Hearing the news and confirming it to Wang Hou again and again, Han Gang could no longer sit and study.

It is inevitable that an old man in his fifties will fall off his horse and break his muscles and bones. No matter how he said it, he was the future father-in-law, and Han Gang had the obligation to visit him in time.

Although there are still some things that people don't understand, as long as he thinks about it, Han Gang feels that it is necessary for him to go to Wang Anshi's mansion.

borrowed a horse from the Wang family, and Han Gang rushed all the way to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

There was no need to say anything more, as soon as Han Gang appeared, the Si Yan of the Prime Minister's Mansion was busy welcoming his uncle into the mansion.

After New Year's Day, Zhang Dian had already returned to Jinghu. Zeng Xiaokuan went out to inspect Hebei. In the core layer of the New Party, the remaining Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu, and Lu Jiawen also went to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

When Han Gang walked into the side hall, Wang Anshi and his son, plus Lu, Zeng, and Lu, a total of six people were here.

Wang Anshi himself was not injured, but his dark face was now even darker. It's just that when he saw Han Gang coming, his face softened a little: "Yukun, you're here." ”

"Han Gang is late, I don't know if there is a big problem for Xianggong?"

As soon as Han Gang entered the door, he rushed up to ask for warmth. The appearance of concern made Wang Anshi's anger fade a lot, and he said repeatedly: "There's nothing to do, nothing to do!" ”

Han Gang asked a few words, and when he saw that Wang Anshi was really fine, he straightened up and asked, "What's going on today?" ”

As soon as he asked, Wang Anshi's face sank again, "What else could it be?" Someone wants to drive the old man away! ”

The king came over and pulled Han Gang and whispered to him the ins and outs of today's events.

Tonight, the Son of Heaven went out of the palace to watch the lanterns as usual, and after sparing a circle on the royal street, he returned to the palace to host the family banquet as usual. On the night banquet on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, all the people who participated in it were all clans. However, the important ministers who accompanied the driver when watching the lanterns also had to send the Son of Heaven back to the palace according to the rules, and then pay homage and congratulate them before they could go home.

Zhao Ji's big car entered the palace from the main gate of Xuande Gate, and the deacon Zai dismounted as usual when he arrived at Xuande Gate. But today, when Wang Anshi entered the door from the west side of the Xuande Gate, he was stopped by the doorman and asked him to dismount outside the Xuande Gate.

The man who led the horse for Wang Anshi stepped forward and said two words, but his head was broken by a stick on the head. In the chaos, Wang Anshi's mount was beaten by someone coldly, and Wang Anshi was also turned off the horse. It's just that Yuan Congduo beside him didn't let Wang Anshi have an accident.

Hearing what had happened from Wang Bian's mouth, Han Gang's brows tightened.

The whole thing sounded like a farce, but he would never take today's events as farce. It is impossible for everyone present to see it that way.

With no one to instruct him, who would dare to stop the prime minister at Xuande Gate?

Every day in the court, all the deacons are dismounted in the Xuande Gate, how can it be the turn of the Yuan Festival, they must dismount outside the Xuande Gate?

"This is clearly to provoke the Xianggong. As long as the prime minister is angry in front of the king, he can attack the prime minister and no one is courteous. ”

Lu Huiqing has just taken Zeng Bu's position recently, becoming the chief inspector of the five rooms of the middle school, and the official has jumped from the crown prince Zhongyun to the right Zhengyan. And looking at the momentum, in a few days, I am afraid that there will be further promotions. Now is the time to do it.

Lu Huiqing spoke, and Zeng Bu was silent. Between the two, the relationship is obviously very delicate.

"If so, what should I do?" Lu Jia asked. Everyone understands what Lu Huiqing said, and the key is to deal with it.

"Of course, just calm down and see what else they can do?" Han Gang said. Now that he's here, he's going to have to come up with an idea.

Just like Lu Huiqing said, it is clear that someone deliberately wants to provoke Wang Anshi. With Wang Anshi's temper, he must find out, so he will be fooled. It's better to do nothing.

"Yukun!" Wang Yan said angrily: "My lord is the prime minister's honor. Etiquette is forbidden to hundreds of bureaucrats, and the ministers avoid the way. But he was humiliated by the pawn, don't say that the dignity of the adult is the face of the court, but the same must be lost. ”

Lu Huiqing answered on the side: "But this matter is really difficult to investigate, it is better to follow Yukun's idea, calm down, and let the Son of Heaven know the grievances of the Son of Heaven." I think they have no other tricks to do so recklessly. ”

There are only a few people who can drive the guards of Xuande Gate. And the means that will be so crude are even more imminent.

This one instructor, if you can't find out, you can guess it, and after guessing it, you will know that you can't find out.

How can you save some face for the Son of Heaven!

"Even if you can't investigate the master's envoys, but those who spread the word and give orders can be investigated, they will definitely recognize themselves, but they can also run them away."

"But the Lord made men, even the Son of Heaven, give them away. In the end, it will be difficult for the Son of Heaven to do it. ”

"But there will always be times when you can't give in!" Wang Yan's angry words further strengthened Wang Anshi's determination.

'It's not so easy. Han Gang sighed secretly, this matter is indeed a bit troublesome, Wang Anshi's father and son are both willing to bend their tempers. Unlike Lu Huiqing and himself, in order to get more benefits, he can choose to compromise or retreat.

Even if he is a son-in-law who is married, Han Gang's right to speak is still not as good as Lu Huiqing, but Lu Huiqing has not been able to convince Wang Anshi's father and son, and Han Gang can only stare dryly.

It is better to take from the straight than to ask for the song.

Han Gang used to do this a lot, but he dared to be ruthless, he always followed the situation, but he never went against the times.

The key to this matter lies in Zhao Ji, the son of heaven. Wang Anshi may still regard Zhao Ji as the new emperor who obeyed him like a student back then, but Han Gang has no confidence in the current Zhao official family - in everything recently, it can be seen that the trust of the Son of Heaven is no longer enough to rely on......

In addition to Wang Anshi, who is in the game, there is also the arrogant Wang Yan, whether it is Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu, or Han Gang, Lu Jiawen, in fact, they have all seen that Wang Anshi's holy family is not as good as before.

After a while on the night of Shangyuan, Han Gang continued to return to Wang Shao's house to study.

Wang Anshi did not rush to read the book the next day, but kept silent for a few days. After all, Wang Anshi has been up and down in the sea for many years, and he is not stupid and blind to think that the Son of Heaven supports him as always. He first went to check the past records and see if Shangyuan Yezai was going to dismount when he entered the palace. As long as this rule shouted by the gatekeeper does not exist that night, you can justifiably ask the Son of Heaven to give an order to investigate the ins and outs of this matter and track down the black hand behind it.

It's just that Wang Anshi miscalculated, and the Son of Heaven did not take his recital as the standard, but asked about the other rulers and imperial city inspections, and they used to be on the night of Shangyuan, whether they entered the Xuande Gate before dismounting.

The answer he got was ridiculous, and it also made Wang Anshi's heart cold.

Feng Jing said that he forgot, and vaguely remembered that there was a time when he dismounted outside the door. Wu Chong swore that he used to dismount outside the Xuande Gate on the Shangyuan Festival. Chen Zhizhong pretended to be sick. Wang Jue didn't know anything. As for Bi Qian, the commander of the imperial city inspection and the others concerned, they all spoke in unison, saying that they should always dismount outside the Xuande Gate.

Although tens of millions of people have watched the Zaizhi enter the palace from the west side of the Xuande Gate before dismounting during the Shangyuan Festival for many years, none of Wang Anshi's colleagues came to testify for him.

But Lu Huiqing and others couldn't help Wang Anshi prove it. Not only because they are not qualified, but if they say more, they will be immediately charged with forming a party. This is also what the black hand behind the scenes wants to see.

Everyone in the world knows about the New Party, and the Son of Heaven actually knows about the New Party, but as long as the ministers of the New Party do their own things within the scope of their authority, no one can say that they have a Party. But if they go to the book together and fight for Wang Anshi in this matter, then there is no way to shirk it.

I could only watch Wang Anshi go into battle alone.

In this case, Wang Anshi's weak status quo was exposed, and those who had a heart saw their opportunities.

Although he did not support the investigation of this matter, in order to appease Wang Anshi, the Son of Heaven still ordered ten guards on duty to be sent to Kaifeng Mansion for trial.

But even so, there are still people who jump out to accuse Wang Anshi of having no courtesy, and impeach Liang Yanming and Chen Chen.

This bold imperial history is not a member of the old party, and he also has nothing to do with Wu Chong and Feng Jing. When it was known who was in the book, almost every courtier was shocked, it was not anyone else, but Cai Qu in the New Party!

Is this the first one?' ’

After Han Gang heard this, he let out a long sigh again. It seems that Cai Qu, a political rat, has begun to prepare to change ships after knowing that the ship where Lu Dao is is dying.

Cai is indeed a master who sees the wind and steers, but his political acumen is undoubted.

He put his promise to Han Gang behind him, turned his head and climbed onto Wang Anshi - Zhang Dian Han Gang's thighs are naturally inferior to Wang Anshi - and since then he has embarked on the road of soaring.

Now he has seen the mind of the Son of Heaven clearly, and has catered to the Son of Heaven with a concert, and has even washed away the identity of his new party - when it comes to thighs, it is naturally a little thicker for the Son of Heaven.

Although Cai is only a peripheral member of the New Party, his turn to the wind has already exposed the instability within the New Party. If Wang Anshi could not get the Son of Heaven to demote him and reunite the New Party, the faction formed because of common interests would be irreparably broken.

Just when the court was still arguing over the change of Xuandemen on the night of Shangyuan, Han Gang finally ushered in the long-awaited Jinshi Keli Examination.

On the twenty-third day of the first month, the Son of Heaven knew the tribute with the Hanlin bachelor, and knew the system of Lu Huiqing, the Tianzhang Pavilion to be controlled by Deng Juan, and the Zhishe Renyuan Deng Runfu and the right to know the tribute. Together with more than 30 officials, including the examination papers, the gate of the Gongyuan Prison, the righteousness of various subjects, the examination, and the re-examination, they all went together to temporarily serve as the Guozijian of the Gongyuan.

From this day on, all the examiners were locked in the Tribute Courtyard until the beginning of February.