Fan Jingwen saw Zhang Gui's refuge, and it was not easy to argue with Zhang Gui, after all, Zhang Gui was the benefactor who recommended him as a subordinate of the East Palace, so he gave up his hand and said: "I would like to ask the Taishi for advice." ”

The crown prince also looked at Zhang Gui and said, "What my uncle asked, in fact, I also want to ask, although Song Renzong is lenient and benevolent, he can only rely on peace and increasing taxes on the people to maintain peace. The so-called prosperous era can only be regarded as a prosperous era that has increased the burden of the people, even if the burden of the people has increased greatly due to the inability to fight, but in the end, it still makes the dignity of the country and the lives of the people have been lost, is this also a promising king worthy of emulation? ”

"Not counting!"

Zhang Gui replied directly, and said: "It's not good to even guard Chengdu." ”

"Even if Your Highness can't maintain the strength of the country in the future, at least you must ensure that the people will not be endowed."

"Because the Department of Planning has understood by summarizing the tax laws of the past dynasties that once a dynasty undergoes an increase in taxes, it will not be reduced back, but only a tendency to continue to increase, which can already be said to be a law."

"Unless he is a real promising king, such as today's son, he is not the founding king, and even at the beginning of his reign, he also suffered internal and external troubles, but did he not maintain the dignity of the country? Moreover, it did not increase the people's endowment because of this, and even finally exempted the Liao salary, and exempted a large amount of small tax burden. ”

"Therefore, it is not difficult for the king of Shoucheng to achieve that the people do not add endowments and the country is sufficient. And Song Renzong didn't do it in the end. How is it worth the imitation? ”

The prince nodded.

He still trusts his uncle very much now, after all, his uncle helped him to war, protected his position, and made him more aware of the real situation in Daming.

Therefore, Zhang Gui's words, the prince still listened very carefully.

Fan Jingwen therefore said: "Song Renzong is indeed not as promising as a king, but the minister thinks that Song Renzong at least has no virtue, so let His Highness learn from it." ”

Zhang Gui continued to retort: "Fan Gong's words are wrong, His Royal Highness will be the king in the future, and he can't just have no virtue!" ”

"There is no system suitable for a hundred years, and the internal and external situation is not unchanged for a hundred years, and the government that Your Highness will face in the future may not be simpler than Your Majesty today, you can't just let it be virtuous, but also have to be promising."

After hearing this, the prince couldn't help but look at Fan Jingwen: "Mr. Fan, I think my uncle is right. The dynasty has now reformed many of the systems created by Taizu back then, not because Taizu was not wise when he created these systems, but because they are no longer out of date, so they need to be reformed. ”

"My father is also because of the restructuring, so that the Ming Dynasty is now prosperous, there is no hunger on the road, and there is no wasteland in the township. What do you think, sir? ”

Fan Jingwen didn't want to be a subordinate official of the East Palace for a while.

Because Zhang Gui taught like this on the side, he really couldn't teach.

As a bureaucrat, Fan Jingwen also naturally likes to be comfortable.

He would rather die than toss and make himself uneasy, so he instinctively hoped that the crown prince would not toss again after becoming emperor in the future.

After all, it is foreseeable that the current Ming Dynasty, after the prince becomes the emperor in the future, will definitely have nothing to do in the world!

The world must be Xianping, even better than the Song Renzong period, after all, there was still a Western Xia and Liao on the side during the Song Renzong period, and after the prince became the emperor in the future, it can be said that there is no threat at all, and the early years of orthodoxy are about the same, as long as they don't toss, they will definitely be able to bear peace for many years and usher in the Ming version of the rule of Wenjing.

And that's not enough!

After all, if the people of Li are not hungry or cold, they can be called well-off.

But Fan Jingwen couldn't deny Zhang Gui's point of view, because he couldn't say against his will that the current better system would not have shortcomings in the future, nor could he say against his heart that as long as the Son of Heaven is virtuous, he will not be endowed to the people.

"Fan Gong had better not claim to be shallow and resign at this time, I recommend the Gong as His Royal Highness's speaker, the first thing I value is the integrity of the Gong, and the second is that I value the concept of the Gong is different from mine, so I let the Gong be the official of His Royal Highness, the purpose is to let His Highness listen to different voices, and then make it easy to think and distinguish. How can you distinguish between reading and analysis? ”

"What's more, once Your Highness becomes a king in the future, he will hear more opinions of different kinds, and at that time, he will need to have his own judgment and the ability to think independently. Only being able to think independently is the premise of becoming a wise man. ”

Zhang Gui seemed to see what Fan Jingwen was thinking, so he mentioned it at this time.

After hearing this, Fan Jingwen naturally didn't dare to say anything about resignation and not doing anything, but said: "What Uncle Guo said is that the monarch's heart should be like a mirror, and he must be able to distinguish between right and wrong. ”

But because of this, Fan Jingwen realized that this uncle did not intend to teach the prince according to the template of the Ming Jun required by the ancient sage, and he didn't teach the prince what is Junde and what is holy learning.

Not to teach, to be precise!

is guiding the prince to think, he is nominally a teacher in the East Palace, but in fact, he is just used by Uncle Guo as an introduction to guide the prince to think actively!

Fan Jingwen was a little uncomfortable with this teaching mode, but he found that the prince seemed to enjoy this mode very much, so he took the initiative to ask himself.

"Your Highness, although Song Renzong is not a great achievement, the minister thinks that the history of the Song Dynasty is not without something that cannot be learned. His Royal Highness should know the four sentences of Zhang Zi in the Song Dynasty, the words of Wang Shu and Wang San, as well as the sentence of Fan Wenzhenggong's worries and worries of the world first, and the joy and happiness of the world after the world. ”

Zhang Gui asked Fan Jingwen and the others as he spoke: "I don't know what Mr. Zhu thinks?" ”

The prince also looked at Fan Jingwen and the others, and he was very interested.

As an eleven-year-old boy, the prince was more curious than inquisitive.

Therefore, like in the past, the Confucian ministers of the East Palace directly instilled in him what is the holy word of Junde, but he felt bored and easy to get sleepy.

But now, like this, he is very willing to listen to Fan Jingwen and others make remarks about his uncle, and he is not sleepy at all, and even begins to think about it, secretly thinking about what he thinks?

Fan Jingwen and the others couldn't answer for a while, especially Wang Anshi's three insufficiencies, so they didn't want to admit that this was the correct remark that should be taught to the prince!

But he can't say that this is not right against his will, after all, the reform of the Ming Dynasty is also based on these "three deficiencies" to get to the present, not to mention that the effect is not bad, and the ideological circles of the Ming Dynasty are also supporting this point of view.

So, seeing this, Zhang Gui had no choice but to say: "Presumably, the princes still don't know how to explain their thoughts in front of His Highness for a while, so it's better to put it aside for the time being." Next, Mr. Zuo Zhongyun Jiang will talk about the way to make the country rich. ”

The prince was a little disappointed, he didn't expect Fan Jingwen and the lecturers to answer, so he could only temporarily suppress this curiosity in his heart and listen to Jiang Dejing explain the knowledge of the country's prosperity.

"If you want to make the country rich, you must make the people rich, and the people need to increase the wealth of the people who produce more, that is, the wealth of the world should be distributed more to the people who produce, so that the country and the people can be safe. Otherwise, the so-called prosperity is only the prosperity of the meat eaters, not the prosperity of all the people of the world, nor the prosperity of the country! There are three troikas for the wealth gain of the world, one is consumption, and the other is export......"

Jiang Dejing told the story seriously at this time based on what he had learned in Xilin Academy.

The prince listened carefully, because he found that these were not the boring scriptures that taught him how to be virtuous and how to be polite, but were all statements of some objective knowledge, and while he listened carefully, he would also unconsciously have doubts because of his own consciousness of thinking, and he would become interested in inquiry.