'Which one are Lu Jifu and Zhang Zihou playing?' ’

There are still three days to go from the capital, but in the post house where Han Gang stayed, the news of the resignation of the prime minister of the dynasty was already spreading everywhere.

Han Gang wondered at first that it had been almost a month since his father-in-law returned to Jiangning, so why this old news was still spreading. When he sent someone to inquire, he learned that it was not Wang Anshi, but Feng Jing. It was Feng Jing Feng who passed away.

It's only been a few days? The Prime Minister and the Privy Counsellor were replaced. Han Oka looked in the direction of Tokyo City, and in the evening dusk, the northeastern sky was a gray-black chaos, and overcast clouds obscured most of the sky.

The news of Wang Anshi's resignation came with the order, and then when Han Gang arrived in Xiangyang, the news that Wu Chong took over came over. Today, Han Gang is in Ruzhou, and he heard that Prime Minister Feng Jing resigned due to the impeachment of the imperial history. From the perspective of motives, the instigators behind the scenes should be Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dian.

"Zhang Shangying is really good."

Han Gang rarely admires people, people usually do imperial history, no matter how dare to speak, they will not only pick the big ones to fight. But Zhang Shangying, who took the lead in impeaching Feng Jing this time, was staring at the ruling officer of the dynasty with all his mind.

Zhang Shangying is a talent recommended to Wang Anshi by Zhang Dian when he was in Jingnan, Han Gang has never met him, but he has heard Zhang Dian mention that the dispute between the East and the West that he caused a few years ago is also very famous.

After Zhang Shangying was recommended to Wang Anshi by Zhang Dan, he first served as the official of the Zhongshu Torture Room, and soon transferred to the position of supervising the imperial history - this is the fast track for the promotion of young officials, as long as he does it for a few years and breaks through some prestige, it is the foundation for his future prosperity. Wang Anshi admires Zhang Shangying and arranges this fast lane for him.

But Zhang Shangying's bad thing is that he worked too hard, so he found the Privy Council at the beginning, and finally made a fuss that several privy envoys in the Western Mansion sealed the letter together, and a strike broke out. Of course, the Son of Heaven would not dismiss Wu Chong, Cai Ting and Wang Shao, the privy envoys at that time, for the sake of supervising the imperial history, so Zhang Shangying was demoted to supervise the liquor tax.

has been an official who collects liquor taxes for several years, and anyone would think that Zhang Shangying would change his temper, but who would have thought that he would return to Beijing a few years later, and immediately found Prime Minister Feng Jing again, and he really did it for him.

overthrew the prime minister of the dynasty in one fell swoop, and at this time, the name of Zhang Shangying spread all over the world, and there was a basis for rapid rise in the future. Judging from his actions, he should be a person who dares to take risks and likes to fight big with small. This is not the same path as Han Gang, who is steadily fighting and relying on his achievements in military and political affairs.

"Now that the court is facing a big change, Zhang Shangying is just at the right time. In other words, when Wang Xianggong was still there, he would not have succeeded at all. ”

Sitting at the bottom of Han Gang is his former staff member Fang Xing.

It was a coincidence that the two met on the road. Fang Xing, who once assisted Han Gang in relocating the displaced people from Hebei, is now about to go to Beijing to defend the que. And Han Gang was also going to enter Beijing, so he coincidentally bumped into him in the middle of the road.

has been a county lieutenant, Fang Xing, who has no fame, is still a long way away from changing officials, of course he wants to cheer up, and Han Gang happens to be short of people around him - the staff can say that although the previous Li Fu and the four people all won the official because of their achievements, but as long as he Han Gang enters the capital, he wants to vote for an official under his door to ask for a background - but Han Gang in the yamen also needs one or two assistants, which is a pie falling from the sky for Fang Xing, who happens to be waiting for the end of his term.

Although Fang Xing himself did not say it explicitly, his words vaguely implied that today is the culprit who caused the turmoil in the current court, without Zhao Ji's inaction and even adding fuel to the fire, how could there be any major changes in the court? The current emperor has been sitting on the couch for ten years.

"That's true." Han Gang nodded in agreement. Fang Xing's guess can't be regarded as wrong, the list of the two prefectures that has not changed for several years has become a backwater, and Zhao Ji definitely doesn't want this backwater to continue in the next few years.

Therefore, the prime minister in the political hall was replaced, Wang Anshi and Feng Jing left on the front and back feet, and the privy envoy Wu Chong became the prime minister. In the Privy Council, Cai Ting has already resigned, Wang Shao's status is not stable enough, Zhang Dian is even more shallow, and the person who took over the post of privy envoy is Lu Gongshu, who has not left after going to Beijing some time ago, and Guo Kui is more than ten years later, once again sitting in the position of the Privy Council of the same signatory.

"It's all messed up." Han Gang sighed.

It's only been two months, and the situation and the direction of the wind are chaotic. Moreover, Wu Chong and Lu Gongzhu were in charge of the East and West Prefectures respectively, which had a very heavy political significance. In the heart of Zhao Ji, the son of heaven, there seems to be a desire to ease the contradictions between the old and new factions, change the situation that was almost one-sided in the past, and hope that the two sides can govern the world with one heart and one mind.

But this chaos is not only the credit of Zhao Ji, but naturally it is impossible to see the scene of one heart and one mind as he hoped.

"In the past few years, the court hall is like a cauldron with a fire burning underneath, and the water in it has been boiled. The lid on the pot before, due to the dead pressure of a boulder weighing thousands of catties, hot water could come out of the cracks, but the lid could not be lifted. But now that the thousand catties of boulders are gone, coupled with the indulgence of the tube burning pot, all the mess that was pressed under the pot naturally burst out. ”

Fang Xing sneered, what he said was exactly what Han Gang was thinking.

Although Wang Anshi is strong, his ability to stabilize the court is speechless, just like the needle of the sea god. In the past two years, the court has basically maintained stability, which is actually due to him.

Now that Wang Anshi has resigned from the phase and gone to Jiangning Mansion to serve as the prefect, is it possible for the people left behind to be in harmony? …… Of course not! I'm afraid that in a few days, when I arrive in the capital, I will be able to see the movements of Wu Chong and Lu Gongshu.

But now I am on the small building behind the Xiangcheng Post House, and everything is empty when I discuss it, Tokyo Kaifeng is still hundreds of miles away, and I am just a transfer envoy, and I am still far away from the position of the ruler, so I don't have to worry about that.

It's just that the storm is still going on right now, and I don't know what will go wrong when I arrive in Beijing three days later, and how many people's official positions will be shattered by this storm.

Han Gang pushed open the window, and a cold that could not be seen in Guangxi hit his face, it was indeed a real winter. Putting aside his worries about the turmoil in the court, Han Gang quickly remembered his teacher who had just died of illness.

Zhang Zai's hometown is Bianliang, but he has to live in Hengqu because of lack of money, but over the years, Zhang Zai's parents and younger brother Zhang Jian have been buried in Hengqu Town. So whether he stayed in Jingshi or returned to Hengqu, Han Gang couldn't guess. If you are in the capital, you can still go to see each other, but if you go back to Hengqu, you will not be able to take the initiative in a short period of time.

However, after the core of Guan Xue is missing, who should support the overall situation of Guan Xue? Han Gang knew that he was still a step behind, but among the many disciples, it seemed that there was no one who could have this ability.

Han Gang shook his head and closed the window. The cold wind blew away the warmth in the room, and it quickly recovered.

Han Gang's personal guard came up with a food box, and the post guard in the post house delivered the prepared meal to the door, and he sent it up, which contained Han Gang and Fang Xing's dinner today.

"I heard that there is an official from the capital living next door," the guard said to Han Gang as he set up the dishes and chopsticks.

If there is no official living in the inn, where else will they live? Han Gang asked, "Have you ever asked him about his name and identity?" ”

"The surname is Shu, I heard that it is an imperial history, and I came to Jingxi to investigate the case."

"Shu ...... Yu Shi ......" Han Gang read it twice, and then suddenly remembered who it was. There are many officials with the surname Shu, but there is only one with the surname Shu and the imperial history.

"Why did Shu Yan come to Jingxi?" Han Gang wondered to himself, shouldn't he have beaten the water dog with Zhang Shangying at this time?

Shu Kang, Han Gang has heard of it.

When Han Gang first became an official, because he had killed people with his own hands, some people once compared him to Zhang Qianya. However, before Han Gang, there was also a young official who was compared to Zhang Qianya, that is, Shu Yan, who was the first in the ninth year of Yingzong's reign.

After Shu Yan was admitted to the Jinshi, the first term was the lieutenant of Linhai County, Taizhou. The local people in Taizhou are fierce and have always been difficult to control. At one point, a servant went berserk after drinking and chased after his uncle. After being caught in the county government, he took advantage of the drunkenness and refused to accept the punishment, so Shu Yan directly killed him with a knife. The decisive point is the same as Zhang Qianya.

Killing without punishment is considered a sin. But it is also excusable to kill this official, so Shu Yan was suspended for the next two years, and then returned to his hometown to guard the system due to his father's funeral, and was recommended to Wang Anshi by Zhang Shangying after a long time.

However, Han Gang knew that Shu Yan was not because he was called Zhang Qianya with himself, but because he had done a business in a camp of Tian Si on Xihe Road a few years ago, that is, he was a colleague with Han Gang's father. Although it is impossible to have a deep friendship, there is also a friendship.

"After dinner, he will most likely come to visit Long Tu." Fang Xing said with a smile.

"Perhaps." Han Gang was not surprised at all. His identity is different, even if he is a hot imperial history, if he wants to see himself, he must take the initiative to come.

After Han Gang had eaten, people began to come to pay respects. However, they are all low-level people who live in front of the post house, Xiangcheng is not a big town, and there are not many people, Han Gang didn't want to do much, so he quickly sent them away. When the people here were a little quieter, a letter of worship was sent to Han Gang.

After a while, the footsteps on the small building sounded, first the pro-soldier who led the way in front, and then a tall and burly green-robed official came to Han Gang, clasped his hands together, and shook it to the end:

"Shu Yan meets Long Tu."