Xi'an to Luoyang 800 miles, Luoyang to Beijing 400 miles.

I set out from Chang'an three days ago, and today I have seen the familiar Bianhe River.

The new railroad and the old canal run side by side in the land of Gyeonggi, leading to the majestic city of prosperity and magnificence.

Tall arched rainbow bridges pass through one side of the window, and due to the accumulation of sediment brought in by the Yellow River, there are only raised embankments outside the rainbow bridge. But on the other side, there are endless fields, dotted with villages of all sizes.

Glass windows are installed in the special carriages dedicated to important ministers, instead of the wooden grille windows of ordinary trains. The interior decoration is also a complete match with Lu Huiqing's identity.

Leaving Chang'an Jingzhao Mansion, he dragged his family on the road. Lu Huiqing, who has been an official for 30 years, feels that the journey of thousands of miles is so easy for the first time.

Eight carriages, salutes, servants, and family members, each with its own arrangements. There is even a special carriage for meeting guests and living.

The carriage is wide, and you can even walk a few laps to do a walk when you stand up. In Lu Huiqing's bedroom, there is even a stepping bed that has been in use for less than ten years, except that it is fixed up and down, it is no different from the bed used by rich and noble people, and even better than the bed used by Lu Huiqing in Chang'an.

The study where Lu Huiqing is now is fixed, except for the tables, chairs and bookshelves, which are no different from a normal study.

If there is a difference, it is the unique and ingenious desk in front of you.

Just look at the desktop, it is no different from an ordinary desk, but under the desk, there are drawers.

The official pen, ink, and paper are neatly arranged in the drawer. One side of the mud inkstone is directly inlaid in the corner of the desktop, and the inkstone frame has a wavy rise, which is a carefully set pen holder.

The pen wash is also embedded in the corner of the tabletop, but it is not the usual porcelain, but the new iron-tired glazeware, made of iron and molten fossil liquid. The glazed basin is like white porcelain, and the water playing pisces in the basin are bright red.

This is just a desk, and everywhere else in the car, you can see the designer's intentions.

Horseback riding is windy and the carriage is cramped, so if you really want to talk about comfortable travel, you can take the railroad carriage on the railway as the most. When she was running between post houses, Lu Huiqing never thought that she could enjoy traveling like this.

Although Lu Huiqing didn't want to admit it, he also had to admit that in the past few years that Han Gang had presided over national affairs, the thousands of miles of the Great Song Dynasty had simply changed.

The big work and the big battle, the people and the money. Even when the New Party was in power, it would never dare to raise up thousands of miles of labor in a mere few years.

It was only because of the fear of the Liao State and the fact that he saw the benefits of transporting troops and grain by rail, that the imperial court began to decide to overhaul the railway.

After the railway was opened in Guanzhong, even if the Western Xia was revived, it could be destroyed by the backhand. But more importantly, the railways built in the name of the military brought more tax revenues and made the country prosperous.

When the railway from the east runs through Tongguan to Chang'an, and when the railway from the north reaches the north bank of the Yellow River from Taiyuan, Lu Huiqing does not need to go out to see the increasing number of new goods from the north and south in Chang'an City.

Before Lu Huiqing set off, he heard that the Keju headquarters in Jingzhao Prefecture was preparing to join hands with the major state capitals in the north to gather the champion teams of the Keju League in various places during the New Year to compete for the bidding, which was called the World Conference.

There is no railway, there is no high-speed of three days and thousands of miles, such a mention will only be regarded as a madman's whisper.

"Although the railway is good, daily maintenance is not a small number."

"The savings in the inn alone are enough to make up for the maintenance costs."

"There are only a few railways in the world, how much can you save?"

"There are not many railways, but they are all built on the main transportation routes, which is also the place where the post station spends the most."

The argument between the two sons in front of them came through the car door.

Lu Huiqing shook her head, what is there to argue about this kind of thing? These two sons are much worse than their brothers, but they don't fight in serious matters.

The Chinese officials who went west for a few families in Chang'an before also asked him if he had instigated them to manipulate the list.

Lu Huiqing kicked out the two bastards at that time.

What should be asked, what should not be asked, don't you understand after living so big?

Accident or deliberate, the seven people involved all went to the Western Regions, that is, Zhang and Han planned to continue to maintain the situation in the court.

However, since Wang Anshi has chosen to break the kettle and save the future of Xinxue, it is becoming more and more difficult to maintain the situation further.

At this time, Lu Huiqing transferred to another position.

Zhang Dian can make him unable to meet the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven, and Han Gang can let him move back and forth in several large state capitals in the Northland, but he can't help but let him pass by Jingshi, right?

"It's good to see the excitement." Lu Huiqing muttered to herself.

It's better to muddy the waters. He thought so.

……………………

"How is Jiefu Pingzhang doing?"

"It's almost about to recover, a few days ago, I climbed the heights, and I didn't let anyone help me when I went up to Zhoushan."

"The stroke is so good so fast! Who are the Hanlin medical officers in Jiangning? ”

"It's still Jiayue's foundation."

"I remember that when I changed the law at the beginning of the year, Jiefu Pingzhang didn't sleep for several nights, and the next day I could go to the palace to fight with the rich and the like, this body and bones are not comparable to ordinary people."

"A good body is cultivated. After Jiayue retired, every day before going to the academy, he had to go to Jiangshan [Purple Mountain] to walk around. If not, how can you bear the disease? ”

The two prime ministers walked in the corridor between the halls, and the whispered communication made everyone dare not approach.

After a few steps of silence, the topic of Zhang Dian jumped back to the court, "...... Lu Jifu is about to enter Beijing. ”

"It's out of order."

The factions are different, and Han Gang will not be like Zhang Dun, worried about the danger of Lu Huiqing entering Beijing.

"If the formation is not chaotic, the water will be chaotic."

"Whose water can you mess with? The Wang family? ”

"Di Jia."

The rhythm of Han Gang's footsteps changed slightly, and then he laughed, "The Di family is in the limelight now. Jia Yan also wrote to me the day before yesterday, asking if it was Di Yan's family or Di Yan's family who was competing for the throne with his own granddaughter? Or does the Di family have two daughters who want to be recommended to the palace. ”

Zhang Dian also smiled, "Fortunately, it's just one." ”

"So when I wrote back, I said that I was born to Di Xuan, but she was born as a concubine, and her grandmother was jealous, so she was expelled from the house at the age of three and raised in the house of her uncle Di Xuan."

"If it weren't for the twists and turns of his life, how could he have a lot of tongues? Two days ago, Lu Dian came to the door and also talked about the Di family, saying, 'If the doctor marries a woman today, he will also ask for a concubine, and the situation is in the Son of Heaven'? ”

"It's lying with your eyes open." Han Gang said immediately.

"Indeed, how many marriages are there nowadays who care about concubines?"

"The style of the door is more important than the concubine."

"Yukun." Zhang Dian shook his head, Han Gang's confusion was too much, "Men look at the future, women look at the dowry." With Jinshicai, the concubines of the courtier's family can be chosen. There is a thousand acres of land, even if it is born in the outer room, it can also recruit a son-in-law of a jinshi. ”

Nowadays, the scholar's family recruits a son-in-law, if it is not a relative, it is to look at the future and ask less about the concubine.

A talented and dull son-in-law, where can he compare to a concubine who is in sight?

Zhang Dian was still an adultererous child, and he still married the daughter of a famous family. What is the identity of Zhangton?

Han Qi is a concubine, what is his identity?

The man's future has nothing to do with his concubine.

So it is with men, and so is it with daughters.

Between concubines and concubines, the comparison is also the amount of dowry, not the concubine.

If the dowry is less, what if you are a concubine? There are too many dowries, not to mention the concubines born to Concubine Teng, that is, they are born in the outer room, and even adulterous births, isn't it still a lot of people to fight for?

Han Gang smiled but said nothing.

The world is like this, so why bother talking about it.

Zhang Dian also knew Han Gang's temper, shook his head and said, "It's just that it's okay to say, I really don't pay attention to it so much." Cisheng dips again, Zhang Xian is cold, which one is exquisite? But the identity of the daughter of the Di family is too tortuous. ”

After Ci Shengguang offered Cao, he was married first, but there was an accident on the wedding night and he was sent back to his parents' home. It is rumored that the groom was hit on the forehead by the golden armor god on the night of the candle in the cave room, and he had a splitting headache, knowing that Empress Cao was unspeakably expensive, and his family could not climb high, so he was willing to send it back and let him remarry. The real situation is now unknown, but no matter from what point of view, there is no doubt that Empress Cao is a second marriage.

As for Zhang Xianmingsu's background and Empress Liu's background, it is too gentle to say that Hanwei is already too gentle. is basically the wife of Gong Mei, a silversmith in Shuzhong, and was later sold to Zhenzong, who was still the prince. This ex-husband Gong Mei later changed his surname to Liu, and he and Empress Zhang Xian thought they were brothers and sisters, and they also made up a good life experience.

No matter how bad the daughter of the Di family is, she is also the granddaughter of the privy envoy's family, and her marriage is innocent. But her parents are really uncertain.

Is it based on what is born as a parent, or is it based on what is raised? The court has had a headache for more than a day.

"A few days ago, there was a quarrel in the Taichang Rite Courtyard." Han Gang said with a smile, he had already heard about the content of the controversy in the Rite Courtyard at that time.

'Both the biological parents are present, and the daughter is not like a man, and there is a succession that she should respect her biological parents. ’

'Di Xuan and his wife abandoned what they were born, Di Yan adopted, and rebuilt with grace, more than ten years of nurturing grace, with the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, should be taken as parents. ’

'The dynasty rules the world with filial piety. In case she is elected as the queen, does the biological mother not need to be gracious, the mother-in-law does not need to be gracious, and the adoptive mother does not need to be gracious. ’

Just because of this matter, there was a big quarrel in the courtyard.

"Two fathers and three mothers, if you really become a queen, you will have a headache for the court in the future." Zhang Dian sighed.

"I heard that the Queen Mother likes Di's daughter very much."

"The concubine seems to prefer Yukun and your niece."

"What she likes is not my niece, but she wants to use the identity of her family."

Between the words, the two prime ministers were quite dissatisfied with the concubine. If outsiders hear it, it will inevitably cause a mess.

"Yukun, what do you think?"

"Let's do it."

Han Gang became more and more open. However, the daughter of the Di family is indeed not suitable for the world of motherhood.

But Lu Huiqing is coming, what choice will he make?