When going down to the court, Li Gang and Wu Yong walked side by side, not that no matter how noisy the court was, how good a personal relationship the two had in private, but because Li Gang and Wu Yong didn't like each other, they both wanted to know how and how to move each other's next move, so as to prepare countermeasures.

Speaking of which, Li Gang and Wu Yong are not the ministers in power in the Huizong era, but the courtiers who rose in the Jingkang difficulty, strictly speaking, both of them belong to the anti-Jin faction in the big faction, Zhao Huan's entire government is occupied by the anti-Jin faction, the highest guiding ideology is to go all out to resist the Jin, to resist the humiliation of the country, to restore the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and so on.

However, in the Ying Tianfu era, especially in the days after the Western Army defeated the Jin Army and the Western Route Army, the anti-Jin faction divided into two factions, one was the radical faction led by Wu Yong, and the other was the moderate faction led by Li Gang.

At first glance, Li Gang belongs to the rational faction, Wu Yong belongs to the idealistic faction, the two are incompatible, but Li Gang obviously occupies the road of humanity, Wu Yong is lost to reality, detached from the actual situation, fantasizing about the future, but not down-to-earth, but, think about it carefully, for a government, set the goal too long-term, and then focus on the feet, but do not look up at the sky, then, when the footsteps are solid enough, as soon as you look up, you may get lost.

Can the courtiers and the state, accustomed to a comfortable life, still be able to withstand the enormous load of wartime?

During the three years of Jiangnan South Road, Wu Yong was deeply influenced by Yue Turn. I know that although the country is big, it is dangerous to forget the war. During the period when Yue Chuan was in charge of Jiangnan South Road, the Xiang army on Jiangnan South Road did not fight for a day. No day without bloodshed and sacrifice, no day without killing, Yue Tuo's own personal soldiers have to take turns to go out to kill the enemy, in order to train a strong army, which can come in handy, it turns out that Yue Tuo's 30,000 bandit army saved the entire Great Song Dynasty, and the wealth and manpower accumulated by Jiangnan South Road in the three years of Yue Tuo's reign helped the Great Song Dynasty to spend the most difficult time.

Of course, this is not to say that Yue Chuan is a belligerent maniac. He's a champion, would he do something meaningless? When he ordered the army to go out of the city to suppress the bandits and suppress the bandits in the south of the Yangtze River, he was also constantly developing the local economy, and he handed over the matter of suppressing the bandits to Wu Yong and a bunch of generals to do, and he himself took Fang Haogong Sun Sheng and other people to travel throughout the two states of Jiqian, and successfully opened a financial road for the two states of Jiqian.

Then, regardless of his identity, he personally discussed with the big businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River about the sales of the mountain delicacies and game in Jiqian Erzhou, and successfully found a market for countless mountain delicacies and game in Jiqian Erzhou. In an instant, a large number of wealthy families and mountain people were created as a new profession, and in addition, while making money, Yue Tuo personally stipulated the professional guidelines for mountain people and the bottom line guidelines for doing business in Jiqian Erzhou. That is, the rule that it is not allowed to dig and hunt wild game indefinitely.

In order to give mountain game a chance and time to grow and reproduce, if it is overexploited, future generations will become poor again. Therefore, Yue Fu also actively persuaded farmers to develop wasteland. He even personally instructed some farmers to create a new type of field called "terrace" on the low hills, and the yield was actually very good. Originally, various states and counties sent people to learn from the experience and wanted to promote it, but Yue Chuan said that this should be adapted to local conditions and could not be promoted at will, so it was not popularized in other places.

This is also the reason why Jiqian Erzhou has become as rich as it is now, when the entire Jiangnan has no money, Fang Hao took Jiqian Erzhou to take out Yue Xuan's legacy, so that Zhao Huan's Yingtian small government spent the most difficult time and successfully waited until tomorrow.

And now, Wu Yongcai, who is deeply influenced by Yue Tuo's ideology and theory, is so opposed to Li Gang's steady approach, there is nothing wrong with being steady, but being steady at any time, being steady for the sake of being steady, and being steady when it shouldn't be steady, is a mistake! Wu Yong believes that at this moment, it is the time when the militaristic system is showing its grand plans, how can we be depressed and wait for the Jin soldiers to fight again and we to defend again? Such negative thinking is the root cause of Jingkang's disaster!

Li Gang is not suitable to be the prime minister in such a government, the head of a hundred officials, but suitable to be a feudal official, govern the locality, and provide a steady stream of material and manpower support for military affairs, which is what Li Gang is best at.

This was put forward by Yue Tuo when he discussed military affairs with Wu Yong in private, when Wu Yong was very distressed by Li Gang's obstruction of his military proposals, Yue Tuo said such a sentence, Li Xianggong is loyal, capable, reliable, and dedicated, but there is one of the biggest shortcomings, that is, he is stubborn and self-serving, such shortcomings can be tolerated in other positions, such as a feudal official, but as the prime minister of the country's hundred officials, there are some problems.

Li Gang can't tolerate people, he has indeed done the ultimate in keeping festivals himself, but his requirements for others are just as high, even to the point where the water is clear, to such a point, placed in a state or a place all the way, it can still be tolerated, it's a big deal to let him choose the helper he needs, let him toss it, but the central government of the country is the head of the whole country, the decision-making body, and it can't tolerate the slightest stubbornness, but Li Gang is like this.

Wu Yong knew Yue Tuo's status in the emperor's heart, and he also knew Yue Tuo's opinion of Li Gang, and knew that Yue Tuo was dissatisfied with Li Gang, so he also believed that Li Gang's position as prime minister would not last long, and after Yue Tuo became the governor of the government, he was more certain, so he chose to be patient, but he didn't expect that as time went by, Li Gang's prestige became more and more heavy, and he even faintly regarded him, the privy envoy of the head of the Western Mansion, as a subordinate.

The East and West Privy Envoys are equal, the Prime Minister and the Privy Envoy are equal, one civil and one military, and they are not subordinate to each other, this is the resolution of His Majesty after moving the capital to Beijing, as a subsidiary condition for improving the treatment and status of the soldiers, first of all, the leader of the military, the status of the first military privy envoy has been raised, and the civilian prime minister is on the same level, and there will be no more the situation of the East Mansion and the West Mansion at the half level, and the literati prime minister also needs to be self-conscious and can no longer do the previous things.

Zhao Huan said this in front of Li Gang. After that, Wu Yong straightened his waist and behaved. and Li Gang looked up, and Li Gang also abided by such rules at the beginning. But within a few days, the old problem was committed, he made some great achievements, dealt with a lot of things, and after being flattered by more and more subordinates, Lao Li Gang was a little fluttering, and seemed to feel that he had become the most noble again, and began to dictate to Wu Yong, especially Wu Yong began to argue with him about national affairs. Li Gang became more and more irritable.

Such an attitude, vaguely everyone also felt it, as Yue turned the old department but agreed with Li Gang's concept, and Li Gang stood with Gongsun Shengdu repeatedly euphemistically proposed to Li Gang, "The more powerful the Xianggong is, the ministers are terrified, and they dare not fight with it, I am afraid that it will not be the blessing of the world, and I hope that the Xianggong will be vigilant about himself."

However, Li Gang didn't care, and smiled contemptuously: "The old man is the prime minister." The head of a hundred officials has great power, but the old man is selfless and dedicated to the public. The ministers are selfish, how can they not be afraid when they see the old man. Is it possible, but you still have to instruct the old man to fail? The ministers of the world. Many mediocre people, except for Yue Pengzhan. Most of them are rats, and the old man is ashamed to be with them! Hum! ”

These words offended everyone, even Gongsun Sheng's good temper was dissatisfied with Li Gang's prestige in private, and there were many complaints, not to mention those who were not very good, in Li Gang's eyes, he was the great hero of the first Jin soldiers going south, and Yue Chuan was the great hero of the second Jin soldiers going south, so the two of them were the biggest heroes and could be equal, so he was very kind to Yue Tuo, but to others, he was mostly arrogant.

The subordinates of the East Mansion are dissatisfied with the change of the old prime minister, many people are talking in private that the old prime minister is becoming more and more rigid and self-serving, and more and more unable to listen to people's words, in the Tianfu era, the old prime minister can still listen to people's words, and repeatedly adopt the opinions of his subordinates to submit to the emperor, and do a lot of practical things, but after arriving in Beijing, the old prime minister is more and more reluctant to adopt people's words, thinking that only his own opinion is right, as a subordinate official of Dongfu, he can only obey and obey himself, and can not have other ideas.

This is the reason why most people are dissatisfied with Li Gang, but if it is just like this, everyone will endure it, after all, the old prime minister said that he is dedicated to the public, the people, and the country, and has never sought personal interests for himself, and his private morality is excellent, and everyone admires him very much.

As the prime minister, although the house where Li Gang lives is strictly stipulated by the emperor to be the largest, but in the big mansion, in fact, it is empty, there is nothing in many houses, it is an empty house, and there is no furniture and decoration in the place where people live, Li Gang's own clothes are also very simple, in addition to being a status and status symbol The official robe is brand new, a cotton coat inside has been worn for more than ten years, and it is still being repaired, and a single dress in summer is no longer clear what the original color is.

Every day, every meal, a dish and a soup are eaten very simply, when you are busy with work, you can eat one or two steamed buns with tea and even a meal, you can endure hardship, never drink alcohol on weekdays, only eat meat once in three days, no gifts will be accepted, there are only old wives and old servants and children at home, there are no other servants, the old wives of the first product of the family are all old gods such as Mrs. Tai, Li Gang is good, the old wife of the first product of the life has to go out to buy vegetables and cook them for Li Gang to eat, others come to visit Li Gang, see this scene, I can't help but sigh that Li Gang's self-cultivation is really good, and he deserves to be the prime minister.

In addition, he said a lot of reasonable things, so the subordinates were dissatisfied in private, and the court still stood on the same front as the old prime minister, fighting against the military maniacs in Xifu, and trying to win time for the people of the world to rest, but Li Gang was good, and others did not come to confront him, but he began to look here to reprimand his subordinates, and began to count down on a trivial matter.

In fact, from the perspective of modern psychology, this is a problem that menopause has arrived, which is easy to explain, but at this time, except for Yue Yue, no one really thinks that Li Gang is menopause, and in the position of Li Gang, even if it is menopause, you can't talk and do things like this, and you will offend all your subordinates, who will help you?

What's more, Zhao Huan also has an institution like Yushitai to supervise hundreds of officials, Yushidai is independent of the East and West Mansions, and is directly responsible to the emperor.

Zhao Huan also often gets the twists and turns of Yu Shitai's dissatisfaction with Li Gang, at first he thought that Yu Shitai was jealous of Li Gang's merits and power, so he attacked Li Gang like this, but he sent someone to investigate secretly, but the result was exactly the same, there is really such a thing!

Forget it, Zhao Huan doesn't plan to say anything, the old prime minister has a lot of hard work, a bigger temper, and a little stronger, these Zhao Huan understands, it is rare to see such a person who is dedicated to the public and not for himself, and it will be over after forbearance, Zhao Huan comforted himself like this, and he was repeatedly disgraced by Li Gang in the court, and he also comforted himself to deal with it, but he never expected that Li Gang still had a big problem, even after Yue turned back. (To be continued.) )