"Others brought gunpowder recipes and three hundred Tang poems when they traveled back in time. Why did I bring a hard drive full of social science papers?"
Lin Xiao, a master's student specializing in institutional economics, accidentally transformed into a down-and-out scholar who lived in Zhenguan three years while staying up late to catch up on his thesis.
Faced with the coming locust plague, the threat of Turks, and the inefficient bureaucracy of the Tang Dynasty, he took out a sharp weapon that changed the times:
"Zhenguan Five-Year Development Plan Version 1.0", "Performance Assessment Plan for Three Provinces and Six Departments", "Chang'an Urban Transportation Optimization White Paper"...
So——
He used SWOT analysis to make the Turkic envoys doubt his life in court;
Adapting "The Analects" into the first rap song in the Tang Dynasty set off a trend in the Imperial College;
Using the principles of behavioral economics to increase the efficiency of Wei Zheng's advice by 300%;
He even opened "the first psychological consultation room in the Tang Dynasty" in Pingkangfang.
Li Shimin looked at the increasingly full treasury, the brand-new court, and the group of courtiers who clamored about "optimizing processes" and "improving user experience" all day long, and fell into deep thought:
"Lin Aiqing, your 'Zhenguan characteristic modernization', is it... Compliant?"
And the general's daughter, who always discussed "hot air balloon aerodynamics" with him late at night, raised her eyebrows and asked:
"Dr. Lin, when will you add 'marry me' to your KPIs?"
Reader comments
To new friends:
If you are tired of the same routine of copying poems and making guns, look forward to a more "brain-burning" intellectual confrontation;
If you are curious about what kind of story "sociology + history" can collide, and want to see how "economic principles" can kill everyone in the court;
So, why not stop and give it a try. This is not only a novel, but also a thought experiment. Welcome to Datang, which is reopened with "social science thinking".
To those who have accompanied me along the way:
Thank you for your daily updates, paragraphs and chapters. Your applause for "using game theory to break the situation", your ridicule of "social investigation methods", and even your impatience for the emotional line (laughing), are the most real echoes when I type every word.
Very nice and worth reading.
A wonderful book worth reading and recommended to everyone.
To new friends: If you are tired of the same routine of copying poems and making guns, look forward to a more "brain-burning" intellectual confrontation; If you are curious about what kind of story "sociology + history" can collide, and want to see how "economic principles" can kill everyone in the court; So, why not stop and give it a try. This is not only a novel, but also a thought experiment. Welcome to Datang, which is reopened with "social science thinking". To those who have accompanied me along the way: Thank you for your daily updates, paragraphs and chapters. Your applause for "using game theory to break the situation", your ridicule of "social investigation methods", and even your impatience for the emotional line (laughing), are the most real echoes when I type every word.
Very nice and worth reading.
A wonderful book worth reading and recommended to everyone.