The king took care of the trivial matters around him, but he was stumped by several things. First, his father-in-law Bao Zheng was promoted again, and he was promoted to the middle of the imperial history, and the prime minister's things were high enough, but according to the custom of the Song Dynasty, the prime minister was impeached in the imperial history, and the prime minister must resign regardless of whether there is evidence or not.

Bao Zheng didn't understand, why didn't this kid next to the king let go of a good official. So I invited Lord Wang Anshi to talk to the king on a date. Wang Pan's resignation was not discussed with Lord Bao and Wang Anshi, so naturally the two elders still wanted to teach Wang Pan a lesson. Bao Zheng asked, what do you want to be an official?

Wang Pan was about to go to Chenzhou, and before talking to Renzong, he would probably tell the two adults. He will apprentice with Zhang Yi in Chenzhou, and he wants to meet Zhang Zai, and by the way, he wants to find the matter under the moon, and he said it again, Bao Zheng scolded and said: Zhang Yi, this old thing, is full of talents.

Wang Anshi didn't know this person, so he asked Bao Zheng: "But I don't know what kind of character this Zhang Yi is?" ”

Bao Zheng said: "This person can be compared to Zhu Chong, Kangxi, and Zhang Bu in terms of official business. On the rich can be compared to the hat Tian family. ”

Zhu Chong is specially designed for royal afforestation to transport the Lycephalic class; Kang Xiju salt merchants, Zhang Bute wine supply, these can only be done with the permission of the imperial court. And the hat Tian family married the county lord of ten counties, and he had great financial resources. Who is this Zhang Yi?

Wang Fang also went to Bianjing to know that this Zhang Yi was friendly with various guilds. Although he did not preside over the guild, he was indeed the chief financial resource behind the merchants. At the end of the month, the 'time estimate' of the commercial price of the service should be sought for his opinion.

Wang Anshi frowned, he secretly wondered how this person could be so well-informed. Bao Zheng squinted his eyes and recalled the past and said: "I met Zhang Yi when I was in Chenzhou, he was humble and humble, although he was very rich, he lived a simple life. Before I arrived in Kaifeng Mansion, this person was already rich in the world. The old man also thinks about this person's excellence, next to it, do you know? ”

Wang was thinking about the guild and Kaifeng Mansion's 'time estimate', when he suddenly heard Bao Zheng ask. He replied, "Master is good at finding out news, and he has his own set of analysis. The child's resignation this time is also to further his education. ”

Wang Anshi turned to Bao Zheng, "Jiefu has a thought, this financial finance, since both finance and government must be equally important, now the official does not act, if not reform, I am afraid that the treasury will inevitably be empty in the future, not to mention that if there are foreign enemies in governing the country, there is no capital to fight." If we talk about politics, it is better to change and change the money, make a courtesy, and judge the law."

Bao Zheng agreed with Wang Anshi's idea and said: "In this way, it would be a good thing if the resignation here is to know more about financial affairs." ”

Wang saw that the two adults were all recognized, so he grinded Bao Zheng to let him see the so-called "time estimate". When the time comes, it will be half a month again.

During this period, Wang Anshi wrote Renzong's "Book of Ten Thousand Words" to explain the need for reform. Let Wang Pan tell him what he saw and heard about this trip, listen to Nan Jifeng's story about the south, and his understanding of the "guild" and "time estimate" in the Song Dynasty. At this time, the king had to stay for a few more days, thinking in his heart that he remembered that Wang Anshi's change of law was a matter of the Shenzong period, could it be that he had traveled by himself and advanced time and space?

Wang Bian remembered Zhang Yi's homework when Wang Bian left Chenzhou, and took advantage of his leisure to visit the shops, Caoyun wharf, and know the source of wine, salt, tea and other things, only to know that Guangnan is also an important salt land. Isn't this salt a forbidden thing? But this was not all the case in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The imperial court was largely laissez-faire with the general trading activities of merchants. Even if it was forbidden to monopolize the sale of commodities, it was not completely and absolutely excluded from the buying and selling of merchants, but mainly adopted the method of cooperation between the government and merchants, and merchants participated in the operation, thus making many tea merchants, salt merchants, and merchants in the Song Dynasty become rich and powerful.

The government purchases all kinds of goods, mainly dealing with various commercial guilds, which collect commercial taxes and carry out scientific distribution, and also assist the government in inspecting the quality of official goods.

On the last day of the tenth (quarter), the king went to Kaifeng Mansion to see this 'time estimate'. The secretary of the division gathered the households of the guilds and agreed with the officials of the division on the price of the goods to be paid in the second half of the month. Then set the price for the next decade.

Now the king understands that Zhang Yi still has news of the guild and the government, and Zhang Yi is the "group leader" of the beggar gang. There is both first-hand information and the right to participate in pricing. And what Zhang Yi is better at is "seeing the end and knowing the end".

It is said that the news of what this group leader wants is simply well-informed, but there is no news under the moon. At this time, Wang was touched by a scene and wanted to leave Bianjing immediately.

On the seventh day of the seventh month, Renzong said that the Mohora that came to the palace was given to the kings, grandsons, nobles and their ministers, and that the Mohora was equipped with carved wood and colored balustrades underneath, and a red gauze and blue cage were used to make a cover, and decorated with gold and silver jewelry. There is also that Qiao'er, which is a delicate clay doll made of men's or women's clothes, and is also decorated with gold, silver and jewelry to make it more luxurious.

Although the king has no official position, he also received the royal gift, which is a pair of coincidences, which reminds him of the moon. At this time, Zhang Zai was making a county order in Danzhou, which belonged to the Yong surname military road, and Wang Fang decided to take a detour before going to Danzhou. First go to Fenzhou to bring Di Qing's ashes back for burial, and find Liang Yuexia by the way.

Danzhou belongs to Yongxing West Road, which is called the "North Gate" from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Song Dynasty Suyichuan, and is named because the rocks overlap and rise into the clouds. This place is only about 200 miles away from Yanzhou in the battle of Yanzhou in the first year of Renzong Kangding.

Wang Bian's trip can be described as a thousand miles, Bianjing to Danzhou is thousands of miles away, after calculating the distance, Wang Bian hopes to see Zhang Zai soon, understand the art of penetrating the past and the present. If you drive, it will take about ten hours to arrive. But think about it, even if you come by car, you have to walk all day without highways. If ordinary people get up, they will have to go on a month.

Considering that Lu Shenyan had not traveled so far, and that there were also people in Chenzhou's "home", Wang sent Lu Shenyan back to Chenzhou to wait for news. Thinking of arranging He Libo to continue to do things in Kaifeng Mansion, He Libo said that he would not do anything, and everyone was not at ease when he went so far next to the king.

Next to Wang, He Libo and the two of them detoured to Fenzhou, went to Di Qing's hometown in the West River, and looked for Di Qing's old man to bury General Di Qing's ashes. Q: No one knows the news under the moon. The king was a little disappointed. After Di Qing's death, he went to Danzhou.

The mountain road became more and more difficult to walk, and the two set off on the eighth day of July and arrived in Yunyan County, Danzhou, around August 15. Entered the county seat to inquire about the location of the county office, and when I arrived at the gate of the county office, I saw that only the official was on duty, the county yamen was opened, and several tables of wine banquets were set up in the open space in front of the hall in the county office. The official is not allowed to run into the hall, and he is busy serving the food.

The two of them entered the front yard of the county government, and they each took care of them, and He Libo grabbed a servant who had just served the food and asked, "I said what are you doing here?" ”

The official was walking briskly, and he almost stumbled when he dragged him, hurriedly stopped his steps, looked at He Libo and asked, "Are you two from out of town, is there an announcement or a case?" ”

He Libo waved his hand: It's not all of them, we are here to visit Zhang Zai County.

When the official heard this, he bared his teeth, and had a simple smile from the people of northern Shaanxi: If there is no urgency between the two of you, I will first go back and tell the county magistrate if you leave your name and residence. Not today?

He asked and answered one by one, and the inspector next to the king looked in the courtyard, and he couldn't tell what kind of famous hall this was, and there were all old people at the four or five tables, the youngest of whom was about fifty years old, and these people chatted while drinking.

He Libo asked: Your county government has become a restaurant, why can't you find the county order?

The official said: Today is the day when the county magistrate entertains the elders in the county, and there is such a day every month when he does not receive official business. He hurried to Zhang Luo, and said as he walked, He Libo and Wang also found it interesting, so they followed him and listened.

Wang pointed to the courtyard and said: Those are all the old men in the county, what are you talking about with the county order?

Saying that, the three of them had already walked to the kitchen of the inner courtyard, and when they saw the other officials serving the dishes hurrying by, they didn't seem to take the two people next to the king of He Libo in the county government seriously. Instead, he called him Yang Bantou with the one who led the way.

Yang Bantou stepped into the kitchen, the kitchen workers cooking inside were busy, and he raised his voice to answer their questions next to Wang: What can you talk about, talk about whether the farmer's harvest is much, whether the business is good or not, our county grandfather's mouth is broken, and even talk about the difficulties of whose family's wedding and funeral.

He Libo listened to hahaha and laughed, then Yang Bantou asked the head of the kitchen worker which dish should be served, turned his head to see that He Libo and the two were still behind him, and said: "If you two are not in a hurry, you will come back tomorrow, don't you see that we are busy?" This Yang Bantou was holding the dishes and muttering: This county master, not to mention increasing personal manpower.

Wang Bi smiled and shook his head, this Zhang Zai is really good enough, but I don't know if the Zhang Zai that the master said is the one he has seen. A year ago, among the lifters who lived in Wang Pan's house, there was also Zhang Zai who was a jinshi, and he seemed to be not young, he was still Cheng Yi, Cheng Hao's uncle, and Wang Bi was only more familiar with Wang Shao at that time. And among those people, Su Shi is dazzling, so he probably knows this person, but he has no impression.

Back in the front yard, it was still the same scene just now, He Libo said: "Brother next to you, you said that this county order does not wear an official uniform, this sits in the crowd, which one is?" ”

Wang also saw that his eyes were messed up in the staggering, and everyone was smiling, even if he found Zhang Zai today, he couldn't talk about it. After leaving the county office, the two of them found a shop in the county seat to live in first, and then settled down.

On the second day, Wang and the two went to the county government to look for the county order, and the official told them that the county order had gone out, and the two of them rushed into the air again.

On the third day, I went to the official again and said that the two of them were late today, and the county magistrate went to the township to inspect the autumn harvest.

He Libo couldn't help but ask, don't you county magistrates don't ask about the county's cases, don't you sit in court?

Yang Bantou saw that the two of them recognized it again, and said: There are nails on the chair of our county master, and he basically can't sit still. Since he arrived, there have been almost no cases in this county, the roads are not forgotten, the houses are not closed at night, and our brothers are annoyed to death every day.

This Yang Bantou said that he was about to die, but his face was full of smiles, and Wang asked Yang Bantou when the county master would come back.

Yang Bantou pinched his fingers, calculated and said: If the county masters in the surrounding townships and counties go, it is estimated that they will come back in two or three days.

The two of them were helpless, and after two or three days, the official saw them from a distance and said, "You two are finally here."

He Libo happily asked: Is the county master here?

Yang Bantou said: "It's good that you came early, the county master went out again in the morning, but you two don't worry that you didn't go far" He pointed with his hand:

Just in the east of the county, walk six or seven miles, and go there to the bank of the Yellow River.