Today's world is like a pot of oil and water, which seems to be calm and indifferent on the surface, but in fact it is already hot and intense...... I'm afraid it's about to overflow immediately. ”

Liu Wei said in a deep voice: "In fact, the main problem now is the dispute between the noble and the low, since the beginning of Wuzong, the imperial court began to use a large number of cold scholars, in order to suppress and contend with the door valve family, the effect was very good at the beginning, but the class distinction lasted for thousands of years, not human power can be changed, to the present, many of the cold families supported by the royal family, continued to the present, has been slowly assimilated by the world environment, become a new door valve family. ”

For Liu Ji's words, You Yuanfeng deeply thinks so, today's saint, mediocre qualifications, but good at scheming, if only so, the court and hundreds of officials will be divided, and it is impossible to restore the national government, but fortunately, Zhao Zhi excavated and reused Liu Ji, Yang Daosi and Li Zhong, Li Zhong is outside, Liu Ji and Yang Daosi are in charge, Zhao Zhi is in the middle, with such a political structure, in the period of great turmoil at the beginning of his succession, quickly and effectively integrate all forces, concentrate all forces, and finally reverse the situation, pulled the broken ship of the Jin Dynasty, which was about to fall into the abyss, back up.

After Zhao Zhi succeeded to the throne, he reused Liu Wei, Yang Daosi and others, under their efforts, the situation of the court was stable, and hundreds of officials worked together to comprehensively promote the recovery of national strength, but the surface of this calm and harmony was only because of the late Pingzong period, the sudden political disaster, in the face of severe danger, everyone can only unite and work together with the outside world, after so many years, the various forces in the court seem to be well integrated, everyone has struggles, there are compromises, anything, discussed and done, but now, the flexibility between the various factions in the court, has been slowly disappearing, the reason why this is the case, is not because of Zhao Zhi's aging, and the withdrawal of a group of outstanding political leaders such as Yang Daosi and Liu Ji, but because, the fundamental contradiction between them has not been eliminated by the gate valve family and the Hanmen family that is full of the court, and the original alliance is only forced by the situation to do it as a last resort, and now with the retirement of Zhao Zhi, Yang Daosi, Liu Ji and other high-level leaders, the overall situation of the court is gradually loosening, the weakening of control, and the contradictions of the various factions in the court have begun to become clear, which is the trend of the times. Even if Yang Daosi, Zhao Zhi and others are still in their positions, they can only be temporarily suppressed, and cannot be completely eliminated.

Liu Wei's mood was a little agitated, today, there are very few people who can speak at the same level as him, and today's conversation with You Yuanfeng made him a little calm.

Liu Wei continued: "The land of the world, there are dozens of feudal towns, they hold military power, in charge of local military and political power, the government is their own, the sum of their forces far exceeds the imperial court, now the situation, the princes of the major feudal towns have a low-key attitude, obedient to the imperial court, it seems that because the imperial court in the two Longyou wars, successive brilliant victories, they were shocked by the majesty of the imperial court, in fact, it is not, in fact, it is to retreat as an advance, sit and watch its changes, the imperial court is prosperous, they continue to forbear, the imperial court is weak, the world has changed, they will definitely rise up and move, so, There must be no chaos within the imperial court, as long as the court situation is not chaotic, the army will not be chaotic, the army is not chaotic, with the forbidden army and the military strength of Anbei and Longyou, nearly 400,000 troops, the princes of the world will never dare to make any changes. ”

You Yuanfeng's eyes narrowed, and he heard some unspoken meanings from Liu Yu's words: "You mean to say that the political situation in the court will be in danger of collapsing in the future?" ”

Liu Wei said in a deep voice: "I have been in the core of the court for a long time, for the reason for the deep understanding, from the beginning of the emperor's succession to the outbreak of the White Turban Army, these fifteen years, the emperor gradually promoted Yang Daohei, let him become the leader of the gate valve family, the formation of the right phase of the party, the overall planning of all the door valve families, and let me collect the world's poor family of scholars, the formation of the left phase of the party, in this way, although the two parties have become unprecedentedly strong, but as far as the emperor is concerned, it is also very convenient to manage, this kind of balance policy, the early effect is extremely good, Quickly stabilized the situation and people's hearts, but with the outbreak of the rebellion of the White Turban Army, and the following ten years, the battle of Jiangnan, the two battles of Longyou, and the three large-scale Hu people went south, the wars were too frequent, and the finances of the imperial court gradually dried up, and the emperor attached great importance to military power, which was the foundation of his foothold, but, with one war after another, the scale of the war was bigger and bigger, and the size and number of the army were getting bigger and bigger. In a short period of eight years, the Jiangnan region increased taxes thirteen times, the northern region increased taxes seven times, and so on, and so on, the situation has not only improved, but has become worse and worse, and the financial situation has become more and more difficult, and the evil result is that it has begun to stimulate the internal contradictions of the court. ”

You Yuanfeng was silent, although he had been away from the court for many years, he still knew very well about the big and small things in the court.

In recent years, although the Jin Dynasty has achieved a series of brilliant military victories in foreign affairs, but the result of a war, whether it is victory or defeat, the consumption of manpower and material resources is extremely huge, the Jin Dynasty now maintains more than 400,000 standing troops, maintaining such a large army, the annual consumption of materials, will be a very terrifying number, now Zhao Zhi has actually ridden the tiger difficult, to completely solve the financial crisis, the easiest way is naturally to dismantle the army.

Zhao Zhi had the idea of disarmament, but the resistance was too great, the reason is very simple, the larger the number base of the army, the greater the number of official positions.

In this world, bloodline and origin determine everything, just like the emperor's throne, the same is true of the gate valve family, there is only one position for the head of the family, but there are often many heirs of the patriarch, and they treat bloodline and origin more strictly than the royal family.

Zhao Zhi has succeeded to the throne for so many years, in fact, he has done two things, one is to save money, the other is to expand the army, the gun out of the regime, without the support of the army, the regime is very fragile, after decades of development, to Zhao Zhi in his later years, the army of the Jin Dynasty has exceeded 400,000, Zhao Zhi succeeded to the throne at the beginning, in order to integrate the forces of various factions, make huge concessions to the gate valve family, for the children of the nobles to join the army in a comprehensive way, and the speed of promotion, often much faster than the children of the Han family.

For this reason, the children of those gate valve families, in order to enter the official career, began to pour into the army in large numbers, not to say that these children from the door valve family, enter the army for the game, although they are born in a wealthy family, but they are concubines, in fact, they are not treated well in the family, in the blood of the door valve family destined to everything, the status of this kind of people is not much higher than that of slaves, so, they join the army, completely to find a way out, for their own sake, they are no different from others in the army, still have to work hard and work hard, if you don't fight, if you don't fight, you can only live in poverty for a lifetime, this is the bottom line and rules that Zhao Zhi drew for them.