The empress smiled bitterly and said: "The key to the problem now is not whether I will approve your return, but how to prevent the nobles from killing you while preserving the fruits of your labor."
"The nobles created a fake letter written by Marquis Ping Xi, asking you to go back and join him to achieve unification of the world. All the nobles believed it and expressed their intention to kill you. They cannot let you go back alive. I cannot allow the civilians of Beiyi to rebel.
Therefore, we suppressed them for the time being and did not attack your family."
"If they come up with a good idea, and if I don't implement it, the nobles will force me to abdicate and support Mingyue in ascending the throne. If they implement it, they can attack your family unscrupulously and rob you of the fruits of your labor."
"I'm in a dilemma right now. I don't know what to do. I came to the East Palace to call you two over and think about a countermeasure. So you two should think about how to protect yourselves and what you need me to do for you."
After the empress finished speaking, Xiao Zhan and Mu Ruxue fell into deep thought.
After a while, Xiao Zhan said: "There is only one way to go now."
"What way?" Princess Anqi and the Empress asked in unison.
Xiao Zhan said one word seriously: "Fight!"
"What!"
Princess An Qi and the empress were shocked. The empress asked: "Do you mean to start a war with the nobles, or to fight all the way back to Xiliang like you did when you fled to Beiyi last time?"
Xiao Zhan said: "Gather the common people and start a war with the nobles!"
"This won't work!" The empress directly rejected it without thinking, saying: "It's true that civilians and nobles have fought wars before, but every time they lost miserably, and too many people died. I don't want it.
See the rivers of blood flowing from Beiyi!"
"Yes, Xiao Zhan." Princess Anqi said: "Fighting is the most unwise method. The army of Beiyi is all in the hands of the nobles. There are as many as two billion people. They are well-equipped and fully armed. What about civilians?"
No, how can we fight with the nobles? The nobles don't even need to approach the civilians. They can just give the order and the crossbowmen can fire arrows, which will make the civilians bleed into rivers. In the past few civilian rebellions, they ended up paying hundreds of millions in death.
, and never succeeded."
"Besides, if a war breaks out, if the Queen Mother sides with the nobles, and you win, the Nalan Family's imperial power will be lost. If the Mother Queen sides with the common people, and if you lose, the Nalan Family's Imperial Power will also be lost.
"
"So going to war is the most unwise choice!"
Xiao Zhan said: "Although starting a war is not a wise choice, if you want to weaken the power of the nobility and let the common people hold their heads high and live up their lives, you must shed blood and sacrifice. If you win, you can break this system. Otherwise, the nobility cannot take the initiative to take control of the pastures."
Distributing it to civilians will not fundamentally change the view of civilians, and they will continue to be treated as cattle."
"So we must fight to break this system and make them obediently hand over their pastures and distribute them to civilians."
"I know you are worried that it will end in failure like the previous times, but you have overlooked one point. The leaders of the previous times must have been civilians. Their prestige was not high enough and their appeal was not strong enough. Although the civilians rebelled, the participating civilians
But there are very few, most of them are hesitant and don’t dare to participate, fearing that they will die if they fail, right?”
The empress nodded: "It's exactly what you said."
Xiao Zhan smiled and continued: "It's different this time. To put it harshly, my wife's prestige in the hearts of the people of Beiyi is now greater than that of the Empress. As long as she speaks, she will definitely respond to tens of billions of calls. And
The common people will risk their lives to defend their hard-won good life. As long as my wife does not bow to the nobles, they will not bow their heads and will fight to the end."