But after the two men met, they talked for a day before reaching a consensus, and the main disagreement was on taxes. Wang Hao was not afraid to negotiate with the Uighurs on behalf of the Ganliang Lu Jinglu Pacification Envoy, but he wanted to know how much benefit he could gain by taking the risk. And this time, we must not only pay lip service, but also put it into practice.

The advantage given by Hong Tao is to allow the Wang family to take the lead in establishing a business in Ganzhou and the future Suzhou New Town, and establish a two-year supply and marketing relationship with the Liangzhou Woolen Mill that is about to be officially put into operation.

"Uncle has always been jealous of officials and businessmen, if this official also breaks the rules and takes special care of the Wang family's property, then he will not become an official businessman. As long as the official agrees to this condition, there will be countless officials and businessmen in Ganliang Road and Huangzhou in the future. Compared with this official, their foundation is stronger, is my uncle sure that he can take advantage of half of the advantage in this irregular market? ”

For his unsympathetic decision, Hong Tao explained it this way. If Wang Hao insisted on refusing to budge, then let Jiang Dalang go to Guazhou to negotiate with the Uighurs.

Even if you suffer a little loss in business interests, you must ensure that no one can be free from the rules, and this is the bottom line. Losing this line, Hong Tao felt that he had been working here for three years and had not changed anything, which was equivalent to working in vain.

"Speaking of officials and businessmen, I'm afraid there are already in Huangzhou City. Adults might as well go back and take a look, the trip to Guazhou is wrapped up in Wang Hao, even if the Wang family does the adults a favor. ”

Wang Hao said it more vaguely, but Hong Tao could understand the meaning. It seems that some merchants in Huangzhou City have stimulated Wang Hao, and he is willing to help in his personal name, but if the rules here cannot be established, he and the Wang family will not plan to invest more here in the future.

Two days later, Jiang Erlang escorted Wang Hao on the road to the west with 200 special forces, and before leaving, Hong Tao handed Wang Hao a folded piece of paper and asked him to look at it on the road.

"Prioritization, rules cannot be established in a day, and all parties need to cooperate along the way. Today's non-thinking is that the official is not thoughtful, and when the uncle comes back, there will be a new atmosphere, or the official will return to Kaifeng for retirement. ”

There are only these two sentences on the paper, which fully illustrates Hong Tao's inner entanglement and difficult trade-offs, and it also proves once again that Pei Ying sees people very accurately. He is really not suitable to be an official, and he usually returns to his nature when he encounters difficult situations.

Hong Tao was forced into a dead end by Wang Hao, and had to make a choice in advance that he was extremely unwilling to make, and turned against Wang Anshi and even the entire Song Dynasty officialdom.

Wang Hao's Huangzhou official and businessman Hong Tao already knew that Wang Shi's intelligence network was not established for nothing, and the mainland may not be able to do anything about it, but in Huangzhou and Ganliang Road, there is nothing worth paying attention to hide from her.

As early as Hong Tao led his troops to Suzhou, Wang Shi sent a secret letter, informing him that two firms holding the seal of Wu Wangfu had forced to buy and sell in Huangzhou.

They took the seal of King Wu's mansion to find other merchants and buy other people's goods at the purchase price. This threat has little effect on merchants in Huangzhou and Ganliang Road, but it is very lethal to merchants from the mainland. Everyone comes to Huangzhou to buy goods is to take it back and sell it at a higher price, if the family industry is in trouble, then there is a gross use for the purchase.

Anyway, people don't take it for nothing, the capital is still given, at most, it is to lose some travel expenses, which is not too painful. However, as for coming to Huangzhou to continue doing business, many merchants from the mainland have a wait-and-see attitude. No one even dared to report this matter to the officials, for fear that the officials would protect each other, but they were still unlucky.

Does the Wu family's business have this ability? It's hard to say. Who is King Wu? His name is Zhao Hao, the second brother of Emperor Shenzong, and he is also the eldest brother of King Xu, who was just named King Wu last autumn and belonged to the first-class prince and marquis title of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although the Song Dynasty supervised the emperor's relatives more strictly, most of them were at the military and political level, bullying and bullying the common people, as long as they didn't make people angry, there would be no problem.

Not to mention this in ancient times, I am afraid that it will not be much stronger in later generations, or even worse. After all, the ancients still had a moral bottom line, and where the moral bottom line of later generations is, they can't see the bottom when they stick their heads into the sewers.

In fact, just one Wu Wang Hongtao is not afraid, the big deal is to write a letter to the eldest princess, asking her to go and say hello to her brother, and don't make trouble on her brother-in-law's territory.

But King Wu's princess made Hong Tao even more jealous, her name was Pang Zi. She does not have a prominent family background, but she is Wang Anshi's former daughter-in-law.

Wang Anshi has a son named Wang Yan, this person Hong Tao has never seen, it is said that he is a genius, less than twenty years old when he was next to Emperor Shenzong as a waiter, he is also very insightful about government affairs, and he is also an absolute supporter of Wang Anshi's new policy. Accompanying the emperor to study is not to accompany the prince to study, it is to have a very high attainment, which shows that Wang Yan's knowledge is really not bragged.

But jealous of talent, Wang Yan had a strange disease when he was in his twenties, or he had this disease since he was a child, the disease is very similar to chronic diseases such as high blood pressure or cardiovascular, and his body is not as good as day by day. In addition, he has a violent personality, and his condition is even more serious, and he was a whine just a few years before Hong Tao crossed over.

At that time, Wang Anshi did a very unbelievable thing, that is, he asked his daughter-in-law to remarry when his son was dying, and he did it himself.

Why did Wang Anshi do this? It is said that when he saw that his son was seriously ill, he was fine, and he always spoke ill of his daughter-in-law, and felt that he should not let one patient force another good person to be sick.

In addition, with the social atmosphere at that time, after the death of the husband, you can't remarry immediately, and you have to delay it for a few years, so it is better to divorce before the son dies, so that you don't have to delay the daughter-in-law's youth.

On this issue, Hong Tao asked himself if he really reached Wang Anshi's level, and he couldn't say that he completely agreed, but he admired his courage very much. As long as you believe in something, no matter what others say, you must do it. Without this insistence, he would not have risked the world's condemnation to implement the new policy.

Wang Yan's wife Pang Zi's husband who remarried was also unlucky, and died in an accident within a year, and then somehow turned around, she was actually taken by the widowed King Wu, and in a blink of an eye she became Princess Wu.

From this point, it can be seen that the status of women in the Song Dynasty was higher than that of all dynasties, and princes would marry remarried women and widows abound, and the divorce rate of women in the Song Dynasty should not be very low, and no one would particularly discriminate against divorced women.

It is said that King Wu is a master who is more afraid of guilt, and Pang Zi is a beauty, otherwise he would not have been chosen by King Wu. And the family affairs in King Wu's mansion are all handled by this princess, and King Wu never asks.

Hong Tao also believes that King Wu knows nothing about this matter, and his uncle is also a cultural person, and he is ashamed to do things that are not very elegant to say such as making money, which is not a guess, but a common problem of the ancients. The more elegant the literati, the more otherworldly they must be, and cannot be compared with ordinary people.

Then the problem comes, if Hong Tao brings to justice these two businesses in King Wu's mansion, not only will he slap King Wu in the face, but I am afraid it will also be a very intriguing thing to reach Wang Anshi's ears.

Originally, the estrangement between himself and the New Party has become more and more serious, and there is no longer trust between them, even if it is just to maintain the reform situation in Huangzhou and act in accordance with the law, but will others think so?

Many things in the world are afraid of blind speculation and blind connection. Hong Tao believes that Wang Anshi will understand his approach to upholding the dignity of the law, but he can't stand the delicate situation, and others will fan him again, which will become an intentional retaliation.

With Wang Anshi's temper, he can't tolerate the middle faction, either his own people or enemies. That would mean that he would have to face the pervasive difficulties of the New Party, and he would no longer want to gain their support, even if it would be more difficult to exchange benefits as before.

This is also the main reason why Hong Tao has been pressing this matter and not making a reply, he just sent a letter back to Wang Shi, asking her to go to Lian'er, and she will come forward to talk to the business of Wu Wangfu in private, and persuade them to be more restrained and not to be too ostentatious.

It seems that Lian'er's face was not given by the other party, and she still went her own way, which made Wang Hao have an opinion. His opinion is also likely to represent the majority of mainland merchants who come to Huangzhou to do business. This matter must be concluded, and there is no point in dragging it out.