I recently reread On Salt and Iron, a great discussion on fiscal policy held in 81 B.C., six years after the death of Han Wu-ti. It went on for over five months and involved the imperial censor and more than 60 leading scholars. The level of debate was much, much higher than that in our Legislative Yuan. People don't understand the ancients.
最近我又重讀一次《鹽鐵論》，這是漢昭帝始元六年（漢武帝死後第六年）舉行的一次財經政策大辯論，由當年在京畿附近推選出來的六十幾名「文學」和當權的御史大夫桑弘羊辯論了五個多月，水準比我們現在的立法院高太多了。