Ye Xingyuan and Tang Shiyan had a glimpse of the literary meeting sponsored by Mu Million, leaving an unfathomable and heavenly article, which continued to ferment for several days.

Few of the scholars present studied economics intensively, and few understood it, but it did not mean that all the people in the world could not understand it. Besides, if you don't understand it, you naturally have to ask others for advice, so it has the effect of passing on ten to hundred.

As a result, this seemingly inexplicable article became inexplicably popular in Jiangzhou, the provincial capital of Dinghu Province. Ye Xingyuan's article still pays more attention to simple explanations, but it is just a little complicated, in the eyes of those who care, I only feel that I am still unfinished, and I can't wait to scratch my ears and cheeks for the following.

As Ye Xingyuan expected, his reputation did not spread outside, but Tang Shiyan had many more miraculous legends. After all, Tang Shiyan is also a well-known talent, and he was also popular in the provincial capital many years ago, and this time he made a comeback, and everyone thought he was here to find a scene.

The gossip is endless, and some people pretend to know the inside story very well and say, "Tang Shiyan returned to his hometown angrily back then, and when he came back after six years, he must avenge the revenge of the year!

This argument was echoed by many people, "Tang Shiyan doesn't know what adventures he has gotten, and he must want to make a big comeback this comeback." Otherwise, he can take action in person at the literary meeting, so why let a young ghostwriter be in the limelight? This shows that Tang Shiyan has a lot of ambition and disdains to compete in the literary meeting!"

Some people even say that Tang Shiyan met the immortal on the river to give the five-color pen, which suddenly opened up and made great progress in learning, and this time he came to the provincial capital to get out of the breath of the year.

These words reached Li Xin's ears, making him even more breathless, but also a little uneasy. Since Ye Xingyuan and Tang Shiyan left that day, the Peach Blossom Wenhui has barely opened, but it can only be regarded as a hasty matter.

After that, Mu Million personally opened his mouth and asked for the article written by Ye Xingyuan by name, as for Li Xin's works. Didn't ask a word. This is not a good sign! Li Xin's enthusiasm cooled down for a while, and after that, he hated Tang Shiyan even more.

With the gradual circulation of the article, more and more people came to visit Tang Shiyan in the guild hall, and for a time it was called a door.

However, it is different from the people he has been dating in the past. The people who visited this time are no longer talented people from all walks of life, but middle-aged people who are old in scheming, and even most of them are masters or staff members under officials.

They knocked on the side, trying to pry something more out of Tang Shiyan's mouth. Tang Shiyan can be regarded as tense. The answers are vague and clear, and no one has found anything wrong in the past few days, but it has been miserable.

Ye Xingyuan's "Rent Release" can be called a small matter, talking about small things about land rent, but it implies a certain righteousness beyond ordinary people's thoughts.

Tang Shiyan has also read it several times, and even asked shamelessly, and repeatedly asked Ye Xingyuan for advice, and he can faintly understand it. That's why he's barely able to handle the delicate characters.

But when it comes to the deeper meaning contained in the article, Tang Shiyan still seems to understand it, and if he wants to extend this topic outward and talk about others, it will never be.

Therefore, in the face of studious people from all walks of life who come to seek the truth, Tang Shiyan can only put on a shelf and pretend to be confused to deal with the past, but God knows how long he can deal with it. If you don't talk about it deeply, you may be perfunctory in the past, but once you are questioned for a long time, you are afraid that you will always show your feet.

So Tang Shiyan was sweet and painful. In private, he also complained a few words: "Brother Xian, how can you write such a difficult article, if it goes on like this, the foolish brother may not be able to hold on." ”

Ye Xingyuan also hurt very much, he didn't expect it to develop to such an extent. Sure enough, the provincial capital is not as good as the prefecture and county, and there are many people who know how to do it. As long as there is a slight hint of grandeur, others will surround you.

Now it seems that the main reason is that this article reveals some new economic ideas, which has aroused the interest of many practical officials in the provincial capital. Sure enough, the Chinese people are pragmatic, and Ye Xingyuan wrote a big article before. Neither metaphysics nor moral cultivation has ever made such a big wave.

And this article on land rent, in fact, is just a beginning, slightly opening a window to today's dull way of finance and taxation. Some people with keen eyes noticed that if this situation continued, Tang Shiyan would be valued by the entire provincial shogunate, and even his reputation would be moved in Beijing, but I am afraid that it would be a matter of time.

However, what made Ye Xingyuan more fortunate was that he was mentally prepared from the beginning to put Tang Shiyan in front, otherwise he would be the one who was annoyed now.

Tang Shiyan is a veteran talent, and he has no old grudges with the high-level people in the provincial capital, he is nothing more than stepping on a figure of Li Xin's level. He is famous, even if some people are red-eyed, they will never think otherwise.

And Ye Xingyuan is different, he is too young, and he has offended people in the officialdom of the provincial capital, if he still doesn't know how to restrain and swagger through the market, maybe there will be unforeseen disasters.

"It's really strange, this article doesn't seem like the words of a sage, why are people in the officialdom alarmed?" Tang Shiyan didn't quite understand the doorway, and couldn't help muttering a few times.

Ye Xingyuan smiled and didn't explain too much, because he couldn't explain Tang Shiyan at all. This article is actually about a new economic model that no longer considers the opposition between landlords and tenant farmers, but puts land rent into the market, which is a new perspective for government officials.

If you dig deeper, you can even make fundamental changes to the current tax system of the imperial court, and even affect the economic foundation of the entire empire.

Ye Xingyuan himself has read history books, so he naturally knows that over the past dynasties, the tax and land rent have changed a lot. From the previous rent modulation, to a whip law in this dynasty, and then the officials and gentry paid grain as a whole, and apportioned into the mu, in fact, the evolution of taxation was not much different from the world he had experienced.

However, no matter what kind of tax system, it has always avoided the fundamental ownership of land, and the double standard of land rent and land endowment has also made tenants and landlords at a loss.

What standard should the imperial court use to collect land taxes? What standard should the landlords use to collect land rent? The ideal "never increase the tax" and "support the people at low rent" are moral expositions, which actually have no guiding significance for the economy of the entire empire, and in the later period, with the aggravation of land annexation and the pressure of internal and external difficulties, the tax will only get higher and higher, and finally lead to the outbreak of sharp contradictions.

In fact, in recent years, this has happened in Dinghu Province. If the wind and rain are smooth, it is fine, but in the year when the vitality of heaven and earth is insufficient, the local disaster will occur, and there will be displaced people in all directions, uprooting their hometowns, just because they can't survive.

Officials in the provincial capital are anxious about this, so they turn a blind eye to trivial matters in places like Guiyang County. It is not without reason that the tough policy of the monster Zhou Zhixian has been supported by the province.

Although Ye Xingyuan's article has not yet touched on the specific method of land rent, the principle he described is extraordinary, it is instructive, and may be able to solve today's current affairs problems at a higher level.

These long-established staff members have such a vision that they can see that they are great talents at a glance, so they do not avoid suspicion and come to discuss and study one after another.

Ye Xingyuan figured out this truth, and knew that it was also in line with the development of Tang Shiyan, so he smiled and said: "Why should the seniors worry, this economic policy has been carefully described to the seniors, and the difficulties are not fully understood by the predecessors. But coping with a few days is not a problem.

If others ask, you just gossip about it, if it is really the law of governance, it will not be done in a day, and the seniors can discuss it with me before making plans. ”

This is not Ye Xingyuan's self-righteousness, economic ideas are also slowly accumulated, and it may take hundreds of years to accumulate a little results. Although the intelligence of scholars in today's world is not bad, and they have the support of heavenly and spiritual power, they are more able to think deeply, but it is easy to understand the articles he writes, but it still takes time to master them deeply.

Tang Shiyan said with a sad face: "For the time being, it can only be like this, now it is difficult to ride a tiger, and my heart is difficult to settle!"

Ye Xingyuan said with a smile: "Although the predecessors are at ease to be the great talent in Gao Wolong, people want to invite you, you can put up more shelves." When you understand the thirteen articles of my "Original Wealth", this fake will also become true. ”

Pushed Tang Shiyan up, Ye Xingyuan couldn't ignore it, he thought about it a little in the past few days, listed thirteen texts, and collected them as "Yuan Fu", so that Tang Shiyan was familiar with it. When I didn't see the guests at night, I taught it carefully, and now Tang Shiyan has read the second article, and he has a lot of experience.

Tang Shiyan shook his head and said: "The people of the world are now raising their heads, saying that my old Tang is an immortal, and I have to teach the book of heaven before I can raise my eyebrows, who knows that the book of heaven of the old Tang is a gift from you?

As soon as he saw the thirteen chapters of "Yuan Fu", Tang Shiyan completely threw himself into Ye Xingyuan's five bodies, and could only think that he was born to know. Therefore, he didn't care about saying some strange things to Ye Xingyuan.

While the two were talking and laughing, the shopkeeper of the hall came in happily again, "Tang Xianggong, this time it's terrible, Master Jin ordered someone to send a post, saying that he wanted to come to see Tang Xianggong in person!"

Master Jin? Master Tang was stunned, he thought of a person's name in his mind, but he couldn't believe it, and asked: "Don't you want to scare me, is Master Jin Jin the close confidant Jin Wuhuan by the side of Fantai?"

"How can there be a second Master Jin?" the shopkeeper clapped his hands and laughed. He didn't expect Tang Shiyan to bloom in an old tree, and he would regain his reputation in the provincial capital in a few days, it seemed that he was more noble than the low-key Ye Xingyuan, fortunately, he didn't neglect this master too much before.

The shopkeeper urged again: "Master Jin sent someone to say that he will be there in a while, and the little one will ask Tang Xianggong to change his clothes first." ”

Jin Wuhuan's identity is different from those before him, after all, he is a close confidant of the political envoy, and it is said that he has been with the side of the fan for ten years, which can be said to be a long-standing eunuch, and his status in this provincial city is extremely high, and everyone has to give him a little thin face.

Tang Shiyan was flattered, and was about to listen to the shopkeeper's words to change clothes and meet people, but Ye Xingyuan suddenly stretched out his hand to stop him, and said with a smile: "Senior, have you forgotten again? Now that you are a great sage, how can you be so unreserved? Listen to my words, you will go out with me to play in the mountains and rivers today, leave a word for Master Jin, and say goodbye in the future." ”

Ye Xingyuan said in his heart that he was really going to move at this time, since this was the case, it was better to play bigger, and simply push Tang Shiyan up completely. Besides, Tang Shiyan is still lacking in heat, so it is better to hide for a few days and then study in depth. (To be continued.) )