Candlelight Determines the Policy and Governs Peace: I Reformed the Tax Law in the Northern Song Dynasty

In 2026 AD, Chen Ke, a graduate student in economics, woke up and found that he had become a poor student in Taixue in the Northern Song Dynasty who had been falsely accused of cheating. In the fourth year of Zhiping, Shenzong ascended the throne, Wang Anshi was about to enter Beijing under the imperial edict, and the vigorous Xining Reform had not yet begun. Chen Ke handed over a letter, pointing out the fatal flaw of the uniform method. "What you design is not a road for transporting goods, but a buffet assembly line with hundreds of hands reaching in at the same time." Wang Anshi did not drive him away, but asked him to go to the Third Division to check the accounts. There are chains of corruption hidden in the account books, missing copper coins buried in the cellar, and on the conveyor belt from the political hall to the county government, everyone is making their own calculations. Chen Ke wants to use modern institutional economics to dismantle this assembly line. But he soon discovered a Some hands reach deeper than the ledger. Some people are more difficult to deal with than corrupt officials. This is the story of a scholar who used KPI and game theory to leverage the entire officialdom of the Song Dynasty.