Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 328: Make as many friends as possible!

The management of the Song Dynasty had a deep understanding of the three redundancies. From the Qingli Reform during the time of Fan Zhongyan to the reform of Wang Anshi, the government had been working hard to solve these three problems, from restricting the system of hereditary officials to continuously cutting down the army and trying its best to reduce various public expenditures.

But the effects were minimal.

Either the resistance is too great, and systematic layoffs will basically not last long and will come to an abrupt halt; if they are done piecemeal, the effect will not be significant.

Everyone agrees that when the country reaches this point, similar problems are bound to occur, and those are the only solutions that can be thought of. There are always people with lofty ideals who come forward to take responsibility and risk their lives to try to solve the problems, but in the end, human power cannot overcome the will of heaven.

Han Zhen sighed. Even a strong man like Wang Anshi couldn't do it, so how could anyone else be able to do it?

Just as Su Yun asked, there are many troops, and a huge amount of annual revenue is invested in them every year. During wars, even 70% to 80% of the annual revenue will be invested in them. But can the troops be cut?
Of course it can’t be cut.

If the army is cut, who will guard the border?
If there is no one guarding the border, who will resist the cavalry of Western Xia and Liao?
Therefore, none of the three problems of redundant officials, redundant soldiers and redundant expenses can be solved!
So, is the so-called new law, where everyone is fighting over it and waves of people are fighting over it, really useful?
Han Zhen shook his head and smiled bitterly: "So, what you mean is that new laws are useless and there is no need to pursue new laws?"

Su Yun shook his head and said, "That's not to say it's useless, but it's really not very effective. If the root cause of the problem is not solved, no matter how much this new method is used, it will be useless."

Han Zhen looked at Su Yun and asked, "What is the root cause?"

Su Yun said: "The Liao Kingdom and the Western Xia, one of these two countries occupies the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and the other occupies Hengshan and the Hexi Corridor.

On the one hand, they had a geographical advantage over the Song Dynasty, and we had to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to defend against them.

On the other hand, the loss of the Hexi Corridor caused us to lose an extremely important trade channel, which trapped the Song Dynasty.

If we can destroy Xixia and Liao, all the redundant officials, soldiers and expenses will be solved easily!"

Han Zhen shook his head and said, "Your way of thinking is not wrong, but if we don't solve the problems of redundant officials, redundant soldiers and redundant expenses, how can we form a huge force to destroy the Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms? This is putting the cart before the horse.

Why did the late emperor want to make new laws? On the one hand, it was to make the country rich and the people strong, and on the other hand, it was to prepare for the conquest of Xixia. But you have seen the result. It was difficult. "

Su Yun nodded and said, "It is difficult, but there may be no solution. Minister Han should know that I have some experience in how to make money.

The so-called reforms ultimately aimed to make the imperial court rich so that it could support the army and launch a war against the Western Xia and Liao kingdoms.

I have the confidence that I can open up countless ways for the court to make money and increase its annual revenue several times over!"

Han Zhen felt a little sarcastic when he saw Su Yun was extremely confident, but then he remembered that the underground cave that Su Yun had dug a few years ago was still supplying wealth to the court.

Speaking of the cave, it can make a fortune in winter, but it can also produce vegetables continuously in summer and autumn.

The vegetables, fruits and melons produced in Didongzi are of excellent quality and are considered high-end foods on the market. Although they are not cheap, they are still sought after by dignitaries, wealthy businessmen and businessmen, so a lot is produced every autumn and summer.

The Qingming Shanghe Garden presided over by Su Yun is now estimated to be worth tens of millions of coins, which indeed proves that this excessively young Minister of Works is truly unprecedented in terms of making money!
It seems like he really has a way to make the entire country rich without changing the law?
When Han Zhen thought about this, he began to understand Su Yun's ambitions.

But when he figured it out, he couldn't help but gasp.

This young man's ambition is so huge that it is jaw-dropping!
Based on his conversation with Su Yun, he outlined Su Yun's ambitions.

Su Yun intends to rely on his business talent to make the entire Song Dynasty prosperous on his own, and to destroy the Western Xia and Liao Kingdom!

In order to achieve this goal, Su Yun now plans to use Qingming Shanghe Park to build an interest group and let this interest group support him to do these things, and he is just one of them!

With just a brief outline, he was able to sketch out Su Yun's grand plan, but this ambition gave him a fright.

He even had an idea: Could it be that this ambitious young man wanted to emulate Taizu?
But then he laughed.

The Great Song Dynasty is different from the Later Zhou Dynasty. All the systems of the Great Song Dynasty are designed to prevent anyone within the country from imitating Taizu. Even if Su Yun tries his best, it will be impossible for him to succeed in a rebellion within the Great Song Dynasty.

Even if Su Yun really built a so-called interest group, who would be willing to follow Su Yun in rebelling in the face of power?

This matter is not worth worrying about. After understanding this, he now needs to figure out: should he accept Su Yun's gift of nearly one million strings of cash?
Once you accept it, you will be dragged into this interest group and follow Su Yun to do those fantastic things, but if you don't accept it, you will miss out on this huge fortune.

Han Zhen immediately made a decision: Go!

Plucking a hair from the Qingming Shanghe Park would be worth more than one million strings of cash. Judging from what Su Yun said, there may be more similar projects in the future. After all, making the entire Song Dynasty rich is something that only the Qingming Shanghe Park can accomplish.

That is to say, Su Yun will carry out many similar projects in the future, dozens of similar projects. If Han can get a piece of the pie, wouldn't they be able to make a profit of tens of millions of strings of cash?
Thinking of this number, Han Zhen couldn't help but take a breath, and then he felt it was absurd: the entire Song Dynasty had a population of less than 10 million, could it really support such a huge capital?

Anyway, Han Zhen couldn't imagine it at all.

But it doesn't matter. If Su Yun can come up with one or two more, it will be a pie in the sky for Han's company. As for whether Su Yun can succeed in other things...

Hey, that’s not something I should be concerned about.

Just as Su Yun said, as long as you can lend a helping hand at the critical moment, it will be good enough. At other times, you don’t have to worry about it yourself. There is nothing to hesitate about. The real money in your hands is the real thing!
Thinking of this, Han Zhen nodded and said, "Perhaps you are right. You can give it a try. If you need help, you can tell me then. If I can help, I will definitely do my best to help you!"

Su Yun laughed when he heard this. The key point of Han Zhen's words was "If I can help", of course it was not up to him to decide whether he could help or not, but it didn't matter. Just making this statement was enough.

For someone like Han Zhen who has a big family behind him, Su Yun does not expect to form a solid alliance with him. What he wants is for the other party to have no hostility towards him, and even to lend a little help when encountering problems.

Su Yun is now making friends as many as possible, practicing what his teacher said: make more friends and fewer enemies.

Of course, Su Yun’s path was different from Su Shi’s. Su Shi had many friends in the court, but Su Yun believed more in interests.

Su Yun had been in the Song Dynasty for quite a few years, and he had long since gotten over those people in the Song Dynasty who always called themselves gentlemen and disdained profit.

These so-called gentlemen of the Song Dynasty were only gentlemen when they demanded things of others. Once they demanded things of themselves, they had to meet another standard.

Hmm, double standards.

Su Yun has a very good grasp of these people.

For a noble family like Han Zhen who focused on practical interests, Su Yun directly gave benefits.

As for those who were more pragmatic, such as Liu Zhi and Wang Yansou, Su Yun's way of making friends with them was to cater to their political views.

Fan Chunren, on the other hand, hit his soft spot directly. Fan Zhongyan's father died early and his mother remarried, so he was particularly concerned about the Fan family. Therefore, Su Yun directly gave the shares of Qingming Shanghe Garden to Fan Zhengmin, and asked him to donate it to the Fan family.

Fan Chunren himself can refuse this, but as for his family, he may not refuse it.

Sure enough, Fan Chunren later found Su Yun and talked a lot with him. Su Yun talked to Fan Chunren about his idea of ​​helping the court to increase revenue.

Fan Chunren naturally wanted to test Su Yun's political attitude this time. Seeing that Su Yun had no feelings about the new law, he was immediately relieved. What he was afraid of was that Su Yun would be like Zhang Dun. If that was the case, he really couldn't have too much contact with him.

After this contact with Fan Zhongyan, Su Yun turned his attention to Cheng Yi.

What he did during this period of time put into practice the teacher's words "make as many friends as possible", but there is another half sentence behind this sentence.

Liu Zhi, Wang Yansou and others from the Shuo Party are more practical. Su Yun actually likes such people very much. If they can get practical things done, then they can cooperate. When it comes to getting practical things done, Su Yun is very strong.

But it was different on Cheng Yi's side. In Su Yun's view, these people were the extremists in the Conservative Party, wielding the moral stick to punish dissidents every day. Of course, it was not too obvious now, but with the formation of the Shu and Luo parties, the contradictions between the two sides would become more and more intense, and then they would have to face their moral sticks.

As a prophet, Su Yun naturally cannot wait for them to take action first and then passively defend himself. Of course, he has to strike first!
Su Yun did not attack Cheng Yi directly. He turned his gaze to the people surrounding Cheng Yi.

Cheng Yi was the spiritual leader of the Luo Party. The only thing he could show off was his status as a royal tutor. He basically relied on his connections in official circles to attack others.

His most loyal lackeys at the time were named Jia Yi, Zhu Guangting, and Yang Guobao.

Haha, if you, Cheng Yi, didn’t have these helpers, I wonder if you could still make any splash!
(End of this chapter)