In February, I only heard the news of Chunqiu from the court, and there was no bad news about Zhao Zhen.

However, there is bad news, and the Chinese letter has issued an edict that the country's income is good, and officials in all localities must love the people and act lightly. Wang Anshi hasn't gone back yet, and when he saw this edict, Wang Anshi was embarrassed. The country's income is slightly better, don't forget, there are still nearly 100 million debts. Even if you buy the hearts of the people, you can't buy it like this.

Others can't see it, they can see what the teacher has done, these years are only exempted from one head of money and additional consumption, and the others are just as much, on the contrary, it is recommended that Pang Ji strengthen the control over the collection of commercial taxes.

Who doesn't want to cut taxes, loosen up, the people's lives will be happier, and they can buy the hearts of the people, killing two birds with one stone, but what about state spending?

The top shouted loose, and the bottom didn't know what the pine looked like.

As soon as Zheng Lang retreated, the court officials were undecided, he couldn't see clearly for a while, and he didn't dare to say it, so he wrote a letter to Zheng Lang. Zheng Lang replied, don't care, this is a rotten pus, and now it is useless to say it, but it is uncomfortable to even be good or not, so it is a big deal to send a river worker from the Yellow River to rot.

How much silk did a Yellow River river worker use? 300 million dollars!

Wang Anshi was stunned when he saw the reply.

There may not be 300 million yuan, but in general, Zheng Lang has laid an excellent foundation for the Song Dynasty over the years. But a few years later, if there is no surplus, there will definitely be a deficit, as for how much it will lose, Zheng Lang does not know now.

Don't care, be mentally prepared.

On the contrary, February is getting deeper, and the winter is warm, so everything recovers early, and the earth begins to have a shallow blue meaning, and indeed there is no bad news in the inner palace, that evening, smelling the fragrance of wild flowers, Zheng Lang said to Xing'er: "Go and get a pot of wine." ”

"The officials want to drink."

"Hmm."

Jiang Xing'er didn't know what her husband was happy about, so she warmed a pot of wine, Cui Xian personally cooked and fried a few side dishes, and several wives and concubines came to the spirit shed together.

There are many books in the funeral tent. If you want to study Confucianism, you must review all kinds of books you have read before, not only Confucianism, but also books from other schools, so that you can learn from others. Drinking a little wine, Zheng Lang's face was full of red light.

Cui Xian didn't know, so she asked, "Official, why are you happy today?" ”

"Ahh One thing comes to mind, how much money do you have in your family? ”

"Tens of thousands, put it in the bank."

"Take out some of it, and I'm going to build a academy."

"You're addicted to teaching students?" Cui Xian said jokingly.

"It's not for teaching students," Zheng Lang patted the pile of thick books behind him and said, "These days, I'm reading books every day." Thinking about the righteousness of Confucianism, I still feel that it is too difficult for one person to cultivate Confucianism. ”

Knowledge is boundless, Zheng Lang has great ambitions in cultivating Confucianism this time, that is, he wants to open a five-hundred-year method, not a 10,000-year method, it is impossible, and now his ideas are more mature, and he has insight, and many personal experiences. However, if I want to do it, I feel that there are many aspects that I still can't figure out.

"What does it have to do with building a college?"

"My academy is different, only to select some outstanding people with excellent qualifications to let them enter, and then invite some people who have achieved Confucianism to come and teach. There is also the study of things, and I also want to write a recital, asking His Majesty to select a group of students. Come to Zhengzhou. I teach it personally. While studying together, I was with these gentlemen and students. Discuss the true Confucian knowledge together, and then revise the book and establish the theory. ”

Before the Song Dynasty, the policy of ignoring the people was adopted, which was a historical regression. It is better to be civilized from the top down, but it can also be civilized from the bottom. Only when the entire people are sober can this nation truly progress. Therefore, Zheng Lang has always been in favor of the establishment of academies and Yixue in various places, although most of the teachings are poor and sour, and the practicability is not great.

But this 13-look online academy is different, it is a mini-academy, only a few gentlemen, no more than 100 students, or dozens of students to study physical science.

Zheng Lang said his idea, and Cui Xian agreed.

Whether it is writing 13 to see the Internet, he will always stay in Zhengjiazhuang and live a quiet life for a few years.

Zheng Lang was a little drunk this night, and he was actually drunk, and sang on the table: "We ordinary people, I'm really happy today." ”

Cui Xian and Xing'er couldn't understand it, because they sang in Mandarin, and now speaking Mandarin is tantamount to saying it in a foreign language. But knowing that her husband was happy today, Cui Xian stroked Zheng Lang's back with pity and sighed: "Why be a good minister, isn't Han Qi also happy?" ”

Say do it, the next day Zheng Lang drew the drawings, on his own two dirt mountains, and then build a few pavilions on it, two steps, there is a piece of land under the mountain is his own, circle dozens of acres, build a few rows of houses, just that there is a lotus pond on the land, and then build a water pavilion, a few beautiful scenes, beautiful small academies will come out.

I will use some money, but not too much, and I may not be able to use 10,000 yuan. It's just that you need to make offerings in the future, which is quite troublesome. But with the Zheng family's financial resources, it is not too difficult.

Cui Xian took the drawings and went to Zhang's house, several uncles of the Zhang family passed away one by one, but there were still a few cousins, and asked the eldest cousin to help build this academy. Zheng Lang began to write the recitals, because Gewuxue was still a secret study and had to be approved by the imperial court.

When it came to the middle book, Han Qi didn't think about it, and immediately approved it, it's best for you to teach for a lifetime, if you are short of money, the court will give you money, and you will have as much as you want.

But the others were dumbfounded.

This can't work, didn't you say yes, a hundred days are full of love, how can a college emerge now?

Han Qi was so noisy that he had a headache and said, "Okay, I'll take the love." ”

Then send an envoy to seize the love, Zhao Zheng Lang came to Zhongshu to go to work, the first edict, the second edict, the third edict, the fourth edict, the fifth edict, and the sixth edict.

With this edict, everyone finally saw Han Qi's arrogance and shamelessness, and thought of another thing, Fu Bi. The year before last, Fu Bi's mother was mourned, and she had to go home to keep her filial piety, but she was Fu Bi's biological mother, not as complicated as the seven mothers of the Zheng family.

Fu Bi went back, saying that Fu Bi was okay with some inaction, but Fu Bi's general direction was still well grasped, so after a hundred days, the court won the favor five times before and after, but Fu Bi did not agree. Zhao Zhen is also anxious, not to mention anything else, there is also a river worker, you can't ignore it.

Fu Bi told the truth vaguely, and before Fu Bi went home to keep his filial piety, he was also hesitating in his heart. asked Han Qi that it was not appropriate for the minister to reunite in the event of a funeral. Anyway, everyone is a good comrade-in-arms during the Qingli reform, and I believe in Han Qi.

Han Qi said: "This is not a grand ceremony of the imperial court. ”

You can't scold people, everyone is a learned person, Fu Bi's face flushed when he heard this, you still need to ask this, are you still nostalgic for power. Although Fu Bi's actions are not as good as Zheng Lang. But he still loves his feathers very much in his life, so don't say five edicts, even ten edicts will not be taken away by the court.

Zhao Zhen asked Han Qi, and Han Qi replied very dissatisfied: "Your Majesty, the minister just said a casual word at that time, how can Yan Guo think about it?" ”

It's not my fault. It's a rich chicken intestine belly. This bad debt could not be settled, so Zhao Zhen had no choice but to remain silent.

Now it's here again, Zheng Lang has just gone to the Internet Academy for 13, can this love win succeed? Besides, even if it is to win love, it will take 100 days, only two months, what kind of love, is it love, or scolding?

Wang Anshi went back. Wang Anshi's mother also passed away and had to go home to mourn. Han Qi waved his pen and immediately approved. To be honest, he still underestimated Wang Anshi and Sima Guang to this day, and he was most worried about Zheng Lang, and as for the others, including Fu Bi, they didn't put it in his eyes.

Wang Anshi has nothing to do in the capital, and it doesn't matter if he is not in the capital.

Before leaving, Wang Anshi called Sima Guang and said, "Junshi." The court is so filthy. Why do you still want to stay in the court? ”

Sima Guang said: "The more this is the case, the more I have to stay in the court." Zheng Gong will come back sooner or later. ”

Wang Anshi thought for a while and said, "What do you think about Uncle Hui and Jindao (Yan Rong's words)?" ”

There are also two people, Er Fan, but they are all local, not in the capital. Sima Guang said: "Uncle Hui, you also know, he usually speaks little, and he just wants to guard the bank for Gong Zheng." Zheng Gong repeatedly instructed that the bank had not yet been perfected, and that there should be no errand at this time, and that the river workers owed a huge amount of money, all of which would be repaid by the bank. deliberately wrote a letter to Zheng Gong, and Zheng Gong gave a tip, as for what it was, I don't know very well. In order to keep the bank supervisor, he will not participate in the government. ”

"That's fine, you have to take care in the capital."

"Don't worry, I'll do it when the opportunity comes."

Both of them knew that there would be major changes in the Song Dynasty, and after saying that, they quickly left worriedly.

Zheng Lang didn't see this scene, if he did, he would think that as long as the friendship between the two lasted forever, no crisis in the Song Dynasty would be called a crisis. Of course, they didn't know that Zheng Lang actually had this idea, and after leaving, Wang Anshi quickly left the capital.

Many people are sending each other off, which is also the result of Zheng Lang's secret protection, in fact, Zheng Lang pushes a little, and the two may be able to take the position earlier. Zheng Lang didn't, and Zhao Zhen didn't let the two of them take the throne too early in order to protect Zheng Lang. Therefore, the connection with Zheng Lang does not seem to be so close.

By the way, Xiao Su was relieved, and Wang Anshi's son gave them a headache.

This is what Zheng Lang is willing to see, not the big and small Su, but the old Su, in history, I saw Wang Anshi go back to ask for funeral, many officials sent each other, praised each other, Lao Su was unconvinced and wrote a "Theory of Distinguishing Treachery", with Shan Juyuan foreseeing Wang Yan and Guo Ziyi foreseeing Lu Qi as an example, analogous to Wang Anshi's behavior of "clothes and captives, food of dogs, and talking about poetry and books at the head of the prisoner", and concluded that Wang Anshi will be a traitor once he gets his will. also used Wang Anshi's lack of attention to clothing and individual shortcomings to judge political quality, insinuate and curse, and attack people, becoming a rare shrew in the ages.

At this time, Lao Su was nothing, but six years later, the Conservative Party turned out this article again and hyped it up, which had a very bad impact on Wang Anshi. (There is another saying that this article was concocted by others, but the style of writing is really very similar to Lao Su, even if it is concocted, its pen power is not trivial, so the possibility of others concocting it is extremely small)

Now Lao Su is still a little unpleasant, after all, the scene that happened in Ouyang Xiu's house, Wang Anshi was very sloppy, which made Lao Su have an illusion, and Wang Anshi looked down on him very much. However, the two sons and Wang Anshi became brothers, what else can they do?

Wang Anshi went south, and the crisis in the capital was even more serious, but the people didn't know it.

Finally, a major event that shocked the entire Song Dynasty was completed.

Ouyang Xiu went down for three months and tasted it.

In fact, when the project came to an end, the most contradictory problem of encroachment on cultivated land was also solved, and Zheng Lang left a detailed plan.

But the implementation is not the same thing, although to the end, several tributaries of the Yellow River are all shut down, the Huai River in the south, the Wuzhang River in the west, and even the Yellow River to Sanmen There are some fragmentary projects repaired one after another, and the north to Cangzhou. Ouyang Xiu is not like Zheng Lang, he has spent two years as a transshipment envoy below, and he has carefully looked at all the mountains and rivers one by one, and he knows it well. Very dazed, although Zheng Lang's plan is very detailed. It is such a large-scale construction, and it all depends on the command of him, the ambassador of river control.

Seeing others eat tofu with fast teeth, they will be hot when they get hot.

If you have enough time to prepare, it's even better. I didn't have time to prepare, and I didn't want the officials below to see the jokes, so I took over immediately with confidence, so the whole thing was messed up.

In a mess, a lot of waste is generated by labor and materials, which not only wastes a lot of money. There was also a delay in time. Originally, it was all completed at the end of February, but in late March, the peach blossom water came up, and the construction was barely completed.

Tian Yu and Cheng Shimeng are Zheng Lang's people, and He Tan can't be called Zheng Lang's henchmen, so he said honestly: "Ouyang Gong's articles are all over the world, but this talent for governing is far from Zheng Gong." ”

It's not very far, it's compared to Tian Cheng and the others. It's also too far off.

But in any case, it was done, Ouyang Xiu adopted Zheng Lang's laying etiquette, rammed the last hammer himself, cut the color strips himself, and then the gongs and drums were noisy, the firecrackers were made, and the project was over. But Ouyang Xiu was not at ease, so he went downstream. Start with Shang Hu Si. Take a boat ride to see the Jishui beach, the more you look at it, the more magical it feels.

Zheng Lang in order to bind the water. Not only the embankment, but also the four embankments, the wisp embankment, the moon embankment, the remote embankment and the lattice embankment, many people at that time thought that it was too wasteful. Now that it's finished, you can see the impact. The river has not yet risen, because the dikes are used to hold the water, and the surface of the river has become narrower than before.

Even though the flow of the river is not large at this time, the river is still more turbulent than before, so it carries a large amount of sediment and flows all the way east. Ouyang Xiu took a boat all the way to the mouth of the sea, and could see the river carrying a large amount of sediment into the sea. Precipitate in the sea, that doesn't matter. It proves that sand washing is effective.

Of course, when the river is bigger, the river will be more rapid, so the second moon embankment tightly guards the safety of the embankment. The larger the river, the faster the river, and the more significant the effect of sand flushing. Even if the river continues to rise, there is a remote embankment behind the Yueyue embankment to protect the safety of the cultivated land in the embankment. There are also various embankments across the moon embankment and the embankment, even if the embankment has an accident, it will stop when it encounters the grid, and it will not go down the remote embankment to form another river, which will eventually affect the safety of the embankment, unless all the embankments are washed down together, it is impossible, even if it is a rare flood once in 10,000 years, it cannot be done.

Then, a number of flood zones were forcibly divided into low-lying areas.

This is Zheng Lang's heartache, a few years ago, he wanted to dig some areas of Huazhou to drain water, but Han Qi refused to let it, so the sixth embankment broke. Therefore, last year, the tax on all cultivated land in the Xuanhong District was forcibly divided and halved, but there was a premise that once the imperial court wanted to release water and discharge the flood, no ordinary people could forcibly block it.

It's just a part of it, there is also the new canal to carry water, the adjustment of various water gates and steep gates, the irrigation and drainage of the water storage water of the north and south rivers, although after the project is over, people will be sent to repair and patrol every year, but Ouyang Xiu looked at these embankments, he couldn't understand, such a project, can the Yellow River break the embankment again in the future?

This reminded him of one thing, he suggested that the Yellow River should flow northeast, which was in line with the trend of the Heavenly Dao, but Zheng Lang forcibly used huge manpower and financial resources to tie the Yellow River into Jishui, is this considered to defeat the Heavenly Dao with manpower?

suddenly thought of a long time ago, the friendship between the two of them was slightly distracted. The past is like the water of the Yellow River, which can never flow eastward.

Now that the two have become real political enemies, there is no room for redemption.

After inspecting and making sure that everything was fine, Ouyang Xiu hurried back to the capital. For three months, he was exhausted. But has he reflected on it, since Zheng Lang went down, starting from Liangguang, except for the two years of transshipment envoys who inspected the river, he has been like this all these years. Maybe I thought about it, maybe I didn't have an idea. Even if he thought about it, he wouldn't say it.

You have to go back and get your reward.

There is a reward, and he is immediately moved to the country.

The title is not counted, this will be a thick resume, with this political achievement, it is enough to sit back and relax in the position of the Chinese book.

There are also ministers who are rewarded, Zheng Lang gave up the biggest piece of cake, and Ouyang Xiu was embarrassed to suppress the other ministers. It's a human being, and you still have to have a face in the end. He didn't expect that soon after, his face would be forcibly peeled off by Zhao Zongshi one by one.

Cheng Shi Meng Qian was the privy deputy envoy of the Longtu Pavilion, and Tian Yu was the direct student of the Longtu Pavilion Zhijiang Ning Mansion.

Zheng Lang did not agree with the appointment of the former, these two people, like Cheng Huan, are good officials in the local area, but when they enter the two prefectures, they may not be able to do anything, but there is no objection, no matter what, they can enter the two prefectures, and they will have more say in the future.

It happened that the imperial imperial examination was completed, and this year was much inferior to the imperial examination in the second year of Jiayou. Either there is a person, Shen Kuo, who has just entered high school in the front, and asked Zheng Lang to go to Zhengzhou, don't be in a hurry to take up an official position, and study behind me for a few years.

Of course, Shen Kuo would not object, although Zheng Lang was in the period of filial piety, he would not be hindered from teaching students at the door of his home. Climbing the relationship between Zheng Lang and Zheng Lang will play a greater role than grinding for several years below.

In addition, there are several people such as champion Xu Jiang, Kong Wuzhong, Fan Zuyu, Chen Mi, etc., but they are not the top talents. Zheng Lang didn't pay too much attention.

The academy was about to be repaired day by day, and Zheng Lang began to work on asking Mr.

I don't plan to recruit many students, but I can't recruit but may not be able to afford it, so I don't plan to hire many gentlemen.

There are only five candidates, and all five of them may not be able to come.

The first candidate is a native of Daozhou, and the two also had a conversation on Jinghu South Road, that is, the legendary Wang Anshi's teacher Zhou Xiaoyi. Some people say that Wang Anshi was praised by Zhou Dunyi, and he is well-known in the world. In his previous life, Zheng Lang was suspicious, but in this life, Zheng Lang was sneering.

Zhou Dunyi may have been famous in Daozhou when he was alive, and opened Lianxi Academy under the Lotus Peak. However, there are very few people in the entire Song Dynasty who know, maybe Han Qi doesn't know at this time. What qualifications does he have to teach Wang Anshi, or praise Wang Anshi. Maybe Wang Anshi praised Zhou Dunyi, and Zhou Dunyi can be famous all over the world.

Therefore, many people do not know the deeds of Zhou Dunyi during his lifetime, and the history books cannot record them. However, he was similar to Van Gogh, few people knew about him during his lifetime, but after his death, with the reflection on science, his fame grew.

Zheng Lang wants to study Confucianism, so he wants to invite Zhou Dunyi to Zhengzhou. But he may not be able to come, it's not Qinggao, in front of Zheng Lang, with Zhou Dunyi at this time, there is no way to be Qinggao. The main thing is that Zhou Dunxi still has a academy of his own, see if he can put it down.

The second person is Fan Yangren's family, but at this time he is teaching in Luoyang, and it is even more difficult to invite, Shao Yong and Zhao Zhen have repeatedly issued edicts and conferred officials not to go. Zheng Lang definitely does not have as much face as Zhao Zhen, so Zheng Lang personally wrote a letter, not talking about fame and fortune, only about learning, anyway, you are also a child of teaching, it is better to come to Zhengzhou to teach, and it is not far away, and you can discuss Confucianism together. Whether he can come or not, Zheng Lang is not sure.

The third person is Jiayou's second year of Jinshi, and Qizhou joined the army for justice, but this person is sure to be invited, Zhang Zai. Because of his life, Zhang Zai is a northwestern clan, seeing the invasion of the Song Dynasty in Western Xia, he is less happy to talk about soldiers, and once wrote to Fan Zhongyan to discuss nine articles, and got Fan Zhongyan's weight. But Fan Zhongyan persuaded him that Confucianism has its own famous teachings, and what is the matter with soldiers. persuaded him to abandon the army to study, and fifteen years later, the thirty-eight-year-old Zhang Zai was admitted to the Jinshi. With the support of Wen Yanbo, a tiger skin chair was set up in Xiangguo Temple to talk about ease. This person has also written articles eulogizing because of Zheng Lang's several victories in the northwest, and Zheng Lang has also replied to the letter, which can be regarded as a friend or two. A judicial member of the army is not a big official, anyway, he has fame.

Therefore, it is easier to invite than the previous two white-clothed people.

The fourth and fifth people are a pair of brothers, two journeys. Xiao Cheng Cheng Yi did not pass the examination, but he has been a teacher for a long time, and he taught in the capital at the age of twenty-four. His brother Dacheng Cheng Hao is also a jinshi in the second year of Jing You, and this person is only the lord of Shangyuan County. The two brothers later soared, which is very remarkable, and now it is nothing, and the chance of inviting them is very high. The eldest of these five people, Shao Yong, is 52 years old, Zhou Dunyi is 46 years old, Zhang Zai is 43 years old, Dacheng is 41 years old, and Xiao Cheng is 40 years old.

Once invited, how much help it will be to Zheng Lang's Confucian Society, needless to say, the five Confucian schools in the Northern Song Dynasty are these five people.

But it is not necessarily known whether they can be invited.

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