Military reform, the construction of the police system, and the construction of the grassroots level are underway on a large scale. Time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it is time for spring to bloom.

In the spring of the eighth year of Daxing, a group of people set out from Jiangning and came to Bianjing.

The car was sitting in Wang Anshi, who had lived in seclusion in Jiangning for many years.

If this old man, who was obviously in his early sixties, was in his later generations, he had just retired, but Wang Anshi seemed to be in his twilight years, and he was thin and had only a bone left.

Looking at the scenery flashing outside the window, there was no sadness and joy on Wang Anshi's face. His student Ouyang Bian had invited him to Bianjing many times, but he had not set off for a long time. His concerns were the same as Su Shi, and he was very complicated about Ouyang Bian, a disciple who buried his hometown with his own hands.

Wang Anshi naturally knew that his homeland had become so decayed that he had to change, but he was still full of feelings for the Song Dynasty, just like the ancestral home in his hometown. Although he was old and corrupt, a gust of wind could push the huge ancestral home to the ground, but he was full of attachment to this place where he was born and raised.

However, in the past few years, after Wang Anshi watched Ouyang Bian take over, the whole country was undergoing rapid changes. The beauty he had imagined was realized one by one, and the people's lives became better. They were able to eat enough, put on new clothes, laugh happily, the government became more efficient, the army became disciplined and able to fight against external teachings. He pursued a prosperous country and strong army for the rest of his life, which was realized in Ouyang Bian's hands.

So, he decided to come out and see what else is going on, and then go to see the new court, and have a good talk with his disciples.

By the time he made this decision, the country had already completed unification, which made him look forward to it again. However, it was still winter at that time, and it was really not suitable for him to go out in the twilight years. His grandson also tried his best to stop him. When the spring breeze turned green on the south bank of the river, he could no longer sit still and must go north.

Along the way, Wang Anshi, despite the spring breeze, was still a little cold, and always opened the windows and watched the scenery flashing outside.

How wonderful it was outside.

On the wide road, there were real traffic. When passing through the bridges on the river, there were big ships rumbling on the water. There were no sails, but they walked very fast. When passing through some places, trains like giant dragons spewed fog and quickly crossed mountains and ridges. Factory buildings rose from the ground, and the tall chimneys rose from the sky with black smoke, which looked like beacons.

Well, the smell of air is a bit pungent.

Sometimes passing through towns, the market is extremely prosperous, secondly, the common beggars and refugees in the past are now hard to see again. However, children wearing uniform clothes go to school in groups, and the children's faces are not as delicious as children from landlords. Wang Anshi could see that most of the children are ordinary people's homes, but most of them are strong, which is the reason for the improvement of their living standards.

Most of them are good, but there are also bad ones. Sometimes when Wang Anshi passed by some large factories, he happened to meet factory workers during meal time. A large number of workers rushed out of the factory. The workers were tired, pale, and dark circles. At a glance, they knew they were caused by staying up late.

Seeing this, Wang Anshi couldn't help but frown and pulled the workers to ask. It turned out that they had been working late. These factories worked in three shifts and these workers were working night shifts.

Wang Anshi couldn't help but be angry. He also needed a limit to exploiting people, so why did he force workers to work at night?

However, the workers started talking nonsense.

"Don't be angry, this father-in-law. Although the night shift is a little harder, he earns more money. Now the salary of a month is more than we used to farm for a year. Now I have three children, all of whom go to school, and they can eat enough, and eat meat every once in a while. To be honest, I am already very satisfied. Now I plan to earn more money and buy a house in this city. In the future, my child will be a city home..."

"Yes, yes, the father-in-law doesn't have to speak up for us anymore. Although the boss is very stingy and the chief officer is very harsh. If you catch it, you can scold us so much that you can't even get into our factory. Although you can grow it now as long as you want to farm, how can you compare to us working in the factory?"

Someone who is more confused, he started to scold him.

"I advise you, the father-in-law, not to meddle in other people's business. If we are fired, I will beat you up!"

"Shut up, you didn't see the father-in-law for our own good. Moreover, the fight was just a casual fight. The police were watching nearby. You didn't listen to their publicity. If you won, you went to jail, you lost and you were hospitalized, which made you lose money and avoid disasters. Who is the serious person fighting now?"

"Ah... You are right to remind me, my father-in-law, I am not good. Please forgive me!"

Wang Anshi continued on the road dizzyly, and he found that he didn't seem to understand the world very much.

Trains, ships, factories, schools, and extremely prosperous markets... all of this is like a prosperous era, and these passing towns are not traditional important towns, but just some slightly important transportation routes. These ordinary transportation routes seem to be much more prosperous than those prefectures and counties in the past!

As we head north, the weather also becomes colder. Although spring has arrived, spring in the south is different from spring in the north.

There are still snow residues left in the spring in the north.

On the way, Wang Anshi suffered from typhoid fever. His body was weak and he was blowing all the way. He could no longer bear it. His grandson, who was traveling with him, quickly found a town to treat Wang Anshi. He wanted to find a doctor, but he asked someone to introduce him to the so-called hospital.

In the so-called hospital, Wang Anshi was eye-opening.

In a town, there is a large hospital that has become a hospital. There are dozens or hundreds of doctors in business, hundreds of nurses, and some young girls. Wang Anshi was stunned and shouted that the world was getting worse, which made the nurses cover their mouths and laugh at the old antiques.

However, a doctor knew Wang Anshi's identity, so he introduced it to Wang Anshi.

"...This hospital is an institution above the clinic. The imperial court attaches great importance to the construction of hospitals. Every town will set up hospitals according to the population size.

Hospitals are also classified, such as the third-level hospitals of A, B and C. There are fixed numbers for the number of doctors, nurses, and the configuration of each department.

For example, because the city is not big, there is only one Class C hospital, but there are also a large number of doctors, with eighty or ninety, which is enough to meet the basic medical needs of the people in nearby urban and rural areas.

Of course, this kind of medical resources is still far from enough, but some folk doctors' medical clinics are much better than before.

In the future, the imperial court will expand vigorously, just like the nearly one million people nearby, at least ten Class C hospitals will be barely satisfied.”

After taking two doses of medicine, Wang Anshi was in good health, so he visited the clinic with great enthusiasm... Oh no, the hospital came. This hospital was much more spacious than those small clinics. It covers a large area. It contains many beds for patients to be hospitalized, and there are many things I have never seen before, such as stethoscopes, disinfectants, scalpels, etc. What surprised Wang Anshi was that he actually saw a doctor using a knife to cut the patient's poison sores and squeeze out the pus inside. It looked very bloody and quite terrible. But a few days later, the patient recovered almost, which surprised Wang Anshi.

In the past, after a poisonous sore, he basically lost half of his life because the sores are very easy to get infected, and it is difficult to cure by taking Chinese medicine. He had to use a minor surgery to squeeze out the pus, then cut off the rotten meat inside, and then disinfect and eliminate the inflammation. It was considered a cure. However, there was no disinfectant before and there was no anti-inflammatory medicine, so it was difficult to cure.

But now this hospital can cure poisonous sores, which means that this medical skill is much better than most doctors.

The doctor introduced: "Most of the doctors in our hospital graduated from medical school, and of course there are some things that are used by old Chinese doctors. However, we are better than old Chinese doctors because we have the ability to operate, because we have learned a lot of them. But now we only have the ability to handle some minor surgeries for the time being. We are powerless to do anything about the abdominal cavity and head. The development of medical skills will take time."

Wang Anshi nodded when he heard this. He knew a little about this so-called medical school. It should probably be part of the time when the Song Dynasty opened a technical school. It seems that he has already seen some results.

It is better to travel thousands of miles than reading books. Wang Anshi once again understood this truth. The last time he understood this truth was when he was young, he followed his father around when he was young. At that time, his father was a small county magistrate, and he also experienced the sufferings of the people.

This time he was already in his sixties. He originally thought that nothing in the world could surprise him, but he didn't expect that after coming out like this, he saw such a new world, which gave him more than just a surprise.

When he first met Ouyang Bian many years ago, he felt that the child might be very immense to grow up in the future, especially when he learned about the four sentences of establishing a mind for the world, this feeling was particularly strong, but he did not expect that Ouyang Bian's achievements would be so grand today.

The country has been unified and divided for a hundred years has been reclaimed, and the land that has been lost for a hundred years has been revitalized, and the vitality of an ancient country has been revitalized. Nowadays, the country is rich and the people are strong, especially this trend of strides forward. I don’t know how powerful this country will be in decades.

Moreover, Ouyang Bian not only made the country prosperous and strong, but the people's lives were so happy. Children could go to school happily, everyone had a job, everyone had fields to farm, could eat enough, and have a sick life. Such a prosperous era is so rare!

It was actually not far from Jiangning to Bianjing, but Wang Anshi walked for a month. He walked along the way and found that Daxia was much more perfect than the country he had previously dreamed of building.

Although Wang Anshi was slow all the way, he still came to Bianjing. Ouyang Bian came out from afar and came to Zhuxian Town to pick up his teacher Wang Anshi.

The master and apprentice have not seen each other for many years, and it is a pity to meet again.

Especially Wang Anshi, he felt a lot, perhaps because of his age, or because of his seclusion, he had time to think about many problems. When he met Ouyang Bian, his first words were.

"Ji Mo, your approach is right, your approach is wrong. Back then... I was sorry for you."

Ouyang Bian's eyes became moist in an instant.

For many years, he has been comforting himself that Wang Anshi betrayed him because of his ideals rather than because of his selfish desires, but even so, Ouyang Bian sometimes wakes up late at night and still feels depressed.

After all, even if it is understandable to be betrayed by the person you trust the most, every time you think about it, you always feel ache in your heart.

"Teacher, you are not wrong. What's wrong with sticking to your ideals? We are just a different journey, but the purpose is the same after all. Can the changes in this country be as you wish?"

When Wang Anshi heard Ouyang Bian say this, his thin face immediately smiled: "It's great, much better than what I pursue. The first time I saw you, I knew you were not a thing in the pool, but I never thought that you could do such a contribution to the country."

Ouyang Bian smiled embarrassedly: "This is nothing..."

Wang Anshi smiled and waved his hand: "Okay, okay, don't be modest. I don't know your temperament yet. Let's go back, I want to see what Bianjing City has become now."

Ouyang Bian smiled and nodded vigorously: "Okay, let's go back!"

Ouyang Bian personally helped Wang Anshi, got into his car, and drove back to Bianjing.

Ouyang Bian and Wang Anshi were sitting opposite the car. Ouyang Bian explained to Wang Anshi various policies he implemented in Daxia, especially various policies that benefit the people. Wang Anshi listened very seriously, nodding while listening, and sometimes asked a few questions. After about an hour's drive, Wang Anshi looked tired and looked energetic. He was happy.

His mood has changed. When he just set out from Jiangning, he didn't know how to face his disciple, but along the way, his perception of his disciples has undergone a tremendous change.

Especially during this hour, Ouyang Bian explained the policy to him and explained all the considerations in the policy very clearly, Wang Anshi was even more happy.

What Wang Anshi saw was only part of the things, and he could tell some things through the eyes, but Ouyang Bian was the policymaker. What he said was essential things, which made Wang Anshi understand more deeply, so he was even more relieved.

Ouyang Bian was much better than he thought about governing the country. Even though he had tried his best to overestimate it, he still did not fully complete an objective evaluation of Ouyang Bian.

"A teacher is proud of you. Thousands of years have passed, and a teacher will be famous for being your teacher forever!"

Wang Anshi said so.
Chapter completed!