinner tonight, and I have to rush back." After Zhou Jing finished speaking, he gave a light salute to Han Xizai and Lin Feng, turned around and left. Of course, Lin Feng would not be so rude, and hurriedly sent Zhou Jing to the gate of the mansion, and whispered to him for a long time along the way.
"Seeing that Zhou actually brought you something, it just so happened that I also wrote the supermarket inscription you wanted, and I will give it to you together!" Seeing Lin Feng turn back, Han Xizai took out a large piece of paper folded into a page from his arms and handed it to Lin Feng.
Lin Feng directly spread it out, and couldn't help but open his mouth to read out the wonderful sentences: "...... The ...... of the development of centralized commerce Tap thousands of talents for all sentient beings, live with the people, and be good......"
Lin Feng is happy, he is worthy of being a talented man of Han University, he summed it up well, and his handwriting is even more beautiful, so be it!
Lin Feng handed the inscription to Shu Ya, who had been on the side, and asked him to hand it to Zhang Yuewen, asking him to arrange for it to be engraved on the front of the monument as soon as possible, and only the names of all the craftsmen were engraved behind the monument.
There were only two people left in the room, Lin Feng and Han Xizai, and Lin Feng also turned the topic back to the change: "Brother Han, to tell you the truth, in the matter of change, the younger brother has always felt that you are too stubborn in the position of a scholar or a scholar, and you have not put yourself in a neutral position for the country and the people. ”
Since ancient times, scholars have always regarded self-cultivation and governing the country and leveling the world as their responsibility, insisting that they are the first of "Shinong Industry and Commerce", which is the most important support and help for a country or a generation of kings. Therefore, for the sake of this supreme ideal, or in other words, for the head of the world's class, they can fight with arrogant martial artists and eunuchs regardless of their lives, but in the end, it is easy to fight for the sake of fighting, and fall into the endless party and class struggles, and deviate from their original intentions and ideals.
As far as this reform is concerned, in Lin Feng's view, the reason why the reform is progressing slowly is because the Privy Deputy Envoy Chang Mengxi, a group of scholars who presided over the reform, always want to mix other things into the original simple change! For example, how to take the opportunity to consolidate the position of scholars, for example, how to attack the people of the Song Party by the way, for example, how to consolidate the imperial power while ensuring that the power of the prime minister is not infringed, both to balance the left and to compromise on the right, like hanging iron blocks of different sizes on a person's body, can he run fast?
Like a slap in the face, Han Xizai was stunned for a moment.
"If we don't dare to break through our predecessors, dare not break through tradition, dare not break through the status quo, dare not break through existing interests, and deviate from the original intention of strengthening the country, strengthening the army and enriching the people, even if the change is fast, what can we do?" Lin Feng asked unceremoniously.
Han Xizai bowed his head in shame and was silent.
"Brother Han, you have been an official of the Xuanzhou Festival, and you should understand the people's livelihood at the grassroots level. Jiangshan Sheji, the people are fundamental! To put it mildly, the current Tang Dynasty, if there is no change, it will definitely be a dead end, how many people do you think the current officials, businessmen, and people will be willing to live and die with this court at that time? Lin Feng's words intensified and he continued to ask.
Han Hee stood up suddenly, clenched his fists, and let out a muffled cry of pain. Yes, there is no ambition but nowhere to Lingyun, and the future cannot see the light, isn't his personal suffering just like the suffering of countless people in this era?