When the aunt said that they might be delivering sesame cakes, when they met Wang Anshi, Ma Doudou happily agreed to the aunt.

"Okay aunt, my sister and I will go delivering the goods now."

Madoudou first gave Wang Anshi, who was ranked first, the first row, the order of the names of the notes.

Although the brother and sister had been there before Bianjing, the streets and alleys in front of him were still different from those before.

Following the address, Ma Doudou asked people everywhere, and then he saw the word "The Palace" written in front of a mansion at the corner not far from the front street.

The words above are vigorous and powerful, and they are written in light ink at first glance, and they are written by Wang Anshi.

"Is anyone there? We are here to deliver the cakes to Lord Wang."

Ma Doudou liberated some of the sesame cakes on his hand for Zhiguoguo, and he freed up his right hand to lightly clamp the iron ring on the door.

After a while, the door creaked and opened.

A middle-aged man in white and ink hair walked out of it, with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes and graceful clothes.

The most important thing is that the tortoiseshell on his head is very similar to the portrait of Wang Anshi, as if Wang Anshi in the painting has come out.

"You have already delivered it. I am here at home today. My wine and food are ready, and I only have these two sesame cakes. Come on, this is the silver ration. I told Aunt Sun that I will send the cakes earlier next time."

Ma Doudou didn't know how to answer. He didn't expect that the person in front of him was really Wang Anshi, a talented man from the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and a representative figure of the reform of the Northern Song Dynasty.

"What's wrong? But the silver is wrong?"

When Wang Anshi saw that Ma Doudou had collected the silver, he stared at him with his eyes, which made him a little confused.

Ma Doudou scratched his head, and he apologized to Wang Anshi a little embarrassedly.

"I heard the name of Mr. Mr. I have been here for a long time. If my husband is in a convenient position, can I stay at my husband's house after I have delivered the cake?"

Ma Doudou has now learned to speak in a literary way, which makes Zhiguoguo next to her still a little uncomfortable.

After hearing Ma Doudou's words, Wang Anshi was stunned for a while and he grinned.

"You are quite brave, aren't you afraid that I will refuse?"

Ma Doudou shook her head: "Sir, I have always been hospitable, I think Mr. will not refuse my request."

Wang Anshi handed the cake in his hand to the servant beside him, and took a fan from him and gave it to Ma Doudou.

"This is my token. You can bring it with you. After you deliver the cakes, remember to bring this fan with you when you come to my house."

Madou looked at Wang Anshi in surprise. Although Madou didn't know how to fan, he knew that the close-fitting fan he took out from Wang Anshi must be a precious thing.

"Sir, aren't you afraid that I will take it away?"

Ma Doudou said what he said in his heart, and he always felt that Wang Anshi was testing him.

"Not afraid, this Bianjing City is not big or small. If you really take my fan and don't return it, I will have a way to find you back. Okay, my guests are still waiting for me. You go and go and go back quickly after you have sent the cakes, maybe you can still have a hot dish."

Wang Anshi inexplicably had a good impression of Madoudou and Zhiguoguo. He firmly believed that Madoudou and Zhiguoguo would come back after taking his token.

However, as he expected, Madoudou and Zhiguoguo delivered the delivery task arranged by the aunt in the Shaobing Shop as quickly as possible. After greeting the aunt, the brother and sister entered Wang Anshi's home with a fan.

"Two little guests, you are here. The host has heated up the dishes twice."

The servants beside Wang Anshi saw that it was Madou and Zhiguoguo and hurried forward and greeted him enthusiastically.

But when Madoudou and Zhiguoguo were served, they found that Wang Anshi's dishes for guests were like the story, two dishes, one soup and sesame cake.

This may be the simplest banquet dish Ma Doudou has ever seen. After all, Wang Anshi was also a high-ranking official in the Northern Song Dynasty. The dishes used to treat guests were so frugal.

"There is no more food, just eat enough. Please invite two guests."

At the dinner table, Ma Doudou and Zhiguoguo were fortunate to hear that Wang Anshi was talking about the ways of reform with his friends.

Wang Anshi was a famous thinker, politician, reformer, and writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was mainly active during the period when Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty was in charge. His reforms were more based on economic system reform, and obviously avoided the former's idea of ​​"rectifying the administration" as the core.

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【Sesame brother and sister have something to say】

Emperor Shenzong of Song Dynasty, Zhao Xu, was originally named Zhao Zhongzhen, the eldest son of Emperor Yingzong of Song Dynasty, and the sixth emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. He succeeded to the throne in the first month of the fourth year of Zhiping.

When Emperor Shenzong of Song was the first to ascend the throne, he heard and witnessed the dilemma of poverty and weakness. So shortly after he ascended the throne, he summoned Wang Anshi to Beijing and implemented reforms, which was known in history as the "Xining Reform". Wang Anshi, who was based on the "Qingli New Policy", was a pragmatic faction. His political reform ideas were wider, deeper, more systematic, and more operational than Fan Zhongyan. During the reforms, Emperor Shenzong used the power of the monarchy to ensure the implementation of a series of new laws. In February of the second year of Xining, Wang Anshi was appointed as the chief political officer, and from July to November of the same year, he successively promulgated and implemented the equal transportation law, the Qingmiao Law, and the farmland water conservancy law. During the Xining reforms, Wang Anshi appointed Wang Shao to send troops to resist Xixia and expand the territory of the five prefectures, which was known in history as "the Xihe opened the border".

Under the opposition of conservative forces, although Song Shenzong was swaying between the old and new parties, he maintained the new policy and insisted on reform unchanged. He was the ambitious and capable emperor of the Song Dynasty.
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