After Cui Wenqing and Su Shi left, Wang Anshi sat alone at the stone table and was stunned for a long time, until the sun set, before he walked out of the pavilion and strolled alone in the back garden.

The remnant sun is like blood, illuminating the surrounding scenery with blood red, flowing with strange colors, showing a bit of desolation in the bleak autumn wind.

However, despite this, Wang Anshi's state of mind at this moment is extremely surging.

To be precise, after talking with Yu Cui Wenqing today, he was full of excitement.

In the past, what he knew about Cui Wenqing was mostly hearsay, the most direct time, he personally sent Su Shi to Fuzhou to understand Cui Wenqing, even if Su Shi was very sure of Cui Wenqing, but Wang Anshi still had a trace of doubt.

Today, Nai Wang Anshi directly talked with Cui Wenqing to understand.

It can be said that Cui Wenqing's talent is beyond his imagination, and he is very satisfied, especially Cui Wenqing's special unique insights, which have given Wang Anshi a lot of inspiration and pointed out to him the ideas for future changes.

If Cui Wenqing can be made a member of the law change, it will really be a tiger with wings for the current law change dilemma.

When Wang Anshi was thinking leisurely, a strong footstep came from afar, and when he looked up, he saw a bald monk walking over at the end of the trail.

Seeing this, Wang Anshi smiled leisurely, and said from afar, "The Eight Sages King lives in the temple to worship the Buddha, don't come unharmed"

The bald monk laughed heartily, and as he walked, he clasped his fists and said, "An Shi Xianggong is busy with the case, and he is also unharmed."

After saying that, the two laughed in unison.

After laughing, Chen Daojing, the king of the eight sages, said meaningfully, "Today, An Shixiang came to the White Horse Temple, but he only met a junior for the sake of condescension, which was really unexpected by the old man."

Wang Anshi knew that he couldn't hide this matter from this always shrewd prince, so he smiled and said, "King Wen of Zhou asked for advice from the prince and looked at Weishui, and Liu Xuande looked at Zhuge Liang in the thatched house, as long as he is a talent and can be used by the country, even if the old man is condescending to the noble, what does it matter?"

"Haha, you, you, you're always fast-talking, how can that little doll have your eyes" Chen Daojing asked with a smile.

Wang Anshi groaned for a while, and said solemnly, "This person is talented in politics, but I am afraid that he will not be under Guan Zhongxiao He."

Hearing such an evaluation, Chen Daojing's smile suddenly stiffened on his face, and he said in surprise, "Why do you think so highly of him?"

Wang Anshi nodded affirmatively and said, "Yes, what is even more rare is that this person has a very unique vision in terms of vision, and he can always find another way to solve problems in the face of problems, which is really very valuable. ”

After being silent for a long time, Chen Daojing sighed softly and said, "It seems that your mind has not changed, is it useful to change the law?"

Chen Daojing's remark can be said to express the doubts in the hearts of many ministers of the DPRK and China, that is, the question of how effective the law will be after the change.

Wang Anshi did not have a firm and confident look on his face, but said with a heavy face: "Eight sage kings, the three generations of Xia and Shang have different systems, and the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period have different methods. The world changes, changes make strong, and strong advances. In the way of governing the country, the virtuous and brave create the law and establish the system, and the mediocre follow the old ways. If we do not carry out a top-down change, the old man predicts that it will not be a hundred years, and our country will definitely follow in the footsteps of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Chen Daojing is one of the most powerful people in the Great Qi court, so he naturally understands that Wang Anshi's words can be described as hitting the nail on the head and hitting the nail on the head.

Since the founding of the Great Qi Dynasty, subject to the strong neighbors of northern Xinjiang, it has always lost more and won less in military martial arts, especially when Lianghe was defeated, it almost defeated the elite forces in the Great Qi army, not to mention the recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun and the reappearance of the homeland of the Tang Dynasty, and even maintaining the northern territory is not easy.

In addition, in terms of cultural governance, the land annexation in the country is serious, and almost all the fertile fields around the capital have fallen into the hands of the high-ranking officials and nobles, and the landless peasants have completely become tenant farmers of the high-ranking officials and nobles, and they have to pay taxes to the land-owning nobles in addition to paying state taxes, and their lives can be described as miserable, barely enough to have food and clothing.

The peasants are the foundation of the country, and the land is the foundation of the peasants, and if the land issue has not been fundamentally resolved, it is empty talk to talk about the prosperity of the country and the strength of the people.

Chen Daojing knew that Wang Anshi's original intention of changing the law was good, but it was a pity that there were always people who implicated the change with the struggle for imperial power.

For example, many people in the court and the central government said in private that the reform faction headed by Wang Anshi was the royalist party, while the conservative faction headed by Sima Guang was the party of the empress dowager, and the most important thing in changing the law was that the official Chen Hong was competing for power with the Empress Dowager Xie.

In this way, it has aroused the concerns of many ministers, after all, for them, the queen mother and the official family cannot afford to offend, and both sides dare not easily offend.

Therefore, Wang Anshi's change will enter a stalemate.

Thinking of this, Chen Daojing sighed and said, "The old man knows that you are doing your best for the court, but in the old man's opinion, the current situation is still suitable for quiet and not moving, which is the best strategy. ”

Wang Anshi pondered Chen Daojing's words carefully, and sighed lightly after half a sound, "The words of the prince are good, but it's a pity that the old man doesn't have so much time."

"Oh, why," Chen Daojing asked in surprise.

Wang Anshi stood with his hands in his hands, looked at the sunset that was about to sink under the West Mountain, and said softly, "Changing the law is the great plan of the country, and it can't be seen without twenty years of hard work, the old man is sixty out of fifty, and the time left to me by God is not much, if the change of law cannot be completed in my lifetime, what face does the old man have to see Emperor Taizong, who has the grace of knowing me."

Chen Daojing was silent for a while, and said with a wry smile, "Old friend, you are fighting with the sky, it's difficult."

Hearing this, Wang Anshi smiled indifferently, and then smiled solemnly, "What is it to fight with the sky, even if the old man is in front of the sword mountain and the sea of fire, this time he can only break through, Dapeng spreads his wings and hates the sky, even if the South China Sea folds his wings, what can the husband say"

Chen Daojing smiled bitterly, but he also understood that this matter was not allowed to be persuaded by him, so he sighed secretly and looked at the sunset, and stopped talking.

Early the next morning, Cui Wenqing and Su Shi returned to Luoyang City by car.

Recalling the face-to-face meeting with Wang Anshi, Cui Wenqing still felt a little abrupt, and couldn't believe that everything was true.

Seeing that he was thinking about it on the way back, and still didn't have the light breeze when he first came, Su Shi couldn't help but smile and said, "Brother Wenqing, Enxiang also thinks that you are worthy of cultivation, so I met you when I saw you, and the questions you answered were also very good, so Enxiang was very satisfied, so don't worry about it here." ”

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