The night is quiet.

Lu Jia asked, You didn't fall asleep.

It was already the third watch, and he was still sitting at his desk, reading under the kerosene lamp.

He stayed up two nights in a row, the whites of his eyes were bloodshot, red as a rabbit, but his spirit was unusually vigorous.

Every few moments, Lu Jiawen would turn the page of the book in his hand, but he didn't read the "Three Classics and New Meanings" that he had memorized backwards for a long time.

If it weren't for the work of Wang Anshi, Lu Huiqing and others, and for the core theory of the New Party, what was so good about such a boring book?

Since he became an official in the court, except for the publication of the "Three Classics and the New Righteousness" and the most fierce dispute over Taoism, he has not even turned over the Nine Classics.

However, in order to have a closer relationship with Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing, Lu Jiawen memorized the 100,000-word work from beginning to end in only three days after the publication of the Three Classics and Xinyi.

In Lu Jiawen's eyes, the things in this world are completely divided, useful to oneself and useless to oneself.

And people, too.

Before waiting for a reply from a useful person, Lu Jia asked that even if he lay on the bed, he couldn't sleep.

The oil in the oil lamp decreased little by little, but the news that Lu Jia asked was waiting for never heard back. After that, he threw down the book in his hand irritably and looked out the window blankly.

I don't know how long it took, but there was finally a little bright light in the aisle illuminated by the dim paper lanterns.

Through the glass window, a lantern quickly approached Lu Jiawen's study, and in the light and shadow behind the lantern, two figures walked forward quickly.

Soon, there was a call from outside the door: "Bachelor, He Er is back." ”

Lu Jia asked after a pause before responding: "Come in." ”

"Bachelor." He Er saluted after coming in, and handed over a letter: "This is a reply from Huang Shizhi." ”

"Hmm."

Lu Jiawen's expression was surprisingly calm, and he didn't have the previous irritability at all. just reached out to take the reply from He Second, but it seemed to be robbed.

Just as Zhanxin saw it, Lu Jia couldn't help but scream, "Okay!" ”

'What do you want to help strengthen Qin', is just a poem by Wang Anshi. But it has already explained Huang Lu's attitude.

He Er lowered his head and waited to ask, and it was smart not to pay attention to the master's gaffe.

Lu Jiawen was excited for a moment, then put down the letter and asked in a harmonious voice, "What else did Huang Anzhong say?" ”

"Huang Jiyuan read Wang Pingzhang's poems copied by the bachelor, and he kept saying that Wang Pingzhang's poems were good. However, after that, he also took Su Shi's anthology, saying that it was not a pity that Su Shi died this time, but it was a pity that his poems would be affected. ”

"What Anthology?"

"Qiantang Collection."

The corners of Lu Jiawen's mouth twitched slightly, revealing a mocking smile under the light. Since Huang Lu is so self-aware, he can really feel at ease.

"Let's go down first, Ming'er will go to the account room to get two pieces of money."

"Thank you."

The family retreated with gratitude. Lu Jiawen took out an account book from the table, opened it, and wrote down the reward in a dignified manner.

When Lu Jia asked if he could sit down, a sense of peace of mind came to his heart.

Longtu Pavilion Servant, Zhiyuan Huang Lu, this is the seventh person.

There is still some time before the day of Tingtui, and at that time, Lu Jiawen is confident that there will be ten people to support him.

Coercion, request, exchange, Lu Jiawen believes that the means he can use are stronger than Li Ding. As for Shen Kuo and others, it is not even a level, and it cannot be compared at all.

As long as the situation continues in the past two days, Lu Jiawen will not be able to become the top candidate - as long as there are more people like Huang Lu.

Huang Lu has always been good friends with Cai Qu, and it is extraordinarily good, it is said that Huang Lu has set up a marriage with Cai Shuo, Cai Qu's brother, for their children.

If it weren't for Han Gang's bones, Huang Lu would inevitably rise afterwards. Of course, it was also Han Gang's bones that waved too early, and half a day later, Huang Lu was a member of Cai Qu's anti-party cadres.

But now that Cai Qu's house has been burned clean, and the letters and other evidence that can be used as evidence of the crime have turned into ashes, as long as Huang Lu burns his own letters, and then burns the wedding stickers, there will be no evidence of the crime completely.

Cai Qu, as the prime minister, writes letters every day and drives a lot of money. As long as it can be a little bit of a relationship...... Well, even if it doesn't matter, I don't know how many people have written to him in order to get the prime minister's attention. If this batch of letters is found out, how many officials want it, even if they can defend their innocence, but when it comes to promotion, compete with others, as long as someone says that he once wrote a letter to Cai Yi to ask for an official, then this matter will be over.

So no matter how Wang Hou made a big mistake in the future, it's just that he sat back and watched Cai Qu's family set fire, and delayed not saving it, and he didn't know how many people in the court would be grateful to Dade.

It's just that Huang Lu has always borrowed Cai Qu's status, which is well known in this world. Huang Lu has no place in the court and the court, and he has been turning to the idea of asking the county to release it early, but just asking the county to release it, there is no real power behind him to shelter from the wind and rain, and the position of the outside is likely to gradually move south, until Lingnan and other barren and barren places. Compared with Li Ding, who is often an enemy of the enemy, Lu Jiawen is of course more popular with Huang Lu.

Humming an out of tune in his nose, Lu Jiawen opened a notebook and wrote Huang Lu's name on the middle page.

'It's almost gone. ’

Lu Jia asked and thought relaxedly. Among the remaining group of people, Han Gang could not find many supporters.

Thirteen days from now is the day of the Ting Tui, and the list of people who can participate will be a little longer than it is now.

Because this list is not limited to the important ministers who serve in the court, even if they return to Beijing, as long as they are officials above the rank of servant, they can go to the palace for promotion.

Lu Jia asked to confirm the list of waiters who would return to Beijing within half a month, and could not find a single person among those three who could confirm the support of Han Gang.

In terms of identity, status, and prestige, Han Gang is ranked first in the first three people who entered Tingtui.

As long as he can visit his home, or just write a few letters, he can bring some important ministers who are neutral or even clearly belong to the new party to his side, and even if he is not good, he can also play a role of coercion. Unless Wang Anshi can clearly stand up and oppose him, everyone else will have to bow to him under Han Gang's authority.

But this requires Han Gang to put in a certain amount of effort for this. In this world, there is no little hard work and no effort to achieve the desired good deeds, some people are born superhuman, but there are many people in the world who surpass ordinary people, and among them, not all of them can achieve something.

In Lu Jiawen's view, it is a gratifying thing.

Perhaps he had scruples, or perhaps he had no intention of becoming the prime minister at all, Han Gang did not show the slightest interest in the election he proposed.

So far, Lu Jiawen has not found any performance of Han Gang looking for allies and supporters, and none of the important ministers in Beijing have expressed their support for Han Gang.

Lu Jia's question was not wishful thinking, he still investigated it. Especially in order to join forces to block Han Gang, Li Ding, as the middle of the imperial history, gave full play to his authority.

According to Li Ding's investigation, Han Gang's contact with the outside world has not increased significantly in the past few days, and has even decreased a lot-most of it is to avoid taboo people's words, so as not to be ridiculed and ridiculed.

In addition, among the two prefectures, apart from Su Song, there was no other Zaifu who supported Han Gang. Needless to say, Wang Anshi didn't say anything, and Zhang Dian didn't say anything at all.

The relationship between Zhang Dian and Han Gang is good, but since the palace change, Zhang Dian and Han Gang's friendship has become increasingly estranged, although it is completely invisible on the surface. But the reaction of the palace change after the court meeting, Lu Jiawen can see it very clearly. Moreover, Zhang Dan did not express his position on this matter, and he had already made his attitude extremely clear.

From Zai Fu to the important ministers, there are fewer and fewer candidates who can help Han Gang, and when they reach the worst, they won't even have a chance to turn the tables.

But Lu Jia asked to be sure that Han Gang could not enter the top three.

Generally speaking, there is a difficult point that must be crossed in this court push.

Han Gang's proposal is not to be elected to take office, but to have the Queen Mother choose one more person from the three selected ones.

To the extreme, if thirteen of the twenty-six votes are for Lu Jiawen, twelve are for Li Ding, and only one votes for Han Gang, but as long as Han Gang is among the top three, then the Queen Mother will inevitably choose to give Han Gang a cool umbrella.

Once Han Gang is within the three of them, then the result is bound to be doomed, and everyone else can go to sleep. Who can fight him?

However, once Han Gang's name appeared outside the three of them, the situation would be suddenly different. At that time, even Han Gang himself didn't want to change this result.

Lu Jiawen was not worried that the Queen Mother would veto such an election without Han Gang's name.

This court push proposal was put forward by Han Gang, if the Queen Mother directly vetoes it and does not choose one, then the biggest shame is still Han Gang - more twists and turns are completely added to the snake, and at the end of the day, everything still has to uphold the Queen Mother's thoughts.

Fortunately, Han Gang was too arrogant, and his conceit prevented him from contacting the important ministers, as if he should naturally become Zaifu. But no one else thinks so. In this way, it is not impossible to say that it is the third, or the fourth.

"Bachelor. The villain has something to report. He Er, who had just left, suddenly called the door outside the study.

"What's the matter?" Lu Jia asked to let him in.

"The villain heard some rumors outside today, so he forgot to say it."

"What rumors? I'll talk about it tomorrow if it's not important. ”

Lu Jia waved his hand without much energy, and as soon as Huang Lu was sure, the fatigue of two days of all-night work completely exploded.

"Hmm...... Bachelor, the villain doesn't know whether it's important or not, but he went to the funeral before, but he heard someone talking about the bachelor. ”

"Say, hurry up," Lu Jia asked.

"It's that someone scolded the bachelor first, and then another person complained, and it was three southerners."

Lu Jiawen jumped up when he heard this, and then there was a loud noise, and the tables and chairs were overturned for him.

His face was pale, "What a southerner and a northerner!" ”