It's already late February in a blink of an eye.

Several spring rains that are as expensive as oil not only moisturize the large plains on both sides of the Yellow River, but also the temperature rises rapidly, making people feel much more comfortable.

Because of the death of Emperor Zhezong, Wu Haogu's work plan was also disrupted. He was supposed to go to Jiehe to take office, but he still has no house in Kaifeng Prefecture. He stayed in Kaifeng Prefecture mainly to handle "private affairs" for Zhao Ji, which are all very private matters, such as women, money, calligraphy and painting.

After arranging "ultrasound" women for Zhao Ji and selling some low-quality collections, Zhao Ji's private money was less than 30,000 yuan, which was no longer a big sum in Kaifeng Prefecture. However, Wu Haogu also had to help Zhao Ji seriously operate it.

After discussing with Pan Xiao'an and Gao Qiu, he took out two or three pieces of tea (Wu Haogu took out three thousand), raised 100,000 pieces, and opened a Yuntai business. He asked Hua Manshan to be the shopkeeper, and then transferred several managers from the Pan family to Haizhou together. He was preparing to acquire the tea field located on Yuntai Mountain at a high price before tea picking this year. After the collection, he invited a group of tea-making craftsmen to make the best "Dragon and Phoenix Tea Cakes" and delivered to Kaifeng Prefecture, and strive to produce the title of tribute tea as soon as possible.

In addition, Yuntaixing will also acquire some land near the seaside in Qushan County, and begin to build mansions and towns there, preparing to welcome demoted officials from all over the country (referring to the establishment and resettlement officials) to arrive.

By the way, the Republic of Wuhaogu Holdings is now working on the same construction in the joint stocks of Qushan County and Ji Yi’s family’s commercial bank, which is on the land where Pan Qiaolian’s dowry, so the joint venture (named Donghaixing, the shopkeeper is Ji Yi’s cousin Ji Lei) and the shares of the Wu’s accounting department.

At the same time, Wu Haogu did not lose his job in Jiehe Shangshi. The Senate and Political Institute of Shangshi were established in Kaifeng Prefecture. Wu Haogu served as the chief veteran (hereinafter referred to as the head of state) and the mayor of Shangshi. Huang Zhisheng was also appointed as the director of Shangshi Construction, Lin Wancheng served as the director of Shangshi Police Police, and Zhang Xizai served as the director of Shangshi Finance and Taxation.

The three directors have already set out to the Jiehe Market, which is still an open space, with the men recruited and tens of thousands of dollars.

According to the latest plan, they will complete the preliminary land acquisition and construction of the Senate, municipal office, police patrol office, a wharf, and a group of civil servants' residences. Only after all are completed will Wu Haogu set out to go.

After arranging the above things, Wu Haogu was not only in the palace to meet the saint (actually chatting with Zhao Ji) every day, but also in the business of the Republic, accompanied his pregnant wife Pan Qiaolian, played with Ximen Qing and his son, and practiced martial arts and teleported painting skills to Zhang Zeduan and Du Wenyu.

Oh, by the way, Wu Haogu is still waiting for the Ministry of Rites to issue the exam. Although he did not take the exam, it has something to do with this exam.

Because he had already requested an imperial edict from Zhao Ji, he wanted to paint all high school Jinshi portraits, and printed their portraits in the magazine "Wenquxing", and also included their high school articles, his own poems and inscriptions.

In short, this book "Wenquxing" must be a monthly magazine that is famous in the literary world of Shilin.

Occasionally, Wu Haogu would return to his home on the banks of the Jinshui River to discuss the questions that the emperor might have when he discussed with Wu Haowen and Wu Zhongyi. These two talented men from the Wu family, who were of different ages, now seem to be full of confidence, as if they will definitely win the exam today.

"The question must be a question." Wu Haogu said with certainty, "The palace examination rarely tests theories. The officials are not great scholars, and they can't see so many high-level opinions.

During the Ministry of Rites exam, I had already passed the external current affairs policy. I saw that it was time to take the internal strategies. It was estimated that the questions in the palace exam were similar to those in the Dingmoku Department in the fourth year of Zhiping.”

The fourth year of Zhiping was the first year of Emperor Shenzong ascending the throne, and the situation was similar to that of today. Emperor Yingzong died in the first month of that year. Emperor Shenzong was also young and wanted to be a wise ruler. Therefore, he took the exam on how to make the government reach the rule of the three generations (the general meaning of the question is this).

"Big Dad, Second Brother," Wu Haogu thought for a while, and said, "Now the official family and Empress Dowager Xiang both hope to ease the dispute between the new and old parties. If they were to mention "reform" in the palace examination, "Shaoshu" would definitely not have a good ranking."

The so-called "reform" actually means reform and reform. It first appeared in the Han Dynasty. At that time, benevolence and virtue replaced severe punishment, and Confucianism replaced Legalism. Therefore, when Empress Dowager Gao was in charge of the dynasty, this word was used to describe the restoration of the old law.

"Shaoshu" means inheritance, which specifically refers to Zhezong's new law of inheriting his father Shenzong.

"Brother, it's neither 'renew' nor 'Shaoshu', so what should I do?" Wu Zhongyi asked seriously.

He was very good at taking the exam, very sure, and thought he would win. Although his beard was white, he still wanted to be a good official, so he was very interested in the court's policy.

Wu Haogu looked at his younger brother Wu Haowen, "Second brother, what do you think?"

"I think that if the peace is coming today, the court should rest with the people and compete for profit less with the people." Wu Haowen actually said the idea of ​​"more-enhancing".

It is normal for him to have this view. Although he is a Confucian scholar, he is not a landlord and Confucian scholar from the countryside, but a business scholar from Kaifeng Prefecture. Although he is not an industrial and commercial household registration, he is actually an industrial and commercial household, so his political view is still relatively biased towards the "market economy". He is naturally disgusted with Wang Anshi's new law's "state-owned franchise" that suppresses industry and commerce.

"It's right," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "but the article cannot be written like this... Empress Dowager Xiang is not Empress Dowager Gao, nor is it the late emperor today. The old and the old are used in the mixed use of the new and different theories are what they want."

"The old and the old are used together, and the different theories are mixed together?" Wu Haowen shook his head, "Isn't that inappropriate?"

Wu Haogu smiled bitterly: "It's just inappropriate... The world is too big and the situation is too complicated. You can't regard everything as Kaifeng Prefecture! So the views of the new party are desirable, and the propositions of the old party may not be all good..."

Although the business of the Song Dynasty was far more developed than in previous dynasties, it still tended to suppress business and official business. Although the official business was turned into contracting to a certain extent through "buying pounce" and "money introduction". However, officials who hoped to strengthen the official business still existed, and Wang Anshi was a representative figure. An important part of his new law was to improve the economy and increase financial income through the state's business operations.

However, most of the operating methods of these countries were not restored during Zhang Dun's reign, so the industrial and commercial economy of the Northern Song Dynasty performed well in the Zhezong Dynasty, which is also an important reason why Zhang Dun's reign was still smooth.

However, the routes of "rest with the people" and "fight for profit less with the people" are still impossible to implement. The reason is not how evil the bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty were, nor that the officials did not have the spirit of contract.

The problem lies in the Song Dynasty, which was not Kaifeng Prefecture, nor was it a city where industry and commerce gathered, such as Haizhou, Yangzhou, Mingzhou and Quanzhou, but a huge empire with 400 military prefectures and billions of civilians.

Among the billions of common people in the Song Dynasty, farmers accounted for the vast majority! Many scholars in later generations estimated that the urbanization rate of the Song Dynasty was 30% higher and the lower one was 12%, and the average was 20%. Among the 20% of urban residents, not all of them were mainly business, and many were large landlords and bureaucrats living in cities, imperial guards and their vassals. The real industrial and commercial households, even including Wu Haogu and Pan Xiao'an, whose income is from industry and commerce, accounted for at most less than 10%.

Therefore, when formulating national policies, the imperial court could not only consider the big cities where industry and commerce gathered, and ignore the vast rural areas and farmers who account for more than 80 people.

Let me mention again that the Northern Song Dynasty was no longer based on the manor economy like the Han and Tang Dynasties. It is theoretically impossible to be completely self-sufficient, so there are many landlords who also operate a little business. However, most of their income comes from industrial and commercial citizens in big cities. Fundamentally, they are still landlords who rely on tenant-rental economy (small peasant economy), so they still have to maintain the small peasant economy not being subverted by urban industry and commerce...

Well, the industry and commerce are the last, and the development will be a vicious capitalism, which is of course subversive!

Not to mention anything else, the damage to the small peasant economy by the textile industry, which developed in the primary stage of capitalism, is a complete disaster! Sheep eat people, silkworm eat people, etc., just talking about the pastoral life of "men farming, women weaving, landlords collect rent" will be overturned by the great development of urban handicraft workshops. Because "women weaving" cannot compete with handicraft workshops at all.

Once the "women weaving" is gone, the ability of tenants to bear rent and tax will be greatly reduced! The fiscal revenue of the landlord class and the feudal dynasty will also decline. Moreover, the large-scale bankruptcy of tenants and small self-cultivated farmers will also cause social turmoil, which will further break through the bottom line of the Song Dynasty.

The textile industry is only one aspect of the destructive power of capitalism. Once industry and commerce lose their restraint and develop barbaricly, it will definitely impact the basic small peasant economy of the Song Empire!

At the same time, due to the limitations of productivity, the population that industry and commerce could accommodate was limited in the early stages of capitalism.

Before the First Industrial Revolution, the bourgeois regimes in Europe only existed in free cities, urban alliances and union provinces with limited populations. In other words, economies with millions of people, and they are all outward-oriented, that is, they export destructive products in exchange for evil money.

This kind of economy with a population of up to a few million and relying on industry and commerce to accumulate wealth will certainly not formulate a national policy of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce, so it has become a breeding ground for the bourgeoisie.

As a huge economy like the Song Dynasty, with small peasant economy as the foundation, it cannot completely let go of the heavy business activities in any case, and that will definitely lead to chaos in the world!

No one is in power!
Chapter completed!