Chapter 20 Wang Hao
Although the Song Dynasty no longer connected the Western Regions, the Silk Road had been cut off by the Western Xia. However, the people had already learned how to make wine, and various fruit wines were popular, and they were not unified by high-level grain wine later. There was also wine drinking, so Wen Fei was not talking nonsense.
Wang Fu was overjoyed: "Only the upper realm can have such treasures, which are not something that can be enjoyed by ministers. When I go back, I will definitely present to the official family for the immortal master!"
Wen Fei almost had a cold sweat. Look at these people. The level of awareness is so high. Once you have something good, the first thing you think of is the emperor. No wonder these people are promoted and made a fortune.
"Of course I have prepared the gift for the emperor, so Wang Sijian doesn't have to think too much." Wen Fei said lightly.
Wang Fu was originally just like a person. This guy was greedy by nature. He said that he wanted to give this treasure to the emperor, but his eyes seemed to stick to this glass cup and could not even be pulled. When he heard Wen Fei say that there were gifts for Song Huizong, he was curious and thought that even those who had given me were such rare treasures. I wonder what kind of treasure it was for the official family. Then he asked, "I don't know if I can let me see the gifts given to the official family?"
Wen Fei laughed and said with a smile: "Let me show you, the emperor will know together. I want to give the emperor a surprise!"
After saying this, Wang Fu was embarrassed to ask again. After receiving Wen Fei's heavy gift, he naturally wanted to find a way to repay him, so he whispered: "Originally, the emperor wanted to go out of the city to welcome the immortal master himself, but that old Zhao Tingzhi was ungrateful. He always opposed it strongly. He said that if the immortal master was a liar, the emperor would make a laugh..."
As he said, he habitually looked at Wen Fei's face carefully. Being good at looking at the face of the superior is the way for people like him to survive. In this way, he regards Wen Fei as the superior and must be careful to guess.
"It's this Zhao Tingzhi again," Wen Fei was furious. The name of Zhao Tingzhi was, Wen Fei knew that he was Li Qingzhao's father-in-law and knew nothing else. He originally thought that he was just an insignificant little character, but he would never have thought that it was so difficult. Now even a big traitor like Cai Jing was suppressed.
Wang Fu seemed to know the holiday between Wen Fei and the Zhao family. He whispered: "Zhao Tingzhi doesn't like his future daughter-in-law, because Li Gefei is a traitor of Yuanyou. If Zhao Mingcheng hadn't wanted to marry Li Qingzhao, Zhao Tingzhi would definitely not have agreed!"
The so-called Yuanyou Party members were actually the old party members who opposed Wang Anshi's reforms led by Sima Guang. Although Wen Fei always deceived people when he went to school, and after Wang Anshi stopped his precepts, the reforms failed. In fact, this was not the case at all. After Wang Anshi's death, Shenzong alone insisted on the unchanging reforms for ten years.
When Song Zhezong was still reforming. When Song Huizong was now, he was still following the policies of Wang Anshi. The current year name Chongning means advocating Xining reform.
When Emperor Shenzong of Song died, the Empress Dowager Gao took power and appointed a group of old party members to drive all the new party out of the court and exiled. When Emperor Shenzong of Song Zhezong died, Emperor Zhezong was older and started to reform again. Those people from the new party gained power and retaliated against the old party members who had used the methods used by the old party members on them, and it became even more cruel.
When the old party members looked at all the archives and memorials of the court, and anyone who said good things for the reforms would be penetrated into the reforms and exiled. As a result, Empress Dowager Gao died too early, and the great project of the old party members had not been completed. Then the new party members came back to power, and they also learned this trick, simply compiled all the old party members into a list and carved them directly on the stone tablet. All the old party members would be targeted to be severely attacked.
Since the Southern Song Dynasty, because Cai Jing and other new parties completely finished the Northern Song Dynasty, they have turned all the new party into evil, and naturally the ones that are most right with the new party have become gentlemen.
In fact, the people in the old party really had never done anything beautiful. These guys were extremely obedient and opposed everything the new party wanted to do. The four villages of Anjiang, Jialu, Futu and Mizhi that were opened by Xihe were all ceded to Xixia in order to have a safe haven. It can be said that the work of taking the initiative to cede the country without defeating the war or even fighting the war was done by these people in the old party.
Of course, there are no good people in the New Party. Although since the founding of this dynasty, all the rebellions in history have been called revolution, and the reforms from all generations have also been called justice. In fact, the reforms of the New Party are eager for quick success and instant benefits, and are not very clever!
In short, when the new and old party arrived at Song Huizong, they were completely biting dogs and had a mouthful of hair.
Governing a big country is like cooking small fresh food, and Wang Anshi's reform should be used as an analogy, just like fried soybeans - such a big country and society cannot withstand such shocks.
Take an example for example. Wang Anshi's new law has been introduced in a hurry without good argumentation, careful research, and hastily introduced. There is a method called "Hand-Stand Method". Everyone goes to the government to report the property, land, and houses in their families. After reporting, they collect taxes according to the property you reported in proportion. They are worried that the people will report it less and conceal it because everyone wants to pay less taxes and report it less. So they stipulate that after Zhang Sanjia reports, others can expose him; once it is exposed, the government will investigate and verify it, you have indeed concealed the report. Some of the concealed reports will be confiscated, confiscated, and the other part will be rewarded to the informant.
This is just to make the world turmoil! Everyone has selfish intentions, which is to encourage the people to attack and report each other. Not only does it destroy the entire social atmosphere, but it has no practicality. Therefore, it was decided and was abolished soon. This kind of thing has happened too many times in the New Party reform.
Li Gefei is unlucky because in a strict sense, he is not a member of the old party. However, he was implicated by his teacher, and unfortunately, Li Gefei's teacher is not someone else, Su Dongpo, a big bearded man.
Chapter completed!