Inner Service Province, in a quiet room, there are only three people: Liang Shicheng, Li Bangyan, and Gao Yu.

In the past, Wang Hao, who liked to stick to Liang Shicheng the most, is still fighting with the toast masters in the southwest, and the atmosphere in the house is a little dull.

"The plan to cut down Yan is an opportunity for us, if we miss this opportunity again, I am afraid that we will always be pressed by Cai Jing." Liang Shicheng is rarely a little ruthless, his face has always been light and light, even in the face of Zhao Ji, he has never lost his color.

Now it is made like this, it is really beyond his expectations, seven or eight years ago, Liang Shicheng was in the limelight, and the name of the Great Song Dynasty was slowly spreading, who would believe that a prefect and a scholar in Yangzhou could force him to this point.

"What do you mean?" Looking at Gao Yu and Li Bangyan like clay statues of Bodhisattvas, lowering their heads and not speaking, Liang Shicheng hated a hammer on his thighs and asked.

Gao Yu is a privy envoy, although most of the power was divided by Cai Bian, he can be regarded as an important minister of the Western Mansion, sighed and said: "Enfu, if it is Fa Yan, without the support of Cai Jing and Yang Lin, our chances of winning are not great."

Now Yang Lin controls the city and the northwest commercial tax, and Cai Jing controls the salt and tea introductions, and they work together to get the money into the yamen under their control, except for the inner government of the official family, and the rest are just opened to maintain expenses.

Speaking of the army, the forbidden army is only afraid of... The strength is not enough, don't look at the Liao people in the northeast, a few years ago, the Hebei soldiers were in turmoil, they hit Shandong in one breath and plundered and left, the forbidden army was not their opponent.

Tong Guan's Shengjie Army, the soldiers are few and outnumbered, only the Western Army can withstand a battle, and now it is held by Yang Lin in his hands and sent to Song Jiang, I am afraid that it is ordered by the West Mansion, which is not as good as Yang Lin's secret letter.

If we rashly cut down Yan at this time, once we fail, the officials will not be spared. ”

Li Bangyan hurriedly echoed: "What Gao Taiwei said is very reasonable, and we have to think long-term to deal with Cai Jing. ”

After a while, Liang Shicheng sighed and said, "What is Yang Lin doing?" ”

Li Bangyan happened to hear some news and replied: "Then Yang Lin takes a few students and a group of idle people every day to play and wander around. ”

"I'm tired, you all go out."

The two of them got up and slowly withdrew from the house, and after going out, Gao Yu and Li Bangyan glanced at each other and turned away with a tacit understanding.

Both of them knew that Liang Shicheng, the most powerful hidden minister in the Great Song Dynasty, was no longer beautiful.

Relying on his huge background, he can still hold out for a while, but in a few years, this boundless power will be divided between Cai Jing and that Yang Lin sooner or later.

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In the courtyard of Zhaodefang, Yang Lin held the shelf of the teacher's watch, and reprimanded several apprentices with his hands behind his back.

In the past few days, Yang Lin took them deep into various workshops to watch the origin of clothing, food, housing and transportation on weekdays.

"It is not advisable to read dead books, and after New Year's Day, I will take you to the fields to see how the peasants grow their crops. You are all industrious, you are not diligent, you don't divide the grains, and you can't walk a few steps before you complain about the hardships.

At the beginning of the sage, which one of them sat at home and read the book, the sage Confucius traveled around the world, if you are of this kind of body, you will be exhausted to death halfway through. ”

The five apprentices looked at their mentor and couldn't understand why he couldn't blush or breathe all day long.

Dark clouds piled up in the miserable sky, and after a while, heavy snow suddenly fell, and Yang Lin took them to his study.

Wu Min, Yuwen Xuzhong, Yuan Tingzhi, and Ma Kuo, who were still half-dead, suddenly lit up.

"Teacher! This is the handwriting of the officials? Junyi, Junyi. ”

Ma Kuo's eyes widened, and the ghost shouted: "The true deeds of the prince?!" This is the handwriting of the sage. ”

Only Cai Juan is knowledgeable, and his father Cai Jing's collection is no less than here.

Yang Lin moved his eyebrows, patted the table, and said, "Shut up." ”

The four of them looked at each other and sat down in separate seats honestly.

Yang Lin continued to teach: "The world is full of knowledge, you will be officials in the future, and you want to benefit the people, but you don't understand anything, and your mouth full of benevolence, righteousness and morality may not make the thieves in the governance stop; A splendid article is not enough to fill the stomachs of the people. The eyes should be lowered and the hands should be raised, which is the essence of this knowledge. ”

Among these students, although Cai Qian is Cai Jing's son, he has no shelf, and he gets along quite well with several senior brothers. He put his old man and didn't study, and came to be Yang Lin's student, just to see some of Yang Shaozai's differences.

Yuwenxu admires Yang Lin the most, and he really takes him as a teacher and works hard to accept the teachings of his teacher.

As for Ma Kuo, this kid is ghostly and likes to think. Every word of Yang Lin, he will think, record, and then study and ponder by himself.

Yuan Tingzhi, like Wu Min, was born in a poor family, and he heard Yang Lin's articles and poems from his hometown academy, and they admired his teacher very much, but they could not accept some of his teachings.

But in this era, since you recognize the master, you have to be obedient and study hard.

Yang Lin squinted his eyes and looked around, and nodded secretly in his heart, these people are his founding disciples, they must be taught well, and they will go out to collect their own disciples and grandchildren in the future.

They are not stupid either, they take their own precious time, teach them sincerely for a while, and then put them into officialdom.

To this lifeless, stagnant Great Song bureaucratic system, throw in a few aliens to stir up this stagnant water.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside, and Lu Qian shouted directly outside: "Shaozai, there was news just now, something happened to the Khitan people in Huanglong Mansion!" ”

Yang Lin's heart tightened, and several apprentices also pricked up their ears, hearing about this kind of military aircraft event for the first time, which made them have a kind of excitement to participate in the major affairs of the society.

Lu Qian pushed the door in, crossed his hands and said: "Shaozai, the people of the Bohai Sea in the Northeast have raised an incident against Liao, and there are no less than 40,000 soldiers and horses, and they have defected to the Jurchens, and the momentum of the Jin Kingdom has increased a little more. ”

Yang Lin patted his head, rubbed his eyebrows, and sighed secretly.

This was expected, but it still made him a little discouraged, watching the Jurchen Tartars rise step by step, but he couldn't do anything in the slightest.

The Bohai people and the Jurchens belong to the same ancient Jin people, and it is not unusual for them to defect to the Jurchens, and the Bohai Kingdom was very strong at the beginning.

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Bohai Kingdom has existed for 229 years, and agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing and hunting have flourished.

Even handicrafts including textiles, smelting, gold, silver, copper, and iron processing, porcelain making, and shipbuilding are well developed.

More importantly, their navigation skills are exquisite, Chinese characters are the common language of the Bohai Kingdom, the Bohai Kingdom has a strong academic atmosphere, literature, art, painting, sculpture have made achievements, and have become the prosperous country of Haidong in the eyes of the Central Plains people.

The iron smelting of the Jurchen Tartars is actually no worse than that of the Central Plains, and even in some aspects, it is still excessive, and there is the shadow of the Bohai Kingdom.

Like many powerful countries, the once prosperous Bohai State died in civil strife.

Yelu Abaoji took advantage of the continuous civil war in the Bohai Sea to raise troops to attack the Bohai Sea, and within a few days he arrested the king of the Bohai Sea.

The Bohai Kingdom died, Yelu Abaoji made his son the king, changed the Bohai Sea to Dongdan, fifty-seven years later, abolished the Dongdan country, and the territory of Dongdan returned to the Liao Dynasty, and the huge Khitan was integrated.

Now their little brother Jurchen is so strong, the Khitan who fought lost his armor and abandoned his armor, and also established the second dynasty of the Jin Dynasty.

The Bohai people, who had had enough of the high-pressure policy of the Khitan, happily raised troops against the Liao, making the Jin State even more powerful.