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Chapter 149 The place of profit

Han Qi thought about it in his mind and thought that it was not too much for Wang Jinghui to become the founding marquis. Now Wang Jinghui's official position is in the fourth rank, and the founding marquis was awarded the title of the third rank, which also expressed favor to Zhenglong. It had no practical significance in power, but it was also suitable, so he nodded to agree.

There were twelve titles in the Song Dynasty, and the founding marquis rank ninth. Except for the kings and successors, it was impossible for the princes to be granted to other surnames. A founding marquis is already a very high title among the ministers, especially Wang Jinghui is not yet thirty years old. Zeng Gongliang's British Duke and Fu Bi's Duke of Zheng were of high status, but if Wang Jinghui had such a promotion speed, it would be very confident to see the Duke before he was forty years old.

The ministers standing in the Funing Hall had no opinion on Wang Jinghui's decision to be named, and this decision quickly became a handwritten order. If it were personal relationships, Wang Jinghui and them were all good. Fu Bi's "leg flaw" was cured by Wang Jinghui himself. Although the civilian clinic did not open a branch in Dongcheng District where officials and powerful people gathered, the top powerful people in Bian Capital were very happy to cross the Bian Capital to invite doctors from the civilian clinic to see a doctor. Wang Jinghui himself was even more sought after, so he relied on his outstanding medical skills to build a good network of relationships. As long as it was not too much demand, the various nodes in this network were still very willing to help him.

Wang Jinghui didn't know that the atmosphere in Funing Hall was a little nervous about awarding him a Hanlin Bachelor. In addition to going to the palace every day to take care of his father-in-law's condition, he was with the Shu princess and also talked with the visiting guests. Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu also went to the Princess' Mansion to explain to him about the Hanlin Bachelor. At this time, from the Shu princess, he already knew what happened in the Funing Hall. This result was reasonable, but it was inexplicable.

He was very happy when he was founded by a founding marquis. He didn't expect that he, a doctor who was not on the table in the 21st century, turned into a nobleman in this era, which made him feel a little happy. Seeing that he despised the Hanlin scholars so much, he paid more attention to the founding marquis title, he couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly: It was also a matter of his own affairs. Although the prince-consort was born as a businessman, he was elegant and had no concern for power at all, but he was too careless.

Zhao Shu was no longer in danger of life, and he could speak on the fourth day after waking up - this was better than Wang Jinghui's estimate. The constraints of a Supreme Emperor on the emperor can be maximized. Every day, the acupuncture master in the Imperial Hospital used acupuncture to stimulate the acupuncture all over his body, and through traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods such as medicinal baths and massages, Wang Jinghui hopes that his father-in-law can go out in a wheelchair for a few months.

During this period, the Shenzong Zhao Xu also called Wang Jinghui alone to Funing Hall. Zhao Xu now needs him to provide advice on governing the country. Although Wang Anshi had close contacts with Zhao Xu and had deep friendships, Zhao Xu even wanted to promote Wang Anshi as a political affairs again. However, compared with his brother-in-law, Wang Anshi and Wang Jinghui seemed to give people a feeling of inversion. Wang Anshi was more energetic and energetic like a young man. Wang Jinghui was gentle and elegant, making people feel like a spring breeze and an elder. Both of them had different charms and outstanding talents. This made Zhao Xu feel that he and the Song Dynasty were indeed favored by God. Although the Song Dynasty was facing an extremely difficult situation in this era, the pillars of the country continued to emerge. In addition to the big and small kings, there were also a large number of young heroes such as Su Shi brothers. Zhao Xu began to be full of confidence in opening his own era.

In the garden behind the Funing Hall, Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu was wearing a white casual dress with dragon-shaped bamboo decorations faintly exposed on it. He sat casually on a stone pier, while Wang Jinghui sat opposite him.

"Wang Qing, as you said, now innovating the bad policies of the Song Dynasty requires taking advantage of the situation, taking every step, and persevering?" Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu picked up a cup of tea and slowly caressed the tea cover. Wang Jinghui was indifferent to fame and fortune, and was his brother-in-law and the most talented young hero he had known. He saw what the prince-consort did over the past few years. Although his temper and preferences were very different from those of Su Shi, who were as famous as him in the contemporary world, the achievements Wang Jinghui made were obvious to all those who were insiders.

When the Supreme Emperor explained to the important figures in the court to Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu during the time of his sobering moment, the most common one was the son-in-law Wang Jinghui, and even made an evaluation that "the son-in-law's talent and achievements can be compared with the Zhao Pu, the first founding of this dynasty," and their father and son agreed very much. Wang Jinghui has appeared in Biandu to now become the youngest schoolmaster in the Song Dynasty. If it were not for the obstruction of the ministers and the identity of his son-in-law, even the youngest Hanlin scholar in the Song Dynasty, although the few things he did were not very loud, he remained silent, which made the court, which had been "in debt" for several years, actually began to have a slight surplus. In terms of his achievements, he could naturally occupy an important place in the "Genuine Classic of Famous Ministers".

Before abdicating, Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu instructed Zhao Xu: "Although the son-in-law is about the same age as you, his talent is comparable to that of wind music, and he is humble and indifferent. If you have something to discuss with him, you will definitely gain unexpected results!" Although he heard his father praise another young man for his talent, Zhao Xu did not have any jealousy in his heart. Although he was a little young and vigorous, he had to be determined to revive the Song Dynasty since he was a child and grew up in an imperial family. He still knew the most basic principles of how to use talents, so he naturally did not want to be Cao Cao's short-handed.

After Wang Jinghui finished the treatment of the Supreme Emperor today, he was summoned by Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu. He thought it was just a normal conversation, but he didn't expect that Zhao Xuqi's words were really big: "I want to revive the Song Dynasty and eliminate bad policies. Can you teach me?"

When Wang Jinghui heard this question, the first person he thought of was Wang Anshi. Only this old guy would be determined to use drastic reforms to revive the Song Dynasty. In this regard, Wang Jinghui and Wang Anshi had communicated with each other many times in letter exchanges and meeting each other. Although both of them had the same goal of revive the Song Dynasty, they were pointed at the specific implementation strategy, and no one could convince anyone. This made Wang Jinghui feel frustrated for the first time. Thinking of the development process of the relationship between Sima Guang and Wang Anshi in history, he has now begun to understand Sima Guang's situation very well.

However, Wang Jinghui is a person who knows the general progress of the entire history. Although he sympathizes with Sima Guang's situation, it is indeed a very painful thing to work with such a stubborn donkey, he cannot adopt the same strategy as Sima Guang. This will only make the progress of history rush around like a wild horse and go back to the old path, which is something he does not allow.

Every time he went to the left, Wang Jinghui always mentioned the plan he adopted in Chuzhou to resolve it, because facts are the most telling of the problem. The reason why Wang Anshi was able to think of launching large-scale reforms in history was that he built his confidence when he was a local official using the Qingmiao method. Wang Anshi did not avoid this. Every time he exchanged opinions with Wang Jinghui, he regarded him as an equal person. When talking to outsiders, he praised Wang Jinghui's character: "Revise it, get along well. Although the time is short, it makes people look like a gentleman in the ancient style! It's just that he always has different views on things, and the methods of dealing with problems are often different."

Both of them wanted to use their experience as a fait-made person to convince each other to help them, but neither of them succeeded. However, in general, the prince consort of Xiao Wang and the scholar-in-law of Lao Wang got along well, and their personal relationships became increasingly deeper. All of this fell into the eyes of Emperor Zhao Xu of Shenzong. Both of them lived with Emperor Zhao Xu of Shenzong for quite some time. As the parties involved, he had the highest evaluation of the talents of the two. However, if they had to distinguish between the superiority, Wang Jinghui's way of doing things in the wind was even more appreciated.

After discussing with Wang Anshi for a year, Shenzong Zhao Xu has now become the emperor of this huge empire. He finally had the opportunity to show off his ambitions on this land. At this time, he was already very clear about Wang Anshi's thoughts. Although he had not read Wang Jinghui's policy arguments very much, the two of them had never discussed so seriously about finding the future of an empire. Then this opportunity, he finally couldn't sit still and took the initiative to test Wang Jinghui's thoughts. However, the prince-consort seemed to have expected that he would raise this question and gave him such a sentence, which made him feel very savored.

Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu said slowly, "I should learn from it!" However, after playing with the teacup lid in his hand for a while, he was unwilling to be fooled by Wang Jinghui with one sentence. In his long-term interaction with the prince-consort, Zhao Xu was already very clear about Wang Jinghui's "toothpaste-squeezing" personality: after a little tightening, the prince-consort revealed one until the prince-consort's belly was empty or he was done when he was talking about him. Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu hated the prince-consort very much, but there was no way. It seemed that the prince-consort had been prepared to consume his enthusiasm. Although he knew this very well, he always brought it to the door, which made Zhao Xu angry.

Wang Jinghui is also intentionally trying to torture Zhao Xu's character now. The reform is a major event that affects millions of people in the world. If the Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu lacks even this little patience, it will be a big mess. He saw that the emperor opposite was still holding a teacup in his hand, and knew that he had tortured him almost. It seemed that Zhao Xu's patience was good, so he continued to say, "Is the emperor going to imitate Shang Yang's reform and strengthening?"

Hearing Wang Jinghui speak, Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled and said, "You are so in line with my wishes, good! Now the Song Dynasty has become a fraught and ill-fated state, and only reforms can revive the Song Dynasty!"

Wang Jinghui looked down at his teacup. After seeing Zhao Xu's eyes, the eunuch next to him immediately filled him with tea. He thought to himself: "This prince-consort has a great face. No one can get the attention of the emperor. But isn't the prince-consort quite easy-going? He doesn't forget us what he sends to the palace every month..."

Wang Jinghui just did an unintentional action when sorting out his thoughts. He didn't expect that Zhao Xu really cared, which also added a hint of worry to him - Zhao Xu seemed to be unable to wait! "Master, Shang Yang's reforms strengthened Qin State. It can be said that Qin State was able to stand out in the Warring States Period and wipe out the six-in-one world, all thanks to Shang Yang's reforms. Why did he make contributions to Qin State, but end up being a tragic end of the five horses dismembering the corpse?!"

When Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu saw that Wang Jinghui did not give him an answer, he knew that the reform was not what he thought, and he was a little sad, but he still thought about it very seriously. Because his past experience told him that even if the prince-consort did not approve of something, he would still make very meaningful suggestions. "The Qin people were cruel and tyrannical. Although the First Emperor unified the world, the Qin State also died because of cruelty. I can't see any difference between the two!"

Wang Jinghui smiled and said, "The emperor said this! The Qin people are cruel. Bai Qi killed 400,000 Zhao troops as evidence. I can't say anything, but history is written by people, and the words left by Taishi Gong may not be correct! Otherwise, why only Qin can unify the world, why is it not as powerful as Qin?! Did the emperor remember what I once said: Existence is the truth! But this has nothing to do with reform. In my opinion, the reason why Shang Yang died was just for one word!"

"What word?!"

Wang Jinghui dipped his fingers into the tea that had just been poured in the cup and wrote the word "生" on the table. Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu leaned over with anticipation, but saw him writing such a word. Even if he was disappointed and annoyed, he was helpless - Wang Jinghui is not only the person he respects, but also his brother-in-law!

Wang Jinghui naturally saw that the face of Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu was not very good, so he put away his game and said, "Your Majesty, don't underestimate this word. In fact, most of the behaviors in the world are related to the word "profit". Not only merchants, but also scholars and even officials in the court are all the more so. Scholars come to take the imperial examinations in the court, except for a small number of people who are dedicated to the country. Most people just want to seek "power" and the word "profit" is ultimately the word "profit", which means that the ministers have different opinions. There are many reasons for this. Even the Saint Confucius's lifelong pursuit is for "the world's benefit"! What does the emperor think?!"

After hearing this, Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu nodded thoughtfully. After spending so long with Wang Jinghui, he knew very well the meaning of the word "profit" in the prince-consort's dialect. This is also why when Wang Jinghui chose to do business, his brother and sister were still willing to interact with him as the royal family.

"I have already understood what I mean! But what does the word "li" have to do with reform?!" After hearing Wang Jinghui's explanation, Zhao Xu's expression returned to normal, and he was still humbly asking this half-teacher and half-friend brother-in-law as he was when he was the King of Ying.

"Sage, reform is a major event that concerns the life and death of a country. You must have sufficient preparation in advance. Just like Shang Yang, he only saw the interests of the country and the local area, but did not see the interests of the powerful and powerful Qin at that time. Qin was strong in the end, but he greatly offended the powerful and powerful class of Qin. When the King of Qin could not withstand the pressure from the nobles, who would calm the anger of the powerful class? Of course it was Shang Yang! Poor Shang Yang himself became the first sacrifice on the powerful altar of Qin!"

After Wang Jinghui sighed at Shang Yang's ending, he continued: "The Song Dynasty has issued an edict from Emperor Taizu Taizong: Do not kill scholars and officials. Naturally, it can prevent such regretful things as Shang Yang from happening in the Song Dynasty, but what happened during the Qingli period is still like in front of you. If it is not handled properly in advance, it will be troublesome when the matter comes!"

Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu said softly: "Are these all the words 'li'?"

"Yes! Did the emperor see that what the ministers did in Chuzhou seem to be a bit complicated, but they have ensured that the new regulations can be implemented smoothly to the greatest extent. This is a measure of weighing after taking care of all interests! When a country reforms, a new interest class has been rising throughout the ages, and the original interest class has been damaged and realized. If the Song Dynasty reforms, it would be this! The new interest class must strive for greater power and interests, while the previous interest class will do its best to protect its status from infringement. This is also the same

It is natural that if the reform is not fully prepared and is too eager to implement it, a fierce conflict will break out between the two. At that time, in the court, even officials who reform the law out of the public will gradually fight for power with officials who have protected their interests, which is the source of the 'party struggle'! At that time, both sides will want to overwhelm the other party like two beasts biting each other in the quagmire. However, they do not know that the 'wonder' of the country and the world will gradually be lost in their struggles, and the vitality of the empire will be greatly damaged!"

Wang Jinghui recalled that the history of the Song Dynasty since the Xining reforms was basically developed according to this path. It was not until the Mongols forced the last little emperor of the Song Dynasty to jump into the sea. This country no longer had the same integrity as the scholar-officials developed in the early loose political environment of the Song Dynasty.

Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu heard Wang Jinghui talking across from him, listing the consequences of "radical reform" like Shang Yang to the country, and heard the tragic change: "You are indeed thoughtful and correcting it, you must have been thinking for a long time! Can you teach me how to overcome this difficulty?!"
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