Chapter 130 Living Cao Cao! (Here he comes! Thanks to Brother Fusheng for the great reward!)

Take a break during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Zhang Heng locked himself in the study, frowning and looking at the messy paper he had written on.

If someone comes, they will probably be surprised, because there are some names written on it in a mess, but these names are all famous.

For example, Du Yan, Wu Yu, and Han Qi from the Privy Council, Zhang Dexiang, Yan Shu, Fan Zhongyan, and Jia Changchao from the Political Council, Cai Xiang, Ouyang Xiu, and Shi Jie from the Admonition Council, Wang Gongchen, and Zhang Fangping from the Yushitai, and others.

There are also Wen Yanbo, Pang Ji, Zhang Yaozuo, Cao Yan, etc., the chief officials of the second government and the third department are listed one by one.

In addition, there are words such as reformist, conservative, general, honorable, central, local, Jiangnan, Fujian, imperial power, relative, Zhang Guifei, Empress Cao, etc., and they are outlined with arrows, circles and other symbols.

, seems to be expressing some very complex relationships.

After a long time, Zhang Heng finally rolled up the paper, then found a brazier, lit it with a fire stick, threw it in and watched it burn.

Maybe he smelled the smell of something burning, so Zhang Jun came over and looked at the brazier. He didn't ask anything, but just said: "Let's go, the meal is ready, let's go eat."

Zhang Heng nodded.

The weather in August gradually became cooler. The two brothers took big bowls, beat rice, vegetables and meat, poured a ladle of stewed soup on them, and sat down at the foot of the steps to eat.

"Are you busy lately?"

Zhang Jun swallowed a mouthful of meat and asked.

Zhang Heng also swallowed a mouthful of meat. The marinade was delicious. He nodded with satisfaction: "Busy! There are many things, but they are all small things."

Zhang Jun said with a smile: "The second daughter-in-law is going to give birth soon, and I don't know if it will be a boy or a girl. The second brother is very rare."

Zhang Heng couldn't help but laugh: "No, I haven't seen anyone recently."

Both brothers laughed.

After Zhang Heng finished his meal, he said to Zhang Jin: "I will go out to visit people in a while, and I will ride on the donkey cart."

Zhang Jun nodded and said, "Go ahead. Anyway, I'm also studying at home. I'm not going anywhere. When I come back in the evening, let's go to the second son's house to see him."

Zhang Heng nodded: "Okay."

The little female donkey has gained a lot of weight recently, and Zhang Heng joked: "Are you getting fat or are you pregnant?"

The little female donkey snorted and tried to kick Zhang Heng. Zhang Heng quickly got out of the way and cursed: "There are too many good days, right?"

Ouyang Xiu lived in a courtyard in an alley. It looked quite simple. Zhang Heng immediately judged: This Ouyang Xiu is a poor man.

He smiled and thought that it was normal. Not all officials in the Beijing Dynasty were as good at management as Zeng Gongliang. Ouyang Xiu could only do this. If he could be an official stably for a few years, he could afford to buy a house, but he had to

You have to know how to save money. Anyone who spends money will not be able to save money.

Ouyang Xiu was quite surprised by Zhang Heng's arrival, but he didn't take it too seriously. After all, people often came to his humble house. After all, he was also famous in the Mesozoic generation in the literary world. It was normal for people to come to him to discuss literature.

Ouyang Xiu was very enthusiastic about Zhang Heng, not only because of Zhang Heng's famous literary reputation, but also because he was easy to make friends.

"Ju Zheng is coming to my place for the first time, and he is so brilliant." Ouyang Xiu smiled happily.

Zhang Heng said with a smile: "I should have come a long time ago, but for more than a year, I have been running around here and there without a moment of leisure. It is not interesting for such a busy official."

Ouyang Xiu laughed.

Ouyang Xiu wanted to chat with Zhang Heng about articles and literature, but Zhang Heng refused to take the initiative and turned the conversation to the recent lively changes.

Ouyang Xiu was willing to chat and said with a smile: "The situation is great. Have you read the Ten Things in Reply to the Imperial Edict proposed by Fan Shenzheng?"

Zhang Heng nodded and said with a smile: "Fan Shenzheng has extraordinary knowledge. The ten points he proposed hit the key points of the Song Dynasty. If they can be implemented, the Song Dynasty will become a strong Song Dynasty in the future!"

He added in his mind: "...the Southern Song Dynasty was ahead of schedule."

"Replying to the Imperial Edict" puts forward ten reform propositions: clearly depose the emperor, suppress luck, pay tribute, select officials, equalize public land, enrich farmers and mulberry trees, cultivate military equipment, promote favors and trust, emphasize orders, and reduce corvee labor.

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Although the "Ten Strategies" include many aspects of state affairs, the core content is actually two old and new, new and old difficult issues. This is to clarify the issue of "official administration" and to achieve the goal of easing the Song Dynasty through "better troops and simpler administration".

The heavy economic burden on the dynasty and the problem of improving administrative efficiency;

In other words, it is a matter of achieving lean military and streamlined administration through clean government, thereby offloading the heavy economic and political burdens burdened by the dynasty, and thus enriching the country and strengthening the military.

Fan Zhongyan's analysis of serious social problems is indeed sharp and to the point. His analysis of the serious shortcomings in these ten aspects of state affairs at this time is neither inaccurate nor in-depth.

But it is precisely because reform based entirely on this idea is bound to fail.

The reason is very simple. This way of solving the problem is a major reform in a simple era, resulting in a simple confrontation between "vested interest groups" and "unacquired interest groups".

In fact, Wang Anshi also made the same mistake in his reform.

In his previous life, Zhang Heng followed the old leader to work in many new companies. Every time the old leader tried to reform the company's shortcomings, he first opened up a new profit-making channel to cultivate new groups.

Moreover, this new profit-making channel cannot harm the interests of the original company groups. After the new groups are cultivated, they will naturally replace the old groups, and the change will be successful.

Zhang Heng did not understand this. The old leader told Zhang Heng that any major reform should not focus on depriving one group of legitimate interests and giving them to another group, because this will inevitably cause more and bigger problems.

Contradictions and even struggles eventually lead to the reform process getting out of control, and the reform goals will inevitably fail.

Fan Zhongyan's Qingli New Deal and Wang Anshi's Xining Reform simply deprived the original class of interests and then redistributed them. This caused a counterattack by the original class, and failure was inevitable.

Fan Zhongyan pointed at the foreheads of those with vested interests and said, "Look, I'm going to kill you!"

How could such a change not fail?

Ouyang Xiu said: "Why can't it be possible? The chief officials and officials of the second and third departments have all seen it and feel that it is in line with the current situation. It will be implemented soon. When the time comes, we will select good officials and wait for this law to be implemented in the world. This world

It will get better again!”

Ouyang Xiu is very optimistic.

Zhang Heng smiled and said: "I heard that when Mr. Yan and Mr. Zhang had doubts, he went to Mr. Lu to inquire about the government?"

Ouyang Xiu was stunned, but Zhang Heng seemed to have no intention, and quickly changed the topic to other places. The two of them also had a good conversation. Ouyang Xiu wanted to keep him for dinner, but Zhang Heng said that his second brother's wife was about to give birth.

, he wanted to take a look, Ouyang Xiu would not be able to stay.

Zhang Heng ran away quickly, like a naughty kid who set a fire and ran away.

Then a few days later, Zhang Heng heard that Ouyang Xiu had impeached Lu Yijian.

Ouyang Xiu pointed out: "Lü Yijian has been in power for more than twenty years. He has not done anything to benefit or eliminate harm for Your Majesty, but has tolerated it. Everything has deteriorated like this. Internally, the money is empty, and externally, the people's wealth is exhausted. If Your Majesty wants to rely on Lu Yijian to develop financial resources, please forgive him."

Is it possible to obtain the power of the people?

Now that Lu Yijian has returned home due to illness, he is still greedy for power. Only by removing him from the power to discuss military and state affairs can the prime minister truly take charge of military and state affairs!]

When Zhang Heng heard the specific content of the impeachment, he couldn't help but be stunned, what a guy!

Ouyang Xiu is worthy of being called a cannon of the Song Dynasty, and this shot is truly remarkable.

Ouyang Xiu directly attributed the responsibility for the current situation of the Song Dynasty to Lu Yijian, and then pointed out that Lu Yijian is still interfering in political affairs, and the governors are unable to truly govern. What is the difference between Lu Yijian and Lu Yijian in politics?

As soon as Ouyang Xiu's impeachment memorial was announced, Cai Xiang and others immediately followed, so Zhao Zhen formally issued an edict, telling the prime minister not to disturb the old prime minister. If there were political matters, the prime ministers should discuss it with each other.

This can be regarded as blocking Lu Yijian's way of controlling the government.

When Zhang Heng heard the news, he immediately visited Wu Yu. After a quarrel with Wu Yu, Wu Yu could only agree to help with some things.

On the second day, Wu Yu first visited Wang Gongchen, and then visited Zhang Dexiang.

Zhang Heng took advantage of Xiu Mu to invite Cao Yi. The food and wine were simple, but Cao Yi was very happy when he left, almost treating Zhang Heng as a brother.

Zhang Heng gave Jia Changchao a Mid-Autumn Festival gift, and he and Jia Changchao went into the study and chatted for a long time.

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Fan Zhongyan has been very busy recently. On the one hand, he is responsible for disaster relief and food transportation. He appointed Gao Yijian as the Fujian Road Transport Envoy. Currently, he is mainly responsible for food transportation. As for maintaining order in the local area, etc.

, let Chen Zhizhong, who was suppressing bandits in Jianghuai, take up the post together.

Although these responsibilities are spread out, as the main person in charge, he still has to listen to reports from time to time and then give instructions, which is also very energy-consuming.

On the other hand, he had to prepare for the reform. His "Answering the Imperial Edict and Chen Shi Shi" put forward ten reform proposals. Although he wrote more than 7,000 words, for an article, 7,000 words was quite a lot.

Yes, but for a revolution, seven thousand words can only be regarded as a program.

So it still needs to be detailed.

There are still people helping to do this, but in order to avoid misinterpretation and over-interpretation, you still have to keep an eye on it.

These are considered part of the effort, but choosing officials to implement them is the most important thing. He has to constantly have interviews with the officials he is optimistic about, not only to understand their abilities, but also to find out their ideas. If the political opinions

Differently, no matter how powerful they are, sending them out can only do bad things.

So Fan Zhongyan is really busy.

It is easy to overlook some things when people are busy, but there was something that Fan Zhongyan felt vaguely strange about. One day Xu Yuan told him about something, saying that when Fujian Road Transfer Envoy Gao Yijian was transporting grain to the north, he was ambushed by pirates.

Fortunately, Gao Yijian was well prepared. Not only did he defeat the pirates, but he also captured the thief's leader. He will be transported to Beijing soon.

Fan Zhongyan finally suddenly remembered. He felt that there were some things that had been ignored recently. It seemed that many people had mentioned the matter of sea trade inadvertently recently. It seemed that they mentioned it inadvertently. Every time they mentioned it, they just passed it by. Therefore, they were ignored.

I ignored it, but now I think about it...

Tsk.

Officials have also mentioned it many times.
To be continued...