"The first rat is ...... at both ends"

"Zhang Dian Ben and Han Gang are in collusion, how can they rely on ......"

"Neither father nor son has ......"

"If it wasn't for his secret communication with Han Gang, how could Duke Chu be forced to go out back then......"

Zhang Dian laughed as he spoke, but Gong Yuan was in a cold sweat.

The faint smile on the corner of the current privy councillor's lips was even more terrifying in his eyes than when he was angry.

With Zhang Dian behind his back, he could make a lot of nonsense with his colleagues in the Taiwan admonition, but in front of Zhang Tun, he couldn't say a word.

Gong Yuan even hoped that Zhang Dian would be furious, instead of laughing now.

He has always felt bold and is not afraid of power, but Zhang Di's current expression is too terrifying, which makes Gong Yuan shudder.

Zhang Dian finally restrained the grim smile that only hung on his face, but his eyes became more fierce, "It is not surprising that he has lived in Xifu for many years and has made no achievements. But my father is innocent and is eighty years old, but he still has to suffer from his son. ”

Gong Yuan sweated like rain, speechless.

Several people in Yushi Taizhong scolded Zhang Dian for his cowardice together, so that he missed the opportunity and turned around, but Zhang Dian said those words word for word.

There is no need to think about it, among these people, someone must have reported to Zhang Dian.

But in his eagerness, Gong Yuan couldn't think of which one...... Maybe more than one.

Gong Yuan only felt that his back was sticky and wet, and it was getting more and more uncomfortable.

Not only are there enemies in front, but there are also enemies behind them. I knew that Lu Dao was so aggrieved in the Yushi Tai, it was better to stay in the Guozi Prison. It's a pity that I suffered a lot in the Taixue case that year, although the three-way method has its own hard work, but it is inconvenient to go back.

Zhang Dian saw that Gong Yuan's face turned blue, but he didn't force him anymore.

This group of people relied on themselves to gain a firm foothold in the Yushi Taizhong, but they didn't think about it, but talked about it behind their backs. If this continues, maybe in a few days, he will impeach himself on the table to show his loyalty as the imperial history.

Can such a person stay?

Of course, Zhang Dian does not intend to sweep away his arrangements in the Taiwan admonition, some people can't stay, and some people can still take a look at it.

"You guys...... It's a profit and a fool! Really, Han Yukun didn't dare to drive you out? ”

Gong Yuan had a very good relationship with Wang Anshi, and he changed the law back then, and he had a lot of power in the three rounding methods, and he had a very high status among the prisoners of the country. Zhang Dian felt that he could save it.

Zhang Dian was relieved, but Gong Yuan whispered unconvinced: "Even the prime minister can't expel the Taiwan Advice as he wants!" ”

"If the Queen Mother were to decide who would go and who would stay, would the Queen Mother keep you?"

Gong Yuan is unspeakable, and everyone understands the attitude of the Queen Mother.

Zhang Duan glanced at Gong Yuan coldly. Such a person only knows how to cause chaos, and it is not for the opponent, but for his own people.

"Knowing that Han Yukun is why he didn't stop you from entering the Yushitai in the first place? …… It's because you can't do anything bad! ”

"Han Xianggong is powerful, we are powerless to resist, but the privy has lived in Xifu for many years, so why should we be afraid of him?"

"Why do I want to be the enemy of Han Gang?! After driving Han Gang away, with your help, can you handle state affairs better than him? ”

Of course, Zhang Dian wanted to enter the political hall, but he didn't want to fight with people every day after he entered.

"Although we are not as versatile as Han Xianggong, if the privy can enter the Eastern Mansion, how can we lose to him?"

"Labor, finances, and weapons, these things are far inferior to Han Gang. People know themselves, and it is because of self-knowledge that I can stay in the capital to this day. Zhang Dian sneered slightly, "Shenfu, you have always been sincere, you can't do this provocative thing." ”

Gong Yuan's face suddenly swollen red, and when he spoke just now, he did have the idea of sowing discord and stirring up Zhang Dun's thoughts, "But since Han Gang came to power, he has been greatly engaged in labor service, and the labor has been mobilized every year, and the local people have long been boiling with resentment!" ”

"Every year the construction of the service, but I don't see the people rise up." "Those things you have collected, if you burn them, you have to sweep up the ashes, and they are useless! Think about it, why did Han Yukun set the railway as the royal road?! ”

"Not all the proceeds of the railway go to the treasury, but half of them go to the queen mother's purse. This great benefit, when changing the law, I don't know how many times I have to beat the gong and drum to say it, but how many times has Han San mentioned it? ”

The railroad tracks were built by the imperial court, so the transportation charges were also included in the state treasury, but the commercial taxes collected were sent directly to the inner treasury. Regardless of whether the government affairs hall will take the treasury bonds and dig out the money from the inner treasury in the future, the queen mother really saw the money in the account.

However, less than a quarter of Han Gang's series of concerts with the Empress Dowager about railway tracks mentioned fiscal and tax revenues. Two-thirds of the cases mentioned ensuring the stable transportation of grain were mentioned, and military use was mentioned in almost every relevant chapter.

In Han Gang's discussion, making money from the railway track is only secondary, and it is only a part of the subsidy for the construction of the railway. The real role is to send tens of thousands of troops and equipment thousands of miles away within seven or eight days. Within ten months, millions of stone grain were transported from Jiangnan to the capital.

This is the real purpose of the railway. Since the Great Song Dynasty was able to dredge the Bianshui raised by the sediment accumulation of the Yellow River year after year, and could spend sixty percent of the national treasury revenue to supply the military, it was only a trivial matter to build railways to ensure the stability of the capital, so that the defenders on the border could get reinforcements in the shortest possible time, mobilize tens of millions of people, and spend millions of dollars and grain.

Moreover, under the direct control of Han Gang, several railways were laid at the same time, and thousands of people were employed, but it did not cause the situation of boiling among the people, and everything was going smoothly. This is not a situation where three or five people can collect a few materials and get them back.

With the success of the main railway, the feeder road from Tokyo City to the prefectures was planned early. Because the land in the capital is extremely expensive, and the landowners who pass through are also hundreds or thousands, the route is still ripping. However, after several meetings in the court, it was decided to allow the landowner to purchase shares, become shareholders, and exchange equity for land rights.

After this change, the family of the Beijing division is even more surging, perhaps the railway track trunk line that is often occupied by the military is a money-losing goods, but it can be connected to the branch line of the Beijing division, and I want to know that it must be a big profit. Don't talk about anything else, it's just that the imperial court allowed the stations along the railway to set up their own bazaars, so you know how much oil and water there is in the road.

Controlling the biggest piece of fat today, Han Gang is in full swing, and if he wants to shake Han Gang's position, it is definitely not now. And Zhang Dian would not be so confused as to be the enemy of the current Han Gang, so when he found that the people below had moved, he couldn't tolerate it.

Fortunately, compared to several other people, Gong Yuan can't be bad, and if he is left alone, he can also prevaricate.

Zhang Dian glanced at the middle-aged man in front of him.

Gong Yuan was half ashamed and half confused at the moment, and he didn't respond to Zhang Dian's words. If it is to justify the scriptures, he can talk endlessly for half a day, but when it comes to court affairs and political affairs, he can only be regarded as a mediocre talent.

Let's keep him. Zhang Dian further strengthened his thoughts.

It is harmless, harmless to the country, to be more precise, it is that Han Gang once said that humans and animals are harmless. If you don't keep him, will you leave the place with the same name as you?

Ordering soup to send off guests, Zhang Duan was in the empty hall, and he just wanted to sigh.

These people, seeing that Tingtui was imminent, wanted to make waves all the time, and they didn't look at the situation.

There are only two prime ministers in the government hall, and it is already necessary to increase the number of people. The previous two court pushes were fruitless, and this time, it will not drag on any longer.

According to the discussion with Han Gang and Su Song, this time it was two out of four, but the final result still depends on the Queen Mother. The top four of Tingtui can be sent to the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother can choose two of them, but she can also choose only one, or none at all.

Among these two places, Han Gang definitely wants one of his own people to occupy them.

Su Song is over sixty years old, but he is in good health and can take care of it, looking at his appearance, he should not live shorter than Fu Bi. Fu Bi died in his eighties, and Wen Yanbo is also in his eighties, and he is still living happily, both of them are enviable old birthday stars in the court.

However, even if Su Song can live to be more than eighty, he will not have much time in the court.

The recognized age of Zhishi in the DPRK and China is seventy, and there are also laws, but it is not so rigid, generally speaking, there are not many people who can live to seventy, and even fewer who are not sick or sick at the age of seventy.

At that time, Zeng Gongliang was over seventy years old and still stayed in Dongfu, but he was scolded by the sentence 'Lao Fengchi can't squat, and he is silent in front of the hungry Wutai'. If Su Song doesn't fall in love with the stack after the age of seventy, someone will naturally write a new poem for him.

It's cold in the heights.

In the current situation, as soon as Su Song goes, Han Gang will be alone. It was already difficult, and it will be even more difficult in the future. He doesn't have a strong foundation, this is something that can't be helped, and he is congenitally insufficient. It would have been almost impossible for an official like him, whose father and ancestors were all ordinary people, who had jumped over the Dragon Gate by his own efforts, to be unique and self-contained.

is not a family like Han Jiang and Han Qi, if you want to gain a long-term foothold in the court and make a difference, you must have a solid foundation. Wang Anshi is from a family of eunuchs, but his father is only a middle-level, ordinary jinshi, so his foundation is not deep, and he can only rely on academics to gather talents.

Han Gang is the same, but he has many sons, and after he starts marrying people, the status of the Han family can be stabilized in the court.

But this is not urgent, Han Gang is currently reusing people who are willing to follow him.

Huang Shang was still in the southwest, and Li Chengzhi stayed in Hebei, changed his knowledge to the Daimyo Mansion, and acted for the defense of Hebei. You Shixiong has stayed in Beijing for several years, and it is time to go out. None of them could be chosen by Han Gang. And Shen Kuo, who has been involved in the construction of railway tracks, must be the candidate recommended by Han Gang.

If someone wants to start from the railway at this time, Han Gang will never tolerate it, and at that time, the court that has finally stabilized will definitely be in chaos.

As the current leader of the New Party in the DPRK, Zhang Dian absolutely did not want to see that scene.

………………

"Xianggong has also seen Sima Guang's testament?"

In the small hall of the inner east gate, the Queen Mother asked Han Gang.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has already seen it."

"What do you think?"

"There are a lot of angry words in it." The Queen Mother's tone was indignant, but Han Gang was calm, he had too many things to worry about, and he didn't have the energy to be angry with the dead, "If people are resentful, it will be difficult to be fair when looking at people and things." As for his argument that changing the law is misleading the country and the people, and that the ministers and other friends are treacherous, His Majesty only needs to look at the difference between 20 years ago and today to know whether the Tao is the truth. ”

"But Sima Guang didn't forget to slander him when he died, and gave him the rank of waiter, isn't it too high?"

"Now that Sima Guang is harmless to the country, it is not appropriate to be too harsh."

Compared with the tragedy of Sima Guang's stay in Luoyang for more than ten years, the gift after his death can be described as extremely sad. After Han Gang and Su Song discussed, they added another level to the specifications drawn up by the Taichang Rite Temple.

The posthumous gift given to Sima Guang by the imperial court far exceeded his due status. As Sima Guang's son-in-law, Sima Kang also specially ordered to be added to the rank of official.

It's all dead, it doesn't matter how much benefit you give him, it can't be bad. As for whether it will make people misunderstand what political implications there are, Han Gang doesn't care.

"It's up to you."

The Empress Dowager Xiang still looked a little unhappy. However, after persuading Han Gang, he didn't insist much.

Just like Han Gang said, there is no way to ruin state affairs anymore, and it is not too much to only rush to "Zizhi Tongjian", and give a servant.

After a few words of persuasion, Han Gang saw that the Queen Mother had nothing else to say, so he resigned and retired.

After coming out, Han Gang still had some doubts in his heart.

In the past few years, Xiang Xiang's handling of the government has long been handy, and today I asked Han Gang to talk about Sima Guang's posthumous gift, Han Gang didn't think she was angry with Sima Guang's testament. It's just that I think things are complicated, and it doesn't look like the character of the queen mother, and for a while, it's not easy to figure it out.

Han Gang thought very openly, if he didn't understand, he wouldn't think about it, the Queen Mother would have to explain it sooner or later.

There are not many days left in the five-year period, and the goals he set at the beginning are now being achieved one by one.

The number of households and Dingkou is growing steadily, taxes are also growing steadily, and the transportation costs of the track have not yet reached the time of income, but they will not lose money when they offset daily expenses. The expenditure on building the track did not exceed the capacity of the imperial court, and under the operation of the Mint, the number of coins minted by the imperial court increased greatly, but the prices remained stable. As long as both industrial products and food maintain a corresponding growth, the country will be able to ensure stable development.

Grain from Lingnan now accounts for one-fifth of the annual income from Beijing, and even more is supplied to the people. Its status is no less important than that of any road in the south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, the transportation line that Hangang has always valued the most is not the railway track, but the shipping route from Lingnan. At the same time, naval warfare also accounted for a very important part of Liao's early strategy. In military preparations, the Navy is also a top priority.

Naval construction, like tracks, is a business that costs money, and Han Gang is using his prestige to promote this.

In order to maintain the current policy, there must be a knowledgeable government, and the new candidates in the two governments must also be considered.

Thinking of this, Han Gang's heart moved again.

The Queen Mother just came over for Sima Guang, is there an allusion?