"Su Dongpo has arrived in Jiangnan? That's fast! ”

Wu Haogu finished reading Mi Fu's letter and muttered in a low voice.

He didn't expect Su Dongpo to go so fast. Historically, he only went to Jiangnan in the first year of the founding of Yasukuni, and then died of illness (said to be dysentery) in Changzhou.

Now that he arrived in Changzhou a year earlier, he shouldn't have contracted dysentery and died there in advance, right?

Wu Haogu hurriedly took Mi Fu's letter from Bai Feifei. Mi Fu and Su Dongpo that is old buddy, in history Su Dongpo in Changzhou when he was sick quickly, Mi Fu who was an official in the Southeast Six Road Shipping Division often went to visit.

In recent years, Mi Fu has also maintained correspondence with Su Dongpo, who is in Danzhou. Before the beautiful Jin Niang went south to Danzhou, she also followed the instructions of Wu Haogu, deliberately stayed in the Lianshui Army, took letters and some Huainan specialties from Mi Fu, and brought them to Danzhou together. Mi Fu is also worried about the inconvenience of a female stream on the road, and specially sent a Mi family to escort her all the way.

And this escort of the beautiful gold lady of the Mi family will return to Kaifeng Mansion in early July (Mi Fu is now Cai He allocated the envoy, the government office in Kaifeng Mansion), not only brought back "a piece of Su Dongpo and the beautiful gold lady of the good story", but also brought Su Dongpo's letters, as well as Su Dongpo's recent situation.

Su Dongpo, who has lived in Danzhou for nearly three years, is not in very good physical condition, on the one hand, because of his age; On the one hand, because of the difficult living conditions in Danzhou, the climate is hot and humid, which makes Su Dongpo very uncomfortable.

In addition, Su Dongpo's three sons were unlucky together, and they were all relegated to Lingnan, which also made Su Dongpo very depressed.

Although Su Dongpo pretended to be very indifferent on the surface, reading, writing, and singing poems, how could he not be bitter in his heart? Especially Su Dongpo's third son, Su Guo, is obviously full of talent, but he is always affected by Su Dongpo, and only took the Ministry of Rites exam once at the age of 19 (Luodi), and then because he is a filial son, he followed the old man all the way to Danzhou, and now he is 28 years old, and he doesn't even have the opportunity to take the exam. Can Old Man Su not feel sad when he looks at it?

The arrival of the beautiful golden lady added a bit of color to Su Dongpo's later life in Danzhou. At the beginning of March this year, the imperial court's edict to relocate Su Dongpo to Haizhou arrived in Danzhou. Then the Su family father and son set off from Danzhou and began to go north accompanied by the beautiful golden lady. first went to Xunzhou (also in Guangdong) and joined his two sons Su Mai, Su Yu and his younger brother Su Zhe's family (Su Zhe was resettled in Xunzhou after being demoted), and then a large family went north to Haizhou. Walk along the coastline, first into Fujian, then into Zhejiang, and arrive in Hangzhou in early June. Now it's probably heading to the Yangtze River.

At the end of Mi Fu's letter, he also said that he recommended Wu Haogu to worship Sumen. Mi Youren, who has already left Haizhou for his post with the letter of recommendation, should be able to hand it over to Su Dongpo this autumn.

However, a letter of recommendation alone is not enough to show the sincerity of Wu Haogu, Mi Fu hopes that Wu Haogu would be best to go to Haizhou in person to apprentice.

"Haizhou ......" Wu Haogu put down the letter in his hand and said to himself, "If he can get there safely, the apprenticeship will always be successful."

As long as you can pull the tiger skin of the Sumen scholar, a big academy can always hold up. ”

……

In August of the third year of Yuanfu, the sky is already high and the clouds are light on both sides of the boundary river, and the autumn is thick.

The ancient city of Yangzhou ushered in the best season of the year. The autumn breeze means that ships loaded with porcelain from the Central Plains can sail down the wind to distant foreign lands. At this time, Yangzhou stood side by side with Haizhou, both of which were export ports for Chinese porcelain. On the Yangtze River wharf outside Yangzhou, there are ships from all over the world that are being loaded. On the canal wharf in Yangzhou City, most of the boats from Xuzhou and Kaifeng Mansion are also carrying exquisite porcelain and various gadgets from the Central Plains and the North. Among them, the most novel thing for readers in Yangzhou City is the monthly magazine "Wenqu Xing".

In an upper room of the Yangzhou Pavilion Station, there is a red clay stove with warm wine, and a pot of old wine is hot on the stove, which is exuding a rich aroma.

Su Zhe took a sip of old wine, held a copy of the inaugural issue of "Wenqu Xing" in his hand, and was reciting an article in a low voice, which was the "countermeasures" article of more than 10,000 words in Jinke Tanhua Ji Yi, and nodded lightly from time to time.

This famous minister, who was listed among the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties and served as the deputy prime minister Shangshu Youcheng and his servant during the Yuan You change, is 61 years old this year, but he still has a dignified appearance, slightly clear, revealing a minister's temperament that has lived on the people for a long time, but he also does not lose the elegance of a literati.

"It's a good article, isn't it?"

An old man who looked a little similar to Su Zhe, but was thinner and older, although he had a gray beard, he still had a little less majesty, and a little more free and easy.

The old man was dressed in a white robe and held a folding fan in his hand, which showed an elegant and free color, but there was a trace of melancholy between his eyebrows.

Needless to say, this old man who looks a little older than Su Zhe is the famous Su Dongpo!

Su Zhe frowned, nodded and said, "Zhang Zihou has a good grandson-in-law." ”

In my mind, an old face that was always puffing and puffing and a little bit of color immediately appeared.

Speaking of which, the Su brothers and Zhang Dian were originally old acquaintances, everyone is an official N generation, their parents are friends, and they are Jinshi at about the same time. If it weren't for Wang Anshi's new deal, the two families belonged to the old and new parties, and now they might still be friends!

And so many years of party struggle, several ups and downs, have made the two brothers of the Su family have the idea of retreating.

It's just that now they haven't recovered yet, and they still have the "placement" punishment in their bodies, and they can't retreat even if they want to!

However, now that Han Zhongyan has paid homage to the second minister, and Zhang Dian is on the wrong side on the issue of supporting the decision, his bad luck is a foregone conclusion, so it is also a matter of time before the two brothers recover.

Once the punishment is waived and the official position is restored, they can ask for a tribute.

"Han Shipu's son-in-law is also good!" Su Dongpo spoke, picked up the wine glass and drank it all, and then put the wine glass on the table. It was the beautiful lady who was waiting on the side, and when she saw that Su Dongpo's wine glass was empty, she carefully picked up the wine jug that was warm on the stove and poured wine into the old man Su's wine glass.

"Jinshi's sixth martial arts?" Su Zhe frowned and glanced at the beautiful golden girl, "He has a good brother who is very good at doing things." ”

Su Dongpo smiled: "My generation is old and no longer does things, it's time for them young people to do things and become officials...... Isn't it? ”

Su Zhe snorted: "They all came to us two old bones, and they really sharpened their heads." ”

It turned out that Mi Youren, who served as the lieutenant of Qishan County, had been to Yangzhou a day ago, and handed over Mi Fu's letters and gifts to Ersu. He also gave Ersu a few copies of the just-published "Wenqu Xing" magazine, and also talked to Ersu about Wu Haogu's "glorious deeds".

In fact, Wu Haogu has done a lot of things, even if he is a lucky villain, he is also a very capable lucky villain.

"Ziyu, you don't like him very much?" Su Dongpo asked his younger brother with a smile.

Su Zhe snorted lightly again: "It's not that I can't look down on it, but this person ......" He considered his words, "This person is too good at tossing!" Like, it's like Wang Banshan! ”

Wang Banshan is Wang Anshi! After listening to Mi Youren talk about what Wu Haogu had done in the past two years, Su Zhe actually thought of his old rival Wang Anshi.

"He's like Wang Banshan?" Su Dongpo sneered, "How is it possible?" His path and Wang Banshan seem to be opposites...... Have you watched the "Republican Treaty"? ”

Su Zhe waved his hand, "He is a king Banshan...... But it's the king of the old party! ”

"The king of the old party?" Su Dongpo didn't quite understand, when it came to literary talent, Su Dongpo was better than Su Zhe. But politically, Su Zhe was far superior to Su Dongpo.

Su Zhe said: "Wang Banshan's way, whether it is the "Qingmiao Law", "Uniform Loss Law", "Exemption Law", "Shiyi Law", and "Fangtian Average Tax Law", the starting point is to suppress the wealthy and use the country. It is hoped that the goal of 'de-duplication, leniency of peasants, sufficiency of national use, and no shortage of people's wealth' can be achieved.

On the contrary, Wu Haogu's "Republican Commercial Covenant" is the way of "not suppressing the wealthy, encouraging industry and commerce, and wanting everyone to seek wealth and enrich the country". If it is implemented in one place, it may be able to create wealth, but if it is to be implemented in the world, it will inevitably cause public resentment to boil like Wang Banshan's new law.

Therefore, he is the king of the old party! ”

In the end, it was a great Confucian who had been a deputy minister, and Su Zhe saw through the essence of the Wuhao ancient route at a glance!

If Wang Anshi wanted to use the "feudal planned economy" to solve the problems faced by the Song Dynasty with the excessive gap between the rich and the poor and the country's financial difficulties. Therefore, Wang Anshi's changes increased the power of the government, and also allowed the officials of the Northern Song Dynasty, who were not of high level and had poor ethics, to take the opportunity to do something wrong.

Then the way of Wu Haogu is to develop a market economy and release the capitalist devil. Therefore, the line taken by the "Republic of Commerce" was that the merchants ruled the merchant city, and the officials of the Jiehe merchant city were placed under the control of the merchant senate. However, of course, there is no problem with a similar route in the small land of Jiehe Shang City...... But if a similar line is implemented throughout the Great Song Dynasty, it will be the rule of a wealthy family, which is similar to that of Liu Zheng, the emperor of the Han Yuan Dynasty.

It can be said that Wang Anshi and Wu Haogu represent two diametrically opposed extremes! If the two are in the same era, they have to pinch each other.

"Ziyou," Su Dongpo frowned, "Do you think I shouldn't accept this disciple?" ”

Su Zhe shook his head and said, "I won't say anything about the things inside your door. However, it is still necessary to be cautious when accepting disciples, so as not to spoil the Qingming of the whole life...... Don't you have ten disciples? They're also heading to Haizhou, right? Consult with them then. ”