After a person retires from a high position, he often seems to be a new person. Sometimes people are surprised as to whether the person in power is the real opponent, or the person who retreats to the mountains and forests is the real opponent.
When a person is in a position of power, power will alienate him unconsciously. This is just like the alienation of people by capital, which is not based on people's will.
If you observe carefully, you will find that after your former colleague and friend took a leadership position, he seemed to have become a different person.
But after the other party stepped back from that position, he changed back to his original appearance. Everyone is different, and it is obvious that the relief that comes with retirement is accompanied by loss.
Wang Anshi resigned from office for two months, and Zhang Yue only felt relaxed, as if he didn't care at all.
According to the rules, when a prime minister resigns, all favors will be killed. But Zhang Yue saw that Wang Anshi didn't show any signs of fatigue.
Wang Anshi still knows Jiangning Mansion. He was promoted seven levels from the Minister of Rites to the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. At the same time, his subordinate Lu Huiqing is still in a high position, but all these graces are far worse than when he was in phase.
It can only be said that it is due to the state of mind. Facing Wang Anshi's inquiry, Zhang Yue smiled and said: "The lower official remembered a saying: 'Some people resign and return to their hometown, while some people rush to the exam hall at starry night.' This is exactly what happened." Wang Anshi smiled and said to Zhang Yue: "The number one scholar What you are saying is interesting, but I just sit on the public platform for a long time and am tired of the machine maintenance, so I just take a break when I am very proud. I don't care about honor or disgrace, just let nature take its course."
"If you read Liu Gong's father's poems, his words are bad but his writing is not." Zhang Yue slandered that Wang Anshi was obviously dismissed from the prime minister, but he still put gold on his face and became an emeritus.
Zhang Yue looked at Liu Zong's farewell poem to Wang Anshi and wrote, "Baima is ordered to come out of the Phoenix Pond, and the golden festival bronze talisman is deputy to Xigui."
The story goes that the Duke of Zhou was not loyal to Lu, but he was also a man of mountains and rivers. After reading it, Zhang Yue thought that the word "Liu Xun" was very good, and advised Wang Anshi to be more open-minded. Unlike the Duke of Zhou who served as an assistant in the government and had never been to the feudal state of Lu in his whole life. It is better to learn from Zhongshanfu and go to Qi to build a city on the order of King Zhou.
Zhang Yue said: "The lower officials thought that they would not be as good as Han Tuizhi in the end, 'I don't know whether the official is high or low, and there is a goldfish hanging on the jade belt... All the people in this seat are nineteen-year-old.'." Zhang Yue was talking about Han Yu's "Shi'er" Poetry. At that time, Han Yu was very successful in his official career and had just bought a house in Chang'an. Then he wrote this poem to his son, "Look, your father is now in a high position. Who does he associate with on weekdays? It doesn't matter whether his visitors have high or low official positions. At a glance, I also wear a goldfish with a jade belt around my waist.
Look at the guests here, they are all important ministers of the country. Envy me, if you understand this, then study hard for me.
Wang Anshi said: "What Han Tuizhi said in this poem is all about profit and wealth. However, Han Tuizhi said, 'Scholar-bureaucrats regard officialdom as their home, and when they quit, they will have nothing to return to', so they use it to teach their children." The two finished the fight. .
Wang Anshi said: "Han Zihua came here to pay homage to me before he became the prime minister. Du Zhi is about to pay homage to the bachelor Duan Ming. Is that why he came here?" Seeing that Wang Anshi saw through his intention at a glance, Zhang Yue said truthfully: "Ms. Mingjian is clear. , I have no idea what to do when I return to Beijing, so I came here to ask my husband for advice." Before returning to Beijing, Han Jiang told the emperor's minister that after returning to Beijing, he would first visit Wang Anshi and ask him how to govern the country as prime minister, to express that he would not change the new law easily, or even It has the meaning of Xiao Gui and Cao Sui.
Now that Zhang Yue has returned to the court as a bachelor of Duanming Palace, he took the opportunity to meet Wang Anshi and actually followed this process.
Because Zhang Yue was promoted by Han Jiang and had similar political views. At the same time, this move also expressed one's position to the emperor and officials.
Wang Anshi said to Zhang Yue: "Before Han Zihua came to Beijing, the officials told me to talk to Han Zihua in detail about the urgent matters of human affairs and political affairs. If you look at it, can you know what I said to Han Zihua?" Zhang Yue was shaken. Shake his head.
Wang Anshi said: "I told Han Zihua that the three divisions total the world's wealth, and there is no general guide to the amount of money coming in and going out. We need to consider the method of virtualization and surplus. But in the past, there was no good coordinating method, just like the household registration of the world, the number of people." , taxes and site affairs, pit management, river crossings, houses and gardens, etc., the annual tax and the annual amount of money and grain are often repeatedly registered. Increases, losses, discarded money and things, surplus, extravagant expenses, etc., are all without evidence. ."
"I asked him to set up a department to do his job!" After listening to Wang Anshi's words, Zhang Yue understood that the other party was suggesting that Han Jiang set up a new yamen such as a statistics bureau to compile various financial figures, so that it would be convenient for those in power. Governing the country.
Zhang Yue said: "In the past, in order to implement the new law, three departments of regulations were established, and the local government set up the Changping Department. The three departments had no way of knowing the accounts, so that the consumption figures could not be ascertained. Is this to solve this problem?" Wang Anshi said: "Yes, so a new department will be established to merge the accounts of the Changping Department and the Third Department." Zhang Yue asked: "Then this department will be placed under Zhongshu?" Wang Anshi nodded.
Zhang Yue said: "Isn't this the prime minister's power usurping the power of the three ministers?" Wang Anshi said: "This must be the case. If the prime minister does not predict the finances, what can he predict? How can he combine the world's wealth and manage the world's affairs? Of?"
"I said to Han Zihua at that time that this matter is urgent and should not be slowed down. You have managed three departments in the past and have economic talents, so you can handle this matter." Zhang Yue thought to himself, this is another step to withdraw power from the top.
Since Wang Anshi set up three departments, the Ordinance Department, and promoted the Changping Department, the prime minister presided over the finance, Zhongshu usurped the rights of the three departments, and the central government usurped the rights of the local governments.
Wang Anshi still followed the method of strengthening the power of the prime minister and increased the intensity of the reform. Of course the latecomers Han Jiang and Lu Huiqing thought the same way.
This is the so-called virtual king, and it is also the politics most respected by scholars in the Song Dynasty. Even the emperors of the Song Dynasty advocated this.
Only then could there be Emperor Renzong who "can't do anything but can only be an official", and only then could there be famous prime ministers such as Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, and Wang Anshi who took the world as their own responsibility.
Under this general premise, Lu Huiqing was focused on guarding herself, and Han Jiang tried his best to invoke his entry into the court to help... But they didn't know that they had already... Hey.
Zhang Yue felt a little ashamed when he thought of this. But the shame was gone for a moment, why didn't I take the path of Xujun's true state?
First of all, now is the time for drastic reforms, and another thing is that you have to consider the emperor's feelings.
The Guan family is no longer the ignorant emperor he was when Xi Ning was in his early years. After being in charge for eight years, the official family has its own philosophy of governing the country and its own team.
The most fundamental reason for Wang Anshi's resignation was the growing differences between the emperor and Wang Anshi. As the emperor gains power, will he tolerate another Wang Anshi?
Tolerate the power of the prime minister to override the power of the king? In another history of time and space, why was Su Shi imprisoned because of his Wutai poems?
Because after Yuanfeng, officials officially moved from behind the scenes to the front to preside over the new law. But Su Shi was still criticizing the new law, so Wutai Poetry was created.
Wang Anshi asked: "Does Du Zhi return to the court this time to abolish the Market Change Law?" Zhang Yue asked: "Did the great scholar listen to what Lu Jifu said?" Wang Anshi said: "You know it even if you don't say it."
