Wen Yanbo and Han Jiang's team, after crossing Zhouqiao.

Just like when Sima Guang entered the capital, he received condolences from envoys from the two palaces and encouragement from the emperor.

This made other veterans who also came to Beijing feel very satisfied.

This obvious gap in treatment may not matter to people like Sun Gu.

But Feng Jing and Han Wei are different.

Especially Han Wei, why did he fall out with Wang Anshi back then?

Is it because of the Young Crops Law? The Market Change Law?

No!

During the third year of Xining when the Qingmiao Law was implemented and the fifth year of Xining when the Municipal Yi Law was implemented, Han Wei continued to serve as an official in the court.

Although he opposed it, he always maintained a close relationship with Wang Anshi.

How did it happen?

The answer is that in the sixth year of Xining, due to the implementation of the Exemption Law, the abolition of the tax payment system, and the tax exemption money was levied on all merchants, workshop owners and handicraft practitioners.

Han Wei jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

Therefore, Wang Anshi proposed that Han Wei should take the lead to form an investigation team, and Sun Yong, then the power magistrate of Kaifeng Mansion, who also opposed the exemption of the law, would bring Lu Jiawen and others to investigate the problem.

As a result, Han Wei responded directly with the most intense attitude: Please ask the county!

reason?

He said it himself in court.

"Your Majesty is worse than a young man like Lu Jiawen..."

"After all, I am also a minister appointed by the late emperor... I am your Majesty's wing..."

"You are now asking me to investigate such a trivial matter with these 'lucky little students'?"

"How can I come in and out of the court with my appearance?"

So he gave up his job and resolutely resigned as a Hanlin bachelor that day. He went to Luoyang without looking back and became a guest of Duke Fu Han. Later, he became one of the thirteen elders of the Qiying Association until he came to Xuzhou.

Therefore, Han Wei definitely wants to save face.

Before he entered the capital, Sima Guang had envoys from the two palaces come to express condolences on the street, and the emperor also wrote words of encouragement.

After he entered Beijing, the two palaces only sent envoys to his residence to express their condolences.

There was no condolence in the street, and no encouragement from the emperor.

He is already very tasty.

Now, Wen Yanbo and his brother Han Jiang are in Beijing.

But he got the same treatment as Sima Guang.

Han Wei's inner imbalance was instantly detonated.

Han Wei was annoyed by being treated differently.

So, the annoyed Han Wei immediately went to find other elders who had entered the capital.

Sun Gu was in poor health and did not see him.

But Feng Jing, Li Chang and other elders all agreed with Han Wei's statement.

Do you think the two palaces and the young master think that the status of these elders should be lower than that of Wen Yanbo, Sima Guang, and Han Jiang?

Like Han Wei, Li Chang was also a minister who came out of the Daxing Emperor's residence.

And the reason for his resignation is basically the same as Han Wei.

In the third year of Xining's reign, after the implementation of the Qingmiao Law, Li Chang was rightly speaking every day, saying that the Qingmiao Law harmed the people.

Ask him to produce evidence? No!

Let him go to the local area to investigate?

Is this how your majesty treats the Confucian ministers kindly?

I just patted my butt and went to Luoyang.

The best thing is that after serving as an official in a foreign county for more than ten years.

Both Han Wei and Li Chang gradually felt that Wang Anshi's new method was not entirely useless.

It just needs to be changed according to their ideas.

For example, it would be good to change the free walking method to Han Wei's free walking method and the green seedling method to Li Changqing seedling method.

Now, these aggrieved elders got together, and as soon as they shared their feelings with each other, they immediately became confidants.

If Zhao Xu knew this, he would probably chuckle.

This was the political ecology of the Yuanyou era in his previous life.

The old party can be divided infinitely!

Sima Guang and Lu Gongzhu are not dead yet.

The old party has already split into the Shu Party, the Luo Party, and the Shuo Party.

Then from these three categories, various strange combinations are derived.

This is not surprising.

Because these people were originally formed as a large group because they opposed Wang Anshi's new law.

There are all kinds of monsters and monsters on it.

After defeating the new party and having no common enemy, the original alliance naturally fell apart immediately.

Of course Zhao Xu doesn't know now.

Because at this moment, surrounded by the two palaces, he had already sat on the mattress in Chui Gong Hall, waiting to meet Wen Yanbo and Han Jiang who were about to enter the palace.

Not long after waiting, the sound of introduction from outside the hall came from the doorkeeper.

"Therefore, the Prime Minister, the Grand Master, and the Duke of Lu State, Yan Bo..."

"Doctor Yinqing Guanglu, promoted the envoy of the West Taiyi Palace, and learned that the minister Jiang of Henan Prefecture..."

"Enter the Emperor!"

Zhao Xu adjusted his sitting posture slightly and looked towards the entrance of the palace.

Then, I saw two old ministers wearing purple robes, goldfish bags at their waists, and wearing crotch-shaped turbans on their heads, walking forward with fluorine in their hands.

The old minister on the left is thin and has gray eyebrows, but he looks energetic and has not many wrinkles on his face.

Zhao Xu naturally recognized him at a glance.

That is Lu Guogong Wen Yanbo, who is now a veteran of the four dynasties.

He is the most senior person among the living ministers of the Song Dynasty.

This is the benefit of living a long life!

After Duke Wei of Han and Duke Fu Han passed away one after another, he was the only living Prime Minister Jiayou. Even Zhao Xu must give him face and respect him!

Zhao Xu looked at the appearance of this old minister and thought that he actually lived until the fourth year of Shaosheng's life before his death. He lived to be a full ninety-two years old and almost killed Zhao Xu, the young master!

Zhao Xu couldn't help but be envious.

The veteran on the right side of Wen Yanbo is not as tall as Wen Yanbo, and his mental state is only slightly better than Wen Yanbo.

That’s Han Jiang!

Zhao Xu had never seen him in his previous life.

But I have heard about this veteran—mainly from his birth mother, Concubine De, Zhu.

Zhu went to Henan Prefecture with Emperor Daxing's spirit chariot. When he came back, he said good things about Han Jiang to everyone he met.

Then the Empress Dowager scolded her - you are just a concubine of the late emperor, how could you be so virtuous and capable that you dare to receive the courtesy of a senator like Han Jiang?

Conveniently, Han Jiang was sent from Henan to Daming Mansion, and Han Jiang eventually died in Daming Mansion.

With these thoughts in mind, the two old ministers in the palace already held fluorine in their hands to salute.

They all just bowed slightly and bowed twice: "Old minister Yanbo, greetings to the Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager, Your Majesty the Emperor!"

"Happy Holy Bow!"

"I'm an old minister and it's hard for me to be polite. I hope I won't forgive you!"

Zhao Xu's eyebrows twitched.

Han Jiang, on the other hand, was very observant of etiquette and bowed respectfully: "I have raised the envoy of the First Palace of the West Taiyi, and I am the minister of the Henan Prefecture, Jiang. I pay my respects to the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, and His Majesty the Emperor. I wish you all blessings!"

"The two senators are exempt from the courtesy!" The two palaces behind the curtain had already stood up, indicating that they would not accept the courtesy from the two senators.

Only Zhao Xu remained seated and quietly ordered Feng Jing beside him: "Feng Jing, hurry up and give the two veterans seats! Give them tea!"
To be continued...