Wen Yanbo shook his head and said: "This is not bad, it's not that the official family doesn't know it, the official family actually knows it in their hearts, and they have heard a lot of this kind of news. It's just that the officials have been blinded by Wang Anshi's fallacy and are bent on using the so-called law change to enrich the country and strengthen the army, but how can there be such a possibility? Not only will the law change fail to meet the expectations of the officials, but on the contrary, the country will fall into chaos and the people will suffer. Who in the government and the opposition does not know that sooner or later this law will overturn the country!"

Sima Guang also slapped it heavily on the table and said: "That's right, this time the Yellow River burst its banks and besieged the entire capital, I think it is the result of Wang Anshi's change of law and being punished by heaven." Isn't the official family enough to be vigilant?"

Wen Yanbo nodded and said: "Why don't you and I jointly write a melody, please show the emperor, please follow the will of heaven, abolish Wang Anshi's evil law as soon as possible, and restore peace in the world." If the holy decree is made and the flood does not recede, the three of us are willing to thank the world with death!"

Everyone else nodded solemnly. At that moment, Sima Guang asked the attendant to bring paper and pen, took the wine cup off the table and put it on the ground, and laid out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Sima Guang wrote a recital, which was slightly adjusted and modified by Wen Yanbo and Fu Bi, and then signed by the three of them, and then sent to the palace.

After doing this, the three of them continued to drink. Sima Guang's mood suddenly relaxed, and he said with a smile: "I was already talking about Xiaolang just now, talking and talking about changing the law, it can be seen that although the three of us are in the rivers and lakes, this heart is still concerned about the court." Come and drink this cup. ”

The three of them laughed and drank their glasses.

Sima Guang continued: "I haven't finished my words yet, I'm talking about this little man, and some of his legendary experiences make me very interested. I met him and thought he was very temperamental to me. So I have invited him to come to my house for a drink on a certain day, and he has agreed. It just so happens that the two of you are also in the capital, and when the time comes, we will meet together, and I think this person will be able to become a pillar of the country in the future. You two also help to take a look, my eyes are okay, will I look at people wrongly. Because I wanted to recommend him to the emperor not to be a medical officer, but to be a minister and assist the emperor. ”

Upon hearing this, Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo were taken aback. If Sima Guang recommended Yang Xianmao as a medical officer, or even the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital, neither of them had any objections, after all, this Xiao Lang Zhong cured Sima Guang, the chief imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital, who could not cure the summer temperature. With such ability, coupled with the identity of the prince's son-in-law, it is absolutely proper. But listening to Sima Guang's words, he was not recommended as a medical officer, but as a minister, taking care of the government and assisting the emperor, this has to be carefully reconsidered.

The three of them tonight are all good brothers of the Senior Citizens Association, but when it comes to recommending talents, these three people will not be easily swayed by the opinions of others, and everyone has their own opinions. Therefore, they didn't say anything, they just looked at Sima Guang, and they knew that Sima Guang would definitely say something.

Sima Guang was not in a hurry, picked up the wine glass and drank a glass himself. As if sorting out the thoughts in his heart, he continued: "There is one thing that makes me deeply feel his talent for governing the country and his mind for worrying about the people's society. At that time, my condition was slightly better, and my family sent me to his hospital for medical treatment, accompanied by a doctor who was a miracle doctor. He told Doctor Fei that there might be a new plague in the capital, and it was a terrible plague that even he couldn't control. Because he was in the midst of his treatment, he already sensed that the plague was undergoing terrible changes. He asked Doctor Fei to report to the official family on his behalf, and asked the official family to send people to monitor all the medical halls and pharmacies in the capital, and once they found unexplained plague deaths, they would be isolated and concentrated immediately. He was going to test to see if there was a new plague. ”

Wen Yanbo and Fu Bi glanced at each other, and there was a look of worry in their eyes, the current summer temperature was already terrible, if there was another plague even more terrible than this, then I really didn't know what to do.

Sima Guang continued: "He said that the terrible disease of plague must be prepared for a rainy day and cut off its spread at the source. Otherwise, once the spread will be uncontrollable, it will inevitably endanger the safety of the entire capital. I know that when he said this to my face, he was actually trying to get me to report it. Therefore, I took the initiative to take it and wrote a report to the official's family. After hearing this, the official family attached great importance to it, and immediately issued an order and made arrangements according to Yang Xianmao's words. And what happened in the past few days is completely consistent with what Yang Xianmao said. ”

Wen Yanbo and Fu Bi were taken aback, and hurriedly asked what was wrong?

Sima Guangdao: "As far as I know, yesterday the Taiyi Academy sent Taiyi and students to Beicheng to treat the soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army who were fighting against floods and draining floods, and found a number of new cases of terrible plague, which became ill on the third day and died immediately. The hospital immediately checked with other medical centers and pharmacies in the city, and found many similar cases, the onset of which was very urgent, and many people fell ill within three days, almost all of whom had died. And so far, there is no effective medical treatment to curb it, and it can be said that the patients of this plague will definitely die. Including Yang Xianmao's medical center, the treatment of this new plague did not cure the cured. This situation has been urgently reported to the emperor. What the emperor will do with it is not yet known. ”

Hearing this, the expressions of Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo became solemn, and Wen Yanfu said: "I thought you were sick at home before, and you didn't have time to care about things outside. When you get well, you think about how to dry your books that have been damaged by the flood all day long, and I can't imagine that you are at home, but you also know about the outside world. ”

Sima Guang said: "This terrible new plague that appeared in the capital is much more serious than the previous summer temperature, after all, most of the summer temperature can be cured, and there are very few deaths. But this new plague does not seem to have been cured so far. Anyone who is diagnosed with this disease has basically died. ”

Wen Yanbo said: "This little man discovered a new plague and reminded the officials to pay attention to it, this is indeed prescient and shows his talent, but I don't understand, is this necessarily related to your recommendation of him to serve as an official to assist the emperor?"

Fu Bi also continued: "Yes, I don't see that this matter is necessarily related to what you said. Do you see in it that he has some talents that no one else has?"

Sima Guang said solemnly: "Fan Wenzheng has a famous saying, I think both of them know it. ”

Wen Yanbo said: "The worries of the world are worried, and the joy of the world is happy." ”

As soon as he heard this, Fu Bi also knew why Sima Guang said this. At the moment, he said slowly: "You mean, this little man also has the mind of Fan Wenzhenggong and cares about the world?"

Sima Guang nodded and said, "That's right. Let me ask you, when you and I were born, did we write on our heads that we would become prime ministers in the future?"

Wen Yanbo and Fu Bi glanced at each other and said, "We know what you mean, as long as you have such a mind, if you are good at cultivation, you may not be as good as you and me in the future?"

Sima Guang patted his thigh and said: "That's right, as long as you have a heart that worries about the country and the people, you have the most basic conditions for becoming a good official." As for governing the world as an official, if you don't put him in that position, how do you know that he doesn't have this kind of talent? Let me ask you two when you were officials, did you have the confidence that you could become prime ministers and govern the world?"

The two smiled awkwardly again and said, "That's not it." I think when I was an official, as long as I could do my job well, I was already very satisfied. Where would you have thought that one day you could achieve the status of a prime minister above 10,000 people under one person, it all depends on the appreciation of the official family. ”

Sima Guang said: "That's right, since you didn't have a chance to be the prime minister in the future at the beginning of your official career. How do you know that Xiao Lang Zhongzhong will not be able to assist the king in the future?"

Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo glanced at each other, and both nodded slowly and said, "If you look at it from this point of view, it's not impossible. However, I am afraid that I have to put him in a position suitable for his current role first, and see if he can do it first. And then slowly promote him according to his performance, and you can't put him in the position of assisting the king all at once. ”

Fu Bi nodded, and was about to speak when he was interrupted by Sima Guang: "You and I are already people with our necks buried in the earth, and we don't have a few days to live." At least I don't think I'm going to live long. I've been looking for someone who can reassure me, and I think this person is this little man. One thing I tell you, you may agree. ”

Wen Yanbo and Fu Bi hurriedly listened attentively, wanting to hear what kind of truth Sima Guang was going to say.

Sima Guang swallowed his saliva before saying: "At that time, I saw that he had the world in mind, and I felt that this person was so worried about the country and the people, so I wanted to ask him what he thought of the new law. Because the patient was waiting for him to see a doctor, it was very simple. But just a few words have made me conclude that this person can be a pillar of the country. ”

"Oh, what did he say?" asked Fubi.

Sima Guang's gaze slowly swept over the two people, and he said slowly: "He said that Wang Anshi's change of law is not for the benefit of the people, but for the disaster of the country and the people. For example, such as the apportionment of the Seedlings Law, arbitrarily increasing interest rates to urge extortion. The exemption law increases the amount of money, takes more money as work, and takes it as energy, and so on. All these drawbacks, in the long run, the country will not be a country, and the society will be cut off. ”

As soon as these few words came out, Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo both gasped. They looked at each other again and asked him together, "Did he really say that?"

The reason why the two of them were so surprised was that although several of them were staunch opponents of the reform, they never dared to raise the drawbacks of the reform to the level of ruining the country, and only said that the reform had all kinds of drawbacks and should be abolished.

If it is said that if the reform of the law is to be elevated to the level of cutting off the country, it is enough to conclude that Wang Anshi intends to rebel, and it is not a simple debate on the reform of the law. Therefore, even if they have this kind of psychological worry, no one has ever dared to say it to their faces, and no one has ever thought about changing the law to such a serious point as the country will not be a country and the country will not be ruined, let alone say it in front of everyone.