Chapter 472 First meeting Wang Anshi

Looking at Liang Huaiji's hazy drunken look, Chen Yuan really didn't want to argue with him anymore. No rational person would argue with a drunk person. He finally came back and had a lot of serious things to do and had no time to waste here.

He said immediately: "Brother Liang, I can't decide whether to let you go to war or not. Let me explain to the emperor for you that it depends on the emperor's meaning. Now I will ask the carriage to take you back."

Liang Huaiji's head was no longer clear at this time. He just thought that Chen Yuan agreed to him, and a smile appeared on his face, but he did not get on Chen Yuan's carriage and left with a sway.

Chen Yuan put down the curtain of the car: "Let's go and find Liu Yong."

There is Wang Anshi's address there. Wang Anshi is a poor student, and he is incomparable to Su Dongpo and Sima Guang. After Sima Guang was admitted to the imperial list, he would immediately ask Pang Ji to recommend him to the court to become an official. Su Dongpo is not yet old enough to take the imperial list. Just come to see the excitement and Ouyang Xiu can take care of his life. Wang Anshi will not do it.

Wang Anshi's father was just a small official in the local area, and his income could only support the family's food and clothing. He wrote articles to Chen Yuan's newspapers to say what he wanted to say, and secondly, he was able to get a royalty to improve his life.

Therefore, Wang Anshi could only rent a house when he entered Beijing. Although the conditions were much better than Chen Shimei, who owed Linghua's house money, he never expected any senior officials from the court to take care of him.

At least in the fight for his father, he had already lost to Sima Guang.

A few days ago, Ouyang Xiu came to see him specifically, which really made Wang Anshi a little shocked. Although he did not have the family status of Sima Guang, Wang Anshi had been in the officialdom with his father and spoke freely in front of Ouyang Xiu, which won Ouyang Xiu's favor.

When Ouyang Xiu left, he warned Wang Anshi that he must study with peace of mind and wait until the scientific examination will be able to pass the imperial examination next year, and show what he has learned in his heart and benefit the country.

Ouyang Xiu's encouragement was the greatest support for Wang Anshi, so he has been staying in the house to read books these days. Although he was very nervous about money, he still subscribed to every issue of newspapers. Wang Anshi knew that from this, he could see what the court wanted to do and what he wanted to do.

"May I ask, is there any scholar named Wang here to stay?"

Chen Yuan knocked on the door of the landlord whom Wang Anshi rented. The courtyard was not big. When Wang Anshi heard someone looking for him again, he immediately put down his book and pushed open the door. When he saw Chen Yuan dressed in a long gown, he also had a beautiful carriage outside. He immediately knew that the person coming was either rich or noble, so he immediately bowed his fists and greeted him: "I'm the next name Wang and his name is Anshi. I wonder if the Taiwanese driver came to me?"

Wang Anshi's first impression on Chen Yuan was not very good. At first glance, he saw that Wang Anshi's hair was very messy, and his beard must have been combed for some days. His long gown was neatly worn, but a piece of waistband was exposed on his pants, but he himself didn't realize it.

Chen Yuan is a person who pays great attention to appearance. When he saw that Wang Anshi was like this, he frowned. However, when he thought about it, many truly talented people were unkempt. He immediately clasped his fists and said, "I am Chen Shimei, when I see the article you wrote, I will come to visit me."

Wang Anshi was stunned at first, then hurriedly walked down.

Although Chen Yuan’s official position is smaller than Ouyang Xiu, his reputation is not weak at all. He and Ouyang Xiu are the leading figures of the young ranks that were implemented in the new policy, and were entrusted by the emperor with important tasks to pacify Dangxiang. Of course, Wang Anshi knew the name of this son-in-law.

"The student is rude! I don't know if it's the prince-consort who is here, I hope you don't treat him."

Wang Anshi was very polite, and Chen Yuan said, "Let's go into the house and talk."

Logically speaking, Wang Anshi should have led the way at this time, but he suddenly looked puzzled, as if there was something unspeakable. His room was too messy. When a man lived alone, he always didn't pay attention to some details, let alone a person like Wang Anshi who was not very particular.

Chen Yuan thought wrongly and thought that his words might be abrupt. Seeing Wang Anshi's appearance without any appearance, he was also handsome. It was difficult for him to come to Bianjing for so long to guarantee that there would be no woman with good looks. Maybe he was in this room, and it was difficult for him to refuse to say this, so he was really embarrassed.

Immediately said, "If it's inconvenient, how about you go to the teahouse outside with me?"

Wang Anshi felt relieved: "Sir, please wait a moment later. The students go back and clean up the house and come soon."

Chen Yuan nodded: "Go, I'll wait for you in the carriage outside."

But after a moment, Wang Anshi ran out of the house. Chen Yuan noticed that he changed his clothes, combed his hair, and changed into a new pair of shoes.

Han Qi opened the curtain of the carriage and let Wang Anshi go in.

Chen Yuan didn't find any good teahouse either, so he found a nearby house and sat down in the middle of the lobby. The guy added tea and put a few snacks before leaving. Chen Yuan then said: "What you wrote about Shandong in that newspaper seems to have not finished writing it yet. For example, if you talk about Wang Lun, you can suppress Wang Lun by placing refugees, but after suppressing Wang Lun, you have not mentioned any of those who followed Wang Lun to rebel."

Wang Anshi clasped his fists: "Sir, students think that is the matter of the court, so students don't need to talk too much. Besides, the emperor is a kind king and will definitely deal with it with a tolerant mind."

Chen Yuan smiled and nodded: "Don't be so polite. Let's just talk about it casually. I want to hear your opinion. If you are asked to deal with this matter, do you plan to do this?"

Wang Anshi did not hesitate at all: "For servitude instead of sin! The students thought that those who accomplices should be imprisoned. For those who follow the evil, they should be punished with the size of their evil and punished them with hard labor."

Chen Yuan praised him very much: "It's a good idea, but if you catch Wang Lun, do you plan to deal with it like this?"

Wang Anshi said: "Kill one to warn a hundred, kill one to kill one to kill one."

Chen Yuan took a deep breath. Wang Anshi is just a student now, and his attitude does not represent the attitude of the court, but at least it means that scholars in the Song Dynasty cannot accept Wang Lun, whether it is the children of aristocratic families or poor students.

He now knows the entire process of Wang Lun's rebellion. In Chen Yuan's opinion, Wang Lun's rebellion was wrong, but his rebellion was very reasonable!

Although the Song Dynasty was rich, the internal contradictions were very serious. The biggest problem was that those literati and officials controlled most of the country's wealth, but did not make any contribution to the country at all! Their salaries were very high and they also occupied a lot of so-called official fields.

This is Zhao Guangyi's policy of cultivating scholars and officials, and the result is redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses.

In order to solve the problems of these scholars and officials and to support them well, the Song Dynasty put all the burden on the merchants and civilians. It is easy to say that as long as the court gives them some convenience, it doesn't matter if it's a matter of paying more taxes.

But farmers are not good at it. In addition to the normal two taxes on land taxes, disguised land taxes such as "harmony", "harmony purchase", and "demulti-change" are emerging one after another, and the tax collection is astonishingly severe.

Commercial tax, salt tax, and wine tax also continued to increase. In addition, the Five Dynasties miscellaneous taxes that had been abolished in the early Northern Song Dynasty were gradually restored during the Renzong period, and there were dozens of them.

The need for money and the nameless confinement caused wealthy families to sell houses and land, and the moneyless families to sell their wives and children. There was no way, so they all went to a foreign land. During the Renzong dynasty, farmers were forced into a dead end.

That's why Fan Zhongyan had to implement the new policy, to equalize public land, and to let the literati who were eating food and not doing anything go home!

Unfortunately, Fan Zhongyan's policy has not been implemented yet, and the overwhelming locusts flew over more than a dozen states in the Song Dynasty, and the crops were hard to keep. Li Yuanhao's war involved the energy of the Song Dynasty.

Before people could recover, the food prices in the Song Dynasty soared. The hungry people were hungry and hungry, looking at each other. Although Renzong had already begun to provide relief to the victims, some desperate people still began to cause trouble.

It is a rebellion, not a rebellion. They just gathered together and went to places with food to grab some food. Such behavior is not considered a rebellion.

When a group of refugees rushed into Shandong, the hungry people rushed into the granary of the government and the landlords' homes with sickles and hoes, robbed the grain and distributed the property to everyone. Shandong inspector Zhu Jin, without asking the reason, characterized these people as rebellion and led the "trescue tiger-winged soldiers" to wipe out.

Most of the tiger-winged soldiers were born into poor peasants, and were forced to be conscripted as soldiers, abandoned their families, and were often invaded and seized by military officials. Wang Lun was in this team, so why did Chen Yuan not know about it? It was just that he was righteous and often helped those soldiers solve some practical difficulties. Although he was just military soldiers, he was quite famous.

Along the way, Zhu Jin and other military officers used whips and sticks from time to time to urge the soldiers to drive them away. When they were a little slow, the whip hit them like raindrops.

Looking at the officials who were like wolves and tigers, then looking at the people they saw along the way, all of whom were pale and thin, and in pain. Many tiger-winged soldiers were already angry, and Wang Lun stood up at this time.

Under Wang Lun's leadership, forty or fifty tiger-winged soldiers rushed into the camp. Before the inspector Zhu Jin could react, he was killed by Wang Lun.

This is how the uprising broke out, and now it is really an uprising.

Chen Yuan always felt that Wang Lun had done a bit too much, but he still made contributions to the Song Dynasty. At least he used his actions to tell the scholars and officials that the people were no longer willing to endure it!

This is a good opportunity to implement the new policy, and the policy of nourishing literati and officials must be changed!

After the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, some people summarized the reasons for the demise of the Song Dynasty. First, the soldiers were unwilling to fight, and they were unwilling to use their lives to protect the court that made their families unable to eat at all! Second, the public was too deep resentment, and ordinary people were unwilling to fight for the Song Dynasty. They said that they had no ability to fight for the Song Dynasty at all. In their opinion, even if they changed to a master, the worst case would be the case.

Third, and the most important point is that the literati and officials are shameless.

Not all literati and officials are shameless, but most people do this. They think it is appropriate for the people to raise them, and it is also appropriate for soldiers to protect them. The only thing that should not be that they do something for this country.

When Lin'an was surrounded, Empress Dowager Xie cried and begged the ministers to stay, but they ran faster than each other, and some of them stayed, such as Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu.

Let’s talk about the food crisis now. Renzong raised money everywhere to buy food, and the hungry people were starving. The merchants all took out the money, but the literati and officials, except for Fan Zhongyan and others, were all enjoying their lives with peace of mind.
Chapter completed!