Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 154 Unexpected Recommendation

Zhang Yaozuo told Li Buqi what happened today, but Mr. Huang clapped his hands and said, "Isn't this better? Li Buqi said these things in front of the officials today, and I think no scholar-bureaucrats would listen to them. At the time when the time was set Let’s just say that the deeper the rift between Li Buqi and the scholar-bureaucrats, the more beneficial it will be to the officials. If Li Buqi is so flamboyant, isn’t our plan a little less than half?”

Zhang Yaozuo said: "But Li Buqi lost his Jinshi title, so it was difficult to recommend him for the position."

Master Huang smiled and said, "At the beginning, it was said that during the provincial examination, someone wanted to slander Li Buqi. Isn't this result better than Li Buqi being deposed?"

"Oh, that's true." Zhang Yaozuo nodded, but still said a little annoyed: "But if he doesn't do this, he can be recommended. Now that he has lost his reputation as a Jinshi, he just wants to conscript him." When he came out to be an official, he had to find a suitable excuse, presumably someone would object, and he could only start as a small official. So when will he be able to get into the center?"

Mr. Huang said: "Excuses are easy to find. Isn't Li Buqi good at making money? Since the taxation is not enough for the country, it is better to recommend him to manage money in the third division. It is difficult for others to object. If you make a mistake, you will have a civilian resume, and then play by ear, as long as Li Buqi is not allowed to become a military officer. If Li Buqi becomes a military officer, it will be of little use."

Zhang Yaozuo stroked his beard and thought for a while: "That's right, advancing to the third department is also a way. Now that's the only way."

Master Huang also reminded: "The officials should hand over the recommended memorial book as soon as possible. Since the officials value Li Buqi, they may soon enlist him, so we must guard against the tampering of the ministers."

Zhang Yaozuo nodded again and again: "The old man will write the memorial now." After speaking, he shook his head and sighed again.

At this time, the senior officials of the Song Dynasty each had five places to recommend people to be officials. They recommended people, and the emperor would generally approve them.However, the recommender is responsible for the recommendee. If the recommendee commits any crimes, the recommender must also bear the responsibility and be punished by demotion.

Therefore, Zhang Yaozuo had to make Li Buqi an official for the Zhang family's century-old wealth, and he had to be a civil servant, and he had to become a high-ranking official as soon as possible. Will Li Buqi do anything to make him lose his official position?

Can others recommend Li Buqi?It is still possible for others, but it is difficult to recommend Li Buqi.The vast majority of civil servants with the right to recommend see Li Buqi as an outlier, so how could it be possible to recommend Li Buqi?Even if recommended, he must be a military officer.The nobles can recommend Li Buqi when the emperor orders them to recommend someone who can lead troops, but that can only be a military officer.If Li Buqi became a military officer, his role in Zhang Yaozuo's plan would be much smaller.

Therefore, Zhang Yaozuo had no choice but to personally recommend Li Buqi even if he was heartbroken.

The next day, after Zhang Yaozuo sent the recommended chapter to Tongjin Yintai Division, he returned to the duty room and was looking through the newly arrived mansion newspaper. Buqi posted a post outside the Imperial College, asking several questions about finances, to see if anyone could answer them. As a result, many people were watching there.”

Zhang Yaozuo quickly asked: "What are the problems?"

The clerk held the paper in his arms and handed it over: "I heard people say that it was related to my third department, and the minister and deputy envoy needed to pay attention to it, so I sent two clerks to copy it, and the deputy envoy please read it. "

Zhang Yaozuo praised the little official by saying that he would read the copied posts carefully when he stepped down, and told a story at the beginning.

The story tells that when there was a flood, a rich man fled to a highland with gold on his shoulders. On this highland, there was also a farmer who fled here with a dozen cooking cakes.The flood never receded, and the rich were blinded by hunger, so they had to buy bread from the peasants to satisfy their hunger.At the beginning, the farmer refused to buy a pancake for a tael of gold. Later, the rich gradually increased to use all the gold to buy a pancake, but the farmer still refused.In the end, when the flood receded, the rich had starved to death, and all the gold went to the farmers.

Diverted from this story, Li Buqi asked what money is, and is it still money when you can’t buy things?Sometimes the same money can buy a bucket of rice, but sometimes not a liter of rice, so how is the value of money determined?
Then Li Buqi asked, sometimes an expensive copper coin and a cheap iron coin can buy the same thing, does it mean that the copper coin and the iron coin have the same value?In the past, sometimes the government could write a few words on a piece of cloth and use it as money. So can anything be used as money?

There are still many problems behind.For example, the population of Li Buqiwen continued to grow, and the Song Dynasty had to produce an astonishing amount of grain every year, and cloth to support these people.Some people say that there are countless wealth in the world, so how much wealth is there, and will it be used up one day?
Zhang Yaozuo frowned more and more.If someone had asked him these questions before today, he thought he could have answered clearly and logically by citing scriptures, but Li Buqi’s post put forward phenomena and questions together, and he found that the conclusions he drew from the book could not explain these at all. Phenomenon.

How could this be?Zhang Yaozuo felt that his head was a little big.

The emperor will surely know that Li Buqi posted a post outside the Imperial College soon.This is all about financial planning. If the emperor has any doubts, he must ask the third division. Who told you that the third division is in charge of financial planning?
Zhang Yaozuo felt that it was strange that the emperor didn't ask. Isn't the emperor curious about the questions that the three divisions couldn't answer?Moreover, these issues of Li Buqi are actually related to the country's financial affairs, and the emperor should also care about them for his own world.

He felt a headache when he thought that he couldn't answer when the emperor asked.However, it is better for Li Buqi to announce the problem than to poke the emperor directly, and he can still have time to prepare.He hastily summoned his subordinates and old officials to come to discuss, but the public says the public is right, the mother-in-law says the woman is right, and everyone has a reason, but everyone will be found out by others, and the debate will go to the scattered yamen. The issue was not discussed clearly.

As a result, the officials of the Third Division, who became excited after the dismissal of the Yamen, moved the debate venue to the teahouse and restaurant to continue their work.It's just that they found that people in these places were debating the same thing.

"Ah, don't give up, your question is indeed interesting. At first glance, these questions are not difficult, but there are always problems in answering them no matter what. I discussed with the steward and accountant at home all afternoon, but I couldn't answer a single question. You tell me what the answer is, and I promise not to say it." Cao Yu didn't even bother to drink tea, staring at Li Buqi and asking.

Li Buqi wanted to induce Song people to discover economic laws by themselves, so he wrote these questions for them to study. Of course, he couldn't say that he already knew the answers, so he spread his hands and said innocently: "If I have the answers, I will pay you back." Why are you making such a big fuss? It’s because I can’t come up with the answers that I put up a list to seek talents. I think there are so many cases in the capital now, there must be someone who can answer these questions, right?”

Cao Bi asked, "Since you don't have an answer, if someone answers, how do you know if his answer is correct?"

Li Buqi said: "You can debate it. Uncle Guo has read "Salt and Iron Theory", right? Sang Hongyang and those virtuous literatures did not come to a conclusion in the end, but they made some enlightenments, which will benefit future generations. That's it."

Uncle Cao Guo nodded and said, "That makes sense. You asked so many questions, but you can borrow the proceeds to make a book in the future, which is definitely better than "On Salt and Iron."

Li Buqi is not humble: "I hope so."

Cao Guojiu again showed that he was well-informed: "Just now I heard a piece of news about you. Do you know that Concubine Zhang's uncle, the deputy envoy of the Third Division, Zhang Yaozuo, handed over this chapter and recommended you to be the judge of the Third Division."

Li Buqi was really surprised: "There is such a thing?"

Li Buqi has no friendship with Zhang Yaozuo.Moreover, although Zhang Yaozuo is considered a relative because his niece is a concubine, he has climbed up the rank of civil servants step by step anyway, and he is regarded as an orthodox civil servant. How could such a person suddenly think of recommending Li Buqi?

If you don't have anything to show your courtesy, you can either rape or steal.Be careful with this.

(End of this chapter)