As the winter solstice gets closer and closer, the top and bottom of Kaifeng Mansion are busy for the suburban ceremony.

Although Han Gang was outside, he still had to listen to the orders of Tokyo City and prepare money, materials, and manpower for the ceremony. He also ordered all counties in the capital to send more archers and patrol inspections, and keep a firm eye on the lawbreakers who had had old cases, and if there was any suspicious behavior, they could be seized first, and then released after the amnesty decree was issued.

Whether it is the political hall or the Kaifeng Mansion, it is all repeated orders, and there must be no chaos in this national ceremony.

When Han Gang issued the order, he couldn't help but feel a little funny. The bureaucracy before and after the millennium was almost carved out of a mold, and even the things they did were average. Although people change, the world remains the same, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, no exception.

The place of worship is located outside the Nanxun Gate of Kaifeng, and is known as the place of Qingcheng. Although it is not far from the city, it also belongs to the suburbs, so the palace built there is the palace of the Eight Classics.

The mound used to worship the heavens, and Han Gang is not allowed to come to do more. The 81-foot-high earthen platform made of loess has been used for decades, and even if it is damaged, it has its own master craftsmen to deal with it. But in order to renovate the Qingcheng Palace, Han Gang was still ordered to transfer a group of homeless people to listen to the assignment of the mansion.

Tokyo City is divided into Kaifeng and Xiangfu counties, just as Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty was divided into Wannian and Chang'an counties. However, the land enclosed by the fifty-mile city wall of Tokyo City is directly managed by the Kaifeng Prefecture. Only the townships outside the country are under the jurisdiction of the two counties. In terms of status, Kaifeng and Xiangfu are also called Chixian, which is one level higher than Baima and Chenliu counties.

Nominally, Han Gang can manage Kaifeng County and Xiangfu County. However, the successive government boundaries have never been in charge of the affairs of Liangchi County, and they have all let the Kaifeng prefect deal with it. Han Gang has been in office for more than half a year, and he has never been to the jurisdiction of Chixian County when he inspects the counties, so there is no need to ask for trouble if there is a story convention.

Returning from Fugou County, the southernmost part of Kaifeng Prefecture, when he passed by Qingcheng Palace, Han Gang only glanced inside, and then hit his horse. If you stand for a while, maybe the magistrate of Xiangfu County will report him Han Gang's violation of his authority.

When I arrived at Nanxun Gate, it was just afternoon, and there were more pigs than people during this time on weekdays. Han Gang went around in a circle and entered Tokyo City from Xinzheng Gate, and the city gate official was no longer the 'outspoken' Zheng Xia Zheng Jiefu, but a prison officer, who was in his fifties, saw Han Gang coming, and immediately welcomed him into the city in person.

It has only been more than ten days since I left the city of Tokyo, and the city is already full of people.

The Wangxiang Mansion of Chongrenfang has returned to the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Mansion at this time, and the streets and alleys in front of the door have become deserted, no longer noisy. The idiom of the door is not an adjective, Han Gang rode by, and he really startled a group of sparrows pecking on the ground in front of the door.

Wang Anshi's old residence was originally an official residence, given by the Son of Heaven and attributed to the prime minister - basically the two mansions were in charge, and there were no private residences in the city of Tokyo, and the mansions where he lived were all official property, which was given or taken back by the Son of Heaven. Thinking of the land price in the capital, Han Gang is not enough to be surprised by this phenomenon.

Even if he is a prime minister, if he wants to buy a house in Beijing that matches his status, he does not rely on corruption and bribery, unless he can be entrenched in the phase for twenty or thirty years. And if any prime minister really buys a mansion, the eyes of the imperial historians will be sucked together like a sewing needle of a magnet.

Now it is the Feng Xianggong Mansion next door to Jingmingfang. Feng Jing has not yet been given, and the so-called Feng Xianggong Mansion is the Feng Shen government in the past. Han Gang didn't pass by the streets and alleys in front of Feng's mansion, but just glanced inside from the intersection, and found that the road was already crowded with people and cars.

Han Gang shook his head and fell together, it was common sense in the world, and there was no need to sigh too much.

When he returned to Beijing this time, he was going to Kaifeng Mansion to see Sun Yong. When the Son of Heaven travels out of the city, whether it is to be buried in the mountain mausoleum by the coffin of the Son of Heaven, or to go out of the suburbs of the city to worship, the prefect of Kaifeng has to serve as the bridge and road envoy as usual, responsible for road safety. Han Gang is a subordinate of Kaifeng Mansion, so he must be involved.

In addition, in private matters, I also want to meet Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dian. As soon as Wang Anshi left, Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dian both wrote to him, asking him to stop by when he went to Beijing.

Needless to say, Lu Huiqing has been a core figure of the New Party in the court since he was promoted to governor of the country. Although Han Jiang is the prime minister, his role is only to support. Just like Du Yan, the prime minister of the Qingli New Deal, and Zeng Gongliang, the prime minister of Wang Anshi's first reform, they are just here to escort, and they will not be the real core.

And after Zhang Dian returned to the court, with his exploits in Jinghu, he has been promoted to the Zhizhi Decree and the Straight Academy, and now it is a hot time, I don't know when he will be promoted to the Hanlin Bachelor - now because Zeng Bu went out and Lu Huiqing was promoted, it just happened that there were two more vacancies in the Academy - only half a month, he has already firmly sat in the position of the second person in the New Party.

As for who the No. 3 of the new party is in the court, there is some controversy.

The theory should be Zeng Xiaokuan, the son of Zeng Gongliang, the former prime minister who was sentenced to military weapons supervision and Zhongshu Wufang inspection. But many people in the capital believe that Wang Anshi's son-in-law, Han Gang Han Yukun, who is now famous inside and outside the court, as long as he resigns from the position of the palace and enters the court, there will be no problem in overpowering Zeng Xiaokuan.

However, although Han Gang has always supported the new law, he has helped the New Party tide over many difficulties at critical times. Whether it is the sleigh cart transporting grain, or the case of the displaced people, the New Party must accept his favor from top to bottom.

However, Han Gang's support for the New Party is still unclear. Because in essence, Han Gang's scholarship and ideas are not consistent with the New Party, which takes Wang Xue as the governing principle, and there are even many places that are diametrically opposed.

In the past, Wang Anshi came to suppress him, preventing Han Gang from spreading the theory of qi and Gewu in Beijing, and strictly guarding it in the Jingyi Bureau, so as not to let Han Gang have the opportunity to get involved.

But now that Wang Anshi has left, the main members of the Jingyi Bureau have gone to Jiangning with Wang Anshi, and only Lu Huiqing has been promoted to the Jingyi Bureau and stayed in the capital. Thousands of miles away, and the Yangtze River is vast, can you still suppress Han Gang and prevent the Son of Heaven from putting away his demagogy, this is a problem that can give the New Party a headache and make the outside world look forward to it.

Confucianism attaches great importance to the teacher's inheritance, and the disputes that are difficult to reconcile in academics are indelible contradictions in the court. Whether Han Gang will take the opportunity to make waves, as he did at the Qionglin banquet, is also an extremely important key to whether the New Party can unite closely after Wang Anshi leaves - in any case, Han Gang's status and appearance, as well as the talents and talents he has shown over the years, coupled with his right to speak in front of the Son of Heaven, make him a figure that cannot be ignored in today's political situation.

Han Gang didn't know how many pairs of eyes Lu Dao were watching his every move, so as to judge whether the new party could unite and stabilize the government as the Son of Heaven wished.

But Han Gang understood that Wang Anshi was stepping down, although he said that this big umbrella covering the sky was no longer covering the new party, and from then on, starting from Lu Huiqing, he had to bear the ups and downs in Beijing independently. But from another point of view, the contradictions that Wang Anshi had borne before also went to Jiangning with him, and to a certain extent, the New Party can also be said to be lightly armed.

The court has entered a new stage, or in the common words of later generations - the era of Hou Wang Anshi.

Seeing Sun Yong did not delay Han Gang too much. Regarding the matter of the bridge after the Son of Heaven left the city, Han Gang and Sun Yong had already sat down to discuss it several times, and today it was just a repetition of what had been said in the past, and of course it was not a complete repetition, because of some sudden new circumstances, and the plan that was prepared to be implemented in the past should be slightly revised.

Coming out of Kaifeng Mansion, Han Gang looked at Lu Huiqing's mansion and went over. Just in front of the gate of Kaifeng Mansion, the two family members sent by Lu Huiqing were already mixed in Han Gang's entourage, waiting for him to come out of the yamen.

It can't be called thirsty, nor can it be called impatient, but it should be said to be frightened.

As long as Han Gang does not express his attitude clearly, Lu Huiqing will not be at ease. Even if Zhang Dian would definitely pat his chest for Han Gang in front of the new governor, Lu Huiqing would not believe it completely.

Wang Anshi's speech was like being in a pool, and he threw a boulder into it. The water was churning and turbulent, so that the situation in the DPRK had not yet stabilized. Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dian don't want this time period, someone will stab the New Party in the back, after Zeng Bu left, Zeng Xiaokuan is still a little short of this strength - only Han Gang.

Under the leadership of the servants of the government of Lu Sen, Han Gang went all the way to the west. Just like Feng Jing, Lu Huiqing did not receive his gift. Han Gang estimated that it should be until Han Jiang appeared, and at that time, the Son of Heaven would reward him one by one from high to low.

Walking towards Lu Huiqing's mansion in the west of the city, from the slightly anxious look of the servants of the Lu family, Han Gang could imagine that Lu Huiqing was anxiously waiting for his arrival at home, I don't know if it was because Lu Huiqing entered the political hall for the first time.

The cultivation of pampering and humiliation is not so easy to cultivate. Han Gang also didn't think that Lu Huiqing would soar to the governor in one or two years, and he could do what a high-ranking minister could show for decades.

I don't know if this kind of mentality will bring about a bad impact, the Son of Heaven needs a political hall that can stabilize the situation in the court, and the new party needs a leader who can stabilize the party, if Lu Huiqing can't change his mentality, what will happen to the future of the new party, it's a little difficult to say.

Shaking his head slightly, Han Gang pressed this idea to the bottom of his heart, his guess was not necessarily true, what it was, he had to see it with his own eyes.

Pull up the reins, stop the horse, Lu Huiqing's mansion is already in front of you.