Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 343 Mo Lan who refuses to give up
Wang Anshi told Ang Lee in his letter that he had reflected on it during his detention and had many feelings.

I know I was a little too impatient this time.

Now that Xianfu is at home, he will concentrate on perfecting the method of dividing the family into a family, so that Li An doesn't have to worry about him.

Li An showed a smile after reading the letter.

Mr. Ao didn't seem to be that stubborn, and all his thoughts were finally in vain.

In fact, it's normal if you think about it. Historically, Wang Anshi wanted to reform the law, but he never got approval.

It was not until Shenzong succeeded to the throne that he was promoted to prime minister and presided over the reform.

At that time, Wang Anshi was in a high position and could only control the overall direction, but could not personally implement it.

With the experience of Grand Prime Minister Fan, no matter how loud the opposition was, in Wang Anshi's view, it was just the conservatives who wanted to prevent the reform.

Therefore, the name Ao Xianggong remained.

When you go out on a study tour, you always bring some gifts for Sheng Changbai and the others.

Qi Heng was a little surprised that Li An returned from his study tour so soon.

"Students too." Gu Tingye stood up and said.

Among the students, Sheng Changbai and Li An were the calmest.

While they were chatting, Gu Tingye also came over and exchanged pleasantries again.

However, reform still needs to wait for the opportunity. For him, the most important thing now is the imperial examination.

This gave Ang Lee a little more confidence in the success of the reform.

When they arrived at the Sheng Family Academy, Sheng Changbai and the others exchanged pleasantries when they saw Li An returning.

After a while, Xuexue Zhuang walked into the school and was slightly startled when he saw Li An and Gu Tingye returning.

Li An said with a smile that because the imperial examination was approaching, he did not dare to delay any longer, so he returned after a study tour in the prefectures and counties near Bianjing.

Xuexue Zhuang smiled and shook his head, and said: "I'm old, so I can't teach you for that long. But I see that your temperament has become much calmer after you returned from this study tour, which is good."

Although Wen Yanjing was also very calm, Zhuang Xuexu felt that he was a little too thoughtful.

"Well done, scholar." Everyone stood up and saluted.

"Back to Master, the student felt that he had benefited a lot. He felt more and more that his knowledge was still shallow, so he came back early and prepared to study hard with the scholar for a few more years." Li An stood up, bowed and smiled.

"You guys."

The next day, Li An came to Sheng's house with gifts.

Now that he has implemented it himself and knows the difficulties and resistance involved, he will naturally not be as stubborn as before.

But the other few people are much different.

Xuexue Zhuang waved his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down. He looked at Li An and Gu Tingye with a smile and said, "I wonder what you will gain from your study tour?"

……

It wasn't until the bang sounded that everyone stopped chatting and returned to their seats.

Now that he has returned from his study tour, Gu Tingye seems to have become much calmer, not to mention the gains. In his opinion, this is a good thing.

Zhuang Xuexue didn't say anything more and started teaching.

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After school in the afternoon, Gu Tingye asked Sheng Changbai and Li An to have dinner.

They haven't gotten together for a long time, so Li An naturally wouldn't refuse.

The three of them came to Fan Tower together.

In the private room on the second floor, while waiting for the food and wine to be served, the three of them had a drink.

Sheng Changbai put down his wine glass and said with some pity: "Wang Tong was deprived of his post and stayed at home, which is a pity."

"Ze Cheng, this is actually not a bad thing. Now is not a good time for reform." Li An comforted.

"Having said that, after this time, people with lofty ideals in the world may have completely lost confidence in reform. I'm afraid it will be even harder to think about reform in the future." Sheng Changbai sighed. "No."

Li An shook his head and said: "I think this is a good thing. I can see clearly which ones are sincerely reforming and which ones are just opportunistic."

In history, most of the people who really supported Wang Anshi's reforms were opportunists.

Those people just use the reform as a channel for promotion.

This led to the chaos surrounding the reform, but Wang Anshi was fooled by them and went to fight with those officials who opposed it.

This incident not only allowed Wang Anshi to see the reality clearly, but when implementing reforms in the future, those who want to take advantage of opportunities will also hesitate.

Although we still cannot rule out those opportunistic people, there will always be fewer of them.

"Having said that, if you want to change the law in the future, someone will definitely use this incident to make a fuss, and the resistance will be much greater." Sheng Changbai said.

"Everything has pros and cons, there is no way to avoid it." Li An shook his head.

Reform ultimately depends on the strength of official support.

It goes without saying that Emperor Shenzong received strong support.

Some people say that the reason why Emperor Shenzong changed the law was to centralize power.

After all, Emperor Shenzong's father was not Emperor Renzong's biological son.

He only reigned for four years and did not control the situation in the court.

When Emperor Shenzong implemented the reform, he only created a reason to get officials to take sides, and then continued to oppose the reform in the name of eliminating those who were not of the same mind as him.

This is also the reason why Wang Anshi failed despite having so much support from the emperor.

This is very similar to the history of Li Zhi deposing Wang Liwu.

Many people superficially believe that Li Zhi deposed Wang Liwu because he was charmed by Wu Zetian.

In fact, it was just a signal for others to initiate a power grab.

From a conspiracy theory perspective, this possibility cannot be ruled out.

But for the reform party, although it may be a pawn for the emperor to fight for power, as long as the goal is achieved, it will be fine.

"Yes." Sheng Changbai nodded. Just as he was about to say something, from the corner of his eye, he saw Gu Tingye sitting aside and drinking continuously without saying anything. He asked doubtfully, "What is on Zhong Huai's mind?"

Li An also looked at Gu Tingye. He had already discovered Gu Tingye's situation.

He guessed whether Gu Tingye had tested Xiao Qin's family and found something.

"It's nothing, I just felt a little unhappy after being scolded by my father last night." Gu Tingye shook his head and took a sip.

Li An's guess was correct. Gu Tingye did test Xiao Qin's family. After going out today, he found that he was being followed again.

Although the person following this time was very covert, he was still discovered by Gu Tingye who was paying close attention.

Gu Tingye did not catch the person who was following him for questioning, but he told Xiao Qin that he had an outhouse, and then he was followed, which made him suspicious.

Seeing that Gu Tingye was unwilling to say more, Li An and Sheng Changbai drank with him without asking.

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Linxige

Lin Xiaoniang looked at Mo Lan and said, "Do you remember what I told you?"

"Mom, it would be embarrassing for a daughter to do such a thing to a girl's family. Besides, Liang Liulang's daughter doesn't like her at all." Mo Lan said reluctantly.

"My silly daughter, are you still thinking about the young master? Last time Princess Pingning asked the young master to recognize you as his sister, don't you understand what it means?" Lin Xiaoniang said.

In ancient times, even if you recognized your biological relatives, you could not intermarry.

Although Princess Pingning only asked Qi Heng to recognize her as her sister and did not recognize the Sheng family girl as her adopted daughter, doing so undoubtedly showed her attitude.

She had already given up, but she didn't expect Mo Lan to still miss her.

(End of this chapter)