Chapter 9 The White Sturgeon Effect

So, as soon as Lin Feng returned to the valley after the training the next morning, he received a holy edict from a guard from King Zheng's mansion: hurry back to the city to see the driver.

Needless to say, there must be a problem with change. Lin Feng knew as soon as he thought about it that a large part of the reason why he had started training so eagerly before was to avoid this super right and wrong vortex. Without him, with his qualifications, if he appeared in the Southern Tang Dynasty as an advocate of change, then he would definitely become the center of all the entanglements in the court, and it would not be an advantage in the debate tournament at all, and he would have to peel off his skin if he didn't die!

Lin Feng did not hesitate, and did not change the clothes on his body, and after saying a simple goodbye to everyone in the valley, he got into Li Qiang's carriage and ran all the way back to Jinling City.

Without stopping in the middle, Lin Feng was directly introduced into the imperial study by the eunuch. There were only Li Jing and Li Jingsui in the study, who were drinking tea and chatting, and they were already a little bored waiting.

Seeing Lin Feng, Li Jing laughed and asked kindly, "Lin Aiqing has worked hard!" I don't know how to train from humility? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Nine is all right, except for a little discomfort at the beginning, now he is very adaptable, just like a fish in water, and the daily progress impresses Weichen!" Lin Feng bowed and replied. Of course, Li Congqian was not a little uncomfortable in the first few days, it can be said that he wanted to live and die, but under Lin Feng's combination of soft and hard, he quickly really integrated into the training.

"That's good, hard work Lin Aiqing! To tell the truth, today's Zhaoqing came to the court, still for the matter of change, and the court has been arguing, I don't know what Lin Aiqing's consideration is about the current change? Li Jing stopped detouring and asked bluntly.

Lin Feng had actually thought about this matter clearly on the road, but he still groaned a little at this moment, raised his head and asked Li Jingsui first: "May I ask His Royal Highness the King of Qi, dare to ask His Highness whether he has confidence in my Tang Army?" ”

"Of course there is!" Li Jingsui was a little inexplicable and replied. The Southern Tang Dynasty has always had a very strict control over military power, and it is never easy for outsiders to interfere, and even the position of the ruler of this era has been slowly deprived of substantive rights.

"And what about the states and counties of the world?" Lin Feng continued to ask.

"There is no problem, except for the border army, there are not many troops in various states and counties, and there will be nothing." Li Jingsui somewhat understood Lin Feng's intentions and replied simply.

"Please forgive Lin for being arrogant, in this context, some courtiers wantonly resist and prevent change, in the eyes of Wei Chen, it is like the voice of the acquaintance in the courtyard in the summer." Lin Feng pointed to the green shade outside the study and said.

"Well, what do you mean?" Li Jing also understood a little and asked.

"In the summer, a little bit of knowledge gathers in the courtyard, it is very noisy and annoying, and it is disturbing to chase it with a rod and come back. If you don't care about it with your heart, then the sound is nothing! Lin Feng explained.

In the feudal era, what was the most powerful? Of course, it is the emperor who controls the military power, then it is really the king who calls the minister to die, and the minister has to die!

Li Jing and Li Jingsui bowed slightly, slightly understanding. They are in the middle of it, and they take the opinions of the courtiers too seriously! Lin Feng's meaning was already very clear by then, your methods were too soft, where could you use such trouble? Anyway, the world can't be chaotic, and if anyone among the ministers doesn't support it, they won't take anyone to play, and if they throw off their arms and do it themselves, won't it be over? It is just through the cold facts that it is clear to them that this Nantang can turn around with anyone, and it may even turn better!

"The world is difficult to govern, everyone thinks that the people are difficult to govern, and those who don't know that it is difficult to govern are not the people, but also the officials." Lin Feng first threw out the famous words in the "Book to Advise King Wu", and then said, "Your Majesty, Weichen wants to tell a little story here. ”

"Oh, Aiqing, please speak." Li Jing and Li Jingsui glanced at each other, and suddenly became interested, but whenever Lin Feng tells a story, there must be a solution later.

"When Weichen crossed the river to my Datang, he occasionally heard the passenger shipkeeper boast to the boatman that few of the fish he caught in his spare time died in long-distance transportation, so the selling price was often much higher than that of other fishermen. The minister was curious and asked. The boatman replied: There are many fish in the fish container and there is little water, the fish are lazy and do not move, and they will not live long, and occasionally accidentally put in a juvenile white sturgeon, all the fish are frightened and move, and they keep swimming, and no fish dies, and then it forms a habitual practice. Lin Feng told the famous "catfish effect" to be transformed into a "Chinese Yangtze River version". The white sturgeon is a well-known rare fish in the Yangtze River, swimming, ferocious, staple fish, but also shrimp, crab and so on.

Li Jing and Li Jingsui were silent, bowing their heads and thinking about it.

In Weichen's view, the current court is a bit like a tank of chaotic water, and officials are like fish, not enterprising, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault. What to do? Weichen means that the white sturgeon was introduced first among the court officials. Lin Feng turned the topic back and began to express his thoughts.

Li Jing and Li Jingsui raised their heads and looked at Lin Feng.

"In Weichen's view, regardless of the rest of the reform strategies for the time being, His Majesty will use Enke's name, without passing the courtiers' deliberations, to first announce the ten questions of recruiting talents to the world, recruit talents, and use newcomers as white sturgeons to force those officials to have a sense of crisis, forcing them to swim up and act quickly like fish in order to survive." Lin Feng started with the ten questions of recruitment, and he is now in urgent need of all kinds of talents!

Li Jing's eyes lit up, and he suddenly realized, no wonder everyone in the court was arguing, but they never argued about the ten questions of recruitment, it turned out that a tacit understanding had already been reached! For the first time, Li Jing was disappointed in the courtiers, in the eyes of these people, his official position was more important than the Li family!

"The other tank of mixed water is the current court structure. In the eyes of these officials, any change is inseparable from them and the departments they represent, so they have no fear, and they only sell their talents in the court every day, and it can even be said that they are misleading the country. Wechen has an idea, that is, to introduce another white sturgeon into the current court structure, set up a special reform body, and implement the new law, all of which are participated by those who support change, and those who do not support change will never be allowed to enter. Lin Feng threw out another point.

In the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi changed the law, and the first article was to set up the Regulations Department of the Three Divisions to discuss the implementation of the new law, and Lin Feng was also ready to take medicine according to the prescription.

"Well, that's a good idea." Li Jing nodded, stroked his beard lightly with his right hand, closed his eyes slightly, and carefully considered the feasibility of this suggestion.

Lin Feng raised his right hand, stretched out five fingers, and pointed at them one by one with his left hand: "We use the thumb to compare my Tang Li family, and the other four fingers represent the four classes of Shinong industry and commerce. ”

Lin Feng pressed his index finger first, and then pointed to his ring finger and tail finger and said: "Use the index finger to refer to agriculture, let's not mention it for the time being, but the rest of the industry and business can be easy to do, in fact, they are all closely related to business, as long as the business law is implemented, the world's industry and business supporters will be numerous, which is also equivalent to the introduction of more than one white sturgeon in the case of the world's Shi family, at that time, the scholars will inevitably be frightened like fish, swimming around, in order to save their lives, naturally they can easily be differentiated." ”

"It seems that those who work as industrialists and businessmen can't easily be brought into the court, right?" Li Jingsui directly expressed his concerns.

"Of course, it's not a direct introduction, but a slow walk. The starting point of change should be business, business is alive, everything else is alive, and we can start from here. To give a small example, after the implementation of the Commercial Law, we can reward those businessmen with high prestige, integrity, and enthusiasm for public welfare, and go directly to the Holy Lord's power, and specifically improve the implementation of the Commercial Law at the grassroots level. Lin Feng continued to further explain his idea of benefiting business.

Of course, the power of commerce has been the devil in the bottle since ancient times, and although the power is great, it is difficult to put it away. However, in Lin Feng's long-term planning, there are further plans, and now, it's not time to think about those.

"Aiqing is reasonable, let me think again." Li Jing pondered for a long time, and said helplessly.