Wang Shi Jiaozhou victory.

The news spread throughout Tokyo almost instantly.

At first, some people were skeptical, thinking that the success of one move without warning was too sudden—the path traveled by the messenger was limited after all, but when the news came out of the palace, the situation was different.

The Song people were indeed disgusted with martial arts, but that was the result of decades of disadvantage to the two captives in the northwest. The king has lost one after another, and of course no one will like war. If you can win every battle, who will be afraid of war?

How many people are praising the exploits of the generals, and some people are even impromptu poems, calling for Wang Shi to conquer the north after Pingnan.

And when Wang Bian came home with this good news, Wang Yi was in the library building.

Wang Anshi is sloppy, but his library is clean, and there is not even a trace of dust. Tens of thousands of books are neatly arranged on the shelves according to the privately compiled catalog.

Wang Bi walked into the building quickly, Wang Yi heard the movement, so he held up a book in his hand and showed it to Wang Be, "Second brother, why is the manuscript of Daddy's "Selected Poems of Tang Baijia" missing the seventh volume?" ”

The 20-volume "Selected Poems of the Tang Dynasty" was compiled by Wang Anshi when he had not yet entered Beijing, and compiled a total of more than 1,000 Tang poems selected by himself. However, this poetry collection does not collect the works of famous artists such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, etc., nor does it have poems by Meng Haoran, Wang Wei, Han Yu and others.

Wang Anshi gave up the famous artists whose poetry collections were circulated in the world, and selected the representative works of a number of poets who were basically not very famous, so as not to end up losing their masterpieces because of their lack of fame. The engraved editions of this set of poems are now selling well in Guozijian, and the manuscripts written and revised by Wang Anshi himself are the only ones in the library.

However, Wang Bina still had the heart to care about the missing volume of poetry anthologies, "What is the seventh volume to look for at this time!" There's news there! ”

With a click, the scroll in Wang Yi's hand fell to the ground, her face was pale, and her trembling lips were full of nervousness, "What's wrong with Jiaozhi?" ”

Seeing that his sister had misunderstood, Wang Bi hurriedly explained, "Won, the official army has won, and the Shenglong Mansion has been captured!" ”

The blood on Wang Yi's face finally recovered, and he was busy asking about the inside story.

"Because the road was damaged by the rain, the messengers sent by the Annan Economic Strategy and Counselling Division arrived together after seven or eight days." Wang Bian told his sister what he had learned about what happened in the Chongzheng Palace during the day today, and said with a smile: "If I had known in advance that Zhang Zihou and Yukun had crossed the river with the army, Zhang Fangping would not have come out to be embarrassed." ”

In fact, during this period of time, the old party in the court has seen Han Gang as a plague god, and even the imperial historians are smart not to trouble Han Gang. No matter how much trouble he encountered, in front of Han Gang, it was just a trivial matter that could be cured. Only Zhang Fangping, the so-called patriarch who is already a stranger to today's court, would attack the affairs in which Han Gang participated in a daze.

Zhang Fangping and Ouyang Xiu are bitter rivals in the political arena. However, when Su Xun, Su Shi, and Su Zhe were not yet well-known, it was Zhang Fangping who recommended them to Ouyang Xiu, the leader of the literary world at that time. He has a good reputation in the literary world, but he was attacked by the crowd in the court. And now he is singing and harmonizing with the elders of Xijing, but he is inflicting his own experience on the New Party.

Wang Yi doesn't care about Zhang Fangping, she only cares about her husband's body and her husband's return.

"Sister Yi, the official army won the battle in Jiaozhi." Zhou Nan's voice full of excitement sounded from afar, coming in from outside the building, "The official is coming back soon!" ”

Zhou Nan heard a little wind from the servants who went out to buy vegetables, so he hurriedly came over to inform Zhou Nan. It's just that I didn't expect Wang to be there. Stopped awkwardly and saluted. Wang nodded his head as a greeting, and immediately went out, melon field and plum, he didn't want to carry this suspicion. Only Wang Yi and Zhou Nan were left in the library.

Han Qianliu and Han Ah Li left to return to Gongzhou three months after Wang Yisheng's fifth son of Han Gang. During this time, the old couple walked around Tokyo inside and out, and because of Wang Anshi and Han Gang, they were also quite courteous. When the second elder left, Han Gang's four wives and concubines moved to live in the prime minister's mansion.

"I didn't expect to win so quickly." Zhou Nan said happily, "By the way, I have to talk to Yun Niang and Su Xin." But she soon became worried, "Is it true or false that the officials are winning in Jiaozhi?" ”

"Second brother Fang Cai has already said it." Wang Yi said, "When Daddy comes back, I can confirm it." ”

By the time Wang Anshi came back from the palace, it was already nightfall.

In the hall, the grandson and grandson all came up to ask for peace, although Wang Yan's son was the oldest, but Han Zhong, the eldest son of the Han Gang family, was always a little bolder, kowtowed, and lay on Wang Anshi's knees, raising his little face: "Grandpa, did Daddy win?" ”

"Hmmm! Your daddy has won. Wang Anshi picked up his grandson and talked to his grandchildren seriously. Whether it is a grandson or a grandson, he loves him very much. And with the son-in-law's family living in, the Prime Minister's Mansion is also very popular.

Holding his grandson and talking for a while, Wang Anshi took Wang into the study.

"Yukun is the work of destroying the country," Wang sat down and said excitedly, "When he returns to Beijing, he can help his father." ”

"In the next few years, Yukun will most likely only be able to serve as an official abroad." Wang Anshi didn't shy away from anything, this has basically been determined, "After the Jiaozhi is destroyed, after Zhang Zihou returns, a privy deputy envoy is indispensable." And Yukun's contribution to the center does not let Zhang Zihou go, if he returns to the dynasty this time, he will also have a two-system official. …… As the father is the prime minister, and the Zhongshu Sect is the same as the Ping Zhang, it is impossible for Yukun to be a Zhongshu Sheren, and his credit is not just a foreign official. It is only possible to do Neyhan...... Twenty-five or six Hanlin Bachelors. ”

Wang Anshi said, suddenly pursed his lips, and the smile on his lips had an elusive taste. It's just a matter of saying it, but Wang Anshi still feels that Han Gang's situation is really incredible.

Bachelor Hanlin is the last step to step into the position of ruler, Wang Anshi, Wang Qi, Feng Jing, and Lu Huiqing are all like this. But Wang Anshi's achievement as a bachelor of Hanlin was when today's son ascended the throne, and although Zeng Bu, Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dian were all earlier than him, they were also in their thirties and in their forties. Twenty-five or sixteen Hanlin Bachelor, how old will he be when he will be promoted to the two mansions next?

If you don't follow seniority, you are new in the eyes of ordinary officials. Zhang Fangping, who had made a fool of himself in the morning, criticized the military service law the day before yesterday, and he kept scolding the current members of the New Party for being new. If Han Gang is in the internal system, I don't know how much discussion it will cause.

And although the credit of his son-in-law is there, even the son of heaven will feel jealous of the age. Thirty years into the two mansions, decades of ruling sit down, who can control him in the future?

Of course, Wang Fang didn't doubt his father's words, but after thinking about it, he laughed, "But speaking of which, Yukun is not good at writing, and this Hanlin bachelor is not stable to do." ”

"Didn't Sima Junshi say that he wasn't good at four or six?" Wang Anshi shook his head, Sima Guang said that he was not good at writing four or six poems, and of course he couldn't ghostwrite some edicts, but the Son of Heaven didn't use him as a bachelor of Hanlin. "What's more, there are also Hanlin scholars who don't know how to make a system."

"I see." The king nodded. However, he immediately wondered and asked, "Daddy, you are in a bad mood today, just for this matter." ”

Wang Anshi pondered for a moment and said to his son, "Do you know that Lu Dao recently wrote a poem by Yang Danian [Yang Yi] on the screen of the Son of Heaven in the Funing Palace. ”

Wang Bi shook his head. How could his family know such things in the Lu Dao Palace, he was in charge of the treasury of grain in Beijing, and asked how much the third division had in his family, and he could tell one, two, three.

"Which one?" He asked.

"Wen Beishi Kejie is happy to become a song". The front ones are just empty words, but the last few sentences - the front army is in Hanhai, and the rear army is bound to the Yan clan. The sand and dust in the north of the thistle are quiet, and the dew plate is in the south of the river. The fathers and elders of Hebei have seen the Han official rites again. ”

These few words are not small, but Wang Jian felt very strange when he listened to them, "Isn't Yang Danian always embellishing the wind and moon and making flowers and plants?" It doesn't look like he wrote it at all. ”

"Yang Danian has always been the main battle. In the battle of Lanyuan, he promoted the battle with Kolai Gong [Kou Zhun]. Wang Anshi sighed, the Son of Heaven copied this not very outstanding poem on the white screen of the dormitory, and the intention was self-evident, "Recovering Yanyun Prefectures is my father's wish for life, but this matter is not in a hurry at all." ”

First, Han Gang broke 100,000 with 1,000 people, and now Annan's camp has destroyed Jiaozhi with 10,000 people. If it is said that the Jiaozhi people are too weak, then there are also Fengzhou and Yanyan Road, and the victory of the official army against Shangdangxiang and Khitan.

In a short period of time, a series of good news from the south and the north of the world made it feel as if overnight, the Great Song Dynasty had a powerful military force that could suppress, defeat and even annex the two captives in the northwest.

And the Son of Heaven himself is obviously thinking so, and his attitude towards the Liao State is also becoming tougher and tougher, judging from the current situation, during the same Heavenly Festival, most of the envoys of the Liao State will not be treated as usual in the past.

Wang Anshi was very worried about this. It is necessary to come step by step, but the emperor is not. Zhao Ji was afraid of the Khitan like a tiger and wolf in the past, but he was blackmailed and intimidated by the Khitan envoy, and then ceded the land of Daibei, and this incident has only been two years.

The scars have not yet healed, and now the idea of attacking the Liao State has begun to turn. In just two years, the official army will not progress so fast, and the Liao State will not weaken extremely quickly, and the balance of strength between the two countries has not changed much.

Wang Anshi couldn't help but sigh secretly, such a fickle mind is by no means a character that can achieve great things.