Doctor of the Great Song Dynasty: In the beginning, Li Qingzhao and Li Qingzhao made a private decis

Chapter 371 Shock Therapy
"Fan Zheng opposes Fan Chunli's reform strategy?"

Seeing this scene, the entire Chui Gong Hall was in an uproar. No one expected such an unexpected reversal.

"Why does Fan Taicheng oppose this?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but asked in surprise.

The reason why he appointed Fan Chunli was to use Fan Chunli's hand to implement Fan Zheng's evil methods. Now Fan Chunli has lived up to expectations and found a way to solve the Song Dynasty's deficit crisis, but he did not expect that the first person to jump out to oppose was Fan Zheng himself.

The other officials also frowned. Judging from the style of the French camp, this must be Fan Zheng's evil recipe, but they didn't understand why Fan Zheng suddenly objected.

Fan Zheng said loudly: "Wei ministers oppose this method because although this method can solve the court's deficit in a short time, it is not conducive to the national economy and people's livelihood."

"What nonsense! Merchants are responsible for their own profits and losses, and the government collects taxes. This has been proven in the Maritime Silk Road and is a feasible method. If you oppose this method now, don't you deny the previous evil method?" Yang Wei sneered. .

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "Doctors always pay attention to one person's prescription when prescribing, and the same is naturally true for Fan. The merchants are responsible for their own profits and losses for the sake of the Maritime Silk Road, and the state-owned workshops are within the Song Dynasty. Naturally, they cannot use the same method. This time the big If the Song Dynasty is short of money, it can sell off state-owned workshops. However, next time, when the Song Dynasty has another deficit crisis, how will it be sold off? This is a strategy that kills the goose and takes the egg."

Zhang Dun's eyes suddenly lit up and he said: "I agree with Fan Taicheng's opinion. Although the state-run workshops have some disadvantages, they are enough to stabilize the private economy and provide tax revenue for the court. Although some flaws still outweigh the merits, how can we abandon it so easily? Please think twice!"

Taking advantage of Fan Zheng's opposition, Zhang Dun took the opportunity to report and planned to retain the state-owned workshops. After all, during the new party's reform, state-owned workshops were very easy to use and were a boost to the new party's reform.

"Then I dare to ask, does Mr. Zhang have a good way to solve the deficit of the Song Dynasty?" Yang Wei countered.

The old party believed that officials did not compete with the people for profit and took the opportunity to sell off state-owned workshops, which could completely put an end to state-run merchants, avoid corruption in state-owned workshops, and purify the ranks of scholar-bureaucrats.

Zhang Dun was immediately stunned and could only say sarcastically: "I believe that since Fan Taicheng objects, there must be a way to get the best of both worlds!"

In an instant, everyone's eyes were once again focused on Fan Zheng.

"Then... I'm all ears, Fan Taicheng's recipe?" Fan Chunli said coldly.

In an instant, in the court, the father and son of the Fan family were facing each other tit for tat, which was a great spectacle in the court.

Faced with his father's question, Fan Zheng did not answer directly, but said loudly: "The state-run workshops have now become a chronic disease of the Song Dynasty. Just like the human body, operations must be performed on them to remove the cancer and restore health. It is worth it." Fortunately, doctors have now created a new type of anesthetic, which is comparable to Ma Fei powder and can make people fall into a coma. Even if they are attacked by weapons, they will still not notice it, allowing doctors to calmly complete the operation. Once this medicine is released, it can be said that countless people are alive. , the stubborn disease that was so helpless can finally be cured.”

"I have also heard about this recipe. The doctor has made great achievements, so I will naturally not hesitate to reward you." Zhao Xu cooperated.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "However, although the new anesthetic is very effective, it is not perfect. Once the patient is anesthetized, he will fall into shock. Although the doctor can successfully complete the operation, the patient may also die from anesthesia."

Baiguan frowned and didn't understand why Fan Zheng deviated from the topic and instead exposed the disadvantages of anesthetics.

"And Fan Xianggong's approach of privatizing state-owned workshops is similar to the use of new narcotics. He completely abandoned state-owned workshops and sold them all to merchants. It is like a doctor's shock therapy." Fan Zheng said solemnly.

"Shock therapy?"

Baiguan's heart was moved, and he had to say that Fan Zheng's metaphor was very vivid. The patient took anesthetics and fell into shock, allowing the doctor to operate calmly. Fan Chunli also put the state-owned workshop into shock and carried out drastic privatization reforms. It was indeed Similar to shock therapy.

Fan Zheng continued: "Shock therapy is extremely convenient. Once used successfully, it will allow the Song Dynasty to recover from serious illness, regain its vitality, and completely solve the Song Dynasty's deficit. However, shock therapy also has the possibility of failure, and it may plunge the Song Dynasty's economy into trouble." The collapse doubled the Song Dynasty’s deficit crisis.”

Fan Chunli frowned and said: "Is this impossible? Once the state-owned farms are sold, the Song Dynasty can solve the deficit crisis in a short time, and only need to collect taxes in the future!"

In this way, the crisis in the Song Dynasty was relieved and the court was greatly relieved.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "Of course it is possible! The state-owned workshops in the Song Dynasty are too huge. First of all, if it is fully privatized, the private sector will not be able to come up with so much money at once. It will only make the state-owned workshops sell at a low price, or the private sector will only want high-quality products. Workshops, some poorly trained state-run workshops will still fall into the hands of the imperial court."

"It is indeed possible!" New Party officials nodded.

Businessmen pursue profits, so they naturally cannot engage in loss-making transactions and maximize profits as much as possible.

Fan Chunli thought for a while and said: "In that case, the imperial court should first sell off the state-owned workshops that are losing money and are poorly managed!"

Fan Chunli saw the trick and immediately proposed a solution.

Fan Zheng sneered: "This is indeed a method, but the price of state-owned workshops with inexperience will be very low, which will allow people with good intentions to find loopholes, and there will be state-owned workshops that deliberately bring down well-functioning state-owned workshops. , so that they can be resold to businessmen at low prices, and huge bribes can be obtained from them, or even used as their own.”

Fan Zheng used the failed experience of shock therapy in later generations to explain the shortcomings of privatization of state-owned workshops.

"It's just insane!"

Suddenly, all the officials in the court exclaimed and reprimanded angrily.

The imperial court has found a large number of moths in the state-owned workshops, so naturally it will not be more suspicious of the state-owned workshops. In addition, the privatization of the state-owned workshops will definitely be accompanied by huge benefits. What Fan Zheng said is not impossible to happen.

No!It will even happen.

"In Fan Taicheng's opinion, how should we solve the shortcomings of state-owned workshops?" Fan Chunli frowned and said.

Fan Zheng said loudly: "Private ownership has its advantages, and the same goes for state-owned workshops. Naturally, what the court has to do is to take the essence and discard the dross. The opinion of the lower officials is that state-owned and private enterprises coexist!" "Coexist?"

The officials couldn't help but frown. It was not that the imperial court had never thought of the coexistence of public and private affairs. Profit sharing between officials and merchants and official supervision of commercial affairs in state-owned workshops were attempts by the imperial court, but with little success.

Fan Chunli sneered and said: "After verification of the truth, many corruption problems arise in the distribution of profits between officials and businessmen and the government supervision of business operations. The coexistence of public and private has been proven to be the wrong way, and it is most likely to breed corruption."

Fan Zheng shook his head and said: "The division of profits between the government and businessmen and the government's supervision of business affairs are indeed the most likely to breed corruption. The coexistence of state-owned and private companies mentioned by Xianguan is not a public-private partnership in a workshop, but the coexistence of state-owned and private companies in an industry! Two types of enterprises Compete with each other and grow together.”

"In an industry, state-owned and private companies coexist! Doesn't that mean officials and the people are competing for profits?" Yang Wei said dissatisfied.

All the old party officials nodded. In the old party's view, an industry must be either completely state-owned or completely private. Once state-owned and private coexist, it will definitely lead to a situation where officials and the people compete for profits. This is not in line with the way of a saint at all.

Fan Zheng nodded and said: "It is not the competition between officials and the people for profit, but the competition between the state and the private sector. The imperial court does not interfere. This time the imperial court renovates the state-owned workshops. The imperial court can retain about [-]% of the state-owned workshops with better profits and larger scale. In this way, it can continuously generate profits for the court and get rid of the burden of poorly managed state-owned workshops."

Zhao Xu's heart suddenly pounded. The Song Dynasty court was in urgent need of money. Not all state-owned workshops were poorly run, but a considerable number of them were well run. They paid a lot of taxes to the court every year. It would be a pity if they were all sold.

"As for the remaining [-]% of workshops, those that can be saved can be saved. Those that cannot be saved or have serious losses and small-scale workshops do not have much value. They can be sold to merchants and the court will levy taxes on them. In this way, The imperial court can not only obtain huge profits from the state-owned workshops, but also get rid of the burden of other workshops and levy a large amount of taxes. This will definitely make the imperial court's taxation further. It will not only solve the current deficit crisis, but also prevent the recurrence of future deficit crises. occur."

One of the reasons why the imperial court had a deficit crisis was the lack of money. State-owned workshops provided profits for the imperial court, and private workshops provided taxes for the imperial court. The coexistence of the two was enough to provide the imperial court with a steady stream of money and keep the imperial court's revenue and expenditure balanced.

All the officials pondered that this method was indeed a method of maximizing interests, and the only drawback was that the court had to bear the reputation of competing with the people for profit. Nowadays, officials attach great importance to their reputation. Whether it is all state-owned or all private, they have no such concerns. , and Fan Zheng's proposal of coexisting public and private affairs immediately put the officials in a dilemma.

Fan Zheng naturally understood the concerns of the officials, and immediately said in his heart: "My lords, you are upright and upright, and keep in mind the sage's teaching that the officials should not compete with the people for profit. Fan admires it, but do you know why the past dynasties focused on agriculture and suppressed business!"

"Focus on agriculture and suppress business!" All the officials were stunned and looked at Fan Zheng in confusion.

Yang Wei said with a look of disgust: "That's because merchants are not engaged in production, merchants are highly mobile, which is not conducive to court management, and there are also unscrupulous merchants who pass off inferior goods, hoard goods, and drive up prices. This is why the emphasis on agriculture and suppression has been praised by all dynasties. business."

The officials nodded slightly. The Song Dynasty had foreign enemies looking around, and they urgently needed a lot of taxes and relaxed restrictions on merchants. However, this did not mean that they had changed the Song Dynasty's policy of focusing on agriculture and suppressing business. They just had to give in to the pressure that the Song Dynasty faced!
Fan Zheng nodded and said: "Yes, it is the nature of merchants to pursue profits. This is the bad nature of merchants. If it is not controlled, it will become a hidden danger in the future. Why did the Song Dynasty build a large number of state-owned workshops? It was not that merchants hoarded goods and drove up prices, and then gradually established state-owned workshops. workshop."

A group of officials immediately felt very useful. In addition, as scholar-bureaucrats, they were naturally resistant to businessmen, and they easily remembered the shortcomings of businessmen.

Especially for the New Party, the Market Change Law introduced by Wang Anshi was to break the monopoly of merchants on the market.

"Retaining the coexistence of state-owned and private enterprises can not only allow the court to obtain official profits and merchant taxes, significantly increase court taxes and solve the deficit crisis, but the court can also use [-]% of state-owned workshops to contain merchants to prevent merchants from monopolizing the market and driving up prices. Hoarding is a strategy that kills two birds with one stone." Fan Zheng looked around and said solemnly.

"The imperial court can make a profit and restrain the merchants!" Zhao Xu was immediately excited after hearing the news.

All dynasties have always been wary of merchants. In order to collect more taxes, the Song Dynasty relaxed its management of merchants, but it was not without worries about merchants. Nowadays, maintaining [-]% of state-owned workshops in good condition can cure the merchants' shortcomings, which is indeed a good idea. square.

The officials in the court nodded helplessly. After all, the Song Dynasty was well known to be short of money, not to mention that the Song Dynasty had not yet unified the world and was in urgent need of financial support. Naturally, the court also wanted more taxes, but because the court did not compete with the people for profit, In other words, the court and merchants have always been distinct, and Fan Zheng's theory of using state-owned workshops to contain merchants and stabilize the economy gave the court a perfect excuse.

In this way, the government can benefit without having to bear the reputation of competing with the people for profit, and it can prevent merchants from raising prices. This is indeed a good strategy.

"But what if merchants run private workshops and suppress state-owned workshops?" Yang Wei thought for a while and asked worriedly.

The state-owned workshops have a monopoly advantage, but they still run the workshops in a mess. If they compete with the shrewd private merchants, they will probably be defeated. By then, the imperial court will have lost both the benefits of the state-owned workshops and its control over the merchants.

Fan Zheng sneered and said: "The state-owned workshops occupy the best resources, but they still cannot compete with the private workshops. That means that the owners of the workshops are incompetent. Naturally, the capable ones will be promoted and the inferior ones will be demoted!"

Baiguan's face suddenly twitched.

"Of course, the Royal Bank will also provide some support to the state-owned workshops, such as low-interest young money and other discounts, in order to revitalize some poorly managed state-owned workshops!" Fan Zheng gave a sweet date with a stick.

The officials' expressions softened slightly. The state-owned workshops had the best resources and the support of the Royal Bank. If they could no longer compete with the private workshops, they could only be said to be incompetent.

"My dear friends, do you still have any opinions?" Zhao Xu asked loudly.

All the officials were silent. Whether it was the old party that still believed that officials should not compete with the people for profit, or the new party that insisted on state-run workshops, they all had no choice but to make compromises in the face of the huge deficit of the Song Dynasty.

"I have no objection!" Su Song finally agreed to this plan on behalf of the ministers!

"Then let Fan Aiqing play it and turn it into a French-run workshop!" Zhao Xu ordered.

"As ordered!"

Fan Chunli stepped forward in response.

The officials looked at Fan Chunli and Fan Zheng and his son with complicated expressions, secretly guessing that the scene of the father and son fighting in the court was probably the father and son acting!
After all, no matter how the French Camp Workshop is transformed, it will arouse opposition from the government and the opposition. The father and son fight like this, but the transformation of the French Camp Workshop proceeds smoothly!

However, now that things have happened, all the officials have no chance to object. They can only sit back and watch Fan Chunli wield the power and sharpen his sword to attack the state-owned workshops.

(End of this chapter)