Chapter 632: Open fire at all old forces!

At some point, the rain outside the door gradually calmed down, the wind stopped, and the thunder stopped hitting, and the originally violent rain curtain became densely woven like crystal thin filaments.

Qin Lei moved his gaze away from the letter paper and looked at the roof of the house opposite. He saw that the neat and dense blue-gray tiles seemed to be covered with a layer of light smoke. The leaves poked out from the wall were oily and shiny, and were cute in green.

That terrible mutiny has become a thing of the past. On the small road, beside the stone bridge, there were finally people holding umbrellas and walking slowly; there were also some fishermen wearing straw raincoats, hats, fishing nets on their shoulders and bamboo baskets in their hands, obviously going to the riverside, taking advantage of the rain, fishing up and fishing up a few nets.

"Grandma, this is all your credit." Qin Lei said softly. The people in the teahouse couldn't help but nod. They all knew very well that without the old empress dowager's shocking jump, the morale of the rebels would not have been easily disintegrated. Although the King's Rescue Army would eventually win, Zhongdu City would inevitably suffer deaths and injuries, and blood flowed from the pistol, so how could it be so quickly to calm down?

In fact, these people only saw the surface. Only Qin Lei could understand the profound meaning of the old empress dowager's jump. After decades of thinking, Empress Dowager Wenzhuang has found the reason why the Three Kingdoms were unable to unify.

The reason why it cannot be unified is that no country can continue to occupy an overwhelming advantage. The subtlety of history is that once a country shows a prosperous atmosphere, there will always be problems such as this, sometimes internal, sometimes external, and sometimes internal and external difficulties. Anyway, it will interrupt the good trend and make the situation return to chaos.

This is not a god's will, nor is it a god's cause. What is really causing it is a family that is attached to the bodies of Qin, Qi and Chu, sucking their blood. Whenever a country has a monarch above the level and develops above the level, these gentry members who are full of "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" will tacitly understand and even unite regardless of national boundaries, killing the hope of prosperity of the country and strength!

This is not an exaggeration. To give a recent example, the tragic experience of Emperor Zhaowu. His level is not very high, but the results are there - first, the miraculous salted fish was resurrected, replacing the Huangfu family as the second military officer of the Qin Dynasty; and a few years later, the two powerful ministers in the country were destroyed and the two powerful ministers in the country were completely revoked, and the military also took over most of the government.

All these contributions were recorded on the head of the Supreme Emperor. Before Qin Lei defeated Zhao Wujiu and surrounded the capital, few people thought that the young man who was young this year could do so many earth-shaking things; of course, people would not believe that an old empress dowager who was in her seventies or eighties and who was waiting to die could still have the ability to plan the world, and ate Huangfu, Wen and Li San families so that they could not know how they died until they were finished.

With all the glory in mind, the halo of Emperor Zhaowu is so bright! How could the aristocrats who love to kill the "Saintly Ancestor of the Ming Dynasty" let him go? So the nobles of Qi launched the state machine and opened a big net to wait for the arrival of His Majesty Zhaowu. The nobles of Qin were collectively demented, as if they had lived to a dog for decades. The rich battlefield experience was eaten by the dog, and they were almost coaxed and deceived, making a military idiot believe that he was Bai Qi in the world. He was so excited that he got into the trap, and was beaten to the scoop... The army almost went all out, and he was promoted to the Supreme Emperor, completing an almost impossible promotion.

Why do these guys do this? Are they full? Yes, they are really overeating and living too well! If you want to say that the most satisfied with the status quo is undoubtedly these guys. They do not have to study, work, or even manage the country, and can enjoy a series of privileges, both economically and politically.

Good wine, beautiful women, wealth and status, and these things that are rare to ordinary people are ordinary in their eyes. They are born with them, so why do they still ask for change?

The reason for this strange phenomenon is simply that these aristocratic families have monopolized the country's political resources since the beginning of the founding of the country. To be more precise, they manipulated the country's way of selecting officials... The so-called recruitment and recommendation are just fig leafs that open the door for the children of aristocratic families; as for the way of shelter, they are even too lazy to use fig leafs and nakedly inherit the power of their fathers.

You may ask, isn’t there any imperial examination? That thing is indeed a very popular trick between Qin and Chu, especially in Qin. There is already an extremely complex and seemingly strict process, which is enough to make ordinary people respect it and use it as the golden road for fish to leaps on the dragon gate!

But please look at the file. In the past fifty years, some common people in the Qin State passed the first grade. Even those who passed the second grade were only a handful of... Facts are better than words, and the imperial examination has been monopolized! Of course, among the aristocratic families, this is regarded as evidence of the superior quality and extraordinary intelligence of the aristocratic families, but even the aunts who bought vegetables on the street knew that this was just a cover-up of the bell and only laughing!

Through the all-round monopoly of the ways to select officials, the noble children, regardless of their good or bad, have a prosperous official career. Then they use the power of the state to seek personal gain, occupy land, minerals, tenants, slaves, and even less than 10% of the people enjoy 80% of the benefits in the world! Can they not become stronger and stronger? Can they not be shaken?

It can be said arbitrarily that the wealthy family must be the most prominent in the current dynasty, and the wealthy family must be the most prominent in the current dynasty!

What is even more terrifying is that in order to safeguard their own interests, these wealthy families compiled family genealogies and determined their origins, forcibly divided the so-called gentry and common people, prohibited marriages with poor families that were not gentry and refused to interact with common people.

Even if it is because of government affairs and state affairs, the gentry will order people to move to faraway guests without contact, as if they are infected with "slutty"... The reader must ask, isn't it said that aristocratic families control the government affairs? Why do they still have to discuss government affairs with the common people?

Because we must claim that the family is noble and the variety is excellent. The minor officials who do not do professional work and do business are the so-called "turbid officials", but are "clever officials" with power and leisure. Of course, this honest official is not that honest official, but an easy official, not an honest official.

So what official is a clean official and what official is a turbid official? Take the Six Ministry as an example. The Minister of State and the Minister of State, Yuanwailang, these leaders who do not work are clean officials, and the chief clerk, who has experienced the pain, these small officials responsible for specific affairs are the so-called turbid officials.

According to the speculation of the grass people, it may be divided according to the cleanliness of the collar. Those who work more and sweat a lot, and naturally have sweat stains and oil stains on the collar, which is "turbid". Those who do not work and only make decisions will certainly not sweat, and perhaps it is "clean"...

Such powerful families formed a network of mixed relationships through marriage, and they all prospered and prospered. Their combined strength was no less than, or even surpassed the imperial power. The imperial power politics since the Sui and Tang Dynasties returned to the aristocratic politics.

The biggest feature of aristocratic politics is to just live by. They like emperors without authority and courts with loose sand, because only in this way can they be free of restraints and act recklessly, turning the family, country and the world into their own amusement park!

So much so that the country has been weak for a long time, while the gentry family is rich enough to rival the country! This is not an exaggeration. The richest Chu State in the Three Kingdoms, the income of two taxes in summer and autumn, salt, iron ore, etc., was added together, and the treasury was only 27 million taels... Among them, it was more than 60% of the gentry landlords who were divided up again?

Therefore, the actual annual income of a country is only as high as tens of millions of taels. There are at least five families in the world that can achieve this income. As for the annual income of more than five million taels, there are as high as thirty companies; there are absolutely no less than two hundred companies that have more than one million taels, and all the income is not taxed!

How can the gentry in the world be rich and strong? How can the three kingdoms not be poor and weak? For a poor country, it is difficult to protect itself, so how can you talk about the unification of the Three Kingdoms?

The old empress dowager finally found the root of the problem of the Qin Dynasty and even China, which is the wealthy family! If you want your descendants to avoid being bullied by the gentry, to change your destiny of being unable to be strong, and to end the disputes and return to unity, you must first eliminate this huge stumbling block! At least it is basically eliminated!

In fact, for more than 200 years of the Three Kingdoms, there are countless wise royal families, and it is not only Empress Dowager Wenzhuang who can discover this secret. But the roadblock of the gentry is too big. For the emperor who is single and alone, they are as unshakable as Wangwu and Taihang. Therefore, those who have not discovered it will not know that Wangwu Taihang will have the whole life, but those who find Wangwu Taihang will have no choice but to be too huge, and can only sigh under the shadows, forget the mountain, and enjoy the past life.

But Empress Dowager Wenzhuang is a very...patient person, which can be seen from the fact that she can take revenge for seventy years. For people like her, the difficulty of things is not a problem, time is not a problem, and even whether she can succeed is not a problem. She only cares about whether she has done it and whether the direction of moving forward is correct.

Just like the Yugong who moved mountains, he could not move Wangwu and Taihang in his entire life, but he still did it unswervingly because he firmly believed that his son, grandson, great-grandson, great-grandson... will persevere from generation to generation, and sooner or later it will be a day to move the mountains away.

So after realizing the direction, Empress Dowager Wenzhuang began to act in an orderly manner. In this matter, she was undoubtedly lucky because history had reached a major turning point. The corrupt and degenerate gentry class had already aroused strong dissatisfaction among emerging commoners and landlords. The conflict between the two sides became increasingly serious, and the momentum was already in power and incompatible!

What's going on? Actually, it's not surprising, because the gentry forcibly divided the population and insisted on sticking to the so-called purity, the pattern of the gentry has completely become rigid... If you are born a gentry, you will be a gentry for your whole life, and it doesn't matter if you don't fuck it; if you are born a gentry, you will never become a gentry for your whole life, and no matter how hard you try, it will be in vain!

A serious problem arises. Some of the common people are strong people, while others are rich landlords and landlords. Naturally, they all know what Lao Chen said, "Would you rather have a king, prince, general, and minister?" How could these people be willing to be ridden on their heads for the rest of their lives? Of course, they have to strengthen themselves while trying to pull the aristocrats off the horse?

The children of the gentry were born with a bright future. They could not see the need to work hard, so they did not want to make progress, indulge in music and sex, and were extravagant and desireful, and even "smoked clothes, shaved face, made powder, and purse", and turned themselves into something that was neither male nor female. As the saying goes, the weasel is a night owl, and each generation is worse than the next generation... How could these things fight against the common elites who are like wolves and tigers?

As one goes down and another rises, the differences between the gentry and the common people have long been no longer as big as before. The current situation in the southern Revival Office is a clear proof... The only ones who can be called the gentry are the four masters of "Xu Xu Qiao Zhuo" and their vassal families, and the other families of all sizes are just ordinary people who are not in the ordinary people.

But now the two factions have been fighting openly and secretly for several years, and no one can subdue each other... Although there is the reason why Qin Lei secretly supports him, if the common landlords cannot afford Adou, Qin Lei and Zhuge Liang will be useless.

It can be said that Empress Dowager Wenzhuang is happy. She caught up with a good time and had a super powerful grandson, which made her feel that it might not take that long to solve the chronic disease that has troubled the Qin Dynasty for more than 200 years!

She knew very well that to solve this problem, two conditions needed to meet at the same time. First, there must be a strong enough army to cope with the inevitable counterattack; second, it must be morally firm, support the people, and make those gentry suffer.

Now she used her own death to put the royal family in a morally invincible place. Qin Ting could have pulled this banner, blocked the road of centralization, labeled the Li family as accomplices, and cleared them out in a noble manner.

I believe that with Qin Lei’s current prestige and status in the army, although there will be some turmoil in the Qin Dynasty, it will definitely not be in chaos!

Oh, hee! Clear obstacles and make achievements, right now!

"Prince..." Seeing Qin Lei sitting there with a change of face, sometimes excited and sometimes depressed, and was nervous for a quarter of an hour, Shi Gan had to whisper: "It's time to have a meal,"

Qin Lei came to his senses and looked at Princess Heyang, Old Eunuch Qiu, who was sitting beside him; Zhao Chengsi and Shi Gan, who were standing next to him, smiled embarrassedly: "I was distracted, maybe because I didn't sleep last night."

Everyone nodded together, and Princess Heyang covered her mouth and smiled: "My brother must be having a nightmare."

"Probably," Qin Lei laughed and said, "Old Zhao and Shi Gan are sitting down to have a meal, they're hungry all night long, right?" He said, and picked up his bowl and looked at the exquisite dishes on the table, and couldn't help but smile, "Is it quite rich? I didn't expect such a small restaurant to have such ability."

Princess Heyang giggled again: "It seems that my brother is really asleep. These dishes are sent by my servants from Wanlilou. No matter how good the teahouse is, it doesn't have this ability."

Qin Lei smiled awkwardly and said, "It's all eaten anyway." Then he lowered his head and quickly ate the rice. Princess Heyang also picked up a small bowl, picked up the dishes she liked, and ate it in small mouthfuls.

Seeing that the two high men started to eat, everyone sat down carefully and accompanied them to eat carefully.

Qin Lei soon finished eating. Seeing that Zhao Chengsi was still eating in a gentle and gentle manner, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Old Zhao, you have a tiger-back and a bear-waisted waist. Why do you look like a little girl when you eat?"

Zhao Chengsi smiled bitterly and said, "It's not like this usually. Isn't this afraid of losing etiquette?"

Qin Lei waved his hand and said, "It's okay, for the Lone King, it's really the greatest etiquette, let's eat it."

Thanks to Your Highness, Zhao Chengsi ate a few chopsticks. Seeing that Princess Heyang frowned slightly, his speed slowed down again.

Qin Lei understood this time. It turned out that the princess, the princess, didn't like others to eat quickly, so he naturally wouldn't meddle in other people's business anymore. He turned to laugh and said, "When are you going to do your business?"

When Zhao Chengsi heard Qin Lei's words, he whispered Shi Gan's face on the opposite side, obviously shocked.

Seeing that he was not promising, Princess Heyang glanced at him and covered her mouth and smiled: "We are all second-marriages, so we won't make a big fuss. Then the brothers and sisters will ask for a drink and then move the quilt together."

"Everything is simple." Qin Lei nodded and smiled, "Yes, the new mourning of the emperor's grandmother is indeed not suitable for a grand ceremony." As he spoke, he thought of his own man who was still waiting for his grand wedding in Baba, Tangzhou. It seems that he is going to be ruined.

Shaking his head and putting this question aside first, Qin Lei asked Zhao Chengsi again, "What do you think after marriage? Do you want to continue working in Bingma Temple, or..."

Why can't Zhao Chengsi hear the unspoken voice of the prince's words, "Except for the Bingma Temple, you can choose the rest of the team!" He also knew that the sensitive place in Kyoto, and of course the prince had to change into a hardcore team, which was the right thing to do in the question. He nodded and said, "I have thought about it. A real man should lie drunk on the battlefield and be covered with horses and corpses. I want to go east and fight with Qi."

Seeing him as good as this, Qin Lei was very happy and nodded and smiled: "It depends on what the emperor's meaning."

"I laughed so treacherously," Princess Heyang said angrily: "Who doesn't want her man to have a promising future? Go, I'll find another one if I die."

Not knowing what she meant, Zhao Chengsi whispered: "Can I still charge into battle? There will be no danger."

"Yes, the emperor sister." Qin Lei smiled and said, "The eldest brother is reorganizing the town east army and has always wanted to ask me for officers. I am going to transfer one or two hundred officers at all levels from the imperial guards. What do you think if Lao Zhao leads his team to be a deputy commander?" After moving the other person, of course, he can't be transferred again. The general's promotion to the deputy commander is considered a higher level, and at least he has an explanation.

"Okay." Heyang looked at Zhao Chengsi, and saw him nodding and said slowly: "The Zhendong Army is in trouble and is about to rush, so it has to be prosperous. Although it will be a little tired and hard, it is much better than going to the intact troops." The faction of the troops is clear and the personnel are in full, so it is difficult to insert them. It is better to rebuild the troops. Everything is a new beginning, and it is also easier to establish authority and truly grasp some strength.

After talking about Zhao Chengsi's question, Princess Heyang asked, "I wonder how does Your Highness Wucheng want to arrange this sister in my family?"

"I can't move you, the great god." Qin Lei said with a smile: "It's better to lead your royal spy," and said, "It's hard to explain these things clearly, so let's talk about them slowly another day."

"I know." Princess Heyang nodded and smiled, "I'll be waiting for the prince at any time."

Qin Lei rolled his eyes, looked at Eunuch Qiu who had been stunned and said softly: "The emperor's grandmother has gone. There is no one in this world who deserves Mr. Qiu to serve me... Please go back to Jingshan City with me to enjoy your old age and let the orphan king give you the old and see you off."

After a long time, Eunuch Qiu shook his head slowly and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but I have been with the Empress for 63 years and have long been unable to leave her." After that, I stood up on the table and kowtowed to Qin Lei, "I won't go anywhere, I'm going to continue serving the Empress."

Qin Lei only said that he wanted to guard the tomb for the emperor's grandmother, and persuaded him a few more words. Seeing that he was determined, he stopped insisting and said to Shi Gan: "Give orders and let the eunuchs serve Mr. Qiu as the marquis. If he makes any mistakes, I will demolish their Yeting Palace!"

Eunuch Qiu originally wanted to let him not have to worry, but then he thought that the prince was not only to take care of himself, but also to love the house and the mistress. He transferred his feelings for the emperor and grandmother to him, so he stopped refusing and kowtowed to Qin Lei and gave up.

After all the matter was arranged, Qin Lei also stood up and said to Princess Heyang: "I have been away for a long time. Now I am going back to the army. You couples will go wherever you love."

Heyang also stood up and smiled and said, "The emperor's grandmother's letter, I want me to tell you something." As he said that, he stuffed a piece of letter paper into Qin Lei's hand and said softly: "Look, don't let others deceive you."

Qin Lei nodded, stuffed the letter into his sleeves, clasped his fists at the two of them, and left.
Chapter completed!