Chapter 703 Diagram of the Wanderers

Three years later, Zheng Xia's term of office expired, he went to Beijing to report on his work, and came to Wang Anshi's prime minister's mansion, where Wang Anshi received him very warmly.

The imperial court had just implemented the new law, and it was the time to employ people, so of course Wang Anshi wanted to keep him in the capital to help him.

At that time, there was a policy that you could take an exam based on the new law, and after passing it, you could skip the rank and be promoted to the rank of Beijing official. Wang Anshi wanted Zheng Xia to take this path.

However, Zheng Xia refused, and in turn persuaded Wang Anshi: "Qingmiao, exempt from military service, protect armor, and use soldiers with border contempt, you can't be indiscriminate in chivalry." ”

Of course, this made Wang Anshi unhappy.

After that, Zheng Xia no longer saw Wang Anshi, but still wrote several times to tell him about the disadvantages of the new law.

Soon, Zheng Xia was newly appointed as a prison officer.

This position is obviously unfair, Wang Anshi should just want to frustrate his spirit, still think he is a talent, and soon let Wang Yan go to persuade Zheng Xia to let him take the new law exam.

After failing to do so, he ordered the doorman Li Dongmei to send an edict to him to review the New Righteousness Bureau for the revision of the Three Classics.

Zheng Xia replied: "I thought that the prime minister was my confidant, so I asked the prime minister for advice and vowed to repay the prime minister's kindness. But now the prime minister has repeatedly come to persuade me, all by giving me the method of Xu Guan. ”

"It seems that I and the prime minister are not all the way. If the prime minister really wants to fulfill me, please think about my suggestions, refer to one or two, and do more practical things for the people. ”

Su You knew that this person was dangerous, but just like Cai Jing, he couldn't infer what he was doing now based on what he knew had happened in history.

For example, Sima Guang, Chongyi, Shao Bowen, countless people's life trajectories have changed due to his arrival, and Su You didn't dare to say that Zheng Xia wouldn't.

He had the impression that Zheng Xia pretended to be a border emergency, mixed the map of the displaced people into Ma Ji, and finally presented it directly to Zhao Xuan.

But now that Ma Di has been transformed into a post office by Su You, the prison guard no longer has the authority to send and receive Ma Li, and Su You feels that there are variables in this matter.

Therefore, he just told Zhang Qi to pay attention to Zheng Xia in private, and did not move him.

In April, Su You invited Zhang Tianshi, and the two discussed the upcoming rain with the elites in Si Tianjian, and Wang Zhongzheng arrived with a blue face and ordered him to enter the palace immediately.

Su You hurriedly went out of Si Tianjian with him, and after getting on the horse, Wang Zhongzheng said in a low voice: "Zheng Xia played last night, and put on a pair of Lao Shizi's "Wandering People Map", and "On the New Law Entering the Wandering People's Map", the official family repeatedly watched the picture, called for a long time to count four, and entered with his sleeves, and couldn't sleep. ”

"Today, the second empress dowager of Shengci Xuanren saw it and cried to the official family: 'Anshi is chaotic in the world.' Wang Xianggong, this time I'm in trouble. ”

When Su You heard the word "Zheng Xia", he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Thank you Xilie for reminding me, Zheng Xia is nominally my subordinate, and I am responsible for this matter." ”

Wang Zhongzheng sighed: "Mingrun is a young man in a high position, and the official family always relies on it. People, how can there be no setbacks, there is still some time, you can think about how to play right. ”

Su You nodded silently, dismounted with Wang Zhongzheng at the side gate of Xuande Gate, and then entered the palace.

When he came to the Ying Pavilion, Zhao Wei was sitting there with a blue face, Wang Anshi had already arrived first, and Han Wei was standing beside Zhao Wei.

Seeing Su You, Zhao Ji said: "Take a look, this is Zheng Xia's "Wanderer Map", I can't believe it, under the imperial city, there are still so many homeless people who are not clothed and hungry. ”

Wang Anshi must have been reprimanded, but now he just closed his eyes in pain, Su You stepped forward to watch, only to see that the paintings were all unclothed figures, thin and weak like hungry ghosts, or carrying macaques and squirrels, beating drums and playing boards to perform arts, or carrying broken straw mats, carrying woven baskets and carrying broken bowls to wander, and couldn't help but be gloomy.

took two steps back and took off the head: "Minister, the right to know that Kaifeng Mansion Su You, virtue is not commensurate, so that the livelihood of the people under his rule is difficult, please Your Majesty to surrender." ”

This attitude is very good, but Zhao Ji was angry for a while: "This is a homeless person, not the people of Kaifeng Mansion." Mingrun, you can't be treated, although there is a mistake, but it can be recovered. There was also a note...... Han Wei, read! ”

Han Wei unfolded the sparse play: "Last year's big locusts, drought in autumn and winter, wheat seedlings were scorched and withered, five kinds were inaccessible, and the crowd was afraid of death.

Fang Chun felling, exhausted and fishing, grass, trees, fish and turtles, and did not survive.

When the disaster comes, I don't know or how to go. May Your Majesty open a warehouse, help the poor, take the government of the division and the unreasonable, and go away, hoping to summon peace, respond to the heart of heaven, and prolong the dying life of all surnames.

Today, Taiwan is full of advice, left and right auxiliaries, and they are all greedy for quick profits, so that the husband holds the Tao and the people who have knowledge, and they don't want to talk to them.

His Majesty controls the world's loyalty and virtuous with the name of Juelu, and making people like this is not even the blessing of the temple society.

The people who eavesdropped on the southern expedition and the northern expedition all offered it for their victories and the shape of mountains and rivers. It is expected that no one will hold the wives and beards of the people of the world, behead the mulberry and break the house, be displaced and scattered, and the emperor will not give it.

According to what he saw day by day, he drew a picture, which was less than one.

But after the holy reading, it can also be runny, and it is thousands of miles away, and there is even more of this!

Your Majesty's view of the minister's picture, the words of the minister, ten days are not an inch......"

Su You suddenly said: "Ten days is not an inch, please cut Anshi and His Majesty!" Think it's a lesson for those who come! ”

Wang Anshi suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were full of grievances, grief and indignation, and he was puzzled: "Mingrun, you ......"

Su You bowed: "Your Majesty, at the end of the sparse performance, it must be the so-called ineffective or beheaded, and the words are just processing." Either/or, but meaningless. ”

Han Wei glanced at Su You and continued, "...... The words of the ministers, ten days are not an inch, that is, begging the ministers to declare virtue outside the door, in order to be the crime of bullying the king. ”

After reading the music, the palace was silent.

After a long while, Zhao Ji and Su You spoke at the same time: "Xianggong ......" "Your Majesty ......"

Zhao Ji took a deep breath: "You say." ”

Su You straightened his clothes: "Your Majesty, the heavens are abnormal, and the personnel are not cultivated, we can't simply judge cause and effect." ”

"If it is said that the heavens send disasters, then Yao Shun and Shang Tang are not virtuous?"

"The minister also said that the destiny of heaven is fearful. However, it is afraid of being diligent, and afraid of natural disasters coming day by day. ”

"This drought is not the only one in the Song Dynasty, last year's locusts in Liao, and this year's Qingtang and Western Xia, also had a great drought."

"If you look at the Three Kingdoms, the Great Song Dynasty is actually the most appropriate to deal with."

"At least Shaanxi, Kaifeng, the drought locust is not bad, but in the same area, the people of the Western Xia Cattle and Horses are as dead as possible, and the Liao country is thousands of miles of red land, and the country is hunting in the north."

"And at least half of the disaster-stricken areas in my Great Song Dynasty are still stable."

"Why? Because we got things done ahead of them. Shaanxi water conservancy, itself has a considerable part, is a drought-resistant facility, Kaifeng Biankou project, to draw the water of the Yellow River, no need to wait for the rain to plow. ”

"The minister was born in a peasant family, and he knows that it is the norm to have five years of farming, one abundance, two peace, and two disasters."

"Therefore, the ancestor Zhong Xiangong, in the harvest year, rice is easy to grow millet and taro is collected, because these two things are resistant to storage and can help the disaster year after that."

"The minister knows the taste of hunger, so that there is no hunger and cold under his rule, and the minister wishes. However, there are still countless low-class households, melons and vegetables for half a year, picking camellia leaves to survive hunger. Every time I think about this, I feel ashamed and can't help myself. And what about a country? ”

"As the saying goes, floods make trouble all the way, and drought troubles a country, and the severity of this drought is no worse than the diversion of the Yellow River."

"Why is the disaster situation prominent in Hebei? It was the transfer that made Han Jiang and Han Bachelor unable to harmonize with Wen Yanbo and Wen Sikong, resulting in the failure of disaster relief measures to be implemented in time. ”

"The two princes can reach each other, but they have consumed too much energy because of mutual containment."

"Your Majesty, dissenting opinions are stirring up, and it is the law of the ancestors to prevent the powerful ministers from sitting big, which is also very effective."

"But things must have a bottom line, that is, we can't delay national affairs, the national economy and people's livelihood, otherwise the gains outweigh the losses."

"The disadvantages of the new law have been discussed by the minister for a long time, and there is no need to say much here, but there is also a discussion, that is, the new law is not without merit, let alone that it cannot be improved."

"Shaanxi and Kaifeng are examples, the same decree only needs to be slightly modified, and it is still a good law."

"The system needs to be continuously implemented and improved, Zheng Xia City Gate officials, their horizons are not open, and the love for the people is commendable, but what is discussed is not enough."