【3rd Update】

After the meeting with Han Jiang and Zhang Qi, Han Gang returned to his public hall.

Before seeing the number of desperate official documents, he was touched by the matter, and he was still thinking about the arrangements of the commander who attacked Liao in the future.

Guo Kui has already achieved the highest position of a military minister, and it is impossible to go out of the army and the opportunity to go out of the town.

Among the ministers, Zhang Dian and himself are qualified, but almost all of them are already extremely popular ministers, and the possibility of actually leading the army is also very small.

If it's defense, it's fine. If you raise a large army and go north to regain the lost territory, no matter who you are, you have all kinds of scruples. However, with the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother, it is a feasible way to come to a personal expedition.

This kind of reverie only took up a few steps of Han Gang's time, and when he stood at the door of the public hall, all the superfluous thoughts flew away.

Han Gang spent a whole hour dealing with official business, and the hill that was piled on the table eliminated a few piles. Han Gang's resume of Fu Yaoyu, which he asked people to take out before, finally saw the light of day.

I just discussed with Han Jiang and Zhang Qi about the personnel arrangements for the removal of the hall, and it is inconvenient for Bianzhou, and there is only one vacancy in western Beijing in the near future - Tangzhou Zhizhou.

Han Gang felt that he had found a suitable position for Fu Yaoyu.

First, Fu Yaoyu will be transferred to the vicinity of the capital, and he will be the governor of the state for two or three months, and when there is a suitable vacancy in the DPRK, he can be transferred back to Beijing. This is a very common way to get promoted and return to Beijing.

Presumably, such an arrangement can also satisfy several people in Xijing, and it will not make Wang Anshi feel that there are too many problems.

asked Fu Yaoyu's resume to be sent back to the cabinet library, and Han Gang drank hot tea and rested for a while.

After his leisure, Han Gang remembered that Wang Anshi did not go to the court to ask about politics today.

Wang Anshi, as a major military matter in Pingzhang, is a six-day dynasty, and it is normal not to come. But Han Gang thought he would come over and stare at it.

The Zhongshu Sect is all from the New Party, and it is conceivable that they can't help themselves, but Wang Anshi looks generous. Or is it that after so many things, I have developed prejudices against my father-in-law?

The military affairs of Pingzhang are not often disposed of, and the scope of its power is very vague, and it does not have clear institutional regulations like prime ministers and privy envoys. According to the literal sense, it is to deal with the important affairs of the military state. As for what is a militaristic matter, it will have to be decided later.

It's just that Wang Anshi, as the leader of the New Party, when the members of the New Party are all over every corner of the court, as long as he wants to interfere in the affairs, he can easily do it - the same position, whether the authority is big or small, in fact, it still depends on the talent.

However, when it was almost dusk, Han Gang finally knew what Wang Anshi was doing for Lu and didn't rush over today.

A member of the Wang family who Han Gang was very familiar with was led in, "Pingzhang ordered the villain to pass on the message and participate in politics, if you are free these days, please participate in politics and go through the house...... The old lady also said that she hadn't seen a few brothers and sisters for a few days, so please come over. ”

Is this a showdown

Han Gang was not surprised.

With Wang Anshi's character, he will not be a vegetarian meal. Since he is the leader of the new party, he naturally protects the interests of the new party. In his early sixties, when politicians were making great progress, Wang Anshi was exhausted and tired of government affairs, but once the New Party encountered an enemy, he would still go into battle.

This time he went to his father-in-law's house, Han Gang thought that Wang Anshi would at least force himself to determine what he wanted, just like Han Jiang and Zhang Qi did today - although it is impossible to divide the power of the court, it is essential to delineate the general range of power.

However, the words of mother-in-law Wu diluted the atmosphere of this Hongmen banquet.

Han Gang did not delay the time, and immediately sent someone back to inform Wang Yi and asked her to take her children to Pingzhang Mansion first. And when he waited until he was released, he also went directly to see Wang Anshi.

Sitting in Wang Anshi's study, Han Gang chatted with the owner of the study.

"Yukun, today is the first time to go to the court as a governor, what do you think?"

"For a long time before, the son-in-law stood in the middle of the West and looked at the colleagues opposite. Today, I can finally stand on the east side and look at people. ”

Wang Anshi shook his head and smiled bitterly, his son-in-law is sometimes really helpless.

He made the words clear and asked: "Yukun has participated in politics, what do you want to do in governance?" ”

Han Gang thought for a while, "Political affairs come first, and financial management is urgent. ”

What Wang Anshi said to Zhao Ji back then, now Han Gang has returned it to Wang Anshi.

"This is the answer of the younger son-in-law when the Queen Mother asked today." Han Gang said with a smile.

"Oh...... I don't know how Yukun plans to manage his finances? ”

"Dare to ask my father-in-law, what is this year's military spending?"

Wang Anshi said: "At most, it is only eighty percent of the previous one. ”

The amount of iron armor manufactured has exceeded the number of forbidden armies. Iron and steel weapons such as horse chopping knives, waist knives, bones, spear tips, and arrow clusters are even more in the millions.

Nowadays, in armaments, unless the whole army is reequipped, in a short period of time, there is no longer a need for large-scale manufacturing, just it is enough. Counting all weapons such as swords, guns, halberds, bows, armor, thunderbolts, bed crossbows, warships, chariots, etc., the cost of equipment replacement will not exceed 3 million yuan per year.

And without the attrition of the war, the cost of maintaining the army is actually not very much compared with the past.

"That's right." Han Gang nodded, "Because finally the world is peaceful." The western thieves were destroyed, and the king entered the green ridge. The northern captives also turned to the east, but attacked Goryeo and Japan. Now even the Western Army has to reduce the number of troops. ”

"Yukun is worried?"

"Of course I'm worried." Han Gang immediately said, "After the alliance of the Yuanyuan, thirty years of peace have made it impossible for the whole country to find a working general, a warlike army, and let the western thieves wreak havoc. Such a situation cannot be repeated. ”

"But the Western Army is not just going to let Nanshan go." Wang Anshi said.

"Indeed, it is not a matter of disbandment. And the people will also benefit. ”

After the Liao people entered the Kou, the Hedong Army suffered heavy losses and needed a large number of fresh troops to replenish it. Therefore, at least eighty commanders in the Western Army were to be transferred to Hedong. The rest is also to eliminate the weak and retain the strong, let the old and weak reclaim, and what is abandoned is only countless walled forts in the mountains. In the depths of Hengshan, too many resources of the Great Song Dynasty were consumed, and without this expenditure, the people of the Kansai prefectures could be much easier.

"Yukun, you talk about military affairs, but you want to be a privy envoy?"

Han Gang didn't want to do it.

The power of the Eastern Mansion is much greater than that of the Western Mansion, and even if Han Gang is a privy envoy, the personnel and financial powers in his hands are not as good as those of the governor.

The east and west are called together, but they are both civil and military since ancient times. More importantly, since the founding of the country, the threat of foreign hostile countries has been too great. Since Renzong, military expenditure has maintained nearly eighty percent of the country's financial expenditure all year round, and the political status of military and diplomacy has made the Privy Council, which holds both military and political and diplomatic powers to Liao, have the same weight in the court as the political affairs hall.

If military spending falls sharply and the status of the military in national politics declines, then it will be difficult for the Privy Council to guarantee its current status.

"Military affairs are also state affairs, not privy envoys, but can also be discussed. However, the adjustment of the Western Army, the son-in-law has also participated, and there are no more opinions for the time being. However, such a large-scale reduction in military spending and the savings are not just saved. The original intention of the son-in-law was not to increase the income of the imperial court, but to adjust the expenses of the imperial court more reasonably and use them where they should be used. ”

"Where?"

"A lot. For example, the son-in-law is preparing to propose to increase investment in people's livelihood, and all states and counties should set up hospitals and pharmacies, and set up bureaus so that widows and widows can live in peace. ”

"Yukun, this is not easy to ......"

"Let's do it first. If you don't do it, you will never succeed. The old have their ends, the strong have their usefulness, the young have their growth, and the widowed, the lonely, the lonely, and the disabled are all supported. It didn't fall from the sky, someone had to start doing it first. ”

"If this can be done, it can indeed be traced back to three generations." Wang Anshi was not too excited, just like Han Gang's words, in his opinion, things must be done, not spoken, "but...... That's it? ”

"At the same time, the son-in-law also plans to increase the officials, and correspondingly, it will also strengthen the punishment of the criminal judges.

Wang Anshi shook his head, the punishment mentioned later was incidental, and the first sentence was the main topic. This is to bribe officials, build prestige, and use inducements and threats to complement each other.

There was nothing new about Han Gang's few political opinions, Wang Anshi said: "I thought that Yukun would make a drastic move in the weapons prison." ”

Han Gang shook his head, he didn't plan to make a drastic attack on the Weapons Supervisor.

The scope of the power of the Ordnance Superintendent is very large, and after Hangang becomes the governor of the government, the Firearms Bureau will also return to the Ordnance Superintendent. It is logical to separate the two systems of production and R&D. However, due to the personnel system, it is difficult to do so. After so many years, it will come down, and Han Gang does not plan to forcibly change it, so as not to make a mistake.

"The son-in-law is about to say that the son-in-law plans to transfer Wang Juqing to the Judgment Weapons Supervisor in the near future."

Han Gang did not hide it, and Wang Anshi was not surprised, everyone knew that Han Gang, who had ascended to the position of governor of the government, would never let the weapons prison fall into the hands of others.

"The current two prisoners, one is a servant of Cisheng, and the other is Huang Yizhong." Wang Anshi said, "Which one does Yukun plan to replace?" ”

Ci Sheng is the mercy of the Holy Light after offering Cao. The sentence of the military weapons supervisor is her own nephew Cao Yu. In addition, the empress dowager who has passed away, and several nephews, among them, Cao Ping is the judge of the West Courtyard, Cao Zhi is the Imperial City Division, and Cao Lu is the Liquan Temple. As for his younger brother Uncle Cao Guo, when he dies, at least one county king will be posthumously sealed.

The Cao family and the Gao family are all relatives because they are relatives, so even their sons and nephews are reused. Even if there was a rebellion of Zhao Hao and Cai Qu, but the Emperor Song ruled the world with filial piety, as long as Gao Taotao could still be her empress dowager, as long as she was still the biological mother of the first emperor, the treatment of the Gao family would not be reduced. Now Xiangjia is also soaring all of a sudden. Now another person other than Wang Hou is the Imperial City Division, and his surname is Xiang.

In the Ordnance Prison, another person who cooperated with Cao Yu was Huang Lian. Huang Lian defected to the New Party very early, and Wang Anshi wanted to change the military law, but he was a pawn. The last time the artillery bombarded the Taiwei Mansion, the judge on the shell was Huang Huang.

"Huang Yizhong." Han Gang did not hesitate.

"Yukun. Cao Yu is comparable to Huang Lian? ”

"It's not comparable, so what do you think? Everything is not disturbed, Huang Lian is not as good as Cao Chan. ”

Wang Anshi's face changed. Han Gang's words were too direct, and the other was sentenced to the warden of weapons, he only needed one to take money and not do anything.

"Yukun, are you fighting for Taoism or for the party?"

"Father-in-law, son-in-law has always believed that the dispute between Taoism and Taoism is not about words, but about doing things. Whoever does the words of the saints is the Taoist. Qi science pays attention to empirical evidence, only at this point, the son-in-law will not worry about losing to anyone! ”

"What are you doing?"

"See the results later!"