The Empress Dowager of the Great Song Dynasty has basically never been out of the palace since she entered the palace at the age of nineteen. Living deep in this small world, for decades, her feet have only walked in Miyagi, and there are only a few gardens in Beijing, but she has to move her legs and feet every day. It's just that today, Cao just walked around the palace, and felt more and more that his legs and feet had become inflexible, "It's really old." ”

As soon as I sat down, I heard someone outside: "The emperor, the wife of the Wang family of Puyang County asks to see you." ”

When Cao heard this, he was a little unhappy. She doesn't have much affection for the Pu Wang family. She is the queen of Renzong, and Yingzong is just the adopted son of the successor. After Yingzong ascended the throne, he first missed the funeral of Emperor Renzong - well, this is a disease! So she began to listen to politics - but then Zhao Shu recovered from illness and became pro-government, and began to make noise about posthumously presenting her biological father Zhao Yunrang as emperor. After the worst incident, there was a mess, so much so that he cried in front of the prime minister. If it weren't for Zhao Shu having a good son who was filial and polite, the Cao family would really have thought about abolishing him.

During this time, there were many people who asked her side, but the people of the Pu Wang family, who had the most important status, only dared to piggyback on it, and the real place to go was the Baoci Palace where the Empress Dowager Gao lived. After all, the Empress Dowager knows the knot in Pu Yi's heart, and if she just comes forward to touch the lintel, there will definitely be no good result.

But how many years have passed since this matter, it is not good to take it to heart again. Since there are people, it is inconvenient not to see: "Let them in." ”

Zhao Ji really had a headache during this time, and the first two or three days of this new year were a little easier.

Wang Yan's suggestion had just been rejected at the feast, but Wen Yanbo's recital was still in his heart, and how to solve the food gap of 600,000 stone in the Daimyo Mansion was another trouble. And the intercession that came to him every day also made Zhao Ji unable to be clean.

Zhao Ji was a filial emperor. I never forget the morning and dusk of my grandmother and mother. Coming out of the Chongzheng Palace, he first went to the Cishou Palace. Although the palace is a little closer, if you go to greet your mother now, you will definitely see a group of crying women. Relatively speaking, it is still a little cleaner on the side of the Queen Mother.

However, there are still two people in Cishou Palace, and Zhao Ji knows them, and they are from his second uncle's family. It's just that when they saw the emperor coming, they hurriedly said goodbye after making a big salute. It is enough to beg the Empress Dowager, and beg directly in front of the Son of Heaven, but there is no room for turnaround. In case the emperor vetoes, Chrysostom will be like a nail, nailing the person to be saved to prison.

Zhao Ji saluted his grandmother, and heard Cao Shi say: "Only when the official family comes, this side can be regarded as quiet." ”

Zhao Ji said angrily: "It's all for that traitor, and I don't want to think about what good it will do them if I corrupt the national government." ”

"The official family plans to deal with it severely?"

Zhao Ji shook his head and sighed silently.

"The official family, the old man was born in a martial arts family, and he didn't read much, but in the old years, he was always watching how Emperor Renzong acted." Cao's words made Zhao Ji listen quietly, "Emperor Renzong is accustomed to abiding by the law, no matter how big or small, all of them are handed over to the outer court for negotiation. ”

"This is a bit ......" Zhao Ji stopped talking, if it was really so easy, why did he have a headache.

Cao Shi looked at his grandson and said softly: "The official family thinks carefully about why Emperor Renzong's temple name came from. ”

Zhao Ji understood, the wicked let the courtiers do it, and he would forgive it himself. A little more indulgence can be earned a reputation for forgiveness.

However, this is just a practice with thin mud, and it can't be on the big table after all. It's not that I haven't thought about it before, but I don't want to let go of the profiteer who ruined the reputation of the Heavenly Family. But now take a look, it's better to fool the past. There is no perfect solution in the world, and the way to fool the past is often the best choice.

Zhao Ji bowed his head and thanked the Cao family: "Thank you for the emperor's teachings, Sun Er knows how to do it." ”

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As the prime minister, Wang Anshi did not infect the emperor's distress.

For the group of clans who took the opportunity to enter the palace to meet the Son of Heaven and the two palaces during the New Year's Festival, and pleaded for the profiteers in the prison, Wang Anshi didn't care about it at all now. The people want, he doesn't believe that the profiteers can turn the tables.

Wang Anshi used to take the sect a lot, first said, 'The gentleman's Ze, the fifth generation and beheaded', and removed all the distant relatives of the Son of Heaven from Zongzheng Temple, leaving only a few rooms such as Taizu and King Wei to inherit the ancestry. Later, the equalization law and the market change law were all cut on the economic basis of the clans.

Because there are many debatable things about Taizong's ascending to the great treasure, the emperor of the Song family has not relaxed his vigilance against the clan from generation to generation. Whether it is to exclude the clan from the government, or to deliberately place the prime minister above the prince, it is all borrowing the power of the scholars to suppress the clan.

For many years, today's clans are all attached to the imperial power, influential but not powerful, so they can't compete head-on in front of the prime minister who has the support of the Son of Heaven. All they could do was try to shake the Son of Heaven's determination, not to be as tough as Wenchen to force the emperor to change his ways.

Although those who ask for mercy go to intercede, if the Son of Heaven wants to let them go gently, Wang Anshi will definitely not allow it!

Can the millions of stone grain that was stolen be returned?! admit to the hundreds of millions of people in the world that the imperial court did something wrong this time, although the profiteers can hoard it in the future, the imperial court will not be guilty of this!

This is a complete joke, and the resentment caused by the market depression caused by high food prices a few years ago has not yet dissipated. If the thirty-seven profiteers were to be spared lightly, the resentment of the people in the capital would gather on the Heavenly Family. Not to mention how bad the hoarding behavior will have in the future if it is not punished!

As the prime minister, Wang Anshi, who has 30 years of experience in officialdom, knows more about the local situation than the Son of Heaven, and he has seen much more things from the local officials' performances than the Son of Heaven, who has not even been out of Tokyo City a few times.

Kyoto is one of the best in the world, and the fluctuation of prices in Tokyo City naturally affects local prices. When the price of goods in the capital doubled and doubled, the prices in the west of Beijing, Tokyo and even Lianghuai and other places also rose sharply, and when the profiteers were imprisoned, the prices of all roads in the Central Plains also fell in a short period of time.

Today, local businessmen are staring at this case. If they don't punish them enough, they will inevitably make waves again. Especially now that the disaster situation is getting worse step by step, the pride of the merchants will inevitably make the people suffer from exploitation. This is absolutely intolerable to Wang Anshi.

With a fixed opinion in his heart, Wang Anshi, who was not on duty today, sat in the study very calmly, everything depends on how the emperor decides, and then he can decide what he should do.

The crisis of prices in the capital has just ended, and the displaced people have not yet gone south in large numbers, and these days before the Shangyuan Festival can be said to be a rare rest time for him. Taking advantage of his leisure, Wang Anshi picked up the "Three Classics and New Righteousness" that had been delayed for the past two months and began to review it.

The New Meaning of the Three Classics is a reinterpretation of the Book of Songs, the Book of Songs, and the Book of Rites of the Zhou [also known as Zhou Guan] in the line of Wang Xueyi. Among them, "Zhou Guan Xinyi" is in charge of Wang Anshi himself, and it is almost complete, and a thick stack of manuscripts is placed on the table. Wang Anshi's words are like his people, and his temper is like a slanting wind and drizzle, and his strokes are full of urgency.

However, what Wang Anshi is examining today is not his own manuscript, but the "Shangshu Xinyi" compiled by Wang Yan, and the other "Xinyi of the Book of Poetry" is written by Lu Huiqing.

"King Wu wins Yin, kills, establishes Wu Geng, and returns with a basket. He wrote "Hong Fan". Wang Anshi corrected the "Hong Fan" article in the "Book of Shang".

Hong Fan Jiuchou, the legend is said to be the Jizi to King Wu of Zhou's statement to the king of Zhou's 'heaven and earth are big. The law is based on the Book of Luo. In the "Book of Han", there is such a passage as "Yu governs the flood, gives the "Luo Shu", the law is Chen, and the "Hong Fan" is also'.

However, the re-annotation of the "Hong Fan" article by the Jingyi Bureau mainly focuses on the debate of profit and righteousness.

The nine domains of "Hongfan" are the nine basic principles for governing the country. Among them, the eight policies in Article 3 refer to the means of governing the country. Among the eight politics, food ranks first, and goods rank second. The matter of food and goods is naturally related to profit. Since the time of the three generations, the food and goods are placed in the first two of the eight politics. So the word profit, of course, is the foundation of the government.

In fact, this is also the opinion of Mr. Xujiang and Li Jing. A large part of Wang Anshi's doctrine also comes from Li Jing. As a representative of the great Confucianism in the south, Li Jing changed the old Confucian theory of emphasizing righteousness over profit, and put profit on an equal footing with righteousness.

However, what Li Jing said about profit is public interest, not private interest, and it is necessary to 'follow the public and destroy the private', not Yang Zhu's selfishness and selfishness that benefits the world and does not do anything.

Wang Anshi's view is the same, as is Wang Yan, who adheres to his teachings, in his book: 'Profit and righteousness, not profit and righteousness. The sum of righteousness of the beneficiary, and the righteousness of the righteousness is also profitable. ’

Wang Anshi looked at him, but Wang Yan came back. Looking up and seeing his son's depressed face, Wang Anshi asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Wang Yan sat down and told him what had happened at the feast, and said, "If the Son of Heaven is willing to agree at this time, the displaced people will not be troubled. ”

"It is impossible for the Son of Heaven to take the initiative to let the displaced people enter the boundary of Kaifeng Prefecture." Wang Anshi shook his head, he could see it more clearly than his inexperienced son, "Outside the Beijing Division and inside the Beijing Division are two different things. Just like inside and outside the capital. Isn't it just to let Yukun go to Baima County to prevent the displaced people from entering the capital? ”

Wang Yan was helpless: "Huazhou should not have been merged into Kaifeng Mansion in the first place. ”

"Who's going to be in charge of the state? There are not many people who can govern things like Han Yukun. Wang Anshi smiled, "There is Wen Kuanfu in the Daimyo's Mansion, and the displaced people still have to go south......"