"The current situation of Dali is basically like this, the 50,000 Northwest Army, the strength is still a little weak, it is a little difficult to take the whole territory of Dali quietly by relying on this point, and now the main thing is that the people of Dali have not yet reacted."

Lu Zifei thought to himself, you know the hardships of your husband, these 50,000 people are already the limit of the imperial court's tolerance for him, and the premise of the imperial court's support for him is that there is no food and grass, you bring everything by yourself, and the consumption of 100,000 people a day is not less than 100,000 catties, they have been on the expedition for several months, and he is not as easy as outsiders imagine in their eyes.

"What would you do if you sat in my place?"

Fan Gui secretly glanced at Mr. and said, "Then I'll tell the truth"

Lu Zifei smiled: "Am I here to listen to your nonsense?" At the beginning, you dropped out of the string and I came to Dali, it's not good, you will be a librarian in the school all your life! ”

"Sir, are you telling the truth? That's my dream job, and I don't want to be an official or anything. ”

", hurry up, don't you see your husband and I'm annoying? Solve the current trouble, I will allow you to go home and get married. ”

Fan Gui said: "50,000 people want to take Dali quickly, it's unrealistic, it's not possible to do it quickly, then we only have one way left, step by step, steady and steady, the advantage of doing this Mr. You also know, it takes a little more time." ”

Lu Zifei said: "Have you thought about it, how can the imperial court keep letting these 50,000 people out of the control of the imperial court, this is impossible, and most of these people are northerners, and the long-term outing has made them a little homesick, these are the real problems in front of them." ”

"The simple, brutal way is a woman, and a woman can help them get rid of all their troubles."

"Are you a pig? There are nearly 100,000 people here, and you go up there to find 100,000 women, and you won't use your pig's head to think about it before answering, it's still a bit hasty, and the imperial court hasn't sent a pacification officer so far, which is also a trouble. ”

Fan Gui said indifferently: "Don't you know those people? Don't they just want to wait and see? When you succeed, they will come to get a piece of the pie, and if you fail, they have no loss, maybe they will push you behind and help you fall into the well. ”

"So what? Let's talk about it! I know you've thought of this too, what is your solution. ”

"The Northwest Army plus the power of the later period, it is a headache for anyone, Dali does not have the same convenient conditions as Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Chaozhou, so we can only find another way, after more than a year of understanding, the answer I give here is 'sugar'."

Lu Zifei pondered for a while and said: "Sugar is okay, but have you thought about it, once you do this, what will those people on Quanzhou Road think, sugar and tea are their lifeblood, and their strength is not weak." ”

Fan Gui said: "The sugar produced here is sweeter than that of Fujian Road, coupled with the technology of the school, those people on Fujian Road will undoubtedly lose, survival of the fittest This is the natural avenue, they have also made a lot of money in Mr. in recent years, it is time to be content, businessmen do not know how to advance or retreat, and there are ways to clean them up." ”

"How much profit can you make, have you calculated? If you want to do this, you have to satisfy everyone's appetite, your husband and I were the first to give the emperor the method of making white sugar, so do you understand? ”

"Your Majesty, what else does he want, he is the one who earns the most, he has so much money in his hand, but he is reluctant to use it, the emperor is the one who is the most hindered in the Great Song Dynasty, the Dengzhou flood is such a big thing, the emperor is still unmoved, what do you call it."

Lu Zifei looked at him meaningfully and said: "Since you proposed it, then you can stay and finish this matter from beginning to end, if you get married, I will preside over it for the two of you, what do you think." ”

"Don't, sir, you're a bit of a bully, if I guessed correctly, some of the new science and technology scholars of this session will definitely come to Dali, and then you let Wen Zhenhua and those brutes do it!" I'm going home, back to school, it's been two years, sir. ”

"Stinky boy, I think a lot, if you want to go back, as soon as possible, don't wait for your husband to regret it, then you have to stay if you don't stay."

Fan Gui trotted all the way back to his room, and Ding Xia asked nervously, "How is it, did your husband agree?" ”

Fan Gui teased: "You are less than two years younger than Mr., why are you afraid of him?" ”

Ding Xia gave him two white eyeballs and said: "Your husband's eyes are too scary, you know that when he stared at me, I felt that I didn't have any secrets on my body, I really don't know how you usually get along with him." ”

Fan Gui laughed and said: "Then you really think wrong, Mr. Lu is the most easy-going person whether he lectures or is a person, and he knows a lot of strange knowledge, and he usually takes us to visit the Qinglou when he has time, you can't think of it!" ”

"What do you say? How can there be such a gentleman, the master takes the apprentice to the Qinglou, and he is not afraid of being spurned? ”

"I told you that you don't understand, but when I get to school, the other gentlemen are more severe, I haven't touched a book in the past two years, I don't know what kind of punishment awaits me when I go back? I'm going to have to make amends on the way back. ”

Luoyang has also happened recently, when the imperial court learned that Sima Guang was dedicated to writing books and had no intention of ruling the government, he was summoned back to the Hanlin Academy, don't you like to write books? There is a more suitable place in this world than Hanlin Temple.

And the successor who succeeded Sima Guang Luoyang was a young man, and when everyone was not optimistic about him, he took office, and the first thing he did when he arrived was to visit Lujiazhuang.

"Who of you knows this Wang Anshi, we don't seem to have dealt with this person before, this official speed is about the same as Xiao Fei, what a magical young man." Shao Yong said.

Hu Ying said: "I have a little impression of this young man, he came to visit me in the spring of the first year of Baoyuan, and it seems that Jinshi and the first queen were sent to Suzhou because of their style and personal reasons, and then they have been working as officials there, and no one expected that they would be transferred back this time." ”

Lu Li interjected: "How is his official evaluation?"

"Upright, hard-working, hard-working." Sun Fu said.

Hu Ying smiled: "Mingfu, you know this young man!" ”

"I am friends with his father Sima Chi, so I pay more attention to it, in fact, you are wrong, his relationship with the Lu family is not small, but many people don't know it, the two people who have the most influence on him are related to the Lu family."

Shao Yong said: "Xiao Fei has been to Suzhou twice, I think it was the second year of Qingli that I met, why did the imperial court send a young man to Luoyang, Luoyang garrison is not a simple position." ”

"Yaofu is right, in the second year of Qingli, he came into contact with Hanzhang and Bao Zheng, so he was greatly influenced by the two of them in terms of officials, the important thing is that this young man is unkempt and too awkward, this is worth our discussion."

Lu Li said: "A little incense is better than nothing, no matter what this young man wants to do, I'll know later." ”

Sun Fu said: "Let me tell you two interesting things about him, when he was seven years old, a playmate fell into the water tank, do you know how he did it?" He smashed the water tank with a rock to get people out, which was remarkable for a seven-year-old child. ”

Shao Yong said: "This story is widely spread on Hedong Road, but I didn't expect it to be him!" ”

"Sir, the people who have come back from the capital have urgent matters to report."

Several people in the room looked at each other, this will be the time when the Lu family's strength is the weakest in the capital, and there is only one Li Lin struggling to support, this news is really a bit sudden!

Before the people who came back from the capital could stand firmly, Li Lin walked in with a gloomy face, Shao Yong was startled, what the hell was going on, and they ran to Luoyang one after another.

"It's too late to be polite, something big has happened, the imperial court wants to take back the weapon workshop on Zhuangzi, and a series of countermeasures have been formulated, including the bank is also within the scope of this incident, no one expected that such a big thing would happen in the early court yesterday."

The faces of the people in the room showed varying degrees of panic, the weapon workshop was a trivial matter, but the deep meaning inside had to make them afraid, if the influence of the Lu family in Luoyang was really eliminated, this would be the most terrifying.

"Calm down, things are still unclear? Isn't it a chance for others to take advantage of our own troubles ourselves? Shao Yong raised his voice to wake everyone up.

Hu Zhen still knows Zhao Zhen better, after all, he is Zhao Zhen's teacher, he said: "Who proposed this?"

Li Lin said: "I don't know, this time the matter is very confidential, and my people in the capital have not received any news." ”

Shao Yong said: "Li Lin, you will receive the newly appointed Luoyang garrison later, and I will go out first." ”

Lu Zhuangzi is the only outsider's residence in the backyard, Wan Ming still played happily with a few children, ignoring Shao Yong's question, until Shao Yong and others were impatient and said, "Don't you know how to use your brain?" Can you calm down in case of trouble? ”

"Teach the Elders"

Wan Ming said absentmindedly: "The little monkey is still fighting outside, and he won't choose this time to unload the mill and kill the donkey, I just don't pay attention to the government anymore and I know that the emperor hasn't fainted to this extent." ”

Shao Yong said: "You mean these are all attacks from political opponents? That's not much of a problem. ”

"How big things can be, feel at ease to do what you should do, everything is relative, you only see the disadvantages but not the good, you have experienced too few things over the years."

Li Lin didn't have time to change his clothes, he heard that Wang Anshi had arrived, and when he arrived at the gate, Wang Anshi was wearing a brand-new official uniform, but the hair under the official hat looked a little bad.

"The garrison adults are here, the Lu family is deeply honored, and Lu Hou is outside, so I can only come to receive the adults, I hope the adults will forgive me."

Wang Anshi said with a smile: "The little prince is polite, and it is a little abrupt to come uninvited today." ”

These two people greeted everyone at the gate, and it seemed that nothing was going on for the time being, and what happened later could only depend on the will of God.