A new book by a newcomer, no system and no harem. An economics graduate student travels to the Northern Song Dynasty on the eve of Wang Anshi's reform.
He thought he was here to save the common people. It turned out that the common people paid no less taxes, the officials' account books were perfect, and the treasury money was indeed saved, but the dock coolies who carried the rice bowl were detained in the river.
He ran to tell Wang Anshi: There was nothing wrong with the Jun method, but there were hundreds of hands stretching out on the conveyor belt that transferred grain from farmers' pockets to the court's pockets.
Wang Anshi said: Go find it.
He rummaged through the three accounting rooms and found that every account was balanced. It is as flat as the water surface of the Bian River, with undercurrents underneath.
He began to understand: The most difficult thing about reform is not to come up with a good solution, but to get hundreds of people with different ideas to be willing to work according to the same solution.
——Let's see how a time traveler can find the crack that changes the Song Dynasty outside the ledger.
