Chapter 175 Historical Research Association

Tan Xiaopei is naturally selfish in doing this. He is not dissatisfied with Tan Weiming's performance, but he is not willing to change the prince, so he is even more likely to provoke the relationship between the two brothers in such a clumsy way. However, compared to Tan Weiming, he is more optimistic about Tan Weiran's performance in this debate. Indeed, because of Tan Weiran's identity, although he is very enthusiastic about various things and diligent, it is difficult for him to gather a team of staff around him. Whether now or in the future, Tan Weiran must be the kind of person who picks up the missing. But he has not received much experience now, although he has handled the Ministry of Works, Ministry of War, Blood Qi Army, Danyang City Defense Army, and the inner palace in recent years.

There are many things, but he has not yet settled down his personality. Instead, he has more time to think about comprehensive, overall, but relatively in-depth content after gaining a variety of preliminary insights. Tan Weiran is much more serious and in-depth than Tan Weiming when studying economics and accounting with Tan Weixin, especially Tan Weixin mentioned that he has many thoughts on the principles of the national economic system, core competitiveness, macro-control, economic leverage, etc. He also put a lot of effort into studying the Leiyin Demon Sect and related systems that Ye Tao had a clever idea at that time. It can be said that purely in terms of concepts, Tan Weiran is more avant-garde and comprehensive than Tan Weiming.

After all, the roles of the two brothers are completely different. What Tan Weiming is required to understand and master the overall situation, understand all aspects of knowledge, and understand how to use and allocate resources efficiently to achieve the goal. His knowledge construction and thinking style are based on practicality and feasibility. In such a debate, it doesn’t matter what Tan Weiming performs. What is important is that he can further master the abilities and character of those people under his hands. How to use these people well and how to discover other talents outside of these people’s eloquence is what Tan Weiming needs to pay attention to.

Tan Weiming will be the emperor of the future, and Tan Weiran... In Tan Xiaopei's thinking, he hopes to train this equally smart and diligent son to be an assistant who has a clear understanding of national policies and policies. And at the most critical and critical moment, he needs to be the one who can stand up, shoulder all the pressure, and work with all the doubts and pressures. Tan Xiaopei himself was unable to do this back then... And he now believes that with the deep friendship of their brothers, with their talented sister Tan Weixin's influence and teaching, under his consistent long-term training plan, these two people can end the war in their generation.

It is said to be a debate. But in fact, this activity has a very distinctive characteristic of discussion, but it only takes the form of debate in form. The form of debate itself is constantly changing. At the beginning, three parties take turns to speak, each party makes a statement, and then debates this part of the statement. The statement is conducted twice, the first time is carried out in full and cannot be interrupted, while the second time is interrupted and questions can be raised at any time. This form of debate is too long. Mainly, no matter how well prepared, there are always places that cannot convince the other party, and there are always doubtful materials. No one can convince anyone.

Then, after spending a day discussing the debate rules, the plan they all agreed was to introduce a twelve-member deliberation team in addition to the tripartite debate. After the tripartite debate, the vote decided which side won. It is not a simple person to be able to sit on the deliberation seat. Most of them were patriarchs and senior deacons of various major families, ministers of the third ranks in the court, the Imperial Academy and the Imperial College, the bachelor of the Yong'an Palace, the priests, senior officials with more than 15 years of work experience, famous scholars in Dongping, representatives of businessmen who have great business as much as their economy, and the old masters of the Jianghu who have a high prestige... and so on.

Since the review team that occurred after the first debate in this form completely ignored the situation and the authenticity of the materials, they quickly passed the supplementary provisions. Before the debate begins, either party can request that the members of the review team be replaced to ensure that the review results are fair and effective.

This... is basically a replica of the debate method of the jury system, which gradually makes the debate become formal. For each debate topic, everyone must analyze and prepare as much as possible within the time limit, and they need to put forward the materials they summarized and extracted in a very concise manner, and design various debate strategies in the debate...

Although it has a considerable performance nature and may damage the academic significance of debate or discussion, the collision of materials in this limited time and space is extremely exciting. The seats in the deliberation team were indeed enthusiastically applied for by many people who felt they were qualified. Later, even the audience seats were hard to find.

Those debate topics are even sharper than the other. Some are even disobedient. For example, the first debate topic is "justice and legitimacy", which focuses on discussing various countries that also split from the unified country at that time, including Dongping. This topic is usually a topic that people will sweat in a cold sweat even if they think about it, let alone debate in broad daylight. Then there are "extravagance", "development and overdevelopment", "from unification to division", "war and national development", "policy consistency and policy consistency", "performance of treacherous ministers", "collect, organization and fabricate evidence" and so on. These topics involve a country's

In all aspects, but since it is a major historical proposition, it does not limit the time and space of the materials, everyone has great room for play. As the debate progresses, when Ye Tao and Tan Weixin have to participate in it more and more deeply and enthusiastically, the debate not only explores history, but also adds a lot of reflections on Dongping's various policies, and even reflections on historical research itself. When "practice is the only criterion for testing truth", "crossing the river by feeling the stones", "macro regulation", "financial, liquidity and excessive flow" and other statements and theories emerge one by one, everyone realizes that this debate may have a profound impact on Dongping's future.

More inspiringly, after a lot of analysis and sorting work, Ye Tao and Weixin produced extremely solid data. These data irrefutably illustrate how corrupt the unified dynasty was when the countries including Dongping split from the unified country, how deep the living standards of ordinary people were, and how low the wealth of corrupt officials was...

To their shock, they found that through some public data surveys, Chen Jia, who was considered the last loyal minister of the empire, had the truth about the so-called retreat of the tribe after the empire's demise: Although the Chen family disappeared inexplicably, almost all the families and industries that had various joint relationships with the Chen family were prosperous and wealthy in the following decades and hundreds of years. Although there were no detailed documents and records for a long time, tracking the whereabouts of the Chen family became impossible, through local chronicles and local literati and famous people collected from various places about the changes in the surrounding situation, the families that suddenly rose within a few years after the empire's destruction still entered Nie Rui's vision... Such a thing was so sensational. When the news spread, not only the Dongping dynasty, but also the Bei Liao, Xiling, and Chunnan countries were touched. But the evidence was there. Everyone couldn't help but believe it.

Fortunately, there are still many people who are mature and persistent. Just when the debate is still in full swing, the two brothers Tan Weiming and Tan Weiran feel that something is wrong. The two brothers rarely jointly wrote a letter to propose to form a permanent historical and cultural research institution, and at the same time, the topic of the debate is superficial and gradually weakened the influence. Those who have participated in the review team can regularly invite suggestions and discussions on national policies and policies to understand the reactions of the various parties in Dongping to different policies.

In this way, the "Historical Research Association" was established in a low-key manner. This institution with no real power and only a relatively high authority to access information has attracted experts and scholars from all aspects. There is very sufficient funds for those who work in it to not only live well, but also conduct extensive field investigations, or invite relevant experts and scholars to give lectures and teach... In general, this is an institution that is much more open than the Taixue, Imperial College, and Yong'an Hall, but is far from the career path. But no matter which side, I saw the prospect of this institution that must be the predecessor of the "Dongping Academy of Social Sciences".

Even after this, Tan Xiaopei still felt unsafe. He stopped the debate by using the excuse of preparing for the wedding of Tan Weixin and Ye Tao, and then asked Tan Weiran to take charge of the History Research Association and sent Tan Weiming back to his Canal Governor's Office until Tan Weixin's wedding. However, before going to Shufengcheng, Tan Weiming earnestly requested Tan Xiaopei to reuse Ye Tao.

"Those who learn from me live, those who are like me die." Tan Weiming recounted the extremely confident words of Ye Tao and Tan Weixin at that time, and said, "Father, my sister and brother-in-law have never been worried that others will become stronger. That's what they said... I don't know where their confidence comes from, maybe I have never understood how deep their abilities are. I have never doubted that my sister knows better than me how to develop this country. I also know that my father's evaluation of my sister is very pertinent. In fact, if my sister is a man and has a healthy body, I am afraid she will not be a hero of her generation.

The Lord is so simple. It may be a bit exaggerated to say that a situation that has never happened in the ages is not difficult, but it is not difficult to clarify the world. My father, when he was in the office of the Governor of the Canal, I realized that some things cannot be understood based on other people's words if he does not experience and understand them. Indeed, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of gossip when Ye Tao becomes the son-in-law, but it is a pity to throw Ye Tao away. The father trusts him, and I will trust him in the future. Isn't this enough? Father, I understand your ambitions and ideas, but if you have the opportunity, you will see the unification of the four countries in your lifetime, isn't it good?"

Tan Xiaopei sighed and said, "If you re-establish the position of prime minister ten years later, you will give it to Ye Tao, how about it?"
Chapter completed!