The next morning, at four o'clock in the morning, before dawn, Yan Shu had already brought the imperial doctor over.

Zhao Jun had just gotten up, and he couldn't see anything during this time, and he had already developed the biological clock of the Song Dynasty.

After the old doctor did acupuncture as usual, Yan Shu asked, "Do you want to take off the gauze today?" ”

"Okay."

Zhao Jun also wanted to see how his eyes were recovering.

Although I only took it off and watched it a few days ago, just like a person who is losing weight wants to weigh whether he has lost weight today, a blind person wants to see if his eyes are good every day.

The imperial doctor took off the veil of his eyes, Zhao Jun opened his eyes, it was dark, there was only a lone candle in the room, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

"Can you see it?"

Yan Shu asked.

Zhao Jun said: "I can see it, it's a little better than a few days ago, but it's still blurry and can't be seen clearly, and it's too dark this day." ”

"It's morning, it's not dawn yet."

Yan Shu made an excuse, and then said: "The doctor told you not to take off the veil for at least a month in the future, even if your eyes are better, you must consolidate them first." ”

"I see."

Zhao Jun answered, it was a matter of whether his eyes could be restored, and he was still obedient.

At that moment, the veil was put on again, and all the wounds on his body were now healed, and the gauze had been removed, and everything except his eyes was almost fine.

After breakfast, Zhao Jun took a little rest and started to go to class, and today he continued to take math and Chinese classes, teaching division and pinyin.

There are 63 pinyin, and the progress of teaching is relatively slow, and I can't learn it in just a few days, so I have to continue.

Next, he plans to teach like this first, or it won't be long before his eyes will be better, and it is estimated that the road down the mountain should be open by then, so he will go to the county for an inspection first, and then see when the Education Bureau will arrange the new teacher over.

Soon it was ten o'clock in the morning, and after the day's classes, Fan Zhongyan came over to bring him food.

He helped Zhao Jun clean up the wooden planks used in class, as well as the chairs for the students in the house, and delivered the food to Zhao Jun. ”

"Lari Muzi went to the side of the path to see the progress of the digging."

Fan Zhongyan prevaricated with an excuse that had been prepared a long time ago, in fact, because Yan Shu had not come to the Houyuan in order to take care of his wife recently, and the court had not been up, and the Sansi Yamen had not seen anyone else until now.

Therefore, after Yan Shu came back, he had to go to do some handover work, otherwise even if he fished again, it was still necessary to report to the road first and understand the basic situation of the household.

Today, Zhao Zhen and they still haven't come, and recently the imperial court has been vigorously carrying out some small reforms, Sheng Du is opening a bank, and Li Zhen is catching tea merchants.

Although it is not a major change, Zhao Zhen and the others still have to pay attention to the reform situation at all times in order to make adjustments.

Because they also want to see if the method Zhao Jun said is really effective, and see if he, a young hairy boy in his twenties, really has that much talent.

If you have talent, after Zhao Jun's eyes regain vision, he can quickly be reused.

If he has no talent, but only has a strong mouth, he still has to go through experience if he can't say it well, or simply become a political staff officer, it is better than doing nonsense about the country in the future and doing some radical measures to make the country unstable.

Fortunately, in the current situation, both the Jiaoziwu and the Tea Law are quite smooth, mainly because these two items did not harm the interests of the court officials, and the Jiaoziwu is a good thing for the officials who have business dealings between Bianliang and Chengdu Prefecture, not to mention the Tea Law, which only harms the interests of the border officials.

As for the tea merchants behind the high-ranking officials, they are doing a first-class wholesale market, and they don't need tea introduction, so they have nothing to do with entering China and France, and they have solved the problem of tea introduction from the source, which is the power possessed by the privileged class.

So the reform has been going on for a while, and so far there has been no chaos, which makes Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian very satisfied.

Soon Zhao Jun had lunch, there was no old man and old lady at the entrance of the village, Fan Zhongyan said that they went to work in the field, Zhao Jun could only sit on the ground outside the door, chatting with Fan Zhongyan with or without a pair.

Fan Zhongyan has always held a pen in his hand, and important words must be written down, which is a habit that Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan maintain as recorders.

Now that Fan Zhongyan has been made a secretary and a young eunuch, he doesn't need to do his own work, and his main task is to make records, so he took advantage of Zhao Zhen's absence during this time, so he secretly asked a lot of questions he wanted from Zhao Jun.

For example, the Qingli New Deal, as well as Li Yuanhao's founding of the country, Fan Zhongyan has a clear plan for his life, he wants to reform and change the current weak predicament of the Great Song Dynasty.

However, after learning the lessons of his failed reform in history, Fan Zhongyan no longer thought about something else, but devoted himself to studying the reform of officials.

Zhao Jun knew that the village party secretary of Granima was a fan of Fan Zhongyan, and knew that he liked to learn about the Qingli New Deal, but he didn't have any reservations, and said many of his opinions, such as affirming Fan Zhongyan's reform, and also putting forward many deficiencies in Fan Zhongyan's reform.

"To put it simply, the overall environment of the Song Dynasty is not very good, Fan Zhongyan was able to get Zhao Zhen to reuse to start the Qingli New Deal, because the war in the northwest was stable, Li Yuanhao officially established the country, and negotiated peace with the Great Song Dynasty."

"After the external troubles came to an end for the time being, Song Renzong thought about solving internal worries and alleviating the increasingly acute social contradictions and huge military expenditures."

Several wars with the Western Xia led to the Song Dynasty's internal misery, with waves of revolts and a declining fiscal deficit. In this case, if change is not sought, it can have serious consequences. ”

"The problem of redundancy, redundancy is directly generated by redundant soldiers and redundant officials, and Fan Zhongyan does not dare to do the problem of redundant soldiers, so he can only solve redundant officials first, but his measures are too radical, which leads to opposition from the Manchu Dynasty."

"In fact, many officials don't want to do things, but they don't have power in their hands, and they can't do anything about it. As long as good officials are selected, let them complete KPIs, and carry out a reasonable punishment and reward system, I believe that it can mobilize the enthusiasm of officials. ”

"So it's very important to make the cake bigger, some of his reforms are more reasonable, but you can't come up and depose so many officials, that will easily create a sense of crisis, so that more than ninety percent of officials are afraid of being deposed, so that they will be used by people with intentions to incite an offensive and abort the new deal."

"And the promotion system also pays attention to methods, Grandpa Mao said that it is the right way to make fewer enemies and more friends, win over some people, suppress some people, and reduce resistance."

"In addition, the Northern Song Dynasty system has been very rigid, and Fan Zhongyan's reform has actually only made a lot of minor adjustments, and there are no drastic changes at all, but even so, it is still so opposed by these old-fashioned bureaucrats, this is because the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty lacks vitality."

"How do you do politics well with a bunch of bugs? Therefore, in addition to the clear reform line, more vitality should be injected, as for how to inject vitality, I don't know, I really don't have much interest in the "History of the Song Dynasty", I didn't study it in depth. ”

Zhao Jun told Fan Zhongyan all his understanding of the Qingli New Deal, and Fan Zhongyan also wrote it down very carefully, he has been listening to the lectures for a long time these days, which not only broadened his horizons, but also allowed him to find a practical way, which helped him a lot.

It wasn't until the afternoon that Zhao Jun had dinner and went back to his room to rest, and Fan Zhongyan got off work with today's harvest. On the way back, even sitting in a sedan chair, he thought about today's content over and over again, which had become his habit.

At the beginning of the unitary period, Fan Zhongyan returned to his home in Daguan Lane, when the sun was setting, and a ray of sunlight reflected a long orange light wave on the ground through the door of the study.

The mottled light sprinkled on the ground, on the windowsill, on the bookshelf, on the desk, on the picture scroll, most of the places in the room were dark, except at the bottom of the south near the windowsill, Fan Zhongyan's resolute face on the side of the table, the lower half was exposed in the sun, and the upper half was hidden in the shadows, intertwined light and dark.

He sat solemnly at his desk, which was densely packed with countless papers.

The booklets recorded in the palace could not be taken out of the palace, because the emperor and the prime ministers had to read them every day, but when he came back, he would write down today's experience, hide it in the secret compartment, and every day when he came home from work, he would lock himself in the study and take it out to read.

It records a lot of what he thinks he should be doing now and what needs to change in the future.

"Zhao Jun said that reform is not a dinner party, what is needed is perseverance and courage to break the boat, but now is not the time for reform, he is right, in the case of internal and external troubles, it is necessary to calm down the external troubles first, and then solve the internal troubles."

Fan Zhongyan turned his gaze to the few pages of paper he had picked up separately on the right, which were some of his thoughts for going to the northwest to serve as the envoy of Shaanxi and preparing for Li Yuanhao's establishment of the country.

Zhao Jun thought that it was unlikely that the Song Dynasty would defeat Li Yuanhao, and Fan Zhong would only defend against Li Yuanhao's attack at most, but the official family hoped that he could win a battle, and this task was still relatively arduous, so he made a lot of efforts for this.

For example, he hoped that after going to the border pass, he would change the military system in the northwest, strengthen the training of border soldiers, repair the dilapidated city wall, and let the border people and the imperial court send part of the forbidden army to the northwest to build water conservancy and reclaim the wasteland.

The Guanzhong region was extremely prosperous in the Tang Dynasty, but it had declined in the Song Dynasty, and now there is still a large amount of cultivated land wasted, if it can be cultivated, it can relieve a lot of grain and grass pressure.

By the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the population of the Guanzhong Basin was less than one-fifth of that of the Tang Dynasty, and Chang'an, an international metropolis of one million levels, had a permanent population of only 120,000.

However, there is another problem in the reclamation of wasteland, that is, the Tang Dynasty was too brilliant in Chinese civilization, Guanzhong could not withstand such prosperity, and soil erosion in the upper reaches of the Jing River, Wei River, Yellow River and other rivers was extremely serious.

The distinction between Jing and Wei has appeared since the Zhou Dynasty, and by the time of the Song Dynasty, the Wei water also became turbid, and in later generations, the Wei water was even deeper than the Jing River.

Therefore, Fan Zhongyan knew that it was not so easy to open up wasteland in Tunbian, and the water conservancy facilities must also keep up.

There are still two years before Li Yuanhao establishes the country, and there are still three years before the war, and Fan Zhongyan feels that he can do a lot of things in these two or three years.

Then the next step is the matter of reform.

Fan Zhongyan looked at the other pile of papers on the left hand side of the table, compared to the Northwest War, he looked more at the new policy of Chongqing.

After all, this is what can change the country's poverty and weakness.

On the paper, he wrote a lot, which was the sword he was going to play to the officials.

Such as "Ming Dethroned", "Suppressing Luck", "Jing Gongju", "Selecting Chiefs", "Jungong Field", "Hounong Sang", "Cultivating Military Equipment", "Reducing Campaigns", "Heavy Orders", and "Tui Enxin" are all there.

And more than a dozen more.

For example, "suppressing official style", "reviewing the total", "examining the law", "investigating corruption", "Fangtian tax", "recruiting and conscription", "general system", "strict profit tax" and so on.

The latter ones are borrowed from a lot of Wang Anshi's changes, and there are also some suggestions from Zhao Jun.

Fan Zhongyan walked around the note for a while, and then added "cutting weak soldiers", "armor protection system", "city affairs", "hair and loss", "entering the grassroots", "frequent transfer", "settling accounts", "rounding system" and so on.

These contents almost cover many reforms such as officials, land, law, army, economy, education, etc., which are more radical than the historical Qingli New Deal.

According to Zhao Jun, at least 20 items have to be crossed out, and less than 10 items can be retained.

But Fan Zhongyan looked at the content above and didn't mean to change it at all.

Because he knows one thing.

In the past few days, they have only come to the official family occasionally, and Fan Zhongyan has always been by Zhao Jun's side.

So I can often hear some interesting words from Zhao Jun's mouth in private.

"The Chinese always like to reconcile and compromise, for example, if you say, this room is too dark, you must open a window here, everyone must not allow it." But if you advocate tearing down the roof, they will reconcile and be willing to open the windows. ”

This sentence gave Fan Zhongyan a lot of inspiration.

He heard that the reason why he was able to celebrate the failure of the New Deal later in history was because it touched the entire interest group.

Since just such a small change has caused a monstrous wave, why don't you pierce this day?

Fan Zhongyan looked at the covered papers on the table, and he wrote hundreds of words on each item in it, adding up to tens of thousands of words.

If those corrupt officials, mediocre officials and lazy officials, landlords and businessmen, and incompetent soldiers see it, I am afraid that they will already be broken.

"I heard Zhao Jun say, and later Wang Anshi had a title, called Xianggong, saying that he was as stubborn as a cow."

"But I don't know that anyone who has the ambition to reform the country must have such stubbornness, otherwise if they can't persevere to the end, the law will be abandoned halfway, and the harm to the country will be great."

"Wang Anshi Qingmiao Law cannot be implemented, because the officials are poorly governed, Zhao Jun is right, if you want to change the country, you must first be politically clear."

"Politics can't be a stagnant water, everyone thinks about flies and dogs, and does nothing, so can this country last long?"

"In this case, it is better to let me bear the reputation of this unruly minister, the official family asked me to discuss the way to change the law in the long run, and I prefer to go backwards and implement the way of reform to the end."

"I think even if Zhao Jun's eyes are recovered, he will support my idea. Hopefully, he'll be on my side too! ”

Fan Zhongyan raised the brush of his siblings, stained it with some ink, and added the details of the few new items he had written, then took out a blank fold from under the table next to him, and after a little thought, he began to write hard.