Listening to Ying Zheng's confident tone and looking at his young appearance, Yang Guang recalled the past when he was young and full of high spirits.
At that time, he was still the king of Jin, commanding hundreds of thousands of troops across the Yangtze River to eliminate Nanchen. Then he directly took charge of Jiankang and suppressed the lawless families in the south. At the same time, he secretly supported Pegasus Ranch and continued to expand its scale.
There will be no less than ten thousand horses.
This is all just in case, if by the time Yang Jian gets old, he is still not the prince, then he will unite with the southern families and directly raise an army to clear the emperor's side!
And Pegasus Ranch was just one of his many back-up men at that time!
At that time, I was also so confident and determined. To put it nicely, it was self-confidence, and to put it worse, it was self-willed. As for whether it is the former or the latter, it depends on the final result.
"What should we do about Goguryeo? What should we do about the Turks? Aren't you afraid that they will join forces with the northern aristocratic families? Even if you still win by then, the north will be in ruins." Yang Guang then asked, which was an indirect reminder.
, this sentence is for Zhu Xia.
"Fu Cailin is dead, and Goguryeo has started an internal fight that cannot be stopped. It will not have the energy to pay attention to the Central Plains until the winner is determined."
"As for the Turks, Bi Xuan is dead, and the grassland has once again fallen into civil strife. This time the scale of the civil strife is larger, and the killings are more ruthless. It will not stop for three to five years."
Listening to Ying Zheng's flirtatious tone, Yang Guang was speechless for a moment. Today's Great Qin is really too powerful. The aloof Grand Master is like a chicken in front of Great Qin. He will kill whenever he wants. If the Great Sui Dynasty
With such strength, he wouldn't have ended up like this.
"How would you treat the family?"
"Just follow Qin law. Allow them to exist and pass on. The premise is to abide by Qin law."
"Instead of directly annihilating them? With the strength of Great Qin, it is easy to directly annihilate them, right? You should know that their existence is a harm to the country."
"They are not loyal to the country. They only know that they have a home, and their home is in front of the country. Even so, you still want to let them go?" Yang Guang asked in confusion, recalling the power of the general's cannon.
Why not just kill them all? How convenient it would be to end them all in one go!
"It's easy to eliminate them, not difficult at all. Even the Five Surnames and Qiwang, even the Guanlong clan, even the Kong family in the north and the Zhang family in the south are nothing in front of the empire's military peak."
Having said this, Ying Zheng shook his head slightly: "Then what? Today Da Qin directly eliminated these aristocratic families, it was easy and stress-free, but what about tomorrow?"
"When you encounter a world with immortals, will you directly eliminate the sect of immortals? One day, you won't even be able to tolerate people like Sanqing and Buddha? Kill them all?"
"If Da Qin at this moment really possesses such force, which is enough to eliminate all opposition in the world, then it doesn't matter if they all are killed. However..."
Great Qin was very strong compared to the Sui Dynasty in front of us, but compared to the truly great forces in the world, Great Qin, which had just begun to enter this stage, was far from enough.
When you are weak, of course, you must seek common ground while shelving differences, be a good person, and speak truth seriously. In short, you are pretending to be a rabbit, pretending to be cute, pretending to be cute, and do it safely. As for since ancient times, this kind of face must be something you can do only after you are strong.
"If Da Qin only has force but no virtue, how can it convince the people of the world? Today Da Qin relies on force and can be unreasonable, but what about in the future?"
"So in Gu's opinion, as long as you abide by Qin law, as long as you are willing to abide by Qin law, it is acceptable. What's more, can the family really be completely eliminated?"
"After defeating the old aristocratic families, new aristocratic families will be born, and even those loyal ministers who follow Gu will become new aristocratic families. What will happen then? Gu Yao will take the initiative to violate Qin law just to eliminate them, just because
Have they become a new aristocratic family?"
"Then what are you going to do?" Yang Guang asked curiously.
He only agreed with part of what Ying Zheng said, but he had no intention of refuting it. Both of them were strong-willed people, and it was normal for neither of them to be convinced by the other in a short period of time.
"In the pre-Qin period, nobles were the most precious, and princes, generals, and ministers were all well-educated. After Liu Xiu, the nobles had been overthrown, and aristocratic families were the most precious. Powerful families and even their disciples and former officials were all over the world, and with one order they were compared to the emperor.
The imperial edict will still be effective."
"In the Song Dynasty, aristocratic families were also overthrown, and Confucian scholars became noble lords. However, under the governance of these scholars, they destroyed the world four times!"
Having said this, Ying Zheng raised his right hand and held up four fingers! When he first read a history book back then, he was really surprised.
With the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the nobility was finished and was permanently nailed to the pillar of shame by the literati!
The Tang Dynasty fell, the aristocratic family was hit again, and the military generals were also implicated. From this moment on, high-level politics was insulated from the military generals, but what did the literati behind them do for a living?
The literati governed the Northern Song Dynasty, but the Northern Song Dynasty died, and it died at the hands of foreigners!
The literati continued to govern the Southern Song Dynasty, but the Southern Song Dynasty also died, and it was still at the hands of foreigners!
The literati governed Da Meng, but Da Meng died. The cause of death was exactly the same as that of the Song Dynasty. He died of a foreign race!
The literati who governed the Southern Ming Dynasty did not learn from the lessons of their predecessors, indulged in internal fighting, and finally continued to perish at the hands of foreigners!
Of course, in the history written by Confucian literati, every time the world fell has nothing to do with the literati. It was all the result of the emperor and me being fatuous, and the result of the treacherous ministers in power. It had nothing to do with the entire Confucian literati class!
Anyone who dares to say that there is a relationship is a lunatic or a fool. He has slandered the saints and will die badly!
When he saw this period of history, Ying Zheng's impression of Confucian literati was directly reduced to the freezing point. Compared with aristocratic families, how are they better than aristocrats? For the court, Confucian literati are really better than military generals than aristocrats.
Is Maison better? More suitable?
This time Yang Guang opened his eyes wide. These Confucian scholars are too fierce. They have destroyed the world four times, are they a disaster? I have seen Confucian scholars myself, but they don't seem to be so capable...
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"The nobles cannot be trusted, the aristocratic families cannot be trusted, the generals cannot be trusted, and the civil servants cannot be trusted. After Li Er, even his sons and brothers became untrustworthy. After Wu Meiniang, even his wife became untrustworthy. After Wanli, even my mother cannot be trusted.
"
"For an emperor, everything in the world cannot be trusted, but you must not disbelieve it! If you can grasp this degree well, you are a qualified emperor."
It was not easy to meet a similar person, a tyrant and a coward whose evaluation in history books was almost the same as his own, so Ying Zheng had the rare opportunity to say a few more words.