Fan Chunren listened to Sima Guang's sigh: "Has even Yaofu retreated?"

His heart couldn't help but soften, and he felt very ashamed, as if he owed a lot to the person in front of him.

That's the kind of person he is.

So he lowered his head in shame and wanted to apologize.

Just when the words were about to come out, Fan Chunren remembered what Wen Yanbo had said to him in private that day at Wen Yanbo's house.

He took a deep breath.

Just now at the Yanhe Hall, the young master's encouragement to him also came back in his heart.

The words of my father Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower" are beating in my heart.

If you live in a temple, you will worry about the people; if you live far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about the king!

He is now living in the temple.

How can we not worry about the common people?

Then, Fan Chunren remembered that he had been in Hezhong, Chengdu, Qingzhou...

All the things I have seen in the past ten years...

The suffering of people's livelihood is beyond imagination!

The plight of the people is indescribable!

He breathed out again, as if he had gained courage and encouragement.

"Chunren is not backing down..." Fan Chunren said with a cupped hand: "I just really don't know what step Mr. Sima wants to achieve?"

This is the crux of the matter!

This is also what Fan Chunren wants to know.

Sima Guang answered calmly: "Of course, we must put an end to Wang Anshi's evil methods and restore a peaceful world to the people of the world!"

This is his lifelong pursuit.

It is also all the support that has given him dragging his body to survive until now.

Sima Guang remembered that Duke Fu Han was still begging Emperor Daxing to stop the new law when he was dying.

I remembered that when Shao Yong was dying, he couldn't even speak and kept looking at him with eyes full of hope.

I even remembered that when I left Luoyang and came to Bianjing last time and this time, when the sages in Luoyang saw each other off, the expectations in the eyes of those long-term friends and gentlemen were full.

He is not alone!

He is living for many people!

The purpose of living is to fulfill the long-cherished wishes of those who have passed away.

Fan Chunren sighed: "May I ask Mr. Ming, what is Wang Anshi's evil method?"

Sima Guang still answered candidly: "Of course it is the laws that make the people sick and harm the country! If the laws in the new law are not harmful to the people and harmless to the country, how can I be in trouble?!"

"But now the capital court is trying to block and delay even an imperial edict asking for a straight statement..."

He looked at Fan Chunren and sighed: "Today, they still dare to blind the two palaces with words and deceive the Holy Lord..."

"So that the grievances of superiors and inferiors cannot be redressed, and the people inside and outside cannot speak out..."

"They don't know what else they can do in the future!"

"Aren't Yaofu worried at all?" Sima Guang looked at Fan Chunren calmly and asked.

"Mr. Sima..." Fan Chunren cupped his hands and said, "Chunren, he comes from this place..."

"I know a little bit about the local conditions and disadvantages. I have personally felt the suffering of the people and shared the hardships and famines with them..."

A descendant of the Fan family, he was influenced by Fan Zhongyan since childhood.

The salary and salary are only kept for personal use, and the rest is used to donate to the charity village and charity school.

Even if a daughter of the Fan family is married, she will try her best to maintain herself in her husband's family, and at the same time, she will establish a righteous school and a righteous field in the clan.

Over the years, Fan Chunren has traveled to many places and followed his father's teachings wherever he went.

More than once, he risked being demoted and dismissed to open a warehouse to provide disaster relief.

On more than one occasion, prisoners were released one after another who took desperate risks because of poverty and violated national laws, but could not commit crimes that would lead to death.

In terms of his understanding and familiarity with the grassroots, Fan Chunren believes that he can be among the top ten in the contemporary era.

So, he asked directly: "Dare you ask Ming Gong... is the art of war considered an evil method?"

Sima Guang looked at Fan Chunren.

He sighed leisurely: "Of course it doesn't count!"

"This is a good law first advocated by Wen Zhenggong, but Wang Anshi used it in evil ways, serving himself with force, provoking border provocations, and causing harm to the country and the people!"

"The generals should be ordered to guard the borders and not cause trouble!"

Fan Chunren believed it.

Because Sima Guang's character and morality were unparalleled in the world, Fan Chunren knew that he never bothered to lie.

Now that he says so, he will definitely do it!

"What about the exemption law and the young crop law?" Fan Chunren looked at Sima Guang and asked.

"Evil method!" Sima Guang answered decisively without hesitation!

"Wang Anshi used these laws to bring chaos to the country and bring disaster to the whole world to make money..."

Fan Chunren's heart hit rock bottom.

Because what he saw locally was not like this!

The Green Seed Law...as long as assessments and compulsions are reduced, and only voluntary borrowing is adopted.

In the famine years, there are countless living people!

The two-cent annual interest rate is infinitely more favorable than the compound interest rate offered by the big investors!

As for the immunity law...

Fan Chunren thought about the exemption law, took a deep breath and asked: "During the Jiayou period, when my father was dying, he was still worried about the government harming the people..."

Sima Guang nodded: "It is true that Yaqian harms the people..."

This is universally recognized!

Even back then, he repeatedly persuaded the court to reform the government office and reduce the burden on the upper class households!

“Wouldn’t the exemption law harm the people?”

"Compared with Yaqian, the exemption law is more harmful to the people!" Sima Guang became excited when he said this.

"The remaining people in Yamen are only the upper-class households..."

"The exemption law harms the people, but it harms everyone!"

“The lesser of two evils!”

Fan Chunren sighed: "But in front of the Yamen, the family was destroyed..."

Only those who have experienced the era of the Civil Service Law will know the horror of Yaqian.

In the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River, there are more wealthy households, so the harm in Yaqian is relatively small.

But in the vast areas in the north, especially Shaanxi and Hedong...

For most of the upper-class households, once they are sent to the Yamen... it is good to have their families destroyed, and there are many people who will destroy their families.

Therefore, many people refused to accept Yaqian.

They sold their fields and houses one after another, and even went into exile with their families!

Among the families who were sent to the Yaqian service, there were countless old fathers who directly hanged themselves at home in order to ensure that their sons could come back alive.

Yaqian is so terrifying!

A kind of harsh government that only targets a few people in rural households!

Therefore, for a period of time, the upper-class households in the Song Dynasty became a reminder of life!

However, the right to assess the upper-class households belongs to the local high-status households!

Therefore, the era of the Civil Service Law was the era when the power of the local households was the greatest.

Any household in the village who dares to offend these people will be rated as a high-class household.

Then wait for the family to be destroyed!

Sima Guang closed his eyes and said, "How can we cry together when one family is crying?"

This is what Fan Zhongyan said during the Qingli New Deal.

"Nowadays, everyone has to pay due to the exemption law!"
To be continued...