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    But Zhao Zhen asked, and Zheng Lang replied: "When it comes to the talents of prime ministers, Shen Guogong is second to none. After Shen Guogong passed away, there was no one in the empire who could compare with him. As for the current court, there are several ministers, but none of them are  There is only one person who is slightly less talented than a prime minister."

    "who?"

    "Pang Ji." Zheng Lang answered without even thinking.  It's not Wen Yanbo, it's not Xia Song, it's not Ding Du and the Song Dynasty. It's not the prime minister, it's the prime minister. Even if Wen Yanbo was the prime minister from beginning to end, he didn't do a very good job.

    "Pang Ji?" Zhao Zhen glanced at Zheng Lang, suddenly smiled, and then shook his head.

    Zheng Lang and Pang Ji had no contact with each other, and they had many differences in political opinions, especially in military concepts, which reminded Zhao Zhen of the story about Lu Yijian recommending Fan Zhongyan.  This is the magnanimity. If he came over and beat Fan Zhongyan to death, he would not recommend Lu Yijian.

    It may be better to use Pang Ji as prime minister than to let Zheng Lang be prime minister.

    He called a eunuch and whispered a few words. The eunuch went down and found an article on the bookshelf. Zhao Zhen said, "Zheng Qing, take a look."

    Zheng Lang opened it and saw that it was "The Story of Yueyang Tower" written by Fan Zhongyan. It was written last fall. He didn't even need to read it. He knew this article by heart when he was in junior high school.  But why did Zhao Zhen let himself watch it?

    At this time, Zhao Zhen cannot be regarded as the Zhao Zhen of more than ten years ago. He was very scheming, far better than the little emperor of Khitan.  Every move he made had profound meanings. Zheng Lang frowned and thought deeply. A long list of personnel transfers in history unfolded before his eyes.  Zheng Lang thought about it and suddenly realized it.

    Zhao Zhen is not disgusted with Fan Zhongyan.  Even if it is demotion.  The states where they are located are not bad state capitals.  But Zhao Zhen was worried about this party.  Fan Zhongyan said, I am thinking about your Zhao family. Even if you are the emperor, you have to step aside. However, Fan Zhongyan ignored an important thing. The emperor has stepped aside, so where is the position of the Zhao family?  The greater Fan Zhongyan's reputation, the more people became vassals, and the more people his ideas influenced.  So until Fan Zhongyan's death, talents such as Fu Bi, Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu successively enabled Zhao Zhen.  As a ruler, you will definitely be afraid.  On the contrary, Lu Yi Jianlong's real power exceeded Fan Zhongyan.  Zhao Zhen was not so afraid, because Lu Yijian did not push Zhao Zhen aside, and the country let me come.

    "Looking at Yueyang Tower Records again, the two articles written before and after the Qingli period are the most famous, one is "On Clique" and the other is "Yueyang Tower Records".

    The starting points are different. Ouyang Xiu¡¯s starting point is a big one, which is to defend the Qingli New Deal. Fan Zhongyan¡¯s starting point is a very small one.  Just to prevent Teng Zongliang from being framed by Jia Changchao, I wrote this article to express his merit for Teng Zongliang.

    But different minds and ideas lead to different consequences.  Yueyang Tower has inspired generations of famous ministers to serve the country and the people.  The theory of cronyism laid hidden dangers for greater party strife in the future. To put it more seriously, it aggravated the trend of internal strife in the Chinese nation.  Let's fight among ourselves. It can be as big as a country or as small as a unit or a village. Infighting is justified.  Fighting in the Song Dynasty, fighting in the Ming Dynasty

    Zheng Lang finished reading and put it down.  He said: "Your Majesty, in terms of ambition and moral integrity, no one in the world can match Zhong Yan."

    "Does he have the talent of a prime minister?"

    "No, it's too clean. It's only a prime minister's job. You have to learn to take both things into consideration and be flexible. You have to be smart, bow your head, and be pragmatic. If a good prime minister wants to take both morals into account, he probably won't be able to, so Zhong Yan is not suitable to be the prime minister."

    Zhao Zhen smiled and said: "That's not right. It may not be impossible to take into account morality. In ancient times, there was Song Jing, and before him there were Meng Zheng, Duan, Dan and others. Although Zhong Yan was good, he thought too far and was unrealistic. He was pragmatic.  No, no flexibility, no balance He is also a good minister."

    Zheng Lang also smiled and said: "Your Majesty, when I came here, I wrote benevolence and righteousness on the boat. If your Majesty is interested, I will send someone to bring it for your Majesty's review."

    "good."

    Zhao Zhen sent someone to the post house to fetch the book of Renyi. He sat there, bored, and talked to Zheng Lang about the Khitan.  Zheng Lang will tell the truth as it is.  Zhao Zhen smiled and said: "Zheng Qing, according to your opinion, that Liang Wang will not be a wise king in the future?"

    "He wants to be a wise king. He likes hunting and is fond of Confucianism and Buddhism. He is far better than his father. Not only the King of Liang, but also many Khitan nobles have forgotten the military career of their ancestors under the influence of our dynasty's culture. Without martial arts, although Khitan has close  With a population of tens of millions, the number of people that can truly be controlled will not exceed six to seven million, of which Han people account for more than half. The country is far more dangerous than our dynasty."

    "It's a pity that these Han people cannot be used by our government."

    "No, Your Majesty, it's just that our dynasty is still not rich and strong enough. If the people's lives were richer and the country was stronger, it would be like a magnet, and it would be attracted to our dynasty. But now the people can't maintain food and clothing, and their martial arts are weak, and they are controlled by the northern captives.  , and they were controlled by the Western invaders. The barbarians in the south were free from justice, and the imperial court could not control them, so how could they absorb the power."

    After chatting for a while, the eunuch took the book of benevolence and righteousness.

      Zhao Zhen looked through it.

    It¡¯s not very long, ten articles, 60,000 to 70,000 words, half of which is reasoning, and half of which are historical materials as examples.  But after reading it, Zhao Zhen frowned and thought hard. He was a little confused, and Zhao Zhen also stopped.  He flipped through it again and finally said with a smile: "It's a good book. I'll send it to Taixue tomorrow and publish it in the newspaper."

    "I obey my orders."

    After a long delay, he left the palace.

    When he came out, Zhao Niannu waved to Zheng Lang. Zheng Lang didn't know and waved too.

    Handover, go home.

    Many people came to the home, and the Fan family happily sent someone to carry their daughter's luggage and let her enter the Zheng family.  After hearing this, some officials immediately came to give gifts. The trend was wrong. Regardless of whether Zheng Lang was the prime minister or not, he would still be a powerful prime minister, so he had to build good relationships.  However, Cui Xian declined them one by one.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The emperor is still in a state of turmoil against his cronies, and all the trees and grass are at war. If the husband wants to make friends with the ministers, sooner or later the emperor will be disgusted.

    There was another person whom Cui Xian did not refuse, Zhang Fangping.

    Zheng Lang was very cautious about this person.

    " Fan Zhongyan's reforms, using good people, will bring great governance to the country. Zhao Zhen said that it was unrealistic and was not unjust.  If you want to do something, you must at least have some ideas and some goals, including finances.  In the early Northern Song Dynasty, there were only two people with clear thoughts and theories. One was the deceased Li Gou. He absorbed some ideas from books such as Zhou Li and Guanzi, and advocated that the state intervene in industry and commerce through the art of priority and severity.  This is intervention.  Not control.  Oppose monopoly and use state machinery to participate in financial management so that private businesses cannot monopolize, and the state cannot monopolize, including salt and tea and other specialties related to people's livelihood.  This is a relatively progressive idea, although it is very hazy.

    ?Then we went to Zhang Fangping.

    Li Gou's thoughts had a great influence on him, and he also accepted some reference from Liu Yan's financial management in the Tang Dynasty, and further carried forward the art of weight and importance. He believed that the country is a business organization, and managing finances for the country is not what Confucianism calls fighting with the people.  profit.  But his thoughts still advocated state-owned economy.  It is not the private economy, but the national economy that has always lacked long-term planning, leading to various bad phenomena.  He didn't say anything about the three redundancies. This was too troublesome.  Zheng Lang said that by integrating the knowledge of those who came before him, he did not find a complete solution.  Zhang Fangping only said three things: one is annexation, which is better. It cannot turn the country's 700 million acres into 200 million acres, shrinking one-third. This is the main reason why Zhang Fangping opposes the private economy.  Second, when you wander into Buddhism, the temple occupies too much space and the tail is too big to fall off.  It also became a major disaster in the Song Dynasty.  The third is the problem of soldiers and horses. It is too hard to raise so many soldiers.  There are three ways to solve the problem: the government actively participates, buys grain when the grain is low, and provides grain when the grain is expensive, suppresses the powerful and hoarding, or uses other means to prevent the powerful and powerful from making huge profits and not endangering the country and the people.  The government must understand and practice the system.  Get rid of your greed for gathering, especially those of Buddhism and Taoism, Buddhists, what are you greedy for?  Increase the number of militias that combine soldiers and farmers, and eliminate redundant troops.  Carry out farming.

    His idea was expanded and used by Wang Anshi. Zhang Fangping took a look.  Boy, that's not right. That's not what I meant. You have gone too far and I object to it.

    It cannot be said that Wang Anshi is wrong, Zhang Fangping is not completely right, and these three methods are not the best way to solve the problem.

    But he thought about it seriously and formed an ideological concept. This alone is far better than others.  And his gentle style made Zheng Lang value him.

    Cui Xian knows some of her husband¡¯s ideas and often participates in them.

    Therefore, all the guests who came to visit were rejected, except Zhang Fangping.

    Seeing Zheng Lang, Zhang Fangping stood up and said, "Xingzhi, I've been away for so long and I'm really worried."

    "Thank you, Brother An." Zheng Lang said.

    Regarding this trip to Khitan, although Zheng Lang came back safely, he still felt a little regretful because he was too frivolous.

    Zheng Lang said again: "Please sit down."

    Zhang Fangping looked at Zheng Lang with his eyes. He was worried about one thing. He was quarreling with Wu Yu. After some people in the capital heard about it, they generated some bad rumors, saying that he was vassalizing Jia Changchao.  Some people even said that he was ungrateful. It was obviously Zheng Lang who brought him up. Zheng Lang was only detained for a short time by the Khitan, and Zhang Fangping immediately defected. This is not what a gentleman would do.

    "I'm a little worried. If it comes to Kong Zongdan, Shang Tong, Xu Cheng, Li Sidao and others, Zheng Lang doesn't know the details. Don't know too much about Zhang Fangping.  Myolie Jiang made tea for Zheng Lang and Zhang Fangping with a smile on her face, and the smile never stopped.

    Cui Xian pulled her down, don¡¯t rush, there are still guests here, you have to be intimate, wait for the guests to leave, then slowly make love.

    Zheng Lang looked at the actions of the two women, which was a little funny, but there was a warmth in his heart.  However, we must also consider the occasion and said to Zhang Fangping: "Brother An Dao, you came just in time. Let me ask you about some warehouse storage."thing.  "

    Zhang Fangping spread his hands and said, "The three envoys cannot make all the decisions."

    ¡°I know, but I need some specific details.¡±

    The two talked for a long time, and Zhang Fangping said: "Xingzhi, who will your Majesty choose as prime minister now?"

    It may not be Chen Zhizhong. Although the possibility is extremely high, the situation is complicated and Chen Zhizhong may not be able to shoulder this heavy responsibility.

    Zheng Lang said: "Brother An Dao, I recommend someone to your Majesty."

    "Who?" It was actually inappropriate to ask, but Zhang Fangping couldn't control his inner curiosity.

    "Pang Chunzhi."

    "he?"

    "It's him."

    "Your Majesty probably doesn't need to appoint him."

    It¡¯s not likely, but it¡¯s definitely not going to be used.  But what does it have to do with Zheng Lang?  This place is so messed up, and it has created a super bloated leadership team. What are you doing trying to squeeze in?  The Prime Minister is fine, but whoever squeezes in will end up in disgrace.

    "Look at Chen Zhizhong, the Yanchen scolded him fiercely later, and he didn't want to end up like that.

    "Xingzhi, why did you refuse?"

    "Brother An Dao, the most important thing for a person is to make progress, but the most important thing is to know how to advance and retreat. In fact, as a minister, when we reach this stage, we are already at the peak. What more can I ask for? It's cold at high places. The higher you go, the more you need.  Be careful. I am, and so are you." Zheng Lang said.  Sooner or later he will be the prime minister, and Zhang Fangping is the most important piece of the puzzle in his future. He can't let Bao Heizi do it, so he should warn him first.

    After talking for a long time, Zhang Fangping left happily.  Zheng Lang didn't have any opinions or opinions about him, and the relationship between the two was still the same as before, a stone fell to the ground.

    It¡¯s getting dark.

    The Zheng family was all smiling, and Cui Xian finally brought out a shy girl.

    They didn¡¯t dare to be high-profile, so they skipped the wedding, and the Fan family didn¡¯t dare to care about it. This delay dragged on for a long time, and Fan Cuo was quickly losing patience.  As long as you can enter Zheng's house, don't worry about etiquette.  Cui Xian whispered: "Officer, let Miss Fan accompany you tonight."

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Close the door closed.

    The bright red candle cast a halo of light in the room.

    Fan Yue'er sat shyly on the embroidered bed, stroking the red embroidered skirt uneasily.

    Having been in this era for a long time, the shame in Zheng Lang's heart gradually disappeared, but he still looked at this pretty girl and said, "Yue'er."

    "Um."

    "It's not too late to regret now."

    "I have no regrets."

    Zheng Lang hesitated for a while, then came to her and untied her skirt.

    Fan Yue'er shivered nervously, and finally muttered: "I'll do it myself."

    The beauty undressed, and Zheng Lang was also a man. He watched Fan Yue'er take off her outer skirt, leaving only a piece of obscene clothing underneath. However, her exquisite curves were clearly visible, and she seemed to be naked, making her even more attractive. Zheng Lang's blood was racing, and he quickly  Take off your clothes.  Fan Yue'er glanced at the murder weapon, and her face turned as red as an apple again.  His hands were trembling and he couldn't take off his inner clothes.

    Zheng Lang walked over and helped her take off the last piece of obscene clothing, and her proud breasts immediately popped out.  Knowing that this was her first time, Zheng Lang was not in a hurry, and gently stroked Fan Yue'er's skin with his hands, smelled the fragrance, and said, "Yue'er, it smells so good."

    "I have scented it." Fan Yue'er was very nervous and hugged Zheng Lang tightly with her hands. Her body was trembling and her voice was trembling: "Does it smell good?"

    "It smells good," Zheng Lang moved his hand.

    "Where is it dirtyitchy"

    Zheng Lang whispered: "I'm coming."

    "Um."

    Suddenly Zheng Lang snickered, it turned out that this little girl was soaked.

    "Mr. Zheng, why are you laughing? It hurts."

    After a night of rain and dew, Zheng Lang woke up refreshed the next day, which also meant that there was one more person in the Zheng family.  But Beijing is paying attention to one thing.  Zhao Zhenran did not issue an order to give Zheng Lang any position, which aroused many speculations.  At this moment, the imperial court suddenly received a memorial from Jia Changchao, impeaching Zheng Lang for leaving the Khitan prince on the banks of the Juma River, which was an insult to the country.

    When the memorial came to Zhongshu, the bosses thought it was ridiculous. Now that Zheng Lang had gone through all kinds of dangers and escaped back to the Song Dynasty, it can be said that he was favored by all kinds of people. Why did Jia Changchao swim against the current and do this?  Zheng Lang also received the news before he was appointed. He was puzzled at first, and finally said to Cui Xian: "Jia Changchao is doing this very well."

    Cui Xian pursed her lips and said happily, "Officials, the Khitan should not be underestimated, and everyone in the court should not be underestimated either."

    But Zheng Lang still didn¡¯t think highly of Jia Chang.??, although this impeachment seems stupid, it is actually very clever.  If he covets the Prime Minister, Jia Changchao will succeed. If Guan Jian does not covet the Prime Minister, Jia Changchao will act like a clown.

    When the morning meeting began, Zheng Lang also went to the morning meeting, but when he came to the waiting court, he ran into trouble. After a while, he had to stand for the morning morning service. Where should he stand?  (To be continued)

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