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In the afternoon of the same day, Xue Xiang personally sent the account book to the Gao family's courtyard. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xue Xiang looked humbly asking for advice, and Chris was willing to say a few more words.

"The Queen Mother said that it is too simple to only record the flow of this account, and you also mentioned single and duplex. Xue Xiang said: "Weichen also feels that one book of accounts really can't meet the various complicated livelihoods of the Five Buddha Hall, so this account is divided into two categories. ”

Xue Xiang opened the two ledgers to show her.

Chris carefully looked at some of the entries in the records, one of which was "Cao Ding Disbursement" 500,000 taels of silver, and the other book said "Fenghui Grain Store" 700,000 quintals, and she found that the transactions of the Five Buddha Hall were quite complicated, not limited to the lending business of monetary funds, which showed that the economy of the Song Dynasty was very active.

She smiled slightly: "Your two types can only be regarded as a cash account and a physical account, and there is no connection between the two accounts, so the bookkeeping cannot fully reflect the ins and outs of all income and expenditure, and it is not convenient to verify the accounts in the end."

Xue Xiang is an expert, and when he heard what the Queen Mother said was reasonable, he suddenly became interested, and hurriedly asked: "What is the double-entry accounting method that the Queen Mother said?"

She said: "Double-entry accounting is to build at least two accounts, and the same amount is one in and one out, which is reflected in these two account books. When the time comes, the two accounts will check each other, and the problems will be apparent at once. Moreover, the two books will provide comprehensive data, and the profit and loss will be clear at a glance. ”

Although Xue Xiang was very unfamiliar with some of the modern financial words spoken by the Queen Mother, he also had a sensitive business and financial mind, and he was surprised again and again, and he never imagined that the Queen Mother was so familiar with accounting. Chris took the trouble to explain, and taught Xue Xiang the most common debit accounting method in double-entry accounting.

Xue Xiang soon came to his senses and couldn't help but be full of admiration.

"A Guide to the Conduct of Hundred Officials" said that Xue Xiang was a great dealer, especially good at business and wealth, and had no last resort, Chris saw that he understood very quickly, and he was a little more convinced of these words, so she asked a question that she really cared about: "Lord Xue, I want to hear your views on Ma Zheng." ”

As soon as he heard that the Queen Mother was going to discuss horse politics with herself, Xue Xiang couldn't wait for this opportunity, and opened his mouth and said: "The politics of the national horse has gone through five generations of immersion, until the two generations of Taizu and Taizong set up the Dragon Farm and the Flying Stable Courtyard, and the regulations have been restored gradually. In the Zhenzong period, there were fourteen horse husbandry supervisors......"

Chris interrupted him, "This time, the official family summoned you to Beijing, in addition to meeting with you about the 'planting of the people who lured the people of Hengshan', they will definitely ask you about Ma Zheng, and you will answer like this?"

"This ......" was indeed the word he had in mind, and he was going to say it when he reported to the emperor.

"Sing praises to virtue, and jump over the bridge section of the whiskers and horses. "Let me ask you, the prisons have thousands of acres of pasture, and there are many overseers and officials, but the horses raised every year are only enough for the royal family, why is it not as efficient as the one acre and two cents of land you have at the border gate?"

"The biggest problem is that the number of prisoners is redundant, and there is an extreme shortage of horse breeders. Xue Xiang said: "Today's plan should be abolished, reduced to prisons, or streamlined its capabilities." ”

"Abolish the Detention of Horses, Where Does the War Horse Come From?"

Xue Xiang said: "There is no good pasture for water and grass in the border pass, relying on nomadic herding to raise horses! Liao is a nomadic country, horses swim according to the season, where the grass grows luxuriantly and graze, and so on, the original pasture will grow new grass. In this way, there is no need to spend time, spend manpower and material resources to maintain the pasture, and secondly, the horses grow fat and strong, which is very suitable for war horses. ”

Chris said in his heart: In ancient times, the role of this horse was like an airplane cannon, and horse captivity was like national defense construction. She remembered the disadvantages of Ma Zheng mentioned by Yuwenzhi Shao Zuo, and said with a smile: "Nomadic horse households are not the main source of war horses in our Great Song Kingdom, right?"

If the border war is tight and the horses are not well grazed, the court will purchase them to make up for it. It's a pity that after the founding of the Western Xia, the overland Silk Road was blocked, except for Khotan Shang and the Song State to maintain horse trade, the Western Regions countries were shocked by the Western Xia's obscenity, and did not dare to sell horses to the Song Dynasty. This led to the emergence of a type of people mentioned in Yuwen's Shao Song's compromise - the Qiang people. For example, Tuyuhun is the Fuqiang of Wenzhou, the jurisdiction of Yuwen Zhishao, they migrate with the water and grass when they are in the habit, eat meat, wear fur, the army does not have strong armor and blades, and the skills of stabbing in battle are not as good as those of other Yi people. There are countless Qiang people like Tuyuhun in the border area, who belong to different tribes and are relatively independent. They often went to the border of the Song Dynasty, saying that they were willing to exchange good horses for the spring tea and silk in the Central Plains, and the officials at the border saw that the horses of the Qiang people were strong and spent a lot of money to buy, and these money should have funded the horse households on the border pass, they were all heavy labor, and now without this money, life is even worse. And these Qiang people are insatiable and have no faith, and if they don't agree with each other, they will change their faces, and they can kill them when they turn their heads, rob the walled cities, kill soldiers, and the people at the border are miserable.

Even so, as soon as these Qiang people came, the officials on the border pass were still greedy for small profits and easy horses, and Yuwen Zhishao bitterly rebuked this practice, believing that the Qiang people and horses should be put an end to the market, and with a brigade of soldiers, they should be placed in the forts, the Qiang people should be repulsed, and the border people should be safe.

Chris couldn't agree more. In her opinion, these Qiang people are simply terrorists, you fattened him, and he beat you in turn, how can you do such stupid things?

Xue Xiang saw that the queen mother mentioned the silk horse trade, so he said: "The city has been in ancient times, and when the Tang Dynasty was prosperous and the horse supervisor could not meet the demand, it was a good way to reduce the burden of border horse households." ”

Up to the emperor, down to the small officials, all think that when they encounter a lack of horses, they can directly take out the treasury silver to buy horses, and today listening to Xue Xiang's words, Chris is even more sure that the Song Dynasty has a tendency to be nomadic as herding, and nomadic is not as good as buying horses.

She said in her heart that the top priority of Ma Zheng now is to change the momentum of buying horses from the Qiang people and re-establish the order of fixed supervision and raising horses.

Chris said: "Lord Xue raised the idea of buying horses and raising horses, and sure enough, this method was used. Presumably in the process of changing horses with the Qiang people, you found a lot of loopholes in the imperial court system, and played a lot of side balls, I remember that there are still a lot of imperial histories to impeach you, how to say it...... 'Xue Xiang is in Shaanxi, violating the rules, and the crime is obvious. ’”

Although Chris did not explicitly say that Xue Xiang used the matter of buying horses to enrich his own pockets, his words also shocked Xue Xiang to immediately break out in a cold sweat.

Then, Chris told the disadvantages of Ma Zheng mentioned by Yuwen Zhishao, plus his own opinions.

Xue Xiang was frightened at the beginning, but the more he listened, the more he felt admiration, he had been at the border for many years, but he was not in the inner palace, and the queen mother, who had stayed at home, saw Ma Zheng thoroughly, and many details of the Qiang people and horses could not be exhausted even by herself, why did the queen mother know so clearly? And according to the queen mother, in the long run, it is really harmless to be with the Qiang people, and it is a move to destroy the Great Wall.

The two of them went back and forth and discussed again, and Xue Xiang finally stood aside and listened attentively. He felt that although the Queen Mother only used "I" to refer to herself in private, she somehow became more dignified than the title of "mourning family", which made him more afraid.

He asked cautiously: "Wechen originally wanted to suggest that the official family agreed to the request of the ......."

Xue Xiang entered Beijing because of a major incident at the border. Zhiqingjian City wanted to lure Zhu Lingling, the largest Qiang chieftain in the Hengshan area, and rewarded him with ten hectares of fertile land and a district of the mansion, and promised that the imperial court would give him an official position, hoping that he could persuade other Qiang leaders to come to the Great Song Dynasty.

Chris had already learned about this from the Northwest Military Newspaper that Lan Yuanzhen gave her, and she felt that this was another matter of seeking skin with the tiger, so she said in a firm tone: "We will never negotiate terms with the Qiang people (terrorists)!"

Xue Xiang figured out the thoughts of the Queen Mother, and suddenly felt that the Qiang people were capricious, and this time he didn't want to suggest that the emperor recruit the people of Hengshan, so he made up his mind and left.

The gears of history have changed, and the trajectory has deviated slightly.

After Xue Xiang left, Chris kept looking at the ledgers he sent, because it was a running account, she read it quickly, but there were a lot of contents, and she didn't stop until dinner. Told not to go to the hall, just put it in the wing, and she called Xiong Daiying out to eat together.

I don't know why the little uncle walked in.

This time, even the shadow guard was on the table, but he didn't say anything, and only asked Xing Yun to add a pair of chopsticks for himself.

Surprised by the change in his niece, Gao Zunhui couldn't help but wonder: Is this still the same talk he knows? But the answer has not been found, but more questions have arisen.

In her memory, she always kept a straight face, did not smile, treated the people around her with a full shelf, and was extremely indifferent; the only thing that could make her take it to heart was the deflated Yingzong. She established the Five Buddha Hall and helped him win the throne wholeheartedly, but within two years this person died. I thought she was heartbroken and disheartened to hide from the palace, but who knew that it wasn't like that at all. In the days of the other hospital, she had a good time, with a bright smile on her face at all times, and she was kind and warm to the people around her. Every dinner table has a variety of tempting foods, hooking everyone to try it. He asked himself: How did I not know that she had such a skill?

Maybe the previous "Queen Gao" was a scam she carefully concocted, Gao Zunhui thought secretly. No, not maybe. There is no doubt that I know that this niece is extremely smart and extremely cautious. No, it's not cautious, it's very good at pretending, she used to like to pretend to be serious, so she loves to expose her hypocrisy, at that time it was very simple to annoy her, and after a while, she would be impatient and roar at herself. But feng shui takes turns, and now it is she who is teasing herself. Now, in front of herself, she doesn't pretend again?

For the first time, Gao Zunhui adjusted the position of the two of them in his heart. He imagined what he would think and do if he were talking. Thinking of this, he came to a conclusion: the reason why she left the palace was because she had to do something that could not be done in the palace.

In the days that followed, he found that Talking would spend a lot of time in his study. Gao Zunhui peeked at it, she was very quiet and focused, except for flipping through books, she just picked up the pen and drew something. The way she was concentrating on her work, that special look, he had seen for the first time. Her usual expression was relaxed, but now she was so focused, as if the whole world was locked out of the study.

Once, she stopped what she was doing and suddenly raised her head, Gao Zunhui was startled, and she was caught peeping, but she just squinted and smiled, as if her peeping was completely in her expectation.

When no one was around, Gao Zunhui sneaked into the study, but saw that the blank paper was full of all kinds of strange lines.

He thought, "Tao, don't think I don't know what the hell you're up to."

Gao Zunhui took a bite of food and ate quietly, looking at Chris from time to time; Chris was eating while looking at the account book, and the two of them were safe after a meal.

After looking at it for a while, Chris moved his neck, stretched his waist, and turned his head to see the little uncle, she was surprised, "Why are you here?"

This sentence is insignificant, you obviously know that I have always been here, Gao Zunhui thought to himself: You just pretend well, I also have the qualifications to be a hunter, and I have a keen sense of smell, don't try to fool me.

Gao Zunhui didn't answer, but stared at her, as if he wanted to see through something, and said slowly: "Do you know that Xue Xiang is a villain who seeks profit and favors?"

Seeing him squint his eyes, Chris seemed to understand something, and said with a smile: "There are hundreds of people, all kinds of people, there are always people like him who invite merit and fame." Speaking of which, he is used by me, and I can give him fame and fortune, there is nothing inappropriate. Moreover, it is natural to be eclectic in accomplishing great things, and if he is good at money, I will naturally know people and make good use of it; if he is greedy for money, as long as it is not too excessive, there is nothing to blame. ”

Gao Zunhui said thoughtfully: "What do you want to do when you leave the palace?"

Chris shrugged: "Do you know the Five Buddha Hall in my hand?"

Gao Zunhui said: "Naturally know!"

"What do you think of the Five Buddha Hall?"

When Gao Zunhui heard her ask, she became serious and said, "This Five Buddha Hall is not unique to you, the Gao family already has such an ancestral system." ”

Chris only knew about the Five Buddha Hall, but he didn't know the origin, and when he saw the little uncle talking about it, he asked, "Can you please tell the little uncle in detail?"

Gao Zunhui raised his eyebrows, he didn't know the original meaning of Chris's words, thinking that he wanted to study himself, so he said: "The Gao family's livelihood has always been divided into five clans: gold, silver, copper, iron, and jade, and the gold, silver, and copper halls of your five Buddha halls are mainly operated by our Gao family clan (2). The Iron Buddha was originally the elite of the Gao family's army, and the Jade Buddha was guarding the ancestral tomb of the Gao family. When I got to you, the Iron Buddha Hall became a bunch of shadow guards, and the Jade Buddha Hall was just some important members of the court. ”

The "Golden Buddha Gao's" mainly deals in ticket numbers, pawnshops, gold stores, merchants, and Cao Yun; the "Silver Buddha Gao's" deals in grain, hardware, groceries, salt shops, and pharmacies; and the "Bronze Buddha Gao's" operates military tuns, which include farmland, water conservancy, and war preparedness. In ancient times, the army used soldiers to cultivate abandoned fields in order to obtain military provisions. Cao Cao once talked about Juntun: "The art of determining the country lies in strengthening the army and having enough food, the Qin people are eager to agriculture and the world, and filial piety is to set the Western Regions with Tuntian, which is also a good style of the ancestors." Cao Cao, who adhered to the policy of "educating soldiers in agriculture", attached great importance to the military tun, and the military tun operated by Gao Jiajun (3) was enough to surpass Cao Cao's Qingzhou army.

Gao Taotao's "Iron Buddha Hall" is the Shadow Guard Group, dedicated to protecting the Queen Mother and important members of the hall, and the most important thing of the "Five Buddha Hall" is the "Jade Buddha Hall", its members are all ministers in important positions in the imperial court, all of them are noble and powerful.

Gao Zunhui saw that she was gone, and always felt that what Tao Tao was going to do when he left the palace this time didn't seem so simple, and asked, "What are you trying to do?"

Chris saw that his expression was solemn, and he lost all the frivolity of laughing and scolding before.

Think about the past few days, he has been secretly observing himself, and in turn she is observing him.

Speaking of which, the first time Chris saw his little uncle, he sensed something from his subtle movements that were imperceptible. She smiled and said, "Why, I finally can't help it, don't pretend to be a fool?"

"You answer me!"

Chris turned to him, wanting to snatch a few more words from him, but saw his unusually deep eyes. She couldn't help laughing, she knew she shouldn't laugh at this time, but after all, it was difficult to see such a serious little uncle.

Chris stared at those eyes, which were hidden edges, and looked at them for some reason, and he didn't know why Chris remembered Eddie, despite the different personalities, Chris felt that there was some resemblance between the two of them. Born into a famous family, but trying to reject such an identity, in the end they will find that they simply cannot get rid of the bonds that flow in their blood. They are all shrewd, flexible, possessing extraordinary knowledge, and being within the system, but still free enough.

By now, Chris can conclude that Gao Zunhui is a rare talent and deserves a place on his team.

After thinking about it, Chris stood up, learned the usual tone of the little uncle, and said as he walked: "What am I trying to do? Save some money, recruit some people, I want to go north to a place." After a pause, she suddenly turned her head and said, "By the way, I want to destroy the Liao Kingdom!"

Despite her exaggerated tone, she was imposing, like a sword unsheathed.

Gao Zunhui looked at her blankly, surprised and dazed for a while, and speechless for a while.

In the end, he asked, "Are you serious?!"

Although the tone was half-joking, he said his true thoughts, Chris has not revealed the secret in his heart to others since he came to the Song Dynasty, but now he told his uncle without a trace of evasion, she said: "Seriously." ”

Gao Zunhui's expression was relieved when he heard this, he longed to become a successful general like his grandfather, and serve the monarch who planned to move the world and had lofty ambitions all his life. In that year, my grandfather and grandmother first relieved the "siege of Shouzhou" together and helped Taizu defeat the Southern Tang army; then followed Taizong's northern expedition, repeatedly defeated the Northern Han Dynasty, Northern Liao, and the three passes of Yanmen in Weizhen; when the Khitan army pressed the border, my grandfather invited Zhenzong to drive the expedition in person, and he led the men, women and children of the Gao family to pour out of the city and escort them to the expedition. In the "fierce battle of Lannan", the Song army won more with less, defeated the strong with the weak, and the battle turned sharply, forcing the Liao State to sue for peace and sign the "Lanyuan Alliance". Kerenzong started, the armament gradually galloped, the soldiers did not try for a long time, and then Mo Ti recovered the lost territory.

Now, Tao Tao said what he thought in his heart, so how could Gao Zunhui not be shocked. And he seems to be able to see his grandmother's red horse and golden knife from his niece, galloping on the battlefield. He laughed loudly: "There is no dog girl in Jiangmen! If your grandmother is still here, she will definitely praise you for being her Liu Jinding's good great-granddaughter!"

Chris originally thought that Chinese women had not had a high status since ancient times, but this was not the case with their Gao family. Gao Tao's great-grandmother Liu Jinding is a heroine who works hard with her husband. Thinking of this, she said seriously, "What? want to help me?"

"Our Gao family originated from the Gao Chongwen family of Tang Xianzong, and has been Yan Zhao Haojie for generations. Who knew that Shi Jingjiao recognized the Liao thief as the emperor, and the overlord was the commander of Sichuan at the time, but when he returned to his hometown, he found that Youzhou was occupied by the Khitans. The descendants of the Gao family never forget to reclaim the lost land and return to their homeland!" Gao Zunhui bowed deeply to Chris: "Gao Xuanji is on top, and I will do my best to assist you in the future!"

Gao Zunhui deliberately kept his head in obscurity, and now he ripped off his gorgeous disguise and became so serious, which also made Chris slightly surprised.

"Since you want to give me advice, I have something to ask you!" Chris said, "I have a friend who mentioned to me that 'being a monk' is the current disadvantage, and it is also the crux of the Great Song Dynasty's poverty and weakness. ”

Chris remembers Benjamin Franklin famously saying, "In this world, there is no escape from death and taxes." "But in the Great Song Dynasty, as long as you become a monk, you will be exempted from taxes and forced labor. In order to be listed as a monk and enjoy the privilege of tax exemption, many wealthy people often spend a lot of money to buy short-term money, and the temples and temples are so fat that they not only occupy a lot of arable land, but also run various profit-making businesses. From "breadth" to "indiscriminateness" more and more monks, the state tax revenue will be seriously lost, and when the contradictions are irreconcilable, this prompts the rulers of successive dynasties to adopt the means of "exterminating the Buddha".

Gao Zunhui said: "The monk itself is not a bad thing, it was originally only used in the construction, disaster relief, fundraising and other major national affairs, but now it has become a disadvantage of the country. ”

Chris asked, "Then why can't the degree system be abolished?"

"I don't think it's a good thing to abolish the monks. Gao Zunhui said, "This matter is a matter of benevolence and wisdom, why don't I take you to meet a friend, he may be able to change your opinion." ”

When Chris saw him selling off, he was curious, "Who is your friend?"

"Monk!" Gao Zunhui said, "the bell must be tied to the bell, and it is only appropriate for the monk to answer the questions raised by the monk." ”

To tell the truth, it was not until the 39th year of Qianlong, with the widespread implementation of "spreading the land into the mu", that the system lasted for thousands of years, and finally came to an end. Chris only read about the problem of the degree system from the newspapers, documents, and recitals, and she did not realize the objective needs and inevitability of the existence of the "degree" at this time.