"Three words: unbalanced!" Li Dan said categorically: "The imbalance in regional development, cultural level, and circulation distribution has caused these three contradictions, that is, the chronic diseases faced by the imperial court at present."

Zhao Tuo listened to him very carefully, and it turned out that Li Dan believed that differentiation was the main source of the three major contradictions. "Why? I don't understand."

There is no one else at this time, and he has no scruples about speaking, this is in front of others, Zhao Tuo has to maintain the dignity of an emperor, and he must not say that he does not understand this kind of thing.

Using the example of the flowing water in the pool outside, Li Dan told Zhao Tuo that any resource flows from high to low, which is called flowing water without rotting, and if this flow is stopped, there will be no water in the place where the water is needed, and the place with more water will lose its fluidity and form waterlogging or rotten water.

"Now the South is a bit like a waterhole, where there is so much water that it is about to overflow, and I mean wealth, talent, and all kinds of things, from grain and silk to minerals and timber.

The reason is that the policy of tolerance and gentleness adopted by the Eritians after the occupation, although the extensive management has damaged the Han culture, it cannot but recognize their attitude of doing whatever the Han people do as long as they do not rebel, which in turn promotes the development of commerce and trade."

Li Dan analyzed: "Why is this situation caused? It was because of the monopoly on Confucianism that led the dynasties to adopt a derogatory and contemptuous attitude towards the merchants, so now that there is a ruler who suppresses Confucianism, the merchant class can rise to the top.

Earning money has finally become a way to have dignity, so we can see that many merchants in the previous dynasties came to politics because they were good at business and could bring wealth to the rulers."

Zhao Tuo gradually understood. As a result, his family was able to obtain the status of regimental training envoy as a businessman, which laid the foundation for the later army in Haozhou.

In the historical picture that Li Dan gradually unfolded for him, many families like the Zhao family contributed to or even directly participated in the great wave of overthrowing the previous dynasty.

For example, Guo Zixing's family, which occupied Fengyang (then Haozhou), owned many businesses in the local area, so he only wanted to keep his family and not expand his power.

Another example is Liu Futong in Anhui, the family of a wealthy businessman, who rose up in anger after being blackmailed by Qincha, and Xu Shouhui of Hubei Kaibu Shop.

"After the Great War, all industries withered, and the family name has been in the wind and rain from the end of the Southern Song Dynasty to the beginning of this dynasty. Only the families of the merchants were wealthy, and they also had the spare money to sponsor others or train their children to learn literature and become officials. This has created an atmosphere in which our dynasty will not deliberately belittle businessmen.

However, even so, the imperial examination situation in the early years of the dynasty cannot be compared with today! One hundred and twenty jinshi, among whom were three Koreans and one Annamite. It can be seen how far the Han culture withered at that time.

So Taizu greatly promoted literature and Taoism, and saluted the scholars. In just 20 years, the number of scholars in the imperial examination has reached 233. The minister flipped through the records of the Tongwenguan and made statistics.

Among the officials above the seventh rank in the imperial court, the proportion of Jinshi among the 100 people was less than three after the first imperial examination, and the proportion rose to thirty percent after twenty years!

In the early years of the dynasty, the proportion of civil and military officials with actual posts was close to 1 to 2, and it was obvious that there were fewer civil and more military officials, but 20 years later, this figure was reversed, and civil officials became the main force.

From these figures, His Majesty can discern when and how this balance has been broken.

The reason for this was that the imperial court's strategy shifted from conquest and occupation to recuperation, but the side effect was that as the number of civil officials increased, as their status and authority increased, they began to have a high-minded mentality and a demeaning attitude towards military positions.

The emperor relied on the cultural people to govern the world, and the control of culture was in the civil officials, and the military attachés were said to be a group of people with developed limbs and simple minds!"

"Hehe, Qing said it wonderfully, that's exactly what it is!" Zhao Tuo stroked his palm.

"Your Majesty, the secret here is that 'the control of culture lies in the civil service!'" Li Dan clicked on this sentence and then said:

"In this way, things are out of balance, as if all the weights (i.e., weights) are placed on the side of the civil officials, and the military attaché's head will be tilted if it is too light, and this is how the contradiction between the two arises."

"Oh!" Zhao Tuo sat up straight and thought about it, "What do you mean, I should put the military attache back to the side of the military attaché?"

"Your Majesty is the king, and the most important thing is to 'weigh the world!'" Li Dan said the last four words word by word:

"The supreme judge of all matters is His Majesty, but this does not mean that His Majesty needs to make decisions on everything, but that His Majesty has the supreme power to decide on the weight, priority, and urgency of matters, and to judge whether they are in accordance with the law.

The purpose of the measure is to achieve 'fairness, so that no matter will be unbalanced!' under the open and clear standards guaranteed by the imperial power."

Zhao Tuo stared at Li Dan with sparkling eyes for a moment, and nodded heavily: "Yes! Please go on!"

"If there is an imbalance, then it should be adjusted moderately, and the excess of the pieces should be removed to achieve the balance and maintain the balance between the two." Li Dan made another analogy: "The country is the name of the rod that is always swinging, and only God knows when it will no longer be unbalanced.

But people must know that the rope of this pole must and can only be held in the hands of the imperial power. Everything has to be weighed up, and there are constantly increases or decreases.

When the scale rod is relatively balanced, it is necessary to weigh other things, until the next time the weighing is found that there is still an imbalance, and then readjust the scale. This weighing is the duty of Your Majesty."

"Good!" Zhao Tuo was full of interest when he heard this, and immediately said, "Aiqing, it's not early, why don't you bring wine and food, let's talk while eating, how about it?"

"It's the minister's negligence." Li Dan hurriedly confessed, went to the staircase to call Tao Niang, and asked her to make some soup and side dishes by herself.

Waiting for the wine and food, Li Dan explained to the emperor the two things of the north and the south and the copper banknote. In his view, the north-south imbalance stemmed from the difference in management strategies between the former dynasties towards the long-subjugated northerners and the last subjugated southerners.

At that time, the northern world was under the marquis system, the management was strict, and many Hu methods were practiced, and everyone advocated practicing martial arts and joining the army to obtain official positions. Nandi is rough and tolerant, as long as you don't rebel and do anything.

The attitude of the Ergu people towards Sinology was limited to the scope of Cheng Zhu's science, and even poetry was excluded from the imperial examination, which led to the rigidity and limitation of literati thinking.

The literati lost their way to forge ahead, and most of them turned to commerce, opera, printing and other writing-related industries, and there were few people who participated in the imperial examinations.

At this time, the understanding of the north and the south was very common, and the fact that the north and the south were fighting for the ruling power and cultural priority of the empire was actually the right to rule and the first to be cultural.

But in the end, the south was never able to win in the suppression of the upper echelons of Ergu, until the Jianghuai *** spread throughout the country, and the literati saw the possibility of taking the opportunity to overthrow the rule of the Ergu people and re-establish the authority and cultural dominance of the Han people.

It was not until Taizu of this dynasty appeared in the political arena to participate in the competition that the literati class found Optimus Prime to rely on with the help of the merchants and landlords, and finally realized the ideal of restoring China.

The Ergu people were expelled back to the grassland, and what followed was the liquidation of the martial arts culture and the priority of the northerners, and the dispute between the north and the south and the civil and military forces also intensified.

Interspersed with this is the issue of money. The northern money and the southern banknotes refer to the fact that the north relied on the wealth accumulated by the former Song, Liao, and Jin dynasties and a large amount of plundering in foreign wars to establish its own monetary system, and also made the commoners and nobles who actively participated in foreign wars generally have a large amount of precious metals.

The south inherited the Jiaozi and meeting vote system in the Southern Song Dynasty.

After the Song Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, it ordered the ban on the circulation of copper coins and the widespread use of jiaozi, which caused the people of the north to suffer greatly, and a large amount of precious metals flowed into the south, creating conditions for the southerners to trade and sea trade.

It is precisely because of this that it gradually led to the phenomenon of poverty in the north and wealth in the south, and the resentment of the northerners towards the southerners gradually deepened, which is why there were a large number of northerners in the army after the Jianghuai uprising.

Tao Niang's craftsmanship was passed down by her aunt, and Li Dan guided and dialed. Soon, a few side dishes and a pot of Yuliuchun were placed on the table.

Roasted soybean (eggplant) with double mushrooms, roasted tofu with shrimp, pickled in casserole, five kinds of cured and marinated water, and steamed sea bass with five flowers, Zhao Tuo was surprised and blurted out: "My imperial dining room is nothing more than that!"

Tao Niang was about to retreat, and was startled when she heard this.

Li Dan hurriedly asked a few words about how everyone downstairs arranged to cover up, and let her go downstairs, then he shook his hand and grinned: "My lord,

Can't you compare it like this, and don't you make a fuss about the imperial history?"

"Yes, yes!" Zhao Tuo felt speechless, hurriedly gave up his hand, and then sandwiched a piece of bad fish fillet: "So, the origin and essence of these three things actually seem to be one, but how to set things right?

The ministers suggested one after the other, but I always felt that there was considerable resistance to the implementation of these rules, because what was in favor of one would inevitably be to the detriment of the other."

"Your Majesty is wise to be cautious." Li Dan nodded and poured him a full cup and said:

"As the old saying goes: Governing a great country is like cooking a small meal, which shows that the ancients also realized that prudence is very necessary for those in power, not to mention that the burden on your majesty's shoulders is more than ten times or even dozens of times that of ancient monarchs?

However, ......, there is a solution to everything. If we can solve it head-on, we can solve it head-on, and if we can't solve it head-on, we can bypass a few steps."

"Huh? You have something in that, right?" Zhao Tuo raised his head and smiled, "Is there anything specific?"

"Specific......?" Li Dan stretched out his voice, and then blinked: "Why doesn't Your Majesty build ships and roads?"

"Shipbuilding? Build roads?" Zhao Tuo was inexplicable again: "Does this have anything to do with solving these three things?"

"Yes!" Li Dan nodded: "The north is poor and the south is rich, the east is cheap and the west is expensive, and in the long run, the gap between the north and the south will be even greater!" Most of the warriors came from the north, and the civil officials mostly came from the south, and the moat was nothing more than the Yangtze River and the Huai River.

The eastern part of the country is rich in abundant products and low prices, and it is dozens of times the profit to transport it to the west, whether it is salt, iron tools, or clothing. All of this lands in one place: traffic!

Oh, as an aside, two days ago, the minister was ordered to go to the Ministry of Industry and saw the bond copper plate and the six-color overprinted machine printing sample they made, which was very good!

The production is exquisite, surpassing any of the handovers and tickets that the minister has ever seen since the previous dynasty. It is no exaggeration to say that if someone wants to imitate it, unless he has a fortune of millions.

As if these technologies could be further improved, the ministers requested the establishment of a new General Administration of Banknote Printing and Minting to replace the current Treasury Department, which was mainly responsible for the printing and minting of high-level security printing materials such as banknotes, tax stamps, bonds, contracts and various bills, including the passport.

Speaking of transportation, His Majesty can combine the experience of issuing war bonds this time and issue transportation bonds for road construction and shipbuilding. Building roads and ships is not an end in itself, but strengthening the country's post roads and postal services is the main thing!"

"What is the postal service?" Zhao Tuo stopped him and asked.

"The postal service is a system established and directly operated by the state, which includes the transmission of letters, the transportation of business travel, the exchange of bills and coupons, etc., and is an organization for the purpose of communicating with the government, commerce and the people."

"Is it different from the current station?"

"The post office is for the government and the government, and the postal service, including the post office, is for the people; The post station was only for correspondence and reception officials.

However, the postal service is more extensive, and can even include the transportation of parcel goods, the short-distance relay transportation of personnel, and the exchange of bills of exchange, and the form is not limited to walking or horseback, but can also be a combined transport of passenger carriages, ships, and passenger ships."

"I seem to get it a little bit." Zhao Tuo patted the edge of the table: "The imbalance is caused by the barrier between the north and the south, the east and the west, and therefore there are huge differences between places, so it is necessary to build roads, bridges, and ferries to open up all places." Zhao Tuo frowned slightly: "But if you do this, will the requisition affect the farming affairs too much?"

Li Dan stretched out his thumb: "Your Majesty can think of this question, which means that you are a wise and wise monarch, and you are destined to be able to achieve a different career!" He stretched out three more fingers after patting the horse's ass:

"There are three artifacts that will help Your Majesty achieve his goals quickly, efficiently, and economically: a horse freight cart, cement, and an animal-powered mixer. With these three things, it will take half a month at most to repair the main road from Jingshi to Haozhou."

"No kidding?" Zhao Tuo's eyes narrowed.

"Jun Qian is naturally telling the truth, how can there be any reason to joke?" Li Dan also said: "Zhu Qing in my house is a representative of the Chamber of Commerce, and the people and things he needs can be allocated for His Majesty.

There was a master craftsman named Zhu He in the trading company, who had already presided over the construction of cement avenues to Poyang, Anren, and Fuzhou in Yugan, and also built the Anren Bridge

Quite experienced.

Your Majesty can first try to build a road from Jingshi to Haozhou, and if it is really good to build this more than 100 miles, then I propose to build a road to Chuzhou Pukou to achieve smooth communication with Nanzhili, and at the same time open a regular river ferry between Jinling and Chuzhou Pukou.

How much does it cost and how to issue bonds, Zhu Qing, Zhu and both of them can assist His Majesty in planning.

But this is only the first phase of the project, to promote the integration of the north and the south, the circulation of goods and wealth, just like lifting the water out of the pool, is not as easy as making a waterwheel!

It's not enough to build a road, it's not enough to just build a road, it may take years of serious and meticulous effort.

Accumulate to a certain point, and then suddenly everyone will find that everything has changed, and the problems of the past have disappeared in the passage of time."

"That's for the best!" Zhao Tuo happily took a drink: "To be honest, I can't sleep at night thinking about these three things! In addition to building roads, promoting circulation, and revitalizing the water in the pool, what other suggestions do you have?"

Li Dan pondered for a moment: "Actually, the idea that a martial artist can slash people as long as he can swing a knife is wrong! The army is not only a tool to defend the country, but also a manifestation of the will of the state, the strict authority of the emperor, and the morality of the Han Dynasty.

How could such an army be led by a group of illiterate people, and how could it be ideally thought that this group of illiterate people were born to be loyal and patriotic? Isn't that naïve?"

"Well said!" The Emperor slapped the table again: "I don't think anyone who says this will believe it, ha! I don't believe it anyway!"

"So Your Majesty, we should establish a martial arts. Wen has a national eunuch, and Wu has a national warrior hall, this is the real atmosphere of a great country.

The Kokushikan is not only a place to exercise one's physique, but also to learn geography, the application of firearms, the command of troops at all levels, the arrangement of battle formations, military discipline and military discipline, and military morality.

The minister suggested that those who graduated from two years of study could be awarded the post general, team leader, and those who graduated from four years of study could be awarded the general, town or Sima.

In this way, after more than 10 years, the military will be able to become professional and professional, and then civilian officials will no longer dare to despise any military attaché at will, and problems can be solved quietly."

What Li Dan wanted to tell the emperor was actually a way to boil frogs in warm water. It's useless for you to be anxious now, it's better to take your time, go around and solve it from the perspective of the side, and don't have a headache or a pain in your feet.

And the emperor's meal will be eaten until the end of the hour. Zhao Tuo ate happily, and even the placket was open.

The two told each other that Li Dan talked about his suppression by his uncle and his attempt to seize the family property, and the emperor talked about how he was controlled by various disciplines, as well as how the old ministers, especially Er Yang, controlled the government when they were in power, and his cautious mentality.

"Your Majesty, don't worry," Li Dan lowered his voice and persuaded, "You have a long youth, and they are helpless if you have to fight for time.

At this time, you must stabilize your original intention, slowly support those reliable courtiers and jinshi, and there will be a day when you will be successful in the future. It's still those two sentences: everything has a solution, and we need to be cautious in governing the country."

"Good! I remember!" After Zhao Tuo finished speaking, he tilted his neck and drank another glass.

At this time, the emperor had no intention of returning to the palace, and Eunuch Liu was so anxious that he stomped his feet, but he didn't dare to go up rashly if he didn't have a will. It's Tao Niang who is smart and can see what he looks like.

At this time, Tao Niang knew that the one upstairs was not a prince, but a son today. She flashed her eyes in thought, walked over to do a good job, smiled and said, "At this hour, surely the wine in that pot is gone."

Liu Kan's eyes lit up, nodded and said, "There is Miss Lao."

Tao Niang pursed her lips and smiled, showing her head at the staircase, and asked softly, "Son, forgive the sin, the slave and maid come to ask if you need to add wine?"

A sentence reminded Li Dan, and hurriedly asked her what time it was, and hurriedly crossed her hands and said, "It's already this time, it's the minister's negligence!"

Zhao Tuo waved his hand: "The words are thorough, I am very happy today, it doesn't matter. But I should also go back, lest the Queen Mother will be remembered."

Li Dan immediately turned around and told Tao Niang: "You ask Lu Jiu to find Xianjie and Mr. Iron Knife, and let them take Gao Cang, the Duanjia brothers, and Zhou Tu, and lead twenty people to be fully armed, and drive from the car to the palace bridge

There must be no mistake in the past!"

Tao Niang agreed to go down. Eunuch Liu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and hurriedly went upstairs, first thanked Li Dan, and then went over to support the emperor. Li Dan walked two steps ahead, and was relieved to see Zhao Tuo landing.

Zhao Tuo looked up and saw a half-moon falling right in the middle of the pavilion pillars of the Moon Pavilion, and said with a smile: "Qing's small courtyard is very good, but it's a pity that the water pavilion has not yet been named." Suddenly, I felt something in my heart and asked aloud, "Do you have a pen and paper?"

Li Dan hurriedly turned upstairs, and took pen, ink and paper and spread them on the round table of slate in the garden.

He thought that the emperor was just interested in giving the water pavilion a plaque, but unexpectedly, Zhao Tuo put the paper over and wrote a pair of pairs first, but it was: Guizhi Toad Palace, a clear moon; Orange well rose, ten thousand romantic dream people!

After writing, I took a piece of paper again, and wrote the inscription: Jing Si Hall. Li Dan was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself that it was obviously a water pavilion, how could he write it as a hall? After a turn of his mind, the emperor told himself:

Although the court has been through ups and downs, I hope that Aiqing will be able to deal with changes without being surprised, it seems that you are in it, but in fact, you stick to your heart and are unwavering!

He hurriedly gathered his clothes and bowed deeply to Zhao Tuo: "Thank you for your majesty's teachings, thank you for your majesty's ink treasure!"

Zhao Tuo laughed, put down his pen and waved his hand: "I am also happy." Tonight is very happy, when Qing returns, let's enjoy the moon together. Let's go, let's go!" After speaking, he walked out with the support of Eunuch Liu.