"Really? The little brother still doesn't know what to do. Han Gang snorted.

Wang Anshi is a retired prime minister, if Jin Jue is the Duke of Shu Guo, he is already equivalent to the Korean Gongfu Bi and Lu Guogong Wen Yanbo in terms of status, and they are both veteran ministers.

However, the country is also divided into large, medium and small, three, six, nine, etc., which is inevitable in officialdom. Qin, Jin, Wei, and Han were big countries, while Wang Anshi's Shu was a small country. The first time the prince of the country was sealed, it would only be a small country, and it would gradually rise until the second and third promotions. Wen Yanbo has only been sealed once, so his Duke Lu is not stronger than Wang Anshi's Shu State, while Fu Bi is the first Duke of Qi, the second Duke of Zheng Guo, and the third time he has risen to the current Duke of Korea.

"With the prestige of the minister, the prince is already late." Zhang Dan's voice was lowered, "It's just that the prince is asking for a change to the palace, do you plan to do this?" ”

Where did Han Gang have the opportunity to talk to Wang Anshi about this. When he returned to Beijing, Wang Anshi had already left. However, judging from the letters left by Wang Anshi, I can barely figure out a little of his thoughts, "Jiayue has no intention of taking charge of the government anymore, and he has been in Beijing for ten years, and he has already run out of hard work and dried up." In the last half year, the younger brother didn't see it, but Brother Zihou should have seen it, right? ”

Zhang Dian nodded silently. Last year, from the summer until Wang Anshi left office—just a few months before Han Gang returned to the capital—Wang Anshi and Wang Anguo died of illness in a year or two, and Wang Anshi grew much older.

In addition, in political affairs, there were many differences with Zhao Ji, so that Wang Anshi even sighed that it would be good if there were three points to follow, far from being able to match Xining in his early years. Han Gang said that he was exhausted and the oil ran out, which was not wrong at all, nor was it an exaggeration.

Han Gang sighed, and did not shy away from saying, "Jiayue's heart is now between the rivers, lakes, mountains and wilderness, and he has no idea of making a comeback. It is no longer possible to make a comeback like when Xining was in the eighth year of Xining, and the court will be reinstated. ”

Although Zhang Dian was not disappointed, he also sighed. Wang Anshi single-handedly created the new law, and it took nearly ten years to make the Great Song Dynasty, which had been repeatedly bullied by the two captives in the northwest, in turn, make it necessary for the two countries to join forces to resist. Wang Anshi's original wish to enrich the country and strengthen the army has been fulfilled for the Son of Heaven, but now he cannot enjoy the glory brought to him by the success of the law change.

But Zhang Dian couldn't say anything, and Han Gang couldn't say anything either. Sitting on the throne, he should have been such a character.

Wang Anshi's departure, the root is in the Son of Heaven. No matter how well it is done, once the Son of Heaven feels that it is no longer needed, it will be immediately put aside, that is, given a false name, and people will praise the generosity of the Son of Heaven. Not to mention that the one sitting on the imperial couch right now is Emperor Renzong, who is praised by everyone, isn't it the same? The collapse of Qingli's new policy, didn't Emperor Renzong think that it was not necessary, so he let Lu Yijian succeed?

Looking at all the history, emperors are like this. Scholars who are familiar with history books should have seen it a long time ago.

The mood was low, so Zhang Dian had no intention of mentioning Wang Anshi, who returned to Jiangning for retirement, and only reminded Han Gang: "Yukun, you still have to be careful of Shen Kuo." Although this person is highly talented, he has no faith. Can be trusted or not, if someone in the two houses is pressed down, he should be able to stab you in the back. ”

Zhang Dian had a deep prejudice against Shen Kuo, and Han Gang couldn't help but feel a little funny, but he didn't defend Shen Kuo either, and nodded, "Little brother understands." ”

"Don't disagree," Zhang Dian looked at the smile on Han Gang's face, and couldn't help but remind him more, "As soon as Xianggong Jiefu left, he went to flatter Wu Chongqing, seeing that the wind made the rudder so smart, have you ever seen anyone who has half of his ability?" ”

Seeing that Zhang Dian said solemnly, Han Gang also had to become serious, "Brother Zihou can rest assured, the junior brother will be cautious and guarded." ”

Zhang Dian relaxed a little, in his opinion, Han Gang has never suffered a loss, so he is overconfident, and he has to grow wise normally, and he has to experience it slowly, but with his friendship with Han Gang, this question type still has to be reminded, "And Luoyang, think about Xijing Yushitai, think about Xijing staying behind, there is a tiger's den and wolf's den." Yukun, you went to Jingxi, you have to be careful, don't make mistakes for others. ”

Han Gang nodded again, the administrative office of the Jingxi Transfer Division is in Luoyang, and the old and important ministers Wen Yanbo, Fu Bi, and Sima Guang in Luoyang City are more than a hundred times more dangerous than the Fangcheng Pass, this time his attitude is extremely correct: "Little brother will take care of it." ”

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Shen Kuo was tidying up his study.

It has been decided to go to Tangzhou to serve as the governor, and this mansion for the three envoys to live in should also be given up.

The servants and maids in the family, except for a few who signed the deed of sale, most of the rest were hired in the capital, and now they have been sent out, and then there are the Qingke of the family, and more than half of them have been gone for various reasons in the past two days.

However, this is not the main reason why Shen Kuo cleaned up his study.

In fact, the collection of books in the study has been packed up, and the precious solitary books and manuscripts, after a day of sunshine, have been carefully put into boxes, put together with some precious utensils and belongings at home, and tied to the car.

The remaining thousands of volumes are all engravings, most of them are Guozijian editions, and some are from the printing workshops in Hangzhou, as for the shoddy Fujian edition, which is the most flooded on the market, there are only a few copies, and if it were not for the rarity of the contents of the volume itself, Shen Kuo, a famous bibliophile, would not have included it in his library.

Nearly 10,000 volumes of books were piled up in two wagons, and the shelves that used to be stacked with books all the way to the ceiling were now empty. But Shen Kuo still has one of the most precious collections, which he has to put away with his own hands.

The upper and lower cylinders made of red copper and copper are erected on a wooden frame with a peculiar shape. There is a small lens at each end of the cylinder, which is as clear and transparent as water. If you have good enough eyesight, you can also distinguish the lenses at both ends, which have different bumps and bumps.

This is the microscope.

Holding a microscope, Shen Kuo used it to observe the leaves that fell into the courtyard, the well water that was lifted up from the deep well, the mosquitoes that were pounced, and the pinches of dirt and dust on the ground.

The microscopic world that no one has ever spied on is full of attraction to Shen Kuo, he can see clearly the eyes of ants and bees composed of lattices, and also see the subtle silky veins on the leaves, and even more clearly see that there are so many foreign objects in the clear and translucent well water - because of this incident, Shen Kuo has more faith in Buddhism, and there are 84,000 insects in a bowl of water in the Buddha's view, so he should hold a mantra before drinking water, and some people scoffed, but now with a microscope, it is really not wrong at all.

Just observing this meticulous world realm wasted Shen Kuo's idle time. It's not just Shen Kuo, how many scholars and doctors in the capital are full of curiosity about the fields that no one has set foot in.

Since the invention and naming of the microscope a year ago, the microscope has spread in the capital in the blink of an eye. However, until now, there are very few people who can have a microscope with good performance in the capital. A microscope that is not well made can only be magnified by ten times, but a microscope like Shen Kuo's hand, which he personally designed and hired a famous craftsman to build, can be magnified by as much as thirty or forty times, and a fine hair is as thick as a stroke written with a large block pen.

But even the microscopes that are not well made are now priced in the hundreds of dollars, and they are not available in the market - crystal lenses are so rare, and those that are suitable for microscopes are even more rare.

This is because the demand is too great - ten years of cold windows, there are not many scholars and doctors who are good at seeing the good ability, and the elderly officials are all in demand without exception - the price of white crystal has risen to the sky, and it is already rumored that some people have begun to want to use glass to make lenses, but it has not yet succeeded.

Moreover, raw materials still account for a small part of the lenses, and most of them are artificial. Over the years, so far in the capital, only six master craftsmen have been trained, who are responsible for polishing lenses, and each of them has a few apprentices. A total of twenty or thirty craftsmen had to polish convex lenses and concave lenses for officials and wealthy families in the capital to improve their visual power, which was of course a drop in the bucket.

In order to find four or five suitable microscope lenses, it is not easy to carefully select from hundreds of concave and convex lenses. Shen Kuo also chose for a long time before trying to find a suitable one, which still depends on his identity as the third envoy.

Now that I think about it, I'm afraid that Han Gang himself shouldn't have known that the crystal yang sui he invented, which is commonly known as the lens, can come in handy - he doesn't have so many options to test.

Such a microscope is worth a thousand gold, and Shen Kuo cherishes it as a family heirloom.

However, there are still some problems with the microscope, and it would be nice if there was a way to make the lens barrel adjust up and down freely.

Shen Kuo carefully dismantled the microscope, took the nitrate suede, and wiped the fingerprints on the red copper lens barrel little by little, as if holding his own young son, carefully and cautiously put it into a wooden box full of sawdust and straw.

"Packed up?"

Hearing the sound behind him, Shen Kuo's body trembled, and his hand holding the box almost let go. stood up and turned around, lowered his hands and bowed his head, and replied in a respectful tone that the temple did not have when facing the Son of Heaven, "It's all packed." ”

The continuation of the string Zhang, who was more awe-inspiring than the Son of Heaven, was standing in front of the door of the study, with a pretty face with frost hanging on his face, and his eyebrows and eyes were hanging, making people dare not get close.

Unpleasant eyes swept across the empty study, and Zhang's glanced at Shen Kuo, who was a head taller than her: "After packing up, send it to the car, how long will it be delayed, waiting for someone from the palace to rush to catch up?" As he spoke, he turned around and walked back, "With you, even the capital is unstable." ”

Shen Kuo didn't dare to reply, holding the wooden box containing the treasure, and followed behind without command.

The Zhang clan led the way in front, "Han Gang asked you to go to Tangzhou, but he didn't have a good mind, he wanted to borrow your ability." I heard that the credit for this excavation channel is not small, so don't let him get all the credit. ”

"Yes, yes, Madame said yes." Shen Kuo nodded and followed step by step.

Zhang's footsteps stopped, and he turned around and glared at Shen Kuo with a tiger face. Shen Kuo was taken aback, and nodded again and again, "For the husband to know the way, for the husband to understand, will not let the credit go to Han Gang." ”

Zhang's face was a little better, and he glanced at Shen Kuo, who was groveling, in disgust, "It's not for you to rob him, how much effort you make, how much work you should share." You are the governor of Tangzhou, not a subordinate of his transfer department, so you have to fight if you should fight. You are a Hanlin Bachelor, and you must be no worse than him Longtu Bachelor! ”