Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, who had been thoroughly cleaned and changed their clothes, appeared in front of him.
"Boss Xu!"
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling shouted together.
Although they can't compare with those who dressed up as beggars a few years later, they still possess some extraordinary charm.
If you could remove the food that causes malnutrition all year round and the aura of the lower class in your body, and you say they are young men raised by aristocratic families, some people would probably believe them!
"Um."
Xu Yi responded directly to the title of 'Boss Xu' for the first time. He put the secret book in his leg together and looked at Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling.
"What are our plans to take over from the east?"
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling looked at each other wrongly and said in unison.
"They want to follow Boss Xu! Do something big together!"
Obviously, the two of them had already discussed this before coming.
"oh?"
Xu Yi raised his eyebrows and asked with interest.
"In our eyes, what does it mean to do something great?"
"that······"
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were speechless for a moment.
Do they just shout slogans and never think about actually answering that question?
Bu Nao and the others did not complain about this, but rather thought about whether it would be a test for them.
In the past, Kou Zhong, who was active and quick-witted, was the first to answer.
"If tomorrow there is chaos in the East, all the heroes will rise up. The real big thing will be to set up a rebel army and compete in the East! He believes that under my leadership, Boss Xu, they can definitely overthrow the tyrant's rule!"
As if he had touched on his highlight, Kou Zhong's eyes lit up when he spoke, and his ambition was high.
Because he has been bullied since he was a child, his biggest wish is to become a majestic big shot.
In his opinion, those generals who commanded an army and fought against Tiandong were not the most majestic figures.
Naturally, he realizes that his biggest dream is to become a general!
Xu Yi glanced at him lightly and said slowly.
"rebel?"
"No rebellion!"
When Kou Zhong heard the word 'rebellion', he was a little panicked and went to explain.
"No to quell the unrest in Tiandong! Overthrow the tyrant's rule!"
"Okay."
Xu Yi pressed his leg to stop him.
As a professional in rebellion, his understanding of those two words is much deeper than others.
Talking about ‘doing justice for heaven’, talking about ‘supporting the country’, these are all nonsense!
Whether the slogans you shout sound good, make people feel that what you are doing is just, and whether you are standing on the moral high ground, the reality is the same.
"What about me? What do I think?"
Xu Yi looked at Xu Ziling.
Xu Ziling pondered for a moment and then said.
"If tomorrow there is chaos in the East and the people are in dire straits, how can we save the common people? He thinks they should also set up a rebel army to restore stability to the East and the East."
Same meaning, different way of expressing it.
Xu Ziling focused more on saving people. From a moral perspective, this was more in line with the propaganda of the superficial slogan.
However, he did not reject the slogan. Although he himself was having a very bad life, he did have a compassionate character.
Having seen too many people's sufferings, he also hopes to make the ordinary people in Tiandong live a better life.
Just like at the beginning of the original work, he and his good brother Kou Zhong gave up the fight for Tiandong. On the one hand, it was indeed because of the relationship between his master and his concubine, and on the other hand, he himself did not want to cause more killings.
Of course, the two of them unanimously decided that the 'big deal' was to compete for Tiandong's presence. The most fundamental reason was not only Xu Yi's strength.
Without a single leg out, he directly took over the Zhuhua Gang, the largest gang in Yangzhou. I told him to conquer a street?
That’s totally irrelevant!
Let alone one street, even the entire city of Yangzhou, in the eyes of Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, it was a problem that Xu Yi could not even think about.
If Xu Yi thought about it, they even thought that Yangzhou City would have to change its owner tomorrow morning!
Because of Xu Yi's mistake, if the 'big thing' he proposed was not of Tiandong level, they would be too embarrassed to speak!
"We all talked about the chaos in Tiandong, but do we know why there is chaos in Tiandong?"
Xu Yi did not reply to them, but asked another question.
"Why is there such chaos in the East?"
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were stunned for a moment, and then they spoke cautiously without denying Kou Zhong.
"Because of the tyranny of the tyrant Yang Guang? The excessive taxation made the people miserable, so the people of Tiandong revolted?"
Those words, including what they said before, were not heard from hearsay.
The scholars they had met all said that, and if they accepted it, they would deny it.
Xu Yi, who felt the psychological fluctuations of the two people through "Mind Reading", shook his head directly.
That goes against the limitations of the times and education.
Both Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were undoubtedly the proud sons of heaven, but they rode on the turbulent times in that turbulent era and even managed to split Tiandong with Li Tang, almost becoming the co-leader of Tiandong.
Although there are some external opportunities and the halo of some protagonists, it is undeniable that their courage, ability, legs, etc. are all extremely outstanding.
But they were still inevitably bound and restricted by that era.
Kou Zhong gave up the fight for Tiandong at first, half of the reason was because of Xu Ziling, but half of the reason was that he was convinced by the fallacy given by Shi Feixuan.
People will die if they fight, and more people will die if they fight like this.
Compared with Kou Zhong, who was born as a commoner, Li Shimin was more suitable to be the person who managed Tiandong.
If it means that the common people in Tiandong will not be able to live and work in peace and contentment, they should not continue to fight eastward.
Wait wait wait.
Because everyone in Tiandong said that and promoted it like that, Kou Zhongke was very hesitant at first. Later, Dong was swayed by his best brother's persuasion. He initially backed down and completely gave up the position that was almost within reach.
of the throne.
But where is it actually?
Those so-called Tiandong people are not the fallacies and heresies of Buddhism and those scholars. They control the public opinion in Tiandong and make the people of Tiandong fall into their decadent thoughts.
It’s like the ‘tyrant theory’ of whether it appears or not.
Is Yang Guang really a tyrant?
"Big mistake!"
Xu Yi shook his head, directly denied their two statements, and then said seriously.
Let’s take a detailed look at Yang Guang’s actions since he ascended the throne. He opened canals, conquered Goryeo, and held imperial examinations...
Every thing, every thing, whether from the national level or the ordinary people's level, is a great thing that benefits the country and the people!
If he could do all those things, Yang Guang would not only be comparable to the First Emperor, but he would definitely be one of the top emperors in the past two thousand years.
Xu Yi analyzed the benefits of those policies to them one by one from a fundamental level.
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were stunned when they heard this, and felt that their outlook on life had been greatly impacted.
"If that's not the case, then why do everyone in Tiandong regard Yang Guang as a tyrant?"
The two of them murmured to themselves, apparently still coming back to their senses.
Having heard the term "tyrant theory" so many times, they have already mistakenly agreed with that point of view.
Could it be that later they found out that Fu Junma had assassinated Yang Guang? Not only did they not have any resentment, but they also recognized her as their godmother.
Just because of long-term hearsay, they had already developed a huge rejection of Yang Guang, and they had no good impressions at all.
If Ming heard Xu Yi say that Yang Guang was not only a tyrant who brought disaster to the country and the people, but also a good emperor who truly served the country and the people, this was really beyond their original understanding.
"Because he failed!"
Xu Yi explained the reason very coldly.
Indeed, if Yang Guang succeeds, he will at least become an emperor like Li Shimin through the ages, but who made him fail?
He failed and was counterattacked by the family's power, so naturally he became a 'tyrant' in the eyes of the people of Tiandong.
At that time, the aristocratic families had the most powerful power in the world!
Even the royal family that Yang Guang belonged to was originally just an aristocratic family, but Yang Guang's ancestors stole Tiandong from the Yuwen family, and the previous generation unified Tiandong.
Yang Guang's side didn't even dare to eradicate all the Yuwen family. This shows how powerful those aristocratic families are.
"Most of everything Yang Guang did was aimed at targeting those wealthy families. If he succeeded, the Sui Dynasty would have been able to dominate the world for at least two to three hundred years!"
Xu Yi sighed and shook his head.
Analyzing from the perspective of ancient thinking, Yang Guang's talents and strategies are actually no worse than Li Shimin's. Even most of the great things that Li Shimin accomplished later were based on Yang Guang and were not Yang Guang's successors.
As far as the Bu Nao Xiangcuo was concerned, Yang Guang was too eager for quick success and launched a number of super large projects at the same time. He did not expect that his court would be able to withstand it.
In other words, he considered it, but he did not expect that the counterattack of the family members was much more serious than he imagined. In the past, it caused all his strategies to overturn and all his successes to fail.
For example, during the three campaigns against Goryeo, the first two campaigns against Goryeo failed due to environmental, climate and other reasons.
But for the third campaign against Goryeo, the Sui Dynasty made all preparations, and the early stage went very smoothly, and they almost took over Goryeo.
As for East Korea, relying on his astonishing achievements in opening up new territories and unparalleled power, Yang Guang can completely suppress any dissatisfaction outside the East and completely suppress the aristocratic families in the East!
Just like that, the family members obviously didn't want to see all that happen. At the most critical moment, they used clever tricks to successfully hold back Yang Guang, causing his third campaign in Goryeo to end in failure.
That failure completely depleted the Sui Dynasty's solid foundation. Yang Guang was no longer able to control the Central Plains, and thus became the 'faint emperor' that everyone reviled.
"It's not like that!"
After hearing those words, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were immediately shocked.
They had always been just two gangsters, and they had no idea that there were so many secrets behind it.
"Boss Xu, he is a bit unpopular. I just said that Yang Guang is also a member of the aristocratic family, so why does he want to suppress the aristocratic family?"
Kou Zhong said with some confusion.
From what Xu Yi said before, he had already concluded it.
The failure of Yang Guang's three conquests in Goryeo and his becoming a reviled tyrant were all due to his falling out with aristocratic families.
In this case, wouldn't it be better if Yang Guang didn't fall out with those aristocratic families?
"hehe."
Xu Yi smiled and said no, without answering the question directly.
"If you want to know the answer to that question, you have to go back to the previous question - why is Tiandong in chaos?"
"Why is Tiandong in chaos?"
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were thinking in their hearts.
They are all very smart people. Although their education level is almost zero, it does not hinder their thinking.
"Boss Xu, do I mean to say that Yang Guang is worried that those aristocratic families will rebel against his Yang family in the future? That's why he wants to solve them?"
After thinking for a while, the two of them gave that answer.
Xu Yi nodded in affirmation, but finally shook his head.
"This is indeed the reason why Yang Guangqiu mistakenly paid the family members' request, but it does not mean the root cause of the chaos in Tiandong."
As a member of an aristocratic family, Yang Guang took the throne of the Yuwen family by clever means. Yang Guang was worried about the members of the aristocratic family, fearing that they would also seize the throne of the Yang family in the future, so he would try to seize the throne. Is this normal?
matter.
Yang Guang's failure, even if he became popular, was a failure in the competition with the aristocratic families.
He mistakenly overestimated his own capabilities, and even more mistakenly underestimated the power of the family, which led to his failure in the past.
The power of the aristocratic families is too deep-rooted. Those families that have been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years, it is too naive for Yang Guang to think that he can disintegrate them with his own generation.
Later, Li Shimin also thought about wrongly paying the family members, but he was much smarter and did not devote himself to his generation to do that thing well, instead weakening them step by step and wearing away the power of the family members over time.
In the past, he could say whether he was successful, but he was not successful.
Because of the introduction of the imperial examination, the power of the aristocratic families was indeed greatly weakened, but another school of academic circles was also born.
"What was the root cause of the chaos in East Asia that day?"
Xu Ziling asked curiously.
He was very concerned about that issue because he really wanted to see that the people of Tiandong would no longer suffer from war.
"The root cause of the chaos in Tiandong lies in..."
Xu Yi paused, and then spoke word by word.
“Wealth is unevenly distributed!”
“Unequal distribution of wealth?”
Both Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were stunned.
That term... was it really the first time they heard it.
It is different from Xu Yi’s explanation just now.
Although they had never heard the explanation just now, and it even greatly impacted their outlook on life, they were at least able to understand it and understand its meaning.
But the wealth is unevenly distributed...
terribly sorry!
Although they knew every one of those six words, could they really not have imagined that it had something to do with the chaos in Tiandong?
Could it be that whether things are chaotic that day depends on whether I will distribute the wealth?
Looking at the two people with confused faces, Xu Yi smiled slightly.
"If they want to know the answer to that question, they must first understand another question - what is the socioeconomic foundation!"
