Mencius tasted the words: The gentleman's ze, the fifth and beheaded. It is said that a gentleman with noble character and outstanding ability, who has worked hard to achieve a career, and the blessings and blessings left to future generations have been exhausted after several generations.

According to what Wang Anshi said, many of the heirs left by the heroes who accompanied Emperor Taizu to fight the country have become the second ancestors of Liang.

If these second ancestors only want to be in the wind and snow, it would be good to say, but these people are ambitious and talented, and they want to continue the power of the ancestors, and when their abilities and talents do not match, many disasters will naturally arise.

Wang Anshi sighed lightly and continued: "Historically, the new dynasty has been established, and at the beginning it was controlled by the meritorious group of the founding of the country, but after the selection of the imperial examination, there will be many talented and capable people to enter the court. ”

Cui Wenqing only then knew these inside stories of the imperial court, and couldn't help but secretly marvel, and hurriedly asked: "Then dare to ask the teacher, what is going on with this Qingliu Party?" ”

Wang Anshi replied with a smile: "Speaking of the Qingliu Party, the first thing to say is naturally Fan Zhongyan, because he is the first bachelor from the imperial examination in the history of Daqi, and he is also the first person to become the prime minister of the dynasty by the bachelor of cloth. It was at that time that many officials who had entered the imperial examination gathered around Fan Zhongyan and became a political force that was different from the merits of the patriarchs, that is, the Qingliu Party. ”

"The reason why the Qingliu Party was able to compete with the veteran meritorious service at that time was mainly because the Queen Mother Regent wanted to check and balance the meritorious group, and the most critical thing about power was the word balance, not to mention that the Queen Mother Regent and her old man did play the way of balance perfectly, and the Queen Mother was the most staunch supporter of the Qingliu Party, but more than ten years ago, the Queen Mother Regent suddenly wanted to abolish the current official family and establish King Qi as the emperor, but she was unanimously opposed by the Qingliu Party led by Fan Zhongyan, so the relationship between the two sides broke down. Later, you should know that Fan Zhongyan was dismissed as prime minister and was directly demoted to Pizhou, and the queen mother wanted to calm Qingliu's anger, so she had the matter of worshipping the teacher and Sima Guang. ”

However, since then, the Queen Mother has always maintained a deep wariness of Qingliu, and as a scholar and a famous scholar of Qingliu, who does not take the maintenance of orthodox imperial power as a moral position, he will never agree to the absurd thing of abolishing the elder and the young, and abolishing the monarch and the ministers, so the relationship between the two sides has not been very harmonious, but it is the meritorious group that was jointly suppressed by the Queen Mother and Qingliu in the early stage, seizing this opportunity to secretly support the King of Qi to seize the throne, which is deeply in line with the Queen Mother's mind, and the relationship between the two sides has been very harmonious in recent years. Therefore, the most important contradiction in our Great Qi now is the contradiction between the Qingliu Party and the meritorious veterans. ”

Cui Wenqing listened attentively, and hurriedly asked: "Then dare to ask the teacher, who are the people in the Qingliu Party now?" ”

Wang Anshi chuckled and said: "If you talk about Qingliu, when it comes to the chief officials of the three provinces and the books of each department, it should be the old man, Sima Guang, Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, and Fu Bi are the five most representative. ”

"What? Sima Guang is also a clear stream figure? Hasn't he always supported the Queen Mother? Cui Wenqing was deeply surprised.

Wang Anshi replied with a serious face: "It is true that Sima Guang supports the Queen Mother, but he does not support the Queen Mother to abolish the elder and younger, but simply wants to oppose the new law, because he has always thought that the old man's new law is a move that will bring disaster to the country and the people, so he is so fiercely opposed, between the teacher and Sima Guang, it is a political disagreement, but in the matter of succession to the throne, we have the same idea." ”

"So as far as Qingliu is concerned, it is also divided into two factions, namely the law-changing faction led by Lao Fu He Fu Bi and Su Xun, and the conservative faction led by Sima Guang, Ouyang Xiu, and Han Qi."

Cui Wenqing was stunned for a long time after hearing the words, and only after half a loud voice did he burst into tears and laughed at the back of his head: "Teacher, your relationships are really too complicated, the city routine is deep, I want to go back to the countryside!" ”

Wang Anshi glared at him, as if he didn't like his nonsense, and said with a solemn face: "So Wen Qing, as the second generation of the Fa-changing faction, you are also a disciple of the old man, the official family and the old man can give you an extraordinary promotion speed, and you also need to bear the burden of extraordinary responsibilities, and you have to suffer extraordinary difficulties and struggles, now the old man is more than fifty-six years old, I am afraid that he will not live much, the future of the new law will depend on you and Su Shi's generation, if the new law is successful, After 20 years, you will be able to enter the government hall, but if the new law fails, maybe your head will fall to the ground, do you understand the stakes of this? ”

"I'm rubbing! This is a political gamble! Cui Wenqing was deeply shocked by Wang Anshi's words, success is in the phase and fame, and failure is a laughing stock in history, so for Cui Wenqing, this is both an opportunity and a challenge.

Without hesitation, Cui Wenqing said categorically: "Teacher, I understand what you said, students are willing to work hard for the new law, not only for my personal promotion, but most importantly, for the prosperity of China, for the continuation of the nation, and for the thousands of people to live a good life." ”

"Well said!" Wang Anshi clapped his hands and smiled, and then said with a serious face, "For the law change faction, the most important thing is that heroes are useless, because the queen mother, the meritorious group, and the conservative forces of the Qingliu Party are resolutely opposed to the law change, and the law change policy is even more difficult to promulgate and implement, but your appearance has lit a lamp of hope for us, because in my Daqi, there is such an independent kingdom as the four states of the Northland, which are ostensibly subordinate to the imperial court, but in fact they belong to the territory of the Zhe clan, whether it is the queen mother, the meritorious veteran, Sima Guang and others, You can't interfere in the internal affairs of the four northern states, because of your relationship with Zhezhao, so the new policies you have adopted can be implemented, and whether the new policies of the four northern states are effective or not will directly affect the entire Central Plains. ”

Cui Wenqing said with a smile: "Listening to what the teacher said, the students have already understood that the four states of the Northland are the base and experimental fields of our faction of law change, as long as the new law can achieve results in the four states of the Northland and bring benefits to the country and the people, I believe that those who oppose the new law will have nothing to say!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Anshi nodded and smiled, feeling that it was very easy and pleasant to talk to smart people.