[I wish you all a happy new year.] Thank you friends for your strong support for this book in the past year, whether I am diligent or slack, so I also have the cheekiness to ask you to stay in the new year. As for me...... Cough...... In the new year, we will be reborn and start anew. Take this as proof]

After a few years, Fan Chunren re-entered the Nanxun Gate.

The opulence and prosperity that surpasses any city in the world make Fan Chunren's children, nephews and family members who accompany him can't help but let their eyes linger on both sides of the street, only Fan Chunren on horseback looks ahead without squinting.

However, his mind was not at all on the towering city gate at the end of the royal road a few miles away.

As early as five days ago, more than 300 miles away from the capital, Fan Chunren heard a news.

If he delays for a day, he will have nothing to do. Fan Zhongyan's second son entered Tokyo City the day before Tingtui.

Although it is said that when he was in Gyeongju a few years ago, he was sued for reprimanding and was deposed by the Xinyang Army, but it was soon reactivated. Although the status of the governor of Qizhou is not high, as the servant of the Baowen Pavilion, he is definitely qualified to participate in the promotion of Zaifu.

Once he registers his name at the Xuande Gate and waits to enter the palace to face the king, then tomorrow's Shuori Dynasty will be eligible to participate. Of course, at the first meeting of the Great Song Dynasty to elect Zaifu, no one was able to exclude Fan Chunren from the meeting.

It's just that the method of such a recommendation is not recorded in the historical books, whether to participate or to express opposition, Fan Chunren can't make a decision yet.

……………………

"Fan Yaofu?!"

Ye Zuqia, who was heading to Guozijian, suddenly grabbed the reins, looked at the oncoming group of people, and carefully identified a few times: "Sure enough, it's Fan Yaofu." ”

Ding Zhili, who was traveling with him, was startled and looked up: "Fan Chunren?!" How did he come back?! ”

In the court, Fan Chunren is also a famous person. The prestige of both domestic and foreign investment in the government and the opposition is not low, and it is an old party that is iron-hearted and unrepentant.

"Of course, it's Yique."

"He's a waiter, isn't he?" Ding asked.

"Baowen Pavilion Servant."

"There is no him in the waiter system who returned to Beijing in this half month."

The list of candidates who can participate in the court push has long been spread all over the capital, and several Yique servants who can arrive in the capital before the election date are also on the list, and there is no Fan Chunren's name in it. Ding Zhili remembered that it would take at least two or three days, and it must have been after Tingtui.

"Maybe it's going fast, maybe I'm hearing the news." Ye Zuqia shook his head, "But maybe he will participate in the court push, so he will simply scold...... This can be regarded as a change. ”

“…… I heard that Fan Yaofu has a hard temperament? ”

"Loyalty...... I heard that Fan Wenzheng himself said that pure benevolence is loyal. Loyal to the Lord, there is no time to make a living, so if you don't like it, you have to say it. ”

Xining's three-year-old champion Lang had an unconcealed irony in his tone.

"Pure benevolence is loyal...... What about Fan Wu? ”

"It's purely strategic, that's why I can take office and merge the state. It's just that now Taiyuan doesn't need strategists, but to recuperate. ”

Fan Zhongyan has four adult sons, Fan Chunyou, Fan Chunren, Fan Chunli, and Fan Chun.

Thirty years ago, Fan Zhongyan guarded Kansai, and Fan Chunyou was his assistant, but later fell ill and died early. Among the remaining three sons, Fan Zhongyan once commented that pure benevolence is loyal, pure etiquette is quiet, and pure strategy - that is, strategy. Fan Chun is now in Hedong, and the newly entered Zhitaiyuan Mansion took office after Han Gang left Hedong.

"Fan Wenzhenggong's strategy is not outstanding, and if he inherits it, at most, he barely guards the door." Ding Zhili was looking at Fan Chunren and his party who were getting closer and closer: "But Fan Yaofu, he is really anxious." ”

Ye Zuqia snorted coldly: "There is not much more than him, and there is not much less than him." Even if he had a heart, he couldn't change anything. ”

Judging from the news that is leaking out now, the support that Han Gang can get is pitiful.

On the one hand, compared to Li Ding, Lu Jiawen and others, who have frequently handed over the ministers in the past few days, Han Gang has not acted at all. But on the other hand, it was also Han Gang who was so good that the rest of the ministers invariably suppressed him.

Under the conditions that he could choose, no one wanted a colleague like Han Gang to be too prominent to enter the two mansions. If it was decided by the empress dowager, then no one could do anything, but now that the decision is in the hands of the important ministers above the servant, where is it possible to recommend Han Gang to enter the two mansions again?

Although the important ministers didn't know what Han Gang would do after entering the two mansions, he at least knew what it meant to be born, old, sick and die?

In the early years of Xining, Wang Anshi entered the government for the first time, and he only participated in political affairs, so that other Zaifu had no place to stand, the old and sick, the incompetent were complaining, and the small-minded ones were simply angry, only Wang Anshi was full of vitality.

Han Gang was appointed as the privy deputy for the first time because of the instability of the northern frontier, and during his tenure, he was almost not in the capital, but presided over military affairs in the north. When he returned to Beijing, he resigned not long after he misdiagnosed the illness of the first emperor. There wasn't much time for people to feel his majesty.

But this time, there will be no accident of the Liao people entering the prison. If you enter the two mansions, you can sit for three or five years, to say the least. And the Queen Mother obeyed him, so that it was a copy of Wang Anshi back then, and other Zaifu still had room to stand? And in order to consolidate his position, Han Gang will also vigorously promote his subordinates, so as to control the court. At present, the important ministers who occupy important positions, in a year or two, it would be good to have half of them left.

From Zaifu to courtiers, as long as it is not Han Gang's family, they are all aspiring to be together at the moment. It is reported that the waiters participating in the election will try to suppress Han Gang in fourth place.

Either the Queen Mother vetoed the results of this election and made the proposed Han Gang lose face and enter the two mansions without shame, or the Queen Mother admitted the reality, gave up Han Gang, and selected one of the three selected people to be promoted to the two governments.

Whether it is Ding Zhili or Ye Zuqia, both of them have participated in the marking of the six-year rite examination in Xining, Han Gang was in their hands when he won the jinshi, and Han Gang, who was already a court official before the jinshi, is now far more than them. So they also want to see Han Gang suffer another loss in their hearts.

"Huh? Which one is that? ”

Ding Zhili suddenly narrowed his eyes, and saw that not far away, a person suddenly came out of the hotel on the side of the street and stopped Fan Chunren and his party.

"It seems that this is where Van Yaof is guarded." Ye Zuqia also looked at it carefully.

"It doesn't look like it's a popular outfit here in Tokyo."

"Hmm. It's like a bun in the west, but it's not like Kansai. There's really no way to cut over there, and it's a waste of good fabric. ”

"Wouldn't it be Xijing?!"

"Wen and Fu will support Han Gang?"

Ye Zuqia and Ding Zhili glanced at each other, and at the same time Da Lu laughed, how could that be possible?! It's that Han Gang is a northerner, but he is also Wang Anshi's son-in-law.

……………………

"Jing Xian meets the waiter!"

Zheng Guogong's nephew Fubi bowed respectfully in front of Fan Zhongyan's son.

Fan Chunren treats Fu Jingxian as if he is his own nephew, "I haven't seen you for many years, and my nephews are so old." ”

"It's been six years. Jing Xian still remembers the time when he went out of the East Water Gate with the third uncle to send the waiter system south. Fu Jingxian said, took out a letter from his arms, and handed it over with both hands, "This is a letter sent by Uncle Jingxian to the waiter." ”

Fan Chunren smiled and nodded, took the letter, and ordered someone to vacate a horse for Fu Jingxian to get on the horse. The rich family, like his sons and nephews, will not feel unfamiliar at all.

At the time of Qingli, Fu Bi and Fan Zhongyan were the closest political allies, one in the east and the other in the west, jointly implementing the new policy.

Unlike Ouyang Xiu, who specialized in pitting teammates, Fu Bi has been affected by Fan Zhongyan for a long time. When he went to Liao, the national documents he carried were tampered with, and the first time he went out of the two prefectures in the future was because he followed Fan Zhongyan. Later, Fan Zhongyan died of illness, and his epitaph was also written by Fu Bi, who was not good at poetry, and Fu Bi, who was not good at poetry, also wrote a memorial to Fan Zhongyan. Moreover, the epitaph of Fan Chunren's eldest brother Fan Chunyou, who died early, was also written by Fu Bi himself.

Compared with Fu Bi, who has been in constant contact, because Ouyang Xiu wrote on the Fan Zhongyan Shinto Tablet that after Fan Zhongyan and Lu Yijian resurrected at the same time, the paragraph of 'The two dukes happily met and worked together on state affairs' was estranged very early - Fan Chunren thought that his father had never reconciled with Lu Yijian from beginning to end, so he deleted that paragraph, but Ouyang Xiu said, 'What happened to witness it, how can you know about it?' Alienated from this.

On the other hand, Fu Bi failed in the imperial examination that year, but he was able to take the examination for the system, and the most popular thing in the later system was Fan Zhongyan's recommendation, and Fu Bi was able to be Yan Shu's son-in-law, also because of Fan Zhongyan's strong recommendation in front of Yan Shu.

Fu Bi wrote two sentences in "The Epitaph of Fan Wenzheng Gongzhongyan", "Teachers and friends, thirty years of death", which is the best summary of the friendship between the two.

There was nothing else on the letter, just an ordinary greeting. Fan Chunren and Fu Bi, as well as the children of the rich family, have been in exchange with letters all the year round, and they have to send letters of greetings every New Year's Day, and the content of today's letter is no different from that of ordinary days. But after hundreds of miles, he specially sent his nephew to deliver the letter, saying that it was an ordinary greeting, and he also wanted people to believe it.

Fan Chunren folded the letter paper and put it back in the envelope, then ordered to leave left and right, and asked directly: "What does Gong Zheng command?" ”

Although he talked eloquently in front of Fan Chunren, Fu Jingxian was still a little nervous, although the relationship between Fan and Fu did not need to be said, Fan Chunren was never a person who abandoned his official affairs because of personal feelings.

In the old year, Wang Anshi entered the government hall to implement the new law, and the prime minister Fu Bi prevented him from returning to his hometown after illness, so Fan Chunren accused Fu Bi of being 'more compassionate about himself than caring for things, and worrying about illness more than worrying about the state' - pity for himself more than for foreign affairs, worrying about his illness more than worrying about the country - so it is 'to the lord and lose both' to serve the monarch and establish his own life, both are at fault.

“…… I don't know if the waiter has ever heard about the election of Zaifu? ”

"Nature." Fan Chunren nodded, but then frowned, "But according to the itinerary, Chunren is going to enter Beijing after the court meeting, and this is also written in the letter to Zheng Gong." How could Gong Zheng send his nephew here to Hou Chunren. ”

"Before Jing Xian left home, his uncle said that the servant system has always been loyal to the king, and going to Beijing will inevitably be concurrent, as long as he guards in the Nanxun Gate."

“…… Zheng Gong, who knows me. Fan Chunren's eyes flickered and he sighed, "What did Gong Zheng say?" ”