Gu Zuo didn't know how to answer this question.

For him, such non-technical questions are actually a bit difficult to answer.

Many people have said that he is not suitable to be an official, because in his decades-long career as an official, there will be many moments like now, and he can't tell which is good and which is bad.

So my heart is very entangled.

"Da Sima...... Xia Guan always felt that what it should be was what it was. And since the matter is not serious, why can't you let Your Majesty know? ”

Wang Bing pursed his lips, his gray beard fluttering in the spring breeze through the window. The Gu Liqing in front of him was not the capable Gu Liqing he was familiar with, but his face was full of doubts, like a jinshi who had just entered the officialdom.

"Liqing, the old man believes that Da Situ must have told you. Right now, you're in a more dangerous situation than we are. ”

"Yes, people who don't make mistakes are more dangerous than a bunch of people who do. Even more absurd, it's a fact. ”

Wang Bing's index finger pressed on the table, "Who said you didn't make a mistake?" You just asked why you can't let Your Majesty know about the little things, because it doesn't do you and me the slightest benefit to let Your Majesty know, especially you. Your words, in other words, maybe you will understand. That is, when you were so young, you Gu Liqing had to let His Majesty know? What do you tell people to think of you? ”

It's okay not to give face.

But Gu Zuo was naturally disgusted with these things, and his head hurt after listening to them for a long time, so he got up and said, "Da Sima, there is no way for the official to ask for this situation." What others think of me is someone else's business, and the officials can't control it. Farewell. ”

Wang Bing was stunned, he didn't expect this guy to walk away so recklessly.

He was the only one left in the box, speechless and choking.

“…… Children cannot be taught. As soon as Han Guandao left, he was also embarrassed. ”

After that, another person came in the house, this person was in his forties, still young, named Lu Linchi, and his official position was powerful, he was a bachelor of Hanlin Academy, and he was also a Qingliu official.

For these high-ranking officials, even if this incident reaches the front of the emperor, it will definitely not kill them. Because Gu Zuo didn't completely collude with them at the beginning, and there was no typical plot of greedy ink.

But as an official of the clear stream, once the name is dirty, it is basically the end of political life, and it is difficult to save the Daluo immortals.

In fact, if it's really a big thing, forget it, and no one wants to admit such a small thing.

"Oil and salt don't come in?"

"Yes." Wang Bing sighed, "Actually, this is good for him. Only asking for mercy, whether His Majesty has permission or not, will help him in his current situation, but he is not willing to do anything. ”

"So what do we do? Li Dongyang and Xie Qian went to inspect the grain storage as soon as they gave an order, which shows that His Majesty does not want to touch them at least in the past few months. ”

"What do you think?" Encountering such a powerful person as the emperor, Wang Bing also had a headache.

Lu Linchi also frowned deeply, "Doing things is inherently easy to make mistakes." ”

"Nope." Wang Bing's eyelids raised, "Your Majesty hates political struggles the most to affect practice, there may be a catastrophe this year, food reserves are related to the lives of the people, once something happens, you and I are not so simple as reprimanding, it will be a catastrophe." ”

"How would Your Majesty know?"

"If you say no, you can't." Wang Bing resolutely disagreed, "Your Majesty is not an unknown person who can be manipulated. ”

In fact, Lu Linchi meant, Li and Xie went to check the grain storage, and there were many operations in this process, for example, after they checked, there was no food when the accident happened, so the emperor would inevitably be angry with them.

Once there is such a big thing, who cares about the small things in the city that never sleeps.

"Da Sima, when you are decided, you will continue to suffer from it."

"Break your head? Don't you know how powerful Your Majesty is? The old man would rather go to the king to confess his sins and receive punishment than to take such a risk. ”

Now it's hard to jump out of this pit, and you have to dig another one for yourself?

……

……

After Li Dongyang and Xie Qian left, the court was really quiet.

It seems that someone is deliberately manipulating.

Zhu Houzhao's heart is like a mirror, but for the time being, he doesn't care much, he is studying other things.

The Gewu Academy in the academy now has more than a dozen characters, all of whom are the kind of seekers with quirky personalities and research momentum that they have been looking for over the years.

These people are actually the emperor's private treasury supporters, who receive food and drink every month, and if you want to join this team of 'eating and waiting for death', you must not only pass some assessments, but also ask these dozen people to unanimously agree to your joining, and finally report to the emperor for approval.

It has been seven or eight years since the establishment of Gewu Academy, and there are still so few people.

So far, the staff has come from the students of each year, who are the brightest and most interested in all kinds of natural problems.

It's not the first time they've come to the palace today, and when the emperor has free time, he'll see what they're doing.

And the recent results are actually two books. They made it up and said that teaching could be easier.

One is nine chapters of arithmetic, and the other is nature.

Zhu Houzhao expressed his appreciation for this, "Although these two books are very thin now, they will be studied from generation to generation, and when my grandson comes to the world, he will have direct access to this knowledge, so that in a hundred years, there will always be people among future generations who can make key research." ”

These people are now two teams, that is, the people who compiled these two books respectively, there are seven people in the mathematics team, the leader is surnamed Liu, called Liu Zhimin, and there are nine people in the Gewu team, and the leader's surname is Kou, called Kou Ruiqiang, and the age level is old, middle and young.

"Originally, I said that research should be problem-oriented and use problem solving as a means to avoid thinking about things like flies without a head. Previously, Meifu said that it was going to build a six-story high-rise building, and I asked for help from Gewu Academy, what advice do you have? ”

"Your Majesty, I have been studying for a long time and experimenting with some things, and then we have determined two points. First, we found that when the height of the object is high enough, it is a small lateral wind, which can also have a relatively large impact on the house. So we recommend making it as wide as possible to prevent it from being blown over by the wind. The second is that the house should be as symmetrical as possible, not too casual. ”

Zhu Houzhao used his only knowledge of mechanics to understand it, and found that there was some truth.

"Actually, there is another point, which is...... If you can use a harder material like stone, the house can withstand much better wind than wood. It's just that the stones are too heavy and not easy to carry when they are built. ”

Zhu Houzhao said: "Then you can study a kind of thing, like clay, when it is built, it is flowing and soft, and when it dries, it becomes hard, of course, it is not clay, it is harder than clay." ”

The gang asked, "Your Majesty, is there such a thing?" ”

"Probably not in nature. But just as there are no grains of rice in nature, don't people grow it? ”

An old man muttered, "Do you need to plant it from the soil?" ”

"If you can't grow it in the soil, maybe limestone can. Any of you who are interested, you can try it. If this is the case, this material can not only build houses, but more importantly, pave roads. Imagine that the official road of the world is no longer affected by rainy days, and the people walk on it as if they are walking on the stone slab in the Ouchi, so isn't it a sacred object for the benefit of the people? ”

"Your Majesty is right, write it down." Kou Ruiqiang instructed the young man beside him.

The emperor is well-informed, and after entering the palace several times, they have such a concept, so they also attach more importance to the tips made by the emperor.

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They discussed together for about an hour before they separated, Zhu Houzhao is not a teacher, there is no way to systematically say some knowledge, basically say whatever comes to mind, and after they finish speaking, they go back and sort it out, and then teach.

But there is a problem in this way, that is, there is a fault line in the middle of knowledge, and it cannot be connected.

That can't be helped, in fact, there is a lot of theoretical knowledge that is not meaningful in itself, because there is not enough manufacturing capacity to make it.

Let's not mention it.

Zhu Houzhao later put Gu Zuoxuan into the palace.

He originally blamed Gu Zuo for the incident in the city that never sleeps, but after the accident, this guy seemed to know nothing, and worked carefully on the construction site, which made Zhu Houzhao feel that there was no need to be angry with him.

…… This guy doesn't understand.

"Why are you working so hard these days?"

The emperor thought he was going to say something guilty.

Unexpectedly, Gu Zuo said: "Back to Your Majesty's words, the minister will go south to inspect the salt law in a few days, and the city that never sleeps has just experienced a turmoil, and the minister can't rest assured, so he made some new arrangements on the spot." ”

"I seem to remember that there was a man named Song Heng in the Shaofu. How is this person? ”

Gu Zuo replied: "Song Heng is a second-class jinshi in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, and later served as a pusher, and later was introduced to the minister here as a young man because of his degree of support, and he was in charge of the accounts. He's a capable person. ”

"Oh? That's still quite capable. You go and inspect the salt law, don't take this person away, stay here, I have something to entrust to him. ”

"Yes."

"As for the salt law, you should have communicated with some people these days, right? How is the DPRK and China reacting? ”

Gu Zuo didn't dare to conceal it, "The auction method that Your Majesty said, the ministers are temporarily in your own name, and you also ask Your Majesty to punish the crime." ”

"There's nothing cured about it, you just say it."

"Yes." Gu Zuo replied honestly: "Judging from the minister's touch, many people are still hesitant. They know about the collapse of the salt law, but they are afraid of changing it, and if it is not changed well, it will be out of control. And judging from that method alone, I am afraid that the salt law of the imperial court will be reduced. ”

"Why lower?"

Gu Zuo analyzed: "There is only so much silver on the salt, Your Majesty must ensure the immediate benefits of the stove households in the future, and at the same time, the interests of the merchants must also be guaranteed, so that they have the motivation to auction, and another auction will not reduce the government's greed for ink." The silver came out of the merchants, but in the end it came out to the head of the imperial court. Well, since everyone has benefited, how can the silver received by the court increase in vain? ”

Zhu Houzhao groaned slightly, Gu Zuo has grown up slowly, and he has begun to consider problems from a macro perspective.

"Where do you think the main source of corruption will be?"

"Auctions, and salt works. If the imperial court wants to auction the salt farm, it is necessary to set the price according to the output of the salt field, and if the officials of the salt merchants' joint inspection make a high-grade salt field into a medium salt field, then the auction price will naturally not be high. ”

Concealment of yields. It's a headache.

Zhu Houzhao rubbed his head, "You're right." I have long said that the reform of the salt law is related to tens of millions of people, and we must be cautious. You have to be more careful in your investigation this time, and if it is indeed proved that the auction method is impossible, I will not stick to it. ”

Gu Zuo admired the emperor for this, that is, if it was really impossible, he was willing to change.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

"This time the saint is gone. Do you have anything else to say to me? If not, step down. ”

Gu Zuo was stunned, and he thought of Wang Bing, the secretary of the Ministry of War.