Not a long time, a few bushes of flowers and trees and bamboo shade to reveal a house, Bao Zheng's small servant Bao Xin stepped forward and knocked on the door to ask the house, and soon the door of the house opened, and an old servant poked his head out.

"Uncle Lao informed Master Lu that the student Bao Zheng came to visit the teacher." Bao Zheng said respectfully.

The old man hurriedly returned the salute to report, and after a while, the door of the house was opened, and he saw an old man in a green robe surrounded by two young men who came to greet him.

"Lord Bao is here, the old man is disrespectful, disrespectful, and atonement." The old man bowed and sang loudly.

Bao Zheng hurriedly replied: "Why did the teacher say this, this can kill Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng made a special trip to visit the teacher, it was purely a private visit, and it had nothing to do with official affairs." ”

The old man smiled, his eyes moved to Su Jin behind Bao Zheng, and he was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Isn't this a big celebrity in Luzhou City, a small official in Su Ji?" How can you come to the old and decrepit cottage today, this is a slack. ”

Su Jin clasped his fists and saluted: "Hello Lord Lu, Su Jin is disturbed." ”

Bao Zheng looked at the two suspiciously: "You turned out to be acquainted?" After that, he looked at Su Jin with some displeasure.

Su Jin knew that he had misunderstood himself, and he obviously knew Master Tixue, but he told Bao Zheng that he didn't know him, and asked him to bring an introduction to him, which was to use Bao Zheng's face, and at the same time, his words were untrue; Hurriedly explained: "I really didn't know that Lord Tixue was my Su Ji patron, just now I met and I knew that it turned out that Tixue was my Su Ji's first custom skirt patron, Luzhou City is too small, I didn't think that this could also be met." ”

Lu Tixue laughed and said: "Where don't we meet at the end of the world, let alone in this small Luzhou city, speaking of which, I earned five taels of silver ingots from Su Xiaoguan that day." ”

Bao Zheng was confused, watching the two talk happily, a little confused, Su Jin then told Su Ji Caitai about the clothes in detail, when it came to using the lottery method to attract customers to order, and the winner of the jackpot was the master of the school, Bao Zhengle laughed.

"I didn't expect that my teacher would go to such an occasion to join in the fun, Su Gongzi also has a lot of ideas, and he actually uses such a method to attract customers, shrewd!"

"That day, I walked around the street with a few little friends, but I saw Su Xiaoguan set up a color platform in front of the City God Temple, and the old man didn't like that kind of occasion, but he was attracted by the poetry and song and dance, and Su Xiaoguan's trading methods were whimsical, so he fell into the middle of the house unconsciously, and by the way, he helped the old wife of the family to order one." Lord Lu twisted his beard and laughed.

Su Jin blushed and said with a smile: "Carving insect skills, but I didn't know that Lord Tixue was present that day, otherwise I would dare to accept your money." ”

Lu Dadao: "Are you saying that the old man is a corrupt official who bullies people and buys things without giving money?" ”

Su Jin was stunned, and Bao Zheng and Lord Lu looked at each other and laughed.

The three of them entered the courtyard, but saw that the small courtyard was elegant and quiet, several old banyan trees in the west stretched out a large shaded area, rows of stone benches and stone tables were placed under the banyan trees, and several people dressed as scholars were sitting upright and talking.

Bao Zheng said with a smile: "The teacher is still the same, I like to be with these young talents, and they are also the same as the students back then, they came to the teacher's mansion to study the scriptures." ”

Lord Lu smiled: "Yes, the old decay is useless, I can only hope to recommend some good talents and beautiful qualities, these are students who study hard, I am here is the place where they gather here every ten days to talk about learning and experience, and the old decay has no talent to help them, only to provide a venue, so that they can come here to exchange and debate, which is also beneficial to what they have learned, and I don't want them to become nerds who study hard." ”

Su Jin secretly admired, this Lu Daren's ideas are quite advanced, students can debate their views here, discuss what they have learned, it is a kind of exchange, complementarity and promote the role of integration, good reading is not to seek understanding is a common problem of ancient scholars, this kind of gathering and discussion is definitely conducive to emancipating the mind and divergent thinking.

Just thinking about it, I suddenly heard Bao Zheng say: "Why doesn't the teacher set up a venue in the school so that the students can communicate freely?" ”

Lord Lu laughed and said: "Although the school is nominally in charge of me, it is not a place for casual discussion, young people speak radically, often talking about the former dynasty or the sage's remarks are easy to be extreme, the speaker has no intention of listening, some words will be mistaken for insinuation, easy to cause trouble, I do this is also a last resort." ”

Bao Zheng nodded silently, what Master Lu said was vague, but Su Jin could also hear it, it must be a non-pure land in the school, maybe Zhu Shiyong planted the professor's eyeliner, as long as there are any radical words, I am afraid that it will reach Zhu Shiyong's ears in minutes; There have always been people who have relied on Luo Weaving Prison as the capital for official promotion, and the Song Dynasty is probably no exception.

The three of them walked to the stone table under the banyan tree, and heard from a distance what the students were discussing fiercely, and a young man on the side was about to step forward to stop, but Bao Zheng waved his hand to signal him not to step forward, stopped and listened, Su Jin also listened carefully when he saw this, but saw a thin scholar in blue who was speaking generously.

"Song Zijing's 'three redundancies' are really as insightful as a torch, pointing directly to the drawbacks; the 'three fees' are also discerned and analyzed, among them: 'Soldiers are based on food, food is based on goods, and the sage is also a tool in the day. Today, there is no accumulation of years in the left Tibet, there is no three-year-old millet in Taicang, and there is still a shortage of copper smelting. Chengping is like this, it has withered from itself, and the good reason is taken from it and used excessively. The imperial court has three redundant and three small expenses to trap the wealth of the world. The wealth is poor, and if you want to prosper the teacher, you have no plan. You can go to three redundant and save three fees, and you can sit back and relax. These words are true to the heart, and you can see the truth, and I am especially impressed by them. ”

Su Jin didn't understand what he heard, and turned his face to look at Bao Zheng and Lord Lu, but saw that the two were smiling, and his expression was quite pleased.

Another scholar refuted: "Brother Songhe seems to highly respect the theory of these three redundancies and three fees, but I don't know why Song Zijing has been neglecting the past few years, why are the disadvantages of these three redundancies and three fees still obvious?" If Brother Songhe highly respects the elimination of this drawback, but why is he enterprising in his studies and wants to be a member of the redundant officials, wouldn't he stab his own shield with his own spear, victory is also a king, and defeat is also a king, this is a confused account. ”

Su Jin slightly understood, the word three redundancy Su Jin knows, the later Chinese department is not learned in vain, just heard a little ignorant, think about it carefully, 'memories come to mind'.

The three redundant is a kind of generalization of the bloated and expensive institutions put forward by the emperor of the Song Dynasty in this dynasty, and the redundancy is redundant.

The so-called three redundancies are redundant soldiers, redundant officials, and redundant expenses; simply put, there are too many redundant soldiers, too many redundant officers, and too many redundant funds, which directly leads to the tight finances of the DPRK, and there is no surplus in military expenditures and financial expenditures in various localities.

At that time, Song Qi made this suggestion because he was worried that there would be no surplus in the era of peace, and in case of war or famine, where would the imperial court come. Funding to support it; And now that the dispute between the Northwest and the Xia Dynasty has been at war for nearly three years, there is indeed an unsustainable situation, which shows that Song Qi still has a vision.

For Song Qi, Su Jin was not impressed by him, but as a Chinese college student, the sentence 'red apricot branch spring trouble' was enough to make him remember that there was such a person in the Song Dynasty, but he didn't expect to live in this era and have such insight.

At this moment, the blue-robed scholar on the opposite side said again: "Brother Zhibai, as extreme as you, how do you know the intention of Song Gong's words, saying redundant officials and abolishing the imperial examination are two different things, in order not to increase the number of officials and abolish the imperial examination, it is to break the thoughts of scholars all over the world, that is afraid of toothache and swallow dates, it is a completely stupid move, eradicating redundant officials is to let talented people in their places, mediocre people go back to their hometowns, the so-called capable people go up and down the mediocre, this is the most reasonable; If I am fortunate enough to be an official, I will be conscientious and good at governance, if I become a redundant official, I will not eliminate the decree of the imperial court, and invite myself to go to the official farm. ”

Su Jin nodded secretly when he heard this, especially Su Jin, who was deeply impressed by this little blue-clothed scholar, if such words were put forward in later generations, they would be regarded as false slogans, and there was such a scholar in the Song Dynasty who could say such a thing, it was really a kind of advanced consciousness, and there seemed to be something called 'democracy' in it.

Su Jindu thought so, Bao Zheng and Lord Lu were almost shocked, Bao Zheng glanced at Lord Lu with some concern, Lord Lu smiled bitterly and shook his head, because these words are easy to be used by others as a means of attack, under the mediocre, what is the mediocre? The three redundancies have not been solved so far, isn't it that the entire court is incompetent and mediocre? If these words are used, I am afraid that there will be a lot of trouble.

The scholar named Zhibai who refuted with him just sneered, but did not say anything to fight back, and Master Lu hurriedly ordered a young scholar next to him to stop, and asked these students to come to see Bao Zheng to eliminate the more taboo words that might arise.