Not to mention that there are people in this court who are easy to do, relying on the affection of the county lord of Pingning in the palace, this Qi Heng, who has just finished the imperial examination.

was assigned to the Imperial Court to serve the imperial history, from the position of the sixth grade, the same as the original Li Hao.

But the problem is that Li Hao was Tanhua at the time, and Qi Heng was the eleventh in the first class, where is the fairness of this mean?

And in addition to this official position of serving the imperial history, Qi Heng also got an official position as a prince storyteller.

Of course, the position of the prince has no real power, and its rank is also very low.

But this position still makes many people envious, after all, the position of the crown prince has not really been finalized, and Zhao Zonghan is not without a chance to ascend to the throne.

In case you hit the shit luck, then this is the teacher of the Son of Heaven, then this status is extraordinary.

And because of Qi Heng's identity, it also makes people speculate more about Zhao Zhen's intentions.

You must know that although the Duke of Qi has declined in recent years, and the current Duke of Qi does not have much real power, their family is after all a veteran nobleman in Bianjing, and many families are intertwined.

Moreover, the county lord of Pingning was also raised in the palace since he was a child, and he has always had a close relationship with Zhao Zhen.

At this sensitive stage, Zhao Zhen let Qi Heng and Zhao Zonghan get in a relationship, which did not set off countless speculations in Bianjing City.

Not to mention that the other companion is Li Hao, and now the power represented by Li Hao is more effective than the name of the Duke of Qi.

And when Li Hao and Qi Heng are used to compare Zhao Zongquan's companion reading and storytelling, the difference is too obvious.

The two people who matched Zhao Zongquan were both bachelors of the Hanlin Academy, and these two people were not bad in terms of knowledge, at least they were definitely stronger than Li Hao and Qi Heng.

But the problem is that these two people have spent their lives in the Hanlin Academy, and they have no real power and no corresponding connections and power.

The comparison between these two inevitably makes people feel that Zhao Zhen is biased and is helping Zhao Zonghan pave the way.

Therefore, a large number of speculators thought about taking advantage of the fact that the position of the crown prince had not yet been confirmed, and took refuge in advance to grab the dragon's success.

But Zhao Zonghan lives in the palace, and it is impossible for these people to show their loyalty directly.

Therefore, as the two teachers of Zhao Zonghan on the bright side, Li Hao and Qi Heng have become the best candidates for these people to express their intentions.

As a result, Li Hao's house and the Qi State Mansion ushered in waves of guests, basically all of whom came to show their loyalty.

But can Li Hao get involved in this matter? Of course not, after all, Zhao Zongquan and Han Qi's experience is there, and Li Hao naturally won't commit this taboo.

And the Duke of Qi Mansion is the same, the Lord of Pingning and the Duke of Qi are not people who can't see the situation clearly, so the two families are unanimously closed to the guests.

It's just that this person can hide and disappear, but this person can't help it.

Not only these officials who want to speculate, but also Zhao Zongquan himself, is also beating a drum in his heart at this time.

So he wanted to make an appointment to meet Han Qi and wanted to discuss it to see how to deal with Zhao Zhen's decision.

But by this time, Han Qi had also figured it out and knew where he had gone wrong, which made Zhao Zhen have such a big reaction.

So this time Han Qi met lightly, and he made an appointment with Zhao Zongquan in a secret place and met quietly.

Han Qi came alone, and Zhao Zongquan only brought Zhao Ceying alone.

Zhao Zongquan was obviously really flustered at this time, and said anxiously: "Han Daxianggong, now the official family has made Li Hao and Qi Heng become Zhao Zonghan's companions and storytellers.

That would be tantamount to letting the Grand Minister of Ouyang, the Duke of England, the Duke of Qi, and a number of noble ministers related to them all stand behind Zhao Zonghan, and the officials really want to appoint him as the prince."

Han Qi shook his head and said, "The country is dependent on Changjun, the official family knows this truth.

If the official family really intends to appoint someone else as the prince, then this prince will definitely choose from the older clan, not a four-year-old child, and His Royal Highness does not need to worry too much."

In fact, Zhao Zongquan can also think of this truth, but it is only passed on from the outside world

The words are getting more and more outrageous now, which makes him really relieved.

Now that he heard Han Qi's words in person, Zhao Zongquan was somewhat relieved.

However, Zhao Zongquan continued to ask, "But even if the official family doesn't have this idea now, what about Ouyang Daxiang and them, will they push the official family and let him have this idea."

With his own life, Han Qi naturally thought that what Zhao Zongquan said was possible, after all, if he could put an emperor on the throne, the rewards he could get would be too rich.

So he said: "This matter has to be prevented, in fact, Qi Heng is not worried, although the Qi State Mansion is famous, it can't actually be done.

On the contrary, Li Hao is very critical, he has a close relationship with Ouyang Xiu, and he is the son-in-law of the British public, and he is also familiar with many nobles in Bianjing City.

In addition, he is deeply trusted by the official family and can speak in the official family.

To a certain extent, his attitude is a kind of wind direction, and I am afraid that there are many people in Bianjing City who are watching his choice."

Hearing this, Zhao Zongquan thought for a moment and said, "Then if you want to say that, we still have to pull him over.

But last time, I asked Zhao Ceying to find Li Hao, whether it was the marriage mentioned at the beginning, or the appointment of the crown prince later, he was deliberately refusing."

Han Qi said, "Li Hao is a person who knows what is important, with his current age and current position of power.

It can let him sit firmly on the fishing boat, and there is no need to rush to either side.

Just like now, although he didn't move closer to us, wasn't he also pushing back those officials who wanted to lean towards Zhao Zonghan.

Originally, we thought it was too bad, and we didn't have to let him come over, as long as we could keep him neutral."

After listening to Han Qi's words, Zhao Zongquan realized that his strategy was about to change.

So he said to Zhao Ceying: "The task of befriending Li Hao is still up to you, as long as he remains neutral."

Zhao Ceying naturally agreed to this, after all, it is not difficult.

As for Han Qi himself, in fact, at this time, he also planned to remedy his image in Zhao Zhen's heart.

Therefore, after some negotiations, Han Qi took the initiative to ease relations with Ouyang Xiu in the court behind, and re-established himself firmly on the side of the New Deal reform.

Immediately sent personnel to Yongxing Military Road to summarize and support the progress of the implementation of the local land tax law.

In addition, he found Li Hao, expressed concern about how to deepen the salt tax reform, and said that he would firmly stand on Li Hao's side and support Li Hao to continue to carry out reforms on the salt tax.

This series of abnormal actions really made Li Hao feel that Han Qi was beheaded by someone.

However, after Zhao Ceying came to the door, Li Hao understood, it seems that Han Daxianggong and Zhao Zongquan changed their strategies together and began to show favor to themselves.

And for this kind of change, Li Hao is naturally happy, Li Hao didn't plan to do anything with them, but they themselves had to make things clear.

Now that their attitude has eased, it just so happens that Li Hao also wants to continue to do the stalled salt tax reform.

For this reason, Li Hao also went to Ouyang Xiu's mansion to hear his opinion.

And here Ouyang Xiu actually received an olive branch from Han Qi, but Ouyang Xiu has to know more about Han Qi's character.

Therefore, after Ouyang Xiu heard Li Hao's question, he said directly, "Han Daxianggong has a strong personality, how can it be so easy to bow his head sincerely.

Today's momentary success or failure can't change his character, so his promises can be listened to, but they must not be believed in all, that will be a loss."

Hearing Ouyang Xiu say this, Li Hao understood that his path of reform seemed to be hopeless in a short period of time.

However, the situation is now stabilizing, at least there is no need to worry about what changes will happen in the short term.

In this way, Li Hao has more free time, so Li Hao can think about what lesson he wants to teach Zhao Zonghan while managing the three divisions.

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Before that, Li Hao had to meet with Qi Heng to discuss how the two should divide labor.

And this meeting is also the first meeting since Qi Heng went to Li's house last time to question Li Hao.

In addition, Li Hao learned at this time that Qi Heng had married the daughter of Shang Shulie, Cao Shilang, and Shen Tugang, that is, Qi Heng's second wife in the play.

To say that the vision of the county lord of Pingning is still good, the Shen family is also a Qingliu family with generations of hairpins, and his family background is a few points stronger than that of the Hai family.

It's just that looking at it like this, it seems that Qi Heng has really never jumped out of the palm of the county lord of Pingning.

So when the two met, Li Hao teased first: "The little grandfather has just set up the marriage of a noble girl, and I am here to celebrate the little grandfather in advance."

Qi Heng actually didn't feel anything about this marriage, maybe since he confirmed that Minglan would not marry him.

Qi Heng has lost his yearning for love, so Qi Heng is really too lazy to answer Li Hao's ridicule.

went straight to the topic and said, "The official family ordered you and me to give lectures to the little prince, and you once went back to Beijing with him all the way, and wanted to get to know him.

Why don't you tell him what we should tell him?"

Li Hao replied: "Although the little prince is still young, his personality is quite calm, and he can do it.

In addition, when he was in Xiangzhou, although he had already learned to read and write, he had not been formally enlightened, and could only memorize some family names and poems."

Hearing this, Qi Heng said, "Okay, since that's the case, then it's up to us to enlighten him.

The official family means that we should go to the little prince's class as soon as possible, and I intend to start before the end of the month, what do you think?"

Hearing this, Li Hao hurriedly said, "I naturally have no opinion on this, but there are many things in the Salt and Iron Division, and I may not have much energy to spend on lecturing.

This matter may require a lot of trouble from the little grandfather, and I hope the little grandfather will not be surprised."

But obviously Qi Heng didn't buy it, and said directly, "The affairs of the Salt and Iron Division are busy, so aren't the affairs of the Imperial Court busy?

Lord Li has something to do, so I have nothing to do, it is the duty of the official family to give lectures to the prince, if Lord Li feels that there is a problem, you might as well go to the official family to ask for a favor."

Hearing this, Li Hao really couldn't help but feel that it had only been a long time, but he didn't expect Qi Heng to become sharp-toothed.

However, Li Hao didn't answer, so Qi Heng directly assigned the task, anyway, according to the time allocation, the two of them set their own time.

I don't have any opinion on this Li Hao, anyway, the normal enlightenment reading materials are those, and Li Hao will let Qi Heng teach it.

As for himself, Li Hao plans to do some work on the whole, such as getting out the three-character scripture in advance.

After all, among the three hundred thousand, Li Hao still thinks that the three-character classic is the best reading material for enlightenment, and it just so happens that he is not busy now, and Li Hao can still use this to increase his literary name.

However, the version circulated in later generations has been continuously supplemented, and many allusions to characters after the Song Dynasty have been added to it, which need to be adjusted by Li Hao before they can be taken out.

So in the next few days, as soon as Li Hao returned home, he hid in the study to sort out the three-character scripture, and hurriedly and slowly got it done before class.

Of course, Li Hao couldn't directly take it to teach Zhao Zonghan a lesson, but handed it over to Zhao Zhen first, and asked him to take a look at it and confirm that there was no problem.

As for this three-character scripture, Zhao Zhen gave a good evaluation after reading it.

said, "It seems that I handed over the prince to you to teach, and I used the right person.

In this matter, you also put your heart into it.

This three-character scripture draws on a wide range of materials, including astronomy and geography, human ethics and righteousness, loyalty and filial piety, etc., "familiar with the "Three Character Classic", you can know the eternal things".

At the same time, it can be catchy and easy to understand, which is much better than the existing children's enlightenment articles.

I don't think you can write this book on an improvisation."

After hearing this, Li Hao replied: "Back to the official's house, the minister has also studied hard since he was a child, and he knows the hardships of it.

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I have always had the idea of recompiling an enlightenment book, and many of the contents of this book were originally written by the ministers.

This time, the official family asked the minister to teach the little prince to read, so the minister deliberately took some time to sort out this three-character scripture."

Zhao Zhen still believes Li Hao's explanation, because this is reasonable.

If this is really what Li Hao can come up with in a few days, then it makes people feel strange.

And the more Zhao Zhen flips through this book, the more he feels that it is really well written, of course, it does not mean that the three-character scripture is really better than those works of everyone.

But if it is used to enlighten children, then Zhao Zhen thinks that this book is better than the current Mengxue reading.

So he said, "Then the prince's side, the Qing family will come directly to teach this three-character scripture.

In addition, I also plan to distribute this three-character scripture to Mengxue for the enlightenment of Mengtong in the world, I don't know what the Qing family can say."

Isn't it exactly what Li Hao wants to achieve about spreading the three-character scripture to the world, and what opinions can Li Hao have on this.

Naturally, he agreed, and said, "This is the minister's honor, I only hope that this three-character scripture can make Meng Tong enlighten and enlighten his mind, and add more useful materials to the imperial court."

Zhao Zhen naturally likes to listen to this, and in order to reward Li Hao for his meritorious dedication, Zhao Zhen gave Li Hao a lot of rewards.

However, it is a pity that these rewards are all material, that is, some grange shops and some floating wealth, and Li Hao was not promoted.

This made Li Hao a little regretful, you must know that since he came back from the original inventory of salt taxes, more than half a year has passed now, and his position has not been moved.

Compared to the original speed of promotion, it was really a bit impatient.

But when I think about the others, they are all normal to have a promotion opportunity once in three years.

And in the past three years, I have risen from the sixth grade to the fourth grade, and I have crossed five steps, so when I think about it, it seems that I should be content.

Thinking about it like this, my heart suddenly felt much more comfortable, so I took the things rewarded by Zhao Zhen out of the palace and returned home.

In the following days, Li Hao returned to normal, either in the Salt and Iron Division, or in the palace to give lectures to Zhao Zonghan, and then from time to time he had a drink with Zhao Ceying.

And Gu Tingye's side also handled Gu Tingyu's funeral, but Gu Yankai's body was not as good as before after this blow.

So Gu Tingye and Minglan were put on the spot, and they couldn't be dragged on.

Of course, Gu Yankai also thought so, and he also wanted to see Gu Tingye become his own son as soon as possible, so he rescheduled the marriage date of the two three months later.