"Wang Xiang can't scold the cook while eating, no matter how anxious he is, he has to wait until he finishes eating and then scold!" Hong Tao knows very well what Wang Anshi wants to express, although the color and utensils of these foods are not original to him, they are all copied from the memories of later generations, but he can't humiliate himself so much in person, it's too much.

"Ashamed, ashamed...... The old man is rude...... "After being blamed by the horse, Wang Anshi immediately felt his mistake. Indeed, asking such a question is no different from scolding, seeing that the food in your mouth is blocked by the horse, in order to satisfy your tongue, quickly apologize.

"Shhh...... This is a big head of water! Eating was not enough, Hong Tao brought a fine-mouthed porcelain bottle and two very small white porcelain cups, poured them and served them to Wang Anshi.

This person was stuffing shrimp tempura into his mouth, and he didn't look carefully at it before he poured it down, and the flush immediately penetrated the thick skin on his old face and came back.

"No, this is the original head pot shochu in the house, not take-out, only three altars per season, one of which is given to the Queen Mother, the second is dedicated to His Majesty, and the third is to drink it yourself, of course, you drink it yourself......"

Looking at Wang Anshi's unproductive appearance, Hong Tao felt better and better, his chest was also straightened, the corners of his mouth were opened, he took a small porcelain cup and took a sip lightly, and then forked up a sushi and took a bite of it.

That's right, it's a fork, he doesn't use chopsticks very neatly, so he asked Peng Da to make a few white copper fork spoons, and use forks and chopsticks together when eating in the house, how convenient and how to come.

"It's a pity, it's a pity!" Wang Anshi glanced at the horse, and slowly pulled several lacquer boxes to his side to protect them with his arms, before he said the truth.

The food is really good, full of color, flavor and culture. But the diner on the other side is really not good, eating a meal is like a big crab, holding a spoon without a spoon, fork not fork guy all over the table, very cheap.

"Cut, the mouth is fast, the mouth is slow...... Oh yes, Wang Xiangke knows a founding marquis, named Wang Zichun. A few days ago, I went to his house to deliver invitations, and the maid said that he had extended the border for thousands of miles, and I really have such a person? ”

Hong Tao actually didn't have anything serious to talk to Wang Anshi, chatting, anyway, he couldn't let him go too fast, so he had to wait for the party to be halfway through. Small talk is about finding a topic that both parties have something to talk about, what to say? I suddenly remembered the founding marquis, and this topic is quite appropriate.

"Oh? Du Wei went to invite Prince Shao to be pure, can he come? As soon as he heard the name of the founding marquis, Wang Anshi finally lifted his head from the food box. In fact, his eating appearance is not much better, and he still has the face to laugh at others.

"I guess I didn't come, when I went, the housekeeper said that he was sick in bed, I don't think it will be so soon." Hong Tao took the opportunity to drag the two food boxes to his side, this person ate white food too fast and had too good an appetite, and he went down by a third in an instant.

"This person is a pillar of the country, but unfortunately he is burdened by fame, and it is difficult to continue to be brilliant." Wang Anshi obviously recognized the founding marquis, but he was a little hesitant to say it.

"He's really going a long way?" Hong Tao doesn't pay much attention to other information, he just wants to understand how people get into the title, if it's not difficult, he might as well try it.

"More than a thousand miles, have you heard of Ping Rongce?" In view of the colt's illness, Wang Anshi couldn't figure out what he remembered and what he had forgotten, so he had to start from scratch.

"I heard the maid mention it once a few days ago, but I didn't have a chance to read it...... "It's Pingrongce again, it sounds like it should be a book about war." But Gao Cuifeng collected almost all the existing military books for himself, and there was no one among them.

"Blease? Hahaha...... If you want to read it, Du Wei is probably going to ask His Majesty for it......" Listening to the horse's answer, Wang Anshi almost squirted out a mouthful of food, stretched out his neck and glared at him, and finally swallowed it, but he didn't have time to wipe the wine on his beard and began to burst into laughter.

"Uncle! Old thing you wait, watch for a while how this shipping makes a fuss to you! Hong Tao knew that he must have guessed wrong, and he had to hold a grudge when he was ridiculed, but fortunately, the opportunity for revenge was coming soon, so don't worry, listen to what he says.

With delicious food, refreshing wine, and an audience who humbly asked for advice, Wang Anshi was not in a hurry to leave, laughed while eating, drinking, and told Hong Tao in detail about who Wang Shao was.

Wang Shao, whose name is pure, is a native of De'an, Jiangzhou, and Wang Anshi is a generation, almost 20 years older than the horse.

This was also a scholar when he was young, he ascended to the Jinshi at the age of 27, and went to take the examination 2 years later, but he missed, and he resigned in frustration and began a travel career, visiting the famous mountains and rivers in the northwest to find a solution to the country's stubborn problems.

The system of science is a special kind of imperial examination, a bit like a special recruitment in later generations. There is no Jinshi scenery in the direct examination of the system from the white body, but the entrance examination of the system after the Jinshi and the first is similar to the graduation and continuation of the graduate school in later generations, which is the icing on the cake.

Wang Shao estimated that he felt shameless after falling off the list, so he stayed away from the imperial court, but he didn't expect a mistake, and his nearly ten years of travel career gave him a first-hand experience of the war between the Song and Xia countries, and drew his own countermeasures from it.

In the first year of Xining, the second year of Song Shenzong's succession to the throne, he and Wang Anshi implemented the law change, Wang Shao saw that the new emperor was a little bold, and the ancestral law had to be changed, so should he also contribute to the country? So he wrote down his research experience on the Songxia War over the years and entrusted it to Wang Anshi.

At that time, Wang Anshi was not yet a governor of political affairs, but he had just finished teaching the emperor "A Hundred Years of Nothing to Do in this Dynasty", which was deeply valued by Emperor Shenzong and was in the limelight in the court. He is also looking for a person with military talent to lead the army, and intends to complement and echo each other in political and military affairs, which is in line with the goal of changing the law.

After seeing Ping Rongce, Wang Anshi was happy, and it didn't take much effort to get it, and the person who commanded the army sent it to the door himself, and immediately recommended Ping Rongce to Emperor Shenzong.

Then Wang Shao became a strong leader in the new party, and was awarded the post of Qin Fenglu's driver Yiwen, not to mention commanding heavy troops, and he could be regarded as a person who could access military secrets. Lu Huiqing, Zhang Dan, and Cai are indeed Wang Anshi's right-hand men in the court, and Wang Shao is his banner in the army.

Wang Shao was indeed capable, and he believed that in order to defeat the Western Xia, he should first recover the two states of Hehe and Huang, cut off the communication between Tubo and the Western Xia, and divide and use the various tribes of Tubo. In this way, the Song army could form a flanking attack on the Western Xia from the south and east, so that the Western Xia could not take care of it.

If the Western Xia were allowed to take this place first, not only would they get tens of thousands of Tubo generals in vain, but the cavalry troops could also go all the way south and directly threaten the hinterland of Longshu, and then it would become impossible for the Song Dynasty to take care of the end.

So can you recover the two states of Hehuang? Wang Shao is very sure, because in recent years, the Western Xia and the Tubo tribes have been fighting in Qingtang, and the Tubo tribes are very disgusted with the Li clan of the Western Xia, but their strength is not enough to confront the Western Xia for a long time.

If the Song Dynasty could take the opportunity to adopt the strategy of dividing and recruiting An, as long as it played well, it would not only be able to recover a large area of land suitable for cultivation, but also obtain a lot of Tibetan people to submit to it, and completely cut off the idea of Western Xia going south.

Wang Anshi didn't say how it was operated, but Wang Shao did achieve the expected goal. It only took him more than three years to sweep the five prefectures of Xi, He, Tao, Min, and Tongyuan, and he also captured the largest local leader of the Xiqiang tribe, which is known as the Xihe Kaibian in history.

In the seventh year of Xining, Wang Shao had already paid official homage to the scholar of the Guanwen Palace, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and later entered the privy deputy envoy. His brother and two sons were also given official silk, a piece of scenery.

"Surely he won't have a good time in the future, right?" Hearing this, Hong Tao first felt that Wang Shao was a military talent, not only able to fight, but also to do ideas together, the local Tubo and Xiqiang tribes were fooled by him, and then became the vanguard to deal with other tribes.

This kind of person will definitely not be an honest person, let alone upright, and he will definitely be full of bad water. Moreover, this kind of person is not very consistent with the mainstream scholar class values of the Great Song Dynasty, he only pursues the result and does not look at the process, which is a very typical pragmatist.

Will the Song Dynasty scholars tolerate him? If he hadn't made such a great feat and didn't sit in such a high position, he would have been fine. But on the contrary, he has made meritorious contributions and received awards, won houses and land, and has a cute family, which is a bit too ostentatious.