In the winter of the third year of Xining, Gan Xianggong was in his early Chinese New Year's Eve, destroying the party Xiang Xixia and forging immortal achievements.

It was also in this year that Ouyang Xiu, the governor of the political affairs, invited himself to Zhishi, and he listened to it and let Ouyang Xiu Zhishi retire. Ouyang Xiu has made a lot of contributions to officialdom in his life, and his biggest contribution is to reverse the style of the literary world, there are also mistakes, and there are some things that are difficult to say right or wrong.

It's not to make a final conclusion on Ouyang Xiu's coffin, Ouyang Xiu is really a free and easy character, and he is not greedy for power, and now in the court, although he is involved in political affairs, he has the feeling of an outsider, so he invited himself, but it shows the style of a scholar.

In the winter of the third year of Xining, Wang Anshi entered the same Zhongshu Sect and served as the prime minister with Gan Qi.

Zeng Gongliang, promoted to Zhaowenguan University Scholar, entered Lu Guogong, and retreated to the second line.

Now the two prime ministers of the DPRK and China are Gan Qi and Wang Anshi, which is naturally operated by Gan Qi himself, and the system is also the same.

Generally speaking, most of the time the position of prime minister is two, in the previous era, there was a left and right minister, and after the reform of Yuanfeng, there will be Shangshu left and right servants, which is also the meaning of the left and right ministers, and there are many deputy prime ministers not to talk about.

Zeng Gongliang retreated to the second line, and the fifty-year-old Wang Anshi made up for it, which was also the case in history.

Different from history, today's reform is very different, and Gan Qi's reform is completely different from Wang Anshi's nature.

Gan Xianggong went out to fight and returned, and then sat in the political hall, and the people waiting for the report outside the door formed a long line.

As the prime minister, Wang Anshi sat on Gan Qi's side, and the people who reported came one by one, and Sima Guang was the first one.

From the moment Sima Guang walked into the political hall, Gan Qi always felt that something was wrong with many things, and there seemed to be something wrong with the atmosphere.

But Gan Qi had actually expected it.

A Sima Guang and a Wang Anshi actually represent the two sides of Gan Qi.

Sima Guang represents Gan Qi's side of the famous and famous Confucian, and it is also Gan Qi's side of "defeating magic with magic", so Gan Qi has always been courteous to Sima Guang, even if Sima Guang and Gan Qi said something like cutting robes and breaking righteousness, Gan Qi didn't care at all, but kept fooling Sima Guang to do things for him.

Wang Anshi naturally represents the reform and enterprising side of Ganqi, and the real reform, and even economic exchanges, Ganqi almost all of them are handed over to Wang Anshi.

Therefore, in Sima Guang's heart, he had already decided that Gan Qi was the same kind of person as himself, so he was willing to work for Gan Qi. But now, Wang Anshi has been promoted to prime minister, and Sima Guang is still in the imperial history, which makes Sima Guang have some thoughts in his heart......

Because the contradiction between Sima Guang and Wang Anshi has begun to form, the more Gan Qi is not in the capital, the more the contradiction between the two will become more and more revealed, there is no way, the two will not be able to go together ideologically.

Of course, this is not to say how Sima Guang is greedy for power, not to mention, Sima Guang is not such a person, in the third year of Xining in history, the emperor wanted to promote Sima Guang to the privy deputy envoy, Sima Guang because he could not agree with Wang Anshi, and the promotion also refused, and he resigned directly and returned to Luoyang, returned to Luoyang for more than ten years, and wrote a masterpiece "Zizhi Tongjian".

This kind of person, no matter how dark he is, can't deny that Sima Guang really believes in the sages, and even believes in it to the extreme.

At this time, Sima Guang felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, his thoughts were not because of power, but because he felt a sense of betrayal, Sima Guang trusted Gan Qi, but Gan Qi trusted Wang Anshi the most, this sense of betrayal naturally made people uncomfortable.

Gan Qi could feel the change in this atmosphere, and while listening to Sima Guang's report on the supervision of various places in the Imperial History Observatory, he was thinking about how to continue to fool Sima Guang.

At this time, Gan Qi still attaches great importance to Sima Guang, as long as Sima Guang is encircled, Gan Qi is equivalent to breaking into the enemy, as long as he can still fool Sima Guang, then he can continue to defeat magic with magic.

So after Sima Guang's report was completed, Gan Qi spoke: "Brother Junshi, this time Jiefu entered the door of the middle book, it is His Majesty's intention, and now is the time when the matter of paving into the mu has entered an important stage, once it is successful, next year will be the time to pave the Ding into the mu and prepare to promote the world, so the matter of supervising the imperial history in various parts of the Imperial History Terrace is the top priority, I have thought about it a few times, and I am ready to enter Your Majesty, and Brother Junshi will participate in political affairs, but I also have to serve as the middle of the imperial history, I don't know what Brother Junshi wants?" ”

This is the best way Gan Qi can think of, Sima Guang must not leave the position of the Imperial Historical Observatory, Sima Guang has to be a shield for Gan Qi in the Imperial Historical Observatory.

When Sima Guang heard this, he hesitated slightly, and he was also pondering, and now Gan Qi represents the children of sages and sages in Sima Guang's heart, and also represents Confucian orthodoxy. But above this court, there is always an outlier like Wang Anshi next to Gan Qi, which makes Sima Guang extremely uncomfortable.

It was also Gan Qi who was too smart and always told Wang Anshi about some of his radical ideas, and only Wang Anshi could also listen to Gan Qi's radical reform ideas, which naturally came out of Wang Anshi's mouth, and also made conservatives like Sima Guang more and more dissatisfied with Wang Anshi.

The representative of this situation lies in the emperor's violent handling of Cheng Yi's request for orders, and the whole court is opposed, and the emperor wants to make an edict to punish himself, but Wang Anshi is not so opposed, or the opposition is not strong, and he also helps the emperor say a word or two from time to time.

This also shows that Wang Anshi's methods are also relatively ruthless, and Wang Anshi in history is also less tolerant, when he presided over the change of the law, the means are extremely ruthless, but if there are opponents, they will not let go of any of them, and all of them will be degraded and even imprisoned.

It has even reached the point of having a little literary prison, such as Su Shi in history, when he served in Huzhou, because he said a few words of opposition in the book, he was immediately arrested and imprisoned in Yushitai for a few months, and was relegated to Huangzhou to be the deputy envoy of the regiment training, so he could only start farming on the eastern slope and write "Red Cliff Fu" or something. Because of this opposition, Su Shi was not only imprisoned and demoted, but also implicated dozens of other officials.

Some people say that the large-scale party struggle in the Great Song Dynasty was caused by Sima Guang, but in fact, it is not the case, many things have causes and effects. When Wang Anshi changed the law, he tried his best to suppress dissidents, and the means were also extremely ruthless, and there was no room for the slightest doubt, and there were countless derogatory ministers in the court.

This also directly led to the return of conservatives to power later, and those who were degraded, imprisoned, and implicated in the past naturally had to settle their previous grudges, which caused a large-scale inventory and calculation, and countless reformers were unlucky again.

This is cause and effect. It is obviously unfair to blame Sima Guang for all the party disputes.

Sima Guang is a representative of one group, and Wang Anshi is a representative of another group, and they are not just individuals. Wang Anshi's reform itself was not very successful, and there were many mistakes and omissions. Sima Guang's opposition itself is not really useless, but also of practical significance.

In the final analysis, the matter of party disputes is that the two factions and groups have too deep a grudge against each other. You beat me to death at the beginning, but when I got up, I naturally beat you to death again, and there is not much rationality in it, which has become an emotional matter, and it has become a matter of revenge.

The only rational person is actually Su Shi, Wang Anshi changed the law, he opposed a lot, and he was unlucky. After Sima Guang came to power, he completely overturned the new law, and Su Shi felt that there were still many good policies in the law, and he should not oppose it all, and then he was unlucky.

Rational people, in the tide of emotion, are great tragedies!

At this time, Gan Qi wanted to appease Sima Guang, just to avoid this kind of large-scale factional conflict, and wanted to boil the frog in warm water, in fact, Gan Qi was a clever balancing method, and it was faintly an emperor's mental technique.

Sima Guang listened to Gan Qi's reassuring words, and was still hesitating, this guy also has some backbone, if he is unhappy, nine times out of ten he will stop picking and quit, and go home to write a masterpiece of history.

Gan Qi saw Sima Guang like this, and said: "Brother Junshi, when I went out this time, there were many scholars in Beijing asking for their lives, Your Majesty dealt with it a little too much, Your Majesty is young, hot-blooded, and treats scholars with violent means in a fit of anger, I won't talk about this matter, Brother Junshi is a direct minister, when he is the imperial history, always vigilant and teach His Majesty, so that the way is the loyalty of the courtiers, and if you are someone else, you can't do Brother Junshi so directly." ”

Gan Qi was fooling Sima Guang again, and he naturally felt in his heart that the emperor was doing the right thing, and sometimes he had to do it. But when Sima Guang was fooled, Gan Qi said something that made Sima Guang feel recognized, which made Sima Guang feel that Gan Qi was a representative figure among the children of the sage.

The gentleman deceived him, and that's probably what happened.

When Sima Guang heard this, he was really moved in his heart, he came in and was very depressed, and there were two things about depression, one was because the emperor's attitude towards scholars made him unbearable, and he frequently wrote to the emperor, making the emperor guilty of himself, and the emperor couldn't see him. The second is that I feel some sense of betrayal here in Ganchi. Sima Guang has recently really had some thoughts of going home to write books.

At this time, when he heard Gan Qi's words, he immediately felt that he was recognized, and bowed his hand, and his words were sonorous: "Gan Xianggong, only blame the incompetence of the subordinates!" ”

Sima Guang really felt that he was incompetent, and no matter how much he admonished, he couldn't convince the emperor, isn't this the incompetence of Cheng in the imperial history?

Gan Qi waved his hand: "Brother Junshi doesn't have to blame himself so much, Your Majesty is young, and you and I are also so temperamental when we are young, and no one is to blame." That's it, tomorrow I will enter the palace to play, Your Majesty is young, when sensitive and studious, this is the rule of the past dynasties, when someone reads and speaks, I will make a statement, let Brother Junshi take a few days a month to give a lecture to His Majesty, how about it? ”

When Sima Guang heard this, he was even more moved, and he lectured to the emperor, that is, to teach the emperor the way of being a man and a king, this was Gan Qi's errand, and it was the honor of the emperor, and more importantly, Gan Qi gave him a chance to personally educate the emperor to become a talent.

Sima Guang arched his hand again: "The ministers must do their best to guide Your Majesty to become a generation of saints with the learning of sages!" ”

It's done, it's not difficult to fool Sima Guang.

Gan Qi nodded, his face was full of relief, and he also praised: "Brother Junshi is really the pillar of the country." ”

"Compared with Gan Xianggong, the lower officials dare not be ashamed." Sima Guang really thought so in his heart, not to mention Gan Qi's merits, just say that such a leader, where to find it?

Sima Guang flickered around and happily went back to the yamen.

Wang Anshi was a little unhappy in his heart, but he didn't show it, but said to Gan Qi: "Gan Xiang, if you really want to talk about it, I think that although Your Majesty has done something radical, there is nothing wrong with it, at that time, Gan Xiang was not on the spot, Cheng Yi's generation was too arrogant, and the non-ruthless method was not enough to calm down the matter." ”

Fooled a Sima Guang, Gan Qi had to fool Wang Anshi again, Gan Qi smiled: "Right or wrong, in fact, it doesn't matter, Brother Junshi is in the Yushitai, the commander of the official, the implementation of commercial taxes everywhere, and the apportionment into the mu, all of them have to rely on him, he has also done a very good job, the court and the court, it is a good thing to be able to serve the country so wholeheartedly, and it is of great benefit to the country and the people." ”

Gan Qi has actually experienced the difficulty of being a referee, originally this referee was supposed to be the emperor's, but Gan Qi has now realized it.

Gan Qi also understands a truth, no matter what era, conservative gentlemen are needed, they are the bottom line of an era. Aggressive figures of the radical are also needed, they are the ceiling of an era. If there is only conservatism in an era, it will be stale, and if there is only radicalism in an era, it will be chaotic.

The best model is that gentlemen do gentlemen's errands, and radicals do enterprising errands, and cooperate with each other, that is the best team. The people who unite this team are the most important thing.

Gan Qi is also becoming more and more proficient in these things.

Wang Anshi nodded: "What Gan Xiang said is reasonable. ”

The two had a brief exchange, and the reporters walked in one by one, the three divisions, the Privy Council, financial issues, and recruitment, one by one......

By night, Ganchi hadn't been able to get home.

Early the next morning, Ganchi went out to the city again to see his factory.

The factory has begun trial production, while trying, while solving the problems encountered in production, Wu Qiaoer grasped the overall situation, engineer Shen Kuo was exhausted, and even all the textile machines were modified on a small scale during the period. This is the norm in industrial development.

Gan Qi, the shopkeeper, is just a casual observer in the factory, he doesn't care about the details anymore, he just needs to see the results. No matter how complicated and difficult the process is, as a superior person, he only wants the result.

Wu Qiao'er and Shen Kuo took Gan Qi to watch the flowers, reporting the situation everywhere as they walked.

Gan Qi always asks only one sentence: "How long will it take to start mass production?" ”

Wu Qiao'er looked at Shen Kuo, this kind of question has to be asked to professionals.

Shen Kuo frowned and replied: "A month is the best, and half a month may be successful." ”

Gan Qi waved his hand: "In half a month, I want to see all the textile machines produced, and I want to see cheap cotton cloth in Bianliang City." ”

Shen Kuo nodded repeatedly.

Wu Qiao'er asked: "Please also ask the official to get a card." ”

Gan Qi really forgot about this, the company naturally wants a name, and the product also needs a brand.

Gan Qi was quick to take the name: "Qiao'er Textile." ”

Taking this name, in fact, it is also a heat, Qiaoer ready-to-wear is a high-end atmosphere and high-grade brand, Qiaoer Textile comes out, naturally it also represents quality assurance, which can reduce some publicity costs.

"Xianggong, then the lower official will go and adjust the loom again, so that every piece of cloth is woven with the words Qiao'er Weaving." Engineer Shen Kuo is extremely competent.

Gan Qi was also very satisfied, and said: "In the next few days, the Inquisitor's Court will follow, and the Ministry of Officials will make a document and promote you to a member of the Ministry of Works." ”

The power is in hand, and the matter of promotion is decided in a word.

Shen Kuo didn't show much joy, but just bowed down and arched his hand: "Thank you for the promotion." ”