"Stubborn Old Man" is Wang Jinghui's "nickname" to Wang Anshi and Sima Guang. When he was reading history books in later generations, he always felt that Wang Anshi's personality was stubborn enough, but after coming to this era, he often dealt with two historical celebrities before discovering it. Not only was Wang Anshi's stubborn temper, but Sima Guang's stubbornness was not inferior to Wang Anshi, which made him feel a little bitter. Fortunately, these two people were for the country. As long as they were for state affairs, no matter how strong the two sides argued, they would not use any bad means to deal with themselves. This demeanor really made Wang Jinghui feel a little disappointed.

After hearing that her husband called the ministers of the empire a stubborn old man, although she had heard it many times, she couldn't help but want to laugh. She stood up and walked behind Wang Jinghui and held her husband's shoulder with her hands and said, "Sima Junshi and Wang Jiefu are both seniors after all, and they are important officials in the court. Isn't it a bit heavy to talk to them like this?"

"'I will not shrink myself, even if I reveal my lenient things, I will not take care of it. I will shrink myself, even if I go there in millions of people.' My wife, there are some things that cannot tolerate me. Taking a step back can certainly fulfill my relationship with them, but it is of no use to my Song court, and it is even more of a dangerous situation for the people of our Song Dynasty. This is a national affairs rather than a personal relationship!" Wang Jinghui said.

As a royal family, the eldest princess of Shu received a good education in the palace since she was a child. Her husband said clearly. Mencius was a Confucian sage and his status was second only to Confucius. She was very familiar with the book "Mencius". "Even if there are thousands of people, I will go there." The eldest princess of Shu also hoped that her husband was a man who stood up and knew her husband's talent in his heart, but she was trapped by her identity and could not fully display it, which made her feel a little sad.

"Qianyu, don't think so much! Some people and things need time to evaluate, but at least some things have been verified by history. I can't be Wei Zheng, and the emperor still may be the Emperor Taizong of Tang. There is priority and I will not be ignorant of the matter. My wife doesn't have to worry about what Wang Jiefu and Sima Jun will actually be. They are both real gentlemen. Just like Mr. Ouyang Yongshu's "On the Party", gentlemen often have opinions on the left. A few months ago, weren't they very unhappy? Now it seems that the unhappiness caused by the opinions on the left will not hinder their personal relationship, and I am the same as them." Wang Jinghui comforted with warm words.

The eldest princess of Shu hugged her husband from behind and said with a smile: "I know, Gaizhi is actually a gentleman with Wang Jiefu and Sima Jun! But his husband always calls them stubborn old men, but I wonder if his husband is too stubborn?"

After hearing this, Wang Jinghui burst into laughter - his status and influence are improving, but is his personality still as he has been at the beginning of this era? He has brought huge changes to this era, but it is undeniable that the people and things he encountered in this era are also quietly changing himself. Will he become as stubborn as Sima Guang and Wang Anshi?!

But then again, today is different from the past. Since history has proven to be the wrong direction, I must try my best to avoid it, and hesitate too much, and in the end it is the people who suffer.

A few days later, it was the day when all the officials of the court gathered in Chuigong Hall to discuss matters. Wang Jinghui, as the son-in-law and the direct scholar of Longtu Pavilion, naturally had to discuss matters in Chuigong Hall.

The peace talks envoy sent by the Xixia had already begun to discuss with the senior officials of the Song Dynasty for several days, and Wang Jinghui's ears also listened to the progress of the peace talks. However, what comforted him was that the Song Dynasty once again firmly rejected the Xixia's request for annual monies and proposed an objective amount of war compensation!

This was a huge progress. In the past, Wang Jinghui did not understand why, as a war land winner, would have signed such a treaty that was a disgraceful place in Chinese history. There were also many such treaties in the Song Dynasty. The most famous one was of course the Alliance of Na Yuan. The Song Dynasty had already occupied an advantage at that time. It surrounded the main forces of the Liao land and killed Xiao Dalan, the number one general of the Liao Kingdom at that time, but in the end, it signed a shameful treaty of tribute every year - this was also a precedent in Chinese history - the orthodox emperor of the Central Plains and the alien emperors called brothers!

Wang Jinghui once carefully studied the whole story of the Elder Ancestral Alliance. The problem was not because of the poor military combat, but because of the high-level rulers of the Song Dynasty, and Emperor Zhenzong and his ministers. The self-deception of the ostrich spirit completely buried the will to regain the hometown of the Han and Tang Dynasties since Emperor Taizu Taizong. Although there were famous ministers like Kou Zhun, there were also guys like Wang Ruoqin. Unfortunately, Emperor Zhenzong was not much more courageous than Wang Ruoqin. Only in this way could the monarch and ministers have such a ridiculous result.

Wang Jinghui knew that the current high-level rulers of the Song Dynasty had undergone quiet changes in the governance of the country. Emperor Zhao Xu, backed by powerful force, became increasingly tough in his attitude. More importantly, he had a strong expansion of his thoughts; among the monarch and ministers, the prince-tee, who should not have participated in politics, had the effect of the unremitting efforts over the past few years, which gave the emperor a wing to take off. The changes in the emperor's will also influence the thoughts of court officials. Four years ago, Wen Yanbo and Sima Guang advocated restoration of the year when there was a good news in Tushun City, but Wang Jinghui's fierce advice made Emperor Zhao Shu change his mind, just as Wang Jinghui believed that there would be a second copy for the first time. Four years later, the Secretariat, who is in charge of the peace talks, also had a great influence, but there was no idea of ​​restoring the annual monies. On the contrary, he had to demand compensation for war!

"The kingly way still needs domineering assistants! Even Sima Guang's position has changed. I don't know what will happen in the future?" Wang Jinghui sneered in his heart.

The peace talks in Song and Xia were an important topic, but there was something more important in the minds of the monarchs and ministers of the court than the peace talks in Song and Xia. The result of the sacred ceremony was based on the classics. Today, the discussion in Chuigong Hall was that the emperor personally met with the reference scholars in order to determine the final level - the ownership of the top scholar.

In the Song Dynasty, literati ruled the country to the peak of Chinese history. In this era, the treatment enjoyed by scholars was unimaginable in other historical stages in China. In this era, although there were incidents like the "Wutai Poetry Case" in history, literati did not take "breach of prohibition" at all. Compared with them, literati grew up under the double suppression of the famous "literary inquisition" and the eight-legged essay in the Qing Dynasty, the literati looked at the Song Dynasty as heaven. Not only did they dare not speak out their own opinions loudly, but they also humiliatedly called themselves slaves. Even Ji Xiaolan, a great talent in the Qing Dynasty, was not spared. Although he was very talented, he compiled the Siku Quanshu, but he also had to face the emperor like a kowtow worm, and also called himself slaves!

In the Song Dynasty, there were two places regarded as the peak by literati - one was to become a scholar like Ouyang Xiu; the other was to be able to become the top scholar. Even in the minds of many people, even if they could make great contributions to regaining the homeland of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, they were far less honored as the top scholar in Jinke High School - regaining the lost land is just a martial artist's behavior, so how can they be compared with the top scholar?!

Emperor Zhao Xu had not arrived at the Chuigong Hall, but the ministers of the Song Dynasty in the hall had gathered together, divided into several small piles and talked in a low voice, and the topics were all about the top scholars in the Jin Dynasty. Wang Jinghui looked at the people around him coldly. The list was sent by Emperor Zhao Xu to the son-in-law's mansion. The son-in-law was very stubborn. Although many students took the exam, the son-in-law, as a teacher, refused to ask, even the sentence and ranking matters were entrusted to others, without thinking about his students at all. Thinking about Ouyang Xiu encountered Su Shi's examination article, he mistakenly thought that Su Shi was his student, and in order to avoid suspicion, he ranked second. This son-in-law did even better than Ouyang Xiu, except for some miscellaneous items in charge of the exam.

As long as the issue of judging and ranking is involved, you will be avoided.

Emperor Zhao Xu learned through the following people that the prince-consort had made a big spoil to his students, and he really didn't know how to evaluate the prince-consort. The censor around him had long used this to impeach the prince-consort. Although the prince-consort refused to come forward to become an official, his students could fulfill the prince-consort's wishes. Even the Supreme Emperor Zhao Shu had had concerns in this regard. However, Emperor Zhao Xu had known the prince-consort for many years, not only admired his brother-in-law, who always acted out in a special way, but also because of his character, the prince-consort was one of the examiners as a direct scholar in the Longtu Pavilion. Not everyone could refuse such temptation, but Emperor Zhao Xu did not expect that this brother-in-law of the head really did nothing. On the day of accepting the position, he drove all the students out of the prince-consort's mansion. Except for dealing with those erratic things that no one would want to do, the core part was to ignore it.

Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, the prince-consort did this with a fool. But the real truth is that doing this is the smartest choice. Emperor Zhao Xu not only easily refuted the censors who often impeached the prince-consort, but also gave Wang Jinghui a very high score in his heart. Because of this, Emperor Zhao Xu sent someone to draft a list of places in the Secretariat to send the Prince-consort's Mansion. Although Wang Jinghui expressed his unwillingness to discuss these matters, in fact, after Emperor Zhao Xu sent the list, he did not wait for the prince-consort's reply. The news that the prince-consort passed by was left behind after reading it, and he did not say another comment on this.

Wang Jinghui knew that everyone in the Chuigong Hall wanted to use this court to expand his political strength. Although Wang Anshi's reform was so overwhelming that he could not raise his head, and it was not as vigorous as history, there were also two new and old factions in the court. Although Sima Guang was adding to Wang Anshi's new law, under Wang Jinghui's operation, although Wang Anshi led the reform, in fact, he did not even implement a new law. This cannot be said to be a very depressing thing for Wang Anshi and his new party members.

However, this time the talent-supporting ceremony gave Wang Anshi an opportunity to expand the influence of the new party and recruit reform talents. Not only Wang Anshi thought so, but also the old party. There were as many as hundreds of Ming Jing Jinshi who passed the palace examination. These people would be enriched to the county-level administrative institutions of the Song Dynasty, or serve as chief clerks. People such as the top scholar were even more favored and would enter the museum directly. They would be part of the government affairs in less than ten years. Therefore, the higher the ranking of the talent-supporting ceremony, their political tendencies were related to the balance of power between the two parties.

Wang Jinghui has no interest in the Grand Prize for Switching Talents, and will not take this opportunity to expand his political power. Being able to form his own political power circle is of course more convenient for completing the reform of the Song Dynasty according to his own ideas, but this risk is too great and cannot be accomplished by a foreign relative. In recent years, Wang Jinghui has built a unique political relationship circle through various means, and there is no need to take such a great risk to do things that uphold authority.

The dispute between the old and new parties in the Song Dynasty in history directly destroyed the political environment formed over the past century, and even literary inquisitions such as the Wutai Poetry Case appeared. This made Wang Jinghui wary. Compared to directly competing with Wang Anshi and Sima Guang and their followers in a field that he was not good at, it was also very unfavorable to him. In contrast, he valued more the use of the combination of interests to unite political forces. Wang Anshi and Sima Guang unified political forces based on their charm and personality, and relying on righteousness, but these things were too illusory for Wang Jinghui. Their followers did not have such a high awareness, and were more of the new party members who used it to climb to a higher position and lively a group of political speculators.

Wang Jinghui does not need these people like Lu Huiqing, Deng Wan, Cai Que. These people can make the people live and die for their own power. This is not the fellow he needs, nor is it in line with his own nature. In contrast, he would rather use joint investment to form a royal shipping method, directly tie the interests of ministers in the court to himself, and even tie the interests of the emperor to himself to achieve his political goals. Only money interests are the most real, especially the general Shilin class.

They are all in poverty. If the entire scholar class can be tied to his side in this way, it is the most wonderful. At least he has done a lot of success now. The emperor trusts himself and his economic power falls on his hands. Sima Guang, Ouyang Xiu and others value their talents. Wang Jinghui now plays a variety of roles alone. No matter how many hidden worries there are, at least he has profoundly influenced the Song Dynasty with these powers, and even dominated the direction of the Song Dynasty's empire!

Wang Jinghui has already read the list of the talent ceremony - Sima Guang put Li Shen's ranking second, and Wang Anshi didn't know what considerations he had put Li Shen first. Wang Jinghui had never seen the exam paper, but he could also imagine the reason. He had instructed Li Shen and other students to be slightly biased towards reform in the palace examination policy. But the position should not be too much. It can be imagined that Wang Anshi naturally likes such policy statements very much. At the same time, whether it was Sima Guang or Wang Anshi, both of them knew that the prince consort was very inclined to reform.

Li Shen's palace examination strategy almost adheres to Wang Jinghui's mantra. Although he favors reform and strengthens his strength, he opposes "sudden changes" - of course, under Wang Jinghui's "instructions", this kind of "anti-Wang Anshi"

The argument is processed, but overall, a discerning person can see at a glance that this is a policy that has been deeply imprinted by the "cold and summer theory" of the son-in-law. Emperor Zhao Xu was also very curious to see what level the son-in-law's student was. For this reason, he specially took out the test papers of the students who were worshipped under Wang Jinghui's disciples and reviewed them separately.

However, the special "care" of Emperor Zhao Xu made the officials below have an illusion, and they relaxed considerable standards for these students from the son-in-law in the judgment of the paper. In any case, the neutral line that Wang Jinghui has always pursued has brought great benefits to his students at this time. The relationship between the old and son-in-law has always been very good. The people of the new party value the son-in-law is somewhat an important figure with a spirit of change, and there is no difficulty in keeping his students. This attitude between the old and new parties has allowed Wang Jinghui's students to escape from dangers everywhere, basically as long as they have real talents,

There is basically no big problem with name, and Li Shen, as Wang Jinghui's first disciple, was even more smooth. The reason why Sima Guang did not list Li Shen first was not because he was considering Li Shence's position. He was more considering that the prince-consort, as a relative of the foreign country, had to be curbed. On the contrary, Wang Anshi did not have so many ideas. Although Li Shen's articles did not agree with his political propositions, they were also very biased. In addition, among the many reference scholars, Li Shen's writing style was obviously better than others, so he naturally put Li Shen first in terms of ranking issues.
Chapter completed!