Seeing that he couldn't answer, Yu Wenrong smiled and said: "I think that when the heavy snow first fell, the court should have made a judgment early and opened the warehouse to release grain as soon as possible to provide food and clothing for the people..."
"What if the snow is not heavy? What if the people can support themselves?" Another person stood up, and it was Yang Jiong who had been known as a child prodigy since he was a child.
"Is the snow not heavy? If the snow is not heavy, the court can take back the grain after the ice and snow melt. As for whether the people can support themselves, from my point of view, this will not affect the court's grain distribution." Yu Wenrong glanced at Yang. Jiong said.
Li Hong listened to the discussion of these people outside. Yang Jiong and Wang Bo were both in this school. Both of them also had some idealistic feelings. Their talents in poetry and poetry are astonishing, but the pedantic and overly idealistic views of literati have also begun to appear in them at this time.
"There is no possibility of taking back the food distributed by the imperial court. If we do this, the people's joy will be in vain, and the imperial court will just go through the motions? Give more and give less? How long will the heavy snow fall? Who knows? This is all God's arrangement, not Yuwen's. What brother said can be resolved." Wang Bo and Yang Jiong liked each other. They often discussed poetry together in the past two years and established a good friendship.
"Li Hong has met sir." Li Hong listened in amusement at the door. Although there were no substantive suggestions on the matter discussed, Yu Wenrong's suggestions were the prototype of a necessary mechanism.
Just like when General Manager Cheng Zhijie conquered the Western Turks, Wang Wendu was jealous of Su Dingfang's military achievements and falsely passed on the imperial edict to seize military power, causing the entire army to miss the best opportunity to defeat the Western Turks. In the end, Cheng Zhijie was implicated in reducing his official position and avoiding death. Wang Wendu was also executed after returning to the court.
Taking this incident as an example can only prove that this is not anyone's fault, but that the existing system is not sound enough. During the course of the war, the imperial edict was passed to the deputy general manager instead of the general manager. joke.
"See His Highness the Crown Prince." More than fifty people in the room hurriedly stood up and saluted.
Li Hong waved his hand, then smiled and sat down on another chair next to Shangguan Yi, looked at Yu Wenrong and asked, "Keep talking, I want to hear your final solution."
"Yes, Your Highness the Crown Prince." Yu Wenrong bowed and saluted, and continued: "After saying this, my point of view has basically been expressed, that is, advance payment in advance, and open warehouses to store grain and deliver cloth when the heavy snow first falls. By giving firewood, we can ensure that the losses caused by the heavy snow to the people are minimized. If the snow is light and the time is short, we can completely recover some of it, or even let the people exchange it for goods."
Li Hong smiled calmly and continued to ask Yu Wenrong: "Do you still remember that when the rain first fell this year, I asked you to measure the water levels of Yong'an Canal and Longshou Canal?"
"Back to His Royal Highness, the students remembered it, and every time it rained this year, students took notes. Even in Qujiang Pond, students measured the water level after the rain." Yu Wenrong said.
Li Hong nodded, stood up from the chair, turned around and walked to the glass writing board behind him. He picked up the chalk on the edge of the writing board. After thinking for a while, he wrote seven types of writing on the writing board. Color ranking: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.
Li Hong turned around and looked at Yu Wenrong and said, "Tell me all the water levels you measured."
As Yu Wenrong reported a water level, Li Hong marked the number of the water level under a specific color. After reporting the seven water levels of different sizes, Li Hong also arranged the marked water levels in order of high and low under the seven colors. open.
Then he turned around and looked at the confused expressions of all the students. Even Shangguan Yi had a puzzled expression, not knowing what Li Hong was going to do.
Li Hong threw down the chalk in his hand, clapped his hands and said: "What we lack is not methods, but systems. Without a perfect system, no matter how feasible your methods are, no matter how smoothly you can solve people's difficulties in floods and snow disasters, Without a perfect system, everything will be in vain, because all methods will always have more difficulties than methods to implement. Only after establishing a system can we imagine. Methods can only be implemented. In the process, various weaknesses of the methods will be exposed, but as long as they are protected by a large system, everything will become simple and effective. "
After finishing speaking, Li Hong looked at everyone's thinking expressions, calmed down for a while, and then continued after everyone had digested it: "So, this is what I call the system."
Li Hong walked to the writing board again, pointed to the red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple water levels marked from low to high, pointed to the first water level and said: "Yong'an Canal, Longshou Canal, and Qujiang Pond are completely sufficient. We roughly analyze the magnitude of the rain. As the water level changes, we can correspond to which color it is under. We can also gain insight into this flood in advance and what consequences this rain will have on the people. . There is a premise, that is, which color of water level we need to use as the standard.”
"Don't understand? Confused?" Li Hong looked at them and explained: "The water level is red, so naturally there is no need for the court to help the people. As the water level rises, the colors above will also change accordingly. We use cyan as a warning line, such as When the water level reaches cyan, does it mean that the rainfall is too heavy and the people are unable to save themselves, then can the so-called rescue system for the people be activated? "
"Rainwater can still be measured by rivers, but what about snowy days? What should we do if it snows all over the sky?" No matter how much he has digested, Yu Wenrong can't wait to continue to draw more inspiration and ideas.
"Snow is the same, even simpler. A bamboo pole is enough to accomplish the task. The population of Duoji County in Guanzhong region also radiates from Chang'an and Luoyang areas. We only need to set up a bamboo pole in the open space, and the bamboo pole will grow according to the amount of snowfall. Isn't it a very clear reminder?" Li Hong blinked.
Everyone suddenly realized it, and suddenly the school was like a wasp's nest. Everyone was talking about it, and everyone started to discuss it with different opinions.
After a long time, the discussion gradually subsided, and many students' faces were filled with excitement.
At this moment, a student about fifteen or sixteen years old stood up and asked solemnly: "Your Highness, I have a question for you."
"explain."
"Everything you said needs to be based on the system you just mentioned. After thinking about it, students, even if we can measure the size of the rain and respond according to the warning line, if this system is No, aren’t we just talking on paper like Zhao Kuo?”
Liang Xiaoren's question is very sharp, pointing directly to the most important link, which is who will promote it. If the court does not promote it, all of this will be of no help.
The whole school could hear the needle drop. Li Hong's face did not show the fearful anger in the students' hearts. Instead, he gave Liang Xiaoren a thumbs up as a sign of approval. Then he paced back and forth in the middle of the school and said slowly: "The system is a system." On the other hand, the time it takes for the court to establish a system is not like ours. Just discussion is enough to implement it. Are you sure that your ideas have matured after the discussion just now? "
Yu Wenrong stood up and said: "Back to Your Highness, if the system you mentioned can be established, the short discussion we just had will be enough to cope with annual famines, so that people will no longer have to leave their homes and become homeless due to famines."
Li Hong walked up to Yu Wenrong, and a bad smile gradually appeared at the corner of his mouth. This smile was so familiar. No matter it was Yu Wenrong, Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, or just Liang Xiaoren, they all felt a chill down their backs at the same time. Could it be that he What's missing
"I have always warned you that the height determines the comprehensiveness of your view of the problem, and the perspective determines the correctness of your implementation methods. Unfortunately, you still have not met my standards. You will leave Chongwen Hall in one year. You are If you are the first group of students to enter Chongwen Hall, you will lose face in the East Palace. No matter who of you prepares for the Imperial Examination after leaving Chongwen Hall, you will choose me to provide you with it. "No, I won't ask you for the position. It doesn't meet the requirements." The evil smile on Li Hong's lips grew louder and he walked to Shangguan Yi again.
Shangguan Yi also looked puzzled. These students had already considered it very carefully. Why was the prince still not satisfied
"I dare to ask the prince, their ministers feel that they have considered everything, why are you still not satisfied?" Shangguan Yi asked not as a gentleman at this moment, but as a minister.
It obviously shows that he is also quite concerned about the issue of how the people will survive the famine, so he asked it as a minister.
"A small bamboo pole and a curved river can let you clearly see the size of floods and snow disasters, but do you really think that a natural disaster is just a matter of people being homeless due to lack of food and clothing? Rain and heavy snow are all over the sky and roads are blocked. How can you How to deliver these to the people? How to ensure that the people have enough money to spend after the disaster? Where will the relief personnel come from? Come on, where will all the food and clothing come from? What will happen to the people after they are homeless? What about the people who are affected by floods and snow disasters? What about the young children, women, the elderly, and those with limited mobility? ?”
Li Hong glanced at everyone and continued slowly: "No matter what kind of natural disaster it is, if we want to fight it with manpower, what we have to do is like dealing with a severe war. Sometimes it is even more time-consuming and time-consuming than a war." There will be more force, casualties! This is not just something that can be solved by food and clothing, there are many problems that need to be solved. But thank you very much for this hypothesis, Mr. Shangguan, I decided to treat this as this one. After a month, I couldn’t come up with a feasible plan, so I stood outside Jiafu Gate for two hours with a sign that read, “I am an idiot.”
Looking at the silence below, obviously willing to accept this fresh topic, Li Hong's evil smile gradually faded away, and he said again: "We are not afraid that there will be problems, but we are afraid that we will not notice where the problems are? You are sitting here. There are those who specialize in poetry, and those who specialize in pharmacology, and there are those like Yu Wenrong and Liang Xiaoren who have been staring at the Daming Palace under construction with bright eyes. But are you sure you can stand alone? The Daming Palace will give you two a wall. With the knowledge you have learned now, I don’t think you can stand safely under that wall.”
(End of chapter)