Ouyang Xiu and Liu Xin had been friends for a longer time, and observed that he looked at Pang Ji from time to time, and guessed: "Brother Chong, is it because of Prime Minister Pang Cheng?"

Liu Xin nodded. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Ouyang Xiu is currently a bachelor of Hanlin, and he edited the New Tang Dynasty Book together with Song Qi, the editor of the History Museum. Therefore, the official family did not secretly call him to discuss the response to the "lack of money".

He asked puzzledly: "Pang Xiang has always loved talents, how can he be displeased?"

Wen Yanbo suddenly woke up at this moment, his face changed color, and he said in a low voice: "What today's 'Explanation Conference' said happened to be the matter that the official family secretly summoned us to discuss. ”

Ouyang Xiu was shocked: "There is such a thing?"

Wen Yanbo was worried, worried, and irritable: "He might think that the two of us leaked the secret." ”

Liu Xin shook his head and said, "No, he knows what I won't say." ”

Wen Yanbo was even more distressed: "Then he must think that I leaked the secret alone." ”

"He also knows I'm going to stop you. Liu Xin denied it again

"Then what are you worried about?" Wen Yanbo was even more puzzled.

Liu Xin frowned slightly, looked up and looked around to find Pang Ji's figure, and found that he and Yao Hongyi were walking in the direction of Zhulan Banqiao.

At the bridge, about ten zhang away from the two of them, under the shade of the pine trees, Wang Anshi and Sima Guang were each holding a food plate, eating something and chatting at the same time.

Seeing this, Liu Xin gasped, was anxious and frightened, raised his feet and walked towards Pang Ji.

After running five or six steps, Wen Yanbo grabbed him: "You are in such a hurry, where are you going?"

Ouyang Xiu understood it all of a sudden, so he covered it up for Liu Xin: "I must be introducing Wang Anshi for Pang Xiang." ”

Wen Yanbo did not doubt that he had him, and followed.

……

Walking along the artificially dug small lake, Pang Ji and Yao Hongyi paced on the plank road.

There are zigzag verandahs on all sides.

There are bamboo, pine, and plum.

At the corner of the eaves pavilion, the bell rings.

It's not elegant.

Yao Hongyi sighed: "I can't imagine that the bustling Suzaku Street has such a quiet and comfortable place, even if it is as quiet as Xufuju, it is slightly inferior." ”

"It's the first time I've been here," Pang Ji took his words and asked, "But, aren't you a frequent visitor to the Babao Teahouse?"

"When I come to the Babao Teahouse on weekdays, most of the disciples sit in the private seats and compartments, and once I came late and ate in the hall once. ”

"Oh?"

"This garden is probably for the private use of the Marquis of Anguo's Mansion, and the disciple has never been there. ”

Pang Ji smiled and nodded: "Their family is the most hedonistic. ”

Yao Hongyi plucked a branch of the plum tree next to him, put it to the bottom of his nose and sniffed it deeply, and said, "The disciple prefers this kind of banquet called 'buffet'. ”

"It's so casual. ”

Pang Ji obviously doesn't like "buffets".

"It's this casualness that is the most endearing. ”

Yao Hongyi was already white and fat, and the corners of his mouth seemed to be naturally upturned, and at this moment, looking at Pang Ji's expression, there seemed to be a playful smile between the corners of his eyebrows and eyes: "The teacher hasn't socialized for a long time, right?"

Pang Ji shook his head with a smile and said, "Even if you are the prime minister, you often have to go to banquets." ”

Yao Hongyi tore off a petal and threw it into the lake. If the petals fall into the water during the warm spring, they will surely create beautiful ripples.

Unfortunately, at this moment, the petals are only lying quietly on the frozen surface of the lake.

"Going to a dinner is very different from having a party. ”

"Huh?"

"What you don't want to do, but you have to do, is socializing. A banquet is just a feast. ”

"Interesting!"

"At the banquet, there is probably only the teacher who advises others to drink, and there is no one who dares to advise you to drink. ”

Pang Ji shook his head and said, "Someone still comes to toast me from time to time." ”

"Oh, and then?"

"Being a teacher is generally a straightforward refusal. ”

When Yao Hongyi heard this, he snorted, couldn't help laughing, and sighed: "I'm so envious!"

"Labor," Pang Ji stopped and sighed, "This is the essence of power." ”

"What?" Yao Hongyi couldn't grasp the point of his words for a while.

"Veto is the essence of power. ”

Pang Ji said word by word.

Yao Hongyi seemed to be puzzled: "No?"

"Well, people in the world always have a naïve imagination of power, and they think that the most attractive thing about power is that they can do whatever they want. ”

"Isn't it?"

"No, not exactly. Doing whatever you want, doing what you want, is the most shallow and wasteful use of power. ”

Yao Hongyi heard this, but he was even more at a loss.

Pang Ji pointed to the crowd not far away and compared, and said, "If the teacher is holding a pot of wine now and persuading the people here to drink one by one, will anyone dare not drink?"

Yao Hongyi shook his head.

Pang Ji said: "But what is the point of this? Among them, there must be many people who are greedy for cups, even if they are not persuaded by the teacher, they will get drunk. ”

Yao Hongyi thought thoughtfully: "For people who are greedy for cups, they are not forced to drink wine because of the situation, so they ...... Your power is with them, and it doesn't work. ”

Pang Ji nodded, and said, "But, on the other hand, if they come to me and persuade me to drink...... Everyone," he paused, then pointed to the crowd, "each of them can be directly rejected by the teacher." ”

"The request of the lowly to the Venerable One, for unknown reasons, may be acceptable. But the lowly cannot refuse the request of the lowly one, and only the one can refuse any request of the lowly one without any qualms. Yao Hongyi suddenly realized: "This is the essence of power!"

Pang Ji cast an approving glance at him.

The two continued to pace, and after walking a few steps, Pang Ji looked up at the sky, and said with a slight amazement: "As a teacher, I can refuse the persuasion of everyone in the world, but there is only one person, if he comes to persuade me, I will never refuse." ”

Yao Hongyi naturally knew who he was talking about, so he smiled half like a joke and half a compliment: "Under one person, but above ten thousand." ”

Pang Ji stopped again, pursed his lips and frowned, and said, "Gonggong, you still haven't understood." ”

"Teacher?"

"After three dynasties, he was appointed by the first emperor to take care of his life, and he served as the prime minister for more than ten years, and he was a real minister. Even so, over the years, I still haven't reminded myself for a moment that I can't refuse that person's advice. ”

Pang Ji looked at the white clouds in the sky from afar, and his expression was full of loneliness and melancholy: "So, if he drank the wine I advised, it was only because he wanted to drink." ”

He looked at Yao Hongyi without blinking for a moment, and asked seriously, "Do you understand?"

Pang Ji's words were so obvious and plain, what a smart person Yao Hongyi was, he instantly realized the deep meaning of this, and immediately struck a sudden break in his heart, and wondered: "Is it the meaning of the official family?"

"It's just that we both want to drink. ”

As he spoke, the two of them had walked around the lake for most of the time and were about to reach the bridge.

Pang Ji motioned for Yao Hongyi to silence him, and said with a smile: "Put that matter down first, let's have a good meeting with this Mr. Fujie." ”

……