Chapter 18: Contentment for the Sake of Hardship (17)
[The driver who can use the excavator is so talented that I was on duty for a day, and when I came back, I only drove out one chapter. Today is a make-up day off, and we will make up for it together. 】
When Wang Shao returned home, it was also the second watch.
When he rode into Chongrenfang with his entourage, the changfu in the workshop beat the drum and circled the box where the dignitaries lived, and almost collided with Wang Shao's party.
It was in the Yamen that for Han Gang's proposal and the appointment of the Son of Heaven decided on the official document to move the troops of the Western Army to the south. Pick as many elites as possible from all walks of life as an army to attack Jiaozhi. When I get busy, I forget the time, and by the time everything is almost finalized, the time for dispersal has long passed.
Entering the house and entering the main hall, a boy of five or six years old ran out of the small inner door first. Wearing brocade clothes and gorgeous clothes, a pair of tiger head shoes under his feet. With a round head and a round brain, a pair of big black eyes that are bright and bright, they are pleasing when they look at it, and they are Wang Shao's youngest son, Wang Yu. ran in front of Wang Shao, changed into an adult, and saluted Wang Shao seriously, "The child greets Daddy." ”
Only when facing his most beloved youngest son did Wang Shao's expression relax, and he bent down to pick up Wang Yu: "Thirteen, are you naughty today?" ”
Wang Yu shook his little head, "No! The child followed the mother and the fourth sister to learn calligraphy. ”
"Who's to say no? Who was the one who knocked over the ice bucket and made the study full of water? Wang Shao's eldest son, Wang Kuo, stepped into the hall with a smile.
Following Wang Kuo, Wang Shao's sons and daughters also came out together. In addition to Wang Hou, who is still an official on Xihe Road, and two married daughters, Wang Shao's other children are now with him. More than a dozen children gathered in a hall and stood on the ground in front of Wang Shao. The number of heirs is enough to make today's sons of heaven envious.
Wang Shao listened to Wang Kuo's report and pinched his youngest son's face: "Why is there so much water in the study?" ”
Wang Yu raised his head and was confident: "The water is moistened, and nature is normal." ”
Wang Shao first smiled when he heard this, and then the surprise in his heart surged up uncontrollably. However, the child's strong argument even burst out of the words in "Shangshu Hongfan". Looking at a few children, they are all surprised, and they are not taught by someone in advance.
Wang Shao's surprise immediately turned into joy, knowing that his son was precocious, but he didn't mean to be so smart. 'It's just too smart! Wang Shao then suffered from gains and losses, and forgot to praise his son's cleverness for a while.
The eldest son, Wang Kuo, came out with his younger siblings to greet Wang Shao, and Wang Yu also struggled to get off the ground from Wang Shao's arms and saluted with his brothers and sisters again. After the salute, Wang Shao's other children went back to their rooms one after another, and Wang Yu was also taken back by several sisters. Only Wang Kuo followed Wang Shao and asked casually, "Why did your lord come back so late today?" ”
"It's not Han Yukun who made trouble." Wang Shao snorted vigorously, raised his feet and walked to the room.
However, although Wang Shao was complaining, Wang Kuo could hear that his father did not mean to blame, but was very happy.
Wang Kuo hadn't seen his father relax for several days, and he knew that something must have happened in the court. He followed behind him and asked tentatively, "Is it a matter of Jiaozhi?" During the day, the son went to the palace of the prince and heard that Han Yukun was recruited into the forbidden middle school by the Son of Heaven, is it for this matter? ”
"What else can there be?!" Wang Shao asked rhetorically, and then laughed: "Feng Dangshi wants to drag out the attack on Jiaozhi, and Wu Chongqing wants to let the Hebei army go to Yongzhou." These days, they have been planning their own way, but today, as soon as Han Gang went to the palace, he repeated the law of changing the law, so that the two forbidden armies of Hebei and Jingying could fight a battle, and suddenly became the western army going south, and selected elites from the forbidden armies of Hebei and Jingying to fill in the blanks in Guanxi! ”
"Hebei and Jingying go to Kansai?" Wang Kuo was stunned when he heard this. After only being stunned for a moment, he slammed the table with a bang, "It's that simple." ”
"Isn't it so simple for Tian Ji to win the horse race, why has no one thought of it except Sun Bin?" Wang Shao actually sighed that he was in the game and was blindfolded, if he jumped out of it, he couldn't think of it with his own intelligence, "This is the credit of Han Gang's words." ”
"One word to rejuvenate the country, one word to lose the country, one word will make the government change its course......," Wang Kuo muttered, his expression was very complicated.
Wang Shao glanced at his eldest son, "Han Gang is an outlier, you can't envy him." ”
The trust of the Son of Heaven has nothing to do with the official position. Han Gang is already a transfer envoy all the way, and his right to speak is far above that of ordinary Zhizhou, coupled with the military authority obtained by virtue of his past merits, so that Han Gang can easily persuade the Son of Heaven. But this is also the reason why his advice has always been reasonable, so the Son of Heaven will believe him.
After entering the house and changing into his official clothes, Wang Shao turned around and sat down in the study with ice cubes.
The water in the study had dried up, and the ice bucket used to cool down had been refilled with ice. For a deacon like Wang Shao, every winter and summer, the imperial court will give a large number of ice charcoals. Relieve the heat in summer and warm up in winter. At the same time, the mansions where the rulers live are all large mansions hundreds of steps around, and in the capital, there is not a single ice kiln in such a large mansion.
"Han Yukun, we are indeed not comparable." Wang Kuo also sat down in the study and smiled at his father: "I will have to see thirteen in the future." ”
"Thirteen doesn't expect it, it's enough to be able to study and become an official in peace." Wang Shao sighed and repeated his previous evaluation, "Han Gang is an outlier!" Don't compare, don't learn. ”
For Han Gang, Wang Kuo's feelings were complicated. His second brother and he are friends of life and death, and his father is Han Gang's benefactor, and the relationship is so close, it can be said that the Wang Han family will be connected in the next few decades and will support each other in the court.
can be Wang Shao's eldest son, Wang Kuo also has some ambitions. Seeing that Han Gang, who was younger than himself, is now famous, even his father is so important, and his family is not even qualified for jealousy, he inevitably has mixed feelings in his heart: "At the age of twenty-five, he has been sentenced to all the way to Caosi, and it is indeed unmatched since the founding of the country." ”
Wang Shao took a sip of the chilled sour plum soup, and his heart and spleen were cold. As soon as he was in a good mood, he rarely said more to his son, "Age is Han Gang's advantage and disadvantage." If he is already in the age of not being confused, with his many achievements, it is natural for him to enter the political hall, and it can even be said that only half or even a third is enough. ”
Looking at Wang Kuo's surprised eyes, Wang Shao sighed: "As a father, he entered the Xifu with the help of Hehuang, and how much credit did Han Gang make before and after Hehuang?" ”
He shook his head, "Think about Han Qi, when he entered the political hall, what was the merit he relied on?" Experience in Shaanxi! But what credit does he have in Shaanxi? Ren Fu's good water river, as well as Zhang Yuan's sentence 'Han Qi is not strange, Xia Zhu He has shrugged'. To say that Han Qi once comforted millions of victims in Shuzhong, Han Gang also has the achievement of reconciling hundreds of thousands of Hebei refugees in the capital, which is by no means inferior to Han Qi. But can Han Gang enter the two mansions earlier than Han Qi? ”
"Can't you?" Wang Kuo asked suspiciously. As long as Han Gang and Zhang Dian smoothly pacify the Jiaozhi, with this merit, he can no longer be promoted to the two mansions.
"It's hard!" Wang Shao shook his head with certainty, "If you are in power in your early thirties, you will have thirty years to enter and leave the two governments in the future, and when the time comes, maybe it will be the officials of the world who are under one person." How could the Son of Heaven agree? ”
"Isn't Han Zhongxian also in and out of the Second Mansion for decades? Or the prime minister of the three dynasties! ”
"That's because there are Fu Bi, Zeng Gongliang, and Wen Yanbo. Think about Han Gang, is there anyone in the same generation who can compare to him? Wang Shao sighed, "And even Han Qi is still jealous...... In the last few years, where has Han Qi been?! Look at the words inscribed by the Son of Heaven on Han Qi's tombstone: 'The Father of the Two Dynasties'! Han Zhigui did have a great contribution to the country, if he had not suppressed the court and the palace, it would have been difficult for the Song family to be stable for more than ten years of Jiayou and Zhiping. But no one in the palace will come up with another Han Qi! ”
"But Han Gang's merits and talents are complete, as long as the seniority is enough, it will be difficult for the imperial court to bypass him if he wants to select people to enter the second mansion in the future."
"As long as he is kept in the foreign office, it's fine. After winning the Battle of Jiaozhi, Han Gang may not be able to return to Beijing as an official within ten years............ But then again," Wang Shao's words changed, "Han Yukun doesn't follow the rules, his thinking is not out of the box, and he is often unexpected, maybe he really has the ability to let himself return to the capital soon!" ”
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Not only Wang Shao, but Wu Chong was also very late when he returned home.
But without him, Wang Shao is not in a good mood, and when he returns home, he also has a straight face.
came out to greet him, and it was also the eldest son, Wu Anshi, who served as an official in Beijing.
After Wu Chong entered the door, he didn't see his second son Wu Anzhi, and asked, "The second brother hasn't come back yet?" ”
Wu Anshi said: "Fang Cai has already sent someone home, saying that he will not come back tonight." Peeking at Wu Chong's face, he didn't dare to ask more.
Wu Chong doesn't like to talk to his family about things in the court, and he rarely leaks major national events to his family. Only occasionally when I ask my son to say a few more words. Wu Chong's two sons both knew his temper and rarely took the initiative to ask questions.
Wu Chong went back to the room to change his clothes, and after coming out, he asked his son: "Is Han Gang also with Wang Jiefu now?" ”
Wu Anshi was stunned for a moment, why did she jump on Han Gang? But in a blink of an eye, I thought that my own Lao Tzu must have been angry with Han Gang in the palace, "The son of this matter is unknown, and the argument should be there...... Do you want people to inform the second brother and stay away from Han Gang? ”
"For what?" Wu Chong's face turned cold, "My father has always only been for state affairs and has a gap with others, how can he hold a personal grudge?" Since they are relatives, they should do their best. Every New Year's Day, the second brother went to see Wang Jiefu, why did his father stop him? ”
If the eldest daughter of the Wang family, who married Wu Anzhi, was here at this time, she would definitely shake her head again and again. If this was the case, she would not have been depressed in the Wu family all the time.
But Wu Anshi dared to refute, and said continuously: "Daddy said yes!" ”