When he woke up, Shen Tuo, a graduate student in the history department, became Shen Kuozhi, a failed scholar in Xining for four years.
The family was impoverished, and his widowed sister-in-law provided a farm for him to study. What's worse is that an imperial edict abolished Ming Jingke. The commentaries on the scriptures that he had studied hard for many years became useless paper overnight, and eventually his reputation was lost to Sun Shan. When he was desperate, the Gu family, the richest man in Suzhou, handed him a marriage certificate: he was asked to be his adopted son-in-law, to pay off his debts and to provide for his education. The only condition was that he would change his surname to Gu Men from now on.
Son-in-law. In the Song Dynasty, this status meant being inferior to others, being looked down upon by others, and being ostracized by the clan. But he had no choice.
Others regarded the addition of a son-in-law as a great shame and humiliation, but Shen Kuozhi had a calm gaze - he had a nine-hundred-year historical perspective, and he knew better than Wang Anshi where Xining's new law would go, and he understood better than Sima Guang the root cause of the Song Dynasty's long-standing shortcomings. The dilemma of the young crop method, the loopholes of the equalization method, the mystery of the market exchange method... The successes and failures that have been repeatedly analyzed in the history books of later generations are all stored in his mind.
Starting from a silk and satin shop in Suzhou City, he watched with cold eyes the actual implementation of the new law in the local area - the exploitation of subordinate officials, the transfer of money from the rich, and the hardship of the people. As a son-in-law with no one to rely on and no power to rely on, he can only use the Gu family's business network to understand the pulse of this era step by step from the most basic land tax accounts, water transportation channels, and price rises and falls.
In the court hall, he and Wang Anshi discussed the pros and cons of the new law, each sentence hitting the point; he and Su Shi wrote lyrics over wine and laughed about ancient and modern articles. Listening to music in Goulan House and writing lyrics by the Qinhuai River, he became a son-in-law who knew the Song Dynasty best.
From the humble beginnings of a failed son-in-law, he made progress step by step, and finally stood at the center of the empire's power.
Reader comments
It's okay, but there are still some basic problems, such as the title. The protagonist is a history student. You need to understand these common sense.
It's okay, but there are still some basic problems, such as the title. The protagonist is a history student. You need to understand these common sense.