Cai Xiang's concerns are not unreasonable, when Renzong was seriously ill, at that time there was no prince, Zhao Shu served in front of Renzong's bed, Cai Xiang and the ministers visited Renzong, brought colleagues to play, including the opposition to Zhao Shu as the prince, Zhao Shu was silent at the time, but always thought that Cai Xiang was against him,

With Cai Xiang's talent and political achievements, if it were not for the death of Renzong, he should have been able to do the post of prime minister, fortunately, the officials recommended, and Yingzong was in the employment of people, only reluctantly transferred him back to the capital, appointed three envoys, the three envoys were the highest financial officials in the early Northern Song Dynasty, and the three envoys were in charge of finance, under which there were three deputy envoys of salt and iron, household department, and degree branch in charge of the three departments, and there were more than 20 ministries such as soldiers, soldiers, and commercial taxes, which were divided into affairs.

The corruption of Qin Minzhi, the household servant, happened to be under the jurisdiction of Cai Xiang, and it is said that Cai Xiang is understandable to take Qin Minzhi, but the first of the three fires of the new official was burned to the emperor's favored ministers, which is somewhat against the rules of officialdom.

Li Shen reminded Cai Xiang that this matter still needs to be tied to the bell person, since they can all think that this matter is done by the king, today's three envoys and Kaifeng Mansion will solve what the king thinks, so how to end the king next must have a countermeasure.

Cai Xiang and Wang Pan finally have an old friendship, not to mention that Cai Xiang's cousin is also Wang Bian's personal scholar, just by virtue of inviting Wang Pan to talk about it is normal, Cai Xiang returned to the house to write a good deal with the household servant's recital, just put down the pen, the family came to report to the king to visit, Cai Xiang walked outside the hall, standing on the steps to greet the king,

For Cai Xianghe's age and official position, it was already a heavy gift to go out of the hall to greet him, and the king walked a few steps up the steps and bowed down: "The late king has seen the three envoys. ”

Cai Xiang held the arm next to Wang: "Wang Shilang doesn't have to be polite, please inside." So saying, he let the king into the hall.

The hall was brightly lit, and a table was placed in the middle of the hall, with fruits and pastries on it, and it could be seen that this was ready to entertain guests. ”

Cai Xiang was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself what the hell this kid was doing, it was just a courtesy visit, and he didn't mean to leave a meal, Cai Xiang asked with a smile: "Wang Shilang is not afraid that I will invite you to come, but what you go to is the Hongmen banquet." ”

Wang smiled next to him: "Bachelor Cai was transferred to the capital, and the late student should have come to the door to celebrate in person, and he was invited to thank the bachelor for his love, but there is still one person left at today's banquet, and the student is incapable of inviting him, and he wants to invite this person in the name of the bachelor, I don't know if Bachelor Cai can give this face." ”

"Of course you can, I don't know who Wang Shilang wants to invite." Cai Xiang asked,

"Today's special Aries wine is available, but please make an appointment with a drunkard." The king replied with a smile,

Cai Jing was amused when he heard the king dragging the text, but the son really knew his cousin, cousin Cai Xiang had the best tea, followed by wine, cousin Cai Xiang wrote dozens of poems, and now the son came with wine, and he was still impromptu there, Cai Jing couldn't help but laugh,

Cai Xiang looked up at Cai Jing behind the king: "Why is the chief laughing." ”

Cai Jing said: "My cousin doesn't know, my son-in-law has a lot of ideas, that is, the poetry is not good, how to drink with my cousin is to invite a bachelor, how to make an appointment with a drunkard." ”

Wang Jian listened and laughed and said nothing, if Cai Xiang is a smart person, he naturally understands what he means, the bachelor refers to Cai Xiang, but the drunkard is another person who said that he wants to bother Cai Xiang today,

Cai Xiang laughed: "You kid pretend to be smart, Wang Shilang is indeed wrong, but it is only a word difference, I think he brought this white sheep wine not to date a drunkard, but to use this wine to catch a drunkard." After that, he instructed: "Come, bring my name post, go and invite the founding father, by the way, don't forget to say that I have prepared white sheep wine." ”

Cai Jing suddenly realized, he stuck out his tongue, and the king was also a little surprised: "Master Cai, I haven't been in the capital for more than a year, I don't know that the court has changed so much, is the founding prince you said to me that a drunkard is a person." ”

Cai Xiang said: "Now that he is participating in political affairs, the founding prince of Le'an County, it is Ouyang Yongshu, who is also the secretary of the Criminal Department, no wonder Wang Shilang you don't know, after all, you have been away from Beijing for a long time, but I also have a question, Wang Shilang, you said that the person who typesets with ants outside the wall of Kaifeng Mansion is the same person who made me the new official burn the fire." ”

Wang saw Cai Xiang looking at him with a smile in his eyes, and he replied with a smile on his face: "Ant typesetting is nothing compared with bee typesetting, one is the state official setting fire, and the other is asking the king to give an edict, this matter is not at the same level, but the difficulty of direct advice is not inferior to building a bridge across the river." ”

"Hahaha, it's really a good thing that you kid did, you took Kaifeng Mansion and my three envoys to do things today, and this wine is a sin to come." Cai Xiang asked with a smile,

Wang replied with a smile: "What the three envoys and Kaifeng Mansion did today is for the people of the capital, but I brought wine for you, Master Cai." ”

Cai Xiang looked at this king, this kid is really sharp-toothed, he has dealt with it a few times before, but at that time, the king went to Jianzhou and was taken care of by Cai Xiang, so it was mostly on business.

At this time, there are no outsiders, how can Cai Xiang fall in front of the king, "Having said that, but the reputation of Jinxiang Mansion is outside, I am dealing with the people who seized Jinxiang Mansion today, Wang Shilang came with wine, I am afraid it will be difficult to escape the suspicion of bribery, I think this direct matter outsiders may not believe that there is no personal affection in it." ”

Wang Ben understands in his heart that Cai Xiang has done things for himself now, but although he and Cai Xiang have not come and gone much, they have a sense of sympathy, and the relationship between the two of them is not simple, at least Cai Jing is Cai Xiang's cousin This is a fact, if Cai Xiang has to avoid suspicion, it is not an exaggeration, but these have long been expected by Wang Be: "I brought wine today, I came to catch a drunkard, not to ask Mr. Cai to give direct advice to the court, and when the drunkard arrives in a while, he will rest when he is drunk today, is there any bribe." ”

After Wang finished speaking, the two smiled, Cai Xiang said: "The world is big, there may not be many people who can understand the bee typesetting, and even fewer people can draw inferences. ”

Wang next to the heart of the heart can not help but admire Cai Xiangsheng, such a learned person in an important position, but the official is not arrogant compared to Han Qi, Sima Guang and others are not under it, and built a bridge across the river, which can be described as a shocking move in the Great Song Dynasty, thinking of this, Wang next respectfully asked: "Bachelor Cai, although the late life seems to be a little smart, but the construction of the bridge has no idea, the late life is very curious, how the Wan'an Bridge can be seen in such a scale in the river turbulence." ”

Cai Xiang saw that there was no joke next to the king, very modest and respectful, such a posterity is really rare: "This bridge was really difficult to build at that time, the span of the large water flow urgent, let me think a lot, and then gathered everyone to brainstorm, there is a way, we first threw a large number of large stones along the middle line of the bridge at the bottom of the river, forming a low stone embankment across the bottom of the river, as the foundation site of the bridge pier, and then with a row of horizontal, a row of straight stones to build the bridge pier. ”

"Good way." The king nodded and said,

"However, the river was turbulent, and how not to shake the bridge foundation became a problem, so we planted oysters on the bridge base to slow down the river flow and not shake the foundations on both sides of the bridge pier."

Cai Xiang said that, Cai Jing asked strangely: "I heard that some workers talked about this method at that time, but I don't know how my cousin came up with the idea of planting oysters?"

Cai Xiang smiled and looked at the king's side: "With the erudition of Wang Shilang, this should not be difficult for Wang Shilang." ”

Test me again, Wang glanced at Cai Xiang, this old pedant has been playing dumb riddles since he entered the door, forget it, I'll show you a hand today, just now Cai Jing, this kid laughed at my poetry, I let him know that he knows how powerful his son is,

Wang next to this smiled and said: "Oyster is a kind of mollusk with shells on the bottom of the sea, it has two shells, one shell is attached to the reef or the other oyster, intertwined with each other, the other shell is covered with its own soft body, oysters have a strong reproductive ability, and pervasive, once it is with the stone gum, it can not be shoveled down with an iron shovel, use this characteristic of oysters, plant oysters on the bridge base, oysters will connect the scattered stones and stones into a whole, and glue the scattered stones together, This bridge has not fallen for thousands of years, and the oysters have contributed a lot. ”

"It won't fall for a thousand years, cousin, did you hear, my son-in-law said that this bridge won't fall for a thousand years." Cai Jing said excitedly,

Cai Xiang couldn't help but show a proud look: "The son has won the award, if it is not a thousand years, but he has done a great thing for the people." ”

"Of course, this is a miracle of using biology to build a bridge, and it is much better than the tofu scum project."

"What is biology?" Cai Xiang and Cai Jing asked at the same time,

"Biology is the study of the structure, function, occurrence and development of living things, biology, you know."

Cai Jing asked, "Do you mean living things?" ”

The king said, "You can understand it that way. ”

Cai Xiang smiled: "King Zhao said so, aren't we all creatures anymore. ”

The king said, "Yes, yes, we are all creatures. ”

Cai Jing pouted: "Then we are not all human, we are all creatures, we are all the same as those flowers and plants." ”

Wang said with a smile: "Creatures include animals and plants, and the Yuan Chang is smart and can be taught." ”

Cai Xiang laughed: "Wang Shilang hasn't seen him for a few years, and his speech has become more and more difficult to understand, so what do you say is the tofu scum project." ”

Wang Fang regretted it now, he had been talking well for so many years, and he was not so verbose, and suddenly he wanted to open without scruples, but instead found trouble for himself, which is troublesome to explain: "The tofu slag project, such as building a bridge and building a house, no matter what you do, you will be confused, deceive, cut corners, and finally spend a lot of silver, and the quality is not good, and there are accidents that kill people." ”

Cai Xiang nodded knowingly, and said seriously: "Well, our Wan'an Bridge must not be tofu scum, we are frozen tofu, and the porcelain is very solid." ”

How did Cai Xiang get on with tofu, fortunately, at this time, the family came to report that An Guogong had arrived, otherwise the king would definitely be unable to hold back his laughter.