Chapter 1057 Cai Que’s Helper

Wu Anzhi looked at the skilled craftsmen with some envy: "At Daoluotong Biansi, there are still a few people who know how to do this..."

Shen Kuo shook his head: "There is no way to do this. There is a shortage of people everywhere now. Song Yongchen's side is the big one. The water conditions this year are not optimistic. Everything is close to Puyang. Neihuang, Yunzhou will be used first. The Yellow River must not flood this year.

Already..."

Speaking of this, both of them were a little embarrassed. Wu Anchi said: "Is Shaobao's theory about grass and trees holding the sand together reliable? Hey, speaking of it, Shaobao severely offended Cai Que for you this time.

A handful."

Shen Kuo sneered: "A clam hanging upside down is not a son of a man. If he is not good at asking questions and still has to argue with Shaobao, that is the embarrassment he has brought on himself."

This incident became a famous physics case in the Song Dynasty.

Su You and Cai Que had a dispute over Shen Kuo's appointment. Cai Que's reason was that Shen Kuo was vacillating and attached himself to ministers.

When Wang Anshi was there, he strongly supported Wang Anshi in promoting the new law; after Wang Anshi left, he began to support Wu Chong in slandering the new law. His character was very questionable and he was not suitable for great use.

Su You proposed that human knowledge and experience are constantly changing and improving with the growth of learning and qualifications.

Problems that were invisible before may not be visible now.

If you know that you have made mistakes due to limited knowledge in the past, but now you have broadened your horizons and still persist blindly, that is really not the behavior of a wise man.

The two were at loggerheads, and finally Su Youqifeng asked Cai Que a prominent question: Cai Shenzheng, which one do you think was a five-pound iron ball or a ten-pound iron ball thrown from the clock tower of Bianjing Pier?

What about landing first?

Cai Que said that of course the heavier one would hit the ground first. Is there any need to ask?

Then Su You said that you were wrong to join politics and that you should have done so at the same time.

Zhao Xu saw Su You starting to talk nonsense and quickly stopped him.

As a result, Su You gave everyone a physics lesson and said that if you don't believe it, then verify it through practice.

This theory completely aroused Zhao Xu's curiosity, so he drove to Zhouqiao Pier to witness it in person.

A miracle happened, two iron balls landed at the same time!

Cai Que and Wang Gui were also worried that Su You was cheating, so they did it themselves. After several attempts, the results proved that Su You was right.

So Su You surrendered to Cai Que: If by now, Cai Shenzheng has changed his previous opinions, is that considered a sway and agreeing with me?

Or, should we still stick to the theory that the light iron ball will hit the ground first?

Cai Que was speechless, and Zhao Xu laughed loudly. He agreed to Su You's request, kept Shen Kuo as a Hanlin scholar, and allowed him to promote Xingluocang.

Newspapers from all over the world covered the incident.

After the Wutai Poetry Case, Shen Kuo was criticized by scholars because he was the first to collect Da Su's poems and outline the language. They thought that if he had not been the instigator, Da Su would not have been tricked into this.

Now that Su You had protected him, Su Shaobao was suddenly given an aura of magnanimity and magnanimity, and received a lot of praise.

As the time entered May, Wu Anchi submitted a letter stating that the Luoban Water Conservancy Project route had been surveyed, with a project length of 138 kilometers, and was ready to be completed using the latest construction method of segmented bidding.

The requirements of the tender document daunted many teams. It was 138 kilometers long and required to be able to drive watercraft. There were many sluices and reservoirs along the way. The engineering difficulty was not high, but it was quite complicated.

And it is required to be completed before March next year!

As soon as the memorial was announced, the court exploded again.

Exhausting people's power! How unkind!

What is very strange is that most of the people who impeached Wu Anchi were reformists.

In the past, the reformists were eager to achieve success and the conservatives were vigorously opposed. Now it is reversed.

Zhao Xu issued an edict stating that for this project, the money was allocated by the internal government, and the contractors submitted bids voluntarily. The cost calculation of the project was not the same as the previous free recruitment of civilians who only paid for salt and vegetables, nor was it the same as exhausting the people's resources.

Something's going on.

Seeing that the matter was about to calm down, Su Yuanzhen, the imperial censor, made an announcement, causing the court to stir up trouble again - Your Majesty, do you want to move the capital?!

Damn! Only then did the ministers react, right? Otherwise, why would your Majesty overhaul the waterway from Bianjing to Luoyang?

But the problem is that this matter was the intention of Taizu at that time, and he was shot dead by Taizong. Your Majesty is from the lineage of Taizong, this and this...

So there was a commotion again, and there was a lot of hype between those who were against it and those who were in favor of it.

Zhao Xu was angry, did I say that I wanted to move the capital? Can't you see that the economic situation in Shaanxi has improved year by year since the defeat of Liang Zuo by Yu Guogong? Can't you see that the economic exchanges between Shaanxi and the mainland are getting closer and closer?

The purpose of building waterways is obviously to meet the growing material and cultural needs of the people of Shaanxi and stimulate domestic demand. Why is it related to the matter of moving the capital?

Where is Su Yuanzhen? Zhao Zhongshu wrote and asked him to go to Yunzhou to stir up trouble with Wang Kechen!

Wang Gui quits now. Your Majesty, Su Yuanzhen is the admonishing officer, and he didn’t say anything. I’m afraid that your will will be rejected by my disciples...

Cai Jingcheng immediately said that Hedong Road needed a deputy transfer envoy. Otherwise, let Su Yuanzhen do this. This would not be a demotion, but a promotion.

Zhao Xu then turned from anger to joy. Cai Shenzheng's words made sense, so let's do this.

…

The Imperial City Department, Bingjing Wu, and Zheng Mu were watching the reports sent from various stalls.

Your Majesty has decided to go to Fangqiu Sacrifice Site on the summer solstice, and the travel route and warnings along the way need to be arranged.

The gossip about moving the capital spread in Beijing, which also made the spies of Xia and Liao countries eager to take action.

Within half a month, the Imperial City Bureau used this information to investigate four businesses and arrested a dozen "falconers".

Falcons are traders who sell eagles, and many of them have been found to be spies from both countries.

However, the funny thing is that Zheng Mu knew that the so-called intention to move the capital was just a smoke bomb, and was done by Tong Ku, the commander of the Military Aircraft Department.

Its fundamental purpose is to cover up the true intention of the Song Dynasty to guide Luotongbian, and even more so to cover up the reconstruction project of Xingluocang.

Beating the children on a rainy day is not a waste of time, and it can also clean up the spy organizations in Beijing and Luoyang.

He pointed at the resume of an official on the table: "This Xing Shu, no matter how you look at it, he should be the person in the young security guard's pocket..."

Xing Shu was a student of Cheng Hao and had a close relationship with Songyang Academy. He was a good writer and wise men rushed to associate with him.

After Xing Shu was admitted to Jinshi, he was appointed as the chief secretary of Yong'an. It was only after Lu Gongzhu's recommendation that he entered the court and served as Chongwen's college secretary.

As a result, Xing Shu was not satisfied and went to Wang Yu to analyze a lot of the shortcomings of the new laws promoted by Wang Anshi.

Originally, he wanted to change his family, but Xing Shu's level was incomparable to Su You's, his rank was incomparable to Su You's, and his conduct was incomparable to Su You's.

Therefore, Wang Anshi's attitude towards him was of course incomparable to Su You's.

Moreover, when Wang Yu was listening to Xing Shu's explanation, he kept nodding his head and seemed to agree, but as soon as he turned around, he told his father that this person was from a second-class family, and even here he slandered the new law. How could he pay it off after joining the court?

Wang Anshi was very angry. People like this should be removed from the court.

The Yushitai followed Wang Anshi's wishes and impeached Lu Gongzhu, saying that the Xing Shu he introduced was originally a new scholar, and he was in the palace before he was an official, which was wrong.

Wang Anshi was even more angry. Isn't this the reason why the conservatives attacked my disciple Li Ding? Why are you doing this yourself now?

Then there is no need to be polite, and Xing Shu will be driven out of the court and appointed as the magistrate of Yanling County.

What's even more sad is that Yanling County was abolished by the court soon after!

But Xing Shu’s position has not changed!

Now Xing Shu became a "jobless vagrant", wandering between Shaanxi and Luo. This delay lasted seven years.

Seven years later, when Wu Chong came to power, he remembered this minor official who had been demoted for opposing Wang Anshi and reinstated him as the school's editor. Then he appointed him as the collation of the museum, and soon moved him to the school of history as the editor of Zuo Lang.

So unlucky, it was Cai Que's turn to embark on the fast track to his official career. Because he held high the banner of the reformists and had a rift with Wu Chong, after participating in politics, he happened to avenge his personal vendetta and expel all the people Wu Chong had appointed from power. .

Xing Shu was so frightened that he could not sit or lie down. He stayed in the mansion every day and did not dare to go out. He was afraid that Cai Que would see him and reminded him.

As a result, Zhongshu suddenly issued an edict some time ago, appointing Xing Shu as a staff official.

Xing Shu burst into tears of gratitude and ran to Cai Que's door to thank him.

However, none of this was Cai Que's intention at all.

The real reason is that Zhao Xu read a poem some time ago, which Xing Shu gave to Wen Yanbo. Zhao Xu praised the poem in front of Cai Que for its beautiful diction and great skill.

Cai did not know whether Zhao Xu's words truly appreciated Xing Shu, or whether he was criticizing the officials he had demoted and promoted by Wu Chong. But no matter what it meant, since Zhao Xu had spoken, how could he promote a minor official? For Cai Que, it was just a matter of effort.

In addition, Xing Shu's knowledge itself was not bad, so one of them accepted it willingly, and the other deeply trusted him.
Chapter completed!