"Sima Junshi is in charge of Xijing Yushitai, Yukun, I'm afraid it's not good for you to visit him?" Cheng Hao hesitated. Sima Guang's identity is different.

Han Gang smiled calmly and explained to Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, "Sima Junshi is in charge of the Xijing Yushitai, and the student is the supervisor, so it is a little inappropriate to visit him. But...... After all, he is Sima Junshi, since the student is the son-in-law of the former prime minister, he should not be misunderstood. ”

He needs to go to see Wen Yanbo, and he also has to visit Fu Bi, as well as Fan Zhen and other old ministers in Luoyang. These elders, whether Han Gang wants to see them or not, according to the etiquette, he should go to pay a visit.

came to see Ercheng first, just because Cheng Hao had a half-teacher friendship with him, and put him first, so he would not let the old ministers think that Han Gang was rude. But if he never went to meet those old ministers, the emperor in the capital would think that Han Gang was arrogant and couldn't be a man.

Only Sima Guang didn't need to see Han Gang, and because he was in charge of the Xijing Imperial Historical Observatory, he shouldn't go out of his way to meet him, but he wanted to see him.

It's not because of memories from later generations. In those memories, about Sima Guang, except for "Zizhi Tongjian", there is only the story of smashing the cylinder.

But over the years, Han Gang has learned about Sima Guang through various channels, and thus his interest has arisen. He wanted to go to the door to have a look and see what kind of character Sima Guang was.

His father-in-law doesn't think very highly of Han Qi, Fu Bi, and Wen Yanbo, but he takes Sima Guang very seriously.

Wang Anshi's "Letter of Reply to Sima's Advice" can be described as a declaration and clarion call for changing the law.

'Obey the orders of the people, discuss the law and repair it in the court, so as to give it to the department, not to invade the officials;

The government of the first king, to promote the good and eliminate the bad, not to make a living;

Manage money for the world, not for profit;

To ward off heresies, it is difficult for people to refuse, not to refuse advice. ’

A few rows of sentences are like a shot and three swords and arrows shot from a bed crossbow, piercing the heart of the old party one by one.

In this article of just a few hundred words, Wang Anshi has vividly swayed his extraordinary literary brilliance, and Han Gang has been able to memorize the whole article so far. In the last paragraph of the text, 'If the king really reproaches me for being in power for a long time and failing to help the great things, so as to anoint the people, then An Shi will be guilty; If it is said that everything is not done today, and what is done before is just done, then it is not what An Shi dares to know. Such brilliant and eloquent words especially made Han Gang admire. Later, he was impeached by Zheng Xia, who came to the door of the prison guard, and when he went to the palace to defend himself, he also learned from it by the way.

But a slap can't make a sound, Wang Anshi was able to write this masterpiece, all because of the stimulation of Sima Guang's several letters, and none of Han Qi, Fu Bi and Wen Yanbo could do it.

Moreover, Wang Anshi also said that Sima Guang was the red banner of the anti-change faction, and Wen Yanbo was in the Privy Council at that time, serving as a privy envoy. Wen Yanbo, who has the most fierce opposition to the new law, has already shouted 'to rule the world with scholars, not with the people', but in Wang Anshi's eyes, he is still not a red banner. But when the Son of Heaven wanted to appoint Sima Guang as the deputy envoy of the privy council, he was to set up a banner for dissent. Wang Anshi's emphasis on Sima Guang can be seen from this.

However, Han Gang felt that Sima Guang should not like Wang Anshi's attention.

He is an official who wants to make a difference, and he is only one step away from Zaizhi, and the world also regards him as the talent of the prime minister. Normally, between the ages of fifty and sixty, an official should be at the highest point of his life, and Wang Anshi is like this. Wu Chong, Feng Jing, and Wang Qi are all the same. But Sima Guang was forced by Wang Anshi to write books in Luoyang for nearly ten years because of his different political views.

Seeing his former friend in charge of the affairs of a country and becoming a figure who can call for wind and rain in the world, Sima Guang's mood of digging a hole in the ground and writing a book at home, Han Gang can also understand one or two.

When Fu Bi first returned to Luoyang, he asked Shao Yong what was new in Luoyang City recently, and Shao Yong replied that there was a nest dweller and a cave place. The former ruling king Gongchen built a three-storey central hall in his house, while Sima Guang dug a cellar in Duyuan to write books, so one is called the nest residence and the other is called the cave place. Fu Bi laughed at the big one, but his heart didn't know how to churn.

In other words, he Han Gang, either he stored hatred in his heart, or he was disheartened, and he thought about the mountains and fields from then on. But from what Han Gang heard about Sima Guang's recent situation, it didn't look like he was disheartened at all - although Sima Guang should be a gentleman, and Han Gang didn't think he was a gentleman, but human nature should be common, and Han Gang didn't think that Sima Guang's thoughts would be too different from his own.

Therefore, Han Gang is very interested in Sima Guang and wants to get to know another historian of the Sima family face-to-face.

Han Gang's attitude towards Sima Guang made Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi a little puzzled, how could they not think that Han Gang was just curious.

However, with Han Gang's personality, heart and intelligence, the two of them didn't think he would do anything stupid. Duyuan Paradise is not a Longtan Tiger's Den, and it won't be a big deal for Han Gang to visit Sima Guangdang.

In the afternoon talk, there was no discussion of the main points of the scriptures, most of which Han Gang was talking about some of his experiences in Lingnan and the policy strategy in Jiaozhou. Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi listened carefully and asked for details from time to time.

Hearing that Zhang Dian and Han Gang marked the copper pillar on the site of the main hall of the old palace of Jiaozhi in Hanoi Village, the two did not react, but when they heard that they would be able to be self-sufficient in grain in the first year after taking Jiaozhou, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi began to be amazed by Han Gang's management materials. However, Han Gang immediately explained that this was not his credit, but that Jiaozhi had good water and soil, rice grew rapidly, and it was common for two crops a year to grow three times a year.

Han Gang also asked about the current situation of several fellow disciples who stayed in Luoyang by the way, but he didn't expect Lu Dalin to go to Songyang Academy now. Songyang Academy is in Dengfeng, a little far away from Luoyang, Cheng Yi Cheng Hao was also an apprentice in Songyang Academy, but he will return to Luoyang City every month. Han Gang also arrived at a coincidence, a few days late, he could only see Cheng Jue and the grandchildren of the Cheng family.

In the evening, Han Gang was stayed, and the Cheng family set up a family banquet for him.

Han Gang and the Cheng family are good friends, and the ladies of the family do not avoid him. At the family banquet, Han Gang met Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi's wives, as well as several daughters of the Cheng family, including Cheng Eniang, who was ranked twenty-nine and whom Han Gang had seen for a long time.

Seeing her, Han Gang was stunned for a moment, looked at Cheng Hao in surprise, and was about to say something, but after thinking about it, he closed his mouth again, and just met Cheng Eniang, who had changed into the eighteenth year of the female university. But I have some doubts in my heart, Cheng Eniang is already eighteen or nineteen, why hasn't she married yet? Although his wife Wang Yi married even later, it was a special case caused by various factors.

However, a little doubt, was soon diluted by the peaceful atmosphere of the Cheng family's family banquet, Han Gang had been in contact with the Cheng family before he became an official, and now the difference in status is not the same thing, and he is as close as his own family when he talks.

At the banquet, Cheng Jue's interest was very good, and he also recited the poem he made at the Tongjia meeting, "It has been ten years since the return of Tibet, and the physical and mental affairs are irrelevant. Luoyang's mountains and rivers are all over the place, and there are people like me who are idle. ”

Han Gang toasted to Cheng Jue for the leisurely and comfortable feeling in this poem, Cheng Jue was relieved and drank a full glass, and then was persuaded by Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi.

Cheng Jue can be regarded as freed from his official career, and the leisurely self-satisfaction in the poem is also through the paper. However, this poem is not the same as the exquisite and complicated Xikun style or the majestic and strange monster body, it is very plain, and it is not as plain as Wang Anshi, which looms in the mountains and mountains, it is just a vernacular, and the level is really not high. Speaking of which, Han Gang has been nurtured and immersed in the atmosphere of the times for so many years, and with some brains, he can make something about the same level now.

After eating, seeing that it was getting late, Han Gang got up and said goodbye.

sent his father into the room to rest, and when his son also sent Han Gang back, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi came to the study, lit the oil lamp, and recalled what Han Gang said today under the lamp.

They didn't want to be unhappy today because of the dispute over Jingyi Dao, so they and Han Gang tried not to mention this topic. But Han Gang still revealed some of his thoughts now.

"Useful for the world." Cheng Hao recalled what Han Gang said today, "Since he was still on Xihe Road, Yukun has been paying attention to his work. There is a bit of the taste of Hu Anding [Hu Ming] setting up a fast. Jing Shiji summed it up in four words. ”

"If it weren't for this ambition, I wouldn't have been able to say the words to bring peace to all generations. Yukun's temperament is far better than that villain fighting for power and profit. Cheng Yi did not hide his appreciation for Han Gang, "Yukun is also measured, he has always been pragmatic, I haven't heard of him being involved in such pickled things, if he wants to rely on the new party to get in, he will go to the post of Zhongshu Inspector." ”

In the eyes of the world, Han Gang has always been a core member of the New Party, and Wang Anshi's son-in-law is needless to say, how many times he has helped stabilize the foundation of the New Party in the past few years, and a series of achievements are also among the achievements that the New Party has been able to get hold of after taking power, accounting for a large proportion.

But in the eyes of Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, Han Gang cannot be regarded as the backbone of the new party, but can only be regarded as the edge of separation.

Han Gang has always insisted on Guan Xue, always trying his best to recommend Zhang Zai to the court, and fight for a place for Guan Xue in the Jingyi Bureau. Compared with Han Gang's achievements over the years, his academic tendencies are the key to determining his political coordinates in Ercheng's view.

"Uncle and I will come back from Songyang Academy in two days." Cheng Hao suddenly asked, "I don't know how Uncle Lu Daozi's thick cousin is written, and the draft should almost be finalized." ”

"When I came back from the academy a few days ago, I only saw one beginning, and the following draft had changed a lot, so I didn't read it carefully. It is estimated that it will take some time. ”

"Although Yukun didn't say it explicitly, he probably was in a hurry to see it." Cheng Hao sighed loudly, "Uncle Zihou is so blessed." ”