Compete for the Song Dynasty

Cai Xiang's concerns were not unreasonable. At that time, Renzong was seriously ill, and the crown prince had not yet been established at that time. At that time, Zhao Shu served in front of Renzong's bed.When Cai Xiang and his ministers visited Renzong, they brought memorials from their colleagues, among which was a memorial against making Zhao Shu the crown prince.Zhao Shu was silent at the time, but always believed that Cai Xiang was against him.

Based on Cai Xiang's talent, learning and political achievements, if Renzong hadn't died, he should have been able to be the prime minister. Fortunately, the official was promoted, and Yingzong reluctantly transferred him back to the capital when he was employing people, and appointed him as the third secretary.The third division envoy was the highest chief financial officer in the early Northern Song Dynasty. One of the three division envoys was in charge of the finance. There were three sub-envoys in charge of the three departments, including the Yantie, the Ministry of Households, and the Duzhi Department. Multiple departments, separate affairs.

The matter of Qin Minzhi, the servant of the household department, happened to be under the jurisdiction of Cai Xiang. It is fair to say that Cai Xiang took Qin Minzhi down.But the first of the three fires of the new official's appointment was on the emperor's favorite minister, which somewhat violated the rules of officialdom.

Li Shen reminded Cai Xiang that the person who tied the bell is still needed to untie the bell. Since they can all think that this was done by Wang Pang, today the envoys of the three divisions and the Kaifeng government will solve what Wang Pang thinks, so how to end Wang Pang well There must be countermeasures.

Cai Xiang and Wang Pang finally had an old friendship, not to mention that Cai Xiang's cousin is also Wang Pang's personal book boy, so it is normal to invite Wang Pang to the house just because of this.Cai Xiang went back to the mansion to write the memorial to deal with the servant of the household department, and just put down his pen when his family came to visit the king.Cai Xiang walked outside the hall and stood on the steps to meet the king. [

For Cai Xianghe's age and official position, it was already a heavy courtesy to go out of the hall to greet him. Wang Pang took a few steps up the steps and bowed to salute: "Wan Sheng Wang Pang has seen the third envoy."

Cai Xiang supported Wang Pang's arm: "You are welcome, Wang Pang, please come inside!" Said, let Wang Pang into the hall.

The hall is brightly lit, and a table is placed in the middle of the hall, with fruits and pastries on it, it can be seen that it is ready to entertain guests.Cai Xiang invited Wang Pang to take a seat and ordered his family to prepare a banquet, but Wang Pang said: "Scholar Cai, wait a minute!"

Cai Xiang was taken aback, thinking what the hell is this kid doing?Could it be that it was just a courtesy visit and the intention of having a meal?Cai Xiang asked with a smile: "Wang Shilang is afraid that if I invite you, what you are going to is a Hongmen banquet?"

Wang Pang smiled: "Scholar Cai was transferred to the capital, and the late students should have come to congratulate him in person long ago. I have already thanked the bachelor for his love when I was invited. It's just that there is one person missing at the banquet today. Students can invite him. I want to invite this person in the name of a bachelor. Come on, I don't know if Xueshi Cai can give this face."

"Of course, I don't know who Wang Shilang wants to invite?" Cai Xiang asked.

"Today we prepare Baiyang wine, but please ask the bachelor to make an appointment with the drunkard." Wang Pang replied with a smile.

Cai Jing was amused when he heard Wang Pangyanwen, but the son really knew his cousin, and his cousin Cai Xiang was the best tea, followed by wine.There are dozens of poems about wine in cousin Cai Xiang's poems. Now that the young master brought wine and was still improvising, Cai Jing couldn't help but chuckle.

Cai Xiang looked up at Cai Jing who was behind Wang Pang: "Why is Yuan Chang laughing?"

Cai Jing said: "My cousin doesn't know something. My son is full of bad ideas, but his poetry is not good. How can you invite a scholar to drink with your cousin? How can you invite a drunkard again?"

Wang listened and laughed without saying a word. If Cai Xiang is a smart person, he will naturally understand what he means. The bachelor refers to Cai Xiang, but the drunken man said that he would bother Cai Xiang today.

Cai Xiang laughed and said: "You kid is pretending to be smart, Wang Shilang is indeed wrong, but he only missed one word. I think he brought this white sheep wine not to date drunkards, but to catch drunkards with this wine. " After finishing speaking, he ordered: "Come here, bring my name card, and go to invite the founding father! By the way, don't forget to say that I have prepared Baiyang wine."

Only then did Cai Jing suddenly realize that he stuck out his tongue.The king was also slightly surprised: "Xueshi Cai, I have not been in the capital for more than a year. I don't know that there have been so many changes in the court. Did you say that the founding father told me that the drunkard was alone?"

Cai Xiang said: "To know the political affairs now, the founding father of Le'an County is Uncle Ouyang Yong, who is also the secretary of the Ministry of Punishment. No wonder you don't know Wang Shilang, after all, you have been away from Beijing for a long time. But I also have a question, Wang Shilang, Are you saying that the person who typed with ants outside the walls of the Kaifeng mansion is the same person as the one who set me on fire?"

Seeing Cai Xiang looking at him with a smile in his eyes, Wang Pang replied with a smile on his face: "Ant typesetting is nothing compared to bee typesetting. One is the state officials setting fire, and the other is asking the king to issue an order." , This matter is not of the same level. It’s just that the difficulty of direct admonition is no less than that of building a bridge across the river.”

"Hahaha, it's really a good thing you did, you led the Kaifeng Mansion and me, the three envoys, to do things today, is this wine an apology?" Cai Xiang asked with a smile.

Wang Pang replied with a smile: "What the three envoys and the Kaifeng government are doing today are for the people of the capital, but I brought the wine for you, Xueshi Cai."

Cai Xiang looked at Wang Pang, this boy was really eloquent, he had met several times before, but at that time Wang Pang was going to Jianzhou, under the care of Cai Xiang, so they mostly met on business.It is the first time that they face each other at such a close distance at the wine table.

At this time, there are no outsiders, how did Cai Xiang lose the wind in front of Wang Bang? I suspect that outsiders may not believe that there is no personal relationship in this direct remonstrance.” [

Wang Pang knew in his heart that Cai Xiang was doing things for him now, but even though he and Cai Xiang hadn't had much contact with each other, they felt sympathetic to each other, and the relationship between the two of them was not simple, at least Cai Jing was Cai Xiang's cousin. fact.It would not be an exaggeration if Cai Xiang had to avoid suspicion, but Wang Pang had already expected this: "I brought wine today to catch a drunkard, not to ask Cai Xueshi to speak directly to the court. After a while, when the drunkard arrives, today Is there any talk of bribery if you get drunk?"

After Wang Pang finished speaking, the two smiled knowingly.Cai Xiang said: "The world is so big, there may not be many people who can understand bee typesetting, and there are even fewer people who can draw inferences from one instance to another. It is also my lord Mo's luck to have the bosom friend Wang Shilang. Before the drunkard arrives, let's replace it with tea." Wine, drink a few glasses."

Wang Pang responded with admiration for Cai Xiang in his heart. Such a knowledgeable person occupies an important position, but he is not proud of being an official. Compared with Han Qi, Sima Guang and others, their virtues are not inferior. Song can be said to be an act of heaven and man. Thinking of this, Wang Pang respectfully asked: "Scholar Cai, although Wan Sheng seems to be a bit smart, but he knows nothing about building bridges, Wan Sheng is very curious. Can you see such a scale in the movie?"

Seeing that Wang Pang was already joking, Cai Xiang was very humble and respectful. Such a young man is really rare: "This bridge was really difficult to build at the time. The span was so large and the water flow was so urgent that I wasted a lot of time. After gathering everyone's ideas, I found a solution. We first threw a large number of large stones along the middle line of the bridge at the bottom of the river to form a low stone embankment across the bottom of the river as the foundation of the bridge pier. Then we built the pier with a row of horizontal and a row of straight stones .”

"Good way!" Wang Bang nodded and said.

"But the river is turbulent, so how not to shake the bridge foundation has become a problem, so we planted oysters on the bridge foundation to slow down the speed of the river flow so that the foundations on both sides of the pier will not be shaken."

After Cai Xiang finished speaking, Cai Jing asked strangely: "I heard about this method from workers, but I don't know how my cousin came up with the idea of ​​growing oysters."

Cai Xiang smiled and looked at the side of Wang: "With Wang Shilang's erudition, this should not be difficult for Wang Shilang, right?"

Test me again?Wang Pang glanced at Cai Xiang, this old pedant has played charades since he entered the door, forget it, I will show you a trick today, just now that kid Cai Jing laughed at me for not being good at poetry, I let him know how powerful his son is.

Thinking of this, Wang Pang said with a smile: "Oyster is a kind of mollusk with shells on the seabed. It has two shells. One shell is attached to the rock or the other oyster, intertwined with each other, and the other shell is covered. Its own soft body. Oysters have strong reproductive ability and are impenetrable. Once they are glued to the stone, they cannot be shoveled off with a shovel. Using this characteristic of oysters, oysters are planted on the bridge foundation. Oysters will remove scattered stones. The strips and stones are connected into a whole, and the scattered stones are also glued together. The oysters have contributed a lot to this bridge for thousands of years."

"It won't fall for 1000 years? Cousin, did you hear that my son said that this bridge will not fall for 1000 years!" Cai Jing said excitedly.

Cai Xiang couldn't help showing a proud expression: "Young master, if you don't fail for a thousand years, you have done a great deed for the people."

"Of course, this is a miracle of using biology to build a bridge. It's much better than that tofu project."

"What is biology?" Cai Xiang and Cai Jing asked at the same time.

"What about biology? It is the study of the structure, function, occurrence and development of organisms. Biology, do you understand?"

Cai Jing asked, "Are you talking about living things?"

Wang Pang said: "It can be understood in this way!"

Cai Xiang laughed and said, "As Minister Zhao said so, aren't we all creatures?"

Wang Pang said: "Yes, we are all creatures."

Cai Jing pouted: "Then we are not human, what kind of creatures have we become? Are we the same as those flowers and plants?"

Wang Pang smiled: "Biology includes animals and plants, Yuan Chang's clever children can teach them!"

Cai Xiang laughed loudly: "I haven't seen Wang Shilang for a few years, and his words have become more and more difficult to figure out. Then what do you think is the tofu project?" [

Wang Pang regretted it now, he had been talking for so many years, and he was not so long-winded. Suddenly, he wanted to get rid of his scruples, and instead found trouble for himself. , No matter what you do, you get fooled, cheat, cut corners, and end up spending a lot of money, and the quality is not good, and accidents kill people.”

Cai Xiangruo nodded with some understanding, and said solemnly: "Well, our Wan'an Bridge must not be tofu, we are frozen tofu! Porcelain is very solid!"

Why did Cai Xiang have sex with tofu? Fortunately, the servant came to report the arrival of An Guogong at this time, otherwise Wang Pang would definitely not be able to hold back his laughter!