The seventeenth year of Jianning, January

In this year, the battle between Wang Fu and Xing Ziang reached the most intense moment, Wang Fu originally decided to build a Chi Road between Bingzhou and Xiliang, he wanted to connect the Liang, Xin, He, and Hebei five states in the north, because between Jizhou and Youzhou, the Chi Road was built earlier, so that the entire north can be connected together, which is not only conducive to the control of the temple in the north and even with the remote areas, but also has a very huge role in the development of the entire Han North.

However, Xing Ziang disagreed, he believed that the Han should first develop the south, in his opinion, just the money that Yangzhou obtains from overseas every year is enough to overwhelm the taxes obtained by several northern states, in this case, why spend a lot of money to develop shipping in the south, do these things that have no practical use? This wastes people's power and wastes time, especially in the recent past, Yangzhou sailors, under the leadership of Zhang Jiao, found an extremely dangerous passage in the southwest.

Because of the hull and logistics, the Yangzhou sailors could not occupy the surroundings, and could only observe, but they were surprised to find that on this passage, the area called Tanjung Butiri by the local natives produced a huge amount of gold, and the gold produced in this small area can almost exceed the gold produced by the Han Dynasty, Zhang Jiao was disappointed, he still failed to find the Penglai Island he wanted, but the Yangzhou Navy was happy, this is simply the Golden Island!

So, they established a stronghold here, and sent more than 300 soldiers to garrison, and drove the local natives to carry out mining work, but anyone who refused, they would be attacked, and those who could help the Han would also give them food and daily necessities, what Xing Ziang wanted was to expand the expenditure on shipping in the south, improve the ships, increase the number of sailors, reduce overseas commercial taxes, and let the shipping gradually become a democratic movement instead of the current official movement, he hoped to mobilize the merchants to go to sea.

In order to be able to confront Wang Fu, he looked for a lot of assistants in the court, including Yuan Feng, Zhang Wen, Zhang Jian, Cao Song and other important officials, and locally, the officials of the entire south supported him, after all, only the temple focused on the development of the south, and they had the opportunity to get merit for these southern officials.

As for Wang Fu, although he did not have any assistants in the court, at the local level, the support of Lu Zhi, Yang Qiu, and Zheng Xuan was more effective than the support of several assassins in the south.

The two fought openly and secretly, however, the Son of Heaven did not come out to stop it, he saw such a situation, but he was very happy in his heart, pretending not to know, so he let the two fight, the core of the two fights, has become the assessment to be held this year, Wang Fu believes that the scientific and meritorious assessment system is proposed by himself, so he should let himself continue to implement, in the past, he was implementing, compared to Xing Ziang, he is experienced and has more advantages, but Xing Ziang thinks that the country's scholars, how can they handle the hands of one person, As a scholar, he should let himself carry it out.

For this matter, the two sides fought for a long time, but it stopped in January, mainly because, the Son of Heaven spoke, first of all, the prince was going to marry Cai Yong's daughter, and secondly, this assessment was supervised by the prince and implemented by Cai Yong.

The first court meeting in the seventeenth year of Jianning was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

The Son of Heaven walked into the main hall, sat on the upper seat, and looked at the court.

Wang Fu took the lead in getting up and led the hundred officials to meet the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven returned the salute, and then everyone sat in their seats, the Son of Heaven frowned and asked, "Can the hundred officials play?" ”

Wang Fu couldn't wait to get up, glared at Xing Ziang angrily, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a performance, the minister wants to impeach Shangshu Ling Xing Hao, this thief is hateful, meddling in the appointment of officials, wantonly appointing his own officials, ill-intentioned, rebellious, ministers, cooking evil thief Xing Ziang!" Wang Fu looked at the Son of Heaven, particularly aggrieved, I have to say that Xing Ziang is really the most difficult opponent in Wang Fu's life, Xing Ziang followed He Xiu in his early years, studied with the Son of Heaven, and followed Yangqiu in the future, Liu Lao Taiwei, Lu Zhi, Dong Zhuo, Wen Ren, Duan Gong, etc., and even, he also followed Wang Fu and became an official in the south.

After years of tempering, many great and capable people have been taught, and because of the special understanding of Wang Fu, Xing Ziang in the temple, can be said to be Wang Fu's fierce rival, Wang Fu at the beginning of the fifth policy, was rejected by Xing Ziang Fourth, so that Wang Fu almost fainted, in the temple, Xing Ziang and many assistants, outside, he just arranged a large number of local officials, and the support he received was far more than his Wang Fu, in the Son of Heaven, Wang Fu is no matter how favored again, how can it be compared to the first to follow the Son of Heaven's close ministers?

It has always been someone else who asks me to cook my king's letter, but today this guy actually forced me to cook him!

Seeing Wang Fu's aggrieved appearance, the Son of Heaven couldn't help laughing, shook his head, and said, "Prince... This.. The ministers of the court and the central government should be together, and the country will be prosperous...", the Son of Heaven was also a little speechless, he never thought that there would be such a day in the temple, and the hundred officials were also happy to hear about it, grinning, especially Yuan Sikong, he smiled and discussed with the officials around him, and later asked His Majesty for an order, and tonight he would set up a banquet at the Yao's house, and drink the cow.

The policy of requesting the Son of Heaven before the banquet was also set by Wang Fu, Wang Fu stipulated that the ministers set up a banquet and gathered, and there must be a yellow gate sent by the Son of Heaven to go, on the one hand, it is to amnesty the crimes of these ministers to gather and drink, and at the same time, it is necessary to see that they can not exceed the amount of amnesty, because the grain is brewed, so the matter of gathering and drinking, the temple still looks very seriously, in addition, of course, it is to prevent the ministers from conspiring in the palace, and the ministers also agree, anyway, whether there is a small yellow door or not, they can't guard against the embroidered messengers.

Xing Ziang was silent, looked at Yuan Feng in front of him, Yuan Feng immediately got up, and began to condemn Wang Fu sharply, and many ministers also followed one after another, and then, he once again proposed to fund Yangzhou shipping, as well as to promote the civil movement, in terms of merchants, the Son of Heaven is still very sensitive in his heart, especially, after seeing the massive wealth obtained by the northern Kushan trade, he has a deeper fear of the merchants, the southern shipping, he himself is supportive, but if you want to develop coastal merchants, the Son of Heaven is against it in his heart.

To improve the ship, increase the number of sailors, this is no problem, however, all this must be in the hands of the temple, that is, in their own hands, absolutely not allowed to those merchants, this is the reason why the Son of Heaven has not responded to Xing Ziang, for Wang Fu's galloping policy, the Son of Heaven also agrees with it in his heart, but Wang Fu's policy costs too much, and and, He, these new states are not very rich, spend so much money, and through taxation can not recover the same wealth, This made the Son of Heaven a little entangled in his heart.