Su Dongpo died, while Li Gefei was ill.

The disciple of the Secretariat of the Eastern Palace became Cai Jing and Cai Yuanchang's one-man show.

After the court meeting, the prime ministers returned to the political affairs hall and discussed several important government affairs to be dealt with today.

"'Shaanxi and the northwest have poor harvests, and the treasurys in various places are empty'. Have you read these two memorials from Xue Sichang and Su Chi?" Cai Jing sat high in the middle hall and took the memorials sent by Xue Sichang and the northwest have been in the hands of Su Chi. "Shaanxi and the northwest have been trapped in war since the previous year. The people were trapped in the war and were neglected in the farm. The poor harvest and the treasury were empty. Now we are going to conquer Anxi again. I don't know if Shaanxi can afford it in the northwest?"

Shangshu Zuo Cheng Zhang Shangying took a sip of tea and said carelessly: "The conquest of Anxi can be postponed by one or two years, and then the Jiehe Maritime Shipping Bureau will transport an additional one or two million stones of rice to Baibo, and at the same time, some Western troops will be transferred to Baibo to eat."

Zhang Shangying became the Left Chief of the Shangshu after Lu Dianwai. He was the spokesperson of Zhang Dun's faction in the court and was also a political enemy with Cai Jing in history. However, the old party has not fallen, so the struggle within the new party is not so fierce. The relationship between Zhang Shangying and Cai Jing is quite good.

So Zhang Shangying’s suggestion to deal with the food shortage in the northwest and Shaanxi is actually “to help Cai Jing”. The Jiehe Maritime Shipin Department needs to handle the transportation of more rice and grain by Wu Haogu, an important official! So he should not stay in Kaifeng Prefecture, leave quickly!

"The Western Army's East Transfer is a big deal, and it also requires important officials to take charge of Luoyang to handle it properly." Deng Xunwu, the Minister of the Secretariat, said, "It's better to let Su Che appease the west of Jingxi!"

Deng Xunwu, like Zhang Shangying, was a Sichuan fellow villager of the two Su brothers, but he was Cai Jing's followers. Now he gave Cai Jing a trick to transfer Su Che from the Fengfu.

"What the Secretary of the Central Committee said is very much. However, Su Che did not have much foundation in the Western Army, so I am afraid that the situation would not be shaken. It would be better to let Lu Jifu leave the west of Beijing and the Yongxing Army and be fully responsible for the dispatch and resettlement of the Western Army. At the same time, let Su Che serve as the commander of the six routes of the shipping company, responsible for raising grain to transport it to Baibo, which is more appropriate."

Liu Kui, who was once the Minister of War and now serves as the Minister of the Jung-Secretary, thought more thoughtfully. Not only did he send Su Che out of the capital, but he also solved the hidden danger of Lu Huiqing.

Cai Jing held his beard and smiled all over his face. He was really lucky recently! Not only did Su Dongpo, his mortal enemy, die, but Su Dongpo's successor Li Gefei and Huang Tingjian are also almost ill now. Once they die, the two very critical seats, Shangshu Youcheng and Imperial College Priest, were also vacant.

"Who can be the only one who can be the Minister of the Shangshu's Right Pushe?" Cai Jing asked with a smile, "Can anyone choose you all? Why not talk about it?"

As soon as this problem arose, the atmosphere inside the room suddenly became a little strange. Zhang Shangying frowned slightly, and Deng Xunwu and Liu Kui turned their attention to Zhang Shangying. Although the three of them were deputy prime ministers, their official qualifications were still different. Zhang Shangying was a Jinshi in the Yingzong Dynasty, Deng Xunwu was a Jinshi in the Shenzong Dynasty, and Liu Kui had a shorter qualifications. He was a Jinshi in the eighth year of Yuanfeng of Zhezong. Liu Kui had not yet started school! Even Cai Jingdu debuted twice later than Zhang Shangying, and was a Jinshi in the third year of Xining of Shenzong.

Zhang Shangying smiled and said lightly: "Based on qualifications, Shang Ying can be the right prime minister, but Zhao Zhengfu can do it even if he can only do it!"

Zhao Tingzhi was also a Jinshi in Xining for three years and was in the same class as Cai Jing. However, he is older than Zhang Shangying, 65 years old this year, and he is not in good health. If he is allowed to be the right prime minister, he will be despaired. Zhang Shangying is three years younger than Zhao Tingzhi, but his health is much better. Now let Zhao Tingzhi be polite, and when Zhao Tingzhi is finished, Zhang Shangying should be promoted. He must do this right prime minister!

"How about Su Che?" Cai Jing suddenly asked.

"Su Che?"

"He's..."

"Zheng Yuan, what does this mean?"

Cai Jing smiled and said, "He is an old party. But this year it will be the fifth year of Jianzhong Jingguo! If nothing unexpected happens, next year it will be the sixth year of Jianzhong Jingguo... Besides, do you think it is still a dispute between Shaoshu and Genghua?

King Xiping is still busy giving birth to a grandson for the official family in Kaifeng Prefecture! I think it is just a chance to recover Yan Yun. Shaoshu and Genghua are already outdated! We, the important officials of the court, should be with Shi now, and we can't always think about the things in the Xining, Yuanfeng and Yuanfu years. So we and Su Che cannot be considered enemies."

Not to mention, Cai Jing's words make sense!

Zhang Shangying, Deng Xunwu and Liu Kui thought about it carefully, it would be right! Shaoshu and others can't just use rich country and strong soldiers to fool the government. Is the country or not strong soldiers now? The government has just moved into the brand new Qionglin Palace, and the Western thieves were beaten to call him father. Moreover, once the war in the northwest stopped, military expenditures would definitely be greatly reduced, and there was a new government soldier who didn't spend much money... So rich country and strong soldiers were not very urgency for Zhao Ji.

Moreover, it was not "Shaoshu" who helped Zhao Ji enrich the country and strengthen the army, but Gao Qiu, Wu Haogu and his group were lucky. Oh, now it cannot be said that they were lucky to be lucky. They have real skills!

"Now we, Su Che, Han Zhongyan, and Fan Chuncui are actually old parties," Cai Jing smiled bitterly, "So what if we make scholars in the classics? So what if we study the classics of the Han and Tang Dynasties? In the face of "Personal Theory" and "Reason", are different? Different should be tested with practice and reason for inference?

Moreover, the empirical school has three university palaces, seven colleges, six basic subjects, and eleven major subjects... The knowledge taught can be deeper and broader than the classics and techniques, and can continue to improve, and it is no longer a predecessor. Don’t you think it is dangerous?"

Traditional Confucianism is not said to be stagnant, but at least it is developing slowly. Confucianism in the Song Dynasty only ended the Han and Tang Confucianism, and cannot be said to be much more sophisticated than the Han and Tang Confucianism. At least Jinggong's new study, which "applied what he learned", cannot see how brilliant it is. Instead, Neo-Confucianism originated from the Northern Song Dynasty, and Mind studies have made great progress. However, Neo-Confucianism, like the empirical school, are all heresy in the eyes of traditional Confucian scholars that are more understandable in later generations. Neo-Confucianism and Mind studies are all idealism, and "Personal Theory" and "Reasonal Theory" undoubtedly belong to materialism.

In other words, for the Jinggong New Learning that Cai Jing and others insisted on, now there is idealism on the left and materialism on the right, and both sides squeeze together... How much knowledge does Cai Jing have to maintain his academic position?

The consequences of the loss of academic positions are far more serious than later generations imagined!

Otherwise, Wang Anshi would not have founded Jinggong New Studies while presiding over the reform and established a school to promote his own ideas. Su Dongpo, the representative of Shu studies, and Cheng Yi, the leader of Guan Luo studies, would not have suffered such a big blow.

Cai Jing continued: "As far as I know, although Su Che is Su Dongpo's younger brother, he does not agree with the empirical school and does not agree with Neo-Confucianism. Although his knowledge is different from our Jinggong New Learning, it is still the same as that of ours.

If we can place Su Che as the right prime minister, we can follow the official's intention of building a Zhong Jingguo; and secondly, we can also stabilize Han Zhongyan, Fan Chuncui, Fan Chunli and others... They are different from Su Dongpo, and they are not the same as Yuntai Academy."

Cai Jing also had an ulterior motive for promoting Su Zhe to the stage, which was to block Zhang Shangying and Lu Huiqing, who were both bigwigs of the new party and were old. If he became the right prime minister, he would not be Cai Jing's one-man ruler.

Su Che's threat to Cai Jing was much smaller, and Su Che could not become the leader of the new party, and Zhao Tingzhi was sure to enter the Political Affairs Hall. By then, Su Che was a bachelor, how useful would it be?

Besides, Cai Jing will not support Su Che unconditionally. He wants his younger brother Cai Bian to take over the Imperial College!

Cai Bian was a great figure in the Shangshu Zuo Cheng and the Privy Council. He was also a Jinshi in the third year of Xining. He entered the officialdom for 35 years and was known for his knowledge. How could he not be the Imperial College Priest?

Once Cai Bian enters the Imperial College, he will try every means to resolve the danger of the student from the Piyong Academy dynasty. In this way, by this winter, Cai Jing will be able to incite the public bus to write books, and make the empirical faction a pseudo-school!

...

Wu Haogu has been doing things behind Su Dongpo these days, which is also the reason why he stayed in Kaifeng Prefecture.

Su Dongpo died as the right prime minister, so he naturally had the greatest honor. First, the official Zhao Ji announced the abolition of the court for three days as usual to show his condolences. Then he posthumously awarded the title of king, posthumously awarded the title of Taifu, and gave the posthumous title of "Wenzhong", and was granted the Confucius Temple, etc. When Zhao Ji died himself, if the Northern Song Dynasty was still there and he had not gone to Xuexiang to hunt, Su Dongpo would definitely have the title of Taimiao! He was a very minister.

However, these things that mourn after death do not require Wu Haogu to go to exercise, and they will be given according to the convention. What Wu Haogu helped organize was the cemetery where Su Dongpo was buried and the place where Su Dongpo's three sons were mourning.

Su Dongpo is from Sichuan, and his hometown is Meizhou, where his father Su Xun was buried. However, Su Dongpo did not have to be buried in Sichuan. In history, he and Su Che buried his bones at the foot of the Little Emei Mountain on the Xuluo Ancient Road. Now the bone burial place in Su Dongpo's fate is Yuntai Mountain, Haizhou, buried next to the Yuntai Academy.

In this way, Su Dongpo’s three filial sons did not have to carry the coffin into Sichuan, nor did they need to be filial to their hometown in Sichuan. Instead, they could go to Yuntai Mountain to live in seclusion. While observing filial piety, they could also do academic research in Yuntai Academy and care about major affairs in the world.

Su Dongpo's coffin entered Yuntai Mountain and the three sons of the Su family were in mourning during their filial piety in Yuntai Mountain, of course, Wu Haogu had to do his best to organize it.
Chapter completed!