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When Qin Xianglian set foot on the road to Bianjing again, Chen Yuan's wedding date was already very close. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This period of time in the court can be described as turbulent.

The smooth situation on the front line made the people feel that their waists were much straighter, but there were many people in the court who didn't think so. When the war situation is critical, everyone thinks the same, and it is everyone's consensus to defend against the enemy outside the country.

Now that victory is in sight, there are disagreements. The radicals wanted to destroy the party directly and create a brilliant record in the Renzong Dynasty that the Great Song Dynasty had never created. Those conservative people hope to continue to uphold the virtue of "benevolence" and agree to Li Yuanhao's request for peace, and the two sides will turn hostility into friendship.

This controversy became more and more fierce as Wu Hao was ordered to come to the Song Dynasty to sue for peace, and the ministers almost quarreled when they met.

In fact, it is not only a matter of so-called virtue, but the most important thing is that it is related to the vital interests of some people!

Whether it is war or peace, Fan Zhongyan has a very heavy right to speak, and he is now in the northwest. But Fan Zhongyan gave Renzong a twist at this time - "Answering the Edict of Chen Shishi"!

The banner clearly proposes to rectify redundant officials and appoint meritocrats. It is proposed to reduce redundant officials and streamline the core content of the organization.

Fan Zhongyan has no main battle, and there is no main peace, but because of this twist and turn, the situation in the court has changed!

Fan Zhongyan wants to reform, this is something that everyone knows, he has mentioned this issue many times in public, but no one thought that he would choose to do it at this time!

"Answering the Edict of Chen Shishi" is actually a declaration of reform, once Renzong approves this chapter, it means that the reform of the Great Song Dynasty will take steps!

What does reform mean?

At the beginning, Zhao Guangyi took over his brother's world, and he was determined to make some achievements, but he was repeatedly defeated. Zhao Guangyi was not good at fighting, but political struggle was a good material, and he immediately realized that he might not be able to establish his prestige in the army, and if he wanted to keep his position, he could only rely on those scholars and doctors to suppress the military meritorious class.

Zhao Guangyi formulated the system of favoring the scholars, not only the set of civil and military teams left by Zhao Kuangyin was immediately replaced by him, but the generals lost the right to speak in the court, and even the generals were promoted, and even the war had to obey the command of the scholars!

Among the people, those scholars and doctors have a high status, and they not only have private land, but also public land rewarded by the imperial court.

The scholar class can be said to be proud in the Song Dynasty, and they never thought that Fan Zhongyan, who was also a scholar, would stab this knife at his own people!

The deposition of Ming Zhi will make those officials who can get by at a loss. Choosing a chief will break their iron rice bowl! Although Jinggongju can make it easier for talented people to get ahead, what about the protégés and disciples of these scholars?

Also, this Fan Zhongyan actually proposed "Jungongtian", which is simply fatal! Gongtian was given by the emperor to officials as a supplementary income in addition to the officials' salaries, so as to ensure the integrity of the officials themselves.

So you don't have to pay all kinds of taxes. The public fields are even, the junior officials are happy, and the big officials in their court are not happy!

The reform touched the interests of the scholarly class, and if it had been put in the past, these scholars would not have seen such a threat. The reason is very simple, the army of the Song Dynasty is not good, and it has been defeated repeatedly, and your emperor can only count on our three-inch tongue to keep your country.

Now the situation is different, the army of the Song Dynasty has shown strong combat effectiveness in the battle against the party, Chen Shimei's attack has been outstanding, and Fan Zhongyan has the upper hand in the frontal battle.

With the return of Liu Pingren, the truth of the battle of Sanchuankou also came out, the party's 40,000 troops besieged the 10,000 Song army, occupied the right time and place, and actually fought for four hours, killing and wounding more than 6,000 people, and finally relied on Huang Hede's small tricks to achieve the decisive victory.

Who would dare to say that the Song army couldn't fight? Who would dare to say that only the tongue of the scholar doctor could save the Great Song Dynasty?

Now, the emperor's new army is ready, and after going to the battlefield, he will immediately launch a decisive battle with Fan Zhongyan's troops against Li Yuanhao.

These scholars and doctors are all understanding people, and they know very well that their tongues are not as hard as those generals' steel knives, so they must prevent the generals from coming back, and they must prevent Fan Zhongyan from changing the law!

Not all scholars are like this, in the court, Fu Bi and Han Qi fully supported Fan Zhongyan's reform.

Especially the "mainstays" in their thirties like Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi, they feel that their talents are fully qualified for higher positions, but because there are some old qualifications with no merit sitting on those positions, they have to wait until those old qualifications can't walk and can't go to court before they can come up. Among officials of their rank, there are the most people who support Fan Zhongyan's reform!

Judging from the current situation, the focus of everything is on whether Renzong accepts Li Yuanhao's request for peace. As long as Renzong can accept Li Yuanhao's request for peace, then there will be no need to fight the war, and those martial artists will have no chance to prove themselves again!

In order to achieve this, Pang Ji and Xia Zhu, two old rivals, stood on the same front this time to fight against the reformers composed of Fu Bi, Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan and others.

War is to open a road for reform. And, that is, to continue to maintain the status quo.

Chen Yuan was a supporter of war and reform. But what he said was too light! Although he is now in charge of the Division, he can only stand at the end of the left hand when he was in the court.

Lu Yijian had already made his attitude clear to Chen Yuan, and in this struggle, he stayed out of the matter.

Chen Yuan was very curious, Lao Lu was not a person who was willing to be plain. What's more, in Chen Yuan's opinion, this is the best opportunity for Lu Yijian to stab Pang Ji, and Renzong supports reform, which is what they all know. To support the reform, it is necessary to suppress those conservative figures, if Lao Lu Tian is on fire, it is logical to let Renzong take Pang Ji to open the knife, Pang Ji is too arrogant, and it is not difficult to catch his pigtails.

Why did Lu Yijian let go of this opportunity?

Chen Yuan asked this question, but Lu Yijian didn't say. Lao Lu just admonished Chen Yuan to keep a low profile and not be too ostentatious.

Chen Yuan did not listen to what Lu Yijian said, although there was no successful reform in the Song Dynasty in history, and Fan Zhongyan's new policy only lasted for two years, after repeated defeats of the front-line troops, Renzong completely lost confidence in the army, and strengthening the army became a failed game played by Renzong on a whim.

But that's because there was no one named Chen Yuan in the Song Dynasty, at least now the situation at the border pass is very favorable, and the party that is about to take the initiative to attack is the Great Song Dynasty!

Chen Yuan has no way out, he can't choose to keep a low profile, he has already invested a lot of money in the party, how can he not fight at this time? What's more, if you can participate in the formulation of a country's national policy, you will earn no less than winning a war.

As long as the policies of the Song Dynasty can be tilted towards merchants, if nothing else, give merchants a little social status, and let them go out to talk about business and have a little political capital, which is better than anything else.

For this goal, Chen Yuan worked hard to beat gongs and drums for Fan Zhongyan.

Similarly, the businessmen behind him were also beating gongs and drums for Chen Yuan, and they spread the news among the people through various channels, widely spreading the benefits of the law change, which undoubtedly added a bit of strength to Fan Zhongyan!

Chen Yuan's villa also became a frequent meeting place for those who advocated the reform of the law, Ouyang Xiu, Cai Xiang, Wang Su, Yu Jing, and Shi Steps, these people became regular guests, and Chen Yuan had to leave a private room for them every night, and let them bring some other officials to persuade those officials to support the reform of the law between the banquets.

In addition to finding the girl's own money, all the expenses are Chen Yuanbao.

Ouyang Xiu's attitude towards Chen Yuan is already quite kind now. Building a cold house for students and building a righteous village for the hungry people has already made Ouyang Xiu look at Chen Yuan with admiration, and now this copper-smelling businessman actually supports his teacher to change the law, Ouyang Xiu can no longer find a reason to be hostile to this businessman.

"Brother Chen, I'm here to bother again!" Ouyang Xiu said that he was bothering, but he walked in with a smile on his face, just as casually as he had walked into the Hero Building.

Chen Yuan was thinking about reading a letter, the letter was written by Huyan Ruizhu, and he hadn't heard from her for a long time, and he was really worried about it.

Seeing Ouyang Xiu coming in, he hurriedly put away the letter, got up and hugged his fists: "What did Lord Ouyang say?" How many people are here today? ”

Ouyang Xiu thought for a moment and said, "It could be six, or it could be seven." Please ask Brother Chen to clean up the room for us, just the wine and food are still the same as yesterday, and don't break too much. ”

Chen Yuan nodded: "I've kept the room, it's just Lord Ouyang, if you have one or two people a day, if you want to convince everyone, how many words will it take?" ”

Ouyang Xiu glanced at him: "Brother Chen, but you feel sorry for those wine and food money?" ”

Chen Yuan smiled: "That's not it, it's just that I have a way, Lord Ouyang, you think it's feasible or not." I think it's better for us to spend more money and arrange a debate, so that those who oppose the change of the law can also stand up and explain it with us, and at the same time arrange more people to observe, what does Brother Ouyang think? ”

After hearing this, Ouyang Xiu said: "I have long had this idea, but it will delay your business, and I have always been afraid that you will not agree, so I didn't say it." ”

Chen Yuan secretly said in his heart, this Ouyang Xiu doesn't know the way of management at all, such a debate related to national policy is bound to cause a sensation, as long as the people from both sides are weighty, it is definitely much better than the effect of his own advertising!

said righteously: "Brother Ouyang, don't think about your little brother like this, although I, Chen Shimei, am a few years younger than you, I still know which is more important than this business and national policy." ”

After hearing this, Ouyang Xiu said: "Shimei, I blame you for being wrong, can't I accompany you for my brother!" ”

After a long stroke, Chen Yuan hurriedly stepped forward to help him up: "Brother Ouyang is outside again, isn't he?" That's it, brother, I don't have any other skills, Brother Ouyang is in charge of organizing people, and my brother is busy helping to pull a field for you, how about it? ”

Ouyang Xiu nodded: "Okay, then I'll do it tomorrow!" By the way, Shimei, let me ask an off-topic question, you are an expert in trading, you see that the autumn harvest is now approaching, according to the usual year, the price of grain at this time should have come down a long time ago, why is the price still so high this year? ”

(To be continued)