Chapter 30: The Rising Tide of Madness (Part II)

[Say goodbye to 2011 and welcome the arrival of 2012, I don't know if you have bought the ferry ticket? I'll have a little more to come. 】

It was already noon when Han Gang entered the city.

At the gate of the city, he bumped into his family guarding him. The group rode horses through the streets of Tokyo. When he reached the state bridge, a few people in the team rushed to Xuandemen to help Han Gang report - Han Gang's entry into Beijing was a pilgrimage before his transfer, and he had to sign up and wait for the wheelset - but he still went straight home.

It stands to reason that Han Gang should go to Xuandemen to sign up in person, after all, the rules are like this, but he didn't pay too much attention to it. This kind of mistake has been made by many courtiers, and it is not a big deal.

With Han Gang's current status, merits and prestige, making a small mistake and carrying two or three bullet stamps on his back is a good thing that can make people breathe a sigh of relief. But I'm afraid Zhao Ji didn't have the face to look at Han Gang, who had worked hard in Guangxi for two years after abandoning his wife and children, to bear this charge.

Han Gang and his entourage were all wearing simple clothes, and they couldn't see that they were important ministers of the court. However, after entering the alley in front of the house, I recognized him more often.

It's a small team, but it makes everyone look sideways. Han Gang saw the long-lost gate of the mansion in the attention of the courtesy all the way.

The vermilion lacquer gate made Han Gang's heart beat faster. The main gate of the Han Mansion had been opened at this time, and the servants of the Han family, under the leadership of the housekeeper, greeted the door and knelt in front of the door.

Just in front of the door, Han Gang turned over and dismounted, stepped up the five-step stone steps in two steps, and stepped into the house in two steps. In the courtyard, Wang Yi led Zhou Nan, Su Xin and Yun Niang, led a group of maidservants, Ying Ying bent her knees, and said ten thousand blessings to Han Gang. And a few children who were already able to move around on their own also bowed down to Han Gang together.

Han Gang first helped Wang Yi up: "It's hard work." ”

The face of Chao Si Dusk was in front of him, and Wang Yi pursed his lips, already with tears in his eyes.

Han Gang picked up Zhou Nan, Su Xin, and Yun Niang one by one, "For more than a year, I have also suffered from you." ”

Zhou Nan and Su Xin also smiled with joy in their tears, like rain with pear blossoms, and the colors were extremely moving.

"Third brother......" Yun Niang's thin white fingers twisted Han Gang's cuffs, and the tears in her eyes kept sliding down her cheeks. Seeing Han Gang's heart, it hurt.

After comforting his wife and concubine for a while, Han Gang turned to look at his children again.

The eldest son, Han Zhong, and the second son, Han Cheng, are both approaching the age when they should enter school at this time, and their etiquette has been cultivated since childhood. Han Gang secretly sighed that he spent too much time away from home, too little time with his children, and the estranged people were not like father and son. However, Han Gang's daughter, who has always loved her, is not unfamiliar at all, pestering Han Gang to hug, which makes him very happy.

As for Han Gang's third and fourth sons, who had just been born when he left the capital a year and a half ago, as well as the youngest son who was still in Wang Yi's womb at that time, they were already babbling at this time. But they were also very unfamiliar with Han Gang, when the nurse brought them over, and when Han Gang wanted to hug them, they all cried at once. Han Gang, a father, was also embarrassed.

Just having children is enough for him to feel happy and comforted.

However, twenty-six or seventeen, there are already five sons and one daughter, which is actually nothing, but each of them is healthy and disease-free, which can be regarded as a miracle. Han Gang's heirs are envied even by the emperor - Zhao Ji only had an extra son at the beginning of this year, and he doesn't know if he can keep it.

After a year and a half, the family was reunited in the old house.

"I wonder how long officials can stay at home?"

"I'm going to rest until the Shangyuan Festival." Han Gang said.

"Officials don't let officials rest."

"No, no." Han Gang hugged his wife and concubine and said with a smile: "The emperor is not a hungry soldier. The husband has been hungry for more than a year, and he can't go into battle when he comes out. ”

"Hungry for more than a year?!" Yun Niang was frightened, and looked at Han Gang's face nervously, "It's a lot of weight loss!" ”

But the other three people all understood that Wang Yi and Su Xin's faces turned red again, and they looked at Han Gang with shame. And Zhou Nan hooked Han Yunniang's sleeve, leaned into her ear and muttered a few words, and then saw Yun Niang's crystal and jade little ears turned red. turned around and hugged Zhou Nan, leaving Han Gang with a back.

In Guangxi, Han Gang is not without meat, but only once or twice after a period of time. In the past two years, I have been busy with business every day, and I have not been idle for a day.

And more importantly, his appetite was really not used to the flavors of the South, and he himself was not to the point of starvation. On weekdays, I mostly practice fists and feet, practice bows, arrows, guns and sticks, as a means of consuming excess energy, so I look thin, but my body is bone, but I will be full of energy with beef and seafood that Guangxi has never lacked.

As Han Gang said, he was really hungry for more than a year, and his eyes were green with hunger.

took Yun Niang's hand, grabbed Wang Yi who was shy and wanted to escape, Su Xin and Zhou Nan obediently followed, and they went to the inner room together.

Feeling the warm nephrite-like bodies of the four wives and concubines around him, Han Gang was glad that he could finally rest for a while.

The court is in a changing situation, except for a few days later, when he can see the Son of Heaven at the ceremonial Zhengdan court, he wants to expect Zhao Ji to send someone to recruit him into the palace as soon as he hears his name, which is almost a fantasy.

After all, as a weighing stone, his weight is already too heavy, but there is still a long way to go if he wants to be the hand of the plucker.

……………………

The news of Han Gang's arrival in Jingshi, Zhao Ji received it in less than an hour.

It's just that after thinking about it, he decided to make Han Gang cold for the time being. Now that the Quartet is stable, there is no urgent military situation to deal with, and there is no need to rush him to the palace to inquire.

Han Gang is a capable minister, and with his merits, not letting him cross the line will indeed hurt people's hearts. However, compared to the situation in the court, this little thing, Zhao Ji can only be put behind, it is really not a big deal.

If Han Gang helped Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dian say something during the audience, Zhao Ji would be in a dilemma. A straightforward refusal would hurt people even more than the current procrastination; But if he wants to be vague about the past, and this attitude is interpreted by the courtiers, it will bring unpredictable variables to the goal he wants to achieve at present.

At least for the time being, Zhao Ji will try his best to maintain the personnel arrangements he has made until the situation is completely stabilized. If Han Gang intervened at this time, the situation would be difficult to control.

The bachelors of the first pavilion, no matter what qualifications and ages, are already important ministers among the important ministers, but they are only slightly inferior to the dozen or so people in the court. Among the many envoys who have been released, there are few who have bachelor's qualifications, and they are just serving and straight bachelors. Those who are stronger than Han Gang are all old ministers who go out.

And with Han Gang's talent, even if he doesn't have his current status, the weight is already heavy enough, and he helped Wang Anshi turn the situation around the court several times at the beginning, relying on his superior skills and talents. At this time, Zhao Ji could only choose to put Han Gang a little farther away.

"You go down first." Zhao Ji waved his hand and asked Tong Guan, who came to report the news, to go down and wait.

Tong Guan was shocked in his heart, could it be that Han Gang had lost his holy family? Think about this location, among the many transit envoys in the world, that is, Hebei East Road and Hebei West Road merged into Hebei Road, or Yongxing Military Road and Qinfeng Road, and re-merged into Shaanxi Road, in order to be able to press it.

Han Gang has this important responsibility, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like he has lost his holy favor. But the Son of Heaven is no longer like in the past, as soon as Han Gang arrived, he announced his entry into the palace, what is going on, with Tong Guan's shallow political wisdom now, I still can't figure it out for a while. Is it really because the old party is now going to be used to govern, and it is deliberately ignored?

Hunched over, walked out of the hall door backwards, and while straightening his waist, he quickly glanced at the expressionless Son of Heaven who was high in the depths of the hall, and Tong Guan left the Chongzheng Hall with a full of doubts.

Zhao Ji has Zhao Ji's thoughts, maybe in the eyes of outsiders, Wu Chong is a hardcore old party, but Zhao Ji thinks that Wu Chong is just screwing with Wang Anshi's in-laws. When Zhao Anshi was the prime minister, he let his in-laws serve as privy envoys, but he saw that Wu Chong always maintained an attitude that contradicted Wang Anshi.

But in Zhao Ji's view, once Wang Anshi leaves the dynasty, Wu Chong's attitude towards the new law will be eased. If he really does not contradict the new law, how can the armor protection law and the art of war related to the Privy Council be implemented smoothly? He had already resigned and asked for the county.

After Wu Chong becomes prime minister, he will definitely change his old attitude. Zhao is convinced of this. As long as he maintains the new law, Wu Chong will acquiesce and implement it - Wang Jue is actually obedient, but Zhao Ji believes in Wu Chong's talent a little more.

As for the appointment of Lu Gongshu, there is no need to worry. The Privy Envoy had no right to interfere with the Qingmiao Law, the Exemption Law, and the City Change Law, which were within the jurisdiction of the Eastern Government, and he could only speak on the Law of Protecting the Armor and the Law of War. However, although Lu Gongshu is from the old party, he is a rare person who supports the Baojia Law - a person in the old party, but he does not see that the new law will be opposed.

And this appointment can also temporarily relieve the doubts of the Northwest Second Prisoner. Everyone in the world knows that most of the old party is opposed to the use of troops abroad, and this appointment should be able to calm the hearts of the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State and the Western Xia.

Now that the new law has taken effect, what is most needed is stability, and the provisions of the new law that have worked well will be implemented steadily, rather than the introduction of new laws. Lu Huiqing just doesn't understand this, once he is made the prime minister, he will definitely try to be different. Zhao didn't want to see that.

And it's a good thing that the courtiers can contain each other, if Lu Huiqing is in power, it will be a little difficult to maintain the words 'dissenting opinions', don't you see that he can't even tolerate Feng Jingjing?

Zhao Ji was thinking about how to stabilize the current situation, and a message from the Liao State, which was so short that it was only six words, made Zhao Ji surprised and shouted-'Waste Prince Jun Violent Pawn'.