In the Song Dynasty, there was no law or order.

In the following time, to Zhao Jun's surprise, the children did not have the thought that the universe was so vast and the world was so beautiful, and that they would study hard in the future and go out to see the vast world.

Instead, they kept chasing Zhao Jun and asking what the solar system was and how big the universe was. They were curious babies, just like when Zhao Jun was a child watching "100,000 Whys".

The children's enthusiasm gave Zhao Jun a headache. It is definitely a good thing to love learning, but his main focus is still on regular courses such as Chinese, mathematics and foreign languages. He cannot focus all on extracurricular knowledge, so when he gives formal lectures, he certainly cannot talk about astronomy every day.

However, the good news is that Zhao Jun remembers that when he was in elementary and junior high school, the school put a lot of scientific magazines. The mountain village primary school did not have such conditions. Although there were donated books, he had long considered that there were too many people and too little porridge, and Nini Village Primary School might not have books, so he brought some himself.

While briefly explaining the relationship between the sun and the earth and the moon, he told everyone that when the formal class starts, he will distribute the books and magazines he brought to everyone and popularize the scientific knowledge of the universe.

While Zhao Jun was explaining the science of the universe to everyone through the computer video in the room, Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian had already come out.

"I didn't expect that the world is so vast."

Zhao Zhen sighed, looked up at the sky, and said unconsciously: "I don't know why, when I think of the infinite time and world of the vast universe, I feel that life is meaningless. Even if the emperors and generals have power over the world, they are just a speck of dust in the universe, and there will be an end."

"Your Majesty, don't belittle yourself. Didn't Zhao Jun say that? People in later generations have long known the vastness of the world, but they still work hard to learn knowledge, just to one day, go deep into the universe, explore the universe, and understand the universe."

Lu Yijian patiently persuaded: "Although we are just a speck of dust in the world, thousands of dust particles gathered together can burst out infinite power, which is what Zhao Jun wants to express."

Wang Zeng also said: "Yes, Your Majesty, life is only once, Confucius said that if you hear the truth in the morning, you can die in the evening. Now we have learned about the way of heaven from Zhao Jun. Although the road is far away, we should at least pursue this Long road, and make efforts. Not only should life have pursuit and meaning, but also to lay the foundation for future generations. "

"According to Zhao Jun, the future world is full of technology, which is all because of the changes made by people through their own efforts. We are just walking at the forefront of the long river of history. If we are not willing to work hard, how can future generations explore the wider starry sky? "

Yan Shu walked out of the room and happened to hear Zhao Zhen's slightly self-destructive words, so he walked over and said seriously: "Official, Zhao Jun told me before that the reason why people are people is because we have wisdom and complex emotions. It is for this reason that we can achieve some impossible things through the power of ants. Life is limited and knowledge is unlimited. You must not follow the unlimited with the limited, but you can't abandon the knowledge because of the unlimited. "

"Well. "

Zhao Zhen was persuaded by them, and nodded and said: "I naturally know these truths, but I can't help but sigh for a while. "

It's still talking about the world inside.

Outside, Zhao Zhen and others listened for a while and were about to go to court.

Whether Zhao Jun was giving a lecture or talking about history, they didn't necessarily listen all the time.

Because Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan would record everything Zhao Jun said and compile it into a book, and then everyone would sit together to analyze it afterwards.

Even if Zhao Zhen had the identity of "Wazamuguo", he would rather stay less with Zhao Jun.

First, the state affairs were busy.

Second, staying here for a long time would easily cause high blood pressure.

Soon, before dawn, the emperor and the three ministers and three counselors all went to court. Today, Fan Zhongyan stayed with Zhao Jun to take notes. Yan Shu finally had some free time and went to court with everyone.

In the morning court, ministers from all walks of life entered the hall one after another. A hundred people stood in the Chuigong Hall and bowed to Zhao Zhen. After that, everyone reported to the emperor.

Although the land area of ​​the Song Dynasty was not as large as that of the Tang and Han Dynasties, the population was larger than that of the Tang and Han Dynasties. There were about 12 million households and 26 million male adults. Including women and children, the population was estimated to be about 60 million in the early days of Renzong's reign and about 100 million in the late years of his reign.

Because of this, Bao Zheng boasted that Renzong's prosperous era was "since the Three Dynasties, across Tang and Han, there has never been such a prosperous era as today." This means that even the prosperous eras of Zhenguan and Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty and Wen, Jing, Ming and Zhang in the Han Dynasty could not compare to the prosperous era of Renzong now.

With a large population, there are naturally many things to do. Disasters in various places, people's livelihood governance, impeachment of officials, major events in prefectures, etc., will be presented one by one and handed over to the emperor of the Song Dynasty and civil and military ministers for discussion in the Political Affairs Hall.

However, Zhao Zhen usually just looked at it, and the specific handling method was assisted by the prime minister, the privy envoy and the three officials. After the solution was approved by Zhao Zhen, the Hanlin Academy of Scholars drafted an edict, so that the government affairs were completed, and the actual workload was not particularly large.

So in general, the early morning parliament is basically a place where various yamen report their work to the emperor and submit solutions. If the work is done well and the solution is good, and the emperor agrees, then the decree will naturally be issued.

Most of today's government affairs were quickly handled. At this time, Quan Zhi and Sun Gai of the Bachelor's College stood up and said: "Guan family, after seeing the reuse of Qian Law and Sticking Law, tea merchants from all over the country boycotted, and there were voices of opposition from both the government and the public. There is an endless stream of people. Do we still need to discuss this matter? "

Li Zhen, the minister of the Privy Council, lowered his head, with a bitter smile on his face. Then he walked out of the queue tremblingly with an old look and cupped his hands and said: "In the official family, I am old and frail and can no longer serve the country. Please beg for my remains."

"Zhongxun Gong!"

Zhao Zhen frowned and looked at him, then turned around and asked Cheng Lin, the third commander: "Isn't this impossible?"

Cheng Lin shook her head and said, "I'm afraid the court will spend too much money after seeing the Qian law."

"this"

Zhao Zhen rubbed his temples, then waved his hands and said: "Gong Zhongxun is less than sixty years old. It is the time to serve the country and the people. How can we abandon the country now? No!"

"minister"

"Okay, let me put this aside for now and let me think about it carefully."

"yes."

Li Zhen retreated sadly.

Zhao Zhen couldn't help but feel a little depressed, but he cheered up and continued to deal with government affairs.

Soon all the political affairs accumulated yesterday were completed. In the morning, all the officials dispersed and went back to their respective offices.

Originally, Lu Yijian and other three ministers and three ministers were supposed to return to their respective offices, but now they all left with Zhao Zhen.

The ministers are all used to it. The officials and several prime ministers have been mysterious and secretive recently. They stay in the palace every day and cannot come out. Even if they ask those close to them, they can't find out the reason, which is very confusing.

After the dispersion of the dynasty, Zhao Zhen did not go directly to the Houyuan, but held a meeting with several prime ministers in the back hall of Chuigong Hall.

"Nowadays, the imperial court's annual expenses are very high. In addition to the harm of three redundancies, the border defense military expenditures are excessive. In addition, Zhao Yuanhao is rampant and has repeatedly provoked border troubles. The border troops cannot live without food."

Zhao Zhen was sitting on the Grand Master's chair in the back hall, looking at the three ministers and three ministers below, and said: "However, the false estimates of the Jiaoyin method are getting higher and higher. Businessmen came to Subian County to count tea, rhinoceros elephants, and money for the false and true three blessings." , paid fourteen cents, and got three divisions and one hundred cents, more than six or seven times. The armies of sixteen states along the Hebei border bought grain and grass in five years from the ninth year of Tiansheng to the end of the second year of Jingyou, and wasted five hundred and sixty-six dollars. More than 180,000 strings."

Lu Yijian and others below looked solemn.

The annual military expenditure of the Song Dynasty was as high as 40 to 50 million guan, of which the majority was occupied by the Xiang army, imperial army and rural army from various places, while the expenditure of the border army was only more than 10 million guan.

Because the Song Dynasty did not restrain land annexation, there were many landless refugees, and those who rebelled were like crucian carp crossing the river.

In order to appease the rebels, the court could only recruit and support them.

Not only are they supporting these refugees, the number of registered troops in the army currently exceeds 1.2 million, including 800,000 forbidden troops and more than 400,000 Xiang troops.

However, countless generals were living on empty pay. The imperial court had to support not only the refugees, but also the dignitaries who were living on empty pay.

As a result, military spending is ridiculously high.

In order to solve the problem of military expenditure, the Song Dynasty court has been thinking of ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, and the tea-sitting method was one of them.

In the first year of Tiansheng's reign, the imperial court adopted Li Shen's suggestion and adopted the method of seeing money to deal with the problem of false valuation.

Only one year after the new law was implemented, the revenue from the capital's cargo services increased by more than 1.04 million guan, the border horses and grass increased by 11.69 million guan, and the military rations increased by more than 2.13 million guan.

However, the expenditure on tea, incense and Southeast Minqian decreased by 1.71 million yuan, and the total increased income and saved expenditure amounted to more than 6.5 million yuan.

It can be said that this is a good way to benefit the country and the people.

Unfortunately, because it harmed the interests of tea merchants and a large number of corrupt officials, there was too much opposition and it had to be cancelled.

Now that there is going to be another war on the northwest border, the imperial court is afraid that it will not be able to bear the expenditure and is preparing to restart the tea law.

But restarting the tea law meant that there were countless objections from both the government and the public. Even Zhao Zhen had to weigh the pressure from the big tea merchants, which made him very difficult.

Cai Qi hesitated for a moment, then said: "Officials, the money-seeking method is indeed a good idea in the long run, but the court also has its own difficulties. This method will suddenly empty the national treasury, and there are also constant voices of opposition from the Third Division. ”

Zhao Zhen sighed: "Oh, can't it be done? Zhao Yuanhao's rebellion is a foregone conclusion, and war will break out in the northwest. If the border troops are so consumed, can the treasury still be able to maintain it?"

"This tea method is also caused by three redundancies and the treasury is empty. It is not caused by one day and one night, but by various things added together."

Wang Zeng said: "Now the Song Dynasty is like a patient who is seriously ill. The disease comes like a mountain and disappears like a thread. It is impossible to cure it with strong medicine. We can only slow down step by step."

"Your Majesty, if you are in doubt, ask Zhao Jun?"

Yan Shu put forward his opinion.

"Zhao Jun?"

Zhao Zhen teased: "What good ideas can he have?"

"It's not a bad thing to ask."

Lu Yijian also agreed.

"Well."

Zhao Zhen stood up and said, "Let's go to the back garden."

Everyone went to the back garden.

At this time, Zhao Jun had already completed his first lesson for the students.

We didn’t teach formal Chinese, mathematics, etc., but we did teach a lot about popular science.

But this is something Zhao Jun is happy to see happen.

Because cultivating students' view of scientific history will help them understand mathematics, physics and chemistry.

The most important thing for students in mountain villages is to pass the exam. If they cannot be full of desire for the vast outside world, then studying hard will not have much effect.

When Zhao Zhen and others arrived, Fan Zhongyan had already taken everyone away.

The children could not go home during this period and could only stay in the back garden. Before Zhao Jun's eyes recovered, they came to class every day. No matter what Zhao Jun taught, they would not suffer any loss.

"Teacher Zhao, this class is taught very well."

After Yan Shu entered, he first complimented: "The parents are full of praise. Although they don't understand what you are saying, they all think you are saying it very well."

Don't understand what you are saying?

Zhao Jun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to say: "As long as the parents are satisfied, my eyes haven't recovered yet, so it's not easy to teach the regular classes. I will give the children two or three knowledge classes every day in the future. I feel that the weather seems to have improved a lot recently. Can I go out for a walk?"

Yan Shu turned his head and glanced at Zhao Zhen, and Zhao Zhen nodded. It was raining a few days ago, and he could find an excuse not to let Zhao Jun go out. The weather has been sunny in recent days, so it is definitely not good to find another excuse.

After getting Zhao Zhen's approval, Yan Shu said, "Okay, let's eat something first, and then I'll take you for a walk in the village."

"Great, thank you Uncle Lari."

Zhao Jun was very happy, and then said, "By the way, I haven't told any jokes today, Uncle Lari, do you want to listen?"

"Listen."

Yan Shu said.

"After the Battle of Gaoliang River, a man in Bianjing cursed: "Zhao Guangyi is a fool!" Soon he was tried by the Ministry of Justice, the Dali Temple, and the Kaifeng Prefecture, and sentenced him to 22 years in prison, two of which were for insulting the current emperor, and 20 years for leaking the top secrets of the Song Dynasty."

After Zhao Jun finished speaking, the whole audience was silent.

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