Chapter 23: The situation has taken a turn for the worse

This time, I sold centipedes for a lot of money, bought a candy man for Erya, and bought a pot of wine for Xiaobao the donkey.

As a result, Xiaobao got drunk on the street and couldn't walk. So the donkey was carried back by Lao Liao. Wang Yan and Wang Xiaoya walked by themselves.

Lao Liao has never seen such an awesome donkey, but he can't stop the Wang family from liking this donkey.

Xiaobao drank high and fell asleep, so Wang Yan and Wang Xiaoya dug a pit in the donkey house and buried the money.

Erya described the money as a bunch of sugar people. Hearing this, Wang Yan felt very sorry for her. Erya's usual sensibility is pretended, she is a child in her bones, and she wants to eat snacks. But the cruelty of reality made her meet Lao Wang, the demon king's father is a person who likes to pull hatred and rob other people's food, even Wang Yan is no exception, so Erya is destined to have a bad childhood.

Erya usually doesn't talk much, because no one talked to her before. In the past, in her spare time, she liked to find a place to stay alone and sing, singing some common local folk songs or something.

In the past, Wang Yan was always studying, and sometimes he would smoke Erya when he was affected by singing. The grandmother, of course, supported her "champion grandson". So it's useless for Wang Anshi to feel sorry for Wang Xiaoya. Now Wang Yan is a gentleman, basically no longer studying, and will tell stories to Erya.

So Erya doesn't like to sing now, likes to talk to Wang Yan, and likes to listen to stories. So of course her singing voice doesn't harass others, Wu Qiong's mother is not a bad person if she is a woman, so her mother doesn't hate Wang Xiaoya now.

These are the family situations that Wang Anshi listened to Xu Langshan's report after coming back this time.

Wang Anshi was very pleased, and praised Wang Yan for doing a good job. But in spite of this, he was not happy.

Geng Tianqiu understood the master's thoughts, and in this way, Wang Yan, a prodigy with amazing achievements in the past, was getting farther and farther away from the Donghuamen roll call. It's called not having both fish and bear's paws. The lord would rather have a man of conscience than a genius of inadequate mind.

In this regard, Wang Anshi didn't mention anything about Wang Yan's studies, and didn't want him to gnaw on books, worried that he would return to his previous state of having nightmares all day long as he gnawed on books.

"It's good everywhere in the ya, but there is a problem with his studies, and he hardly goes to the state to study now." Xu Langshan said anxiously.

In Lao Xu's eyes, Wang Yan is the successor of the entire Wang family, and it is completely acceptable for him to be unkind, but how can he not be motivated?

After thinking carefully, Wang Anshi twisted his beard and said: "Reading is for reason, and reason is for being a man." Self-cultivation, Qi family, governing the country and leveling the world. In fact, he was not a bad person in the past, but he went to the extreme and could not be a man. So let him go, it's good to learn to be a man first. If he doesn't study, he won't starve to death, but if he can't do well, the more he reads, the more harm he will do. ”

Sweat.

Lao Liao lowered his head and pondered, when these words spread out, the big demon king must have been whipped by the old grandmother with a cane.

Sure enough, Lao Wang said embarrassedly: "You can know these words of this hall, don't spread them to the ears of my old mother." ”

"Don't worry, I'll understand." Geng Tianqiu nodded......

Speaking of which, Lao Chen is a blessed and fateful person, but he was not bitten to death by a wild wolf after he ran away that night?

The life was surviving, however, his ears remained in Lanruo Temple and were eaten by centipedes, and are now nicknamed One Ear. And Lao Chen is a person who is quite worried about it, he didn't dare to report that he was cut off by Bai Yutang.

Regardless of modern and ancient times, this virtue is the same, and the ruthless person is ruthless to a certain point, and there is no enemy. If Chen Jiaohu reported the case, Sima Shengren would definitely file a case and issue a wanted warrant in the world, but Bai Yutang was not a capital crime. She hated treachery the most, when the asked Lao Chen, "Do you feel wronged, do you accept it?" Lao Chen chose to acquiesce, which means that he recognized Bai Yutang's "ruling". Later, if he stabbed the black knife with his backhand, it would be treacherous in Bai Yutang's eyes.

That thug is so virtuous, she is so cruel to herself. Lao Chen would never dare to challenge Bai Yutang's patience as a "female bachelor".

So he broke his teeth and swallowed it in his stomach, and Lao Chen admitted it.

In addition to worrying about the female devil, Lao Chen was also very worried about Wang Yan's revenge, because Lao Chen tried to spy on the secret recipe, and later saw that he was dead and could not be saved, and the big centipede ran away after it appeared. Of course, Lao Chen is not guilty of this in the law, but in the Great Song Dynasty, people like Lao Chen are not afraid of the law, the law is actually to protect people like them, what he is really afraid of is "the power of the prefect of the broken county order".

Fortunately, after a period of panic, I didn't see Wang Yan come to find trouble, in addition to being asked some protection money by a group of low-level gangsters, the gangster named Ma Jinsi also said that Lao Tzu is a member of Caosi, and if you pay the protection fee, you can get the protection of the Wang family.

Lao Chen regarded this as a rather shameless extortion, but he still paid it obediently.

Anyway, the Egg Gang is also a bit ruthless, and they don't make much trouble on weekdays, just because they are already wearing shoes. Theoretically, people like Chen Jiaohu are certainly stronger than the rootless gangsters like Ma Jinxi. Therefore, Lao Chen did not pay the protection fee to get protection, but to make Wang Yan's thoughts more accessible.

Hey, hey, hey, he The most typical thing is that the poor people have stopped collecting money. The token representing Wang Yan, the small abacus with three rows of beads, was hung on the door, and those messengers who used to come to "inspect" every day never came again......

The situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and the politics of the Great Song Dynasty suddenly entered an eventful autumn. The cause is in the beggars.

The poor people in Shuzhou don't like beggars, because they are a real gang, but they don't pay protection money to the poor people. The reason is that they have no assets.

In fact, they have, and the beggars occupy many deserted houses where the government has property rights. The things of the government are not occupied for nothing, and they do not pull the hatred of the common people, and Sima Guang, the governor of Shuzhou, sympathizes with them, so he acquiesces in the behavior of the beggars.

Under corrupt officials, the government will not have so many idle assets because they have already been sold. The source of these assets is generally left behind by the criminal's house after it has been raided. Set a low price at the time of the auction, and it is a common routine for the agent to buy it, and there are not too many people who do this.

However, Sima Guang, the lord of Zhizhou, is a Qing official, in order not to be fishy and not to be criticized, Sima Guang simply did not sell these houses, and when updating Shuzhou's "asset and liability form" for two consecutive years, these things were listed on it.

As a result, the third envoy (finance minister) Zhang Fangping hated Sima Guang the most, and issued several articles angrily reprimanding Sima: Are you caught in the door by the brain? The situation in Quang Nam is so critical, and when the imperial court is in urgent need of money and food, you leave so many assets in your hands and don't use them?

But Sima Guang replied to Zhang Fangping heartlessly: Zhang Xianggong is good at being an official, why don't you come to Shuzhou? For the sake of the people's livelihood, as long as I am in charge of Shuzhou, I will not sell.

At the same time, Sima Guang also wrote a letter to Prime Minister Pang Ji to accuse Zhang Fangping of his black state. So, Lao Zhang's original people were ready, and he planned to tour Shuzhou south to teach Uncle Sima to be a man. But it was intercepted.

So I really got up.

The situation in Quang Nam is not good, and Di Qing is now ordered to go out in danger. Zhang Fangping and Pang Ji also tore up in the court. There is no way to do this, Sima Guang is Prime Minister Pang Ji's favorite protégé.

Later, Zhang Fangping's letter arrived in the hands of Wang Anshi of Shuzhou, asking Lao Wang to find a way to call Sima Guang a man.

In fact, in order to supply the food and salary of Di Qing's decisive battle, Wang Anshi gave the income of the entire Huaixi officialdom to the job field, so Lao Wang had a disagreement with Sima Guang, and asked: Why don't you sell the assets of the deserted houses that the government can't use, and what do you keep them for? It has fallen into disrepair for a long time, and the more it swings, the less valuable it becomes. Do you have to put it like Lanruo Temple?

Sima Guang's reply to Lao Wang was: For the sake of the people's livelihood, Shuzhou is my government.

Therefore, the ruling differences between the Great Demon King and the Sima Sage were heated up because of this issue. Sima Guang sympathized with the beggars and wanted them to have a default residence. And Wang Anshi hates beggars the most, why do people with good feet and good hands beg? In this era, it is not difficult to eat, and you can go outside the city to chop wood, get fish, and hunt.

The trouble is that Wang Anshi didn't dare to really listen to Zhang Fangping's words and tear Sima Guang apart. In fact, as long as Lao Wang is willing, he can veto Sima Guang's decree, so that he can't do anything. However, if you really do that, you will hurt each other, and in the end, it will be hundreds of thousands of people in Shuzhou. As soon as the term of office of my eldest Wang and Da Sima expired, they patted their butts and left, and they still became officials in a different place, but what about the people of Shuzhou?

So he did something and didn't do anything, Wang Anshi always avoided conflict with Sima Guang. Since there is no money to send to Di Qing, of course, the only way to do it is to give the income of the Huaixi officials, this is the first time that Wang Anshi has increased his hatred, the reason is that Sima Guang does not sell his assets, and he wants to keep those things so that the beggars have a default residence.