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Outside the doors and windows, there was still snow.

Inside, it's still warm and smoky like spring.

Sima Guang stared at the stains on Wang Anshi's clothes, and his heart felt like knocking over a five-flavor jar, and he didn't know what it tasted like.

Wang Anshi didn't know anything about the ups and downs of his thoughts, but was engrossed in the manuscript in front of him.

Sima Guang sighed.

The person in front of him is not without merit, and his concentration in doing things is incomparable to him in any way.

"Ahem!"

Sima Guang had to cough lightly a few times before arousing Wang Anshi's attention.

"You're here?" Wang Anshi looked up and asked, which was regarded as a greeting

Sima Guang sorted out his thoughts and was about to answer, but the other party had already continued to bury himself in the manuscript.

Wang Anshi's style of doing his own thing, he should get used to it, he should get used to it.

He still couldn't get used to it.

Sima Guang tried to suppress Wang Anshi's publication in the name of Liu Xin's editor-in-chief, but Wang Anshi replied to him: "The owner authorizes the Ministry of Information to edit independently, and the editor-in-chief can be inappropriate in words, but he has no right to ask what kind of news the Ministry of Information uses." He even took out the letter of appointment again and showed it to Sima Guang for a closer look, and it really listed this item.

He had to reason with him in the name of deputy editor of the Department of Public Information.

――"Is there any reason why the deputy editor thinks that the price increase is not high? But have you done some research? Is it really appropriate for you to reason with me based on your own feelings?"

Sima Guangli was speechless and speechless.

In the end, the news of the rise in vegetable prices in Beijing was published.

Also published in the revised "Bianjing Small Magazine" was the article "The Sixty-year-old Man Died Tragically", and later added a report that "the son of a six-pin Beijing official hurt people".

Not surprisingly, with these three highly controversial news articles, the magazine sold more than three or four times as much as usual.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the "Bianjing Magazine" in the past was popular in Bianjing.

However, this issue of "Bianjing Magazine" is not only in Beijing, but also in Yingtianfu, Daimyofu, and Jingzhaofu.

It is reported that there were also many merchants who came and went to the Song Liao and Song Xia to buy the "Bianjing Small Magazine" of this magazine to Liao and Western Xia to sell.

Sima Guang was more worried, if Wang Anshi ate the marrow and knew the taste, intensified it, and brewed more alarmist news, it would be a big mistake.

"Ahem!"

He coughed heavily.

Wang Anshi was interrupted by him twice, a little disgusted, raised his head and asked coldly, "You have something to do with me?"

"Hmm. ”

"What's the matter?" Wang Anshi's face was visibly impatient.

Disgust is often two-sided, he understands Sima Guang's displeasure with him, and he himself is not very tired of Sima Guang's conformism and obsessiveness.

Sima Guang took out several pages of densely written rice paper from his arms.

These pages of cheat sheets are the "materials" that he and several servants have painstakingly collected.

"The price of 'Bai Manji' pottery in Dongshi this year has increased by one-sixth compared with previous years; 'Li Jia candied fruit', the price of goods this year has increased by one-seventh compared with previous years; and the price of goods has increased by one-fifth compared with previous years at 'Lin Huang Cai Warehouse'......"

Sima Guang read out the data obtained from the two-day survey in one breath. Finally, he concluded: "There are a total of 85 shops in the east and west cities interviewed this time, all of which have not been interviewed by the Ministry of Information. Among them, there are 15 shops with a one-seventh increase in the price of goods this year, 29 stores with a one-sixth increase, 33 shops with a one-fifth increase, and three shops with a one-quarter increase compared with previous years. ”

Wang Anshi said indifferently: "Brother Junshi's investigation and interview just verified what the previous report on prices said was true. ”

"Wait,"

Sima Guang stared at Wang Anshi and asked awe-inspiringly: "Just based on the increase in selling prices, it is asserted that the price increase is too large. Is that too rash?"

"Of course," Wang Anshi said, "just by the extent of the increase in the price of goods in the east and west markets, it is indeed impossible to determine whether the price increase is too much." Therefore, the journal also interviewed a group of ordinary people in the news, and more than 100 of the 137 people interviewed agreed that prices were rising too fast. ”

He snorted coldly, and then sneered: "It seems that Brother Junshi did not read the latest issue of "Bianjing Magazine" carefully. ”

Sima Guang ignored his ridicule, just flipped through another page of the cheat sheet, and said as he looked at it: "Of the 85 shops interviewed this time, 32 purchased goods from farmers and craftsmen, and the purchase price increased by one-fourth to one-fifth compared with previous years, and 49 purchased goods at a price increase of one-sixth to one-seventh compared with previous years, and only four did not increase compared with previous years, and the increase in the price of their goods was also at least one-seventh. ”

Wang Anshi listened to the data from the interview from a new angle, and looked at Sima Guang's eyes, a trace of imperceptible surprise and appreciation flashed, but in an instant, he calmed down, stroked his beard and said, "I want to hear it." ”

Sima Guang pulled a chair in front of Wang Anshi's case, sat down, flipped through another page of the cheat sheet, and said: "The price rise in the east and west markets this time is all because the price has risen when merchants are purchasing from farmers and craftsmen. In the end, it was the peasants, artisans and other people who benefited, and the prices of the grains and utensils they sold were higher, and the money on hand was more abundant. ”

"Hmmm......"

Wang Anshi was silent.

Sima Guang continued: "Although prices have risen, at the same time, the people have more money on hand, which will not lead to the situation of the people's misery. ”

Although Wang Anshi felt that this remark sounded quite reasonable, he could not agree with it: "If there are people who are not farmers or craftsmen, then they will not endure the rise in prices in vain?"

Sima Guang explained: "He doesn't work as a farmer or as a worker, so he must have a livelihood, right? As long as he has to work, he will be blessed by this rise in prices." ”

After a pause, Sima Guang wanted to speak and stopped, he bit his lip and plucked up the courage to say: "I think that controllable price increases are even beneficial to the people. ”

"Sima Guang, do you know what you're talking about?"

Wang Anshi asked in surprise: "Rising prices are good for the people? It's a big mistake in the world, and it's a great mistake for the people to be above the court, and it's a sorrow for the Great Song Dynasty to have people like you who regard the people's livelihood as nothing!"

Sima Guang originally wanted to theorize with Wang Anshi with an attitude of judging things by facts, but he never thought that he was so stubborn, only stuck to his own ideas, and refused to accept the persuasion of others at all, and couldn't help but get angry, and sneered at each other: "There is no alarmist, grandiose, and stubborn person like you in the court, it is really the luck of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

"What did you say?"

Wang Anshi couldn't help but stand up all of a sudden, and was about to argue with him for a good reason.

- "Good, good!"

But I heard the sound of applause from outside the door.

The two looked in the direction of the sound, and it turned out to be Le Lin and Chai Jue.

The person who applauded was none other than Lelin.