The birthday banquet dispersed, the Gao family was busy cleaning up inside and out, Jia Cong and the others returned to the East Guest House to tell them about today's events, and asked Gong Kun to guess who was behind Zhu Tong.

Gong Kun shook his head: "Since it is a temptation, it can't show its actual ability." There are all kinds of people in Chang'an City. It's not bad that the two of you look crazy like this, but it's not easy for others to solicit or plan with a straight twist. ”

Jia Huan smiled: "I'm a madman, and Cong'er is a bear child." ”

Jia Cong frowned and said: "It's not that I'm afraid of anyone, only a little worried." If the gods and goddesses in Beijing want to know, they can only go everywhere to find people and inquire, and they can't run to Chang'an to test me. If it's from Chang'an, it's even more needless, I'm just here to celebrate my birthday, and I'll leave in a few days, testing what I'm doing? ”

Gong Kun said: "You don't have to worry, it's just two poems, it's nothing." Or find your cousin in two days to find out who this Zhu Tong is. ”

Jia Huan smiled: "Two more days? I looked at Cousin Gao Hua left and right and glanced at Cong'er for a long time, and he clearly had something to say, and he came early tomorrow morning. ”

Before he finished speaking, he only heard someone outside shouting: "It's such a late day, why is the second master here?" ”

Jia Huan pouted and said, "Look, I can't even wait for a night." ”

After a while, I saw Gao Hua walk in with a smile and say to Jia Cong, "Grandmother invites you to go." ”

Jia Cong glanced at him twice: "Brother, let me reveal, what did my aunt call me to do at night?" ”

Gao Hua said: "I don't know this. ”

Jia Huan poked his head out and asked, "Is her old man happy about this?" ”

Gao Hua smiled: "How can you not be happy? Listening to my sister-in-law, Cong'er's poems came inside, and the whole room exploded! ”

Jia Cong stood up and sighed: "I want to be an upright treasure, but they have to force me to be an upright second goods." ”

Then he followed Gao Hua to Jia Taijun's courtyard and went straight into the main room. I saw Jia Taijun sitting on the chaise longue with his eyes closed, and next to him was the daughter-in-law who greeted them at the gate of the mansion that day. Jia Cong looked around, there was no one else, Gao Li and Gao Ying were not there.

Jia Taijun instructed: "Cong'er sit, Hua'er go out, and Xiaomei also go out." ”

Jia Cong saw a chair placed near the chaise longue's couch, so he knew that it was reserved for himself, so he sat down obediently. Gao Hua and the daughter-in-law responded, quietly withdrew, and closed the door.

Jia Taijun opened his eyes, looked Jia Cong up and down for a long time, and sighed: "The Jia family actually has a child like you." I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse. ”

Jia Cong said: "It's a blessing." ”

Jia Taijun couldn't help laughing, and was quiet for a long time, and said, "You tell me the truth, but you have a backlash." ”

Jia Cong hesitated for a moment: "Yes, there should be, but I haven't made up my mind how to do it." I don't like to fight. ”

Jia Taijun's eyelids moved, and he said: "If you want to win the world, there is no one who does not fight." It's just that I saw the other day, you don't look like an ambitious child. Unexpectedly, there is this poem today. ”

Jia Cong thought to himself, that's too. Grandpa's poems, how can I have the ability to write that momentum! He pondered for a while, and said sincerely: "I don't have any ambition to conquer the world. It's just that I know that I'm smart and I don't want to pretend to be stupid, and I'm afraid that the day when the meritorious master will be stabbed in the back by the heavenly family, I want to do the opposite. Imakami is a very suspicious person. obviously sat on the dragon chair but was pressed by the emperor for all these years, and I don't know how many more years it will be pressed, and the four kings and eight princes are the old ministers of the emperor. I think it's too hard to get his complete trust. I'm afraid that there will always be a day when I will be forced to rebel. ”

Jia Taijun stared at him: "I heard Ying'er say that you are the leader of these people in the Jia family." ”

"Yes."

"Many people think that Jia Si's son Jarvis is the leader, and you and Cong'er are his little brothers."

Jia Cong smiled: "People think so, and we have no intention of correcting it." Horizontal and vertical have nothing to do with them. ”

Jia Taijun took a sip of tea with a smile and asked him, "Didn't you mean it?" ”

Jia Cong shook his head: "I didn't mean it." ”

Jia Taijun asked: "Jia Vis told the six princes in Ping'an Prefecture through the mouth of the Gao family that day, is it his own idea or do you mean it?" ”

Jia Cong tilted his head and thought about it, and said, "I don't remember." ”

Jia Taijun was stunned.

Jia Cong said: "I really don't remember, everyone was gossiping at the time, and I can't remember who came up with the idea." Coincidentally, Senior Brother Zhiwei got the opportunity to say it, so he said it. If he didn't say it, it might have been me saying it, or Brother Huan would have said it. ”

Jia Cong thought that this sentence was commonplace, but Jia Taijun was stunned for a long time. He couldn't help but ask first, "Is there something wrong with this?" ”

Jia Taijun asked again: "You are usually discussing matters, are you all discussing together?" ”

Jia Congqi said: "Naturally. One person's thinking must be biased, and only by working together can there be no major omissions. ”

Jia Taijun asked again: "Are you the leader?" ”

Jia Cong nodded: "I am the leader." ”

Jia Taijun nodded slowly: "Okay, good." It is very rare to be able to work together and work together. And the group of children around you are all extraordinary, Ying'er has already let you accept them. If you are born in troubled times, you should be able to join hands to build a country. But now is the prosperous age. ”

Jia Cong snorted: "Now is the juncture from prosperity to decline, I don't just look at Situ Pan." He paused, and said, "What I just said about 'fear of being meritorious and overriding the worry of the master' is just a contradiction. The most important one. ”

Jia Taijun looked at him.

Jia Cong knew in his heart that whether he could get the support of the Gao family or not depended on how he fooled tonight. Then he sorted out the thoughts of the meeting, and said leisurely: "Before the founding of each dynasty, it will be a troubled time." People in troubled times are not as good as dogs, and the so-called 'those who win the hearts of the people win the world' is a somewhat narrow fallacy. ”

Although Jia Taijun was silent, his eyes jumped.

"Persia seized Babylon, Rome occupied Egypt, the Yuan army broke the Song Dynasty, and Spain dominated the Aztecs, none of them won the hearts of the people. The people of our dynasty only saw that the Yuan Dynasty was less than a hundred years old, and some people advocated that they were unpopular. As everyone knows, this is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Babylon, Egypt, and the Aztecs were all great powers, and now only the remnants of monuments are left to hang with their descendants. There is only one thing to end the troubled times, and that is force. When there is a war, no one reasoned with anyone, and the people's hearts were like dust, and they were worthless. ”

Jia Taijun couldn't help but bow slightly: "Although I don't know where the Persian Babylon you are talking about, I can hear some truth." ”

Jia Cong continued: "Only after the four seas are peaceful can the power of the people's hearts be revealed. In the first few decades or even hundreds of years, the people were relieved when the country was first settled, looking forward to living a stable life from now on. The founding monarch also knew that the whole country was impoverished due to military disasters, and reduced taxes, practiced frugality, and tightened their belts to get by, so that the people could recuperate and recuperate, and the national power gradually increased. He smiled bitterly, "However, the life span of people is limited, and the founder of the country will also die." And everyone loves their sons, and they will give their children the best thing, and emperors are also people. Therefore, when the king himself spends his life frugally, it is inevitable that he will forget to let his son be frugal as well. By the time his son ascended the throne, the national power was also flourishing, the people were rich, the new monarch had excellent snacks and clothing, the harem was also enriched, the treasury was not enough, and tax increases were inevitable. ”

Jia Taijun nodded again.

"If there is no war to consume, the people's livelihood will only prosper, and the country will only become richer and richer, and it can afford the ordinary luxuries of the monarch who will come after it. However, it is just an ordinary luxury, and it must not be excessive. Because the throne is passed down from generation to generation, no one can be sure that every generation is good. For example, in the Song Dynasty, if it weren't for a Huizong Zhao Ji, he would not have died so quickly. ”

Jia Taijun said: "Count it carefully, every dynasty and every generation died at the hands of the faint monarch. ”

Jia Cong said with a smile: "There must also be a prosperous world for them to die." Zhao Jiruo was born a few days earlier, the country was poor, and there was nothing to give him luxury. Therefore, the prosperous era was originally a pass that was very easy to get out of the faint king. ”

Jia Taijun glanced at him: "Do you think that this is a faint king?" ”

Jia Cong shook his head: "No, he can only be regarded as a mediocre monarch, and a mediocre monarch will not lose the country." However, the emperor is a faint king. ”

Jia Taijun gasped.

"I don't know what he was like in his early years, but most of the news I heard from everywhere said that he was a Ming Jun. However, if it weren't for his greed for power, his obvious body is no longer complete, and he is unwilling to hand over the country, how could he have the current situation? I heard that Prince Xian Yizhong was a figure, and because he didn't want to be his puppet, he refused to pass on the throne to him. Today, he has ordinary talents, and he picked up a dragon chair out of thin air. He thought that he was obedient and easy to control. As everyone knows, how can a man not be ambitious? It's not too young today, it's obvious that the dragon robe has been added all these years, and it's still controlled by people everywhere, so it's strange to be comfortable! Besides, all the princes don't accept him, can he not be suspicious? Since the king is suspicious, the minister will not be at ease, and if he is not at ease, he will try to protect himself. The kings were not fuel-efficient lamps, and each exerted his strength to extend his authority. The most terrible thing is that the old saint is still holding the military power! The Son of Heaven has no military power, what can he use to suppress this group of brothers? Naturally, the day the old sage leaves, he will hand over the military power. But his old man's life is too long, and by the time he returns to the west, the princes will not be so easy to deal with. My aunt and grandmother have also heard about the royal family in Taiyuan Mansion? ”

Jia Taijun nodded: "I heard what Ying'er said." ”

"The affairs of the royal family are a microcosm of many powerful families. Isn't it the same with the Emperor's House? The fall of dynasties was mostly due to infighting. After a few years, as soon as the old saint leaves, the saint and the princes will inevitably meet each other. The prosperous era suddenly turned into a chaotic era. Jia Cong shook his head, "In my opinion, after a few years, either the sage will destroy the six kings with the assistance of the virtuous king Situ Pan, and the national power will be extremely consumed, and it will take a long time to recuperate before it can be calmed down; Either the six kings will work together to dismantle our dynasty, and the mountains and rivers will still be broken, and it will take a long time to calm down. If it was hundreds of years earlier, it would be nothing, but there would be a cycle in one or two hundred years. Today is different from the past, but it is absolutely impossible to let it go. ”

He reached out and poured himself a cup of tea to eat, and then poured another one. Jia Taijun knew that the words behind him must be important, and he couldn't help but be awe-struck.

Jia Cong smiled bitterly: "Western countries, such as the Netherlands, England, France, Spain, etc., have already had extremely powerful fires. Guns, fire. cannons, and there are already large ships that can be used far away, and there are many soldiers, and the national strength is strong. Human nature is greedy. They didn't mess with us because they were too far away to be able to do so. Nowadays, people can even go to Africa and America, can we go farther than Africa and America? Anyway, Eurasia is a piece of practice. There has always been only one law between countries, and that is the law of the jungle. Natural selection, survival of the fittest, and the law of the jungle. No foreign tribe with a strong army saw that our strength was declining and the people were pitiful, so they took a detour and did not come to provoke us. Whoever bullies people will pick the weak ones. He hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Even if the Western countries are farther away, and next door to us is the Russian state, and their empress today will become Catherine the Great in the coming day, and this country will only let our country go down in history if it is strong." ”

Jia Taijun's eyes widened immediately.

Jia Cong pursed his lips and drank all the tea from Fang Cai. "So I thought I had to try to make this battle either impossible or as quick as possible. I thought about assisting the Son of Heaven and destroying the six kings as soon as possible. If you are just mediocre and not suspicious, that's it. As soon as he was suspicious, I was not sure that I could protect myself. Once the Heavenly Family is suspicious, it is not just a matter of one person, but if it is not guaranteed, it will bring the nine clans to it. My father, brothers and sisters are all good, how can they risk their lives? Therefore, from the ...... From the early years......" He sneered and shook his head. From now on, when Lin Hai was ordered to go to Jiangnan as bait, he died the heart of serving the Son of Heaven. "If you want to finish the battle in the coming day, the only thing you can do is that there is a big gap in the strength of the two sides, or there is an inside bar in one side. In their generation of Situ Emperor Situ and Prince Situ were still alive, the smartest and most powerful Situ Pan was from the saint's side. If you don't separate him from the saint, it will be too difficult for the princes to win the saint very quickly. At that time, it will still be a huge consumption of national strength. Therefore ......"

He bit his lip, stood up, and said to Jia Taijun very solemnly: "If you want to save the people from fire and water in decades, if you want the people of our dynasty not to be slaves of the country, and if you want our country not to be slaughtered by corpses all over the field, the source is now." The combination of the six kings is far from enough, and the virtuous king Situ Pan must be pulled in. He will not turn his face with Jinshang, and there will be endless troubles in the future. ”

Jia Taijun was stunned.

Jia Cong's face was upright, and he was secretly proud in his heart: "Skill: A serious nonsense, upgrade!" "Jia Cong, the bear child of the Red Mansion

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