Compete for the Song Dynasty

Wang Anshi has two sons, the eldest son Wang Yu, with the small character Yuan Ze; the second son Wang Bang, the small character Ruo.Although the two sons have the same pronunciation and the same birth date, they have very different personalities, and their fortunes are also very different.The eldest son, Yuanze, was clever and talented since he was a child, and his poetry was quite Wang Anshi's style.The second son, Wang Pang, was dull and demented since he was a child, and he didn't speak until he was thirteen or fourteen years old. It is true that people say that the noble language is used lately on Wang Pang.Wang Pang became a blockbuster and won the appreciation of Emperor Renzong. He made great achievements at a young age, and often did extraordinary things.

Take County Magistrate Zhu's matter of finding someone to serve as an official, both Yuan Ze and Wang Pang knew that there was something tricky about it, but the two people's methods were indeed very different.If Yuan Ze encounters this, he must explain clearly why he does not want to do this job, and politely send Zhu County Magistrate away. Yuan Ze has always been a man who does not offend me, I will not offend, and if someone offends me, I will hide Let's go; but it happened that Wang Pang encountered this matter, and Wang Pang's work is that he is not offending people, so it is already good, let alone others offending him? !

As soon as he heard that Wang Pang had taken over the job, Yuan Ze's eyes widened, brother, what's wrong?Isn't it a warning to see Yuanwai Chen's situation on the street?What others are afraid to avoid, Wang Pang plunges into it.He said to Wang Pang with a bit of reproach: "It's a pleasure for you to agree. You will go to the county government office tomorrow, and it will be too late to repent."

Wang Pang tilted his head and looked at Yuan Ze standing next to his father with a half-smile: "Why do you have to go back on your word?! This job is very good. We all know that the restaurant has been avoiding taxes with the support of the county magistrate. It must be here. It has given the county magistrate a lot of benefits. There are two questions here, one is whether the county has paid so much tax? Why is there so much room? The other is how much benefit has the county magistrate received? It’s me today, tomorrow I don’t know who will be assigned this errand, so I just take this opportunity to teach them a lesson, and save honest people from always suffering.”

Yuan Ze Nai shook his head, no one could stop his brother from doing what he wanted to do: "You always have a bunch of reasons, I won't argue with you, it's only a day anyway, if you don't think about it before you go to the county government tomorrow, Come up with a good way, I don’t have time to accompany you on the streets to collect taxes from door to door after taking this job.” After he finished speaking, he glanced at his father beside him. [

Wang Anshi was listening to the conversation between the two children and looked at the two young men in their early twenties in front of him. Although he saw that the two had different opinions, his words did not reveal Yuan Ze's concern for Wang Pang.The two of them have such a good relationship, no matter who can develop in the future, the other will definitely become a capable assistant.As for the two brothers, Wang Pang's wit and decisiveness seemed to be better than Yuan Ze's, and this child was quite upright.Seeing Wang Pang's actions reminded some of Wang Anshi's past events: During his tenure, Wang Anshi's father, Wang Yi, refused to force the poor to pay taxes, and exposed his boss's collusion with the local wealthy family. Wang Yi was pushed out and transferred to other places, but Wang Yi still insisted on doing so wherever he went.Wang Anshi followed Wang Yi all the time when he was young, and these things touched Wang Anshi a lot.

Yuanze originally expected his father to speak up and tell his brother not to be reckless, but he didn't know that Wang Anshi's heart was already surging at the moment. Seeing his father's face flushed slightly thoughtfully, Wang Yuanze thought his father was angry, and turned to respect him in front of his father. He said to Wang Anshi: "If Daddy doesn't want to do this, why don't I go to the county magistrate and tell him that my younger brother has accepted the prime minister's errand, what do you think?"

Wang Anshi stood up, patted Yuan Ze on the shoulder, walked from Yuan Ze to Wang Bang.How can there be a reason why the father is standing and the son is sitting?Wang Pang hurriedly got up, what is daddy doing?Staring and blushing, Wang Bang really rarely saw Wang Anshi's expression like this.

Wang Anshi looked up and down and looked at Wang Pang, with approving eyes in his eyes: "My boy, I support you in doing this! Come on, come with me to the study, and I will tell you about the tax law and labor law of our Great Song Dynasty today. "

This made Wang Pang very happy. In the past, Wang Anshi neither supported nor denied what he did. Sometimes even Wang Pang wondered whether Wang Anshi's letting him go was because his body was born with dementia.But sometimes Wang Anshi showed concern unconsciously, which made Wang Pang feel that father and son love each other deeply.But I always feel that Wang Anshi and I are not of the same generation. It is not just the distance in time and space.But today, Wang Anshi said "support" for the first time. Wang Pang didn't know his father's mood swings, but these two words immediately broke through the sense of isolation in Wang Pang's heart.

Wang Pang was elated, and it was much easier for Wang's father to explain it to him than to throw him a bunch of books and ask him to look it up.When he was happy, he forgot the seniority of the ancients, put his arm on Wang Anshi's shoulder like a good buddy and said, "Let's go!" and walked out.

Wang Anshi was overjoyed, and seemed to be used to Wang Pang's behavior. With a smile on his face, he walked out of the hall with Wang Pang, and walked towards the study.Yuan Ze stared blankly at the back of the two, and in an instant saw that the two had already stepped out of the hall door, and hurriedly shouted from behind: "Wait for me, I'll listen too!" and followed quickly.

The father and son went out of the hall in the front yard, two in front and one behind, and walked towards the study in the back house.Under the eaves of the corner gate, Liu Qi and Tong Guan were squatting on the ground with their heads down. They didn't know what they were doing. When they saw Wang Pang and his son approaching, the two children hurriedly stood up to make way for them, and at the same time blocked the road with their bodies. Behind him, there seemed to be something afraid of being seen by adults.

At this time, none of the three people beside the king noticed the two of them, and the father and son entered the study.Wang Anshi ordered his servants to prepare tea. It seemed that he wanted to have a good chat with the two children.He asked Wang Pang and Yuan Ze to sit down at a square table first, then took out a few booklets from the bookshelf, flipped through them to make sure they were what he was looking for, and sat down with the booklets on the table. .

Yuan Ze recognized these booklets, and he pointed to the booklets and said to the king: "Look, brother, the draft materials of the Wanyan Shu played by my father during the Jiayou period. The booklets are summarized and summarized, and they are all included in these booklets."

Wang Pang scratched his head, Wang Anshi wouldn't let himself read all these booklets first, would he?Seeing Wang Pang's expression, Wang Anshi shook his head and smiled: "You, it's just that you don't work as hard as your brother. Your brother helped me look up the information, collect and compile them." Wang Pang cupped his fists and smiled at Yuan Ze: "I admire, admire, Let me just say, if only my elder brother could be my shogun." Wang Anshi opened the booklet, looking for specific materials to explain to Wang Pang, and asked without raising his head: "Do you need a shogun? The imperial court didn't give it to you. Appointment?" Wang Pang shook his head: "I don't want to be appointed by the imperial court, I'm afraid they will point fingers and I won't be able to do anything?!"

Wang Anshi raised his eyelids and looked at Wang Pang. This kid was different from ordinary people. He wanted the shogunate only as a lecturer, and he didn't necessarily need other people's opinions.Wang Anshi suddenly thought of a person: "Huh? If you pay your own salary, you don't have to use people from the court. It's normal for you to have some servants if you want to do things. Find a gentleman yourself, or? I'll give you someone?"

For Wang Anshi's people, knowledge should be fine, as long as it's not Wang Anshi himself, Wang Pang asked curiously: "Who is daddy talking about?"

Among Wang Anshi's many students, there was a Jinshi during the Qingli period. He had a profound degree but his official career was not smooth.On average, there are more than 360 people who have obtained the title of Jinshi every time they start a course. Some of these people have a smooth career in their official careers, or they do have amazing talents and learning that the emperor likes, and some of them are attached to power and have a good career.But there are still some people, even if they have passed the Jinshi examination, they are still silent.

This is the person Wang Anshi wants to give to the king. This person is Hou Shuxian, who is now the shogunate of Wang Anshi's son-in-law Wu Anchi, but he has also handed in his resignation after suffering from years of ambition.Good wine is also afraid of deep alleys. Wang Anshi is very optimistic about Hou Shuxian's character and knowledge, but this person is a person who concentrates on studying knowledge. He always discusses the importance of farmland water conservancy construction with Wang Anshi.But right now, Wang Anshi doesn't have much power. His favorite son-in-law is Dushui Envoy, but he hasn't done anything.

Wang Anshi always felt that his son was better than his son-in-law, especially Wang Pang, who dared to think and act. If this kid could succeed in the future, he would definitely need someone like Hou Shuxian.So he said to Wang Pang, "This man's surname is Hou Mingshuxian, and his style name is Jingren. He is from Fuzhou."

Listen to what my father said.Yuan Ze couldn't help but enviously said: "Daddy is really willing, didn't he still want Mr. Hou to be Daddy's shogunate?"

Listening to Yuan Ze's words, Wang Ping knew that this person must be admired by Wang Anshi, but when he heard Yuan Ze called Hou Lao, he wondered how old this person must be?I was away all the year round, if my father gave me one, old and frail, I would have to pay for it every day.However, Wang Pang still showed a willingness to accept and agreed: "Thank you for your love and protection. Let's talk about the job sent by the county magistrate Zhu first. My brother told me something before that the imperial court is so violent. Over time there will definitely be problems.Also, what is the term for labor?Why do the people have to assign people to be servants after paying taxes? "

Wang Anshi said to Wang Pang and Yuan Ze: "Our errand service law has inherited many names from the Five Dynasties. Pang'er is right. The people have paid taxes and it is reasonable to say that they have completed their labor, but the government uses the errand service law to send people arbitrarily regardless of whether it is necessary or not. From the yamen, the head of the village, the strong man to the warehouse, inspecting, urging taxation, etc. to catch up with the errands. The people have to pay taxes and have to serve, which is miserable.” [

The two Wang Pang brothers nodded as they listened, but they heard Wang Anshi continue to say: "If we talk about this tax, it may not mean that the imperial court is raging and extorting money, and the imperial treasury is empty. Two points, and it becomes four points in the government. If you go to the county and get another [-]% by those corrupt officials, it will be much more than what the court wants. I think it is a good thing for the imperial court to investigate the Jinxiang Mansion in Panger."

How could this be a good thing, Dad's elbow is turned outward.Wang Pang couldn't help being puzzled, and just as he was about to ask, Uncle Zhao came in and reported that a member surnamed Chen came to find Mr. Wang Pang.Wang Pang couldn't help thinking; why did you come to the door so quickly?Maybe something happened again.