Chapter 53 (1/2)

Seeing that he couldn't answer, Yu Wenrong said with a smile: ”my younger brother thinks that when the heavy snow begins to fall, the court should make a judgment early and open a warehouse to feed the people as soon as possible.”

”What if it's not snowy? Can the people support themselves? ” Another person stood up. He was Yang Jiong, who had been known as a child prodigy since childhood.

”Not much snow? If the snow is not big, the imperial court can take back the grain after the ice and snow melt. As for whether the people can support themselves, in my opinion, this does not affect the government's grain supply. ” Yu Wenrong looked at Yang Jiong and said.

Li Hong listened to these people's discussions outside. Yang Jiong and Wang Bo were both in this school. They both had some idealistic feelings. The talent in poetry and ode is amazing, but the scholar's pedantic and idealistic views have also appeared in them.

”The grain distributed by the court is no longer possible to be recovered. If this is done, will the people be happy and the court will not go through the motions? Give more, give less? How long does it snow? Who knows? It's all arranged by God, and it can't be solved as brother Yuwen said. ” Wang Bo and Yang Jiong are like each other. They often discuss poetry together in the past two years and have established a good friendship.

”I've met Mr. Li Hong.” Li Hong had a good time listening at the door. Although there were no substantive suggestions on the matters discussed, Yu Wenrong's suggestion was the embryonic form of a necessary mechanism.

In the same year, the general manager Cheng Zhijie attacked the Western Turks. Because Wang Wendu was jealous of Su dingfang's military achievements, he falsely passed the imperial edict and seized the military power, so that the whole army missed the best opportunity to defeat the Western Turks. Finally, Cheng Zhi was implicated in the reduction of officials from death. Wang Wendu was also executed after returning to the court.

Taking this as an example, we can only prove that this is not the fault of any one person, but that the existing system is not sound enough. In the course of the war, there was a joke that the imperial edict was passed on to the deputy chief executive instead of to the chief executive.

”See your royal highness.” More than 50 people in the house got up in a hurry and saluted.

Li Hong waved his hand, then sat down on another chair beside shangguanyi with a smile, looked at Yu Wenrong and asked, ”go on, I want to hear your final solution.”

”Yes, your highness.” Yu Wenrong bowed to salute, and then said: ”after talking about this point, in fact, my point of view has also been expressed, that is, advance payment in advance, open warehouses to release grain, send cloth and give firewood when the heavy snow begins to fall, so as to ensure that the loss of heavy snow to the people is minimized. If the snow is small and the time is short, some of it can be recovered completely, and even the people can use the money to offset the property. ”

Li Hong gave a silent smile and continued to ask Yu Wenrong, ”do you remember when the rain started to fall this year, I asked you to measure the water level of Yong'an canal and Longshou canal?”

”Back to your royal highness, the students remember that every time it rains this year, students have taken notes. Even in Qujiang pool, students have measured the water level after the rain.” Yu Wenrong said.

Li Hong nodded, stood up from his chair, turned around and walked to the glass writing board behind him. He picked up the chalk on the edge of the writing board. After a moment's thinking, he wrote on the writing board seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

Li Hong turned to look at Yu Wenrong and said, ”report all the water levels you measured.”

As Yu Wenrong reported a water level, Li Hong marked the number of water level under a specific color. After reporting seven water levels of different sizes, Li Hong also arranged the marked water levels in order of high and low under the seven colors.

Li Hongyi didn't even know what he wanted to do.

Li Hong threw down the chalk in his hand, clapped his hands and said, ”what we lack is not method, but system. If there is no perfect system, no matter how feasible your method is, no matter how smoothly you can solve the flood and snow disasters of the people, without a perfect system, everything will be in vain. Because all the methods want to be implemented, they will always be more difficult than methods. Only when a system is established can the methods we can conceive be implemented. In this process, there will be various weaknesses in the methods. However, as long as the system is guaranteed, everything will become simple and effective. ”

After Li Hong finished speaking, he looked at the people's expression of thinking, slowed down for a moment, and then continued to say, ”so, this is the system I'm talking about.”