[Two consecutive shifts, this is the second shift. 】

It was about dusk, and Wang Yi returned from the palace.

Compared with the normal greetings, he came back a little later, Han Gang raised his head from the book and asked, "It seems to be late again today, is it the queen or Concubine Zhu Xian." ”

Wang Yi took off her makeup and came out in homely civilian clothes. She sat down beside Han Gang and rubbed her neck, "It's Concubine Zhu Xian, I thought it would be left until the palace gate was about to be locked." ”

"What's wrong?" Han Gang asked, reaching over by the way, wanting to help with the massage.

Wang Yi screamed in pain and slapped Han Gang's hand away, "Official, your hands are too heavy, and your bones are crushed!" He glared at Han Gang fiercely, and sighed again, "I really don't want to go to the palace, every time I wear a hairpin crown, I feel heavy, so I have to let Wei Niangzi pinch it well." ”

Although Wang Yi said so, he didn't call his hair-combing lady to come in - the maid who was responsible for combing her hair was not only responsible for combing some fashionable hairstyles, but more of a staff officer for the mother's dress, and some of them had their own unique skills, but Wang Yi was around him who could massage and pinch his bones - the husband and wife were discussing things in the palace, and it was inconvenient to say it in front of their subordinates.

After meeting the two palaces and the queen, he was dragged by Concubine Zhu Xian to gossip, originally thinking that it would drag on until dark, but not long after, Funing Palace sent someone there, and after saying a few words to Concubine Zhu Xian, he sent the slave family out. I don't know if Lu Dao is the Son of Heaven recruiting Concubine Zhu Xian. ”

Han Gang smacked his lips, "It's really troublesome, every time I enter the palace, I have to be pulled to talk." ”

"Thanks to the officials! Otherwise, you can be like a mother, go in and come out. Wang Yi snorted at Han Gang complainingly, and rubbed his feet again: "The lady in the palace doesn't know how to be sympathetic at all. He was wearing a crown of hairpins and court clothes, and he started from the palace gate and walked around the harem. I ran through all three halls, and my feet hurt from exhaustion. ”

"Get some hot water to soak your feet, you don't usually walk this far." Han Gang said and called someone in, and ordered to prepare hot water, "I'll go eat after soaking my feet, Su Xin commanded the kitchen, but I prepared a lot of good dishes today." ”

"Hmm." Wang Yi smiled and nodded. Seeing Han Gang holding a book in the bedroom again, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, "Why don't you read in the study?" ”

"Ask your son." Han Gang shook his head helplessly, "When the firecrackers were set off, the second brother somehow got it, and flew into the study as soon as he made a loud noise, and he didn't care about it at first, but after a while, he saw smoke." ”

Wang Yi was taken aback, "Gone out of the water?!" ”

"It's water." Han Gang sighed helplessly, "I burned half of the tent, but a few basins of water were splashed over, and all the books in the study were destroyed, and Nanniang and Yunniang were leading people to bake books in the west room." ”

Wang Yi became angry, "It's all you, what did you say about setting off firecrackers yesterday!" What if the study is splashed with water today, and the house will be burned tomorrow? My brother and sister are playing wild, what should I do if I accidentally hurt myself in the future!? ”

"It's my husband's fault, so God destroyed my study, which is a heavy punishment."

Han Gang sighed, but Wang Yi was so angry that his teeth itched. He gouged Han Gang's eyes again and asked, "What about the second brother?!" ”

"I punished the three of them to copy the book, and they had to copy the three-character scripture before eating. The words must be correct, otherwise drink water and spend the night. Han Gang raised his eyes to look at his wife, who was a little worried, and said with a smile, "It's okay to be hungry, my husband was under Mr. Zihou back then, and he stayed up for several months a day, and eating less was nothing." And the three of them are not necessarily bad at writing, they are literate in reading, and they are smarter than their husbands. ”

"The officials are modest." Wang Yi said a word, and temporarily put his mind at ease, "When the main house and the retreat hall are repaired, move the study back, and it will not be burned by firecrackers again." ”

"How is the Empress Dowager doing?" Han Gang asked.

Wang Yi shook his head, "It's still outside the hall." Her voice lowered, "Looks like it's getting a little harder." Several Hanlin medical officers came out with bad faces. ”

Han Gang frowned, thought for a while, and said, "If the Empress Dowager's condition does not improve in two days, the Son of Heaven will ask Zai Fu to go to Daxiangguo Temple to burn incense and pray for blessings, and then it will depend on the candidates and the number of people......"

Han Gang said half of it, but Wang Yi understood that the more people and the higher the status of the Zaifu who went to Xiangguo Temple, the more serious the illness of the Empress Dowager would be. If Prime Minister Wang Qi led the whole class of the two prefectures to Xiangguo Temple, then he could basically wait for the Son of Heaven to amnesty the world.

Putting down the Empress Dowager's illness, Wang Yi looked at the thick stack of books on the table, and then looked at the scroll in Han Gang's hand, judging from the font, it was a manuscript: "What book did the official read today?" ”

"I'm reading history." Han Gang raised the manuscript in his hand, "The Su family's father and son." Now that I have a lot of free time, I just read more books. ”

In his previous life, Han Gang only knew about the eight families of the Tang and Song dynasties, and he only thought that the three fathers and sons of the Su family wrote poems and songs well, but later learned that the name of the text was not just poetry and songs. The father and son of the Su family were famous in Beijing back then, relying on historical theories and policies.

Su Xun wrote "Several Strategies", "Quan Shu", and "Heng Theory", and Su Shi wrote "Jin Strategy" and "Jin Theory" fifty articles dedicated to Emperor Renzong at that time, Su Zhe was still a little short at that time, but he also had more than a dozen articles on history.

As soon as the article of Sansu father and son came out, he was recommended by Ouyang Xiu, Mei Shengyu and other literary masters in Beijing, and became famous for a while.

After Han Gang skimmed through Sansu's article a little today, he realized that Wang Anshi wanted to say that they were first-class in the Warring States Period, and they were indeed all argumentative essays.

"What do the officials think of the work of the Three Sus?" Wang Yi asked with great interest.

Han Gang frowned and thought for a while: "Sansu's works are mainly about commenting on historical events, satirizing the past and the present. is not like Sima Junshi, which is similar to a simple historian, but adheres to the law of the Spring and Autumn Period, and uses history to explain the righteousness of Confucianism. Today's various schools of thought mostly talk about the righteousness of the mind, with the interpretation of the scriptures as the top, and the Shu school is close to history, which is an outlier. ”

Wang Yi was surprised: "The pen sharpens the spring and autumn ...... Is the official rated so high? ”

"How to say it, it's specious, it's just a form. Lao Su is fine, but Su Zizhan's twenty-five articles of "Advance Strategy" and twenty-five articles of "Advance Theory" are just clusters of flowers, more like a whole number, and I forced to make up fifty articles. ”

Han Gang flipped through the books in his hand and pointed to one of them for Wang Yi to see: "Su Zizhan's "On Zhuge Liang" said, 'Cao Cao is dead, and Zipi is established. At this time, it can be calculated, what? Cao is dying, summoning Pi and belonging to the plant, showing that he does not take Tan and Shang as a precept. And Pi and Zhi, finally killed each other like this, this brother is a revenge, and the situation can win the heart of the world's heroes! This can be a momentary trend, but donate hundreds of thousands of gold, so that the flesh and blood of his ministers will kill each other. Then raise troops to cut it down, so this ancestor is also extinct. ’”

Wang Yi shook her head, except for three or two famous articles in the past, she didn't read much about the history of the Su family's father and son, she didn't expect it to be so unreliable, "If you read "Three Kingdoms", you shouldn't think like this. ”

Han Gang nodded and said, "So this is the idea of the Zongheng family and the like, thinking that spending a little money and moving their mouths can make the enemy collapse without a fight." 'Brothers and enemies, and the situation can win the hearts of the world's heroes', from the relationship between Cao Pi and Cao Zhi to the world's heroes, this extension is unreasonable, it is really wishful thinking! Why don't you compare it to Li Shimin? ”

"Dad used to say that the Su family's father and son were vertical and horizontal, and he didn't like Lao Su's history very much at the beginning." Wang Yi recalled: "When Dasu participated in the Ministry of Rites Examination, he wrote "The Theory of Punishment and Reward for Loyalty", and my father knew that 'Gao Tao said; Kill, three; Yao said, Youzhi, after the three 'is apocryphal, I don't like it even more. ”

Gao Tao was the judge of Yao's time, and he sentenced people to death three times, while Yao forgave sinners three times. This allusion is the first half of the sentence that Su Shi used to prove the sentence 'the crime is only light, and the merit is doubtful' in the Shangshu - these eight words are also the source of the title "The Theory of Punishment and Reward for Loyalty" - but this allusion, the chief examiner Ouyang Xiu did not know the way, the deputy examiner Mei Shengyu had never heard of it, and none of the examiners had heard of it.

Ouyang Xiu and Mei Shengyu thought that they were not widely read and did not know the source of the allusion to Lu Dao, although the other examiners thought that there was no basis to depose it, but Ouyang Xiu saw that the article was well written, so they believed him. But when he knew that the Tao was written by Su Shi, Ouyang Xiuyi asked, and it turned out to be apocryphal!

"Don't talk about whether the article is good or bad. In principle, if the argument is falsified, the argument is unfounded and the argument cannot be established. No matter how well the whole article is written, it is not qualified. Han Gang smiled, "The people of the time regarded this incident as an anecdote, but what if such a style was used in political affairs?" ”

"yes, that's the truth." Wang Yi said again, "And later, Xiao Su talked about Emperor Renzong's greed for women, thousands of nobles in the palace, and feasting day and night, ignoring the government. This is clearly using hearsay to gain a straight name, and Daddy is advocating dethronement. Han Zeng's two fathers also thought the same as their father, thinking that they were slandering the Son of Heaven, but Emperor Renzong felt that he was seeking to speak out, and he should not be a sinner with words, so he still chose him. ”

"But didn't my father-in-law refuse to draft a book for Xiao Su?" Han Gang said with a smile.

The temper of the reluctant husband was so stubborn that it gave people a headache decades ago. When he was serving as the examiner of the system subject, he thought that Su Zhe should be dethroned and was not qualified to pass the system examination that was one level higher than the Jinshi department. Even though Emperor Renzong admitted Su Zhe, when it was time to draft an appointment for Su Zhe, Wang Anshi, who served as the intellectual system, refused to draft the edict. It was useless for anyone to persuade him, and he finally stopped Su Zhe for nearly a year.

Hearing the banter in Han Gang's words, Wang Yi glanced at him again, "Daddy's temper is like this, not to mention that he didn't do anything wrong!" ”