Imperial Master of the Ming Dynasty

A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier. By the same token, can it be understood that a bureaucrat who doesn't want to be a prime minister is not a good bureaucrat? Of course, the Ming Dynasty no longer had the position of prime minister, but the power of the prime minister never disappeared.

The bureaucrats trained by the Ming Dynasty Administrative School through the "Three Sheds Method" must pursue this similar goal in the future.

Of course, goals must be goals, and reality must be reality. Regardless of whether one can be a high-ranking official at the prime minister level, one must at least have a basic overall concept and standard administrative decision-making thinking.

After all, there is a saying that governs a big country like cooking small dishes. Whether you are in charge of a county, a prefecture, a chief envoy or even a country, although the area under your jurisdiction is getting larger and larger, many administrative principles are the same. It remains unchanged, which is why administrative schools teach these things, because these things can be used at any level of position, whether in administration or otherwise.

"The first one, the so-called limited rational decision-making, means that as decision-makers, any person, no matter how extensive his experience or how profound his knowledge, is always in a 'limited' state, which means that there is no decision-making The person who is omniscient and omnipotent is precisely because there is no omniscient and omnipotent decision-maker, so any decision-making will more or less cause some adverse consequences. No one can make the decision-making completely perfect. We, the decision-makers, only make decisions when we make decisions. Try to get an answer that satisfies all aspects, rather than a 'perfect' answer."

"So based on bounded rational decision-making, what do you think is the problem with Cai Jing's medical support policy?"

Gao Xunzhi almost blurted out: "Cai Jing is too pursuing perfection!"

Yes, perfect.

Cai Jing has to take care of the elderly and the disabled, then provide universal medical services to the poor, and finally bury the homeless.

This kind of "both want and want" is obviously an expression of irrational decision-making.

If you want anything, it will only hurt you in the end.

The reason is also very simple. I don’t have the ability to know, right?

What was the population of the Northern Song Dynasty?

As mentioned before, more than 100 million.

In modern times, a population of 100 million is considered a truly populous country. However, even many modern powerful countries are unable to fully provide free elderly care and medical care.

As for burying homeless people and taking care of disabled people, these are things that can theoretically be accomplished with hard work.

The Northern Song Dynasty was indeed wealthy, and its fiscal revenue could be maintained at more than 60 to 70 million yuan year-round, and occasionally exceeded 100 million yuan, but no matter how wealthy the court was, it could not help Cai Jing spending such money.

A large number of social welfare institutions such as nursing homes, Anjiyuan, and Luzeyuan have been established in every province, prefecture, state, and county across the country. Although they have effectively helped many elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people, the problem is that the cost is too high. .

Although it may sound cold to say this, the fact is that administrative decisions must consider costs. This cost is not only how much money is spent now, but also how much money will continue to be spent in the future, how much manpower is invested, and all related aspects. Are the social benefits worth it?

As Sima Guang said, the wealth in the world is not here but there.

The cake is so big, and so is the imperial government's finances. Investing such huge financial funds in social support and medicine will inevitably lead to a reduction in other necessary expenditures.

How did political opponents attack Cai Jing?

"The poor people in the world have enough food and warm clothes, but the soldiers in the army are starved of food."

"Don't care about the living, only care about the dead."

Seeing that everyone in the audience had come to their senses, Jiang Xinghuo nodded slightly and said, "So do you understand? Administrative decision-making is not like a child grabbing candies. It rarely results in 'I want them all' and I can grab them all. As Gao Taichang said, There have to be trade-offs.”

At this time, a teacher asked: "Then Cai Jing doesn't understand this principle when making decisions?"

"Of course Cai Jing understands. He is already the prime minister. How can he not understand?"

Jiang Xinghuo smiled and said: "It's just that his starting point for making administrative decisions is wrong. It's called serving others, but it's all for himself."

"In the fifth year of Yuanfeng (1082), the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, Cai Jing was a direct bachelor from Longtuge, the third rank. It took him 18 years to go from the third rank to the third rank, and he was promoted to full rank in the third year of Emperor Zhezong of the Song Dynasty. Unfortunately, the good times for the third-grade Hanlin bachelor did not last long. At that time, his efforts of more than thirty years since entering the official career were in vain. He was attacked by political enemies. He was first demoted from a Hanlin bachelor to a direct bachelor of Longtuge, and then to the prefect of Taiyuan and Jiangning. Later, he was demoted to the prefect of Taiyuan and Jiangning. He was immediately removed from all official positions and placed in Hangzhou."

This period of history is little known. After all, no one cares about how a traitorous minister turned from a normal official to a traitorous minister.

But obviously, it took Cai Jing eighteen years to climb even half a level. As soon as he climbed up, he was beaten to the bottom. It is human nature to have a slight change in mentality. After enlightenment in Longchang in Hangzhou, Cai Jing has probably become a black man.

——My heart is dark, what can I say?

Two years later, Cai Jing, who licked Huizong of the Song Dynasty, came out again. In that year, he directly declared Ma to worship the prime minister, and was promoted to the right servant of Shangshu and his servant, commonly known as the right prime minister. The next year, he was directly promoted to the left prime minister, achieving the goal of being under one person. dream.

"The reason why Cai Jing made the administrative decision to support medicine was not because his younger brother was Wang Anshi's son-in-law and he therefore inherited Wang Anshi's reform ideals. The essential reason was because Song Huizong had just ascended the throne and was still in a period of forge ahead. , and admired his father Song Shenzong's Xining Reform very much, and his brother Song Zhezong's Shaosheng Shaoshu, so he used the reign name "Chongning", which means worshiping Xining's reform. Cai Jing's reform was mainly based on the name "Chongning". Education and economics are the two main aspects. In the education aspect, arithmetic, medicine, martial arts, and law are added; in the economic aspect, changes are made to the salt law, tea law, banknote law, and water transportation."

Well, the more I talk about it, the more it sounds like Ming Dynasty.

Jiang Xinghuo changed the topic: "Of course, a gentleman does not care about his heart when judging his deeds. When evaluating whether Cai Jing is a traitor, we cannot subjectively conclude that all his administrative decisions were made because he wanted to please Song Huizong. What is more important is to evaluate objectively. the practical effects of his executive decisions.”

"Second, the so-called gradual decision-making is a decision in which decision-makers adopt a gradual approach to modify existing policies and gradually achieve decision-making goals. In other words, seek change while maintaining stability."

Gao Xunzhi looked at the lesson plan carefully. If bounded rational decision-making is still relatively elementary, then incremental decision-making is obviously a step further. In the lesson plan, the requirements for progressive decision-making are as follows: focus on policies that are slightly different or limited from existing policies. Policies that are different in approach, rather than re-evaluating decisions; do not insist that the solution to administrative problems must be correct, but only seek to be effective and feasible; the purpose is to solve existing problems, not create bigger problems.

Obviously, Cai Jing went all the other way.

"For example, if the imperial court intervenes in a pharmacy, what should we do if we adopt gradual decision-making?"

Jiang Xinghuo said calmly: "First of all, as policymakers, we must consider whether there are existing and feasible policies as a reference, which is the basis for improving decision-making, right? Was there any at that time?"

"In the Northern Song Dynasty, commerce was the focus of national taxation and the four people were the national policy. To destroy the operation of folk medicine was actually to destroy the foundation. I have said this in Ming Pao before. Rather than reforming the law, if it was believed that the supply of the market was controlled by private industrial and commercial operators, the Northern Song Dynasty court would directly intervene in the operation and compete with the people for profits. Cai Jing's idea is actually of the same origin and is incorrect. Therefore, the Northern Song Dynasty imperial court would directly intervene in the operation of pharmacies. , in fact, fundamentally speaking, all the policy cases referred to have failed.”

"Then let's look at the second point. What does it mean to 'not insist that the solution to administrative problems must be correct, but only seek to be effective and feasible'? Why is it possible for Sang Hongyang to run the salt and iron official operation? Because the salt and iron official operation not only makes money, but also has interest margins It’s huge, and the imperial court can get a steady stream of profits if it invests in it. And when the Northern Song Dynasty imperial court personally ran the pharmacy, how was it better than the private sector?”

"The third point is to solve problems instead of creating bigger ones. The follow-up results of Cai Jing Jiyang Medicine are also written in history books. It is not just official history books, but also recorded in folk notes, miscellaneous talks, and local chronicles. It is sufficient to prove that the actual situation at that time was that the medicinal materials in the pharmacies operated by the Northern Song Dynasty court, which were lower than the market price, did not provide any benefit to the poor. Instead, they were misappropriated by the officials in charge of the pharmacies, and they were sold for personal gain. We even directly rented the entire store to Guiqi's Home at a price close to that of giving it away."

After a series of questions, Jiang Xinghuo concluded.

“There are no feasible policy cases as a reference, and they do not insist that the policy is effective and feasible. In the end, it creates even bigger problems. If considered from the three feasibility dimensions of progressive decision-making, Cai Jing’s Jiyang Medicine is undoubtedly an all-round failure. of."

"So, Cai Jing shouldn't use Jiyang Medicine at all?"

Jiang Xinghuo did not directly answer yes or no, but motioned for everyone to continue reading the lesson plan.

"Hybrid scanning decision-making model: If the bounded rational decision-making model is a microscope that strives to make detailed observations of the entire space, and the progressive decision-making model is a magnifying glass that only makes a general observation of familiar areas, then the former is more accurate but more costly. The latter is less expensive to use but not accurate enough. The hybrid scanning decision-making model requires the use of a microscope and a magnifying glass at the same time, which requires both multi-angle observation of the space and detailed observation of certain parts, both comprehensive and comprehensive. Point."

Gao Xunzhi asked: "Isn't this the kind of child that the Imperial Master calls "I want them all" when faced with candies?"

"If that's not the case, if you make a rough estimate using mathematics, there is the so-called 'Eight-Eight Law'." Jiang Xinghuo shook his head and said slowly.

"Two out of ten are key policies, which require decision-makers from the court or local governments to invest more manpower and material resources to use bounded rational decision-making methods, and then pursue a 'satisfactory' policy answer as much as possible; while eight out of ten are As a non-key policy, we only refer to and modify successful policy cases in the past, and save manpower and material resources as much as possible to 'use' this policy answer to solve the problem."

At some point, the hall became silent. At this time, Jiang Xinghuo, who was immersed in the state, discovered that there were several auditors at the door.

It was the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi and San Yang from the cabinet. Hu Guang didn't come, so he was probably left behind as a left-behind child.

Zhu Gaochi took the lead in saluting, and Sanyang also saluted. Then Zhu Gaochi asked:

"According to the opinion of the Imperial Master, if the Ming Dynasty wants to resume the practice of relief medicine, how should the decision be made?"

When everyone in the hall saw the eldest prince, they also saluted.

Although he didn't know why the other party came, Jiang Xinghuo motioned to the other party to sit down first before talking.

"I just said that based on the '28 rule' and historical policy cases, Jiyang Medicine does not belong to the policy type suitable for bounded rational decision-making. That is to say, although from the bottom of my heart, I want to realize all the benefits immediately The people of the Ming Dynasty can all realize relief medicine, but as policymakers, we should know that under the current background of the times, this is impossible to achieve. If our Ming court insists on forcibly intervening, the result will probably be The reappearance of Cai Jing Medicine.”

The three Yangs in the cabinet exchanged glances with each other and all got the same answer.

As an individual, every person with a little conscience hopes to realize such a peaceful and prosperous age. However, as a policy maker, the reality is that the national finance does not allow it, because this requires continuous huge investment and almost no benefits. Given the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, Judging from the fragile state treasury, which is based on land tax on official land as the main source of fiscal revenue, it is definitely impossible to do it, and there is no possibility at all.

"But not being able to do your best or be satisfied doesn't mean you don't do anything."

Jiang Xinghuo raised his fingers and tapped on the table.

"Since historical policy cases have proven that Wang Anshi and Cai Jing's market change method, that is, the court's direct intervention in the market of a certain industry, is not feasible, is there any other way?"

"My answer is yes."

There is a blackboard and chalk in the lecture hall. The blackboard is a layer of black paint applied to the wooden board, and the chalk is limestone and plaster. As long as Jiang Xinghuo wants it, with the resources he can deploy now, he can have as many of these little hand-made things as he wants. , but it’s just not as easy to use as modern products.

Jiang Xinghuo wrote two categories on the blackboard: "Advance towards the North" and "Retreat from the North".

"Wang Anshi's Market Change Law is essentially a 'Chaojin', which means advocating the 'Great Court'. Through the Northern Song Dynasty court's direct intervention in a certain industry or even multiple industry markets, the Northern Song Dynasty court took the initiative to take on too many social responsibilities. Responsibility, thus causing private business to retreat."

"Is this kind of 'big court' model that manages everything good for private business in the Northern Song Dynasty?"

Cao Duan has initially touched the threshold of dialectics: "Depending on the situation."

"Yes, it depends on the situation."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded: "If the scale of private business in the Northern Song Dynasty was small and the power of the Northern Song Dynasty court was strong, then there would be no problem using this method; if the scale of private business in the Northern Song Dynasty was large, the power of the Northern Song Dynasty court was strong, and the overall planning and management capabilities of the Northern Song Dynasty court were in place, There is no problem, but the problem lies in that the scale of private business in the Northern Song Dynasty was large, the power of the imperial court in the Northern Song Dynasty was weak, and the overall calculation and management capabilities were poor. They could not even understand the accounts of their own household department, so they had to engage in market transactions. , so with such prosperous commerce in the Northern Song Dynasty and such low administrative efficiency with redundant officials in the Song Dynasty, how could it be possible?"

"In today's Ming Dynasty, I can't say whether the administrative capacity of the Ming Dynasty is stronger or weaker than that of the Northern Song Dynasty. Of course, business is not as developed as that of the Northern Song Dynasty. But no matter what, the imperial court continued to expand the scale based on the Huimin Pharmacy. , I think it’s unnecessary.”

"Then what the Imperial Master means is to retreat?"

Jiang Xinghuo smiled and said, "Can't we not advance or retreat?"

Everyone was dumbfounded, of course it was okay, just do nothing and maintain the status quo.

Jiang Xinghuo joked and said seriously: "Since the court has a visible hand, it naturally also has an invisible hand. This hand is the law of economics."

Jiang Xinghuo motioned for them to continue reading the lesson plans.

The lesson plan reads: "Everyone tries to use the capital in his hands to get the maximum value for his commercial products. Generally speaking, he does not try to improve public welfare, and he does not know how much public welfare is improved. What he pursues is only his personal happiness and personal interests, but when he does so, there will be an invisible hand guiding him to achieve another goal, and this goal is by no means what he is pursuing. But in the end The result is that, by pursuing his own interests, he often promotes the interests of society to a greater effect than he would have had if he had really intended to promote them.”

Zhu Gaochi and Sanyang didn't have any lesson plans in hand, but two discerning teachers gave up their lesson plans. The four of them had just read two lesson plans respectively.

This sentence is a bit difficult to pronounce, and it quickly aroused doubts.

"I don't quite understand, so I would like to ask the National Master to explain in detail." Yang Shiqi said.

Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong had some interactions with Jiang Xinghuo before, but this was the first time for Yang Pu to meet Jiang Xinghuo. He looked at Jiang Xinghuo with doubtful eyes.

"This statement is a bit ridiculous. Is there any invisible hand in the world? Could it be that the national master thinks that there are real gods and bodhisattvas? If everyone pursues profit, the final result will be to compete with each other, and everyone's interests will be harmed."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, and Yang Pu, and then turned his attention to Yang Pu: "Are you Yang Pu?"

Yang Pu nodded.

"I have heard that you are talented and famous. I ask you a question. Do you dare to answer it?" Jiang Xinghuo asked again.

Yang Pu frowned slightly, but finally spoke: "Why don't you dare!"

Although in the history of Jiang Xinghuo's previous life, Yang Pu in his later years had experienced overt and covert attacks and became overly cautious. At this time, Yang Pu was still a young man who was just thirty years old. He was a Jinshi in the same year as Jin Youzi and is now a Jinshi. The editor of Hanlin has entered the cabinet again. In the traditional sense, he has come to the fast lane of life, the kind of bright road. Now that the eldest prince is watching, he naturally has to show more confidence.

"Okay!" Jiang Xinghuo asked with a smile on his lips: "Let me ask you, why does Kai Zhongfa know that the purpose of the businessmen's participation is just to pursue profits, but the end result is that the imperial court benefits and the border troops have enough food and clothing."

"This" Yang Pu was speechless for a moment.

"That is to say, there are three ways to implement administrative decisions, the legal method, the economic method, and the behavioral method."

"The legal method is the method by which the court or the government implements administrative management by means of various laws and regulations; the economic method refers to the use of the 'invisible hand' of economic laws to regulate and influence the managed, and the behavioral method is Use commendations, activities and other methods to set certain conditions and incentives so that people's behavior can occur spontaneously, and then achieve policy goals."

Seeing that Yang Pu no longer questioned, Jiang Xinghuo smiled softly and continued to answer Zhu Gaochi.

"Going back to the question just now, if Ming Dynasty needs to carry out relief medicine, then it must be based on gradual decision-making, that is to say, evolve the existing policies and use the 'invisible hand' to achieve the desired effect. .”

“So what’s the existing policy?”

This has to ask how Lao Zhu formulated social welfare policies for the Ming Dynasty based on the situation of the Yuan Dynasty.

Yes, Zhu Yuanzhang has always been the one person Jiang Xinghuo can't get around. Although Lao Zhu died early, well, Lao Zhu died not too early. It should be said that Jiang Xinghuo traveled late, so the two did not touch each other. Maybe they did. Lao Zhu above didn't even bother to eavesdrop on his chattering, and directly ordered him to be knifed.

In short, Jiang Xinghuo often poked at Lao Zhu's corners.

The social pension system in the Yuan Dynasty was a "silk gift for senior citizens" system. Elderly people over eighty years old were given silk silk, and those over ninety years old were given double the number of rewards. The law of the Yuan Dynasty stipulated that if local officials met the conditions for gifting silk silk to old people, Failure to report truthfully will be punished with "forty-seven floggings and dismissal from official positions".

The social medical system inherited the half-baked Huimin Pharmacy established in the Song Dynasty. It required all Huimin Pharmacies to be promoted by various official officials, select good doctors to treat patients, and be responsible for collecting official money, business profits, and market medicine repairs. Drug, to benefit the poor. Of course, one can imagine how it will be implemented in the end.

Generally speaking, these social welfare policies of the Yuan Dynasty, including the "silk gift for the elderly" system, were quite successful, because the policy was relatively simple to operate, and officials could draw points from it. Naturally, the more you repay, the more you get, and coupled with the constraints of laws and regulations, Therefore, under the dual effects, it performed well in the early and middle periods of the Yuan Dynasty.

Lao Zhu inherited this point when Hongwu founded the country. Lao Zhu's "Edict on the Elderly Care Policy" stipulated by Lao Zhu: Any poor and propertyless person over eighty years old who is an upright person and is praised as a good person in the village will be given 5 dou of rice and meat per month. 5 pounds; the elderly are well-informed and some have high moral standards. Governments in various prefectures and counties can choose to hire elderly people to help rectify the administration of officials. Anyone who sees an official or a patient for the people can go to the court to directly remonstrate. Those who do not give up after three remonstrances can go to Report to the imperial court in Kyoto: All old and infirm people aged over eighty years old will be given Lishi; those aged over ninety years old will be given strong men, and they will be treated as equals to the county magistrates, exempting them from corvee service, etc.

In addition, for the disabled elderly, Lao Zhu inherited the nursing home policy. However, Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a farmer and he cared about the people. However, Zhu Yuanzhang was also aware of the cunning of low-level officials and took into account the actual affordability of the government. Rather than pursuing policies that were superficially bright but failed to be implemented, the conditions for adoption of asylum seekers were clearly stipulated in the Ming Dynasty Code.

"Da Ming Lv Hu Lv": For those who are widowed, lonely and seriously ill, who are poor and have no relatives to rely on, and cannot survive on their own. If the official and private officials should adopt him but do not adopt him, he will be given sixty sticks. If he should be given food and clothing, but the official will reduce it, he will be given sixty sticks. The theory of prison and self-stealing.

Generally speaking, the conditions are relatively strict. It means using good steel on the cutting edge. The limited financial allocation should try to achieve precise relief. The specific standard is 6 shi/year (the standard of the 19th year of Hongwu). By the time of Zhu Yunwen, in the first year of Jianwen, Under the influence of people like Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng, they cut off half of the number with a stroke of a pen and changed it to 3 stone meters. At the same time, they could let distant relatives take care of them, and only those who had no relatives to support could re-enter the foster care system. Jiyuan.

Well, what a little beast. He came up with the idea of ​​giving the disabled old man's rice to his distant relatives and letting them take care of him. I don't know how many old people were picked up by distant relatives who didn't know the truth or not. The almshouses used 3 shi of rice. One person's way was to get rid of the burden, and the Jianwen Dynasty's finances seemed to have been slightly improved as a result.

Therefore, it is not unjust to say that Zhu Yunwen was deprived of the world. It was similar to Chongzhen's dismantling of the post station and forcing Li Zicheng to surrender to the army, but no old man could stand up and raise an army to overthrow him.

Anyway, the Jianwen Dynasty did a lot of such immoral and smoky things. The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River had a saying: there were not many good people, they were either stupid or bad.

In terms of social medical care, Lao Zhu did not make any innovations. He also inherited the Huimin Pharmacy from the Song and Yuan Dynasties. According to the Records of Officials in the History of the Ming Dynasty: In the third year of Hongwu, the Huimin Pharmacy was established, and the government established the title. , prefectures and counties set up medical officers to provide medicine to the poor and sick. Lao Zhu set up ambassadors, deputy envoys, chiefs, and medical officers for Huimin Pharmacy. It can be regarded as establishing a complete management system, but the effect is just that.

After hearing that everyone in the cabinet briefly introduced Ming Dynasty's existing relief and medical system, Jiang Xinghuo continued.

"The laws of our ancestors cannot be abolished. It would be good if the relief system is restored to the old Hongwu system."

Well, it's okay to say this from anyone's mouth, but why is it so weird to say it from Jiang Xinghuo's mouth?

Perhaps there will be no "Schrödinger's cat" in future textbooks, only "Jiang Xinghuo's ancestral method."

"As for the medical system, I think economic laws can play a small role."

Everyone in the cabinet couldn't help but look serious. No one taught them how to be officials and make decisions before. They had to learn this kind of thing on their own. And they were brought here by the eldest prince. Unexpectedly, they got an unexpected gain. How could they Don't let them be cautious.

"The Huimin Pharmacy subsidized by the imperial court is very good, but for hundreds of years, through the Song and Yuan dynasties, and until today, the effect is not very significant. There are many reasons, but the most important thing is that after this kind of imperial administrative intervention, the effect is not very significant. As a result, private pharmacies lack the motivation to help achieve policy goals."

This sentence made Gao Xunzhi look forward to what Jiang Xinghuo's understanding of administrative decision-making was.

After all, it stands to reason that if the imperial court had the ability, it would certainly not be able to abolish the Huimin Pharmacy. Otherwise, the consequences would be very serious and would greatly increase the medical costs of poor people. Although the Huimin Pharmacy has little effect, this thing It must be true. This is a matter of the court's attitude. If Jiang Xinghuo intends to cancel it directly, then Jiang Xinghuo's intentions must be carefully considered.

"Huimin Pharmacy must be retained, and both legal and economic methods must be used."

"How to improve the medical level of the people with the method of laws and regulations? It is to collect medical books, summon famous doctors, and use the power of the imperial court to formulate a masterpiece of medical books that is more authoritative and standard, and can prescribe the right medicine according to the situation, and popularize it through cheap printing Go to every county and town, so that doctors can prescribe prescriptions based on relative standards and detailed analysis of specific conditions."

Gao Xunzhi nodded. This was the idea of ​​the Northern Song Dynasty. It was not surprising, and the effect was not necessarily particularly good, but it was definitely useful. Medical treatment was standardized.

"In terms of economy, if we want people to enjoy lower-cost medical services, we must use the idea of ​​​​combining the 'visible hand' and the 'invisible hand'. One is the 'visible hand', which is The main purpose is to make medicinal materials cheaper, which means that a series of measures are needed, such as using the power of the imperial court to establish some bases that can cultivate cheaper medicinal materials on a large scale but with basically the same efficacy. The imperial court controls these medicinal materials. The production and sales pricing will naturally have an impact on the prices in the medical market."

"Huh?"

Sanyang looked at each other, this was a path they had never imagined.

Because generally speaking, when the court wants to intervene in the market, it has always used administrative power simply and crudely. However, this method of the court not interfering with market entities and only starting from upstream raw materials has really given them a lot of experience.

Do you think it's feasible? It’s definitely feasible!

Except for some superstitious raw materials, such as the unique products of filial sons and martyrs, most of the traditional Chinese medicines are actually derived from animals and plants, and they are not that rare. This is inevitable. Yes, the rare ones have been eaten up long ago, so there is no way to use them as prescriptions to save people, and the prescriptions prescribed for poor people must not contain rare medicinal materials.

Therefore, even if the growing environment required for ordinary medicinal materials is a little special, the imperial court can still grow it on a large scale. As long as they are willing to invest, this is no problem, and it will not be difficult to recover the money in the future.

However, mastering some of the source medicinal materials, and due to large-scale planting and low labor costs, is enough to affect the market through economic means. This is much smarter than simple and crude administrative intervention. If the court feels that the price of medicinal materials on the market is high Well, the poor people can't afford it, so they can just go out and smash the market.

"The second is the 'invisible hand'. The court only needs to promote the mutual involution of the pharmaceutical industry through small subsidies in economic policies, such as encouraging and supporting the establishment of small and micro pharmacies and the sending of pharmacies doctors to the countryside. See a doctor.”

Jiang Xinghuo didn't say much, but these few simple words were like thunder, exploding in everyone's minds, making people unable to calm down for a long time.

It wasn't until Jiang Xinghuo talked for a long time and led the teachers to go through the lesson plan before get out of class was dismissed. After looking at the people leaving, Yang Pu quietly said to Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi beside him with some solemnity: "I've been hearing what you said before, I still don’t believe it, but after seeing it with my own eyes today, I believe it a bit, the ability of the national master is indeed extraordinary.”

Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi just laughed.

Jiang Xinghuo insisted that he had wiped the blackboard, and then turned to ask Zhu Gaochi, who was still sitting in the audience: "I don't know why His Highness is here today? But to see the progress of the Ming Administrative School?"

Although he asked this question, Jiang Xinghuo also knew in his heart that Zhu Gaochi should not be so boring. Even if the Ming Dynasty Administrative School was re-established, it would actually have little impact on the existing officials. As the spokesperson for the interests of the gentry class, Zhu Gaochi would not go there in person. What are you talking about here? After all, the Imperial College system has not been abolished yet. This is actually just a new small Imperial College, which will not threaten the imperial examination for many years.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Gaochi put down the lesson plan in his hand and shook his head, his fat face now full of seriousness.

"National Master, there is something wrong with Li Zhigang's case in the Third Law Department. There are always differences in the Criminal Department, and no one can get involved. I'm afraid the matter about the Salt Law must be stopped for a while."

Jiang Xinghuo's heart sank when he heard this.

The last thing that should go wrong did go wrong.

In the Third Law Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is currently under the control of Chen Ying's lackeys. Chen Ying, who is adhering to Zhu Di's will, will not jump out to object; and Chen Qia, the minister of Dali Temple, has now been transferred to Guangxi to supervise food and salary. Those who have memories of Annan’s events should remember that “Today’s army is going to attack the Hu (Li) thieves, and the food and salary will be shared. The Ministry of Finance has been ordered to allocate 200,000 dan in advance, and Chen Qia, the minister of Dali Temple, has been ordered to escort them and go to Guangxi to discuss military affairs. As soon as the army arrives, by the way, "Go forward, and I will order the local soldiers to accompany the army to save their luck." The remaining deputies were in a submissive manner, and they did not want to cause trouble and take the blame.

The Ministry of Punishment is quite special. Although Zheng Ci, the Minister of Punishment, likes to lick the emperor, as a professional department, the Ministry of Punishment has a very serious tendency to clique within the system. Ma Jing, the left minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and Li Qing, the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment, have a strong say in the Ministry of Punishment.

"Who is against the acquittal of Li Zhigang?"

"Ma Jing and Li Qing are both opposed."