Zhao Yu was a little uncomfortable at first, but thinking about the current situation and his embarrassing position, he endured the discomfort and allowed himself to adapt to Xu Yue's rhythm as soon as possible.
"Let's have a cup of tea. It's not suitable to drink alcohol when talking about things. It's easy to cause trouble." Zhao Yu replied.
Xu Yue poured him a cup of tea soup prepared by Zhao Bei and waited for Zhao Yu to finish a sip before speaking.
"To be honest, if the only option left is to send troops, we are not willing to go to war."
"Someone will die in a war, and I don't want to see the excellent soldiers we have trained so hard to die on the battlefield."
"Yu Gong, these are outstanding talents that we have spent a lot of financial, material, and energy to cultivate."
"Personally, I feel sorry for the short lives of these young people."
"So, regarding the established fact that the Xu family army unified Youzhou, as the former governor of Youzhou and now the representative of the remaining feudal family, Zhao Yu, what do you think?"
I don't know whether Xu Yue spoke too directly or her tone was too confident. Zhao Yu was stunned for a while before he came to his senses.
He opened his mouth to say something, but for a moment he didn't know how to tell Xu Yue.
This is a typical response when plans are suddenly broken and contingency plans are not prepared.
Xu Yue waited quietly for him to formulate his words.
Fortunately, there were two advisers behind Zhao Yu, Yan Rou and Qi Zhou. They were not the ones facing Xu Yue directly, and the impact they felt was not as fierce as Zhao Yu's. They quickly reacted and reorganized Zhao Yu's thinking.
However, Zhao Yu had his own ideas and waved his hand, signaling Qi Zhou and Yan Rou to leave.
He took another sip of tea soup, waited for a while, then looked at Xu Yue and asked tentatively:
"Can I ask Chief Xu a question?"
Xu Yue nodded, "Excuse me."
Zhao Yu took a deep breath, put the hand that wasn't holding the cup lightly on his knees, and secretly pinched the fabric under his palm.
"Why did the Xu family army want to kill all the famous families?"
After asking, the rest of the words came out more smoothly. Zhao Yu said: "Although I don't have much contact with the Xu Jiajun, and I just met with Leader Xu for less than a quarter of an hour today, I just feel that the Xu Jiajun doesn't seem to be that vicious."
Brutal, driving out and killing all the people."
"Otherwise, Chief Xu, you would not have invited me out to the banquet, nor would you have told me how sorry you are for the soldiers."
"I just don't understand why the Xu family army can allocate land to tenants, reduce tax rates, and provide many benefits to these people who already have nothing. Why do they want to kill all the gentry from aristocratic families like this?"
"In this world, not all noble families have done evil things to tenants. Many tenants sold themselves to aristocratic families as tenants because they couldn't survive. If there were no nobles leasing fields for them to cultivate, these tenants would have long ago
I’m starving to death!”
Zhao Yu's eyes were full of confusion and entanglement, because he was someone who was willing to open warehouses to release grain and help the people, so he couldn't understand Xu Jiajun's attitude towards the noble gentry of the aristocratic family.
At first, he thought that Xu Jiajun did this just because he needed to confiscate the family property of the Haoshen family as start-up capital in the early stage.
By the mid-term, they should be like all the rebels in the past, choosing to join forces with some aristocratic families so that everyone can benefit from each other and get what they need.
In the end, if the old court is successfully overthrown and the Central Plains are unified, the people will be able to end the suffering of this troubled world.
Then the New Deal was implemented to allow the people to resume production, live in peace and harmony, and the world was at peace.
Somehow, facing Zhao Yu's request, Xu Yue was a little excited and a little angry.
What was exciting was that Zhao Yu was the first person to ask her in front of her why she wanted to establish a new system since the Xu Jiajun uprising lasted so long.
What makes me angry is that Zhao Yu is so self-righteous.
Generally speaking, this is the common thought of the benevolent gentry groups.
"Zhao Yu, do you think you have done a good job? Have you given a lot of charity?"
Xu Yue asked tentatively: "Do you think you want to help the people? Do you really want to help them, or do you feel pity for them?"
"Or, in other words, use a little charity that will not have any impact on you, and enjoy the sense of accomplishment and vanity brought by the people's gratitude to you?"
"Because from the beginning to the end, no matter what, you are not the real lower class people."
"Do you think it's enough for them to have enough food to maintain their basic physical strength?"
"The common people should be content, right? If they don't starve to death or freeze to death, then that should be the best life for the common people, right?"
"Then why haven't you lived like this?"
Zhao Yu straightened up, frowned slightly, and shouted with an inviolable look:
"I am from the royal family! The whole world belongs to the Zhao family. My ancestors have made great achievements in war and have overshadowed the descendants of future generations, so I have my current status!"
Xu Yue took over what he wanted to say, "As for those people at the bottom, because their ancestors did not perform meritorious service for them, they can only live a life of precarity, lack of food, and oppression by the powerful...
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"But what about counting three hundred years forward? What about five hundred years? What about one thousand years? Who is the royal court of the Zhao family?" Xu Yue asked.
Zhao Yu was speechless.
Yan Rou, who was standing behind him, looked at each other, a little excited. They all wanted to continue listening to Xu Yue's talk.
Xu Yue bought herself another cup of tea. The tea soup prepared by Zhao Bei was still a bit delicious.
She put down her teacup and continued: "So, these are not the paths the people want to take. The previous political system was wrong."
"Because it is wrong, I will continue to be trapped in reincarnation."
"Have you all read the history books? Does it mean that every two or three hundred years, the old dynasty will decline and be replaced by a new dynasty?"
"Every generation of people in power, in the early days of the dynasty, tried to improve this imperfect political system, so that society could continue to progress."
"But we humans are a very wonderful creature. We have human nature. What is human nature? You can also simply understand it as the seven emotions and six desires of human beings."
"Human desires can never be satisfied. People who have wealth still want rights, and people who have rights want greater rights... In the end, no one remembers their original intention.
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“Then the gentry clan that we can see now formed. In order to consolidate their status and ensure the rights in their hands, they used their rights to monopolize knowledge, monopolize the channels for people at the bottom to climb up, and monopolize wealth.
....”
"In the end, order collapsed, society was in chaos, everything was disrupted, the cards were reshuffled, social resources were redistributed, and then the process of power building was repeated, continuing to collapse and rebuild..."
"For ninety-nine percent of people, this process will only make them more and more miserable, and the resources at their disposal will become increasingly nonexistent. You can't understand this kind of cruelty, because you are the ones who
