Chapter 114: The Wealth of Nations

Hearing Li Xiaodao's wild words, with these things in the hall, the Great Song Dynasty can dominate the world.

Wang Anshi immediately couldn't sit still, stood up from the chair, and stared at Li Xiaodao solemnly: "Dao Chief, you can't talk nonsense when you say this. ”

Li Xiaodao still had that light and light chuckling expression, and he said: "Your Majesty and Xiangye, please listen to Poor Dao one by one, you will be able to know what Poor Dao said, it is true!" ”

Shenzong also straightened his body, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and looked at Li Xiaodao and said slowly: "Dao Chief, please speak ......"

Li Xiaodao stood with his hands in his hands, came to the side of the steam engine, and then looked at the monarch and the minister above the main hall, and asked:

"Poor Dao wants to ask His Majesty and Xiangye a question first, that is, if the Great Song Dynasty wants to dominate the world, what do they need to rely on?"

When the Divine Sect heard this, he lowered his eyes and thought to himself.

As the prime minister of a dynasty, Wang Anshi naturally understands these things very well, and stroked his beard and said:

"Now in the land of China, the Great Song Dynasty is in the Central Plains, adjacent to the Western Xia Kingdom, and further north there are Khitan iron cavalry and Jurchen tribes, there is Tubo in the west, and there are small countries such as Nanzhao under Tubo.

Li Xiaodao nodded and said: "Since ancient times, the war between the two countries is the first thing to fight is the national strength, followed by the strength of the army, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was able to conquer the Xiongnu in the north, and it was also because of the hundred years of recuperation in the world of Wenjing, so he had enough financial and material resources." ”

Shenzong looked at Li Xiaodao deeply at this time and asked, "Dao Chief, these things can make the Great Song Dynasty have the huge national strength of the Han Dynasty?" Can you have the brave hussars of the Han Dynasty? ”

When Li Xiaodao heard this, he raised his head to face the emperor in the palace, and spit out a sentence: "As long as Your Majesty can follow the plan of the poor road, in just five years, the Great Song Dynasty will be able to have at least half of the national strength of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty." ”

Shenzong immediately couldn't help but blurt out, "How do you do it?" ”

Wang Anshi also stared at Li Xiaodao, his lifelong wish is to be able to change the law and reform, so that the country will be rich and the people strong.

He wanted to collect heavy taxes from the rich and pay them for the state, but the resistance was too great.

Li Xiaodao knew that Wang Anshi's law change policy only lasted until the death of Shenzong, and then there was no follow-up.

Because although Shenzong fully supported Wang Anshi's reform, his descendants were not, and coupled with Sima Guang and other old parties obstructing it, this change only lasted for more than ten years, and the effect was only weak.

Li Xiaodao looked at Wang Anshi and said:

"Xiang Ye's theory of law change, the poor road has also been heard, although Xiang Ye is also committed to the country's prosperity and people's strength, but just from the rich to pay more taxes, is not the fundamental policy to make the country rich, moreover, the rich people are not willing to suffer such exploitation, in the poor way, if Xiang Ye and His Majesty are there, this change may be sustainable, can see a small effect, but a hundred years later, those rich people will fight back, and can not fundamentally solve the problem."

After all, Wang Anshi is just an ancient, and even if his vision and thinking are advanced, they are limited by the times.

As for how to really make the country rich, his eyes can't see through the substance.

After Li Xiaodao's words were finished, Shenzong and Wang Anshi were silent one after another.

They all knew that when they were implementing the law change now, all the obstacles they encountered could be implemented under the orders of the Divine Sect and the iron-blooded implementation of Wang Anshi.

But when they all pass away, these policies will become a dead letter.

Because, the Qingmiao Law created by Wang Anshi's reform touched the interests of the upper class too much.

The mere fact that the rich have to pay more taxes is already very difficult to implement.

After their deaths, how fierce the revolt of these people will be.

They could all foresee how inconspicuous this little spark they lit would be under the wave of those nobles uniting together.

Wang Anshi let out a long sigh at this time, and then, staring at Li Xiaodao, asked silently: "But I don't know if Mr. has any good plan to solve the problem fundamentally?" ”

He called him "sir", which added some respect to Li Xiaodao's views.

In his previous view, Taoist priests were all selfish people who were selfish, only cultivating immortals and attaining Taoism by themselves, regardless of the state affairs and people's livelihood in the world.

And even if Li Xiaodao brought a magical device such as the "steam engine" to the Great Song Dynasty, it only made him think that this was just a Taoist priest with some strange skills.

But now, when Li Xiaodao burst through the core of his law change, as well as the obstacles he encountered, and foresaw the future when the law change was bound to fail, he really saw that this Taoist priest was extraordinary.

This person's vision and wisdom are far better than many officials above the court, and he is qualified to be called "sir" by him.

Li Xiaodao heard Wang Anshi's title change, which is also the effect he wants, that is, to make the emperor and the prime minister respect him very much, so that he can smoothly promote the seeds of science.

At this time.

Li Xiaodao stood in the main hall with his hands in his hands, looked at the two monarchs and ministers, and talked eloquently: "The so-called national wealth must first be the people's wealth. ”

Wang Anshi frowned, he naturally understood this truth, but how easy it was to do it.

However, this person alone can point out such a point, and he can be regarded as a person of insight.

However, when Li Xiaodao's words were revealed, Wang Anshi was like being struck by lightning, and the whole person suddenly turned into a stone statue.

李小道 says:

"What is wealth? That is, wealth, and money. Currency is like water, living water can support people, stagnant water will only stagnate, and even after people drink it, they will get sick and even die.

The economy of the Great Song Dynasty is a pool of water, but it is a pool of stagnant water.

The rich will save when they have money, and the poor will save when they have money.

In this way, the entire Great Song Dynasty's economy and currency were not in circulation, and it became a pool of stagnant water.

Therefore, if we want the country to be rich, we must first make the pool of the economy alive.

Let the poor and the rich take out their currencies to trade, so that the pool of water in the Great Song Dynasty can come back to life.

Only living water will have an endless source of energy, only trading will make the pool flow, the flow will bring growth, and the pool will become a small river, a lake, and even the sea. ”

Li Xiaodao looked deeply at the two military ministers in the palace and said, "This is the real way to be rich in the country." ”

But at this time, there was no sound in the hall.

Shenzong and Wang Anshi's eyes widened at this time, revealing a feeling of dizziness.

It's not that they don't understand, Li Xiaodao's analogy can be described as extremely vivid, and they naturally won't have a reason they don't understand.

It is precisely because they all understand that there is such an expression at this time.

They are like creatures that live in eggshells forever, and Li Xiaodao's words are like using a nail to crack a small crack in this layer of eggshell.

For the first time, they opened their eyes to the real world, how the country's economy worked.

Twenty-first-century economics, coupled with the Wealth of Nations, is enough to blind them.

In the temple.

Wang Anshi was in tears at this time, but he cried with joy.

Two lines of tears rolled out of his eyes, and he rushed to Li Xiaodao in three or two steps, and said silently: "Mr. has broken through the maze of eternity with one word, and the old man has only known today that the core of the currency and the reason for the country's strength and prosperity are like this. ”

The words fell, and this old man didn't care that this was in front of the emperor, and bowed to Li Xiaodao sincerely.

But he didn't know that Li Xiaodao didn't really come for the powerful Great Song Dynasty.

What he said about "let the Great Song Dynasty rule the world" is just to let the emperor and Wang Anshi better accept his things.

His real purpose is not something that the monarchs and ministers of these two feudal societies can know.

Even if Wang Anshi is old and refined, just like he can't see through the operation of the economy, he can't see through what Li Xiaodao's true purpose is.

This is the limitation of the times.

Li Xiaodao's purpose is clear only to him.