As for Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze, if Sun Jue really had to be transferred from the post of prefect of Jingzhao Mansion, he would no longer have to go to the imperial court to specially recommend or arrange them. Their future is still at the disposal of the imperial court.

After all, both of them are young today compared to the important ministers of the conservatives and the reformers. Or let them feel the ups and downs of officialdom, let them use their eyes and hearts to see what is right and wrong in the struggle between the two factions, go deep into the people to understand the suffering of ordinary people, and let Zong Ze and Zhang Shuye think for themselves, what these two factions have done is the real future of the Great Song Dynasty?

Bidding farewell to Sun Jue, Cai Lanling came to the second destination, Beiluohe.

The third letter was handed over to Cai Dao's brother, Cai Xuan, the head of the Cai family in Xianyou County.

Today, Zong Ze and Zhang Shuye are still only white, with the official position of colluding with the affairs of the Weihe River and the Jinghe Tuntian, and Cai Dao's brother Cai Xuan, who manages the affairs of the Beiluohe Tuntian, is second only to Sun Jue in his official position. After he came out of the mountain, he started as a subordinate of Sun Jue, the Yongxing Military Road Observation Envoy - the observation envoy from Bapin. After all, he is Cai Xiang's eldest son, and his reputation among Shilin is also good, and it is because of this that Song Shenzong gave him this official position.

Due to the short time in office, and he arrived a lot later than Zong Ze and Uncle Zhang, his political achievements in the first year of Beiluohe were naturally not as dazzling as the first two. Moreover, in the following years, he has been strictly following Cai Dao's advice, while controlling the soil erosion of the Beiluo River, which is not too serious, and trying to spread Cai's farming method.

Soil erosion is a waste of money spent on reforestation and alfalfa soil consolidation, which will not be effective in the short term, and will also waste some fertile land along the river in the eyes of others.

After Cai Dao found out, he knew very well that on the surface, Zong Ze and Zhang Shuye's measures could indeed greatly increase the grain income of Qinchuan, which was 800 miles away from Guanzhong, but after nearly a thousand years of development in the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, this fertile land had been overused by the Han people. If you don't recuperate, in a few years, the grain production in the fields will not increase but decrease.

Moreover, during the successive emperors of the Great Song Dynasty, the Yellow River was the top priority, and once the embankment broke, it did not know that it would affect the security of the Liao-Song border, and it would affect the comfort of Bianliang City. Most of the sediment in the Yellow River comes from the Loess Plateau, so once the amount of sediment in the three rivers on the 800-mile Qinchuan River is reduced, the situation of the Yellow River will be greatly reduced.

Of course, the comprehensive management of the Yellow River is a very long-term project. After all, the Western Xia, a country with a combination of agriculture and animal husbandry in the upper reaches, has been adding bricks and tiles to the sediment in the Yellow River, which has not happened in the three dynasties of the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties. Therefore, without 50 years or even hundreds of years of hard work, wanting to see results is tantamount to a fool's dream.

However, considering Cai Xuan's position, once the imperial court intended to transfer him, or the person who succeeded Jingzhao Mansion was a senior member of the conservative faction, Cai Dao suggested that he resign immediately. Otherwise, it will be affected by the two brothers Cai Jing and Cai Bian, and it will not be good to be relegated to Lingnan.

The fourth letter, Cai Lanling was also handed over to Cai Dao's cheap father Cai Bian's family, who was dismissed from his official position, on the way. Now that the emperor has died, Cai Bian can see the situation in Bianliang City much more clearly than his eldest brother Cai Jing, not to mention that he is also Wang Anshi's son-in-law.

Cai Bian himself has repeatedly considered whether he should be like his eldest brother, and switch to the arms of the conservative camp without discipline, not to mention whether those people will accept him, if he really has to do this, not only will he definitely make his family restless, but also completely ruin his image. The capricious villain is also a relationship between in-laws, and such a person is not even he dares to use it, let alone other people.

Now, Cai Qu and Zhang Dun are called prime ministers, but in fact, even they themselves are in danger, how can they take care of these middle-level ministers?

Cai Bian really wanted to continue to insist on his father-in-law's reforms, but now the Empress Dowager and the ruling authorities did not give him this opportunity at all, and everything he did in Yan'an Mansion came to naught.

Knowing that Cai Dao was demoted out of Beijing and went to Zhongtiao Mountain Baiyun Temple to serve as the master, he really made up his mind. Since the consuls dismissed him from office, but did not assign him any errands, he simply did not go to Beijing to see the faces of those so-called gentlemen when he returned, and took the whole family to Bianhe, and then took a boat directly to Jiangning to visit Wang Anshi, who was seriously ill.

When Cai Lanling handed over the letter to Cai Bian, he, the old man, was a little unable to wipe his face, and he didn't want to look at it, but Cai Dao's mother-in-law, Cai Wang, said: "Official, you better take a look!" ”

Cai Wang's family didn't suddenly change her temperament, nor did she suddenly care about Cai Dao, but she herself was a little confused about the future, her father was seriously ill, and her husband was dismissed from his official position for no apparent reason. Although she didn't like Cai Dao, she had also heard all kinds of rumors about this child, and maybe he could get good medicine from his master to save his father's life.

The opening sentence made Cai Wang's despair.

"Mourning is greater than the death of the heart, and the illness of the reluctant husband originates from the heart, and it is no longer a medicine that can be cured. After returning home, you can let his brothers and sisters spend more time with the elderly, unravel the old man's mind, or extend his life for a longer time. ”

In the second sentence, Cai Dao suggested that Cai Bian should stay by Wang Anshi's side in the name of caring for the sick after the family arrived in Jiangning. Probably next year, the old man will pass away. In front of the prince's grave to keep filial piety, the new emperor is not pro-government, and he will not come out of the grassland.

Finally, I hope they take care of their bodies more.

After reading the letter, Cai Bian was a little surprised and a little sighing. In fact, he also knew that this son, who had already become a monk and had never been in charge of himself, was even better than he imagined.

However, Cai Dao doesn't know the current situation at home, Cai Bian's eldest son Cai Wu and eldest daughter Cai Lan'er have been spoiled by the Cai Wang family, and I don't know what these two children will be like when they see their maternal grandfather Wang Anshi.

The loving mother has many defeated children, and it is Cai Wang's family and the two sisters-in-law.

When the time comes, Wang Anshi will not only not be able to let go, but may be angry to death by these two little ancestors.

After thinking about it, Cai Bian asked Cai Lanling, "Does Dao'er have anything else to say?" ”

"My lord, when your family arrives at the Bianhe River, there will naturally be a ship of the Cai family to transport you back to Jiangning, as for whether to take the sea route or the canal, you can make your own decisions! Also, once the prince dies, you must not respond to the court's orders, even if the court makes a will, you can pretend to be sick to deal with the past. If you don't get pro-government, you don't go out of the mountain. This was the last thing the master said. Cai Lanling replied solemnly.

"Why is that?" Cai Wang asked suspiciously, in her opinion, even after his father died, Cai Bian didn't need to keep filial piety for a long time, after all, he was not his biological parents. As a wife, she is still willing to see her husband continue to be an official, maybe with her father's prestige, Cai Bian may also become the prime minister?

"You don't have to worry about this matter?" Cai Bian shook his head at Cai Wang's clan and didn't explain anything to her.