When I got home, it was nightfall.

After eating, Wang Anshi played the same music in the hall today, and discussed it with his son one by one.

Wang Yan's attitude towards the Son of Heaven who fears the Khitan like a tiger is very disdainful. He also discussed with his father who to send to Zhidingzhou and concurrently serve as the pacification envoy of Zhending Road. After hearing that Zhao Ji did not blame Han Gang for his plans in Baima County, he was relieved, but said: "The official family values Yukun so much, I don't know if it will be like Mi Zi's encounter before and after." ”

Mi Zibian was a patriot in the Spring and Autumn Period, serving Wei Linggong as a man and was very favored. One day, his mother was critically ill, and Mi Zibian falsely passed the order and rushed back to visit in Wei Linggong's car. This was a serious crime, but Wei Linggong said: "Filial piety, for the sake of my mother, I will die for my crime." "- Miko is filial, for the sake of her mother, she forgot the punishment of cutting off her feet. A few days later, Mi Zibian and Wei Linggong went to the peach orchard again, ate a sweet peach, ate half of it, and gave the rest to Wei Linggong. Wei Linggong sighed again: "Love me! Die its taste to eat the widow. "—how much he loved me, and gave up his favorite peach to the widow.

But when Mizi was old and decrepit and no longer favored, Wei Linggong turned over the old accounts, "It's to try to drive my car, and to eat my spare peaches." He had given me a false order to drive my car and gave me leftover peaches.

Wang Yan was worried that Han Gang was valued by the Son of Heaven now, so he acted without hindrance. But in the future, it is likely to be reckoned with.

"It's not like that." Wang Anshi listened uncomfortably and glared at his son fiercely.

Wang Yan smiled, and he didn't tell the difference, it was not a big deal to compare the Son of Heaven to Wei Linggong at home, but it was indeed not good to compare Han Gang to Mizi. "Recently, the second brother presided over the deep well for irrigation in Baima, which was very effective, and Yukun also wrote to say that the second brother had helped him a lot."

Although it was just a trivial matter, seeing that the second son had made some achievements, Wang Anshi was very happy in his heart.

While the father and son were talking, the housekeeper came in to report, but it was Zeng Bu who came to visit.

Wang Anshi's expression was solemn, "Zeng Zixuan came over at this time, something must be wrong!" ”

"Maybe they're here to complain." Wang Yan said, and Ha Lu smiled. Because Lu Huiqing has been worried about Ding for three years, Zeng Bu has been steadily pressing him in his official position. But in the past two days, Lu Huiqing was promoted to a bachelor of Hanlin, and yesterday Wang Anshi transferred Zeng Bu's dispatch to Sinong Temple to Lu Huiqing, in other words, anyone in Zeng Bu's position would definitely not be happy.

Zeng Bu soon came in, but he still had one man with him. Wang Yan didn't know him, but Wang Anshi had seen him, and he was Wei Jizong, the initiator of the City Change Law.

After the next person served tea, Wang Anshi asked: "Zixuan leaked liquid to visit, I don't know what happened?" ”

Zeng Bu arched his hand: "Xianggong should remember that the price of goods in Beijing soared a few years ago, and many people said at that time, 'It is inconvenient for the people to be disturbed by the city's affairs.'" Zeng Bu received an edict the day before yesterday, and now he has found out. ”

"Oh, how's the probing going?" Wang Anshi took a sip of tea and asked.

"The city is a good policy. But now the person in charge is focused on its benefits, and the obstacles are fixed in the city, and they only know how to gather and loot, and everything is behind the original intention, and the people of the capital are overwhelmed with resentment. Zeng Bu said a few words, signaling Wei Jizong to elaborate on the disadvantages.

Wang Anshi's eyebrows furrowed more and more as he listened, and when Wei Jizong's words finally finished speaking, he immediately asked, "If this is the case, why didn't you tell me earlier?" ”

Wei Jizong replied: "The day of the promotion is around Xianggong, how dare Jizong mention this." ”

What Wei Jizong said was Lu Jia's question. Lu Jiawen is indeed often by his side, and Wang Anshi is also clear about this, so it is difficult to say anything.

It's just that Zeng Bu came here to talk about Lu Jia's question, and Wang Anshi still saw the clue in it, and the hidden resentment was mixed with Wei Jizong's long-standing resentment. Zeng Bu hid this resentment in his stomach, it was Lu Huiqing, plus Lu Jiawen, and now it finally broke out, Wang Anshi can also understand this.

In Wang Anshi's heart, Zeng Bu and Lu Huiqing are his right-hand men, and he even values Lu Huiqing a little more in private, after all, in academics, Zeng Bu is still inferior to Lu Huiqing. And Lu Huiqing is by no means inferior in government affairs. Last year, he took over the post of superintendent of armaments, but in less than a year, he changed from the situation of 'making many weapons in Beijing and Zhulu, especially in Hebei' in the past, to today's 'all weapons are fine', and this merit is by no means inferior to the siege of cities and the seizure of land. Zeng Bu was already a bachelor of Hanlin at this time, and Lu Huiqing certainly couldn't be too far behind. It happened that there was a vacancy in the Hanlin bachelor, so Wang Anshi played the role of the Son of Heaven and asked Lu Huiqing to fill this position with merit.

But Wang Anshi still attaches great importance to Zeng Bu. Two days ago, Zeng Bu's work of judging Sinong Temple was transferred to Lu Huiqing, and he also had a deeper consideration, not to let Lu Huiqing press Zeng Bu. In any case, Wang Anshi would not deliberately provoke a fight between his right and right men.

Knowing the mind of his right-hand man, he smiled: "Zixuan, you are the third envoy, and you don't know how to deal with the affairs of the city. ”

Zeng Bu paused, his eyes lowered, and his gaze did not intersect with Wang Anshi: "Zeng Bu should be right tomorrow, and he wants to repay the Son of Heaven with this." ”

Wang Yan was stunned when he heard this. The smile on Wang Anshi's face also froze, and after a while, he reluctantly said, "Ah...... Yes, that's fine. ”

The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became unbearable, and although Zeng Bu and Wang Anshi were still talking, it had turned into meaningless remarks. After talking for a while, Zeng Bu took Wei Jizong to get up and say goodbye.

When Zeng Wei and the others left, Wang Yan slapped the table and shouted: "Is he going to learn from Cai Qu?!" ”

Wang Anshi was silent. There is anger in my heart, and more sourness. I wanted to pick up the teacup and take two sips, but my hands trembled, and I slid twice, but I didn't hold it steady. After that, he simply gave up, leaned back, and leaned back in the chair.

Cai did defect, Wang Anshi didn't care, but Zeng Bu was different......

"What Zeng Zixuan did today is the same as what Wen Yanbo did in the Daimyo's Mansion, there is nothing wrong at all." Wang Yan gritted his teeth and sneered.

After Wen Yanbo spent the most time in the Daimyo's Mansion, the displaced people who gathered around the Daimyo's Mansion heard Lu Huiqing come back and say that there were at least 100,000. At present, there is no grain in the warehouse of the Daimyo's mansion, and the imperial court was unable to transport all the 600,000 stone grain that Wen Yanbo asked for because of the thawing of the Yellow River a few days ago. Now that the displaced people are all pouring south, there is no turning back. Even if there is a mistake in it, it is not Wen Yanbo's, he raised the homeless people in the Daimyo's Mansion for a winter, and he didn't let them make trouble, everything was done blamelessly.

But what Wen Yanbo does is just what ordinary officials should do, and what he can do is by no means the level that a country's prime minister should have. Wen Yanbo is not an ordinary official, he can be the prime minister of a country, and his political talent cannot be belittled even if he is a political enemy. But what he did in the Daimyo's Mansion this winter has half the level of a prime minister? It's better to be Han Gang, the magistrate.

It was also the prime minister who dealt with the disaster. When Fu Bi was in Qingzhou, he also encountered a catastrophe, but he easily resettled more than 500,000 displaced people one by one, and for more than a year, he helped the people and buried the dead, without causing trouble to the court at all. Moreover, its strategy of resettling displaced people has also become the law followed by the government in the future. Therefore, Wen Yanbo's disgrace in dealing with the homeless, even if he did not make the slightest mistake, it also makes people have some ideas.

And the same is true of Zeng Bu.

From the way of being a minister, Zeng Bu did not make any mistakes in his actions, and he also communicated with Wang Anshi in advance, and he did it perfectly. As a courtier, the loyal should only be the Son of Heaven, and the one who is not in love is a bully to the king, not a loyal minister. reported to Wang Anshi in advance, which was to do his best.

It's just a matter of officialdom, not for outsiders to see. Zeng Bu's political intention is very obvious. Except for the Son of Heaven, in the eyes of everyone, they can see the four words "see the wind and make the rudder". And when Fang just came to Wang Anshi's mansion to inform, it was like the most unfortunate ultimatum. The words and the whole thing were clearly in accordance with the rules of the court, so that Wang Anshi couldn't stop it at all.

Wang Anshi didn't know how long he was silent, and finally spoke: "This drought has spread all over the road, and there is no rain or snow in winter, so my father is actually ready to go out." ”

Wang Yan's eyebrows moved when he heard this, and he was about to speak, but was stopped by his father's eyes.

As Wang Anshi began to speak, his expression, which had been cold and calm, finally relaxed, as if he had untied the armor wrapped outside, and the tiredness and sadness that had just been hidden could no longer be concealed, "It's okay to go out for my father, but the new law must not be abolished." There must be someone in the hall of government to insist on doing so, so as not to discourage the traitors. The person who lives in the position of prime minister is the father who belongs to Han Zihua [Han Jiang]. The matter of Luo Wu back then should also be in the past. Zihua was once the prime minister of Zhaowen [Prime Minister], and his father was in the position of his father, and he had enough qualifications to block Feng Dangshi [Feng Jing] and Wu Chongqing [Wu Chong]. And this candidate, presumably the Son of Heaven will not have an opinion. As for the assistant, the father is hesitant between Zeng Bu and Ji Fu......"

Now there will be no more hesitation.

From his father's cold and sad eyes, Wang Yan could see it; From the change of his father's name to Zeng Bu, Wang Yan can also hear it.

No more hesitation.

In fact, Wang Yan knows better that if his father wants to make a choice between Zeng Bu and Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu will definitely win in the end. Zeng Bu's qualifications should be above Lu Huiqing, the position of Hanlin Bachelor, Lu Huiqing has just taken over, and Zeng Bu has been doing it for more than a year, nearly two years. And in the past few years, Lu Huiqing has lived in the township, and Zeng Bu has worked hard in more than a dozen positions, and his father has seen it in his eyes. A few days ago, Zeng Bu handed over the position of Sinong Temple to Lu Huiqing, in fact, he didn't want him to be entangled in trivial matters anymore, but to take on more comprehensive and important work.

It's a pity...... Zengbu himself ruined it all. I tried everything I could to get it away, but I didn't want to get farther and farther away from the goal.

"It's up to him what he says tomorrow." Wang Anshi was so cold that he seemed to be talking about a stranger.