Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 566
It was dusk when he came back from Chenliu County, Fan Ning rushed to Qingfeng Restaurant on Panlou Street, he had a dinner party tonight, Lu Youwei, Duan Yu, Dong Kun and Lin Hong invited him to dinner.

The Party of Nine had already gone their separate ways, and the Fan brothers became wealthy businessmen. Su Liang and Li Dashou, who followed Fan Ning closely, were appointed as the prefect of Quanzhou, and the other was promoted to the shipping department of Quanzhou. High-ranking official.

After Lu Youwei and Duan Yu graduated from Taixue, they each went to the state school to become teaching assistants. The officials were from the ninth rank. Now Lu Youwei is transferred to the doctor of Taixue. From the eighth rank, Duan Yu is slightly better, and is promoted to the eighth rank. Dr. Guozi, both of them are officials in the capital education system.

Dong Kun and Lin Hong belong to a family of officials. They have great confidence in themselves and are not very interested in following Fan Ning. They have been in the officialdom for more than ten years. Their products are not as good as Su Liang and Li Dashou who followed Fan Ning, which is really a bit heart-wrenching.

As Fan Ning became more and more famous, Dong Kun and Lin Hong couldn't sit still, and they were too embarrassed to take the initiative to find Fan Ning, so they had to ask Lu Youwei and Duan Yu in the capital for help. , everyone get together.

Fan Ning walked into the elegant room, saw that everyone was already present, cupped his fists and said apologetically, "I just came back from Chenliu County, sorry, sorry!"

Dong Kun looked at Fan Ning in surprise, "Doesn't senior brother know that I am Chen Liuzhi County?"

Fan Ning was stunned, how could Dong Kun get into the county magistrate?He hurriedly said: "I really don't know, I will drink and apologize later!"

He turned around and saw Fan Chunren sitting there, and said with a smile, "Why is my uncle here?"

Fan Chunren is currently serving as a sixth-rank official censor. He has a good relationship with Lu Youwei, and he was also invited by Lu Youwei today. Fan Chunren smiled slightly: "Everyone is from the same hometown and the same department, why can't I come?"

"That's not what I meant. I also want to visit my uncle, but I'm too busy these days."

Fan Chunren pointed to Fan Ning and said with a smile: "You are Mr. Fan now, and there is probably a long line of people who visit you now, where do you have time to find me?"

Dong Kun and Lin Hong blushed, they were also one of them!

Duan Yu is very good at observing words and expressions, so he immediately covered up for the two of them, "It's not easy! Brother Dong is appointed as the magistrate of Chenliu County, and Brother Lin is appointed as Wai Lang, a member of the Ministry of Rites. Lao Lu and I are also in the capital. It happens that the senior brother came back to report on his duties. Finally, we have a good relationship." If there is a chance to get together, otherwise, once the senior brother leaves, I don’t know when we will be able to get together.”

"Well said! Let's have a drink."

Lu Youwei hastily filled a glass of wine for Fan Ning, and everyone toasted and drank it all in one gulp.

At this moment, Dong Kun smiled and said, "Should we invite some wine prostitutes to come in to accompany the wine?"

Although Fan Ning didn't dislike drinking with prostitutes, but he knew that Fan Chunren was serving the censor, and he was very self-disciplined in this respect, so he couldn't make things difficult for him, so he shook his head, "It's rare for some of our seniors to meet and invite prostitutes to come in to affect the atmosphere Now, why not talk about our hometown together.”

Lin Hong also kicked Dong Kun lightly, and showed him that Chunren was there. Dong Kun came to his senses and said with a smile: "That's right, it's rare to have a chance to get together, so it's more interesting to chat."

Fan Chunren asked Fan Ning strangely, "Why do they call you brother?"

Fan Ning said with a smile: "There are two reasons for this. The first is that I am more advanced than them in county education, and the second is that I have made up for Dong Kun, Lin Hong, Lu Youwei, Su Liang, Li Dashou, Ming Ren, and Ming Li. class, so that they were admitted to the county school, so they called me senior brother, Xiao Duan and Su Liang also called me, at that time, the county school called the nine of us the Party of Nine."

"So that's how it is! Come, I wish you brothers and sisters get together, let's have a drink."

Everyone drank another cup, Fan Chunren glanced at Dong Kun and said, "I heard that Chenliu County is going to implement the Green Crop Law and the Baojia Law next year. Brother Dong Xian admires Wang Shilang very much?"

Wang Shilang is Wang Anshi. He has been transferred to be the Minister of Rites. He has the support of Emperor Zhao Xu, and Empress Dowager Dong also agrees to implement the Green Crop Law and Baojia Law in ten counties. Chenliu County is the first county to sign up.

Dong Kun smiled and said, "We all want to make a career, reform requires courage, since Wang Shilang has the courage, why don't we follow?"

Fan Chunren drank the wine and said slowly: "The reform depends on whether it is beneficial to the people? If it is to seize the people's wealth to enrich the national treasury, I don't think this kind of law will change!"

Dong Kun's face changed, and he was about to speak, but a cold voice came from the door, "Who said my reform is to seize people's wealth?"

Fan Ning was taken aback, why is Wang Anshi here?
I saw Wang Anshi walking in with a wine glass. He met Dong Kun just now and knew that he was the magistrate of Chenliu County. Li, really made him very angry.

The relationship between Wang Anshi and Fan Chunren was very bad. Before he implemented the Baojia Law in Yingtianfu, he was impeached by Fan Chunren, which made him very passive. Although Fan Chunren was the son of Fan Zhongyan whom Wang Anshi admired, it could not change the political opposition between the two of them.

Wang Anshi walked into the room, but suddenly saw Fan Ning, which made him startled for a moment, and said with a slight smile, "It turns out that Mr. Fan is here!"

Fan Ning stood up and smiled, "Brother Jiefu, don't come here without any problems!"

Now that Fan Ning is here, it is not easy for Wang Anshi to turn his back on Fan Chunren. He ignored Fan Chunren, walked up to Fan Ning and said with a smile: "I am reading the interview record of my virtuous brother, and my insight is very profound. I also think that such a vast land, If Da Song doesn’t take it, he will be blamed by his descendants, I wonder when will my virtuous brother show me the overseas map?”

"The newspaper will be printed the day after tomorrow, and brother Jiefu will see how vast the overseas land is, and there are countless wealth in it."

"Then I'll wait and see!"

Wang Anshi and Fan Ning drank a glass of wine, took a deep look at Fan Chunren, turned around and left.

Fan Chunren ignored Wang Anshi all the time. At this time, everyone felt that the atmosphere was not very speculative. After a few drinks, Dong Kun and Lin Hong left.

Dong Kun made it clear that he wanted to seek refuge with Wang Anshi. It was really inappropriate for Wang Anshi to see him with Fan Ning at this time, and he couldn't care less about asking Fan Ning for help. He needed to go to Wang Anshi to explain, so he dragged Lin Hong to leave early.

After drinking a few more glasses of wine, Lu Youwei and Duan Yu also left and made an appointment with Fan Ning to meet again at another day.

Only Fan Chunren and Fan Ning were left in the room, and Fan Chunren apologized: "I interrupted your party."

"That's not true. I have to prepare to deal with it at night. It's just as I like to end it early."

Fan Chunren sighed slightly, "To be honest, I am very disapproving of Wang Anshi's Green Crop Law and Baojia Law, which allow rich households to provide guarantees for poor households. If it continues, the rich households in the world will be wiped out. Isn't this just taking people's wealth and enriching the national treasury? ?”

Fan Ning shook his head and said, "Even if people's wealth is taken away, the treasury's income is only one-twelfth of it, and most of it falls into the pockets of local officials, so Wang Anshi's reform was opposed by the imperial court, but local officials welcomed it. This is the reason! "

Fan Chunren slammed his wine glass heavily, and said solemnly: "No matter what, I will resolutely oppose the political reform. Even if I lose this official position, I will never compromise!"

Fan Ning returned to Zhu's mansion in a carriage. He was not very concerned about Wang Anshi's reform. In fact, the social crisis that prompted Wang Anshi's reform has disappeared. The government's finances have been in surplus for five consecutive years. Improvement, or the basis for the reform no longer exists. At this time, if Wang Anshi forces the reform again, it will inevitably arouse the opposition of the entire court. Even Zhao Xu cannot bear such pressure.

At this time, Fan Ning was thinking more about his steam engine. If the skilled craftsmen of Song Dynasty could build it, then the society of Song Dynasty would inevitably undergo profound changes.

However, Fan Ning also knew that even if the steam engine he wanted was built, it would take a lot of time to improve it, such as solving the problem of air leakage, improving the efficiency of steam use, and so on.

There is also a more critical problem. There is too little pig iron in Da Song. First, there are too few iron ores, and the iron production is low. Second, the quality of iron is not high. Although rich iron ore has been discovered in Luzon, it is still small.

At this time, Fan Ning thought of the iron ore in Australia, which is the world's richest iron ore, with high quality, large reserves, and easy mining. If the iron ore in the New World can be mined, it will be a strategy that will make the country richer than gold and silver. resource.

But before that, the imperial court can only increase the production of pig iron, at least to ensure that the steamship it needs most is produced.

At this time, Fan Ning thought about the propulsion method of the big ship. At present, the Song Dynasty ships used paddle wheels, but the disadvantage of the paddle wheel is that the speed is too slow. The steam engine only changes the power of the ship, so that the big ship does not need There are so many people, but if the speed of the boat cannot be increased, it will take half a year to go to the New World, and it will not be cost-effective.

But if propellers are used instead, will the speed increase?
(End of this chapter)