Fan Chunren listened to Sima Guang's sigh: "Has even Yaofu retreated?"
His heart couldn't help but soften, and he felt very ashamed, as if he owed a lot to the person in front of him.
That's the kind of person he is.
So he lowered his head in shame and wanted to apologize.
Just when the words were about to come out, Fan Chunren remembered what Wen Yanbo had said to him in private that day at Wen Yanbo's house.
He took a deep breath.
Just now at the Yanhe Hall, the young master's encouragement to him also came back in his heart.
The words of my father Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower" are beating in my heart.
If you live in a temple, you will worry about the people; if you live far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about the king!
He is now living in the temple.
How can we not worry about the common people?
Then, Fan Chunren remembered that he had been in Hezhong, Chengdu, Qingzhou...
All the things I have seen in the past ten years...
The suffering of people's livelihood is beyond imagination!
The plight of the people is indescribable!
He breathed out again, as if he had gained courage and encouragement.
"Chunren is not backing down..." Fan Chunren said with a cupped hand: "I just really don't know what step Mr. Sima wants to achieve?"
This is the crux of the matter!
This is also what Fan Chunren wants to know.
Sima Guang answered calmly: "Of course, we must put an end to Wang Anshi's evil methods and restore a peaceful world to the people of the world!"
This is his lifelong pursuit.
It is also all the support that has given him dragging his body to survive until now.
Sima Guang remembered that Duke Fu Han was still begging Emperor Daxing to stop the new law when he was dying.
I remembered that when Shao Yong was dying, he couldn't even speak and kept looking at him with eyes full of hope.
I even remembered that when I left Luoyang and came to Bianjing last time and this time, when the sages in Luoyang saw each other off, the expectations in the eyes of those long-term friends and gentlemen were full.
He is not alone!
He is living for many people!
The purpose of living is to fulfill the long-cherished wishes of those who have passed away.
Fan Chunren sighed: "May I ask Mr. Ming, what is Wang Anshi's evil method?"
Sima Guang still answered candidly: "Of course it is the laws that make the people sick and harm the country! If the laws in the new law are not harmful to the people and harmless to the country, how can I be in trouble?!"
"But now the capital court is trying to block and delay even an imperial edict asking for a straight statement..."
He looked at Fan Chunren and sighed: "Today, they still dare to blind the two palaces with words and deceive the Holy Lord..."
"So that the grievances of superiors and inferiors cannot be redressed, and the people inside and outside cannot speak out..."
"They don't know what else they can do in the future!"
"Aren't Yaofu worried at all?" Sima Guang looked at Fan Chunren calmly and asked.
"Mr. Sima..." Fan Chunren cupped his hands and said, "Chunren, he comes from this place..."
"I know a little bit about the local conditions and disadvantages. I have personally felt the suffering of the people and shared the hardships and famines with them..."
A descendant of the Fan family, he was influenced by Fan Zhongyan since childhood.
The salary and salary are only kept for personal use, and the rest is used to donate to the charity village and charity school.
Even if a daughter of the Fan family is married, she will try her best to maintain herself in her husband's family, and at the same time, she will establish a righteous school and a righteous field in the clan.
Over the years, Fan Chunren has traveled to many places and followed his father's teachings wherever he went.
More than once, he risked being demoted and dismissed to open a warehouse to provide disaster relief.
On more than one occasion, prisoners were released one after another who took desperate risks because of poverty and violated national laws, but could not commit crimes that would lead to death.
In terms of his understanding and familiarity with the grassroots, Fan Chunren believes that he can be among the top ten in the contemporary era.
So, he asked directly: "Dare you ask Ming Gong... is the art of war considered an evil method?"
Sima Guang looked at Fan Chunren.
He sighed leisurely: "Of course it doesn't count!"
"This is a good law first advocated by Wen Zhenggong, but Wang Anshi used it in evil ways, serving himself with force, provoking border provocations, and causing harm to the country and the people!"
"The generals should be ordered to guard the borders and not cause trouble!"
Fan Chunren believed it.
Because Sima Guang's character and morality were unparalleled in the world, Fan Chunren knew that he never bothered to lie.
Now that he says so, he will definitely do it!
"What about the exemption law and the young crop law?" Fan Chunren looked at Sima Guang and asked.
"Evil method!" Sima Guang answered decisively without hesitation!
"Wang Anshi used these laws to bring chaos to the country and bring disaster to the whole world to make money..."
Fan Chunren's heart hit rock bottom.
Because what he saw locally was not like this!
The Green Seed Law...as long as assessments and compulsions are reduced, and only voluntary borrowing is adopted.
In the famine years, there are countless living people!
The two-cent annual interest rate is infinitely more favorable than the compound interest rate offered by the big investors!
As for the immunity law...
Fan Chunren thought about the exemption law, took a deep breath and asked: "During the Jiayou period, when my father was dying, he was still worried about the government harming the people..."
Sima Guang nodded: "It is true that Yaqian harms the people..."
This is universally recognized!
Even back then, he repeatedly persuaded the court to reform the government office and reduce the burden on the upper class households!
“Wouldn’t the exemption law harm the people?”
"Compared with Yaqian, the exemption law is more harmful to the people!" Sima Guang became excited when he said this.
"The remaining people in Yamen are only the upper-class households..."
"The exemption law harms the people, but it harms everyone!"
“The lesser of two evils!”
Fan Chunren sighed: "But in front of the Yamen, the family was destroyed..."
Only those who have experienced the era of the Civil Service Law will know the horror of Yaqian.
In the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River, there are more wealthy households, so the harm in Yaqian is relatively small.
But in the vast areas in the north, especially Shaanxi and Hedong...
For most of the upper-class households, once they are sent to the Yamen... it is good to have their families destroyed, and there are many people who will destroy their families.
Therefore, many people refused to accept Yaqian.
They sold their fields and houses one after another, and even went into exile with their families!
Among the families who were sent to the Yaqian service, there were countless old fathers who directly hanged themselves at home in order to ensure that their sons could come back alive.
Yaqian is so terrifying!
A kind of harsh government that only targets a few people in rural households!
Therefore, for a period of time, the upper-class households in the Song Dynasty became a reminder of life!
However, the right to assess the upper-class households belongs to the local high-status households!
Therefore, the era of the Civil Service Law was the era when the power of the local households was the greatest.
Any household in the village who dares to offend these people will be rated as a high-class household.
Then wait for the family to be destroyed!
Sima Guang closed his eyes and said, "How can we cry together when one family is crying?"
This is what Fan Zhongyan said during the Qingli New Deal.
"Nowadays, everyone has to pay due to the exemption law!"
"Most people have no money, but they still have to pay money every year..."
Fan Chunren sighed: "But what Chunren saw in the place is not like this..."
"Although the Green Seeding Method has its drawbacks..."
"But as long as the forced loans and apportioned profits are eliminated, it is a good method..."
"As for the immunity from service law... Mr. Han is currently presiding over a review of the service law..."
"We can wait and see the results of the review by Mr. Han and the province before discussing..."
Sima Guang was so angry that he laughed!
Are there any good ones in Wang Anshi’s laws?
Especially the young seedling method!?
Is it actually any better?
He looked at Fan Chunren and looked him up and down, as if he was meeting her for the first time.
"Yaofu, do you know what you are talking about?"
"The Green Seeding Law harms the people and cripples the people, and it is recognized by the world!"
"Even before his death, Mr. Fu Han continued to say that young people are harming the people!"
"When Shao Yaofu (Shao Yong) was still alive, he repeatedly said that local young crops and laws harmed the people!"
"Are they all wrong?"
Sima Guang almost laughed out loud at Fan Chunren.
"As for Han Zihua?" Sima Guang said unceremoniously: "He is the same as Wang Jiefu!"
"Nowadays, they are hypocritically talking about a review of the labor laws. In my opinion, in the end, there will be no other results except apportionment and doubling the number of soldiers!"
Fan Chunren shook his head firmly: "Otherwise!"
"A certain person was in the capital hall and saw with his own eyes that Prime Minister Han announced a review of the Servitude Law..."
"It was also mentioned that a trial implementation will begin in Gyeonggi Province in a few months..."
"For rural households below the third class, with less than 30 acres of land, and with less than three servants, the exemption money will only be five cents according to the old method...those below the fifth class, with less than 20 acres of land, or with less than two servants.
If so, you will be exempted from paying the service fee..."
Sima Guang sneered: "In the past, Wang Jiefu changed the laws and implemented them on a trial basis in the capital!"
"In the beginning, even the City Change Law said that it was 'not without inconvenience to the people'..."
"What about now?"
"Han Zihua can't be trusted!" Sima Guang said firmly.
"But Grand Master Wen will also review the military law every ten days..." Fan Chunren sighed and said, "Sima Gong can't even trust the Grand Master, right?"
"Wen Kuanfu has been blinded by fame and wealth for a long time!" Sima Guang shook his head: "How can you still be trustworthy?"
If Wen Yanbo was trustworthy, he would not excuse himself from going to the capital hall because of his illness.
What they say hypocritically is that ‘your true view is a certain view’.
hehe!
At this moment, Fan Chunren felt a familiar smell.
He remembered.
In the political affairs hall of the second year of Xining, Wang Anshi and Wang Jiefu, who insisted on going their own way and could not hear any objections, seemed to be the same!
At that time, he seemed to be like this, persuading Wang Anshi with earnest words.
But Wang Anshi couldn't hear his opinion at all, and even refused to accept it!
Fan Chunren sighed helplessly and could only make a final effort.
He said softly: "Even if everything is as promised..."
"How can I persuade the two palaces to be kind to me, and how can I get the officials to support me?"
"The Master said: Duke Zhuang of Lu's filial piety is not possible in any other way. It is impossible for him not to change his father's ministers and his father's government!"
"Another saying: After your father's death, if you don't change your father's ways for three years, that's called filial piety!"
Sima Guang had already thought about it.
He smiled and said: "The godfather's curse is that if you have a son, there will be no fault!"
"The son saves the father from his faults. This is the inheritance of the father's legacy and the promotion of the virtues of the late emperor. This is the beauty of becoming a father!"
"Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty had the disadvantages of corporal punishment. Emperor Jing ascended the throne and eliminated corporal punishment that month, and the world rejoiced!"
"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty lost all his salt and iron, but Emperor Zhao came to the throne and used the method of virtuous literature to correct all his shortcomings, and he is still praised today!"
Sima Guang raised his hands in the direction of Ouchi and said, "Young master, a wise and benevolent man, must know this!"
Sima Guang thought about the words given by the young master's pen that day.
He also thought about the way the young master looked at him in the court hall.
He knows that he is righteous.
Fan Chunren listened and looked at Sima Guang.
Today's Sima Guang and Wang Anshi back then began to overlap.
"Another stubborn man!" Fan Chunren sighed desperately in his heart.
Sorry, it's a little late.
I wrote and revised this chapter, constantly reading Sima Guang’s letters and words during this period, trying to get closer to his thoughts.
But it's always hard to get close.
I tried my best!
Sima Niu's thoughts are really impossible to guess and guess.
He is not an ordinary paranoid, but the kind of paranoid who can reason but doesn't listen to what you say.
This chapter has been completed!