This Northern Song Dynasty is a bit weird

Chapter 245 Officials Don't Need Others' Gratitude
Everyone's eyes fell on Wang Anshi, some were surprised, some admired, and some were delighted.

For example, Grand Master Pang has a very happy smile on his face.

Wang Anshi is regarded as a talent that Taishi Pang is optimistic about, and he is also regarded as his successor.

In Grand Master Pang's opinion, Wang Anshi's previous political mistakes were really wrong, but since the court did not pursue them, he would not take the initiative to target his confidant and favorite general.

It was also for this reason that Bao Zheng sent Wang Anshi to Qiongzhou, but he also pretended not to see it.

When Wang Anshi returned to Beijing, Grand Master Pang even took the initiative to invite the young man to a banquet and told him about his difficulties.

Wang Anshi expressed his understanding.

During the more than a year of staying in Qiongzhou, his thinking has really changed.

This made Master Pang very happy.

I am even happier now.

But Empress Dowager Cao is not so happy. Her greatest ideal is to be like Empress Dowager Liu back then, and she is satisfied with controlling the government.

As for learning Wu Zhao to wear a dragon robe, she thought about it, but she didn't dare to do it.

Now is the dynasty where civil servants are in power. If she really wants to do this, the civil officials will definitely object to it. If she dares to let the forbidden army mess around, at least half of the civil servants in the entire court will be smashed to death to show their heart. .

Then the whole court collapsed.

But now, let alone controlling the government, she wanted to recall Lu Zhenren, but she was opposed by others.

"Wang Aiqing, the Ai family has no intention of interfering in the government affairs." The Empress Dowager Cao is very angry in her heart, but on the surface she seems very normal, and even has some small grievances: "I just want to make a suggestion. Don’t you have the right to speak in class?”

She didn't plan to fight hard with civil servants like Wang Anshi, but chose to retreat to advance in order to gain the sympathy of some people.

"Empress Dowager, please be respectful. The rooster sitting in the morning is not something worthy of praise. The officials are now sitting on the dragon chair, and the court is full of loyal ministers. Nothing you worry about will happen."

It's just that Wang Anshi is a very proud person, especially after he went to Qiongzhou, he became even more proud. This kind of pride is the pride after a clear mind.

His words were resounding, and almost everyone in the entire court laughed lightly.

Except for Empress Dowager Cao and... the small official family.

Empress Dowager Cao was annoyed. What Wang Anshi said was what she was most worried about.

As for the small officials, they looked at Wang Anshi in surprise, and gradually there was a little admiration in their eyes.

At this time, Empress Dowager Cao stood up and left the court unhappily.

She felt that when she stayed here, everyone looked at her strangely, even...she could tell that Wang Anshi was trying to provoke the relationship between the officials and her.

Although the official family calls her the queen mother, everyone knows that she is not from the official family.

The next thing will be much easier. Ouyang Xiu and other officials will report the recent government affairs and problems to the small officials.

The little official, who had been in a daze on the dragon chair before, looked upbeat, and he would try to ask the official about the ins and outs of these government affairs, why he did this, and what was the reason?
Officials will answer one by one.

There was a joyful atmosphere in the entire court, and everyone looked at the little official who was studying hard and smiled happily.

When it was time to retire, Grand Master Pang came over first, patted Wang Anshi on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Good job."

Then Ouyang Xiu, Yan Zhu and other elders also came to pat him on the shoulder.

Wang Anshi regained his composure, and walked out of the palace gate slowly, there was neither joy nor complacency in his eyes, just as usual.

And behind Wang Anshi, Lu Huiqing, who took office on the first day, stared closely at the back of the former with envy and jealousy in his eyes.

People's xinxing will change in different environments.

Lu Sen knew this very well, so he tried his best to make the atmosphere in his home happy.

He never set any strict family rules, everyone's salary is relatively high, and he usually has a lot of rest time, trying to be as clear as possible.

In fact, what he did was very effective.

Not to mention his three wives, none of them had any objections to him, even Lu Jingjing, who had just entered the Lu family not long ago, felt that Lu Sen was really a man of great aura and a big picture.

As usual, Lu Sen was looking at the proposal in the gazebo.

Plans can never keep up with changes, so it is often necessary to make small changes and corrections by comparing the reality at the time with the plan.

Lu Xianxian came over, sat down opposite Lu Sen, and said with a smile: "Mr., this is the amount of income and expenditure at home in the recent period. Do you want to see it?"

She is responsible for the amount of Bitian Pavilion's auction items, as well as some intelligence collection.

In fact, the monthly payment of each member of the family, etc., is actually managed by the old lady Jinhua, which is also her right.

"No, the amount is about the same." Lu Sen laughed.

He is not short of money, but it is not easy to live without money.After all, there are a few people in the family to support, so at least you have to buy some clothes and snacks when you go shopping.

In addition, the living expenses of the generals and the settling expenses, etc., also have to be paid for borrowing the information network of the Runan County King.

It's very generous if people are willing to use the talents they have cultivated for you. If you don't help pay the labor, it's really unreasonable.

Lu Xianxian put the booklet on the table. She rested her chin in one hand, turned her body half sideways, and looked at Lu Sen: "Mr. Lang, your methods are all small-scale tricks. You obviously have great supernatural powers and a great reputation. Why don't you overwhelm the world?" ?”

This is what Lu Xianxian finds strange. If Lu Sen was quite famous before, then he already has the name of 'Holy' now, especially after the solar ship hangs in the sky.

Why act so cautiously?

Now many people at the bottom of the market have called him "Zhenjun". Before, some people jokingly called him "Zhenjun" and "Zhenjun", but now the word "Zhenjun" is sincere. Meaningful.

"How to overwhelm the river?" Lu Sen asked with a smile.

"You just need to say that Zhao Song has no destiny now, and then you can establish yourself as the emperor." Lu Xianxian pondered for a while, and said: "You can also push Zhao Zongshi in front of the stage as a puppet. I dare not say that the whole world, at least there should be a large number of people in the south of the Yangtze River." County city, turn your back and vote."

Lu Sen said with a smile: "Then the north and the south will be divided, fighting all the year round, and the rivers will be full of deaths?"

Lu Xianxian said lightly: "It's not impossible, the north can resist for a few years at most, and then kill all the way to Pingchuan."

These words were a bit too much, at least in Lu Sen's heart. He looked straight into Lu Xianxian's eyes, making her shy and slightly lowered her head.

From the other party's words, Lu Sen once again understood that this Lu Xianxian is indeed a monster, and her concept is different from that of ordinary people.

After all, it was a fox who turned into a human, and the concept in her bones was still the law of the jungle.

Although he has the concept of ethnic groups, he probably regards other Qingqiu foxes, the scholars he likes, and practitioners like Lu Sen as his "own people".

Of course, many heroes among human beings also hold similar ideas, so it makes sense for these people to be called monsters.

Such a vixen really can't let her go outside, she really has to be tied at home.

At least I and other members of the Lu family have the ability to restrain her.

Lu Sen shook his head and said, "Of course not. Practitioners' lives are their lives, monster clans' lives are their lives, dignitaries' lives are their lives, and ordinary people's lives are also their lives."

Lu Xianxian stared at Lu Sen's face without blinking her beautiful eyes. After a while, she said strangely: "Mr. Competing with the Dao of Heaven for longevity. But you yourself see all people in the world as the same, isn’t this contradictory?”

"Then contradict yourself." Lu Sen smiled helplessly.

"Your Majesty, don't you want to argue with me?" Lu Xianxian gave Lu Sen a resentful look, then turned her waist slightly and left.

Lu Sen smiled, and continued to revise the plan, making up for omissions and checking for mistakes.

Lu Xianxian walked forward for a while, then sat down in front of a peach tree, resting her chin on her hands, looking a little unhappy.

She really wanted to help Lu Sen, but her greatest ability was all kinds of magic spells. In Lu Sen's plan, she didn't need them at all, so she could only help him supervise the small things of inventory.

This made her feel a little frustrated.

After being dazed for a while, she heard slight footsteps, turned her head and found that it was Pang Meier walking over.

Pang Meier has become more and more beautiful. Because of the rainbow silk and honey fruit, she has maintained her appearance when she got married in the past few years. She has the charm of a young woman and the innocence of a girl, especially after practicing the exercises. The aura is becoming more and more obvious, and the only shortcoming is probably Tai Yimapingchuan.

This is heredity, and there is no way to remedy it for the time being, or can there be a kind of cultivation method that can enrich the body in the future?
Pang Meier sat beside Lu Xianxian, and said with a smile, "I heard a little bit about your conversation with the officials just now, don't mind Xianxian."

Lu Xianxian shook her head, she didn't care about that, and she and Mr. Lang didn't say anything about their personal relationship.

Seeing Lu Xianxian's disappointed expression, Pang Meier said, "Before I met the officials, I also disdained him."

Lu Xianxian looked at Pang Meier in surprise, quite disbelieving.

From her observation, she learned that Pang Meier liked Lu Sen to the bottom of her heart.

She has sharp fox ears, but she knows that at night, Pang Meier is the one who clings to Lu Sen the most, and she can't wait to melt the stickiness into Lu Sen's body.

It can be said that the three wives and concubines of the Lu family all liked Lu Sen so much, she couldn't imagine how Pang Meier treated Lu Sen without false words before.

"Officials act differently from us." Pang Meier said with a smile: "He has the aura of a fairy, and he doesn't care about the fame and rights in the world, but he doesn't have the ruthlessness of a fairy. High mercy and kindness.”

Lu Xianxian sighed: "But it's meaningless, and mortals won't really appreciate him."

"Officials don't need to be grateful." Pang Meier pulled a flower and put it next to Lu Xianxian's ear, and said, "Did you know that Bilian manages a relief center for the disabled, which takes in those who are abandoned because of disabilities or poverty?" Heal their bodies, teach them craftsmanship, and when they recover, they will have the ability to live. And this guild hall, almost no one knows that Mr. Lang set it up."

Lu Xianxian looked at Bilian not far away in amazement. The latter was playing with the Dongying sisters, using exercises to attract a large number of butterflies and doing various flying poses. Her crisp and cheerful laughter echoed in the cave. middle.

Yaoyao and Kunkun clapped and laughed, calling Mrs. Ma'am so amazing.

To be honest, in the eyes of most women, Bilian is actually a bit naive and not very clever.But Lu Xianxian really didn't expect that Bilian was in charge of such a guild hall, and she didn't usually see her say anything.

"One-fifth of the family's money and food has been invested in this guild hall." Pang Meier smiled and said, "Xianxian, you have also lived in Hangzhou for a while. Every time you go to the street, don't you find that the beggars in Hangzhou are more beggars than other places?" Is it much less?"

Lu Xianxian naturally found out, but she thought it was because of Hangzhou's prosperity, after all, it was a commercial seaport.

Unexpectedly, this is the reason.

"Then what is Mr. Lang doing in secret?"

Pang Meier thought for a while and said: "The next thing is what you saw. In fact, the three of us have also asked the officials about this question. He said that the Central Plains has not yet reached the point where reform is urgently needed. Rather than violently subverting Everything is better than boiling a frog in warm water."

"Boil the frog in warm water?" Lu Xianxian had never heard this before, so she didn't know what it meant.

Pang Meier heard Lu Sen say it, explained it, and said: "The official has considered a lot. He said that the Central Plains does not need anyone to be a saint to guide everything. As long as the suitable conditions are quietly created, the people of the Central Plains will naturally come out. With that step, everything will slowly get on the right track. The premise is that... the family and the country are stable."

"So Lang Jun has been trying to weaken the Di people in the north?"

Pang Meier nodded and said: "Yes, we can't control what your husband wants to do, and we shouldn't. Anyway, it's not doing evil, right?"

Looking at Lu Sen in the gazebo not far away, Lu Xianxian nodded after being silent for a while, and asked, "Can I help that guild that treats the poor?"

"Of course, Bilian should be very happy."

Lu Sen didn't know what Pang Meier and Lu Xianxian talked about, but from this day on, Lu Xianxian didn't come to play with him very often.

It doesn't matter if he is born, it's better to say that he can feel Lu Xianxian's "enthusiasm" more in the occasional time.

A few days later, Lu Sen was cooking wine with his three wives. The rice wine was paired with goji berries and longan, and seasoned with a little honey. This kind of wine was quite delicious and not easy to intoxicate.

Then the family general Ah Huang came to report: "Mr. Lang, we have a clue about what you asked us to investigate."

After finishing speaking, Ah Huang handed over a piece of paper full of words.

After reading it, Lu Sen said, "It's actually related to the Western barbarians?"

Before Lu Sen and Lu Huiqing got together in the Fugui Building, they were poisoned. He has been investigating this matter.

But only let the generals go to check the news secretly, cooperate with Runan County King's intelligence network in Hangzhou City, the effect is not extremely high, but it is not bad.

After a few months, I finally got something sorted out.

After watching too much, Lu Sen said, "Tell Su Junshou that something may happen tonight."

Ah Huang nodded and retreated.

Lu Sen then looked at the paper on it, his eyes were slightly cold: "Xiao Sifang?"

Jiaosifang is still singing and dancing.

It stands to reason that after Alizee entered the priest's workshop, with her appearance and figure, she should be able to become the number one. Even if she is not the number one, she should be more famous.

But in essence...she didn't make a name for herself in Hangzhou.

In fact, when she was in the capital, she was considered one of the oirans, but she was only supported by people in Zashi, and Semu people liked her a lot.

No one in the Northern Song Dynasty was willing to get close to a barbarian girl, that is to say, it was interesting to watch her belly dance.

Rich people don't want to mess with Hu girls, but ordinary people can't afford the money.

It is a similar situation in Hangzhou Jiaosifang now.

But her income is still good, belly dancing is good, and the 'price' is quite high, so some big businessmen come to join in the fun and comment on it.

This night, she appeared on the stage for nearly two hours, and made a group of wealthy businessmen run wild, but no one said that they would like to be her benefactor for the night.

Ai Jieli returned to her room, took off her tube top, wiped her slightly sweaty body, and changed into light clothes.

Tonight, she danced three belly dances and two snake waist dances. After sharing with the priest, she got an income of more than 30 taels of silver.

That's a lot of money.

But she was very unhappy.

Because the eyes of those wealthy businessmen were all red when they were teased by her, but they turned their heads and nodded at the other girls.

It made her feel quite uncomfortable.

Of course... If a rich man 'points' to her, she will also refuse.

It's just that this feeling that no one 'want' makes her quite upset.

"Are all Song people so self-controlled?" Ai Jieli lay on the window, shaking a small silk fan, and sighed: "Perhaps this is the reason why Song people are so powerful. And beautiful, holy white-skinned people can only be born in such a great country."

Counting the more than two years of living in Bianjing, Ai Jieli has lived in Song State for three years, and these three years have had a great impact on her.

She used to think that the old man in the mountain was the greatest, the wisest and the most holy person.

But now, she no longer thinks so.

"If the old man in the mountain is so great, why did he come to the east to find the garden in the mountain. If he is so great, why can't he create a solar ship that can illuminate the night sky? If he is so great, why can't Assassin's power really grow , but had to hide in Tibet under the pursuit of the Christians, lingering on their last days."

People will compare.

Ai Jieli will also, even though she has been 'brainwashed' for nearly ten years, but she is not stupid, she still has basic logical thinking.

Besides, living in Song State for three years also gave her the opportunity to see the world from another perspective.

It's just a pity... Song people are too xenophobic, and even a beautiful woman like her is not valued.

She doesn't want to get close to ordinary Song people.

Alas... She sighed long and hard, but fortunately, as long as she leaves from Jiaosifang, she can get a household registration in Hangzhou, and she will be regarded as a Song person in the future, so her life should be much easier.

She was sighing, but suddenly she saw a group of people approaching in the distance.

The young man in the middle is very conspicuous, with a straight figure and a personable demeanor.

Then she was surprised: "Hey, this seems to be Master Lu, why did he come here? Could it be that he came here to trouble me?"

Then it felt impossible: "I haven't done anything during this time."

She froze for a moment, then turned around and moved lightly, and turned out through the back window, but just as she landed on the ground, she saw an extremely handsome young man in white, but as feminine as a woman, standing in front of her.

"Sexy girl, I advise you not to move around."

The knight in white clothes said coldly.

(End of this chapter)