Prime Minister

Chapter 859 For or Against

After a person resigns from a high position, it often seems to be a different person.

Sometimes it is surprising whether it is the person in power who is the real opponent, or the person who retreated to the mountains and forests is the real opponent.

When a person is in a position of power, power will unconsciously alienate people.

This is like the alienation of capital to people, independent of people's will.

If you observe carefully, you will find that after the original colleague and friend took up the leadership position, the other party seems to be a different person.

And after the other party retreated from that seat, he changed back to his original appearance.

Everyone is different, and the ease and loss that comes with stepping down is palpable.

Wang Anshi resigned from the prime minister for two months, Zhang Yue felt only relaxed, as if he didn't mind at all.

According to the rules, when the prime minister resigns, all graces will be killed.

But Zhang Yue saw that Wang Anshi didn't show any signs of fatigue.

Wang Anshi still knows the Jiangning Mansion now, and I was promoted seven ranks from the Minister of Rites to Minister of the Ministry of Officials in one go. At the same time, his disciples like Lu Huiqing are still in high positions, but all the graces are far behind him when he was a phase.

It can only be said that it is dictated by the state of mind.

Faced with Wang Anshi's question, Zhang Yue smiled and said: "The lower official remembered a sentence 'Some people resigned from office and returned to their hometowns, and some people went to the examination room at night', which is exactly the same as this situation."

Wang Anshi smiled and said to Zhang Yue: "The words of the champion are interesting. I just sit in the public office for a long time and get tired of the maintenance, so I just take a break when I am very proud. I am not surprised by honor or disgrace, just let nature take its course."

"When you read Liu Gongfu's poems, this person's mouth is damaged but his writing is not damaged."

Zhang Yue slandered, Wang Anshi was dismissed as prime minister, and even put gold on his face to become an emeritus.

Zhang Yue looked at Liu Tun's farewell poem to Wang Anshi's letter, "Bai Ma ordered out of the Phoenix Pond, and the bronze talisman of the Golden Festival was paired with Xi Gui."The story is that the Duke of Zhou is not the same as Lu, but he is the same as Xingshanfu...

After Zhang Yue read it, he thought that Liu Teng's words were well written, and advised Wang Anshi to think about it. Rather than being like Duke Zhou who had never been to the feudal state of Lu in his entire life, he might as well follow the example of Zhong Shanfu who was ordered by King Zhou to build a city in Qi.

Zhang Yuedao: "The lower officials think that it is not as good as Han Tui's 'I don't know the rank of the official, and the jade belt hangs the goldfish...all the people in this seat, the nineteenth hold the Junshu.'."

What Zhang Yue said was Han Yu's poem "Showing Children". No matter who he is, no matter how high or low his visitor's official position is, at a glance, he is also a goldfish with a jade belt on his waist.Look at the guests, they are all important ministers of the country.

Envy me, if you understand this, study hard for me.

Wang Anshi said: "Humanity Han Tui's poem said that it is all about profit and prosperity, but what Han Tui said is that 'a scholar-bureaucrat regards an official as his family, and he will have nothing to return to when he quits', so he taught his children with this."

The two finished playing the machine front.

Wang Anshi said: "Han Zihua has never been a prime minister, so he came here to pay homage to me. Duzhi is about to pay homage to Duanming Bachelor, is that why he came here?"

Seeing that Wang Anshi had seen through his intentions at a glance, Zhang Yue said truthfully: "Master, I have learned a lesson, I have nothing to do when I return to Beijing, so I am here to ask you for advice."

Before returning to Beijing, Han Jiang told the emperor Shangshu that after returning to Beijing, he would first visit Wang Anshi to ask him how to govern the country as prime minister, so as to express that he would not change the new law easily, and Xiao Guicao even wanted to follow suit.

Now that Zhang Yue has returned to the court to serve as a scholar of Duanming Palace, taking the opportunity of meeting Wang Anshi, he is actually going through such a process.

Because Zhang Yue was also brought up by Han Jiang, and he had the same political views.At the same time, this move is also to express one's position to the emperor and hundreds of officials.

Wang Anshi said to Zhang Yue: "Before Han Zihua came to Beijing, the officials told me to talk to Han Zihua in detail about the people who are in urgent need of human affairs and political affairs. Do you know what the old man said to Han Zihua?"

Zhang Yue shook his head.

Wang Anshi said: "The old man said to Han Zihua that the three divisions are in charge of the world's wealth, and the amount of their income and exits is not always important. It is a method of comparing emptiness. But in the past, there was no good overall planning method. It is like the world's household registration, population , taxes and field affairs, pit management, river crossings, house gardens and other annual rents and the number of money and valleys in a year are often registered repeatedly. There is no basis for the increase and loss of money and things, envy and waste, etc. .”

"I asked him to set up a department to deal with it!"

After listening to Wang Anshi's words, Zhang Yue understood that the other party was suggesting that Han Jiang set up a new office like a statistics bureau to calculate various financial figures, so that it would be convenient for the politicians to govern the country.

Zhang Yue said: "In the past, in order to implement the new law, the Department of Regulations of the Three Departments was set up, and the Department of Changping was set up in the local area. The use of the Three Departments has no way of knowing the accounts, so that the amount of consumption cannot be ascertained. Is it to solve this problem?"

Wang Anshi said: "That's right, so a new division is set up, and the accounts of the Changping Division and the Third Division will be merged."

Zhang Yue asked: "So this department is placed under Zhongshu?"

Wang Anshi nodded.

Zhang Yue said: "Isn't this the embezzlement of the power of the third division?"

Wang Anshi said: "It must be like this. If the prime minister doesn't predict the finances, what can he do? How can he combine the wealth of the world and then manage it for the world?"

"The old man said to Han Zihua at the time that this matter is urgent and should not be delayed. You have managed the Third Division in the past and have economic talents, so you can handle this matter."

Zhang Yue thought to himself, this is another level of power collection.

From Wang Anshi's establishment of the Three Departments of Regulations and the promotion of the Changping Department, it means that the prime minister pre-financed, the Zhongshu embezzled the rights of the Three Departments, and the central government embezzled the rights of the localities.

Wang Anshi still followed the method of strengthening the prime minister's power and intensified the reform.The latecomer Han Jiang, Lu Huiqing certainly thought so too.

This is the so-called emptiness and reality, and it is also the politics most admired by scholars in the Song Dynasty, even the emperors of the Song Dynasty advocated it in this way.

Only then did Emperor Renzong, who was "not good at everything, only know how to be an official", also had a generation of famous figures like Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, and Wang Anshi who took the world as their own responsibility.

Under this major premise, Lu Huiqing wholeheartedly defended herself, and Han Jiang tried her best to cite herself to join the court as a help...

But they don't know that they have already... hey.

The more Zhang thought about it, he felt a little bit ashamed.

But this shame is gone for a while, why don't I take the path of emptiness and reality.

For one thing, now is the time for drastic reforms, and another thing is that you have to consider the feelings of the emperor.

The official family is no longer the emperor who knew nothing in Xining's early years.

Having been in power for eight years, the officials already have their own philosophy of governing the country and their own staff.The most fundamental reason for Wang Anshi's dismissal was the growing differences between the emperor and Wang Anshi.

As the emperor rises to power, will he tolerate another Wang Anshi?Tolerate the power of the prime minister over the power of the monarch?

In another time and space history, why was Su Shi imprisoned for the Wutai poetry case?Because after Yuanfeng, the officials officially presided over the new law from behind the scenes to in front of the stage.

But Su Shi was still criticizing the new law, so there was the Wutai poetry case.

Wang Anshi asked: "Does Duzhi want to abolish the law of market exchange when he returns to court?"

Zhang Yue asked: "Did you listen to Lu Jifu's words for the Grand Scholar?"

Wang Anshi said: "You know it without telling it."

(End of this chapter)