In the fourth year of Yuanyou, the Beijing division was once again drought, the imperial treasury was embarrassed, and the empress dowager Gao Taotao had to announce that the spring banquet would be held this year.

At this point, Wen Yanbo stepped down gloomily.

Lu Dafang and Fan Chunren took this opportunity to drop Zheng Xia on Jiangnan West Road. Anyway, it is located in the south, and it is Wang Anshi's hometown, so this disaster star should go to the hometown of his enemy.

Immediately after Zheng Xia left, it began to rain in the Gyeonggi area, which to a certain extent alleviated the impact of the spring drought on the grain harvest. However, in the summer and autumn of this year, God continued to rain, and the water potential of the rivers in the Yellow River basin generally rose sharply, but fortunately, Lu Dafang and Fan Chunren coped with it properly, so that no greater disaster occurred in the Yellow River.

In fact, the conservatives should be divided into four parties, headed by Lu Gongzhu and Lu Dafang, who do not completely belong to the Shuo Party, and even Wen Yanbo does not completely belong to the Shuo Party. The person who inherited Sima Guang's mantle was Liu Zhi.

Lu Gongshu, Wen Yanbo, and Lu Dafang represent more of their own families, while Lu Dafang represents more of Guan Xue, although he himself is not the apprentice of Guan Xue's grandmaster Zhang Zai, but his three brothers are all Zhang Zai's disciples.

The political ideas of the three conservative parties and the Luo Party have many similarities and differences with Wang Anshi. As long as we advocate using the ideal royal road to change reality, this so-called 'royal road' model is the era of ancient Yao Shunyu in Chinese history.

From this point of view, Wang Anshi is more pragmatic for the BLO, which takes measures such as restoring the well fields too seriously.

Of course, the Luo Party is different from the people of Wang Anshi's line, and the biggest difference is that Wang Anshi pays more attention to the law, while the Luo Party pays more attention to people.

As for those ministers who were attributed to the Shu Party in later generations, in fact, they should all be attributed to the centrists more appropriately.

Su Shi has a big mouth, when Wang Anshi changed the law, he kept writing books and spraying those promulgated new laws, but the biggest difference between him and those conservatives is that Su Dabeard is reasonable and has something to say, but Wang Anshi and Song Shenzong are a little too arbitrary for those who oppose the change, and they are directly one-size-fits-all. Especially Wang Anshi, it is no wonder that others call him a reluctant minister, and he can't listen to different opinions at all.

In his view, all those who change the law are his political enemies. However, when Lu Huiqing, Deng Guan and Li Ding concocted the Wutai poetry case, and wanted to completely overthrow Su Shi, it was Wang Anshi who stood up to speak for him, and the people who interceded for Su Shi, except for Su Zhe, who was willing to convict his brother, most of them were ministers of the law-changing faction, such as Su Shi's original friend Zhang Dan.

And Su Zhe is more complicated, he was originally the same as Su Shi, he was not completely opposed to changing the law, and also put forward a lot of very pertinent opinions to Wang Anshi, for example, the 'Qingmiao Law', Su Zhe used the famous economic expert of the Tang Dynasty, Prime Minister Liu Yan, he never lent money to the people, as long as he used the ancient law to regulate the country's grain prices, to achieve the purpose of increasing farmers' income and reducing burden.

In fact, Su Zhe's assertion is completely correct.

The Changping Law first appeared in the early Warring States period, and the real founder of the Legalist family, Li Kui of the Wei State, has such an account in the historical records.

If Wang Anshi operates the Changping Law well, then there is no need to issue any Green Seedling Law and the Market Change Law, as long as the price of grain is firmly controlled, Wang Anshi's reform law can not only be resolutely implemented, but also avoid making too many enemies.

Most of the clans and military generals in the north are both super landlords and big grain merchants. Naturally, they are more dependent on the income from grain trading, but if Wang Anshi really vigorously and strictly implements the Changping Law, the losses of these forces in grain trading can be completely compensated by trading other commodities. In the end, Wang Anshi insisted on going his own way and vigorously implemented the Qingmiao Law and the Shiyi Law, which completely offended those forces that could be drawn to his side.

In the face of such an undetermined emperor as Song Shenzong, the defeat of the new law was naturally doomed.

In the end, because of the 'Qingmiao Law', Su Zhe was finally demoted from Bianliang City by Wang Anshi.

Perhaps it was at this time that this reason made Su Zhe's heart completely change.

Historically, Su Zhe returned to Beijing in August of the eighth year of Yuanfeng and served as the secretary of the provincial school. He also gave advice on Sima Guang's attitude of opposing and abolishing the new law, but unfortunately, at this point, Sima Guang and Wang Anshi are actually the same kind of people, and they can't listen to other people's opinions at all. Regarding the repeal of the new law, not only the Su brothers persuaded him, but even Fan Chunren persuaded him.

However, later, Su Zhe did something wrong. Sima Guang advocated the return of several border forts seized during the Song Dynasty to the Western Xia Kingdom in exchange for peace. However, at that time, there were many people who were right, and Sima Guang's own health was too poor, so it was put on hold for the time being.

I don't know for what reason, in the second year of Yuanyou, the Western Xia Kingdom sent people to congratulate Zhao Xu on his succession to the throne, and suddenly asked for these few panbao, and Su Zhe actually suggested agreeing to the request of the Western Xia. So, the hat that had been sold for glory was put on Su Zhe's head.

You must know that at that time, Su Zhe was neither a prime minister nor a privy envoy, he was just a scholar. If the Empress Dowager Gao Taotao, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu do not agree, how can he, a small scholar, be able to count? However, when later generations defended Sima Guang, they threw this black cauldron on Su Zhe's head, and he did take the initiative to carry this black cauldron.

Fortunately, because of Cai Dao's disorderly entry, Su Zhe in the eighth year of Yuanfeng delayed the date of entering Beijing because of illness, which made Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu doubt his attitude, and Sima Guang, who recruited him to Beijing, was seriously ill and could not be a director. He was removed from his official position as a result.

Invisibly, he escaped the dark black cauldron.

And in this world, because of the premature fall of Lanzhou City, the lack of Su Zhe, the fool, and the premature death of Sima Guang, the influence of three factors, led to the unreasonable request of the Western Xia Kingdom to obtain the border, and no one was willing to take this head and agree to this matter.

In fact, after the first year of Yuanyou, the Western Xia Kingdom also suffered a change of power within the country, and it was unable to wage war against the outside world. The aggrieved Li Bingchang finally died of grief, and his son, Li Qianshun, who was only three years old, succeeded to the throne, and the power of the Western Xia Kingdom fell into the hands of the Liang family again. This Empress Dowager Liang is the niece of the former Empress Dowager.

In addition to the Su brothers in the Shu Party, there is also Lu Tao, and Zhang Shangying should be added to this world, and another important member, Shangguan, is actually a native of Shaowu in Shaozhou, Fujian.

Therefore, it is more correct that the so-called Shu Party in later generations should be regarded as a centrist.

Now Sun Jue, Zeng Gong, Zeng Zhao, Cai Xuan, Zong Ze and Zhang Shuye should also be added, as well as the four scholars of Sumen.

Qin Guan finally got his wish and passed the Jinshi in the imperial examination in the eighth year of Yuanfeng.

In this imperial examination, Qin Guan was able to be selected, and the process was quite thrilling.

The reason why Qin Guan was able to take the Jinshi exam was still based on Cai Dao's suggestion.

Cai Dao asked the people of the seven-color collar to give Qin Guan a letter, which roughly advised Qin Guan that if he wanted to display his personal ambitions, he must first be admitted to the Jinshi and become an official. And now the conservatives and the reformers are constantly fighting in the court, and this time the imperial examination has become the focus of contention between the two sides.

As the disciple of Su Shi who is the most outstanding in poetry, once he participates in this imperial examination, he will definitely be taken care of by the two factions. However, Su Shi had already offended the important officials of the two factions. How could these high-ranking officials sit idly by and watch Qin Guan Shunshun pass the entrance examination?

At that time, Sima Guang was in power, and the invigilator was naturally his cronies, that is, Fan Zuyu. He was assigned as an invigilator, and he would definitely go to Qin Guan with colored eyes.

Therefore, when Qin Guan took the exam, once he answered according to the usual way of writing, he would definitely be defeated.

Therefore, Cai Dao's second suggestion, when Qin Guan took the exam, answered the policy argument in a decent manner, which not only made the person who read the paper unable to find mistakes, but also made the person who read the paper unable to see who made this article.

You must know that the imperial examination during this period of the Song Dynasty was subject to a policy of vague names and transcriptions. Although these two policies cannot fundamentally eradicate fraud in the imperial examinations, they can still curb corruption in this area to a certain extent.

The gentleman deceived him, if it was an old official like Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu as the chief examiner, Qin Guan would be working hard, and this imperial examination would not be able to achieve his wish at all.

However, Cai Dao's suggestion was to bully Sima Guang's subordinates to be too upright, and Fan Zuyu was the best among them.

The ending of the matter was just as Cai Dao expected, when the examiners gathered the exam papers they selected together and opened the name, Fan Zuyu suddenly found that he was actually molested by Qin Guan.