The next morning, at 5:30 am, a routine morning court was held in Zichen Hall.

Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, who was sitting upright in the hall, glanced at the ministers in the two classes below the hall. He found that Fan Zhongyan, who had been imprisoned for three days, had a smile on his cheek when he was standing in the third column of the left class.

After the ministers in the hall shouted "Long live" three times, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen immediately asked: "I wonder what you have to ask me for this morning?"

As soon as the question of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, Zhao Zhen stood in the third row of the left squad, Fan Zhongyan, wearing a purple official robe, took the lead and came out with his scepter, facing Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, who was sitting upright in the hall, and reported: "Your Majesty, I have a report, I want to report it, and I would like to ask Your Majesty to take a look."

Hearing Fan Zhongyan standing bent down in the hall, saying that he had a plan to report. Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, who was sitting upright in the hall, immediately said to Zhang Maoze, the deputy chief of the squad standing beside him, and could not wait to instruct: "Deputy Chief of the squad, please go down and take the memorial from Mr. Fan, and let me read it."

Zhang Maoze, who was waiting beside him, responded with a "no" and quickly walked to Fan Zhongyan, stretched out his hands to take a memorial that looked like it was about three inches thick from Fan Zhongyan, and folded his body and handed it to Song Renzong Zhao Zhen.

After receiving the memorial from Zhang Maoze, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen read it a few times, then closed the memorial and handed it back to Zhang Maoze who was standing in front of him and did not walk away. He ordered loudly: "I have finished reading it. I think the content written in the memorial is very good. Deputy Zhang knows that you will be able to listen to it."

Zhang Maoze took the memorial with both hands, responded with a "no", turned around, walked to the hall, stood in front of the hall, and faced the two ministers below the hall, and read the contents of the memorial catchyly.

Whether it was from the fact that Song Renzong Zhao Zhen took a few glances and said that he had read the content written in the memorial or when Zhang Maoze read the content of the memorial, it sounded catchy, it all explained one thing, that is, before that, both of them had read Fan Zhongyan's memorial.

The real situation is that in the evening of yesterday, Fan Zhongyan left Bao Zheng's office room in Kaifeng government office, said goodbye to Bao Zheng and Wang Hao, and went straight to the palace to meet Song Renzong Zhao Zhen.

In the Chuigong Hall, Fan Zhongyan presented the memorial to Song Renzong Zhao Zhen. Zhang Maoze, who was serving in the imperial court, was naturally present. After thinking about it, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen asked Fan Zhongyan to present the memorial to him in the morning court the next day, in front of the court officials. At that time, he asked Zhang Maoze to read the memorial to the court officials to listen to it, and use this to explore the court officials' tone.

After all, the content of this memorial is all about the upcoming reforms listed by Fan Zhongyan. At first, what made Song Renzong Zhao Zhen curious was that in addition to Fan Zhongyan's own name written at the end of the memorial, the names of Han Qi, Fu Bi, Ouyang Xiu, Bao Zheng and Wang Hao were listed.

The other four court ministers supported Fan Zhongyan's reform together, which did not make Song Renzong Zhao Zhen feel strange, but what made Song Renzong Zhao Zhen feel strange was that Wang Hao, who had just been promoted to the street chief, had only been a sesame and mung bean official from the eighth rank.

In addition, Wang Hao implemented new traffic regulations in Tokyo a few days ago. For this reason, Fan Zhongyan, who violated the new traffic regulations, was arrested in Kaifeng Prefecture prison and detained for three days.

At this time, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen's view, Fan Zhongyan and Wang Hao would not retaliate against each other after forming this gang, and at least they would not be able to work together.

When Song Renzong asked Fan Zhongyan with great interest in the proportion of contents of Wang Hao's contribution to this memorial in the Chuigong Hall last night, Fan Zhongyan replied that one-third of the reform contents in the memorial were all written by Wang Hao.

Fan Zhongyan's answer made Song Renzong Zhao Zhen extremely surprised, because in his impression, Wang Hao, as a soldier from the army, promoted him to the position of the street chief, and was able to make the best use of others.

Until this time, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen felt that he had underestimated Wang Hao. With one-third of the reform content contributed by Wang Hao in Fan Zhongyan's memorial, even if Wang Hao was a deputy minister or deputy privy clerk, it should be more than enough.

Last night, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen felt that if the reform content listed in the memorial was immediately implemented without notifying the court officials, the memorials that raised objections would definitely pile up on his imperial case within three days.

But what Song Renzong Zhao Zhen did not expect was that in today's court, after Zhang Maoze finished reading the content of Fan Zhongyan's memorial, without waiting for him to ask questions, there were as many as four court ministers in the left and right ranks and expressed their opposition clearly.

These five ministers of the court were the minister of the Central Secretariat, Zhang Dexiang, Jia Changchao, the chief censor Wang Gongchen, and Liu Yuanyu, the right censor, all of them took their scepters and shouted in unison, "I think it's not possible."

In the eyes of the ministers participating in this morning's court, the reason why the Zhao official family followed Fan Zhongyan, who was guarding the border in the northwest and returned to Beijing with the orders to perform such a play was to implement the new policy in the face of the implementation of the new policy.

The content of the new policy is nothing more than the list of Fan Zhongyan’s memorials. In the eyes of many court ministers, Fan Zhongyan’s pace of reform will definitely make the originally stable and peaceful Song Dynasty panic, and naturally they must stand up and oppose it strongly.

Seeing Zhang Dexiang and four people out with their scepters, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen first sighed and asked knowingly: "Sweden, I just shouted "Jiqi thought it was not possible." You might as well tell me, why not?"

Zhang Dexiang, Jia Changchao, Wang Gongchen and Liu Yuanyu made speeches one after another and expressed their opposition. Although the arguments they opposed were different, they all had a point of end, that is, the old laws of the ancestors should not be changed at will, and the new laws should not be implemented in the Song Dynasty. They should proceed step by step, and should not reform all aspects in a slight way.

Immediately afterwards, Fan Zhongyan's reform content led by him also defended himself in the court, believing that the Song Dynasty is not as good as before. Faced with the years of harassment from Dangxiang Xixia and Khitan Northern Liao, the people are now living in poverty, poor and weak, and the national treasury is not enough to make ends meet. We should quickly and rapidly reform the old laws that are out of place. We should implement the new laws in the Song Dynasty. Only through reform can we achieve strength.

To this end, Fan Zhongyan also listed the Spring and Autumn Period, which was the success of Shang Yang's reform that made Qin, which was originally weak, become stronger and eventually unified the six countries.
Chapter completed!