"Yes! That's the truth! If you want to do big things, you have to concentrate your efforts and power! The court must have absolute authority." Geng Xiaofan concluded.

"It's a pity that Brother Ao is not that material." Yang A sighed.

"Yang, don't think so much. Now that things have come to this, we can only take one step at a time. Mencius said that if you are poor, you can benefit yourself, and if you are rich, you can help the world. You first get Yonsei back, and live a good life first.

Only then can you worry about other things.”

"You're living a clear life! You apply the principles of life to being an official!" Yang A understood what Geng Xiaofan meant.

"To be an official, you must first be a good person. If you are a good person, you will be a good official."

"Hey, you really should explain these principles to those courtiers who are just sitting there doing nothing. If everyone is like you, how can the government be so unbearable?"

"The truth is very simple, but it is difficult to do. I think most courtiers understand this truth, but they can't do it. It's not that they don't want to, but that they have no choice. This is the system, the system, and the rules are limiting.

With."

"The system and rules are not dead. They can be changed. Wouldn't it be better if they were changed? What's so difficult about it?"

"Yang A, I can't explain it to you at the moment. Systems and rules are not something that can be changed randomly. They must be linked to the situation..." Geng Xiaofan was scratching his head. He didn't know how to speak concisely and concisely.

Di and Yang'a explain it clearly.

Yang A also looked confused.

"To put it simply, economy is the foundation. Take your family as an example, how much money you have and how much harvest you have, you can do a lot of things. If your harvest is good, the management of your servants can be looser, so that they can

Be happy and motivated. If the harvest is not good, you have to set stricter rules to ensure that no trouble occurs. Do you understand?"

Geng Xiaofan almost showed off his political economics studies.

"Economy is the foundation? I seem to have heard someone say this!" Yang A seemed to understand, but suddenly became interested in Geng Xiaofan's words.

Geng Xiaofan chuckled. At this time, no one else but Wang Jingyan could say such a thing.

"Okay! Don't worry about this." Geng Xiaofan looked at the time and it was almost time. He was about to end his "teaching" with Yang A. He had to go home and prepare for the New Year.

"Send a message to Yonsei, tell him not to hold on and come back early. Everyone's harvest is not good this year. I will consciously save food in the second half of the year and reduce the output of the brewery. If you don't have enough food, go to the brewery.

"La, at least don't let the bankers go hungry." Geng Xiaofan confessed and stood up to leave.

"It turns out that the reduction in production in the workshop is not because of the lack of grain, but because you did it on purpose!" Seeing that Geng Xiaofan was about to leave, Yang A grabbed him again.

"Things are rare and valuable! It's hard to harvest food, so I can't save some." Geng Xiaofan felt that this principle was too simple and did not need to be explained.

"You can do it without wine, but you can't do it without food! I have to ask the court to issue a ban on alcohol. We can't let all the precious food be used to make wine!" Yang A frowned and began to make plans.

"There's something wrong with you! You're not cutting off your own money!" Geng Xiaofan was startled. Ever since the autumn grain harvest failed, he had been worried that the imperial court would issue a ban on alcohol. Unexpectedly, the imperial court did not ban alcohol, but Yang A had to suggest it.

"You can't disregard the life and death of the people for your own selfish interests!" Yang Ah said plausibly.

"My dear princess! It has nothing to do with making wine or not, at least it doesn't matter much! Even if a ban on alcohol is issued, the people who should have no food to eat still don't have food to eat. Moreover, if you ban alcohol regardless of everything, maybe the people will have no food.

eat!"

"You are talking nonsense. You have banned alcohol and saved food. How can you have no food to eat?" Yang A felt that Geng Xiaofan was still thinking about his own brewery.

Geng Xiaofan sighed. It seemed that he wouldn't be able to leave for a while. He still had to popularize "market economy" to Yang A.

"Yang A, the price of grain can only determine the cost of wine making, not the price of wine. If the grain harvest is poor, it will naturally be more expensive. If the cost of wine is high, the price will go up. When wine is expensive, many people will

If you have to consider whether you can afford to drink, you will buy less. If the wine cannot be sold, the price will naturally drop until the wine making workshop becomes unprofitable, and naturally no one will make wine. Naturally, there will be more food on the market.

The price will also come down. This is the law of the market, which is much stronger than your forced pricing."

"On the other hand, if you ban alcohol, there will be less alcohol on the market, and the price of alcohol will inevitably rise. It is inevitable that some people will hoard alcohol and food, and the price of food will skyrocket, and the people will have no food to eat."

Geng Xiaofan patiently explained for a long time.

"I don't understand! But every time there was a disaster in the past, the court would ban alcohol!" Yang Ah found it difficult to understand Geng Xiaofan's theory.

"Every time alcohol is banned, does the price of alcohol increase several times? The price of food also increases? You have money and food, but you don't feel it. It's the common people who suffer."

"Forget it, I don't care!" Yang A thought about it and it seemed to be the same.

The next day, Yang A went to Changxin Palace, hoping to get her husband back as soon as possible. She was afraid that she would need the support of the Queen Mother.

Unexpectedly, Brother Ao was also there, accompanying the Queen Mother and listening to Wang Mang talk about the ban on alcohol!

I had this plan, but I didn't expect that Geng Xiaofan persuaded me yesterday, and now Wang Mang was the first to bring it up.

Wang Mang seemed to be fully prepared and talked about the benefits of prohibiting alcohol. Even the Queen Mother could not help but nod her head.

After Wang Mang finished speaking, he looked at Yang A carefully. He seemed a little timid and hesitantly wanted to explain to Yang A. If the court really wants to issue a ban on alcohol, it is not necessarily certain whether others will suffer losses, but Yang A will definitely suffer losses.

"You don't have to look at me! The prohibition is really as you said, it has all the benefits and no harm. I am the first to take the lead in supporting it. Moreover, my winery has already started to reduce production in the second half of the year." Yang A looked at Wang Mang.

At first glance, his tone was calm.

"However, even if alcohol is banned and the grain is not used to make wine, can you ensure that the people can eat food?" Yang A asked rhetorically.

"Haha, the imperial court also banned alcohol in the early years, but the Ai family didn't think it had much effect. It seems Yang A has some ideas!" Seeing Yang A's calm tone, the Queen Mother knew that she must have some ideas.

"Queen Mother, I don't have much opinion, but I happened to be chatting with Lord Geng about this topic yesterday. What he said seems to make sense." Yang A was not prepared to bury Geng Xiaofan.

"What did he think?" The Queen Mother was interested.

"I don't quite understand what he said. However, the general meaning is that if alcohol is banned, the price of alcohol will rise, and food will also rise accordingly. People still may not have food to eat." Yang A replied.

"How is that possible! If we no longer use grain to make wine, there will naturally be more of it. If there is more, it will naturally be cheaper." Wang Mang retorted carefully.
Chapter completed!