As expected by Zhao Yan and others, not long after the official promulgation of the new law, the court finally ushered in the first minister who opposed the new law.

However, although Lu Xu's impeachment was not successful, but it opened the prelude to the old and new party struggle, among which Wang Anshi led by the new party to advocate the change of the law is called the new party, and the ministers who oppose the change of the law formed the old party, at the beginning of the old party is not strong, many ministers are not resistant to the change, although Wang Anshi has some mistakes, but they are still in the wait-and-see situation, so the old party at the beginning except for the Lu Xu, there is almost no figure that can be handled, and after Lu Zhi was demoted from Beijing, The old party did stop for a long time as Shen Kuo expected.

Originally, according to the situation at the beginning of the reform, Wang Anshi encountered little resistance, and even many people secretly gave the green light to the new law, but with the revelation of Wang Anshi's stubbornness, inflexibility and other character defects, as well as his improper use of personnel, the new law was exposed at the beginning of the implementation of the great flaws, many people privately advised Wang Anshi to pause, it is best to rectify the internal reform of the faction and then implement the reform is not too late, but unfortunately Wang Anshi's character is strange if he can listen to it, but there will be disputes with those who persuade him, for example, Sima Guang, who is Wang Anshi's best friend, fell out with Wang Anshi in this situation.

You must know that Sima Guang and Wang Anshi have a good relationship, when Wang Anshi lived in seclusion in Nanjing to teach, they all relied on Sima Guang and a few other friends to help him become famous, and the sentence "enjoying the world's reputation for 30 years" is from Sima Guang's letters, which shows that Sima Guang values Wang Anshi. But now Wang Anshi has offended even this best friend, not to mention other people who have been offended by changing the law.

It is precisely because Wang Anshi has offended more and more people that many ministers who were originally wait-and-see and even supportive of the new law have changed their attitudes and joined the old party, which also makes the old party stronger and stronger. If it weren't for Wang Anshi's new party, which has always been unconditionally trusted by Zhao Ji, I am afraid that the new law would have been impossible to implement a long time ago.

However, even with the support of Zhao Ji, the implementation of the new law is still encountering greater and greater resistance, especially with the increase in the strength of the old party, the contradictions between the old and new parties are becoming more and more acute.

It is at this critical moment when the storm is coming. Han Qi, who was far away in the Daimyo Mansion in Hebei, suddenly wrote to Zhao Xu, in which he listed the bad impact on the people caused by the implementation of the Qingmiao Law at the local level, and advised Zhao Ji to stop the implementation of the Qingmiao Law. In addition, he also has a deeper intention in doing so, that is, after stopping the Qingmiao Law, so as to calm the resentment of the old party, so as to ease the contradictions between the two parties and avoid the tragedy of party disputes that will occur next. It can be said that Han Qi's performance can be described as well-intentioned, and he has truly achieved both outside and inside. All for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhao Ji also attached great importance to Han Qi, an old minister who was the prime minister of the three dynasties, and was very hesitant to receive his recitals, and at this time, two of the only three prime ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, that is, Zeng Gongliang and Chen Shengzhi in addition to Wang Anshi, also suddenly asked to see Zhao Ji. expressed their support for Han Qiti's repeal of the Qingmiao Law, which finally made Zhao Ji waver a little about the new law, and even summoned Wang Anshi alone, hoping to suspend the implementation of the new law.

Wang Anshi did not expect that the new law would be opposed by so many people not long after it was implemented. In particular, Han Qi and Zeng Gongliang and other old ministers opposed the Qingmiao Law, which caught him off guard, but his character was stubborn, otherwise he would not be called a "reluctant minister", so Wang Anshi also resolutely disagreed with Zhao Ji's idea of suspending the new law, and even after leaving the palace, he directly said that he was sick at home, and then asked Zhao Ji to resign and go into hiding.

Zhao Ji was also very anxious about Wang Anshi's request to resign, after all, he didn't want to give up changing the law lightly, and it was at this time that Han Jiang and others in the New Party also persuaded Zhao Ji, hoping that he could leave Wang Anshi to continue to change the law, which finally made the balance in Zhao Ji's heart fall to the side of the New Party, and took the initiative to go to Wang Anshi's mansion to retain him, and it was also taking advantage of this opportunity that Wang Anshi took the opportunity to Zhao Ji Chen Shu The officials inside and outside the court were dependent on each other and colluded, in fact, Han Qi left the capital. But he is still very clear about the movements in the court, so it can be seen that there must be a lot of his eyeliner in the court, so it can be seen that Han Qi has not completely let go of the power in his hands, which also makes Zhao Ji finally no longer trust Han Qi, and naturally will not listen to his persuasion.

It's a pity that Han Qi was originally a good intention for the country and the people, but he was misunderstood by Zhao Ji, and Zhao Ji didn't even listen to his opinion, which finally made the old party unable to sit still anymore, and after several months of preparation, the old party finally broke out into the first large-scale battle with the new party.

At the beginning of the second year of Xining, Liu Shu, Liu Qi, Qian Yi, Sun Changling, Wang Zishao, Cheng Hao, Zhang Jian, Chen Xiang, Chen Jian, Xie Jingwen, Yang Hui, Liu Zhi, Fan Chunren, Li Chang, Sun Jue, Hu Zongyu and others all wrote to state the danger of changing the law.

Among them, although Sima Guang fell out with Wang Anshi, he may have missed his previous feelings, and he also had the last illusion about the change of the law in his heart, so he did not openly oppose the new law, but this time the old party was degraded, among which his other friend Fan Zhen bluntly said that Wang Anshi "entered the plan of refusing advice" and "used the technique of crippling the people", and was also demoted out of Beijing, which made Sima Guang very angry, and he had written to Wang Anshi three times before, pointing out the danger of the new law, but Wang Anshi refuted it one by one, This time, even his friend was demoted out of Beijing, and now Sima Guang finally publicly wrote a letter to complain about his friend, and at the same time openly opposed the new law, and finally invited himself out of Beijing and went to Luoyang, Xijing, to write his "Zizhi Tongjian".

The vertical arch hall is still the original vertical arch hall, but the owner of the main hall has changed from Zhao Shu to Zhao Xu, here is the place where the emperor deals with government affairs, usually majestic sù mu, the palace maids and eunuchs are very careful tiptoe when they walk from here, for fear of making too much noise and disturbing His Majesty, but today's vertical arch hall is a burst of violent quarrels.

"Big brother, you can't go on like this, you look at how many officials have been demoted out of Beijing in the past few months, the crowd outside the south gate of the capital has hardly been broken, and the ministers in the court have been reduced by nearly half, haven't you seen all this?" Zhao Yan stood in the main hall, and said loudly to Zhao Ji with an angry face, with Zhao Yan ascending the throne as the emperor, I am afraid that he is the only one in the entire Great Song Dynasty who dares to talk to Zhao Ji like this.

"Hmph, those officials either can't see the shape clearly, or they have ulterior motives, trying to prevent the implementation of the new law, if it weren't for the Great Song Zuxun not killing the scholars, I would like to kill a few to set an example!" Zhao Ji also said angrily.

In fact, this is not the first time Zhao Yan has come to stop him from implementing the new law, since the last time those imperial histories were demoted out of Beijing, Zhao Yan has come from time to time to persuade him to suspend the new law, at first the two brothers can still restrain their temper, but as time goes by, the anger between the two is getting bigger and bigger, and the last few friends have quarreled when they meet, and the maids and attendants in the frightened palace dare not raise their heads from beginning to end.

"Murder, big brother, do you think that killing people can block the mouths of people in the world?" Zhao Yan yelled without giving Zhao Yan any face, "Big brother, you stay in this deep palace all day long, and you don't go to see what the people outside are forced to look like by the new law, not to mention anything else, there are many people near the capital alone in order to escape the newly promulgated armor protection law, and even cut off their wrists, and the Qingmiao Law makes the people unspeakable, and the people in Hebei have begun to flee into the mountains in groups, in order to avoid the Qingmiao money forcibly apportioned by the government!" ”

Zhao Yan was also stunned when he heard these two examples cited by Zhao Yan, and the two brothers quarreled, but he also knew that Zhao Yan would definitely not lie to him, but he quickly thought of a reason to excuse the new law and said: "The implementation of the new law will definitely cause some misunderstandings, this is the court's lack of publicity for the new law, I will urge Wang Anshi to pay attention to this, but these small setbacks are nothing at all, those who have become great things throughout the ages, there has never been one who can go smoothly!" ”

Zhao Yan saw that Zhao Yan was so obsessed, and he was angry and helpless at the moment, so he finally had to grit his teeth and say, "Okay!" Good! Good! Big brother, since you look at the new law like this, I guess no matter how much I persuade you, you won't be able to listen, but as your brother, I still have to say in the end that the new law is not as good as you think, if you stop it in time, there may be room for redemption, otherwise it will really be too late! ”

"Third brother, you are too worried, I know what I am doing, and I firmly believe that I will succeed, so you don't need to persuade me anymore!" Zhao Yan was like a rock at this time, and Zhao Yan's words had no effect on him for a long time.

Seeing Zhao Yan's appearance, Zhao Yan also sighed in his heart, originally he still had the last trace of extravagant hope in his heart, hoping that Zhao Yan could see the disadvantages of changing the law and change his mind, but now it seems that it is impossible, can he only act according to the previous plan? (To be continued......)

PS: This chapter is a transitional chapter.,Lao Yu writes very hard.,You may also feel a little boring.,But these don't work if you don't write.,The next step will be to enter the formal chapter.。