The sun is warm, the air is filled with the fragrance of flowers, and the white poplar and willow catkins are flying. The blooming peach blossoms stand in the spring sunshine, smiling slightly, and the peony beside them has just opened its stamens.

Yan Shu sat in the back yamen of the Transportation Commission, put the pen in his hand next to him, and sighed softly.

After Du Yan arrived at Yongxing Army, the court returned to temporary peace. Although anyone felt the undercurrent under the tranquility. When passing by Henan Prefecture, Yan Shu met Du Yan. Although he did not talk about the current situation in the capital, Du Yan's calm calmness still infected Yan Shu, allowing him to slowly calm down from the panic.

Although Yan Shu was not involved in "The Strategy for Rich the Country and Safeguarding the People" edited by Xu Ping, he did not ignore it, especially the previous outline, which was carefully reviewed.

When talking about enriching the country, you cannot talk about how to make a profit. When talking about making a profit, you cannot avoid the distinction between justice and profit. When it comes to national financial management, the distinction between justice and profit in this era is a topic that cannot be avoided. Are justice and profit opposites? Is profit making an unrighteous? This is the first question to be answered, and there is no room for escape. Unrighteousness is a thief. If you don’t explain this question clearly, financial management will not be justified.

When he was in the capital, Xu Ping once discussed this issue with Zhao Zhen. He said that money and grain are the main principles of public benefits in the world, and public benefits are righteousness. Now, the compilation of "Strategy for Prosperity of the Country and Security of the People" still follows this idea, dividing profit into private interests and public interests. Self-interest is what people want, and it doesn't matter whether it is right or wrong. Only when there is conflict with public interests can there be a question of justice and injustice. When there is no conflict with public interests, it is harmless. When there is conflict with public interests, public interests first means righteousness, and abolishing public interests because of private interests is unrighteous.

These are just theoretical statements, in order to occupy the commanding heights of morality and not to lose in public opinion. As for what public benefits are, what private interests are, what circumstances are the abolition of public welfare, and what circumstances are not, in fact, it can actually be said that it can be made of countless content, and it can never be clearly distinguished. This is just a principle, it is Tao, how to implement the principle, it is a technical issue, it is a technique, and it is entangled between Taoism and art, which is far from being clearly explained in a few words.

This part of the article was written by Xu Ping, and Yan Shu changed this part of the content in recent days. Xu Ping's articles are clear and reasonable, but they are not infectious and lack literary momentum. In this era, Xu Ping's articles are the ancient ones, which belong to the school represented by Yin Zhu and Ouyang Xiu. However, the ancient literary movement has not become the mainstream of the literary world since Han Yu proposed in the Tang Dynasty, especially the rational articles of officials, and the current literature is respected. This trend will not be reversed until Ouyang Xiu is middle-aged and becomes the leader of the literary world. It is still far away.

Yan Shu was a master of the time and the leader of the literary world. He had almost rewritten this part of the content according to Xu Ping's meaning, and the meaning was still the same, and the words were almost the same. This is what Xu Ping lacked. Although he also studied hard, his articles on Pian Si Li and Liu were lacking in knowledge accumulation, and the other was lacking in a sense of language, and he could not write that taste.

This is what Ouyang Xiu is stronger than others in literature. He is an important flag bearer of the ancient Chinese movement, but Shiwen is no worse than anyone else. He became a Jinshi and entered the museum and pavilion. Even Xu Yan, the first to be known to Shiwen, married his first wife, Madam Yan, relying on Shiwen's literary talent.

The ancient text refers to the literary meaning of the pre-Qin philosophers, which focuses on reasoning rather than gorgeous rhetoric. The time text is a fu style passed down from the Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties, which talks about rhetoric, parallelism, and allusions. The most important official document system and imperial edicts in the court were the most widely used field of the time text, and it is also the most important examination of the qualifications of the internal and external system of the zhizhi imperial edicts and Hanlin bachelors. Xu Ping's lack in this aspect prevented him from taking the shortcuts of the ci ministers, and could only rely on his political achievements to work hard.

After reading the article in his hand again, Yan Shu rubbed his sore eyes, leaned gently on the back of the chair, closing his eyes to rest.

It was March, and he couldn't continue to drag on Jingxi Road, but he still couldn't make up his mind how to handle the job when he returned to Beijing. According to Lu Yijian's intention, after returning, he ignored the facts and forced Jingxi Road to act according to the wishes of the Zhengshitang. He was unwilling to do it. However, with the officials of Jingxi Road, he was in a tit-for-tat way with Lu Yijian and turned the table up directly. He really couldn't make up his mind.

How powerful is Lu Yijian in the court? He is one of the people who knows the most. After so many years of going in and out, his life is not in vain. If he opposes Lu Yijian, it is very likely that he will not take much time to be demoted from the capital. Moreover, Lu Yijian is only in his sixties and has a stable foundation in the court. If he is not good, he will never have the chance to return to the court.

Yan Shu is not a politician, he is just a wealthy and idle person, and this determination is really hard to make.

Wang Yaochen came from a distance and saw Yan Shu leaning on the chair and resting, he walked over to look at the article on the table. At the end of reading, he couldn't help but praise him: "Bachelor's wonderful writing, if you change this article, your face will be very different!"

Yan Shu opened his eyes, looked at Wang Yaochen, and shook his head mockingly: "Boyong thinks this article is reasonable and clear?"

"It's not just a clear explanation, but also a sense of momentum in the article, like the thunder of a mountain torrent, with a magnificent momentum! Speaking of which, Xu Yunxing has his own world in his heart, and his unique vision, and often can express what his predecessors had never thought of, but when he writes it, he always lacks something."

As the top scholar in Tiansheng for the fifth year, Wang Yaochen knew this young man Tanhua who was in the same class as him. Xu Ping wrote an article for fear that he would not explain the matter clearly and did not explain the truth in detail. He would naturally lack momentum after losing watermelon and pick up sesame seeds. After a long time, Xu Ping himself knew it, but it was easy to know where the mistake was, but it was really not easy to correct it.

Yan Shu said, "After all, the icing on the cake is just icing on the cake. Only with some foundation is useful. It is not that Xu Longtu's article is not good, but that his mind is not here and he is obsessed with the principles in the text, so the icing naturally seems complicated. In fact, it is a short essay with only a few sentences. The lyrics are very small, but he does not have these grammatical problems in the text."

Speaking of this, Yan Shu sighed: "However, even if you can write a brilliant mind, what is the use of people who don't want to read it? Even if we carve every word of the article, it's probably not eye-catching to some people!"

Wang Yaochen knew that Yan Shu was talking about Lu Yijian, and said to him: "A bachelor's fault is too much. As long as we do our own people, whether things can be accomplished in the end depends on God's will. But if we don't even have enough manpower, how can we explain it to ourselves?"

Yan Shu forced a smile, shook his head, and said nothing.

At this moment, Yang Gao hurried to the Houya from the front and saw Yan Shu and Wang Yaochen in the yard, and said loudly: "The court report just arrived, something big is going to happen in the court!"

What Yan Shu was most afraid of was to say something big. After hearing this, he couldn't help but stand up and asked Yang nervously: "There is nothing wrong with the whole country recently, what is the turmoil in the court? Deputy Envoy Yang, what did the court say in the newspaper?"

Yang Gao looked at Yan Shu, Wang Yaochen, and then lowered his voice: "I know that Fan Zhongyan of Kaifeng Prefecture has entered the palace to present the "Picture of Hundred Officials" to the emperor, pointing out the order of promotion of officials in the Beijing Dynasty, and saying that Lu Xianggong of the Political Affairs Hall will use the promotion of officials to exclude the stranger and put him in his confidant!"
Chapter completed!