Zeng Bu betrayed Wang Anshi and fought back against the controversial Shiyi Law, the impact of which was far more far-reaching than the apparent dispute.

These days, there has been no rain outside the capital for a long time, but there is a lot of wind and rain in the court.

Originally, except for some people on the periphery, the new party, which was basically able to maintain consistency internally, finally exposed cracks that were difficult to repair.

Zeng Bu's betrayal made many people think that the new law was about to fall, so Wang Anshi's henchmen who relied on his arm to help suddenly abandoned the new party. And because Zeng Bu once controlled the formulation and implementation of the new law, there were not a few low-level officials he promoted. His civil strife made the officials of the New Party who had signs of the old department at a loss.

As a result, the political situation in the DPRK and China, especially in Beijing, was rewarded with Zeng Bu's accusations against the city. All of a sudden, the music was intertwined, corresponding with Zeng Bu in the same voice, and seeking the same breath.

Han Gang was outside the whirlpool, and he couldn't make an accurate judgment on the affairs of the court, and he could only understand the changes from the words that came from Beijing.

In the letter, Wang Yan asked Han Gang to do things with peace of mind and not to have too many worries. And in the past two days, some of the latest news has also made Han Gang smell the smell of a sharp change in the direction of the wind.

After all, the foundation of the new party is still there, Wang Anshi's influence on the Son of Heaven still exists, and Lu Huiqing is even more difficult to deal with. When Zhao Ji ordered Lu Huiqing and Zeng Bu's generals and asked them to investigate the illegal affairs of the city, the situation in the capital gradually began to be unfavorable to Zeng Bu.

Zeng Bu tracked down Lu Jiawen's illegal affairs, and even traced Xue Xiang, who was still holding the post of the third envoy. However, Lu Huiqing started directly from Wei Jizong, alleging that he had been instructed by Zeng Bupi, slandering and bullying the king, chasing Wei Jizong and beating him fiercely, attacking one point, so that all Zeng Bu's accusations against the city were all empty talk.

Han Gang's side didn't have so much trouble, and the thoughtful preparation earlier allowed him to deal with the displaced people who flocked south. After everything was on track, he returned to the county seat and sat down in the county office. As soon as he does business, he has his own capable subordinates and staff to deal with it, and he only needs to visit the homeless people every day.

As for the pontoon bridge, it is easy to do. There are precedents, manpower, and money and food support from Kaifeng Mansion, and the Son of Heaven has never refuted Han Gang's suggestion. It's just a matter of rebuilding the pontoon bridge, which involves Gyeonggi and Hebei, and Han Gang's authority is not qualified to cross the road boundary, but Zhao Ji still sent an edict to let Han Gang preside over the matter with full authority.

"It should also be like this, Liyang Zhixian is just the prince Zhongyun, the Beijing official." Fang Xing's implication was that the magistrate of Liyang County on the other side of the river was 108,000 miles away from Hangang.

Han Gang didn't care about this power struggle, he was concerned about the support of Jingzhong: "I just hope that the princes of the court will not forget the matter of the displaced people." ”

Hearing the news that the political situation was changing three times a day in the court more than 100 miles to the south, Han Gang wondered if he should let Wang Pan go back to Beijing to remind his father-in-law that no matter how hateful Zeng Bu was and how the old party attacked, the most important thing at present was the problem of the displaced people.

The relationship between the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction, Han Gang learned it well.

It is true that the matter of the change of affairs in the city is to be clarified, but that matter is by no means the key. The shaking of the law is just a hole in the embankment, but if the displaced people are in turmoil, the embankment of the Yellow River will collapse. And once a large number of displaced people arrive under the city of Tokyo, it will be the last straw that crushes the camel, and now everything that Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing are trying to protect will all come to naught.

With the edict, the Hakuba pontoon bridge was soon built.

When Han Gang contacted Liyang County, it took five days to prepare the ropes, boats and planks necessary for the pontoon bridge, and then it took only two days to build the pontoon bridge that connects the two banks of the Yellow River

The White Horse Pontoon Bridge is not a rope that is pulled directly to the opposite bank, it is too long, and it is easy to be broken by the flow of the Yellow River in the middle. Therefore, there is a turnaround in the middle section, which is the Jushan in the center of the river.

The pontoon bridge in the Yellow River is divided into two parts, one stretches from the bottom of Wenzi Mountain to Jushan, and the other half extends from Jushan to the opposite bank.

Han Gang stood on the side of the pontoon bridge, and heard the sound of drums, coupled with the crackling sound of a string of firecrackers, and a wooden board at the back of the bridge was nailed up. The pontoon, which undulates with the waves in the river, is swept out of an arc by the current, and it is very unstable and swaying. But it's safer than a ferry.

As soon as the pontoon bridge was passed, the displaced people wandering on the opposite bank all dragged their families and went south along the pontoon bridge. Han Gang was at the ferry, watching a human dragon cross the Yellow River and arrive at Baima. There are more and more displaced people in the county, and I don't know when the imperial court will be able to appoint people with higher authority - the limit of the authority in his hands is almost reached!

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Daimyo's house.

Wen Yanbo's eight sons, either as officials or as villagers, now only the six sons Wen and Fu are serving by their side.

Wen Jifu's current task is to be filial to his father, and at the same time, he is also a bag to inquire about internal and external news. He hurriedly approached Wen Yanbo's study: "My lord, the pontoon bridge over there in Liyangjin has been built!" ”

Wen Yanbo sat in his study, reading a book of notes from his predecessors. A warm spring day shines in through the window and is reflected on the desk. The dark table has a dull texture, glowing faintly in the sunlight.

The Daimyo Mansion was often exhausted, and all the displaced people in the prefecture went south. Now Wen Yanbo is much more relaxed, while looking at the jokes in Beijing with a cold eye, he can also take the time to read idle books, at his age, he can no longer read the classics of scripture and history, and he only has a little miscellaneous books and some interest.

Seeing his son come back, Wen Yanbo didn't care about the pontoon, pointed to a text on the scroll he was looking at, and said to his son: "Yesterday, I saw the text of praying for rain in the court, the text was bland, and there was no aftertaste, so I could only laugh, but it was difficult to find rain." ”

Wen Jifu didn't know why his father suddenly lifted the prayer for rain, stopped and stood in confusion.

Wen Yanbo knew that his son had always been slow to react, and did not wait for Wen Jifu to reply, and continued: "Nowadays, the scholars of Chinese in the dynasty are mostly simple and practiced, and do not decorate the literary style, but let Wang Yuyu's golden jade full of wind and flow. is Wang Jiefu, and his great fame is actually average. If you want to talk about words, this dynasty is still based on disobeying the order. Look at the prayer for rain he made, just one sentence of 'Shang Liang Long Run', and all the prayers for rain this year have been suppressed. ”

Of course, Wen Jifu knew who Lu Dao's father was talking about. There was only one disobedient marquis of the Great Song Dynasty, and that was Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Needless to say, Li Yu's literary brilliance is self-explanatory, and he can be regarded as the only one who can give away his life with one word. It's just that he couldn't figure out what his father was trying to say.

Standing awkwardly for a while, Wen Jifu couldn't think of an eyebrow, so he could only nod, "What the adult said, what the adult said." ”

Wen Yanbo was helpless, raised his eyes and asked, "Liyang's pontoon bridge has been repaired?" ”

Wen Jifu nodded more frequently, he is now very concerned about Baima County's every move, "It has been connected to Baima." Now all the displaced people in Liyang are going to Baima County through the pontoon bridge. ”

Wen Yanbo sneered: "He is fast with his hands and feet!" ”

"Your Excellency." Wen Jifu took a step forward and said solemnly: "Just looking at Han Gang's request to build a pontoon bridge, it shows that he is not afraid of the entry of displaced people at all." Looking at Baima County, where deep wells are now being dug and watered, and the well master who dug deep wells is actually from Fushun Prison in Shuzhong, it can be seen that Han Gang has been prepared for the drought for a long time, and the measures are also orderly. ”

"Oh, really?" Wen Yanbo responded indifferently.

Since Wen Jifu was taught by his father, his attitude towards Han Gang has changed from derogatory to looking down on everything. Han Gang's actions, Wen Jifu can always see the conspiracy and deep meaning from it. Seeing that his father was unmoved, he further said: "What Fu Bi can do in Qingzhou, Han Gang can certainly do. If he really settles the displaced people properly, maybe it will be a rich country again in the future! ”

Wen Yanbo was not worried at all, and shook his head, "To deal with the displaced people from Hebei to the south, at least the power of one state and one government can have enough manpower and material resources." The severe drought that has lasted since last year has affected not only Hebei but also Gyeonggi. How can a county in Baima support? ”

The former prime minister of the Daimyo's Mansion pointed to the outside of the hall, and the spring sun was sprinkled in the courtyard without obstruction, "It's just the beginning of spring, and there are only two or three hundred thousand displaced people in the entire Hebei." But by May or June, the number of people who have eaten up their family's food and have no new food to replenish will be millions. At that time, the displaced people who went south from Hebei and Lianglu were not the little ones who gathered outside the Daimyo's mansion in winter. ”

"My lord, Han Gang is right!" Wen Jifu reminded, "If someone in the DPRK and China proposes to restore Huazhou, Han Gang can do it." ”

Wen Yanbo finally put down the scroll in his hand, and lowered his eyebrows pressed his eyes that were half-squinted due to the sun: "I remember that when Zhengzhou and Huazhou were merged into Kaifeng, Zeng Bu initiated it. Now Wang Jiefu is in turmoil in his heart, and Zeng Bu has rebelled. Maybe Han Gang really made him the governor of Huazhou, but ...... So what? ”

Wen Jifu wanted to speak and stopped, only listening to Wen Yanbo say slowly: "If you want to deal with the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of displaced people, it is by no means something that can be completed by one person, you need enough assistants and prestige. Although Han Gang is talented, he lacks popularity—both the available people at hand and the prestige to intimidate his subordinates are too few......"

When Fu Bi served as the governor of Qingzhou, he had accumulated enough prestige in the court to successfully suppress the prefects under his rule, and Fu Bi also had a lot of effective staff in his hands at that time, so he could survive a catastrophe safely. More than 500,000 homeless people, if only one person is rich, how can they do it?!

Wen Yanbo is old in political affairs, and he has seen countless talents, even if he is a man who governs the world, he has seen too much, but anyone can solve the political affairs of a state with the power of one person - someone must be a helper. Even if the Taizu is peerless, he has to rely on the assistance of the Yishe brothers to be able to add himself to the yellow robe of Chen Qiao.

Wen Yanbo resolutely did not believe that the Shaanxi scholar who had made him suffer many losses and humiliations could have the ability to dominate the sky alone.

"Han Gang may have the talent to govern the country, but now Wang Anshi's position is difficult to protect, even if he becomes the governor of Huazhou, how can he let the prefects below obey his orders one by one? The disadvantages of being too young and having shallow prestige are here! ”