On the fifth day of October in the seventh year of Xining, Wang Anshi unloaded the identity of Tongzhongshu and supervised the history of the country, and went out of Jiangning Mansion.

And this official was promoted from the Ministry of Rites to the ninth rank, and was promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and became the former prime minister as a scholar of the Senior Administration Palace.

Wang Anshi has been alone for several years, and now he has resigned, and the position of prime minister cannot be vacant, and someone must come out to replace him.

Everyone looked at the Academy. Whether it is Kaifeng, Luoyang, or Daimyo, Xiangzhou, they are all holding their breath, waiting for the Son of Heaven to come to the inner east gate hall.

According to the practice for many years, whenever the court worships the prime minister, or prepares to canonize the crown prince, the royal driver of the Son of Heaven will come to the small hall of the inner east gate and dictate his will to the Hanlin scholars in the hall. At the same time, the academy where the Hanlin scholar who was in charge of the draft edict lived had to be locked to prevent the news from leaking.

In the streets and alleys of Tokyo City, as early as when Wang Anshi began to hand in his resignation, he began to discuss who would take over this position of being under one person and above ten thousand, and avoiding hundreds of bureaucrats and ministers.

"Is it Feng Dangshi [Feng Jing]? Or Wang Yuyu [Wang Jue]? Or Wu Chongqing [Wu Chong]? ”

Qin lost his deer, and the world chased it. When Wang Anshi gave up his position as prime minister, the highest positions in the political hall and the Chongwen hall were vacant, and the two governors of the court, as well as a privy envoy, were qualified to win the position.

One person asked rhetorically: "Uncle Chen Yang [Chen Shengzhi] was once the prime minister, and his position in the Privy Council is still above Wu Chongqing." Why can't he do it? ”

"It may also be those from Luoyang and Daimyo. The north is eyeing the tiger, and the country is swinging, and there must be old and important ministers to guard the court. ”

"If Han, Fu, Wen and others come back, the new law will be over." It's a schadenfreude voice.

"Whoever supports the new law, the Son of Heaven will let him come up. Whoever can make the court's financial plan stable, who will be used by the Son of Heaven. Feng, Wang, Wu, Chen, and a few elders, but one of them supports the new law, and after they come up, who can make up for the lack of the imperial court? If not, where will the excess spending be cut? Abolishing the deficit of the new law, to say the least, will cost 10 million or 20 million, and if someone had the ability to do this back then, it would not have been Wang Jiefu who came to power...... Do you really think that the new law can be abolished?! ”

Someone said this in the Fan Tower, and the listeners scoffed at it, thinking that they were crazy. Wang Anshi has stepped down, how can the new party still entrench in the court. Think about Fan Zhongyan, as soon as he left the court and went to Shaanxi, Lu Yijian immediately began to fight back, and finally wiped out the New Deal party and one party.

But the results soon came out, and on the night of the second day after the Son of Heaven approved Wang Anshi's resignation, the royal driver came to the small hall of the inner east gate, the gate of the academy was locked, and the jade hall was surrounded by the guards of the class who held the armor.

In the early morning of the next day, the name written on the white linen paper that was put out at the Xuande Gate was neither in the current political hall, nor in the Privy Council of Xifu, let alone a cadre of old and important ministers in Xijing and Beijing, but Han Jiang of Zhiheyang Mansion.

Han Jiang, who was once the prime minister, but lost his phase due to the failure of the Hengshan Raiders, finally came back from outside the court after being silent for several years.

This edict greatly surprised the world, and the discussion in Tokyo was silent for a while.

Immediately after that, one person was added to the ruling train. Lu Huiqing, a bachelor of Hanlin Academy, was promoted to the position of Governor of the Governor's Office, which was originally the rank of the official from the right of the seventh grade, and because of this appointment, he was transferred from * to the right counselor of the fourth rank - the post of the Governor of the Governor's Affairs, and the six grades and the seven grades can be held, and once promoted, the official will be immediately promoted to the level of the fourth rank.

The two successive appointments have given a blow to all the old parties who are excited by Wang Anshi's resignation, and the Son of Heaven still advocates changing the law, still supports the new law, and still wants the new party to be above the ninefold.

After revealing his intentions to all the courtiers, Zhao Ji returned to the small hall of the inner east gate, and the academy was locked as yesterday. On that day, another prime minister was added to the political hall. This prime minister was promoted from the political hall, but it was not Wang Qi, but Feng Jing.

Zhao Ji had no intention of letting Han Jiang be alone, and he had been the Son of Heaven for seven or eight years, and the more he used the means of mixing different theories, the more skillful he became.

Han Jiang, who has always supported the new law, and Feng Jing, who has an ambiguous attitude towards the new law on the surface, but has always opposed it in fact, the two of them contain each other, and the Son of Heaven can firmly control the court.

"If you make a mess in big things, you can make a fuss about small things. After being an emperor for so many years, I didn't expect to learn such a little thing. ”

In Baima County's Yamen, Han Gang sat alone in the study and sneered. Because of the blackmail of the Khitan, he was so frightened that he cut off the land and sued for peace, and his opinion of Zhao Ji became a lot, and he looked down on him more and more. Before the soldiers came to the city, he was so frightened, can he still expect him to collect Yanyun in the north in the future? No wonder there is a shame of Jingkang, the descendants of the Zhao family seem to be all the way!

But he will only hide his contempt for Zhao Ji in his heart, and he will do things and speak in the future, and he will be smarter. The more he understands the personality of the Son of Heaven, the more Han Gang can know what to say and what to do.

At the end of October, it was already freezing and the water transportation of the Bianhe River was suspended, and the transportation on the ice had not yet started because the river ice had not yet completely frozen.

The winter solstice is approaching, and at the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky, the Son of Heaven will give amnesty to the world according to the custom. Han Gang served as the point of the prefecture, and his task was to check the prisons in the counties of Jingfu and review the list of amnesties in Kaifeng Prefecture.

In the past ten days, he has traveled to several counties on the east side of Kaifeng Prefecture, and has read the list of prisoners in prison for minor crimes even with the verdicts, and many of them have been wronged, but because they are all among the amnesty, Han Gang did not point it out on the spot, but secretly wrote down a list for future investigation.

At the Bianhe Wharf in Chenliu County, Han Gang half-squinted his dry and astringent eyes that had stayed up for half a night last night, and sighed to the king beside him: "The four words of Prison Qingming are simple, but it is really difficult to do. ”

The king also stayed up all night, and his eyes were also densely covered with red silk, like rabbits. When he heard Han Gang's words, he turned around and smiled: "Those unjust cases in the county, Yukun, don't you see the flaws at a glance?" Your vision can be compared to Bao Xiaosu, and you will not let the Han Dynasty settle the country. ”

"Please treat the winter moon, drinking is good for shrewdness. Yu Manqian, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty [Yu Dingguo], drank more, and the more he was out of prison. Even though the facts of the case are complicated, the judgment is as light as a weight. In the posture of the public, the height of the up, the strength of the drill, I am far behind. And Bao Xiaosu's integrity and uprightness are not comparable to me. ”

"It's not much worse. Didn't you see the few counties you have passed by these days, and those counties are trembling? Separate the unjust documents, Yukun, even though you didn't say a word, can they still understand in their hearts?! ”

The king said, but he craned his neck and looked north.

Seeing this, Han Gang smiled and comforted: "Father-in-law and mother-in-law should be almost here, don't be too anxious." ”

Han Gang, he is a point in the realm of the prefecture, and he can run around in Kaifeng Mansion. He came out to check the prison in various counties, and just happened to bump into Wang Anshi leaving Beijing for Jiangning Mansion, so it was natural that he would come out to give him a ride. He looked back at the carriage behind him, where the curtain was deeply hanging, and Wang Yi was holding his son, who had just reached the full moon, in the car.

Wang followed Han Gang, and when he was proud of the Dian Si, he didn't plan to go south to Jiangning with his parents, so today he came with his sister to see Wang Anshi off.

However, Wang Yan is going south together, although he resigned from the post of waiter, he still has a position in the Jingyi Bureau.

Wang Anshi still raised the Jingyi Bureau, which is also one of the clear proofs that Zhao Ji, the Son of Heaven, still advocates changing the law. Wang Anshi, Wang Yan, and Wang Anshi's special invitation to Xining six years of champions, they will continue to compile the new meaning of the Three Classics in Jiangning Mansion, and give a textbook with clear answers for the imperial court.

And the Son of Heaven still has a feeling for Wang Anshi, and Zhao ordered Wang Anshi to go in and out of the second mansion, and the dynasty will be included in the prime minister's train. So from a distance to the north, he saw a group of flag bearers wearing red Yuansui costumes from a distance, and Han Gang knew that his father-in-law was coming.

Wang Anshi took his old wife Wu, as well as Wang Yan's family—Wang's wife, Pang Shi, who had already arrived in Baima County—and dozens of servants and maidservants, which were all the number of prime ministers heading south. The group of teams outside escorting him south arrived at Jiangning Mansion, and with his temperament, they were about to slowly disband.

Seeing Han Gang bring his daughter and grandson to see him off, Wang Anshi and his wife were overjoyed.

When Wang Anshi saw Han Gang, he didn't talk about the political affairs of the court for a while, but just happily teased his grandson. Wu wiped his tears and talked with his second daughter on the side.

Only Wang Yan pulled Han Gang and his younger brother to the side to speak: "The Son of Heaven wants to enrich the country and strengthen the army, this intention will not be taken lightly." Yukun and the second brother still work hard, and they don't have to worry about the future. ”

Han Gang nodded, this is the right reason.

Wang Yan looked back at Jingshi and sighed: "I only hope that the Son of Heaven can be ashamed and brave, and there will be no more today's things in the future." ”

Han Gang also sighed: "I am afraid that things will be the opposite, and in the future, I will become enterprising and do not know the way to defend the center, and the ruling will add fuel to the fire." ”

It is an exaggeration to say that an era is over, but it is certain to say that the current situation will move from the clear to the unknown.

With Wang Anshi's fame in the government and the opposition, and Delong is respected, no matter how many storms and waves the new party encounters, it will still be able to maintain basic stability and suppress it after all. And now Han Jiang, although he is the prime minister, he has less say in the new party than Lu Huiqing.

And with Lu Huiqing-no, it should be said that with the minds of all heirs, he will not accept the policies of his predecessor in their entirety, and Han Gang does not think that Lu Huiqing will have it, and the idea of the new official taking office with three fires should be turning in Lu Huiqing's mind.

"After all, there will be no major changes, and now the vast majority of the laws have been reviewed and approved by Lu Jifu back then, and it is not entirely the credit of Zeng Bu." Wang Anshi smiled and finally said something about it.

Farewell thousands of miles, there will be an end. Han Gang and his wife sent Wang Anshi all the way for more than 20 miles, and finally stopped.

Stopping on the shore of the Bianhe River, he watched the former prime minister and his entourage go away to the south.