The eldest grandson Wujian was accompanying her husband to study, but he didn't expect him to suddenly lose such a big temper and was taken aback.

When she asked what was going on, she knew that there were five surnames and seven families, namely Longxi Li, Zhaojun Li, Boling Cui, Qinghe Cui, Fanyang Lu, Xingyang Zheng, and Taiyuan Wang. These five surnamed seven families jointly resisted Li Shimin's decree.

"The other six families disagree, I have a certain amount of preparation, but the Li family in Longxi is also against it! Are they crazy? Or do they want to restrict me, the emperor? ”

The eldest grandson said: "Your Majesty, the style of these families for hundreds of years is like this; You don't have to be angry if you can't change it for a while. These people are in control of the world's elite, and I hope that Your Majesty will still try to do it slowly. ”

"I have always wanted to quickly improve people's livelihood and enhance national strength; to pacify the Turks and take revenge; Why don't these people understand? How did you say that the fifth brother did it back then, and how could his policies be implemented so quickly? ”

The eldest grandson Wujian smiled secretly in his heart, his husband has never let people, and he still wants to know the festival beyond the process in his heart?

Thinking of this, she smiled slightly: "How can this be the same? When the fifth brother started, Shandong rebelled the most, was the most seriously damaged, and the strength of the family was the lowest. His policies were all based on the power of the displaced people.

Even this was vigorously obstructed by the Qinghe Cui clan, and in the end, it was Dou Jiande who helped him move the Cui clan out of Shandong, so that he could implement it smoothly.

And our Datang is not to say that he is from a family, and he was also helped by the family in the process of founding the country, so the power of the family is unprecedentedly strong, so now it has been constrained. ”

Li Shimin nodded secretly after hearing this: "What Guanyin said is reasonable, but don't we have anything to do?" ”

"The concubine is not good at governing the country, but Your Majesty can ask the fifth brother, he still has a very good way to deal with the family."

Li Shimin clapped his hands and said: "Guanyin said how good, you are a person who wakes up in a dream." I'll leave him behind tomorrow and see what he has in mind. The queen deserves to be my "good Zuo", and she will remind me more in the future. ”

The next day, Li Shimin stopped Cheng Zhijie, who was in a hurry to go home, after going to the court. After disdainful efforts, Cui Yu, the real princess, finally became pregnant; Lao Cheng's sister-in-law has been settled, of course he can't take it lightly, and he has to run to his wife's side every day to accompany him.

Being left behind by Li Shimin today made him a little puzzled; However, His Majesty the Emperor had a trick, and he still obediently followed him into the imperial study.

The eldest grandson in the room was also there, and the queen asked the maid to make tea for Cheng Zhijie, and Lao Cheng hurriedly thanked him.

Li Shimin recounted what happened recently and asked for his opinion.

Cheng Zhijie frowned slightly, now is the time when the strength of the family is relatively strong, and it is not so simple to deal with them.

He thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, the strength of the family is strong and controls the elite power of the world, but you can't blindly use it, and you can't think about it overnight. I have a few ideas that Your Majesty can consider. ”

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, he originally wanted to listen to his opinion and see if he had any way, but he didn't expect that he still had a lot of ideas at once?

"Fifth brother, hurry up and talk about it, I haven't figured out a way to break my head."

Cheng Zhijie said: "First, let's start from their interior, and Your Majesty will implement the Tui En Order. Now the family is primogeniture. You can use the universal grace as an excuse to let each of the family's children have the right to inherit, dilute their rights, and in the long run, the family will automatically die. ”

Li Shimin nodded slightly and said: "This plan is foolproof, but there is one point, the time is too long, and the effect is too slow, so many of my plans cannot be implemented smoothly." ”

Cheng Zhijie said: "The second way is to promote universal education. I have offered His Majesty two technologies, papermaking and movable type printing, which can greatly reduce the cost of books and facilitate the promotion of education. ”

Li Shimin said: "I have already started to implement this, I have set up a Hongwen Temple in a city, and there are books in it, and everyone is allowed to borrow them. However, these policies have been resisted by the family, and the implementation has not been smooth. What should I do about this? ”

Cheng Zhijie said: "That's for sure, the family will definitely be able to see through the mystery, and it's strange if they agree." But we can't stop, it doesn't work in the territory of the family, we can practice it in other places, and slowly use the power of the silk family. ”

"The family controls the power of the world's elites, and the officials in the court are inextricably linked with them, and these can be implemented, but the effect is still a little slow."

"Then we will only have to go to war directly with the family. Your Majesty is the most capable soldier in the world, so he naturally knows how to fight with others. These five surnames and seven families are not monolithic, the Cui family was the strongest in the past, but they supported Dou Jiande, which made themselves suffer from everyone, and their foundation was greatly damaged, but they were the weakest.

The rest is the Xingyang Zheng family, who is attached to Wang Shichong, but whose strength has been greatly reduced.

The strongest are the Taiyuan Wang family, which pursues "not the king, but the king", and His Majesty's family, the Longyou Li family.

The Longyou Li family needs His Majesty to find a way, I believe that the Emperor Taishang's voice in the Li family is still very large, only His Majesty has the support of the Emperor, and the Longyou Li family has nothing to worry about.

So we are in Guanzhong, Shanxi here can fight for the Li family and fight against the Wang family. Outside, the focus is on breaking through from Qinghe Cui and Xingyang Zheng. Seven families with five surnames can be comprehensively broken through if one breaks through. ”

Li Shimin nodded secretly and said: "The appeal of the Qinghe Cui clan is not as good as before, and the Xingyang Zheng clan is also dependent on me for survival, so it can be used as a breakthrough point; However, I think the resistance force must be not small, I am afraid that it will cause political instability and affect my plan to quell the Turks. ”

"Then let's find a way to transform the family."

"Transformation?" Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Wujian exclaimed together.

"It is becoming more and more impossible for the family to control the political situation, and we can let them move to other directions. Let's say business! ”

"Let the family do business? Will they agree? ”

"There is no way to disagree, they will make the right choice in the face of destruction and transformation. Besides, the status of the Great Demon Kingdom and our Tang Dynasty merchants in the past was not low, and we did not completely deprive them of the right to participate in the scientific examination, but just let them compete fairly with others. ”

Li Shimin nodded and said, "Yes, this is a way for them to accept." After listening to the fifth brother, I was stunned, so I arranged for someone to arrange it. Fifth brother is not early now, how about having lunch at my place? ”

Cheng Zhijie hurriedly excused himself, and Li Shimin said with a smile: "Fifth brother, this is thinking about the wife at home; Let's not be strong. The eldest grandson Wujian couldn't stop sneering when he heard this.

Cheng Zhijie didn't care about the two of them, and hurriedly left the palace to go home. As soon as he left the palace, he saw his former bodyguard, Dong Dazhuang, running over in a hurry.

After Cheng Zhijie stepped down as the demon king, Dong Dazhuang gave up his position as a general and did not choose to serve in the army, but instead became the head of the guards of Cheng Zhijie's county palace.

Dong Dazhuang looked anxious now, and when he saw Cheng Zhijie coming out, he hurriedly pulled Hulei Leopard and ran up and shouted: "Demon King, Demon King, something is wrong, the princess suddenly has intra-abdominal colic, Sun Zhenren and others have already gone for treatment." ”

Cheng Zhijie became hideous when he heard this, and without saying a word, he rushed to Hulei Leopard and Ma Rufei and rushed back to his mansion.

When he entered the inner house, he found that his mother, Sun Sixin, Dongfang Yumei, Pei Cuiyun, Wang Erya and others were already gathered in front of the bed. Cui Yu was sobbing softly on the bed.

Sun Simiao and Hu Li slowly stood up and said, "Demon King, I'm sorry; The child was not saved. ”

Cheng Zhijie's face was pale, he knew Cui Yu's expectations for this child; It was a blow that was really hard for her to accept.

Lao Cheng was relieved by the bedside: "Xiao Yu, don't be sad, as long as you're okay." We are all still young, and there will be many opportunities in the future. ”

Cui Yu couldn't stop crying when he heard it, Cheng Zhijie couldn't help but feel relieved, and at the same time frowned and said to the maid beside him: "What's going on?" When I left in the morning, it was still good, how did it suddenly become like this? ”

Sun Simiao said: "The princess was poisoned, so she had a miscarriage." ”

"What? Poisoning! Cheng Zhijie shouted, and just this one sound came out of his body with a demonic aura like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, which frightened everyone's hearts.

Cheng Zhijie began to think that it was just Cui Yu who fell and had fetal gas, but he didn't expect it to be poisoned! This made Cheng Zhijie blow up, and he shouted: "What's the matter? How could anyone in my palace poison the princess, check it out for me, and find out that I picked his skin. ”

Cui Yu cried even more sadly when she heard it, and the people around her were silent for a while. Dongfang Yumei secretly dragged Lao Cheng and said, "It's made by Xiaohong; After she was poisoned, she committed suicide by hanging herself. ”

When Cheng Zhijie heard this, he still wanted to deflated the ball, and then released a little fire.

Cui Yu struggled to get up and said to Cheng Zhijie: "Demon King, I'm sorry. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have disobeyed you, and as a result, your child was gone. I don't deserve to be your princess anymore. Divorce me, and make me another queen. ”

"What nonsense? You are a victim. How can this be your fault? In fact, this is not Xiaohong's fault, it is this troubled era that has displaced the people, and various heroes have killed each other for their own selfish desires. That's what happened. It has nothing to do with you at all.

Come on, collect Xiaohong's body, don't hurt it, send it to Wagang and Zhang Heng to be buried together! They are all poor people, too. ”

"Yes!" Although Dong Dazhuang was angry and couldn't wait to feed Xiaohong to the dog, he still agreed and went to arrange it according to Cheng Zhijie's requirements. 10