"It's right."

Zhang Yuan sighed: "It's a pity that my father and son offended the official family. Even if there is really a way to get the official family to restore Yan and pacify Liao, it will not be of great use."

Blocking the throne is a greater hatred than killing parents. This matter was in the Song Dynasty. If it were placed in the Han and Tang Dynasties, it would have been destroyed.

So Zhang Yuan doesn't think about anything now. As long as he can finally retreat to Haizhou to settle down, he will be satisfied.

But it is not easy to do this, because the truth that everyone is pushing is just right for Zhang Dun. Who made him always be a villain on the stage? Now the officials don’t like it, and colleagues in the court either take revenge or gloat. Can Zhang Dun have a good job? It is certain that a member of Guan Haizhou is sure. What is uncertain now is whether this disaster will affect Zhang Dun’s descendants... But don’t make a spy that the descendants are not allowed to be an official!

Ji Yi also sighed. He was also implicated by Zhang Dun. If he didn't find a way to save himself, he would have to go to Haizhou to retire sooner or later!

But I am not old yet...

"Yizhi, are you still thinking about the seats of the two mansions?" Zhang Yuan looked at Ji Yi and asked with a smile.

Ji Yi smiled bitterly: "It's useless to think about it. I've been in another book for a long time. It's inevitable to waste my whole life, and how can I count on it?"

"Haha," said Zhang Yuan, "it may not be!"

"not necessarily?"

"You are not surnamed Zhang," Zhang Yuan said, "and you still have a huge secret in your hand, right?"

Ji Yi shook when she heard this, and the backgammon in her hand fell to the floor with a squeak.

The secret he has is a life-threatening person!

"Uncle Fourth, you... don't joke about Yi, Yi doesn't dare to tell that."

Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "I didn't talk about that... what you said in the Duan Palace in the morning of the thirteenth day of the first lunar month is also a huge secret!"

The early morning of the thirteenth day of the first lunar month was Ji Yi's order to lure King Duan out of the mansion. This matter is enough to ask Zhang Duan for a rebellion! But Empress Dowager Xiang gave a ban order, and Zhao Ji, Wu Haogu, Pan Xiao'an and Gao Qiu could not say it.

So far, no one has used the serious crime of treason to get involved in Zhang Dun. Without the serious crime of treason, Zhang Dun is the only one who is in Haizhou to support his elderly care. Zhang Dun’s followers are just a prefect of the prefectures and counties.

Therefore, what Ji Yi now has is a weapon that can severely damage the new party!

"Fifth Uncle..." Ji Yi looked at Zhang Yuan inexplicably.

"I don't understand, right? I don't understand, this is what my father means, you should think about it yourself." Zhang Yuan stood up and smiled bitterly, "I have something to do, let's go first."

...

Wu Haogu had expected the strange storm in the court. Even though he didn't know the later history, with the little political knowledge of later generations, he knew that since Wang Anshi's reform, the prototype of partisan politics had appeared in the political arena of the Northern Song Dynasty.

What distinguishes the two parties is not the so-called loyalty and treason or the corruption or integrity that the public likes most, but different ruling philosophy and even the interest groups behind it.

The new party’s line is actually to expand the power of the country and increase participation and intervention in economic activities. To sum up briefly, it is to say “the sage king is in the court”, “official business operations”, “protect small farmers” and “enrich the country and strengthen the army”.

It is of course the ultimate goal to enrich the country and strengthen the army and protect small peasants. The Holy Lord in the court and the government are the means to achieve the goal. That is to say, by expanding the imperial power, the government controls and operates industry and commerce, the profits originally earned by merchants are taken back to the state to achieve the goal of enriching the country and at the same time to reduce the exploitation of small peasants. After obtaining the profits originally belonged to merchants, the country has enough financial resources to support the army and attack the Liao Kingdom and the Western Xia.

Basically this is the way, a bit like the socialism of later generations.

The old party hoped to limit the power of the monarch, let the business go, not to suppress mergers, not to compete with the people for profit, and of course they did not expect to enrich the country and strengthen the army... This line is somewhat similar to later capitalism. Oh, it has not yet developed to imperialism, but a weak capitalism.

Such two groups of people put them in the same court and asked them not to form cliques, to be non-partisan gentlemen, and to work hard for the court and the people. That was basically a naive idea.

Of course Wu Haogu is not that naive, so he has a clear position on himself, that is, he is lucky to be close to the villain, the official confidant... As long as the shame of Jingkang has not yet come, the lucky to be close to the villain's sign must be held high!

I am lucky to be close to villains and the official family’s confidant. What’s wrong?

Whoever is going to provoke this villain, there are many slanderous words!

As a villain, of course he has to flatter him... so he will not go to visit Prime Minister Han Zhongyan empty-handedly. He always has to bring some local specialties in Haizhou.

"Kory ginseng, tiger skin, cloud and mist dragon and phoenix tea cakes, Mr. Dongpo's real-written copybook, wine fairy... are these local specialties from Haizhou?"

When Han Zhongyan saw the gift list sent by Wu Haogu, he was also a little amused. He was actually not a Qingde and Baikaishui official, but the gift that Wu Haogu presented in advance still made him feel too generous.

These things, including Su Dongpo's copybook, are at least 30,000 yuan in Kaifeng Prefecture! Even in Haizhou, you may not be able to get them without 20,000 yuan.

Moreover, Su Dongpo's word is not something that can be obtained with money!

"My husband, except for Mr. Dongpo's calligraphy, nothing else is worth it," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "Yunwu Tea and the Immortals in the Wine are not expensive. Now there are so many Korean ginseng and tiger skins in Haizhou that they are piled up like mountains and cannot sell for much money.

Oh, by the way, the lower official ordered ten pairs of tiger bones from the Korean merchant in Haizhou to use to soak in the wine fairy with ginseng. This is a great replenishment! When the soaking is done, I will also give my husband a ten kilogram to replenish his body."

Because of the high purity of the wine, Immortal can be used to soak medicinal materials and tiger bones, Wu Haogu is preparing to start a medicinal wine business at the right time, giving psychological comfort to a group of rich and bureaucrats who have eaten too much but don’t know how to exercise.

Wu Haowen, who was accompanying him, also looked like a filial son-in-law. "Brother-in-law, just think that those who were given to you by the son-in-law to repair your body. Even if the censor knows, there is nothing to say."

With the steps, Han Zhongyan stopped refusing and just asked curiously, "Kory ginseng and tiger skins piled up like mountains? What's going on? Is ginseng and tigers in Kory Countries flooding?"

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "Where can it be? It's because the Koreans have to spend money to prepare for the war, so they sell so many things to us... Oh, the Jiehe Market is almost the same now, with fur, medicinal materials, and hawks. But those are sold from the land of the birth of the daughter, and the female Nao people are also preparing for the war."

"Is it really going to start a fight?" Han Zhongyan asked.

"Not that fast," Wu Haogu smiled, "I have to wait for the Liao lord to die... It was a fight that would be inevitable in the spring of next year, but Mogus was beaten to death by the Khitans. Now the Khitans have freed up their hands.

So now, Goryeo and the female leads have to find the Khitans’ trump card. If the Liao master dies, the Liao Kingdom will have to be in chaos for a while and they just start fighting.”

Han Zhongyan touched his beard. Although Wu Haogu was lucky enough to be close, a villain and a bad scholar, he still had the ability! He analyzed the Liao Kingdom, the female straight and Goryeo clearly in just a few words.

"The Liao lord is over 70 years old, and it is said that he is infected with a disease. I am afraid that he will die soon. In other words, in the next two years, the Goryeo and the Naomi will fight?"

Han Zhongyan held his beard and turned his eyes, looking at Wu Haogu, "Chongdao, what do you think my dynasty should be right?"

"They should be both defeated."

Wu Haogu's answer was far beyond Han Zhongyan's expectations.

"Isn't it that I'm supporting one side and making it bigger to make it work together to seek Khitan?"

Wu Haogu looked at Old Man Han and laughed, "Mr., are you always joking with your servant? You are talking about this like Mr. Zhang."

"Brother," Wu Haowen interrupted, "How can my father-in-law be like Zhang Dun? Zhang Dun is a treacherous minister."

"Hahaha." Han Zhongyan laughed a few times indifferently, then he spoke in a deep tone, "Chongdao, tell me the truth, do you think the Song Dynasty has the ability to plot against the Khitan?"

"Yes," Wu Haogu smiled, "but you can't rely on joining forces with the barbarians."

Han Zhongyan was stunned, "Why?"

"Because the Khitan is the one who admires the Han culture the most among the barbarians, and is a civilized man among the barbarians." Wu Haogu said, "Which people who are silenced and savage are all true barbarians who do not accept the king's transformation and do not believe in Confucius and Mencius, and they are only barbaric and brave. If they divide the Liao Kingdom with them, this true barbarian will obtain the Liao Kingdom's iron smelting land, horse herding land and some agricultural and grain-producing land.

At that time, the number of barbaric and brave barbarians will increase greatly, and they will also have enough iron tools and war horses, which will become a real big trouble for our dynasty!”

Wu Haoqiu means: I am not afraid of barbarians being too barbaric, but I am afraid of barbarians having iron tools.

Without enough iron tools to build weapons and armor, no matter how barbaric barbarians are, they can only eat grass in the north. But if they have the iron tools and food for agricultural civilization, then the good days of the Song Dynasty will come to an end.

Of course, now there are still ways for female Naomen to get a lot of iron tools. Otherwise, they would not have beaten the Khitan later. Speaking of which, Mogus's shubu is no less than the Wanyan family's female Naomen, and it is not that it is not that it is not barbaric enough, but that the long-term iron ban has curbed the development of the Wubu's military power. Moreover, the Khitan's iron ban on female Naomen also exists, but the control is not strong enough.

If the female Zhiren really takes over the iron smelting center of Liaodong Road, the female Zhi army's equipment level will definitely be greater than that of the current Song army...

"Where is Goryeo?" Han Zhongyan asked, "Goryeo defeated Nianzhi. Can we join forces with Goryeo again?"
Chapter completed!