Chapter 441: Chai Rong's Ambition
Pei Yu died, and he died at the door of the palace, and his brains were knocked out.
Chai Rong gritted his teeth, "The old thief disobeyed the holy decree and committed suicide in the temple, he is a man without a king and a father!" The embroidered messenger immediately raided the Pei family and sent all the old thief's relatives to prison, don't let one go! ”
The embroidered messenger immediately received the order.
Chai Rong was still angry, and said to Ye Hua: "Didn't the old thief prepare a coffin, he was prescient!" It's a pity that I didn't meet his wishes, smashed the coffin, threw the old thief's body outside the city, and let the wolves chew it! ”
Ye Hua understood Chai Rong's anger very well, but he felt that these things were not busy.
"Your Majesty, the minister dares to ask Your Majesty to think deeply, why did Pei Yu dare to come to death knowing that he was dead? His Majesty didn't kill him, but just let him push Jingtian, why did Pei Yu suddenly commit suicide? ”
Chai Rong rolled his eyelids and chuckled twice.
"Ye Qing, are you taking the test?"
"The minister doesn't dare, the minister just thinks that he has to prescribe the right medicine, the old man is not even afraid of death, but why don't he dare to promote Jingtian?"
Yes, it is said that the only death is the only death that is difficult through the ages.
Pei Yu came with a will to die, and he did die, but he died differently than expected!
Why did Pei Yu dare to come to advise?
Because behind him stood a large group of scholars.
According to common sense, these people will not jump out so quickly, they still have to accumulate strength, wait for the strength to be sufficient, and then compete with the emperor.
During Guo Wei's reign, the Shiren Group lived very comfortably.
The world has changed from chaos to rule, and the martial arts have been restrained, and many rules have been set, all of which are beneficial to the civil officials and scholars, and they will quickly recover their vitality, and if they continue according to this trend, they will be able to fight against the emperor in less than twenty years, and even win the battle. Just like the dynasties have done!
But since Chai Rong ascended the throne, the situation has changed, especially Ye Hua instigated the emperor to let the warriors enter the officialdom...... This move completely angered the scholars, originally they were sure to win, but now, ten years, twenty years, maybe three or five years later, the Wufu Group will be able to suppress them again!
And this kind of suppression, there is no chance to fight back!
Only a few dozen people are admitted to the imperial examination once every four years, and a battle can give birth to thousands of martial artists who are qualified to be officials, and with the pace of the Great Zhou Dynasty's march, the martial arts group will become stronger and stronger, until the entire world is under control...... Now, the scholars can't bear it anymore, and they must fight a battle of life and death!
This is a struggle between two huge groups, and there must be people who act as pawns, some people as flanks, some people waving flags and shouting in the front, and some people sitting in the back to operate the market...... A struggle of this scale is much more brutal than a struggle in front of the army!
Pei Yu is honest, upright, from a famous family, looking at his resume, there are almost no bad deeds, and he can't catch the slightest trick...... So he took the lead and became the vanguard officer of this big war.
He went to arrest Fu Zhaoyuan, and Pei Yu was ready at that time, wanting to fight with Fu Yanqing for life and death, but King Wei was happy, raised the flag and surrendered, bought one and got one free, and handed over his two sons to him.
The first punch hit the cotton bale, Pei Yu flashed his waist and vomited blood.
It was easy to recover and throw a second punch.
This time he met the more powerful Ye Hua, and directly threw out the Ida system, Pei Yu's fearlessness, and the support of the Shiren Group behind him.
He didn't know the names of these people, he didn't know where they were hiding...... But Pei Yu knows that if he charges into battle for the benefit of the scholars, the scholars of the world will do their best to protect him, protect his family and clan, and even if he dies, he can be immortal and become a famous minister in the history books!
So he is fearless and can spare a life!
But if he restores Jingtian as Ye Hua requested, it is tantamount to going against the people of the world, and those people behind him will immediately tear him to pieces!
I still want to go down in history, so let's dream of it!
Wait for the stench for 10,000 years!
Pei Yu could die, but he couldn't bear the consequences of being abandoned by the scholars, so he chose to commit suicide and ended in the most tragic way!
Chai Rong, who had calmed down, pressed his hand to his forehead and fell into deep thought.
It turns out that there is something more terrible in this world than death...... His Majesty the Emperor raised his head and said blankly: "Ye Qing, if I lose, a hundred years later, will Pei Yu become a great hero who sacrifices his life for righteousness?" Highly regarded by Shilin? ”
Ye Hua grinned bitterly and said helplessly: "That's true, so the minister dares to ask Your Majesty to think deeply!" ”
Chai Rong suddenly sank his face and said angrily: "What are you thinking about? Have you made a decree against myself? Or, let me give Pei Yu an official and give him mourning? Dream! I am the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and no one can make me bow my head except God! ”
What a domineering emperor!
Ye Hua smiled easily, he was most afraid that Chai Rong's will was not firm enough, once he couldn't bear the pressure, the people below would be easy to be unlucky...... Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty is known as a virtuous monarch, didn't he also betray his confidant minister Chao Cuo!
For an emperor, there can be no talent, but you can't do without persistence, you can see the right direction, just stick to it, more important than anything else, the most terrible thing is to repeat and be indecisive, that is the real disaster!
In fact, there is no need to doubt Chai Rong's courage, an emperor who dares to destroy the Buddha and dare to fight with the immortals has nothing to fear! It's just a group of scholars, he hasn't paid attention to it yet......
"Your Majesty, the minister means to restore the Jingtian system, and he doesn't dare to do it if he can scare Pei Yu to death. It just proves that the well field system is what the scholars are most afraid of, and if Your Majesty wants to completely cut off the scholar group, he should start from the field system, which is the root of everything! The more they oppose it, the more they have to do it! ”
Chai Rong frowned, to be honest, he didn't think about restoring the Jingtian system.
"Ye Qing, after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Jingtian system could not be maintained, Wang Mang reformed the system and tried to restore the Jingtian, what the result was, you know clearly...... Now that you are suggesting that I restore Idada, what are your thoughts? ”
"Your Majesty, the minister has no other thoughts, the key to the restoration of the well field as the minister said is that the whole world is not the king's land, this sentence is just!"
Chai Rong groaned: "Isn't this the case now? I am rich all over the world, and in the territory of the Great Zhou, which piece of land is not mine? ”
"Then why is there a manor along the Yellow River, and why is there still the family's land?" Ye Hua asked with a grin.
Chai Rong took a deep breath, and suddenly he clenched his fists, slammed the book case hard, and snorted angrily: "I was deceived, I was deceived by them!" Every day I say that I am rich all over the world, and that I am the lord of the world! But what can I do? Half of the fields in the world are not in my hands, and the scholars do not pay taxes and do not serve...... When you become an official, you want me to give them a lot of money, it's unreasonable! ”
Chai Rong's breathing became heavier and heavier, and Yingting's facial features were so angry that they moved.
Anyone who finds out that they have been deceived for many years will be full of anger.
Chai Rong intervened and questioned Ye Hua.
"Ye Qing, you say, am I the lord of the world, or are the scholars the lord of the world? Did I do things for them, or did they give me courtiers? ”
Ye Hua restrained his smile, "Your Majesty, this question is too difficult, I'm afraid that only chickens and eggs can be compared." Let's talk about the Ida system first and see if it works! ”
Chai Rong grimaced and nodded reluctantly...... According to the information that has been handed down, the so-called well field is the land system of Zhou Tianzi's Gyeonggi Dynasty, which is divided into public and private fields, and the land here is fertile with irrigation ditches, abundant water sources, high yields, and abundant harvests. Zhou Tianzi gave these lands to scholars or countrymen to cultivate...... The people of the country do not pay taxes, but only military levies and military service. In peacetime, they pay a small jar of rice and a bundle of pasture grass to the state every year as military expenses. In wartime, he served as a soldier and prepared his own weapons, food, and military supplies. Chinese people have the right to be soldiers and receive education, so they are also called "martial artists" or "scholars".
Outside of the well field, it is far from the city. The soil there is barren and does not produce much, so it is distributed to the people who live in the wilderness. The Shu people live in the wilderness, so they are also called "wild people", and they are called "hooligans" with contempt. The Shu people did not have any rights, only the obligation to cultivate the well fields and perform miscellaneous labor for the Son of Heaven.
Other lords at all levels also followed Zhou Tianzi's practice, so in the Zhou Dynasty, the court and the opposition, the country and the Shu people, were two parallel lines with a clear distinction.
If you figure this out, you can actually understand the reason why the Ida system can't be maintained.
To put it simply, Zhou Tianzi, as the most powerful feudal lord, first chose a piece of land that was most suitable for cultivation, and he divided the land into neat well fields, built roads, dug canals, and let the countrymen cultivate on them, assuming various obligations to maintain his dominance.
For those remote and remote lands, who had no time to take care of and could not rule directly, he divided them into vassals and let them be responsible, so that the layers down constituted a hierarchical feudal system.
If there is no development in society, and the resource endowments of all vassal states are the same, this system of feudal feuds may continue forever...... But the problem is that with the progress of farming technology and the emergence of iron farming tools, those remote and barren lands can also produce more food, and the common people have cultivated more fertile land......
At this time, some feudal monarchs carried out strict reforms, promoted law changes, and constantly absorbed talents from all walks of life to strengthen their strength. The absolute superiority originally established by Zhou Tianzi was weakened, and even the strength of the Son of Heaven was not as good as that of the princes, so it naturally reached the point where the etiquette was bad and the happiness collapsed, and it was unsustainable.
"Your Majesty, the so-called universal world is not the king's land, in fact, in the Zhou Dynasty, it was not done. The land that is truly in the hands of the Son of Heaven is only the circle around the royal city! The minister's words to restore the well field are not to draw a circle around Kaifeng, but to bring all the land in the world into the hands of His Majesty...... All land must be paid, and no one is exempt! Only when a part of the output of a piece of land is given to His Majesty, does this land belong to the imperial court! Only in this way will Your Majesty be the true lord of the world! ”
Chai Rong listened with enthusiasm, and really held every piece of land in his hands, how much power and power should such a son of heaven have!
"Ye Qing, you said that I was moved...... But Wang Mang wanted to do this, and he lost at the beginning! Chai Rong stroked his forehead with his hand, "How are you letting me?" ”