Not long after, Wang Lingguan came back from the study hall, and when he saw Wang Lun in the house, he was about to pay a big salute, "Young master! ”

I haven't seen him for more than three years, and Wang Lingguan has long grown into a teenager. Wang Lun hurriedly held Wang Lingguan and didn't let him bow down. Wang Lun touched Wang Lingguan's head dotingly, compared his height with a smile, and said, "It's grown a lot in the past few years!" ”

Seeing that the young master was still close to him, Wang Lingguan was happy in his heart, glanced at Wen Huanzhang, and said slowly: "Over the years, Mr. has treated me with great kindness, responding to requests and answering questions!" ”

Hearing Wang Lingguan say this, as Wang Lingguan's master, the closest person. Wang Lun had no choice but to thank Wen Huanzhang again, "Brother Huanzhang preached and received the grace of the profession, Wang Lun brought the spirit official to thank him!" ”

Wen Huanzhang looked at his most proud disciple, and he was also used in his heart, and received a gift from Wang Lun. Then he pointed to Wang Lingguan and said: "Lingguan is smart and studious, and now the articles on history are unexpected, in my opinion, it will be able to end next year." ”

Wen Huanzhang's "end" is to take the imperial examination, and this evaluation is not high.

Seeing that Mr. had this plan for himself, Wang Lingguan thanked Wen Huanzhang again.

Wang Lun listened to Wen Huanzhang's words, but he had a new plan for Wang Lingguan's future affairs, but he had to wait until he was admitted to the Jinshi before he could operate.

"In a hurry this time, Wang still has a lot of Chengxintang paper, as well as a piece of good inkstone, and I will bring it to Brother Huanzhang next time!"

Papermaking was invented to the Song Dynasty, and the technology was quite mature and there were many varieties. The famous ones are the cloth head paper and cold gold paper in Sichuan, the frost and Chengxin in Shezhou, the chestnut paper in Xuanzhou, the rattan paper in Zhejiang, the paper in Wenzhou and so on.

But the best is also the Chengxintang paper, this paper is as smooth as spring water, fine as a silkworm cocoon, tough than Shu paper, the longest can be 50 feet, even as thin as one.

Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, praised Chengxintang paper as "the king of paper" and built a "Chengxintang" to store it. In the late Southern Tang Dynasty, the official position was weakened, and many of Li Yu's officials served in Chengxintang and gave him advice.

After the Song Dynasty destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, Chengxintang paper also became one of the tributes of Shezhou, which was very popular with the royal family of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Huizong of the Song Dynasty was even more cherished.

Because of the love of the powerful, it also attracted the high price of Chengxintang paper, and the idle literati got a piece by chance, and they were not willing to paint and calligraphy on it. Just collect, keep as a souvenir.

Wang Lun's collections were looted elsewhere by minions who went up the mountain, and he was also generous to others.

"Thank you so much!" Wen Huanzhang happily accepted Wang Lun's gift, and asked Wang Lun instead, "In the early years, I heard that my brother escaped from Tokyo and appeared in the northwest after coming in, I don't know how my brother got here now?" ”

Even if Wen Huanzhang didn't ask, Wang Lun also wanted to tell him about the recent events, and immediately told Liangshan to set up a village, recruit heroes, kill enemies in the northwest and so on.

"The traitorous ministers are in charge, so that there are sages in the mountains!" After hearing what Wang Lun said, Wen Huanzhang sighed and talked about his own affairs. When Wen was young, he also had great ambitions and wanted to become a leader. However, looking at the old and new parties, they are tilting against each other. At first, it was fashionable to argue for political differences, but later, it was bent on putting the other party to death. ”

Wen Huanzhang was also ambitious in his early years, but at that time, Wang Anshi was resolute and promoted the change, but Sima Guang and others in the court were blindly stubborn. The conservative people in the DPRK and China refused to abandon their own petty profits, and tried their best to oppose it in the name of the ancestral system.

The dispute between the two parties is on the same page, and when Emperor Zhezong ascends the throne, the time has come for the new party to turn over. Cai Bian united with Zhang Dun and Zeng Bu to sweep away the conservative ministers in the court. In today's holy enthronement, Cai Jing was used as the prime minister, weaving Yuanyou's party membership, convicting him of crimes, calling him a traitorous party, and Hui Chong personally wrote his name, engraved it on the stone, and erected it outside the Duanli door.

The children and grandchildren of the Yuanyou Party are not allowed to stay in Beijing, they are not allowed to participate in the scientific examination, and those listed on the tablet will never be hired. On the surface, the New Party has won a complete victory in this battle, but today's new law is no longer the new law that Wang Anshi wants to implement.

Wen Huanzhang, who had just come out of the office and had ambitions, was squeezed out of the officialdom without waiting to show what he had learned. Therefore, he lived in seclusion in Anren Village, watched the dynamics of the world, and paid attention to the situation between the DPRK and China.

Wang Anshi's change of law shook the world, even Wang Lun was also famous for a long time in later generations, "Wang Jinggong's new law touched the rights and interests of most of the nobles, and even the Empress Dowager Gao personally intervened, and Shenzong had to obey the order to stop the new law." "Wang Jinggong is Wang Anshi.

Xu Guanzhong got the opportunity, and also interjected: "The so-called water is overflowing, and things must be reversed." Wang Jinggong's new law was implemented, and he acted arbitrarily. Since ancient times, emperors have not allowed power to fall. At the beginning, Emperor Shenzong used Wang Jinggong to preside over the new law, fearing that he would be alone and that there would be no one in the court to control him, so when Sima Wengong left, he repeatedly retained him, in order to restrain the prince and make him unable to take charge of the government. ”

"Coupled with the fact that the officials below are violating the law, it is naturally difficult for the new law to be effective!"

Hearing Wang Lun say these two points, both of them hit the nail on the head of the new law, Wen Huanzhang nodded again and again, and Wang Lingguan next to him also benefited a lot.

Wen Huanzhang was silent for a long time and said, "Now that I think about it, it's true." The high merit of the lord has always been intolerable to the emperor. Wang Jinggong was too strong at that time and was more anxious to succeed, so he could not succeed. ”

After talking about this for a while, Wang Lun almost understood Wen Huanzhang's mentality. disappointed in the court officials, but there are still expectations for the Great Song Dynasty, Wang Lun has to find another way to win over this person.

To convince Wen Huanzhang, the time has not yet come. Wang Lun took a sip of tea and asked Wen Huanzhang: "Brother Huanzhang is in the capital, and he is a high-ranking official, can you tell me about the affairs of the imperial court and the Liaodong Jurchen?" ”

Although these are the secrets of the imperial court, Wen Huanzhang also has his own connections. Even if Wang Lun is now a thief, Wen Huanzhang will not see him, and tell the truth one by one.

The relationship between the Jurchens and the Song Dynasty was established very early, starting from the second year of the Jianlong reign of Taizu of the Song Dynasty (961), the first three dynasties of the Northern Song Dynasty had long-term political and economic exchanges except for the intermediate severance of diplomatic relations for more than 20 years. The main line of exchange was the tribute trade, the Jurchens brought horses and other local products, and the Song Dynasty paid the price in the form of rewards, and the two sides were mutually beneficial. Among all the surrounding minority regimes, the Song Dynasty treated the Jurchens as a country equal to Goryeo, Western Xia, and even the Liao State, and did not despise the Jurchens as far away from the Central Plains and small in population.

In the second year of Qingli (1042), in the imperial history, Cheng Jiachang said to the court: "It is advisable to do the Xirong countries such as Shazhou, Na Luo, Mingzhu, and the tribe of exterminating Tibet, and the near north such as Heishui Jurchen, Goryeo, Silla, etc., all of which are old through China, and now they are isolated from the two enemies. If the enemy regrets it, it will be prepared, and if it is prepared, it will be divided, and this will be China's advantage. "These diplomatic strategies were well conceived, but they did not materialize.

In the fifth year of Qingli (1045), Ouyang Xiu, the capital of Hebei, reported to the emperor that the Jurchens controlled by the Khitan had rebelled: "I also heard that the Jurchens and Bohai in this spring are close to the rebellion and robbery. In the second year, Song Injong said to his ministers: "In previous years, the Silla and Goryeo kingdoms paid tribute, and their boats and ships were returned from the coast of Dengju. If you hear that Jurchen and Sanhan have been merged by the Khitan, and they are surprised, then how can the Jingdong counties respond to the enemy? It is advisable to go down to Dengzhou to visit the overseas countries in the far and near, and to investigate the strategy of control. “

In the fourth year of Yuanfeng (1081), Wu Juhou, the Jingdong transit judge who had jurisdiction over Dengzhou and other places, suggested to the emperor: "Recruit people who are accustomed to seafaring, because their traders are far and near to the seaway, open the Jurchen horses, and inquire about the location of the Haibei Shore Division, and the cause of its rise and fall is in fact. Song Shenzong immediately approved. It is hoped that the private sector will be recruited to reopen the sea lanes for interaction with the Jurchens and establish contacts. In the second year, he issued an edict expressing this wish: "In the early dynasties, the Jurchens often went to Dengzhou to sell horses. Later, I heard that the Jurchen horse path had been isolated from Goryeo, and it had not been there for a long time. Now that the imperial court and Goryeo sent envoys to return, they could send an edict to the king: If the Jurchens wish to take horses and China as the city, it is advisable to make false paths. “

In February of the third year of Zhenghe (1113), the Song government "held the truth of Liao and women, and ordered Hebei to govern the frontier." "Liao and women are really fighting, and the Song Dynasty must also strengthen border preparedness to be unexpected.

Wen Huanzhang didn't know why Wang Lun asked about the Liaodong Jurchens, and only then did he ask me: "How can Brother Wang Xian be interested in learning about the Jurchens?" ”

Wang Lun asked about the Jurchens, but because he was familiar with the inertia of history, of course he couldn't say this to Wen Huanzhang. So he asked rhetorically: "Brother Huanzhang is familiar with my relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and the Jurchen over the years, what can be gained from it?" ”

Originally, Wen Huanzhang didn't feel anything, but when he heard Wang Lun's question, he suddenly pondered.