Wang Anshi's two sons, the eldest son Wang Yan, the small character Yuan Ze; The second son Wang next to the small words, although the two sons have the same name and the same birthday, but their personalities are very different, and the two people's encounters are also very different, the eldest son Yuan Ze has been smart and clever since he was a child, and he is talented and ambitious, and even the poems are quite Wang Anshi's style, the second son Wang Bi has been dull and demented since he was a child, and he has never spoken until he was thirteen or fourteen years old.

Take Zhu County's order to find someone to serve on an errand, Yuan Ze and Wang Bi are both clear, there are cats in it, but the two people's practices are really different, if Yuan Ze encounters this matter, he must explain clearly the reason why he didn't do this errand, and politely send Zhu County Order, Yuan Ze has always been that people don't offend me, I don't offend people, if people offend me, I will hide away; But this matter was encountered by the king, but it was good for him not to offend people, not to mention that others had offended him.

As soon as he heard that Wang Bian had taken over this errand service, Yuan Ze's eyes glared at the boss, brother, what is wrong, could it be that Chen Yuanwai's situation is not enough on the street to take it as a warning, and others are afraid to avoid it, but Wang Bian rushed in, and he said to Wang Bian with a little disgust: "You promised to be happy, tomorrow you go to the county office, it's too late to regret it." ”

Wang sided his head sideways, and looked at Yuan Ze standing beside his father with a smile: "Why do you want to regret it, this errand is very good, we all know that the restaurant is relying on the support of the county order, and has been avoiding taxes, here must be a lot of benefits to the county order, there are two questions here, one is whether the county has paid so many taxes, why there is so much space, and the other is how much benefit this county order has received, yesterday it was Chen Yuanwai, today is me, tomorrow this errand will not be assigned to anyone, just take this opportunity to teach them a lesson, The province always makes the honest people suffer. ”

Yuan Ze shook his head helplessly, no one could stop him if he wanted to do something: "You always have a bunch of truths, I won't argue with you, anyway, it's just a day, if you can't think of a good way before you go to the county government tomorrow, I won't have time to accompany you on the street to collect taxes door to door." After speaking, he glanced at his father beside him,

Wang Anshi listened to the conversation between the two children at this time, looking at the two young men in their early twenties in front of him, although he saw that the two people had different opinions, but the words all revealed Yuan Ze's concern for Wang Bian, the relationship between the two of them is so good, no matter who can develop in the future, the other one will definitely be able to become a powerful assistant, and these two brothers, Wang Bian's wit and decisiveness seem to be better than Yuan Ze, and this child is also quite a bit righteous, seeing Wang Bian's actions, can't help but recall some of Wang Anshi's past events: during Wang Anshi's father Wang Yi's tenure, he refused to urge the poor to pay taxes, and exposed the collusion between his top boss and the local wealthy family, but he was excluded by these guys and transferred to other places, but Wang Yi still insisted on doing this everywhere, Wang Anshi has been following Wang Yi since he was a child, and these things have touched Wang Anshi a lot.

Yuan Ze originally expected his father to speak and let his brother not be reckless, but he didn't know that Wang Anshi was already excited at the moment, seeing his father's thoughtful face slightly red, Wang Yuanze thought that his father was angry, turned to his father and said respectfully to Wang Anshi: "If Daddy doesn't want to do this, why don't I go to the county order and tell him directly that my brother agreed to the prime minister's mission, what do you think." ”

Wang Anshi stood up, patted Yuan Ze's shoulder, walked over from Yuan Ze to Wang Bian, how could there be a reason for Lao Tzu to stand and his son sitting, Wang Bian hurriedly got up, Daddy What are you going to do, staring at him with a red face, Wang Bian really rarely sees Wang Anshi's expression,

Wang Anshi looked Wang up and down beside him, and his eyes showed an approving look: "Good boy, I support you in doing this, go, follow me to the study, and I will tell you about the tax law and errand law of our Great Song Dynasty today." ”

This can make Wang Bian happy, what he did in the past, Wang Anshi neither supported nor denied, sometimes even Wang Bian doubted that Wang Anshi let himself go, whether it was because his body was born with dementia, but sometimes Wang Anshi unconsciously showed concern, so that Wang Bian felt that the father and son were deeply affectionate, but always felt that he and Wang Anshi were not a generation, this is not just the distance in time and space, and today, Wang Anshi said "support" for the first time, Wang Bian did not know the fluctuation of his father's mood, But these two words suddenly broke the sense of estrangement in Wang Bi's heart,

The king's heart was full of joy, and Wang's father explained to himself that it was more convenient than he threw a bunch of books to himself, so that he could check it out and save trouble, and when he was happy, he forgot the dignity of the ancients, and put his arm on Wang Anshi's shoulder like a good buddy and said, "Let's go." "And he went out,

Wang Anshi's heart was happy, and he seemed to be used to Wang next to this, with a smile on his face, he walked out of the hall with Wang next to him, and walked towards the study, Yuan Ze looked at the backs of the two and was stunned for a moment, and then saw that the two had already stepped out of the hall door, and hurriedly shouted behind: "Wait for me, I will listen too." "I followed quickly,

The father and son walked out of the front yard hall, two in front of the other and one behind them walked to the study of the back house, under the eaves of the corridor at the corner door, Liu Qi and Tong Guan squatted on the ground with their heads down, not knowing what they were tinkering with, seeing the father and son next to the king coming over, the two children hurriedly stood up and made way, and at the same time blocked their bodies behind them, as if they were afraid of letting the adults see,

None of the three of them noticed the two of them, the father and son entered the study, Wang Anshi ordered someone to prepare tea, it seemed that he wanted to have a good chat with the two children, he first let Wang and Yuan Ze sit down at a square table, took out a few books from the bookshelf, flipped through them to confirm that they were looking for them, took the booklet and put it on the table, and sat down himself.

Yuan Ze recognized these booklets, he pointed to the booklet and said to the king: "Brother, look, the manuscript information of the book of ten thousand words played by my father during the Jiayou period, at that time, my father compiled the tax law, service law, military use and other issues of the current imperial court into a book and summarized them, and they were all included in these books. ”

Wang next to scratching his head, Wang Anshi will not let himself read all these booklets first, Wang Anshi saw the expression next to Wang, shook his head and smiled: "You, it's just not as hard as your brother, these are all your brother helped me to check the information and collect the compilation." Wang next to his fist and smiled at Yuan Ze: "Admire, admire, I'll just say, if only my brother could be my shogunate." Wang Anshi opened the booklet and looked for the specific information he wanted to tell the king, and asked without raising his head: "You need the shogunate, didn't the court assign it to you?" Wang Bi shook his head: "I don't want the court to appoint them, I'm afraid that they will point fingers, and I won't be able to do it." ”

Wang Anshi raised his eyelids and looked at the king, this kid is different from ordinary people, he wants the shogunate to be a pure lecturer, and he may not need the opinions of others, Wang Anshi suddenly thought of a person: "Hey, if you pay yourself, you don't necessarily use people from the court, it's normal for you to have some doormen if you want to do things, find a gentleman yourself, or I'll recommend someone to you." ”

The person recommended by Wang Anshi should have no problem with knowledge, as long as it is not Wang Anshi himself, Wang asked curiously: "Who is Daddy talking about?" ”

Among Wang Anshi's many students, there is a Jinshi in the Qingli period, the bachelor is profound but the career is not smooth, although the imperial court recruits virtuous and good people to open the door of the imperial examination, the number of scholars in the imperial examination has increased greatly, and there are more than 360 people who have obtained the name of Jinshi on average each time, some of these people have a smooth career in the relationship background, or there are indeed amazing talents to learn to make the emperor look at them, and some are attached to the power and do have a good career, but there are some people, even if they are admitted to the Jinshi, they are also unknown,

Wang Anshi wants to recommend to Wang is such a person, this person is called Hou Shuxian, and now he is Wang Anshi's son-in-law Wu Anzhi's shogunate, but he is also suffering from many years of ambition can not be displayed, has handed in his resignation, good wine is also afraid of deep alleys, Wang Anshi is very optimistic about Hou Shuxian's conduct and knowledge, but this person is a person who concentrates on researching knowledge, and Wang Anshi always discusses the importance of farmland and water conservancy construction, but at the moment Wang Anshi himself has no rights, and his optimistic son-in-law is a water messenger, but he has not done anything,

Wang Anshi always felt that his son was better than his son-in-law, especially this kid next to Wang dared to think and dare to do, if this kid could succeed in the future, he would definitely need someone like Hou Shuxian, so he said to Wang Bei: "This person's surname is Hou Mingshuxian, the word Jingren, is from Fuzhou." ”

Hearing what his father said, Yuan Ze couldn't help but say enviously: "Daddy is really willing, didn't he still want this old Mr. Hou to be Daddy's shogunate." ”

Wang Jian heard Yuan Ze say this, and knew that this person must be appreciated by Wang Anshi, but when he heard Yuan Ze call Hou Lao, he said how old this person must be, and he is away all the year round, if his father recommends one, he is old and frail, and he has to provide it every day, but Wang Jian still showed a happy acceptance and agreed: Thank you Daddy for your love, let's talk about this Zhu County Order Sect first, my brother told me something before, the court is so reckless, there will definitely be problems after a long time, and there will be more, What is the name of this labor, and why do the people still appoint people to do errand labor after paying taxes? ”

Wang Anshi said to Wang Pan and Yuan Ze: "Our errand service law inherits five generations of names, and what Pang Er said is right, the people have paid taxes and have completed the labor, but this government uses the errand service law to arbitrarily send the people regardless of whether it is needed or not. From the front of the ya, the lieutenant chief, and the strong man to the warehouse, inspecting, urging the tax and other places to do errands, the people are paying taxes and serving, and they are miserable. ”

The two brothers nodded while listening, but listened to Wang Anshi continue: "If this tax is not necessarily the imperial court's wild levy, the imperial treasury is empty, sometimes, the imperial court levies a tax to the state and becomes two points, and it becomes four points to the government, if it goes to the county, and then it is added by those corrupt officials, it will be much more than the imperial court, and some corrupt officials collude with local large households to annex the people's land, just say that the imperial court investigates the Jinxiang Mansion next to the state, I think it is a good thing." ”

How did this become a good thing, Daddy's elbow turned outward, Wang Bian couldn't help but wonder, just about to ask for an understanding, Zhao Bo came in to report, a member surnamed Chen came out to find Wang Bian's son, Wang Bian couldn't help but think; Why did you come to the door so quickly, shouldn't something have happened again?