In the third year of Yuanfu, December 30.

It's Chinese New Year's Eve again.

Wu Haogu definitely didn't expect his beautiful idea of "rejuvenating the country with real estate" at this time, but in the eyes of An Tao, a great official of the Northern Song Dynasty who once followed Wang Anshi's reforms, it became a mercenary and a misleading country and people.

In fact, he didn't think about the big deal of the demolition of Dutingyi at all in the past few days. He is busy misleading the country and the people at this time, uh, it should be for the country and the people!

It turned out that a few days before Chinese New Year's Eve, the official Zhao You arrested him again and asked him to go with Wang Shu to entertain Xiao Baoxian and Liu Yun, the Liao envoys who had just "moved".

Nominally, Wu Haogu painted a portrait of the Liao envoy in the capacity of a painting, and presented the standard portrait of Huizong of the Song Dynasty. It's not the kind of scaring horizontal knife that immediately draws people, but a portrait of Song Huizong wearing a big red robe and being gentle and elegant. It is an oil painting jointly completed by Wu Haogu and Zhang Zeduan, which is very realistic.

In addition to the portrait, Wu Haogu was of course indispensable to exchange opinions with Xiao Baoxian on the "Goryeo-Female War". Not in his personal name, but as a secret envoy of Song Huizong to negotiate with Xiao Baoxian.

The position of the Great Song official family on this war was also informed by Wu Haogu of Xiao Baoxian - first of all, the Great Song Dynasty was a neutral party in this imminent war, and did not support the Goryeo Kingdom, nor did it support the birth of a daughter.

Second, the Great Song Dynasty would trade with both sides while remaining neutral, and the items sold would include iron and weapons.

Third, the Great Song Dynasty hoped to exchange views and reach a consensus with the Liao side on the quantity and types of iron and weapons sold to the Goryeo Kingdom and the Shengnuzhi side.

Fourth, the Great Song Dynasty hoped to maintain a balance of power between the Goryeo Kingdom and the Shengnuzhi through the sale of iron and weapons.

Of course, the above four articles were not actually proposed by Song Huizong, they were all Wu Haogu's "false transmission of holy decrees", properly bullying the king!

However, Wu Haogu's risk was not in vain, after he tried his best to explain the "pro-Liao" of the Great Song Dynasty official family and the benefits of making Goryeo and Nuzhi lose both, Xiao Baoxian finally accepted the "Four Principles of Neutrality" proposed by Wu Haogu on behalf of Song Huizong.

Moreover, Xiao Baoxian also had a higher opinion of Song Huizong, the Great Song Shengjun. Compared with his predecessor, this Great Song official is really much smarter!

It seems that the Great Liao State will no longer be able to bully the Great Song Dynasty at every turn in the future......

Today, because it was Chinese New Year's Eve, Wu Haogu still had to enter the palace at Haishi, and then accompanied Zhao You to the Donghua Gate to accept the pilgrimage in the early morning of tomorrow, that is, the first day of the first month of the first year of the establishment of the Yasukuni Kingdom, so he left the Chengxi Annex, which was temporarily used as the embassy of the Liao State, and went to the city of Kaifeng Fu.

By the way, Song Huizong was not very interested in holding a grand court meeting, and during his 26 years in power, only 4 great court meetings were held, three of which were New Year's Day grand court meetings, which were held in the second year of Daguan, the eighth year of Zhenghe and the sixth year of Xuanhe, and one was the winter solstice grand court meeting held in the second year of Zhenghe.

When passing through Qionglin Garden, Wu Haogu Zhuma watched for a while, this royal garden is indeed small and shabby, and it cannot be compared with those gardens in Beijing City in later generations. Moreover, Qionglin Yuan and the nearby Jinming Pond are open to the public, allowing people and officials to enter and visit, and they are only closed during ceremonies.

The proximity of the Great Song official family to the people is indeed a bit uncomfortable for Wu Haogu's soul from later generations.

After looking at it for a while, Wu Haogu hit his horse and went to the water gate in the northwest of Kaifeng Fucheng. The Northwest Water Gate is the outlet of the Jinshui River out of Kaifeng Fucheng, which not only has a waterway, but also a land route. In the season when the Jinshui River is not frozen, the Northwest Water Gate is one of the busiest city gates in Kaifeng Prefecture.

The people who come and go on the Jinshui River are either boats or boats. The official roads on both sides of the Jinshui River are also full of traffic, and they are bustling to the extreme.

However, now there are no boats on the Jinshui River, but there are still many cars and horses on the official roads on both sides of the river, most of which are relatives and children of officials who go to the old mansion in Kaifeng Mansion to eat the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet - the high housing prices in Kaifeng Mansion are not only a huge pressure on Lin Wancheng and Lin Chong's father and son, even for most officials and relatives and noble children, it is also expensive. Therefore, those noble families who have more and more children have to let some of the children who are not very good and are not willing to be crowded in the city go to the outside of Kaifeng Prefecture, and even go to Qi County like Baima and Chen Liu.

Before the New Year and festivals, many people will rush into the city. In fact, even Wu Haogu himself did not purchase a separate residence in Kaifeng Prefecture. If he didn't live in the Ewha Villa outside the city, he would have to go to the martial arts mansion to live with his father Wu Chengzhi and brother Wu Haowen.

It's not that he doesn't buy a house in Kaifeng Mansion because of a tight position, it's purely because he's not optimistic about the medium and long-term trend of Kaifeng Mansion real estate - the current Kaifeng Mansion housing prices are not a big historical head, and once it is trapped, it will be a long 900 years......

When entering the Northwest Water Gate, it was just afternoon, because there were too many cars and horses from the west of Kaifeng Prefecture, after entering the Northwest Water Gate, Wu Haogu encountered a traffic jam.

In the Northwest Water Gate, both sides of the Jinshui River extend to the Imperial Palace, all of which are "Jiangmen Xungui District", except for the area near the Northwest Water Gate, there are many newly built residences, and other places are old mansions. Therefore, on Chinese New Year's Eve, there are many noble children who enter from the Northwest Water Gate.

Because there were too many carriages and horses, Wu Haogu had to ride slowly with Olga who followed, but he didn't delay too long and arrived outside the alley where his house was located.

When he arrived at the intersection, Wu Haogu found that it was already crowded with people, and the cars and horses were all scattered - all officials and businessmen who were in a hurry to pat their ass.

Wu Haogu shook his head, this kind of officialdom is really bad! Isn't it just an official henchman and a prime minister's son-in-law? Is it necessary to stammer?

"Let's go through the back door." Wu Haogu didn't have the time to deal with those who came to give gifts, he still had to recuperate, and then he had to stay up with the official family for a day and a night! And from the second day of the first year of the founding of Yasukuni, he still had to go one by one to give gifts to the senior officials who could give gifts......

"Dalang! Wu Dalang! ”

As soon as Wu Haogu turned his horse's head, he heard a Fujian accent coming from him, as if calling himself.

In the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Fujian people were all over the court! Zhang Dian, Cai Jing, and Lu Huiqing are all from Fujian.

So Wu Haogu didn't dare to slack off, and quickly turned his head to look, only to see a white and clean face poking out of a carriage, it was Cai Jing's eldest son, Cai You.

"Ouch!" Wu Haogu hurriedly got off the horse, ran to Cai You, and sang a fat song, "Why did Brother Ju'an come?" I still want to visit the house in the second year of junior high school.

By the way, is Mr. Cai okay? ”

It is necessary to go to Cai Jing's mansion on the second day of the Lunar New Year to give gifts, but it is not Wu Haogu who goes in person, but Su Dalang goes on his behalf.

After all, now Wu Haogu is the confidant of the official family, and Cai Jing is having the upper hand, and he has been kicked out of the court, but he just doesn't leave.

But even so, Cai Jing is still one level higher than Wu Haogu, and Wu Haogu still has to give a generous gift to show respect.

Therefore, Cai Jing's eldest son, Cai You, personally came to pay New Year's greetings to Wu Haogu, which was still surprising.

"Good! The old man is very good! ”

At this time, something even more unexpected happened to Wu Haogu. Cai Jing, who was dressed in casual clothes, lifted the curtain and came out of the carriage.

"Cai, Master Cai, why are you here?"

Wu Haogu really admires Cai Jing a little! Although Wu Haogu is now the emperor's number one confidant, there is really a way to make Cai Jing recover. But as a high-ranking civil official doctor, in order to be an official, he actually condescended to pay New Year's greetings to a fortunate villain.

With this attitude, Wu Haogu has no way not to help - if Wu Haogu doesn't help, he doesn't know his identity! His younger brother Wu Haowen, who was sixth in the Jinshi exam, could ignore Cai Jing, but he didn't have this qualification.

It is the prerogative of civil officials!

"Come with so-and-so......" Wu Haogu didn't say much, and hurriedly invited Cai Jing, Cai You, father and son into their mansion from the main gate, and asked Olga to inform Wu Chengzhi and Yan Po'er - of course, the Chinese New Year's Eve night banquet of the martial arts family had to arrange a family performance, so Yan Po'er brought a dozen or so female actors who sold their arts and bodies into the martial mansion early in the morning. Now that Cai Jing is here, it is natural to have special arrangements.

The father and son of the Wu family invited Cai Jing all the way into the middle hall, and after the guests and hosts sat down, they exchanged a few words, and Cai Jing asked Wu Haogu with a smile: "Da Lang, you have done a good job in Dutingyi!" ”

The buying and selling of the Metropolitan Station? Why did Cai Jing mention this?

"Master Cai," Wu Haogu smiled, "You know about this too?" It's not a big deal, it's just to raise some money for the official family to repair Qionglin Garden. ”

In front of Cai Jing, Wu Haogu didn't hide anything. Who is Cai Jing? Feng Heng Yu Da, more ruthless than Wu Haogu!

"Oh?" Cai Jing smiled and took a sip of tea soup, "Da Lang, you can make a lot of money from it, right?" ”

Wu Haogu smiled, "What? Bachelor Cai also wants to join a share? ”

"Stake?" Cai Jing shook his head, "Da Lang, do you really think this business can be done?" ”

Wu Haogu smiled, "How could it not be done?" Han Xianggong nodded, could it be that Zeng Xianggong would obstruct it? ”

Cai Jing nodded and looked at Wu Haogu, "Zeng Zixuan and An Houqing are indeed going to get in the way." ”

Wu Haogu smiled and asked, "They don't want the official family to repair Qionglin Garden?" ”

In fact, he is not afraid of Zeng Bu and An Tao jumping out by themselves! Now that they are jumping out, they will definitely catch Han Zhongyan, and the right minister may be Su Zhe. In this way, the left minister is his brother-in-law, the right minister is his teacher's younger brother, and the official family is still his good friend, this day is too leisurely......

Cai Jing laughed and said, "Do you think Zeng Zixuan has no brains? They don't want to get in the way of the officials' gardens, but to be your way of wealth. ”

"Standing in my way?" Wu Haogu was stunned for a moment, "Who do they want to sell Dutingyi to?" ”

"Don't sell anyone," Cai Jing said, "and let the shopkeeper do this business." ”