The boat traveled on the water, and it was twenty or thirty miles away from Kaifeng City.

After a few sips of wine at the practice banquet, my head was a little dizzy. With a cup of tea, Wang Anshi sat in the main cabin.

The bamboo curtains of the window are rolled up, and the late spring sunlight shines into the cabin, which is a little hot, but there is a breeze on the river, which makes people feel very comfortable.

After leaving Beijing, I seemed to have unloaded the burden of my heart, looking at the weeping willows on both sides of the Bianshui River, and my interest gradually rose.

In the past three months, Wang Anshi's mood has changed from resentment to ease.

Everything is looking away.

Looking back, I did do something wrong.

This was not the case. As Han Gang said, he is based on ten years, so he will not see it so quickly.

Fortunately, Han Gang himself did not have it, there was Zhang Dun, and the new law and new learning were still taken care of in the court. It is impossible for Han Gang to replace Xinxue with his Qi Science for the time being.

As for the rest, Wang Anshi didn't want to think about it anymore.

The affairs of the capital should be left in the capital.

Outside the window, from time to time, there is a ship, staggered with the official ship. One or two separate ships are official ships; Three or five ships in a row, mostly civilian ships, and a series of ten ships of the same shape are gang ships.

At that time, Xue Xiang presided over, in order to avoid self-theft by the guards, the gang ship and the civilian ship were mixed, but since Xue Xiang became a rebel, some of the laws he left behind were abolished whether they were good or bad, and the officials who had been reused were also found guilty, or dismissed, or punished, so that the gang was corrupted.

Wang Anshi once heard that Han Jiang and Han Gang had been furious about this, and today it seems that the good law in the past has indeed recovered a little, but without that group of capable officials, the Sixth Route Shipping Division has not been able to recover to the level of the past.

With the status of Han Jiang and Han Gang, it is not possible to find qualified officials to manage, but it is still not improving, perhaps to pave the way for the construction of the Beijing-Si Railway.

With the track, the world has changed. After Hebei's track is repaired, there is no need to worry about the north.

Although the tense situation in the north did not last long, as long as there was still a strong enemy in the north, the hearts of the soldiers and civilians of the Great Song Dynasty could not be completely relaxed.

Wang Anshi took a sip of tea, and the credit for recovering his homeland had nothing to do with the New Party, it was up to Han Gang to achieve his goal.

Putting down the teacup, Wang Anshi also threw away all his worries, looked at the spring on the shore, but there was not much poetry, thought about it, and did not call people, so he went into the inner cabin and took out the book that his daughter said.

"Travels in the Nine Domains".

This is a book sent by her daughter Wang Yi, a total of ten volumes, and you can see that there are a lot of words at a glance.

Just looking at the cover, I knew that Lu Dao was not a manuscript, and the book that came out had already been paid.

Han Gang: How many people do you want to read his book?

The title of the book is very simple, I don't know if it is about the geography and human feelings of the states and counties in the world. However, if it is this kind of content, it should not be said to be a novelist's words, nor should it be anonymous.

I took out a scroll casually, turned the page, and saw that the line on the far right was 'The nineteenth round, Song Gongming went overseas, and Wu Jialiang returned to his hometown'.

Wang Anshi was surprised, then shook his head and frowned, I have never seen this style. But it is estimated that the storyteller can say it at one time, and that's it.

It is indeed a novelist's words, which is simply a book for the storyteller, and the word comment should be added after the title.

Putting down the pondering of the style, Wang Anshi looked at the content, and then frowned again, the content and text were completely vernacular, and it was indeed the script.

Putting aside his thoughts on the text, he patiently continued to read.

This time, it is said that it is a Shandong scholar surnamed Song Mingjiang Gongming, when he was studying in Jiangnan, because he did not meet Huaicai, he was angry after drinking and inscribed an anti-poem in the store.

'The heart is in Shandong, the body is in Wu, and the rivers and seas are full of voices. If he is Ling Yunzhi, he dares to laugh at Huang Chao's husband. ’

Seeing this poem, Wang Anshi sneered, he was uneasy in the room, and today it is Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao.

However, after Song Gongming was caught by the government, he was only reprimanded by the county officials.

The scholar rebelled, and it didn't work out for ten years, and no one took it to heart when he drank too much.

But Song Gongming is a heart-wrenching person, and after he came out, he told his friend Wu Jialiang that he was going to colonize overseas.

'There are millions of heroes in the imperial court, and it is indeed a useless place for heroes. But think that on the other side of the sea, except for one or two ports and farms, it is beyond the reach of the imperial court's soldiers and horses, and with the 100,000 armor soldiers in my chest, it is not difficult to be an uncontrolled king of foreign domains. ’

Wu Jialiang persuaded him, 'The king of overseas is comparable to the gate official of a divine capital? ’

'Just one is free. ’

'There are steamships coming and going in the South China Sea, and immigrants are more than one day a day, even if you become a vassal king, how can you stay for a long time? ’

In addition to a secluded steamship, the core of this dialogue is Han Gang's overseas colonization strategy.

Let the surplus population go overseas to give birth and raise, it is best to survive, and if it can't survive, at least there will be one less potential thief.

People are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death? It is the responsibility of the government that the people do not have enough to eat. If it is only a temporary famine, it will help the people survive through alms, but if it is true that the fields are insufficient to feed so many people, then they must be evacuated.

The content of the book completely reflects Han Gang's thoughts.

Seeing this, Wang Anshi already understood. This book is probably the kind of story that says that there is nothing in the kind of Zi Xuan Fu and Mr. Adult's biography, and then carries his own opinions in it. However, Han Gang adopted a completely different genre from Sima Xiang and Ruan Ji. The use of scripts to make it clear to the common people is also Han Gang's consistent concept.

But what is a steamer?

After only reading two or three thousand words, Wang Anshi found a lot of unfamiliar terms, such as steamboats, such as the steam cars mentioned later.

The steam car looks similar to a steamer, but the fame is completely incomprehensible. Horse-drawn carts are pulled by horses, oxen are drawn by oxen, and steam carts are pulled by steam. Is it a fairy trick, or something else?

After flipping through a few pages, Wang Anshi's curiosity gradually aroused.

Closing the endless volume, he picked up the first volume on top.

There is no prologue, no preface, and it is the text when it is opened.

With the title of the review, it begins with a poem.

It's just that the verses in the book are at the level of street poetry, and they are as bad as ever.

The story at the beginning is not about Song Jiang and Wu Yong, but about a Xiucai surnamed Shi Mingjin in Lanling County, who died when his brother traveled to Lingnan and needed to welcome his coffin back to his hometown, which is completely different from Song Jiang who was going overseas just now.

Going to Lingnan to welcome back the coffin was difficult at the beginning, which made Wang Anshi interested, and he didn't know whether to use a steamer or a steam car.

If he died of illness in a foreign country, it would be better to say if he was cremated, but if he brought back the body and coffin, it would be extremely difficult.

Han Gang's teacher Zhang Zai, lost his father when he was young, his father died of illness in Shu, he and his mother returned to their hometown together, after leaving Shu to Hengqu, they had no money to continue walking, so they could only be hastily buried on the edge of Hengqu Town.

In the same situation, Wang Anshi has seen a lot. There are many coffins that have been stored in the temple for decades and cannot return to their hometowns.

However, in the book, Shi Jin's parents still ordered him to go to Lingnan to help Zizi return.

This Shi Jin did not complain, packed up, said goodbye to his parents, and when he arrived in the county, he went to the station to take the train.

Of course, it is a railroad, which can be used to get to the state city first, and then transfer from the state city to the south. In the conversation between Shi Jin and the friend who sent him off, a steam car can be seen.

'From the county to the state, a hundred and eighty miles, you have to reach it at night. ’

I don't know when the steam car will be opened, but it will be there in half a day. ’

Seeing these two sentences, Wang Anshi sighed softly.

The railway leads to the county, and ordinary people can travel nearly 200 miles in one day, even if they are riding horses.

What Han Gang wants to do is such a situation.

And it can be faster, as long as you change the steam car.

If you can really do two hundred miles in half a day, no matter where there is a rebellion in the world, the army will be killed in five or seven days. Who dares to rebel?

Pity...... I don't know how long it will take.

'Hurry up, let's go, the next one is leaving!' ’

When he arrived at the station, under the greeting of the owner, Shi Jin got on the train smoothly and sat down in the last carriage.

In the conversation between Shi Jin and the people in the same car, Wang Anshi found a few unfamiliar terms - Shendu, Shuntianfu

Shendu is another name for Luoyang, but Tokyo Kaifeng Mansion, also known as Bianliang, Bianzhou, and Daliang, also has articles called Shenjing.

But where is Suncheonfu?

The book says that it is north of Lanling. Lanling County has no existence in ancient times, and now there is only Cheng County, but Wang Anshi remembers that there is also a Lanling Town.

Maybe it was due to Tianfu's name change?

Wang Anshi knew that Han Gang didn't want to cause trouble, so he deliberately bent his pen.

Until now, he didn't even mention a dynasty.

When the Son of Heaven is mentioned, it means that there is a sentence of 'now the Son of Heaven is on the throne', and there is also a three-year era name of Taikang.

These are all trivia, but the important thing is the content of the novel.

It's indeed a novelist's words, so Han Gang didn't even leave his name, but it's really interesting to watch.

Han Gang set up an example and told the world what kind of country he would make the Great Song Dynasty become.

But it's not a cold and hard text, but an interesting script, and there are many branches.

For example, at the beginning, Shi Jin wanted to go far out of the county, and before taking the car, he went to the county to get the road guide, and at that time, the county school was adjudicating the case, and a student in the county school wrote a book of immoral words, and was reprimanded in the county government and expelled from the county school.

Fu Ling was in a hurry, but he added a slow pen, making this statement seem flesh and bones. At first glance, it seems to be an inconsequential plot, but it adds a lot to the article.

As for getting in the car, the description is even more refined.

Stepping on the load of goods, flattering people when they see them, they are ordinary traveling merchants who go from house to house and go to the state to buy goods today;

Fifteen or sixteen years old, holding the package tightly, not saying a word, only nibbling on the cold and hard cooking cake, this is the first time to leave home and go to the state to find a job;

With soju, nibbling on roast chicken wrapped in oiled paper, exposing his round belly, and his face covered with hot sweat, this is a monk who wants to go to a neighboring county to collect rent;

Sitting opposite Shi Jin, talking loudly, making Shi Jin shrink in fear, but he said that Yu Yu Wenya was all flat with me, the bull's head was not in the horse's mouth, and he was a scholar who claimed to be going to the state to meet the teacher who was the governor of the state.

Shi Jin asked the Nashi people, 'It is one person, two people. ’

'Two. ’

'Yao Shun is one person, two people. ’

'I am alone. ’

Let the little brother stretch out his feet. ’

Seeing this paragraph, Wang Anshi couldn't help laughing.

It is really the face of those scholars who do not learn and have no skills, but who hold books to scare the people.

It's not that I grew up in the people, and I'm used to seeing all kinds of things in the market, so I can't write such words.

And that monk is also very well written. looks like a bandit, wine and meat do not leave his body, and he wants to add a sentence of Amitabha Buddha in the tone of a rich man in the countryside.

I can't imagine that there are such people in this world! I can't imagine that the article is still written in this way.

Unconsciously, Wang Anshi was already immersed in it, forgetting the time.