Early the next morning, at three o'clock on the fifth watch, in the Zichen Palace, a routine morning pilgrimage was held

Zhao Zhen, Song Renzong, who was sitting in the hall, first glanced at the ministers in the second class under the hall, and he found that Fan Zhongyan, who had been imprisoned for three days before, had a smile on his cheeks when he stood in the third column of the left class.

After the ministers in the hall shouted "Long live" three times, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen immediately asked: "Today morning, I don't know what the Qing has to ask me for?" ”

As soon as Song Renzong Zhao Zhen's question fell, Fan Zhongyan, who was standing in the third column of the left class and wearing a purple official robe, took the lead in holding the wat out of the column, facing Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, who was sitting in the hall, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a book to play, and please take a look." ”

Hearing Fan Zhongyan, who was standing under the hall, say that there was a book to play, Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong, who was sitting in the hall, immediately knew Zhang Maoze, the deputy of the inner attendant who was standing next to him, and ordered a little impatiently: "Deputy Zhang knows, you go down quickly and take the music from Fan Gong's hand, and let me read it." ”

Zhang Maoze, who was waiting on the side, responded to the "whoo", then hurriedly walked slowly to Fan Zhongyan, stretched out his hands to take a book that looked about three inches thick from Fan Zhongyan's hand, turned around and slowly presented it to Song Renzong Zhao Zhen.

After taking the fold from Zhang Maoze's hand, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen flipped through it a few times, then closed the fold and handed it back to Zhang Maoze, who was standing in front of him and did not go away, and commanded loudly: "I have finished reading it, and I think the content written in the fold is very good. ”

Zhang Mao took the fold with both hands, and after answering the "whoo", he turned around, walked to the bottom of the hall, stood in front of the hall, faced the two classes of ministers under the hall, and read the content of the fold catchily.

Whether it was from Song Renzong Zhao Zhen after a few glances, he said that he had read the content written on the fold, or when Zhang Mao read the content of the fold, it sounded catchy, which showed one thing, that is, before that, both of them had seen Fan Zhongyan's fold.

The real situation is that in the evening of yesterday, Fan Zhongyan left Bao Zheng's office in Kaifeng Mansion, said goodbye to Bao Zheng and Wang Hao, and went straight to the palace in official clothes to meet Song Renzong Zhao Zhen.

In the vertical arch hall, Fan Zhongyan presented this recital to Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, Zhang Maoze, who was waiting in front of the emperor, was naturally also present, after Song Renzong Zhao Zhen thought about it, let Fan Zhongyan in the next morning, in front of a group of courtiers, presented the content of this recital to him, and then he asked Zhang Mao to read the content of the recital to a group of courtiers, so as to probe the tone of the courtiers.

At first, what made Song Renzong Zhao Zhen curious was that in addition to Fan Zhongyan's own name, the names of Han Qi, Fu Bi, Ouyang Xiu, Bao Zheng and Wang Hao were prominently listed.

The other four court ministers supported Fan Zhongyan to carry out reforms, which did not make Song Renzong Zhao Zhen feel strange, but what made Song Renzong Zhao Zhen feel strange was that Wang Hao, who had just been promoted to the street division for about a month, was just a sesame mung bean official from the eighth grade.

In addition, Wang Hao implemented new traffic regulations in Tokyo a few days ago, and for this reason, Fan Zhongyan, who violated the new traffic regulations, was arrested and imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion Prison for three days.

In the opinion of Song Renzong and Zhao Zhen at this time, Fan Zhongyan and Wang Hao, after forming this Liangzi, will not retaliate against each other, and at least there will be no cooperation.

When Song Renzong asked Fan Zhongyan with great interest about the proportion of Wang Hao's contribution to this recital in the vertical arch hall last night, Fan Zhongyan replied that one-third of the reform content on the recital was from Wang Hao's hand.

For Fan Zhongyan's answer, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen was even more surprised, because in his impression, Wang Hao, as a small soldier from the army, promoted him to the position of the street secretary, and he was already able to make the best use of people.

Until this time, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen felt that he still underestimated this Wang Hao, just with one-third of the reform content that Wang Hao contributed to Fan Zhongyan's twists and turns, even if Wang Hao was to be a governor or deputy privy envoy, it should be more than enough.

Last night in the Vertical Arch Hall, Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong felt that if the reforms listed on the fold were immediately put into effect without informing the courtiers, within three days, the folds of opposing opinions would surely pile up on his imperial case.

It's just that what Song Renzong Zhao Zhen didn't expect was that in today's court, after Zhang Mao finished reading out the content of Fan Zhongyan's recital, before he could open his mouth to ask, there were already as many as four court ministers who were in the left and right classes, holding wat and clearly expressing their objections.

These five ministers of the imperial court are Zhang Dexiang, the Pingzhang Shizhang of Zhongshumen, Jia Changchao, the governor of the political affairs, the Gongchen of the Imperial History, and Liu Yuanyu's right secretary.

In the eyes of the ministers who participated in today's early dynasty, the reason why the Zhao official family was above today's court and followed Fan Zhongyan, who was ordered to return to Beijing from the northwest border, staged such a play was to implement the new policy.

In the eyes of many court ministers, Fan Zhongyan's reform pace is so big that it will definitely make the originally stable and peaceful Great Song Dynasty panic, and it is natural to stand up and oppose it.

Seeing Zhang Dexiang four people holding a wat out of the ranks, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen first sighed, and asked knowingly: "Swaychenqing, just shouted 'I don't think it's okay', you might as well say it, why not?" ”

Zhang Dexiang, Jia Changchao, Wang Gongchen, and Liu Yuanyu successively made speeches and expressed their opposing views, although the arguments they opposed were all different, but they all had a foothold, that is, the old laws of the ancestors could not be changed at will, and the implementation of the new law reform in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty should not be carried out in a hurry, but should be carried out in an orderly and gradual manner, one by one, and all aspects should not be reformed in one go.

Immediately afterwards, Fan Zhongyan led the reform of the content of the reform, in the court, but also defended himself, that the current Great Song Dynasty is not as good as in the past, in the face of the party's Western Xia and Khitan Northern Liao years of raids, the people are now poor, poor and weak, the treasury is unable to make ends meet, should be quickly and drastically reformed the old law that has become outdated, and the implementation of the new law in the Great Song Dynasty can only be strengthened by changing the law.

For this reason, Fan Zhongyan also listed that in the Spring and Autumn Period, it was the success of the reform of the Shang Dynasty that made the Qin State, which was originally weak, become stronger, and then finally unified the six countries.

It's just that Fan Zhongyan didn't mention that Shang Ying's reform made Qin strong at the same time, Shang Ying's own final fate was that he broke and died, the reason was that he offended the ruling class of Qin at that time, only Qin Xiaogong, the king of Qin at that time, trusted him very much, and the ministers of Qin almost all stayed away from him, and they were afraid to avoid him when they saw him.