The night was dark, and in the mansion of the former minister of Kaifeng Mansion, there were still a few lights flickering.

Although the New Party recently took advantage of the east wind of the second deposed Empress Meng and gained the upper hand in the political dispute, Zeng Bu knew very well in his heart that he had not yet won a big victory. Because the old party has now become a means! The reason why Wang Jinggong led the Fa Reform faction to rise in the center was not that he was good at political disputes or flattery. It is that Wang Jinggong really has some methods of "enriching the country and strengthening the army", so that he can be reused by Emperor Shenzong and defeat the conservative forces all over the court.

But now, although the new party is all over the court, there are few ways to "enrich the country and strengthen the army". Moreover, many good policies for changing the law have also had many drawbacks because of the problems in the administration of officials.

In the most crucial aspect of the "method of strengthening the army," many of the New Party's policies have gone wrong. The "Art of War" failed to improve the situation of the low combat effectiveness of the forbidden army in Kaifeng and Hebei. At the same time, the abolition of the "Law of Change" in order to implement the "Law of War" kept the Kaifeng and Hebei forbidden armies away from the war, and military training was even more wasted.

The "Horse Protection Law" and the "Household Horse Law" were complete failures, not only did they not get cheap and high-quality war horses, but also abolished the original horse administration, and now they can only go back and rebuild the horse administration, which is simply a waste of labor and money.

Murong Wangwu, who came from the south of the Liao State, gave a method of "training troops in a small package", first systematically cultivating generals and team leaders, and then relying on them to implement the method of contracting at the "department" and "team" levels to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops. However, this method had just begun, and it was stifled because it violated the taboo of "civil training of soldiers". The hundreds of department and team leaders who were finally trained have also become Imperial Knights. What a failure!

And now, even the "Armor Protection Law" has been questioned, and it seems that it is about to be replaced by the government military system - in fact, the government military system is also approved by the new party, and the "Armor Protection Law" was originally introduced with reference to the government military system. But now, the government military system that is being tried in Lantian is in opposition to the "Armor Protection Law". What's even more hateful is that Ji Yi, who clearly belongs to the New Party and government camp, actually quoted the views and methods of Sima Guang, the old thief, in Shangshu.

I want to implement the government army by abolishing the armor...... It's just a matter of sacrificing the basics! The "Baojia Law" is one of two dings, and the government soldiers mentioned by Ji Yi in Shangshu are ten to one hundred households (according to the situation of each state and county, military governments are deployed, and more military offices are set up in states and counties close to the front line), and the number of people is definitely far less than that of Baoding. Moreover, Bao Ding is not paid, but a government soldier has to pay taxes on 200 acres of land, and his own tax service is also exempted. Although this cost is much higher than that of the forbidden army, the soldiers of the forbidden army are soldiers all year round (perhaps part-time), while the government soldiers only serve as soldiers for three months a year in peacetime.

What made Zeng Bu even more annoyed was that Ji Yi hadn't greeted him at all before going to Shu! The fact that such an important boss did not come to ask for his own opinion was clearly to betray the new party and take refuge in the old party...... Wrong! It is impossible for him to defect to the old party, he also joined forces with Zhang Yuan before, and I don't know how to get rid of several cadres of the old party in the Taiwan system.

He and Zhang Yuan are neither the new party nor the old party now......

Zeng Bu suddenly thought of the "three thieves" of Wu Haogu, Pan Xiao'an and Gao Yu, who obviously also betrayed the old party and acted as the vanguard in the abolition of Empress Meng!

And Ji Yi and Zhang Yuan's actions to sweep away the old party cadres in the Taiwan admonition system seem to be greatly beneficial to the second abolition of Empress Meng!

Zeng Bu's brows furrowed, he seemed to sense something?

By the way, Cai Jing's wallhead grass also has a problem! Not only did he contract the military camp in the north of the state to Wu Haogu after taking over the Taifu Temple, but he also took the lead in the recital of "Shangshu begging to abolish Empress Yuanyou"! In doing so, he is also sorry for the new party and bites the old party!

Could it be that there is now a third party in the court that is between the old and the new?

"Houqing, Zhengfu," Zeng Bu suddenly took a breath and looked up at the two visitors in his study, "Now there seems to be a new traitor in the court!" ”

When Zhao Tingzhi heard this, his face changed slightly, "The new traitorous party? Zixuan, do you mean Wu Haogu, Pan Xiao'an and Gao Yu? ”

"More than that!" An Tao said, "Zhang Yuan and Ji Yi seem to be a little wrong......"

"And Cai Yuanchang!" Zeng Bu said coldly.

"Cai Yuanchang?" Zhao Tingzhi frowned slightly, "Could it be that Cai Yuanchang is their leader?" ”

"It should be him!" An Tao nodded and said, "Cai Yuanchang is bent on entering the political hall, how can he be willing to be blocked for so many years?" Zixuan, it's better to let him in, so that he won't be against us outside. ”

"In?" Zeng Bu gritted his teeth, "Then who's going out?" ”

Now that the six prime ministers and deputy prime ministers are full, there is no seat for Cai Jing at all. And even if there is a seat, Zeng Bu doesn't want Cai Jing to enter the political hall. This guy is too good at doing things, and he can flatter him, and he has been in the official family early in the morning. made him the deputy prime minister, and sooner or later he and Han Zhongyan would be dragged away from their seats......

"It's better to let Fan Chunli get out," Zhao Tingzhi said, "I'll find someone to impeach." ”

"Guilty?"

"It's almost there!" Zhao Tingzhi said, "Fan Chunren's two sons recently cooperated with Poly Virtue to run a newspaper like "Wenqu Xing Xun Bao". ”

"Running a newspaper?" An Tao asked, "Is this also a crime?" ”

"Of course, running a newspaper is not a crime," Zhao Tingzhi said with a smile, "but it is easy to give people a handle!" Wu Haogu was cunning enough in this regard, and pulled Zhao Xiaoyi as a shield to clean himself up. And a few Lang Jun of the Fan family were confused, and they actually came forward to be the chief writer, and when the time came, it was not a bunch of tricks for people to catch casually? ”

"Isn't Poly Virtue the property of the Xiang family?" An Tao asked, "The official family still takes good care of the Xiang family." ”

"Hmph," Zhao Tingzhi snorted, "So what?" Empress Dowager Xiang is not here after all! ”

Zeng Bu nodded, "Masao's method is feasible...... However, the method of reporting is still good, and we have to do it, but we can't do it ourselves. ”

Zhao Tingzhi smiled: "This is easy to do, Wu'er Defu is now the chief writer of "Wenqu Xingxun News", and he has long mastered the key to running a newspaper, so he can be asked to preside over it secretly." However, he had to find an excuse to come out of the "Wenqu Xingxun Bao", and it took money to run a newspaper. ”

"It's not difficult to get out of the Wenqu Xingxun Bao," Zeng Bu said, "just arrange an official position for him." He glanced at Zhao Ting, "The official family has been friends with him for a long time, and they probably want to call him an official for a long time." As for the cost ......"

It doesn't take much money to run a newspaper, but Zeng Bu, An Tao, and Zhao Tingzhi are not businessmen and don't know how to run a business. And Wu Haogu, Xiang Zongliang, and Xiang Zonghui are too rich, so they threw too much money at "Wenqu Xingxun News" and the "Qingliu Xunbao" that is being prepared. They all regard the first issue of the newspaper with more than 100,000 copies as a means to expand the market.

Moreover, the Republic Bank and Poly Virtue also have their own large-scale printing workshops - the Republic Bank wants to print the "Oiran" album, and the Poly Virtue Bank wants to pirate the "Oiran" album, how can you play without a printing house?

So invisibly, the threshold for running a newspaper has also been raised.

"It's better to call the six-way shipping envoy to find a way." An Tao thought for a moment and made a suggestion.

"Six-way shipping envoy?" Zeng Bu thought about it, this is a way - he understands what An Tao meant, that is, let the six-way shipping envoy find investment. "Who will be the six-way shipping envoy?"

"Let it go." An Tao suggested.

"He's a thick man!" Zeng Bu frowned.

An Tao said: "If you don't arrange for him, he will be Cai Yuanchang's person!" ”

"That's right!" Zeng Bu nodded, "Houqing, let's jointly recommend him to be in charge of the Sixth Route Shipping Division...... The excuse is to find a way to cooperate with the transportation of grain from the north to the south. ”

……

"Brother Eleven, Brother Gao, Su Dalang, Huang Wulang, Mo Niangzi, let's toast Cai Longtu together."

At all times, the moon and stars are scarce, the cool breeze is slow, outside Kaifeng City, on the Republic Tower, Wu Haogu is dressed in a lazy shirt, holding a wine glass in one hand and Bai Feifei's slender waist in the other, and is toasting Cai Jing.

Today's banquet was held to thank Cai Jing. Although Zhao Ji generously agreed to prepay 1 million horses of silk and 1.35 million face value of tea and salt, it was indeed Taifu Temple to take out these silk silks and exchanges.

The Jiehe City Bosi is now not under the management of the Hebei Capital Transfer Division, but directly under the Taifu Temple, so the allocation of capital must also be taken out from the Zuozang Treasury and the Jiaoyin Treasury under the jurisdiction of the Taifu Temple.

Anyone who is used to dealing with the Northern Song Dynasty bureaucracy knows that it is one thing for the official to nod his head, and it is another thing to be able to get the money out of the Taifu Temple...... And it was a bribe worth 2 million silk and quotations at one time, and a penny of bribes has not been paid!

Cai Jing did Wu Haogu a great favor this time.

With this huge amount of money, the 700,000 yuan hole caused by the "illegal purchase of land" in Cangzhou can be regarded as completely filled.

"Da Lang," Cai Jing drank a glass of wine in the fairy queen, and waved his hand indifferently, "You and I are our own family, how polite is it?" To do you a favor is to do the old man himself...... Speaking of which, without your help, the old man would not be able to be the Taifu Temple Secretary now. ”

Wu Haogu smiled as if he was on the scene, his own family and Cai Jing are his own people? He's the head of the six thieves! You really won't break it? No, after holding hands with Bai Feifei later, you must read "The Analects" for a while to encourage righteousness......

"Long Tu," Wu Haogu pondered in his heart, his face was full of enthusiastic smiles, and he still had a request for Cai Jing now, "Do you remember Wu Yanzhong of Goryeo?" ”

"Remember!" Cai Jing smiled, "What's wrong with him?" ”

"He's coming to Da Song again."

"Really?" Cai Jing asked, "The old man hasn't heard of it, is it because the Tongwen Museum didn't report it in time?" ”

"He didn't come as an envoy," Wu Haogu shook his head, "He came to Haizhou to worship his ancestors, so Tongwenguan didn't know about it." ”