Ouyang Bian was so eager to return home that he sped along Qingjing Road. When he arrived at Jingzhao Mansion, he unexpectedly saw an unexpected person.

"Hey, Zizhan, are you here to work in Jingzhao Mansion?"

Ouyang Bian saw someone coming out of the gate of Jingzhao Prefecture from afar. Unexpectedly, it was Su Shi. It was not appropriate for Su Shi to appear here, because shouldn't he be the censor in the capital?

Hearing Ouyang Bian's words, Su Shi smiled bitterly: "It's a long story, let's go, I'll prepare a banquet for you to clean up the dust."

Ouyang Bian could only hold his breath and followed into the city. When he sat down, Su Shi began to talk about this.

"Is Ji Mo doing well in the past two years?"

Su Shi asked.

Ouyang Bian smiled and said, "It's still good, except for being a little busy, the rest are pretty good."

Su Shi smiled and said, "I heard that you have done a lot of big things, which sounds exciting."

Ouyang Bian patted Su Shi on the shoulder: "Zizhan, you haven't told me yet, why are you here?"

Su Shi said with a look of distress: "I was demoted."

Ouyang Bian's heart suddenly moved. Sure enough, is this guy finally going to make his greatness?

But the next moment he almost burst into laughter.

Seeing Ouyang Bian's expression, Su Shi was a little surprised: "Ji Mo, are you?"

Ouyang Bian concealed his smile and forced himself to look sad: "Zizhan, why don't I know when this happened?"

Su Shi looked at Ouyang Bian suspiciously: "Although I don't know what you are thinking, I think something is wrong with you."

Ouyang Bian was in tears, of course not really sad, but a smile.

Su Shi is indeed a troublemaker. Of course, his talent is rare in ancient and modern times, but unfortunately he has a mouth.

During the history of Su Shi and Wang Anshi's reform, he wrote a letter to talk about the shortcomings of the new law.

Wang Anshi was quite angry, so he asked the censor Xie Jing to discuss Su Shi's faults in front of Emperor Shenzong.

Su Shi then requested to leave Beijing and was awarded the title of Hangzhou General Judge.

Later, in the second year of Yuanfeng, Su Shi, who was 43 years old, was transferred to the prefect of Huzhou.

After taking office, he wrote a letter to Shenzong "Huzhou Thanksgiving Forum". This book is a routine, and it is usually enough to thank him. He insisted on saying that he was "willing and uneasy, it is difficult to follow newcomers", "I can't get into trouble for the old people or shepherd the common people" and other strange words.

This annoyed many people and was impeached by He Zhengchen, the Censorate. Su Shi, who had only been in office for three months, was arrested by the officials of the Censorate and sent to the capital. Dozens of people were implicated. This is the famous "Wutai Poetry Case" in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Later, Shenzong died and Zhezong took office. Su Shi finally came back, but he couldn't rest anymore.

When Su Shi saw the emerging forces desperately suppressing the figures of Wang Anshi's group and abolishing the new laws, he believed that they were just a feather from the so-called "king party", and once again raised advice to the court.

He criticized the corruption exposed after the old party came to power, which aroused strong opposition from the conservative forces, and was falsely accused and framed again.

At this point, Su Shi was unable to tolerate the new party and could not forgive the old party, so he once again sought external adjustments.

...

Therefore, seeing Su Shi being demoted from the capital was really expected by Ouyang Bian. He didn't feel sad at all, but wanted to laugh out loud.

Su Shi was worried, but he still said: "After you left the capital, the court was in chaos, and it was no longer as calm as the Jiayou period."

Ouyang Bian nodded.

"... At the beginning, Han Xiang and his teacher worked together to restructure taxes, but later the teacher told His Majesty to set up the three departments and regulations, which made Han Xiang dissatisfied.

Han Xiang believes that the establishment of the three departments and regulations combines financial power, which is to ignore the existence of the Secretariat and say that the teacher wants to monopolize the power, so he feels dissatisfied."

Ouyang Bian nodded. He knew about this matter. Four months after the establishment of the Regulation Department, the Regulation Department successively issued a number of new policies such as the equalization law, the exemption law, the Farmland Water Conservancy Law, and other new policies in its own name. These policies were quickly implemented, which has an important relationship with the procedural avoidance of the review of the Secretariat and the Third Department after the establishment of the Regulation Department.

But as the prime minister, Han Qi was unable to interfere with these reforms, and no wonder he was dissatisfied with it.

"... So later established the equalization law, exemption law, etc. formulated by the three departments' regulations. Not only did the Korean Prime Minister not support it, but also took the lead in opposing it..."

Su Shi had a little helplessness in his eyes: "In fact, isn't the equal-to-escape law and the exemption law of service the original tax reform Ji Mo? It was what the Prime Minister Han planned to implement at the beginning, but now because of this, the Prime Minister Han clearly opposes it."

Ouyang Bian: “…”

Ouyang Bian didn't know how to comment on this matter.

In fact, according to the principle, this matter is easy to solve. The content of the reform is actually the same. There is no need to do this. However, things in the world are never explained by tolerance for the country and being generous.

As for this matter, Wang Anshi did something wrong. After all, the Secretariat did not agree, but was already pushing it. At this time, there is indeed no need to build an institution that seizes the power of the Secretariat. It would be strange if Han Qi was not in a hurry.

Han Qi also lost his magnanimity to be with the country, which is beneficial to the country. Logically speaking, although Wang Anshi did something wrong, he should support doing things instead of opposing them.

However, Ouyang Bian thought about it for a moment and knew what the problem was.

Wang Anshi was stubborn and impatient, probably couldn't stand the slow and leisure in the Political Affairs Hall, and everything must be considered in place. He probably believed that reform was urgent, and this efficiency was impossible at all, so he simply put aside the Political Affairs Hall and set up a new stove.

Han Qi was worried that the Secretariat of the Secretariat would be deprived of power, and the establishment of the Three Divisions and Regulation Department had already caused the infringement of power of the two prefectures of the Northern Song Dynasty. His scope of power had violated the ancestral system of decentralization and checks and balances in the Song Dynasty, which would bring about a series of bad results, so he opposed it.

Of course, how much there is still selfishness in it is not something Ouyang Bian can guess.

But, Su Shi, how did you get exiled here?

Seeing Ouyang Bian's eyes, Su Shi smiled bitterly: "I have written a book and advised Han Xiang and his teacher to be patient and not to miss national affairs for their own sake..."

Ouyang Bian: “…”

No wonder you are demoted, you won’t speak!

Su Shi seemed to be trying to persuade them, but in the eyes of both sides, this was criticizing them.

Needless to say, Wang Anshi is his student. When he is not standing on his side at this time, he is criticizing himself for being an act of impulse... Are he still a student?

There is no need to say much about Han Qi. You are Wang Anshi's student. You are not trying to persuade him to fight, but you are trying to fight. Why am I acting irritably? How come I am the prime minister, how can I act irritably!

So, the result was that Su Shi was demoted from the capital.
Chapter completed!