Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Alliance

As soon as Emperor Hao's will came out, the palace gate was blocked by the imperial history again, and this time the momentum was more than ten times larger than the last time, and even most of the officials of the six ministries surrounded the palace, asking for a holy face, and some of the fierce even asked for death.

On the first day, it was only the imperial historian, and in the next few days, officials from various ministries participated, and Emperor Hao neither obstructed nor ignored them, allowing these officials to gather outside the palace every day.

This has formed a very strange phenomenon, these officials go outside the palace gate every morning and come back in the evening, but Emperor Hao has never appeared, and even the early dynasty has stopped.

When a concubine who was very favored by a family inadvertently mentioned this matter, Emperor Hao was furious and directly reprimanded the concubine: "This world is my world, since they are not willing to sit on duty, then they should all be dismissed." Then he put her in the cold palace.

The world's families are frightened.

Left Prime Minister's Mansion.

At this moment, almost all the decision-makers of the various families gathered, the nine upper grades and the nineteen middle grades all gathered together, and as for the ninety-nine lower grades, only those who served as high-ranking officials in the six ministries were eligible to be included.

Dozens of people sat but were relatively silent for a long time.

The Great Xia court is divided into left and right prime ministers, generally the left prime minister is a member of the family, and the right prime minister is a member of the royal family, which is considered to be mutually restrictive, and the current left prime minister is from the Confucian family in the nine families of the upper grade. The Kong family is the oldest family in the nine of the top grades, and there are people in the family who have been in and out of the prime minister for generations, and they are hidden as the prime minister's family. Even if the Cao family is in the limelight now, they dare not underestimate the heritage of the Kong family.

Today's Zuo Prime Minister Kong Linghe is not only the Zuo Prime Minister of the Dynasty, but also the contemporary head of the Confucian family, and there are countless protégés and former officials in the court, so he can respond to all calls as he does now, and convene almost all the families to come to discuss matters.

It's just that what we want to discuss today is so difficult and difficult to make a decision that no one dares to express their position lightly.

Kong Linghe put down the tea in his hand and finally spoke: "This is good tea, we have been drinking this kind of tea for thousands of years, and everyone is used to drinking it with each other." But all of a sudden, we're going to drink with someone else, so what should we do?"

"Naturally, I can't say yes. The head of the Zhang family said: "A total of just a little tea, you also take a little, he also takes a little, how much do we have in hand?"

"Not bad. What the head of the Zhang family said is true. There were a number of people who agreed in unison.

Kong Linghe sighed: "If you don't agree, maybe many people here will lose their qualifications to drink tea, maybe among these people, there will also be my Kong family." Hey, I'm embarrassed. ”

Everyone began to be silent, although the family was dissatisfied with the emperor's actions, but if someone really wanted to be the first to come forward, no one would want to. Unless there is a rebellion, there is only one way to die if you disobey the emperor's order, even if you will not be destroyed, but any family must pay an extremely heavy price.

After all, the family is a family, and it can't compare to the valve, but even if it is a valve, it can only compete secretly, and it doesn't dare to blatantly raise the anti-flag.

The head of the Cao family said at this time: "Have you ever thought about why Your Majesty dares to use us to open the knife, but you don't dare to move the four valves and half a point?"

The crowd listened patiently.

The head of the Cao family said: "That's naturally because although we have many upper, middle and lower grade families, they are scattered, like a plate of loose sand. Moreover, we do not have our own army, and it is a national policy to store an army, and our family must be trapped in this imperial city. Don't forget, everyone, the biggest force in the Imperial City will always be the Imperial Family, not us. The royal family not only uses us to restrain the valve, but also controls us all the time, although we have the heart to resist, but we have no power to resist. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

The head of the Cao family said: "The royal family uses the border army to restrain the valve externally, and the family restricts it internally, while they themselves sit on the mountain and watch the tiger, we are not even a tiger, just a dog guarding the door." Therefore, if you want to change this situation, there is only one way, and that is to unite. ”

The crowd agreed. In fact, there is no one here who does not understand these truths, but no one has been able to do it all along. There is also competition between families, and the upper, middle and lower grades are also clearly distinguished, how can any family be willing to be left behind?

This is also the fundamental reason why the Great Xia Dynasty was able to maintain its rule for 800 years and still be more and more prosperous, and I have to say that the people who designed this system in the first place really took great pains.

Everyone fell into silence again, although the alliance is easy to say, but it is extremely difficult to do, the head of the Cao family said: "If we want to unite, we need to establish an alliance, as for the agreement that the alliance must abide by, in principle, it is to help each other and never give up." What does the Prime Minister think?"

Seeing the head of the Cao family asking, Kong Linghe nodded and said, "That's exactly what you need." But who should the alliance listen to, does the Cao family master have a plan?"

The head of the Cao family pondered for a moment and said: "The nine families of the above grade will form a joint meeting, and the president will be rotated by the nine families for a term of five years. What do you think?"

"Five years is too long. Two years is appropriate. Kong Linghe shook his head and said, "After all, there are nine." ”

"I have no opinion. The head of the Cao family closed his eyes and said no more.

The rest of the families only realized a little taste at this time, the Cao family and the Kong family seemed to have reached an agreement, and the discussion of the entire meeting today was advancing step by step according to the ideas of the two. However, the rest of the high-grade families thought about it, this matter was not harmless to themselves, and they did not suffer a loss if they had a rotation of seats every two years.

The middle-grade family and the lower-grade family have suffered a little, but if the upper-grade nine families need to be united, then there is nothing to change whether there is a middle-grade and lower-grade family. And if you don't participate in the alliance, you may face the double suppression of the royal family and the high-grade family, as far as the current situation is concerned, it is obvious that Emperor Hao is going to attack the family, and if you don't go to the group, then wait to be the first to be opened.

At this point, there were no objections from everyone, and then someone began to draft the constitution, and unanimously elected Kong Linghe as the first president of the joint committee.

The Maison Alliance was officially born.

Although this alliance is still very loose and has different components, and it is difficult to say whether they can cooperate with each other, it is undeniable that the force composed of so many families is extremely terrifying. Aside from the fact that there was no army, the number of cultivators and the number of holy realms were far greater than any one valve. What's more, the heritage of these nine high-grade families cannot be underestimated.

If this alliance is finally unified and digested, then even the royal family will not dare to offend easily.

After all, this world is a cultivator's world, no matter how strong the army is, once the Saint Realm master reaches a certain level, it will be enough to compete with the army. Another way to compete with the military is to be a cultivator who is strong enough, like the former Emperor You. Perhaps, there will be now.

When the news reached Emperor Hao's ears, he smiled: "Kong Ling and this old dog know how to take advantage of the situation. ”

The decree of the imperial court was still issued, Li Jichang still led the imperial order out, and the imperial history and officials outside the palace gate finally dispersed after surrounding the palace for more than half a month.

The imperial court still has to operate, this imperial court is not only the imperial court of the royal family, but also the court of the family, and no one can really leave it alone. If so, then it's likely that you'll never have to worry about it again.

There are policies and countermeasures, and in the countless years of confrontation between the family and the royal family, they have summed up countless ways to deal with it, whether Emperor Hao's virtuous order is useful or not, and how useful it can be, in their eyes, it is very uncertain.

Is it just a decree? Cultivation requires resources, exercises, knowledge inheritance, everything, and all of these are not available. So how are these poor people who have been recruited to be settled? They don't believe that the royal family is willing to share their things with these poor people.

Without their support, these decrees would have been nothing more than a piece of paper. Countless histories have proven such results.

Diametrically opposed to the attitude of the family, the people of the poor family in the world finally began to cheer, shouting that Emperor Hao was extremely wise.

But there are also people of insight who are beginning to worry, and now the contradiction between the royal family and the valve family is becoming more and more acute and clear, which is a sign of chaos. And when chaos comes, it is still the vast number of people who suffer in the end.