When the four came, Zhang Bin went to meet three people one after another.

One is Chen Wu, the deputy leader of the Cao Gang, Zhang Bin asked this person to use all his strength to find the source of the rumors and control them after tomorrow's court.

The second is Han Ziming, the No. 3 person in the pacification division, and the two talked secretly for an hour and reached a deal.

After Chen Wu sent the news and found the person who spread the rumors, Zhang Bin went to Li Shunju again, and then through Li Shunju, he contacted Shi Deyi, another great eunuch in charge of the Imperial City Division, and he gave Shi Deyi a credit, which the latter gladly accepted.

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"The old man used the contacts he had accumulated over the years, and now he was excited, Zhang Bin, the thief, offended a lot of people, the old man wanted to see how Zhang Bin escaped this time!"

On the Longtuge University Scholar's Mansion, Sima Guang, who had been running between some official mansions in two days, stepped into the house with a smile on his face, which made the people in the mansion wonder, since the bidding, there was no smile on his master's face, and he didn't want to smile so happily today.

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Wang Yan arranged for people to spread rumors, Zhang Bin learned about this matter through Mingyue as early as last night, and he also asked Li Siwa to go out to find out about various rumors in the capital.

If there were no Shen Xiaoan and Mingyue in his hands, this matter would naturally be very, very troublesome and tricky, but now Zhang Bin is already invincible, so no matter what the rumors outside say, he is as sure as a mountain.

It's just that what to do next makes him hesitate.

Now, with the two witnesses of Mingyue and Shen Xiaoan, the life of the tiger head will definitely be saved.

And Wang Yan is naturally ruined, not to mention, he will also go to prison, because he killed Ma Binrui and his full family.

But after Zhang Bin was sure to save the life of the tiger head, he had to consider a new problem.

The exposure of Wang Yan's matter will inevitably implicate Wang Anshi, and the old party will never miss this opportunity, and because of its own reasons, the abolition of the equalization law has become inevitable, and both the Son of Heaven and the new party have shaken their confidence in Wang Anshi a lot.

In fact, Zhang Bin also vaguely guessed that Wang Yan saw this when he dealt with him like this, because he shook the foundation of the New Party and Wang Anshi.

But Zhang Bin knew that before he grew up to compete with the stubborn old party, he must not let Wang Anshi leave the court now, because the terminally ill Great Song Dynasty really needs to change, change the law, and reform.

Originally, in history, Wang Anshi's various reforms and changes were actually very good, but like the problem of the equal-loss law, the crooked monks recited the wrong scriptures, and no matter how good the system is, a group of greedy officials will only make good things become bad things.

In the imperial examination, the reform of abolishing the content of the poetry examination, the implementation of the green seedling law and the farmland water conservancy law in agriculture, and the implementation of the city change law and exemption law in commerce, etc., these reforms and changes can actually change some of the ills of the Great Song Dynasty, of course, the premise is that they are implemented correctly.

In short, at present, Zhang Bin must not let Wang Anshi change history because of his reasons, be deposed in advance, and be expelled from the center of the court.

But he was unwilling to spare Wang Yan like this.

Therefore, he decided to have a showdown with Wang Anshi.

It's just that although Zhang Bin believes in Wang Anshi's character, he scoffs at Wang Anshi's ability to control the people around him, so he doesn't plan to go directly to meet Wang Anshi.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Bin asked Zhu Niang to prepare a pen and paper, wrote a letter, sealed it, handed it to Li Siwa, and instructed: "Take the name card to Xue Xiangxue Guanren's mansion, give this letter to Xue Guanren, and ask him to help me transfer it to Wang Xianggong." ”

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Li Siwa happened to meet Xue Xiang at the gate of Xue's mansion who was about to go out.

After receiving the letter from Li Siwa's hand, Xue Xiang looked puzzled, thinking that Zhang Bin, who was in great trouble, wanted to ask Wang Xianggong for help, but it was wrong to think about it, and asked Wang Xianggong for help, Zhang Bin naturally had to come to the door in person to ask for a meeting.

Xue Xiang went out to prepare to go to Wang Anshi's mansion, because seeing that the equalization law was about to be abolished, the prestige of the new party would inevitably suffer a great blow, and Wang Anshi wanted to convene a group of backbone cadres of the new party to discuss how to deal with it.

To be precise, they decided to introduce a new effective law as soon as possible after the abolition of the equalization law, so as to enhance the authority of the new party.

What they want to discuss tonight is the change to abolish the content of the imperial examination.

Just before discussing, Xue Xiang took out Zhang Bin's letter, handed it to Wang Anshi, and said, "Xianggong, this is sent by Zhang Bin, let the subordinate hand it over to Xianggong." ”

"Zhang Bin is so arrogant, he is in the same city, he doesn't come to the door to ask for a meeting, and he actually asks Shizheng to write on your behalf."

In addition to Wang Anshi and Xue Xiang, there were also Lu Huiqing, Zhang Dan, Zeng Bu, and Wang Yan, and it was Zeng Bu who spoke at this time.

Zhang Dian nodded and said: "This Zhang Bin is indeed arrogant, and now that he is in a crisis, he wants to ask the prime minister for help, but he is so rude." ”

A cold light flashed in Lu Huiqing's eyes, and said: "If Zhang Bin has an accident at this time, it is beneficial to us, and if something happens to him, it will be difficult for the glory of the bidding method to fall on his head." ”

While a few people were talking, Wang Anshi had already opened Zhang Bin's letter with a frown.

After reading a few lines, Wang Anshi's face changed greatly, and then his body trembled slightly, and his face became pale and terrifying.

Several other people noticed Wang Anshi's changes, and saw that Wang Anshi's body had begun to swing, and stood up directly in fright, Wang Yan came over with tea and said with concern: "Father, what's wrong with you, are you unwell, drink some water first......

"Bang dang!"

Wang Anshi casually hit the teacup on the ground, and then raised his hand to slap Wang Yan's face, but at the last moment, he took his hand back, forcibly suppressed the monstrous anger and pain in his heart, and instructed Lu Huiqing, Zhang Dan, Zeng Bu, and Xue Xiang: "Zhang Bin has made a great contribution this time, and Cai Jing, Su Guo, Sun Guodong and Zhang Santao, who are with him, are also meritorious to the country, and they should be rewarded. At tomorrow's court meeting, we will do our best to win the biggest reward for Zhang Bin and the other four in front of the Son of Heaven. ”

The audience was silent, and Wang Yan hurriedly said: "Father......"

"Shut up." Wang Anshi burst into tears, and his tone was never more stern, which frightened Wang Yan into a spirit, staring at the letter in Wang Anshi's hand, and his heart was uneasy to the extreme.

Lu Huiqing, Zhang Dan, Zeng Bu, and Xue Xiang are all heroes in the world, and they know that Wang Anshi's sudden words must be related to the content of the letter, but Wang Anshi's tone is serious, and he uses an unquestionable tone, looking at the posture of holding the letter, obviously he doesn't want them to read the content of the letter, so he can only guess in his heart.

"The subordinate obeys." The four of them glanced at each other and bowed down to receive the order.

"The old man is not feeling well today, so let's prepare according to my instructions! I'll talk about other things next time. When Wang Anshi said this, his eyes were slightly closed, and he was lying on the chair, looking as if he was exhausted to the extreme.

"Take care of yourself." The four of them said in unison, bowed to Wang Anshi, and then left, but when Lu Huiqing left, he glanced at Wang Yan who looked uncertain next to him, and an inexplicable look flashed in his eyes.

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