On the second day of the sixth month of the first year of Qianyou, Liu Chengyou's mother and son were in the imperial garden north of the Kaifeng Imperial City, waiting for Chengyuan's arrival. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Empress Dowager Li knew that her son originally hated this person, and even wanted to get rid of him quickly, but after experiencing the twists and turns of the solar eclipse yesterday, she was only afraid that the young and immature emperor would really regard him as a mortal star.

The Queen Mother has always been committed to mediating the conflict between the royal family and the Guo family, but for Chengyuan, she is only a small chess piece controlled by Liu Yanseng and does not care. However, after a series of events such as the provincial test and the solar eclipse, his younger brother, Li Ye, the martial arts envoy of the Han Dynasty, such a figure who can make all the public in the court and the court frightened, almost folded in his hands, and finally made the queen mother fix her mind on Chengyuan and her person.

When Chengyuan followed Guo Wei into the Imperial Garden, Empress Dowager Li focused her vision on him. I saw that this person was tall and thin, with Zhou Zheng facial features, Guo Wei beside him has always been known for his mighty figure, and Chengyuan's height is almost on par with him.

"Minister Guo Wei, please say hello to the emperor and the queen mother."

"The grass people become Kuiyuan, knock to see my emperor, the saint and the queen mother, long live."

"Excuse me, Guo Shumi."

Liu Chengyou smiled at Guo Wei, but did not let Chengyuan get up. He knows that he is the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven is the one who inherits the destiny of Heaven, and in the face of this so-called little "Kuisu", he must first sharpen his sharpness.

"Guo Qing is busy with military affairs in the northwest, it's really hard for you, now that June has arrived, and the summer harvest is about to be put on the agenda, but I don't know if Guo Qing intends to go on the expedition?"

"Back to Your Majesty, there was an early spring snow in the south this year, and there were a lot of losses, but the area of Songzhou Guide, Shanzhou, Caozhou and the Daimyo Mansion, as well as Hedong, the wheat and early rice harvests in these places are very good, and they will be urgently transferred for military use after they are released into the government treasury before they can be properly deployed."

Liu Chengyou heard him say that he had a half-day harvest of summer grain, but he still didn't mention when he would go on the expedition, so he couldn't help frowning and said: "Now use the grain stored in the treasury first, and wait for the summer harvest to be released into the imperial court and quickly help the front, how about this?" ”

Guo Wei replied: "Wang Renyu of the household department, as well as the three envoys, have reported to the Privy Council, saying that the warehouses in the western treasury are too empty, although Fan Zhen is a capable person, but after all, it is difficult to cook without rice, and I also ask the emperor and the queen mother to be a little more patient, and there will be room for turnover when the summer grain is put into the warehouse, and the ministers will be able to go out within 30 days." ”

Empress Dowager Li saw that her son was still so breathless, and she was very helpless in her heart.

"Emperor, it is indeed difficult to send troops without logistical assistance. Just be patient and wait a few more days. ”

Seeing that Chengyuan was still maintaining a bowing posture, and he was almost about to fall asleep when he fell on the ground like this, the Queen Mother beckoned to him and said:

"You are Cheng Kuiyuan? Hurry up and wait for the question. ”

Empress Dowager Li has always been good at observing words and feelings, she first looked at Guo Wei in front of her at the moment, and she was still respectful. And although Cheng Yuan, who had just gotten up beside him, was also trying to learn that respectful and cautious look, his eyes still had a compelling sense of liveliness and brightness, like a rabbit hiding in the grass and jumping away.

Liu Chengyou glanced at Chengyuan, looked him up and down, and asked:

"Cheng Kuiyuan, I remember that in the provincial examination room, you said in your policy discussion: If the country wants to solve the problem of losing officials in various states and roads, or let the people in disaster areas get rid of suffering, it must follow the principle of "moving to the expensive and cheap, and using the near and the far", can you elaborate on it? ”

Cheng Yuan thought to himself: "You want to rely on this method of losing to solve the problem of insufficient food and salary within a month, this is really not easy, I wrote these Laoshzi in the policy theory, one is to make up words, and the other is not for you to see, these are more to the Guo family, especially for the Guo family's son Guo Rong's reference in the future......

Cheng Yuan was suddenly asked by such a split face, and he had to make do with a rational way of thinking:

"Uh-huh...... This, in fact, the statement of the grass people is similar to the leveling strategy of Sang Hongyang back then, but there are slight differences. ”

Chengyuan knew that the three words Wang Anshi were a thing that crossed over, so he could only force Sang Hongyang to go.

"Although the eight-character principle of migration is cheap, and the near is easy to far, although this eight-character principle can be used, but now the country is understocked, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to implement." After Cheng Yuan said this, he paused again, and he also had to organize his thoughts for further explanation.

Guo Wei knew that Liu Chengyou was still reading some books of sages at a young age, and he was afraid that the specific affairs of these food and goods and the national economy were still in the stage of knowing them but not knowing why, so he interjected, and turned to the Empress Dowager Li and said:

"Empress Dowager, what Cheng Kuiyuan said is good, the so-called "migration is cheap, use near and far away", the meaning of these eight characters is to use the court officials to lose as the intermediate transportation business, and finally it can be regarded as the currency of the disaster land, easy to harvest the cheap grain and rice in the prefecture and county, so that the government can make a profit, the price of grain can also be slightly calmed, and the suffering of the people's livelihood will be alleviated. ”

Guo Wei had already read Chengyuan's strategy many times, and of course he knew the problems inside, so he continued:

"Cheng Kuiyuan's strategy of losing evenly depends on the huge amount of currency among the people, but if there is a big chaos today, the inferior money cast by the former dynasty (later Jin) is flooded in the market, well...... There are also Liu Rengong and his son and the two thieves who privately minted a large amount of bad money, which caused a lot of harm. ”

There is another sentence Guo Wei knew that Chengyuan would never dare to say it, so he continued to help him narrate: "Also, it is not easy for the country to temporarily step up the minting of money, after all, the copper and iron bonanza of the year has now dried up a lot, and the world's vast monasteries, countless monks abandon clay sculptures and use copper casting statues as beauty, so that the world's currency is even more scarce." ”

Sure enough, when Empress Dowager Li heard Guo Wei say these words that were suspected of criticizing the temple and the temple property, a look of displeasure was clearly written on her face......

There is not enough currency in the society, even if Brother-in-law Wang (Note 1) personally crossed over, it was completely in vain, Chengyuan of course thought of some remedies in his heart, but at this time he thought: I came up with an idea, but I want to save you from the Liu family who is dying every day, why?

"Cheng Kuiyuan!" Emperor Liu Chengyou suddenly spoke in a cold tone, "Yesterday, there was a court discussion outside the Yuanhua Gate, and after the dispersal of the dynasty, someone said something like this, he said that your sin of disobedience is still difficult to exonerate, do you want to hear what he said?" ”

Chengyuan knew that he should come sooner or later, so he knelt down again and kowtowed: "There is an edict from the saint, how dare the grass people disobey?" ”

"Cheng Kuiyuan, I inherit the "Tang Law" upwards, and there are ten evils in this law. The section on rebellion is the so-called harboring of ferocity, which will be rebellious, contrary to natural norms, and against human reason, so it is called rebellion. If you hold yourself up with the theory that the stars are descended into the world, is there no suspicion of destruction between this "heavenly normality" and "human reason"? Isn't there a suspicion of conspiring to endanger society? ”

It turns out that Liu Chengyou means: After all, the qualification of "inheriting the mandate of heaven" is exclusive to the king, and the order set by God is the so-called "heavenly constant", and the application of these laws in the world depends on "human reason", and the necessary intermediary between heaven and human reason, that is, the Son of Heaven. Chengyuan, as "Kuisu", predicted that there would be an eclipse of the sun, so he leaked the heavenly opportunity, so even if it did not violate the human ethics of the monarch and the minister, it would also rebel against the "heavenly norm". Therefore, there is nothing wrong with comparing it with the anti-human "seeking danger for the community".

This question is very vicious, Guo Wei knows that it was definitely not Liu Chengyou who came up with it himself, not the prime minister Su Fengji, but also Su Yuqi, the waiter of the criminal department who studied the criminal law all day long. He knew that this kind of question could not be answered by others, and he couldn't help but sweat for Chengyuan in his heart......

Cheng Yuan figured out the logic and key points for a while, and then tried to answer:

"The grass people return to Your Majesty, and the "Records of the Suburbs of the Tang Dynasty" also says: The king is the one who establishes the community and seeks blessings for all people. As the lord of the society, the monarch is the only intermediary between heaven and man. The throne is stable, and the sky is always the same. If there is a rebellion in the order of kings and ministers, the relationship between heaven and man will collapse, and the people's disasters will be born. ”

Chengyuan elaborated a little on the political correctness of the induction of heaven and man, and said: "The grass people Cheng Kuiyuan is not a Kui Su descended into the world, the so-called foresight of the solar eclipse and the celestial phase, maybe it is just that the body hair and skin have a sense of that Kui Su, Your Majesty is the fortune of the heavens, the treasure of the heavens, the overburden of the two instruments, and the dignity of Chenji." Like His Majesty, there is no one in the world who inherits the fortune of the sky, and like the grass people and the little star sensitors, there are more than tens, hundreds, thousands, and the grass people also ask Your Majesty to see it. ”

Chengyuan's statement is actually to clarify the difference between the dignity and inferiority of heaven and man's induction, and his own small Kuisu induction, of course, cannot be compared with the emperor who inherited the mandate of heaven.

"Your Majesty, please think about it carefully: the eclipse of the sun is the induction of the sky for the emperor, and the person who does it warns the king, and the emperor avenges Hu Luan on behalf of the sky. On the other hand, the so-called foreknowledge of the grass people is actually just a feeling of Kuisu, and the heavens are induced by the monarch to say it with their mouths. Will the number of days change depending on the grass herd? I'm afraid not. ”

Such words finally made Liu Chengyou feel more at ease......

"Cheng Kuiyuan, I discussed it with the officials of the Ministry of Rites yesterday, and your provincial test strategy will be dealt with as a courtier's outspokenness. After all, the undergraduate jinshi has already been set and cannot be withdrawn for re-evaluation, can you understand? ”

"The grass people will never dare to think wrongly."

"Okay, okay, don't call yourself a grass man anymore, Cheng Kuiyuan, although you can't have the title of champion, but I want to give you a special name of "Kuiyuan", plus the title of Duanming Palace, from now on, when you see the driver, you will be a minister. ”

Chengyuan knew that this hard-added "Kuiyuan" statement was very nondescript, but at present, it was a turn of the peak, so he hurriedly bowed down again and thanked the emperor.

Empress Dowager Li suddenly interjected: "Cheng Kuiyuan, don't be busy thanking you first, we have another grace to give you." ”

Chengyuan and Guo Wei were stunned at the same time, especially Guo Wei couldn't figure out what the old lady was, and only felt that she would definitely make a shocking trick by surprise.

"I heard that you are about to turn twenty-four this year, but you have not yet married," the Queen Mother looked at Chengyuan with a smile, "So yesterday I made up my mind to show you a marriage." ”

Note 1: Wang Anshi's character is Jiefu, so "Brother-in-law Wang" is a boring nickname given to him by Chengyuan.