As the New Year approached, the discussion of changing the law in the government and the opposition became more and more intense, but Cao Bin unusually kept a low profile and no longer cared about his post.

In the early morning of this day, he missed the morning court because he was greedy for the bed, so he had to send someone to hand a note for rest.

He thought that he would be able to sleep until noon in this way, but he didn't expect Wang Anshi and Zhang Dian to come to the door at more than ten o'clock, and Cao Bin had no choice but to get up early to meet the two.

He just wanted to be low-key, let the focus of the change focus on Wang Anshi, and leave some buffer and backhand for himself, so as not to kill you and collapse the court as soon as he came up, but he didn't really let it go.

Inviting the two into the study to sit down, Cao Bin smiled:

"I was going to invite you two over in the afternoon, but I didn't expect you to come early."

"That's just right, I've asked the curtain to sort out some of the process of changing the law, which may be of some help to Jiefu."

As he spoke, he took out a booklet from the desk and handed it to Wang Anshi.

Wang Anshi didn't rush to read it, but was a little embarrassed:

"Grandpa, in the early days of the dynasty today, the discussion trend of the ministers seemed to be a little wrong, and the remarks against the change of the law increased a lot."

"An Shi is afraid that the Empress Dowager will shake the idea of changing the law, and hopes that the grandfather will ...... in the future Enter the palace to accompany the driver and persuade the queen mother. ”

Hearing the words "entering the palace to accompany him", Cao Bin's heart suddenly burst out, and he thought that Wang Anshi had found out about staying in the palace overnight.

He didn't care about the impeachment, swearing, and hostility of the ministers after the matter was exposed, but it would be annoying if it affected future planning.

After listening to the second half of Wang Anshi's sentence, Cao Bin put his mind at ease, hurriedly picked up the tea to cover it up, and said casually:

"Jiefu don't worry, the Queen Mother has her own lord to take care of, you just have to do it boldly."

Seeing Wang Anshi's moved look, Cao Bin secretly decided to steal incense and jade at night in the future to be more secretive.

The brain flew for a moment, and Cao Bin continued:

"In fact, this sudden change in public opinion is not out of nowhere, but someone is making waves behind it......"

Hearing this, Zhang Dian hurriedly nodded and said:

"Grandpa is right, today there is an official who impeached the king for his poor public and private morals and had an affair with his daughter-in-law, which is really hateful."

"In addition, there are people who talk about it, saying that Wang Xianggong once said that the mandate of heaven is not enough to fear, the ancestors are not enough to be afraid, and the words of people are not enough to be compassionate!"

Hearing this, Wang Anshi waved his hand and said:

"The statement of private morality is pure slander, but the destiny is not to be feared, and An Shi has indeed said similar remarks in private."

Cao Bin knocked thoughtfully on the table.

Private morality aside, they are all the traditional arts of the Great Song Wenchen, and Ouyang Xiu and others have also experienced these.

But the words of destiny are not enough to fear, which he did not expect.

This sentence was found in later textbooks, but Cao Bin always suspected that it was made up by political opponents to attack Wang Anshi.

Of course, this sentence is worthy of affirmation both in later generations and now, and it is indeed exciting to listen to, and it can better express Wang Anshi's determination to change the law.

But in this era of the Great Song Dynasty, which fears the destiny of heaven, adults, and the words of saints, this sentence is too easy to establish a paranoid image for Wang Anshi, thus attracting some unnecessary enemies.

And the private conversation was wantonly publicized, if there was no behind-the-scenes involvement, Cao Bin would not believe it.

In history, an important reason for the failure of Wang Anshi's reform was that there were too many enemies and too few supporters, and Cao Bin could not help but learn a lesson.

Thinking of this, he suddenly laughed and said:

"Since Jiefu is arrogant, we who are ministers of the same dynasty naturally can't lag behind, so Benjue will bother to publicize it for the ministers of the court."

As he spoke, he picked up a pen and began to read:

"Li Gongliang, the word Jilin, the family is very rich, and it is said that there are thousands of orchards in his hometown, there are!"

"Pan Tao feasted on Shaoxian Zhen, and the queen mother came to beg Li Jilin."

"Wen Yanbo: There is a family first, and then there is a sky, Yanbo is even more in front of the family, the emperor is angry and bloody, and I hold a feather fan for the country."

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After Cao Bin finished writing, he called his subordinates and said:

"Find a few tabloids and send them out, and they will say that this is a talisman for low-level officials, and those are people who cannot be offended."

Just as his subordinates were about to leave, Cao Bin suddenly patted his head and said:

"Wait a while, I forgot to pack the adult, add another one."

"The top of the world, proud of the world, there is a sky with my Bao Sheng, there is no old or young under the guillotine, idle and boring first two sections."

Seeing this, Zhang Dian and Wang Anshi were a little speechless, and it was just a shame to look at this mouthful, and this grandfather still remembered the hatred that was almost killed, and he couldn't forget anything bad and brought Bao Zheng. If you have the opportunity, you can go dark.

However, they also understand Cao Bin's purpose, since Wang Anshi was deliberately "smeared" by his opponent, then pull everyone into the water, reduce the credibility of these rumors, and then fish in troubled waters to reshape a great and upright image for him.

Although Wang Anshi felt a little ashamed, he also knew that Cao Bin was trying to reduce the resistance to changing the law, so he could only sigh helplessly, took out a list from his arms and handed it to Cao Bin:

"Grandpa, we still need some talents who understand the new law, these are all Junjie who Anshi is optimistic about......"

Cao Bin took the list and glanced at it, and couldn't help frowning, he also knew some of the people above, such as Lu Huiqing, Li Ding, and Deng Xuan.

To be honest, Wang Anshi's vision of people is really not very good, and most of them are speculative villains.

These people didn't really change the law, and in the later period, even Wang Anshi himself was framed and excluded by them.

Thinking of this, Cao Bin put down the list, pointed to the booklet he handed to the other party and said:

"Jiefu, you can take a look at the process of changing the law prepared for you by Benjue first."

"The new law you have reformulated is generally good, but the specific implementation needs to be carefully considered,"

"For example, although the method of borrowing from young seedlings will alleviate the temporary difficulties of farmers and crack down on illegal high loans from the people, it is easy for officials to force the people to borrow money in order to seek political success."

"There is also the pastoral service law, and the farmland water conservancy law is the same."

"Therefore, Benjue plans to set up a separate yamen to implement the law reform with the Da Song Bank as the core."

"As for the officials, they can be recruited and trained from high positions in the two governments, three divisions and other yamen......

Hearing this, Zhang Dan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said:

"Wonderful, in this way, we can not only make the old yamen of the state and county become a supervision department, but also solve the problem of redundant officials."

As he spoke, he smiled gloomily and said:

"We can revise the official system at the same time, just wait for the end of the law change, how can there be a place for these people in the court?"

Hearing this, Cao Bin couldn't help but be speechless, this guy is more ruthless than himself, people help you change the law, but you want to cross the river and tear down the bridge.

However, his own plan is not much better, he wants to use the temptation of promotion to recruit officials on the one hand, and on the other hand, use stricter political performance to eliminate redundant and incompetent officials, and when the reform is over, it is estimated that there will not be many people left......

Wang Anshi flipped through the book handed to him by Cao Bin, and saw that it was written that the process of changing the law was carried out with coinage, banks, local exchanges, official chambers of commerce and other institutions as the core, and he couldn't help but feel ashamed and amazed.

I am ashamed that I have not been able to fully understand the role of these institutions before, and I am amazed that this Grandpa Cao has been planning the law of strengthening the country since he entered the officialdom not long ago.

With the help of these agencies, the difficulty of changing the law can be reduced by at least two-thirds......

In fact, Wang Anshi's reform was extremely advanced, and he wanted to use the method of macroeconomic regulation and control of the imperial court to meticulously optimize the production structure and redivide social resources......