On the first day he became the number one scholar, Jiang Yu knew that he was in for something big.
It's not because there is no such person in history.
It was because he discovered that Da Song Dynasty was almost out of money.
There is a deficit of 4 million yuan in the book, which cannot be made up by "saving money". What really fills the hole is a black account called "regular money": the money collected privately by various tax cards to buy roads does not go into the national treasury, but it supports the operation of half of the imperial court.
This is a financial cancer of the Song Dynasty. Fan Zhongyan did not dare to touch him, and the civil and military officials in the court pretended not to see it.
But Jiangyu dared.
He studied history, and he knew that if this disease was not cured, it would be the disgrace of Jingkang in a few decades.
The emperor asked: What are you going to do?
He said: Take the "regular money" back to the court and clearly mark the tax; build roads and rivers so that merchants can make more money and the court collects more taxes; pull the Song Dynasty out of the pit of "killing chickens to get eggs" and replace it with "raising chickens to lay eggs".
The whole court was in an uproar.
Vested interests are sharpening their knives, and both the old and new parties want to kill him.
Jiang Yu smiled and picked up the account book.
Do you think I'm counting money?
What I am calculating is the fate of a dynasty.
