At the beginning of February of the 29th year of the Great Song Dynasty, Lu Yuanwai arrived at his in-laws' house Duan Tiande's house in the morning. At this time, it was not yet noon, and the two of them sipped tea from Hunan and talked directly about the things they were most concerned about.

"This time, the official family wants to adjust the official system, but I don't know if Wen Zhang's brother Wen Tianxiang will be dismissed?" Duan Tiande is most concerned about this.

Listening to Duan Tiande's words, a little dissatisfaction flashed in Lu Yuanwai's eyes. But since the two are on the same page, it makes no sense to blame friendly forces. Lu Yuanwai said: "I carefully studied the newspaper and felt that the imperial court just wanted to adjust all departments and completely straighten out the upper and lower levels. Change the title of the title, that's all. ”

"It's really unbearable that a good Shangshu should be changed to a minister." Duan Tiande continued to express his inherent position.

"Not necessarily." Lu Yuanwai shook his head, "Shangshu was called Shangshu Ling in ancient times, which began in Qin and followed in the Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty served as a eunuch, also known as the Zhongshu Order. Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty switched to scholars. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the government affairs were returned to Shangshu, and he was the head of the ministers......"

Lu Yuanwai is not the son of Jinshi, although he was not admitted to Jinshi, but he was also admitted to Xiucai. Speaking of these allusions, I am very familiar. “…… As for the minister, he is like the chief of the hall and the chief of the pavilion, which is the length of a clear part. It is no worse than Shangshu, a title that comes from a middle official. ”

After finally listening to this Wen Crepe narration, Duan Tiande sneered: "Hmph." In this case, then the prime minister is called the prime minister, and the prime minister is called the prime minister. Ha ha! Slaughter chief, slaughter the head of the animal! ”

After saying such a malicious joke, Duan Tiande was amused by the term he had created.

Lu Yuanwai knew that his in-laws were fighting fiercely with Wenzhang, and he was also extremely dissatisfied with the Great Song Dynasty. But this joke is really not funny, Lu Yuanwai didn't laugh, just said: "If the official family says that it will be changed this time, do you know what the situation is?" ”

"What will it be?"

"No one in the court dares to disobey the orders of the officials! Since then, the official family has been full of words, and they have followed the law! ”

Duan Tiande was stunned. His father is also a Jinshi, and although Duan Tiande also studies, he really has no talent in this area. However, this does not mean that Duan Tiande really doesn't understand anything. The Great Song Dynasty was a system in which officials and scholars ruled the world together, and many things were never implemented by orders from officials. It is common for ministers of the DPRK and China to scold the officials.

Listening to the reminder of his in-laws, Duan Tiande immediately grasped the main point, "If this is the case, wouldn't we have no way to ask someone to sue the Wen family's dog thieves in the imperial court!" ”

Lu Yuanwai nodded, his expression revealing his helplessness. The reason why the Jinshi family was able to monopolize the politics of the Great Song Dynasty back then was because the Jinshi family still maintained a minimum bottom line. In the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the new party and the old party fought to the death, using each other to exile the whole person, so that the family began to turn against each other. However, the Jin soldiers went south, which dealt a devastating blow to the Jinshi family, who were born in the old party. The new Jinshi family once again resumed the marriage and struggle with the bottom line.

Under the struggle with a bottom line, the Wen family did not dare to implement such an excessive policy. Dare to execute, it is equivalent to doing against the entire Jinshi Group. At that time, the scholars first had to oppose the officials or prime ministers who formulated the policies, and force the officials to 'take back their orders', or let the prime minister step down. After the new prime minister comes to power, he will purge the traitorous party, and the literary family who is a traitor party will not only be dismissed, but will also fall to the point of being spurned by the Jinshi clique. The future examiners are the Jinshi family, and they will not let the children of the Wen family have any hope of being admitted to the Jinshi. It wasn't until the time was long enough to make the hated Wen family's generation grow old that the Wen family had any hope of being admitted to the Jinshi again. Even if the disciples of this group of people die, the Wen family may have a chance. Morally, disciples also have the obligation to obey the teacher's will.

It is precisely because he is familiar with the system of the Great Song Dynasty that Lu Yuanwai is extremely worried about the changes in the political situation of the imperial court. The Jinshi refused to give up the power in their hands, and it was difficult for the officials who seized the power to obediently give up the power to hold the power of life and death?

"Then I must catch Wen Zhang's sore feet...... If it doesn't work, give him a concubine? Duan Tiande broke the silence in the room.

"I've tried." Lu Yuanwai said calmly.

Duan Tiande was overjoyed at first, and after a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "It seems that Wenzhang is still a fake Taoist!" Hmph, it's the same as the official family! Pack high! ”

Zhao Jiaren only married one wife, no concubines, and no other women. I haven't seen Zhao Jiaren go to the painting boat to play. This made Jinshi Group have a very bad impression of Zhao Jiaren in this regard, and his evaluation was not high. If these people learned the real reason for this, Zhao Jiaren's negative evaluation of the personal hygiene of women in this era, probably the Jinshi Group would scold.

Even if he didn't know the reason why Zhao Jiaren was arrogant to the sky, Jinshi's evaluation of Zhao Jiaren was pretending to be high. Su Dongpo, who is considered a moral model, also gave away pregnant concubines and non-pregnant concubines, why is Zhao Jiaren so pure-hearted, and after marrying a dignified and beautiful lady, he is not close to other women. Zhao Jiaren's most trusted Wen Tianxiang was also a lustful dog and horse concubine and courtesan when he was young.

"I also asked him to meet a friend with a local Jinshi in Jiangning, but Wenzhang also insisted on resigning." Lu Yuanwai continued to talk about the methods of closeness he had tried.

Knowing the efforts of his in-laws, Duan Tiande was even more angry, and he scolded: "As an official, don't chant poems against each other, and don't make friends with virtuous people." But he did the same farm work as the farmer, and dug the mud with the master. It's really Sven's loss! ”

After scolding, Duan Tiande was indignant for a moment, and suddenly his spirits perked, "Can you use this to impeach Wenzhang?" ”

Without waiting for Lu Yuanwai to object, Duan Tiande had already smiled and said, "I said that I used this reason to impeach Wenzhang, but I was just angry." ”

Lu Yuanwai was relieved to see that his in-laws did not break through the new lower limit. It's just that this ease can't withstand the pressure of the latest situation. Just thinking about the fact that Wen Zhang would have to work in the position of Jiangning prefect for more than a year, Lu Yuanwai felt a little chilled.

"My land has been stolen, but what about yours?" Duan Tiande asked.

"It's all gone." Lu Yuanwai replied.

"Hmph, this time I negotiated with those tenants, and I will bear the land tax to be paid per mu of land. So I want them to rent 60% of the rent. If it weren't for Wen Zhang, the dog thief, I wouldn't have given in like this. Lu Yuanwai, how is your home? ”

“…… My family also paid the land tax from my side, and asked the tenants for 60% of the rent. Lu Yuanwai replied.

Duan Tiande shook his head, "You are just too kind-hearted!" ”

After sighing, Duan Tiande stood up, "It's already 12 o'clock, let's go, let's go have a few drinks first." Let's discuss it carefully, how to prevent Wen Zhang, the dog thief, from taking advantage of it. It is regarded as eating yellow lotus, and it will survive more than a year first. ”

Wen Zhang didn't hear Duan Tiande scold him for being a dog thief, but he knew very well that someone was scolding him, and there were even rumors that some people had performed curses and other witchcraft on Wen Zhang. Wen Zhang was angry at first, but now he doesn't care. In this spring, all the progress in Jiangning Mansion was better than he expected. The Great Song Dynasty had the experience of fully mobilizing the victims to build infrastructure, and even old ladies in their 40s were willing to come out to participate in the construction of projects not far from their homes as long as they took care of the food and distributed food or cloth. The Qinhuai River project, which was originally planned to be completed in four years, now looks like it can be completed in three years.

But Wen Zhizhou also has his own worries, his side will immediately face a situation of lack of green and yellow, in case the supply of grain and cloth to the imperial court is interrupted, Wen Zhizhou will immediately face an extremely embarrassing situation. At such times, Wen Zhizhou wrote a recital to Zhao Guan's family.

Zhao Jiaren read the request for a stable supply of food and cloth in this recital, and was amused by Wen Zhang's pitiful choice of words and sentences. Just after laughing, Zhao Jiaren was a little annoyed, didn't this Wenzhang think this was too outrageous. What good did Wenzhang's defeat do for Zhao Jiaren? wanted to give an order to reprimand Wen Zhang, but Zhao Jiaren chose to remain silent. It may not be a good thing to make Wenzhang feel some pressure.

After the matter was finished here, Zhao Jiaren met with the smelters of the Ministry of Industry who had returned from the Wa Kingdom. The gang said they had found the secret of the steel of the 'Myofa Muramasa', and that the iron ore in Ise had a relatively high lead content, and the Muramasa katana made from the iron ore smelted there was lead steel.

Several smelters were summoned, and they took out the lead steel first. Zhao Jiaren first stroked it with his hand, and felt that the surface of the steel block was really smooth, which was by no means comparable to ordinary steel. Then I picked up the imitation katana of the Great Song Factory, wrapped my fingers around the silk, and slid it over the surface of the katana, as if two pieces of silk were rubbing softly, as if there was no resistance. The imitation katana is the same as the smooth surface of the Myoho Muramasa.

"Thank you." Zhao Jiaren first praised the efforts of the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty, and then put forward a request, "Give this steel to the Iyo Navy and let them build it according to the requirements." ”

"Official, the production of the assembly line of the Iyo Navy is manual after all, and the efficiency is still low." The masters of the Great Song Dynasty expressed their contempt for the hand-cast knives of the Wa Kingdom.

"So what I want you to do is learn how to forge a katana and how to shape it. As long as we master these, how to produce katana is still up to us. Zhao Jiaren said with a smile.

As engineering men, the masters are truly convinced that it is not the official family but the theory and practice, and one of them is sturdy and said: "But we have invited people to experiment, and the actual combat of the katana is still not as good as the stabbing sword." Ministers and others can easily master the use of the bayonet, but the katana is not. ”

"I'll wait until the army develops the sword technique." Zhao Jiaren replied. Who is better, the bayonet sword or the sword, Zhao Jiaren himself is not sure. Both of these are martial arts and weapons tempered on the battlefield, and what can be proved is naturally the battlefield.