"I'm not interested in money!"

Maybe Li Kui, who is already financially free, can pretend to say such a sentence.

In fact, he really has little interest in making money at this time, and even firmly believes that the more money, the stronger the pig, and before he keeps the status and strength of enough wealth, making money will become a burden rather than a pleasure. If you live like a bird like a jade unicorn, won't you be able to swallow this breath even if you die?

Li Kui is enough to show his heartless potential in terms of money. I don't care if it's too much or less, as long as it's enough. There's no more to figure it out.

Anyway, there are many bandits in the Great Song Dynasty. There are also in Yingzhou, but the bandits in Yingzhou are very local. Because of the loss of the field, he had to hide in the mountains and forests, escape from forced labor, and open up the wasteland for farming. This is a group of peasants with a notoriety of thugs, with no fighting power to speak of, perhaps lacking a leader who can lead them to glory.

Even if Li Kui has such an open-minded mentality.

But in front of his ancestor Su Shi, he still had to be willing to lose and bow down.

Su Shi, who was already difficult to become such a field, heard that Cai Bian had grain in his hand, and immediately waved his hand and said to Zhang: "Virtuous nephew, although I went to write a letter urging Yuandu to send grain to Yingzhou, let him not be stingy with the surplus grain in his hand, money is not a problem, and Yingzhou will not treat him Cai Yuandu's love." ”

This breath is big, as if Su Shi is sitting on a mountain of gold and silver, and he is full of confidence.

But he didn't care about the hundreds of thousands of debts on his body.

This kind of arrogance can only be seen in drunks who are drunk. Unexpectedly, Su Shi didn't even touch the wine jug, but he was also drunk. What's even worse is that Zhang Zhu, as a junior, didn't dare or remind Su Shi: "You always settle the debt first?" ”

If you really do this, it will be to embarrass Su Shi in person.

Even if Su Shi has a good temper, I am afraid it will be difficult to bear such doubts.

In desperation, Zhang Zhu could only go back and figure out how to let Cai Bian, the prefect of Jiangning, send the grain over first, and then talk about it, as for the question of money, he could only press it later. I hope Cai Bian won't get mad because he didn't receive the money, Cai Bian's temper is not much better than Zhang Bian's. He could only comfort himself that Jiangning is a metropolis, surrounded by grain-producing areas, and the grain output is sufficient, and sending some grain from Yingzhou will not have a big impact. Coupled with the prosperity of commerce, the development of water transportation, and the gathering of merchants, Jiangning's treasury should be very full, and it will not be shallow enough to stare at this amount of grain purchase.

Wait until Zhang Zhu is gone.

Li Kui said curiously: "Uncle Junior, what kind of person is this Cai Yuandu!" ”

"Cai Yuandu, Cai Bian. Wang Xiang's son-in-law, the backbone of the Fa-Changing faction, and his brother Cai Jing is also a member of the Fa-Changing faction. But his temper is not very good, and he hates people to lie to him the most. If it was really as long as his father had no money and asked for his food, maybe he would go to the court and impeach his father. Su Guo said worriedly.

But Su Shi laughed and said; "Now that the Fa-changers are too busy to take care of themselves, and the court is full of stubborn people, where will they pay attention to Cai Yuandu's recital? Don't worry, food is safe when you eat it in your mouth and fall into your stomach. Speak first, and then talk about the grain. ”

If he really didn't know who Cai Bian was, Li Kui would naturally not be worried. Listening to Su Guo's meaning, Cai Yuandu seems to be difficult to get along with. Cai Jing and Cai Bian, two brothers, are not easy to coax. Thinking of this, Li Kui secretly glanced at Su Shi, and said in his heart: Even if there is no way to take your old man at the moment, what if they all get up?

In addition, there was another reason for Li Kui to worry about Su Shi: "Master, they are all members of the Fa-changing faction, will your dealings with them make the princes in the court misunderstand?" ”

Su Shi blinked his eyes, and then said indifferently: "No matter how angry he is, I have been degraded, and I still need to please them?" ”

Li Kui was worried, Cai Bian, Zhang Tun.

One is Wang Anshi's son-in-law, and the other is Wang Anshi's flag-carrying boss.

Su Shi really wants to get mixed up with the two of them, wouldn't he be unlucky? At least for more than a year now, it will definitely be unlucky. After all, the Empress Dowager Gao is old, and the current official family's governing tendencies are also unfavorable to the New Party. The main reason is that Sima Guang and others, in order to conform the official education to the image of benevolence in the eyes of the old party, found the most stubborn old man to be a teacher for the official family. Sima Guang picked Cheng Yi, one of the two journeys, at a glance and arranged to be a teacher next to the official's family.

It seems that among the Fa-changing factions, Zhang Dian is the only one who has the possibility of recovery. The reason is very simple, he helped the prince Zhao Xu to the emperor in front of the spirit of Shenzong, and with this kindness, Zhao Xu will never let Zhang Xuan stay outside the court after he takes office.

For the rest, the fate of the reformers is unknown. It completely depends on the reaction of the little emperor after he took office. But the old party has long been prepared, and Zhao Xu has a teacher who has been selected by the old party for a long time, Mr. Yichuan Cheng Yi.

Who is Cheng Yi?

O great master of science!

The young man is famous, and at the age of eighteen he said a lot of ways to solve the shortcomings of the court, and it can be summed up as - saving it should be the king's way. What made Cheng Yi's effective soul suffer a huge blow was that the reigning Emperor Renzong did not pay attention to him. What kind of bullshit 'save it should be king', when he saw this recital, Renzong's nose was almost crooked. Emperor Renzong, who had experienced the failure of the Qingli New Deal, still longed for the change in his heart, but due to the stability of the political situation, the change was not realized again.

But Wang Anshi's entry into the court has already explained his attitude.

However, later Cheng Yi's reputation became more and more famous, and in the fourth year of Jiayou, Emperor Renzong still issued an edict, met with Cheng Yi, and gave Cheng Yi the birth of a jinshi.

It's a bit embarrassing to say, Li Kui's way of being an official is also this. He doesn't even need to be known by the world, as long as he is born as a scholar.

Speaking of Cheng Yi, after being frustrated in front of the emperor, he went to Luoyang to start lecturing. In the past ten years, he has cultivated countless disciples, and his stubbornness and conservatism have been recognized and valued by the old party.

The idea of science is to be conservative, everything must be based on the original system as the rules, the ethics program is always orthodox, and the ancestral law is continued step by step. The old party also fought hard to transform the emperor into a person like them. And the official family is indeed changing in the direction hoped by the old party, and even the performance in the palace gives people a sense of woodenness.

But no one would know that the emperor was hiding it. In the face of an old master who humiliates his ministers to death and threatens the emperor with suicide, what else can the official family say and do?

There is also the emperor who needs to give his grandmother Gao's peace of mind. Gao is the most solid supporter of the old party, and as a grandson, he can't let his grandmother see that he is not the same heart as her old man, right?

For a variety of reasons, Zhao Xu, the emperor who had not yet monopolized power, showed a demeanor that seemed to indicate that the old party's goal of transforming the emperor had been successful. But make persistent efforts, at a critical moment, you still can't drop the chain. Everything will not be seen until Zhao Xu is in power.

Of course, these pressures fall on Cheng Yi.

Compared with Su Shi's lectures to the official family, teaching elegance such as poetry and literature.

Cheng Yi's responsibility is much greater, he not only has to shape the character of the official family into the character of a master who is old and mature, but also strictly guards the official family's contact with the ideological trend of the New Party. It can be said that the official family is an unlucky emperor who grew up under Cheng Yi's nose. If he were an ordinary person, it would be fine, and the weaker one would probably be succeeded by Cheng Yi.

But Zhao Xu is the emperor!

He is a man of his word, an emperor who is rich from all over the world, and he has been so suppressed that he can not rebel when he becomes an adult?

The old party thought it was right.

And in order to change the law, Wang Anshi even said that the law of the ancestors can be abolished. If such a rebellious remark can be uttered, the old party thinks that the official family will naturally avoid changing the law in the future, and will be disgusted like a snake and scorpion.

Nowadays, the greatest pleasure of the old party is to suppress the bigwigs of the law-changing faction, and distribute them one by one, and they can't be idle anyway.

Su Shi's situation is very delicate, he is not a reformer, let alone an old-fashioned faction. It stands to reason that he should be a wall-riding faction. Just sandwiched between two groups of people and riding on the wall, overlooking the two groups of people below, you come and go, and the fight is not lively. But Su Shi is Su Shi after all, and no one will notice him if he rides on the wall and doesn't speak. But he always doesn't like it, not only does he not like it, but he also has a ruthless mouth.

Finished scolding the New Party.

Scolding the old party.

Or simply two gangs of people scolding together.

So the two gangs stopped fighting, and picked up bricks from the ground to hit him.

Su Shi also felt the heat of the world at that moment, and was smashed all over his head. But there is one thing that others can never compare to Su Shi, and that is mentality. He was always able to find some way to calm his soul when he was at a low point in his life, and he got caught up in it. However, when Su Shi and the reformers get too close, I am afraid that the old party will not be able to pretend not to see it. The suppression and derogation will definitely come, but Su Shi doesn't care about these things.

Relegation?

No matter how big the scene is, he's seen it, what's there!

Maybe others don't understand this kind of temperament very well, but Li Kui has a deep understanding of it, because he is also such a person.

Cultivate yourself to have a jar-like temperament.

The jar can be porcelain or pottery, and the status is ordinary and not expensive. It can still be used if it is bumped, and it can barely be used if it is broken. Regardless of nature, it can make people's lives very easy.

It is precisely because of this that Su Shi will tell Zhang Zhu to write a letter to Cai Bian and ask him to send food, and he will want as much as he wants.

Li Kui was very surprised by Su Shi's confidence, but Su Guo was pretending to be stupid on the side. There's no way not to pretend to be stupid, Su Shi doesn't know how much money he has at home, can he not know?

This is not a famine that he can level by opening a few acres of wasteland.

He was exhausted, and I am afraid that he would not be able to earn such a large amount of money for the purchase of grain.

"Master, do you still have a place for money from your old man?" Li Kui asked.

Su Shi was stunned, then pursed his lips and said in his heart: Money, is it important? Then he laughed: "In such a big place as Yingzhou, there are hundreds of thousands of people, more than 20,000 hectares of land, and tens of thousands of stones of grain, as long as Cai Yuandu sends it, the officials of Yingzhou thank him, and the people of Yingzhou will also regard him as a benefactor, what can compare to the gratitude of hundreds of thousands of people?" Besides, this grain should be from Jiangning Mansion, not Cai Yuandu's, so why be stingy? ”

What you always said makes sense, Li Kui is poor in words, and he found that he really had to learn from Su Shi in terms of personality.

Even when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, he can still deal with it calmly. It's just that I'm afraid Cai Bian won't think so.

Li Kui asked again: "Master, it seems that spring ploughing is about to begin, and it is difficult for people with insufficient surplus grain to raise all kinds of grain. The gap will be large then. Big households naturally don't have to worry, they all have granaries and hoard grain. But for ordinary people, it's hard to say. It is expected that the shortfall will not be less than 100,000 stones. ”

"So much?" Su Shi frowned and scratched his head, he was considered to have more lice on his body and did not bite, but one yard is one yard, and the big families are probably waiting to knock an ordinary farmer at this juncture. This is also the time of the year when the most private receptions are made. At this time, if it is not handled well, ordinary people will not talk about it for nothing, and they will also fall into a large amount of debt because of high interest.

Su Shi muttered worriedly: "It seems that Cai Yuandu is not enough, I have to find a few more to borrow grain." ”

Unlike Yingzhou, which was under Su Shi's jurisdiction, the government was almost bankrupt, and other state capitals would not spend all the money in the treasury. But after thinking about it for a while, lacking confidence in his popularity, Su Shi finally only thought of one person, who was still his disciple, and said to Su Guo: "Your senior brother Chao is in Yangzhou, send him a letter, you should be able to ask for some food." ”

"Father, the general sentence is not as good as Zhizhou, Senior Brother Chao's new appointment, I'm afraid it will cause dissatisfaction among colleagues, and you can't always use the government's loans to offset the debt, right?"

Su Guo was kind-hearted and avenged his senior brother.

However, Li Kui, who was about to leave by plane, suddenly thought of a solution: "Master, I have a solution, I can raise all the money for the purchase of grain in advance." ”

"Renjie, say it quickly!"

Su Shi was overjoyed when he heard this, there was a kind of old man who had been borne by a fool for many years, and finally met a capable cadre, and he suddenly became enlightened.