"Your Majesty is already an hour late." Yang Su was still a little worried.
Xu Ling, who was talking excitedly, waved his hand: "What are you worried about? Your Majesty has his own sense of proportion."
"Your Majesty is really going to take action?" Yang Su raised his eyebrows.
Xu Ling glanced at him and lowered his voice and said: "Isn't this exactly what you want? The people who are opposed openly and covertly now are the southeastern nobles. Since your majesty has hit them on the head with a mallet, he will definitely win over you more.
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Yang Su's "hypocritical" thoughts were exposed at once, and he couldn't help but smile awkwardly: "Then isn't Duke Xiaomu worried?"
Xu Ling said calmly: "I have nothing to worry about. The Xu family is clean and has a clear conscience, so there is no need to worry."
Yang Su said in surprise: "But the family your Majesty wants to deal with is a Southeastern family. The Xu family is from Wu County. Do you really intend to stay out of it?"
Xu Ling laughed: "Now that the Han Dynasty spans the north and south of the Yangtze River, if your Majesty wants to establish complete imperial authority, he must greatly enhance the emperor's power just like the Qin and Han Dynasties. In this case, if the Xu family continues to work hard,
If we can fully reflect the stance of our Southeastern family, wouldn’t that be worth the loss?”
Yang Su was silent for a moment. This is tantamount to the Xu family of Wu County completely drawing a clear line with the southeastern gentry, and indeed only in this way can they completely integrate into the Han Dynasty. Once the Han Dynasty truly becomes a huge empire that once again rules the entire Nine Provinces, then naturally it will not
There may no longer be any aristocratic family groups, otherwise it is very likely that they will follow the short-lived path of the Western Jin Dynasty. Therefore, Li Xingchen wanted to turn these aristocratic families into aristocratic groups similar to those of the Western Han Dynasty.
Although such a group of aristocrats is still a threat to the imperial power, under the pressure of the imperial power, it is difficult for them to make any waves. They can only serve the emperor with all their strength and become ants that can be kneaded by the emperor at will. But correspondingly,
The wealth and power that being in this position means is still beyond the reach of others.
Gains will naturally come with a price. No matter what era or social form, fairness can always be relative. It is impossible to achieve absolute fairness between people and between classes, the so-called utopian equality of all living beings.
, is actually unfair to those with vested interests. Therefore, if the rulers want to make their rule more stable, they can only allow each class to gain and lose, so that each class will gain while suffering certain losses.
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As one of the most typical farming civilizations in the world, the Chinese nation has a typical characteristic of being easy to satisfy, and Li Xingchen would not let it go.
What Xu Ling wants to do is to lead the Xu family to become a noble of the Han Dynasty, not a part of the Southeastern aristocratic family.
Suddenly, Yang Su realized that he seemed to have taken Xu Ling too simply. In all likelihood, Duke Xiaomu had not had such plans from now on. He had obviously already had similar plans when he was working with Li Xingchen.
idea.
So now when the Southeast family is about to lose its position as the arbitrator in the court, and even the way for its own children to enter the society is cut off, they naturally start to get angry, but Xu, who seems to be no longer in the same group as them,
Ling and even Gu Yewang, who was also taking some time off and closing his eyes to take a nap, could sit so firmly on the Diaoyutai.
It would be a pleasure for them to see these evil-minded or stubborn impurities in the Southeast family being removed.
At this moment, crisp footsteps suddenly sounded outside the hall.
That was the sound of combat boots hitting the ground.
The original whispers in the main hall disappeared without a trace in an instant.
"Who do you dare to go to the palace with swords and shoes!" An official from the Ministry of Revenue couldn't help but pointed at the soldier striding up and said.
At first, a soldier reached out and took off his helmet, staring directly at him: "This is my main hall, why can't I go up to the hall with swords and shoes?!"
"Your Majesty?" The official was startled.
"See Your Majesty!" The ministers saluted hurriedly.
Li Xingchen waved his hand, and Li Ping and Cheng Feng strode forward with the soldiers on the left and right, and directly picked out several figures from the crowd, including those from the Ministry of Husbandry, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Officials.
There were also soldiers from Menxia Province and Zhongshu Province. These soldiers showed no mercy. If they dared to resist, they would be beaten unconscious and dragged away.
Whether they were bodyguards, pro-soldiers, or Yulin cavalry, they were all honed in the flames of war. They were naturally familiar with and measured in beating people. Soon these officials were dragged out of the hall, and Li Xingchen snorted coldly.
, striding straight towards the throne above.
Regarding the whole process, Gu Yewang, Xu Ling and others did not say a word from beginning to end.
They all knew very well that almost all of these officials came from Southeastern families. Although they did not hold important positions in the court, they were still a force that could not be underestimated. What was more important were the people behind them.
Most of the families did not rise recently, but were noble families that had been inherited for decades or even hundreds of years in the Southern Dynasties.
These noble families have been tepid for a long time, and no outstanding figures have emerged, but they have never declined. This is because they constitute the middle and lower classes of the entire southeastern noble families. If any wealthy family wants to rise, it cannot do without them.
Support, and in return, naturally allows these small families to continuously send their children to the court through the nine-level Zhongzheng system.
However, most of these children have no talents that they are proud of. They are just following those wealthy families in order to make progress. It would be difficult for them to really formulate any policies for governing the country.
It is precisely because of this that Li Xingchen reduced the number of talents recommended by the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System. The first ones to bear the brunt were actually these middle and low-level families. They could not compete with those wealthy families for power, so naturally they would not be able to recommend talents first. But in the
In terms of teaching and educating people, they are not necessarily rivals of rich families, not to mention that there are many children from poor families below who are eagerly waiting to replace them through such a shortcut to the south.
And the children in their family have enjoyed the prosperity and wealth for several generations and can be called dandies, so they can't count on it.
Therefore, for these families, Li Xinchen's implementation of the new talent selection system is equivalent to directly killing them. Therefore, it is reasonable for these people to have some connections and small actions in private.
What's more, Xu Ling realized after just one glance that the fact that Li Xingchen could be so angry meant that these people were not only reaching out to the court, but were also planning to attack the army in all likelihood.
The army is Li Xingchen's foundation and his bottom line.