Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 321 The imperial edict arrives

At night, when Li An was about to turn out the lights and go to sleep, there was a knock on the door.

"Who?"

"It's me, Ziqian." Gu Tingye said outside the door.

Hearing this, Li An asked Desheng to open the door. He picked up the clothes from the hanger, put them on his body, and walked out of the inner room.

"Zhonghuai, sit down!" Li An asked Gu Tingye to sit down, picked up the teapot and poured him a glass of water, and asked doubtfully: "What's the matter with you coming here so late?"

Gu Tingye said in a deep voice: "I can't sleep, I want to talk to you for a while."

"What's wrong? Are you worried about something?" Li An asked doubtfully.

Gu Tingye shook his head, nodded again, and said with an incomprehensible expression: "The more I think about your strategy of spreading one family to another, the more wonderful it becomes, but I'm afraid it will be very difficult to implement it."

Li An was stunned when he heard this and said with a smile: "Zhong Huai, this is not like you. Before coming to Yuzhou, you said that some things always need people to do. Why are you starting to worry about gains and losses again now?"

"Then when will we go? My biggest wish in this life is to regain the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun. The Song Dynasty has too many evils. If we don't change the law, we must eliminate the evils. Wanting to regain the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun is just empty talk." Gu Tingye was unwilling to accept it. road.

Li An didn't have the complex psychology of Gu Tingye at all, so he sent Gu Tingye away and went to bed.

When Gu Tingye said this, he quickly stopped, shook his head and said, "I won't disturb your rest, I'm going back."

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"I'm not worried about gains and losses. There are no children in the current official family. The future prince must be one of King Yong and King Yan. I think King Yong is more likely. With King Yong's temperament, I am afraid that he will not agree to the reform." Gu Tingye sighed. .

He is also happy to do what he can within his ability without endangering his own safety.

He is just an ordinary person who cares about the country and the people even if he is not poor, and he cares about the country and the people when he is prosperous.

Although he was affected by Gu Tingye's words and decided to try to do something.

For Ang Lee, Wang Anshi is not really presiding over the reform now, and it is nothing to give him advice.

"I didn't expect you to recognize him so much." Li An was a little surprised.

"It all depends on people. Even if King Yong finally takes the throne, even if he does not agree with the reform, we can only continue to wait for the opportunity." Li An said.

Li An smiled and changed the subject: "What do you think of Zhao Ceying?"

Gu Tingye was startled and didn't understand what Li An meant, but he thought about it carefully and said: "Although we have not been in contact for a short time, this person is a good conversationalist and knows a lot about military matters. He is better than those clansmen in Bianjing who have high vision and low hand, and only know how to eat, drink and have fun. The younger generation is much stronger."

Not long after lying down, he fell asleep.

He cannot be named on the gold list and become an official. Without the "gold medal" of being a civil servant, he will not be stupid enough to get involved in this.

As for actually participating in the reform, it depends on whether you can be named on the gold list.

"Who can say for sure what will happen in the future?"

"It's just a pity. Is he from a clan, or..."

There is also no lofty thought of Mr. Fan Da Xianggong to worry about the world's worries first and rejoice after the world's happiness.

But that doesn't mean he has to risk his life for it.

Whether it succeeds or fails, he will not be troubled by it.

The next day, when he met Gu Tingye, he was full of energy, but Gu Tingye was a little listless. It looked like he didn't sleep well last night.

"Zhong Huai, as the saying goes, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. Don't think too much." Li An consoled him.

"I didn't think about anything, but I'm not used to sleeping on the bed." Gu Tingye said.

Li An didn't bother to expose him. He had stayed one night the day before yesterday, and he didn't seem to be used to it.

"Zi Qian, what are we going to do today?" Gu Tingye asked while eating. "Go to Tongxuan Yamen to see Brother Jiefu and see if he has any arrangements." Li An thought for a while and said.

Gu Tingye had no objection to this.

However, Wang Anshi was more anxious than they thought. Before they had finished eating, Wang Anshi's entourage came to the inn and invited them to come over.

The two of them ate in a hurry and came to Tongpan Yamen.

When they saw Wang Anshi, the two were stunned.

Wang Anshi was still dressed the same as yesterday. Although his eyes were full of energy, his face was very haggard.

One look at it and it was obvious that he must have stayed up all night last night.

Seeing the arrival of Li An and the others, Wang Anshi said excitedly: "Ziqian, Zhong Huai, you are here. This is a plan I roughly drew up based on what you said, Zi Qian, and some of my own ideas. Zi Qian, take a look. If there is no problem, I will improve it in this direction.”

"Brother Jiefu, this matter is not urgent. Your body is the most important thing. Why are you so anxious?" Li An said.

"I know, it's just a moment of excitement. I'll make up my mind later." Wang Anshi said nonchalantly.

Li An was helpless when he saw this, so he could only take the thick stack of paper filled with words handed over by Wang Anshi and start reading.

After a long time, Li An finished reading it, handed it to Gu Tingye, and then began to think deeply.

Wang Anshi didn't bother him. He sat aside and drank tea, glancing at Li An from time to time, like a student who had handed in his answer sheet and was waiting for grading.

Li An pondered for a long time, considered it, and said: "What Brother Jiefu wrote is basically consistent with what I said. It is completely fine to follow this improvement. But there is one thing that Brother Jiefu must carefully consider. The land in the south of the Yangtze River is fertile, and the land in the north is fertile." It’s so barren that it’s impossible to have unified standards across the country. How should we measure this?”

Wang Anshi said seriously: "I have also considered this issue. When I was the judge of Duzhi before, I had some understanding of the situation of rich and poor in various parts of the world, but it took some time."

"In addition, there must be a strict supervision system to prevent officials from colluding with landlords and gentry." Li An reminded.

Although the purpose of apportioning ding into mu is to reduce the tax burden of landless people by spreading ding into land tax, in fact, due to the privileges and corruption of the official and gentry class, although the landlord class has lost some benefits, the ordinary people's The burden has not been effectively reduced.

"Well, I will consider these carefully." Wang Anshi nodded.

Next, the three of them talked for a long time in Tongsuan Yamen.

Wang Anshi sent people to buy lunch at the restaurant.

Li An originally wanted Wang Anshi to go back and rest, but Wang Anshi became more and more excited as they chatted and refused at all.

In desperation, Li An could only tell Wang Anshi what he knew about the pros and cons of sharing the land.

There are pros and cons to allocating a small amount of money to an acre. Seriously speaking, in fact, many ancient policies are still in use even in later generations.

Like the official transfer system, officials are not allowed to serve in one place for too long.

Why officials and their children are not allowed to do business, etc.

However, in actual implementation, various drawbacks occur.

To put it simply, policies are good, but it is people who implement them.

Take the policies implemented by Wang Anshi’s political reform in history. Which one is bad?

However, during the execution process, everything was messed up.

The people did not receive actual benefits, but were exploited even more severely by officials using the New Deal to find various excuses.

But in general, for the Song Dynasty at this time, the benefits outweighed the disadvantages.

Just when the three of them were chatting happily, Wang Anshi's entourage barged in with anxious expressions.

"My lord, what's wrong is that an internal official has come from outside and asked my lord to go and receive the order."

(End of this chapter)