In the Song Dynasty, there was no law or order.

The next day, early in the morning.

Before the discussion in Chuigong Hall began, the emperor and his ministers of the Song Dynasty gathered in the back garden.

Recently, in order to take care of the ministers who clocked in early every day and came to Zhao Jun to listen to the lecture, Zhao Zhen even ordered that the time of Gongchen Gate be advanced by half an hour.

The ministers yawned and walked slowly to the back garden. Lv Yijian was not young anymore, 59 years old this year, and his legs and feet were not very good. Zhao Zhen also asked people to wait outside Gongchen Gate, and when he came, he would come in in a sedan chair.

Everyone stood at the beginning of the lecture, but sometimes Zhao Jun would talk for an hour or two, so Zhao Zhen prepared a few more stools in the room for everyone to sit.

But they were afraid that Zhao Zhen would hit people with stools, so the other ministers refused one after another. Only Lv Yijian was really uncomfortable standing for so long every day, so he thanked the emperor for his favor and sat down to listen to the lecture.

It was still dark, Yan Shu was standing outside the Guanjia Hall with breakfast in his hand. Fan Zhongyan arrived earlier than anyone else, but Lü Yijian was late. The guards put the sedan at the door, and Lü Yijian came down slowly and bowed to everyone.

After everyone returned the greeting, Fan Zhongyan glanced at him and said, "Prime Minister Lü, you are a little late today."

Lü Yijian smiled and said, "I am getting older and older, and my energy is not as good as before. Your Majesty has favored me, so that an old minister like me can walk a few steps less and stand for one or two hours less. The grace of heaven is as great as the sea."

He said this, but it was undoubtedly to show his unique status in Zhao Zhen's mind.

Wang Zeng's face twitched slightly.

Fan Zhongyan snorted.

"Your Majesty is here."

At this moment, the eunuch shouted.

Everyone hurriedly looked to the west and saw Zhao Zhen hurriedly coming.

Now Zhao Zhen lives in the back garden. Although he is close, he is always the last to arrive.

It's not that he's lazy, but he often tossed and turned in bed these days and couldn't sleep, his mind was full of the fact that my Song Dynasty was going to fall.

Sometimes he gritted his teeth and talked in his sleep, muttering things like "you are the second fool" and "you are the stupid donkey" in his mouth, and he didn't fall asleep until midnight.

This made the eunuch Wang Shouzhong who was guarding outside the door very puzzled, wondering who had offended the emperor, and he kept cursing in his dream.

Zhao Zhen came over sleepily, and everyone bowed and saluted. He raised his hands and said, "Stand up, let's go."

"Yes."

Yan Shu responded, and then went into the room where Zhao Jun slept in the east.

"Creaky!"

When the door opened, Zhao Jun got up all of a sudden.

Now he can't do anything every day. He is blind and covered with injuries. He lies in bed for 23 hours out of 24 hours, and never even goes out. Naturally, he can only sleep.

So he was in much better spirits than Zhao Zhen and the others. He looked forward to Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan coming to accompany him every day. Even if they talked more, they would not be so bored.

"Uncle Lari, what delicious food are you eating today?"

Zhao Jun's tone was a little happy. Now that he was familiar with Yan Shu, he didn't have so many scruples when he spoke.

Yan Shu smiled and said, "I killed a chicken and gave you a good diet."

Zhao Jun said happily, "There is a chicken to eat? That's great. Thank you Uncle Lari. How much is the chicken? I will give it to you when the time comes."

"No money, doesn't the country have subsidies?"

Yan Shu replied.

Zhao Jun nodded repeatedly and sighed, "The country is still good."

"I'm here too."

Fan Zhongyan reminded him.

"Uncle Nima is here too?"

"Yes, I'm still injured, but now I can get out of bed, I'll come over to chat with you."

"That's great, it's not so boring to have someone accompany me."

"How do you feel now?"

"Much better, my body is full of external injuries, they should be almost healed. The only thing that still hurts is the head."

"It takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone, you need to rest well."

"Thank you, Uncle Nima."

Zhao Jun thanked him obediently. He and Fan Zhongyan were not very familiar with each other yet, and he felt that Fan Zhongyan was a bit of a nitpicker and not easy to deal with, so he tried to be polite.

Fan Zhongyan had no idea that he was already a nitpicker in Zhao Jun's mind. Seeing that Zhao Jun was in good spirits, he immediately asked: "By the way, I want to ask, does Fan Zhongyan have to reform? Didn't you say that he sacrificed a lot for the reform? Would it be better if he didn't reform?"

"Yes."

Zhao Jun took a bite of the chicken and took over the conversation: "Old Fan still sacrificed a lot for the reform. He opposed Lu Yijian and was demoted to Raozhou. Even his wife died of illness there."

Fan Zhongyan's face was gloomy for a moment. He had heard about this yesterday. Fortunately, he was not demoted now.

"But Old Fan is shameless. He is fifty years old. After his wife died, he actually married a fifteen-year-old prostitute. Alas, this is the bad thing about ancient times. They were only fourteen or fifteen years old. How could he do it?"

Zhao Jun beat his chest and stamped his feet in grief. The evil old society turned people into ghosts.

Our new China is still good. You dare to marry a fifteen-year-old? Punishment, Zhang San is not as rampant as you, just spend the rest of your life in prison.

You married a prostitute yourself?

Fan Zhongyan's face suddenly became awkward, but Zhao Zhen and others behind him were laughing secretly. It was rare to see Fan Zhongyan, who always looked like a gentleman, being humiliated.

Especially Zhao Zhen, who was scolded by Zhao Jun before, and now finally someone was scolded with him.

"Let's talk about why Fan Zhongyan must reform first."

Fan Zhongyan quickly changed the subject.

Zhao Jun drank the chicken soup, pinched the chicken leg and took a bite, saying: "If Fan Zhongyan reformed, it was naturally to save the Song Dynasty. If he didn't reform, the Song Dynasty would have perished. And didn't Fan Zhongyan fail in his reform? From the failure of Fan Zhongyan's Qingli New Deal in 1045 AD to the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty in 1127 AD, there were only a few years in between. Wasn't it caused by the three redundancies? So Fan Zhongyan wanted to save the corrupt Song Dynasty, but unfortunately he couldn't do it. "

Fan Zhongyan looked back at Zhao Zhen and said, "Apart from the emperor's lack of support, are there any other reasons?"

"And conservative interest groups don't agree."

Zhao Jun shrugged: "Didn't I say it last time? Fan Zhongyan's reforms touched the interests of a large number of scholar-officials. They are huge in number and hold considerable power. The Qingli New Deal is to overthrow them. How can they agree?"

"So who are these conservative interest groups? "

Fan Zhongyan asked again.

Hmm?

Lü Yijian behind him suddenly frowned.

The shrewd man vaguely sensed something was wrong.

Why did Fan Zhongyan ask this?

Could it be that he wanted His Majesty to know who was blocking the Qingli Reform?

Lü Yijian secretly thought it was not good.

His Lü Party was all over the court and the country, and they must be the beneficiaries.

Ask yourself, if Fan Zhongyan carried out reforms, with Zhao Zhen's support, he would probably not be affected.

But the disciples below are different, and they will definitely be implicated.

So in terms of stance, Lü Yijian is probably a conservative.

Now Zhao Zhen has known He said that the Northern Song Dynasty would perish in a few decades because of the three redundant problems.

He was scolded by Zhao Jun several times. It was possible that the emperor might make up his mind to support Fan Zhongyan's reforms to the end.

And if he stood opposite the emperor because of his position, wouldn't it be...

Thinking of this, Lu Yijian suddenly became anxious.

But it was too late.

Then he heard Zhao Jun shrugged and said: "This question is well asked. Most people would definitely not remember it. It's just that I have a very good memory. I remember Lu Yijian, Xia Song, Chen Yaozuo, Jia Changchao, and Wang Gongchen, Zhang Dexiang, Chen Zhizhong, Liu Yuanyu, Li Ding, Qian Mingyi, Song Yang, and Song Qi."

Lu Yijian suddenly felt cold all over, as if he fell into a cold cave!

Fan Zhongyan, this thief, is really sinister!