Wang Shichong's heart moved, and he hurriedly said: "The battle of Heng'an was also a sensation back then. In fact, General Han fought well, 10,000 foot cavalry met nearly 100,000 Turkic iron cavalry, although most of the soldiers died in battle, but the enemy was killed no less than 20,000, and finally broke through successfully, but the emperor dismissed General Han and General Li from office, and Liu Long, the assassin of Ulzhou in the army, was beheaded. ”

Li Jing shook his head, and a trace of hatred flashed in his eyes: "If it weren't for the determination to surrender to you and make an appointment as the master and servant, I could only hide the secret in the middle for the rest of my life." At that time, this decision was made by Yang Guang, and at that time he began to consciously squeeze out the military nobles of Guan Long. The Han family is the backbone of the Guanlong aristocracy, even if his uncle Han Baohu died early, but his second brother Han Seng Shou and third brother Han Hong are also famous generals, plus my brother Li Duan was a general at the time, and even I have an official body, so I will naturally be jealous of Yang Guang. ”

"The battle of Heng'an back then was really weird, according to the lord's later words, Liu Long, the assassin of Ulzhou, was the first to receive a military report, saying that the Turkic army was only 5,000, but it was just to be taken captive. So we only dispatched 10,000 people to meet the attack, but after arriving in Heng'an, we found that we encountered 100,000 enemy horsemen. The enemy was outnumbered, and in the end, more than 2,000 people could stand out, which was already considered a narrow escape. ”

When Wang Shichong heard this, he gasped: "What does the pharmacist mean that the defeat of Heng'an back then, was someone deliberately framed?" ”

Li Jing nodded seriously: "At that time, the information was first transmitted by Liu Long, but afterwards Liu Long was beheaded, except for killing people and killing people. Is there any other explanation? ”

Wang Shichong nodded solemnly: "So back then, the pharmacist took the initiative to go to the Yue Guo Mansion. mentioned the friendship with the heroes of the world. You weren't really trying to get an official for yourself. But I want to make friends with the Hongnong Yang family, thinking that I will help? ”

Li Jing smiled slightly: "Yes, Li has observed for several years and found that the relationship between Yue Guogong and Yang Guang is not as monolithic as rumored by the outside world, Yang Guang seems to have been alienating and guarding against Yue Guogong, but just regards Yuwenshu and Yu Zhongwen as his own people." Therefore, after discussion, the Li family and the Han family decided to let Li take the initiative to go to the Yue Guo Mansion in the name of seeking refuge in the official. Let's see if Yang Su is willing to form an alliance with us. ”

Wang Shichong laughed: "It's a pity that Yang Su didn't see the true meaning of the pharmacist back then, and just went to ask the pharmacist for an official." There is no response to the cooperation that you are really interested in. ”

Li Jing sighed: "Yang Su, the Duke of Yueguo, is peerlessly talented, if he could cooperate sincerely with the servants and the former emperors and ministers back then, he would be able to open a good story for the ages, and Yang Guang would not have ascended to the throne, and we would not have to be forced to do this rebellious thing in order to avoid disasters like now, and make friends with careerists from all walks of life against their will." ”

Wang Shichong's voice also turned low: "Yes, it's useless to talk about this. We still have to look to the future. Pharmacist, as you see it. What should we do now? ”

Li Jing thought for a while and said, "This Yingzhou will be handed over to the lord to manage, and the land of Jingxiang cannot be completely in the hands of Xiao Milling." Whether you support Chen Ling or run it yourself, you can't give up this place to that Xiao Mill. According to Li's observation over the past year, Lei Shimeng, the head catcher in the state, and Dong Jingfu, the deputy head catcher, are all Xiao Xiao's subordinates. In addition, in the following eight counties, Zhang Xiu of Handong County and Yang Daosheng of Fengxiang County are also Xiao Miao's people. ”

Wang Shichong asked, "Is it Xiao Ling's person or Chen Ling's person?" Pharmacist, this is crucial. ”

Li Jing nodded affirmatively: "It's Xiao Mill's person, it's wrong." Chen Ling should be in charge of assisting Xiao Mo here, and by the way, he reported Xiao Miao's every move to Queen Xiao, and Li Mou has also been observing this Chen Ling, and he has not found that he has managed his own forces here. Maybe it's because you don't have that money, maybe it's because you don't have that guts. ”

Wang Shichong said: "Very good, next we have to find a way to drive these people left by Xiao Mo to other places, and we can't let them stay in Yingzhou." In the past few years of my tenure here, I will run Yingzhou well. But what are the pharmacists' plans? ”

Li Jing sighed and said: "Li Mou has actually made it clear just now, now that Yang Guangxin has ascended the throne, we and other idle officials who take long leave can no longer be like before, and they all need to return to their posts, otherwise if Yang Guang takes away this official body under the excuse that the official is not diligent, then even the livelihood of the family will become a problem." ”

When Li Jing said this, he glanced up at Wei Zheng and said with a smile: "Li said when I first met at the city gate today that Mr. Wei advances and retreats freely, and Li really admires it, but he can't learn it." Because Mr. Wei is now here with the lord, he naturally doesn't have to worry about food and clothing, and our Li family is a big family, and now they all rely on Li's money to make a living, and now if he loses his office, the whole family will have to drink the northwest wind. ”

Wei Zheng smiled: "In that case, why didn't the pharmacist take the 20,000 money that Yue Guogong gave back then?" ”

Li Jing waved his hand and said, "Li thought it was a temptation of Yue Guogong at the time, and wanted to see if Li was a snob, of course he couldn't ask for money." ”

Wei Zheng nodded and said, "But listening to the pharmacist, you will no longer be able to walk the world and connect with the heroes this time, right?" ”

Li Jing smiled slightly, and a hint of intrigue flashed in his eyes: "A person who is a hero in tandem doesn't have to walk the world, it's okay to be in Luoyang, the eastern capital." ”

"I have already thought about this, after Yang Guang ascends the throne, if the imperial examination is really opened, there will inevitably be a large number of officials replaced, and there should be no shortage of talented people among these dismissed officials, and Li will find an opportunity to make friends with these people."

Wei Zheng's expression suddenly became stern: "Lord, this matter mentioned by the pharmacist is very important, and only when we really get the support of a large number of families can we take over the world." The alliance between the Duke of Yue and our can pull some great clans, but the support of the middle and lower class clans is also indispensable. ”

Wang Shichong's eyes flashed green: "Xuancheng, go on." ”

Wei Zheng's eyes flashed, and his tone was gentle: "Back then, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up, and the world responded, but the Qin Dynasty could be eliminated in the end." It was Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu who became the co-lord of the world, after Xiang Yan, the general of the Chu State. If it weren't for Xiang Yu's hot head. and wanted to divide the kings. Driving the big reversal of history, it will never be Liu Bang who will have the last laugh. ”

"Now another 800 years have passed since the era of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, lord, pharmacist, think about it carefully, in these 800 years, whether it is the last chaos of the two Han Dynasty or the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In every troubled era, in the end, can the hegemony of the dynasty be established, but have there ever been ordinary people? Without the support and approval of the family, who can establish their own dynasty hegemony? ”

Wang Shichong shook his head and said, "But what about the five nonsense? Those foreign nationalities are also Hu people, and without the support of the Han family, they can still let Shenzhou Lu sink and establish the Hu regime of the Northern Dynasty. If it weren't for the former emperor standing on behalf of Zhou as a relative of the Han people, I'm afraid that you and I would be a member of the Hu dynasty. ”

Wei Zheng smiled and said, "The lord is only half right. Not to mention that starting from the Northern Wei Dynasty established by Tuoba Xianbei, the Hu people have been forced to make concessions to the Han family. Sinicization in exchange for the support of the Han family. Even when the officers and soldiers of the Six Towns revolted, the Hu people did not waver in this policy. ”

"There is another one, that is, when the Wuhu Rebellion in China, all these Hu people were based on the entire nation, hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people collectively entered the Central Plains."

Just like the Xianbei of the Murong clan, he gave up the entire Liaodong and went south into the Central Plains. And Tuoba Xianbei also left the desert, moved south, and gave up the desert to Rouran. Only in this way can they have the possibility of entering the Central Plains, if only a hundred thousand people come, then they will not be able to gain a foothold at all, even if they conquer some states and counties for a while, it is impossible to garrison them for a long time. ”

The more Wei Zheng spoke, the more excited he became, and his tone became slightly higher: "And what do we have?" Although you are from the surname Zhaowu Jiu, he does not have any accounts and subordinates except for his own family!"

"Although you have now built up an underground network of forces throughout the country, most of your men are hired Han Chinese, not his people. The reason why these people are working for you is only based on money to buy, the loyalty is questionable, and the number is only tens of thousands, it is impossible to rely on this person to take over the world. ”

"My lord, although the Han families are also intriguing and conspiring, if a Hu people in the Western Regions who have no foundation play this hand against them, then they will fight and exclude you together with the enemy."

"In Xuancheng's humble opinion, you should divide one side in the troubled times, then surrender to the real king, obtain the title of a prince or even a prince, and then intermarry between several generations and Han families, and slowly integrate into the mainstream group of Han people."

"So I don't doubt that in the troubled times, the lord can once become the most powerful and powerful person, but I am afraid that when you are complacent, feel that you are the most powerful, and want to reign in the world, you will be beaten by others together, and finally end up with nothing. My lord, I don't know these words are good, but for the sake of our future, I must explain them to you. ”

Wang Shichong lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "Xuancheng, is the support of the Han family you said really that important?" In my opinion, the big families know how to protect themselves, as long as I give them enough benefits, why don't they cooperate with me, Wang Shichong? ”

"Even in the early days of the Wuhu Chaohua, like the Huns Liu Yuan and the Qianren Shile, they could still establish their own empires, and many families in the north were not officials in their courts?"

Li Jing smiled and said: "What Xuan Cheng means, Li Mou understands a little, lord, Xuan Cheng is saying that you don't have your own clan, and it is impossible to have a group of clansmen who follow you like Wuhu." When it comes to the troubled times, the identity of you, a Hu person, as rumored by the outside world, will restrict ordinary Han people from joining his army, and in the troubled times, if there is no strong army, there will be no qiē. ”

"The family is not only a symbol of noble status, but also controls a large number of fields and shops, and the tenants and customers attached to these families are in the thousands. In troubled times, their shops can generate large sums of money, their fields can produce huge amounts of military rations, and their tenants can quickly arm themselves into armies. ”

"The power of one or two great families may be limited, but if hundreds or thousands of such families are combined, it is basically an unstoppable force. You don't have your own clansmen, and you can't pull up enough military power to suppress all the big clans, so you can't get the support of the Han family, so you won't be the real king who has the last laugh. Hyun Cheng. That's what it means. ”

Wei Zheng touched the short beard on his lips. smiled: "The pharmacist is very knowledgeable. Good eloquence! ”

Wei Zheng turned to Wang Shichong, and said: "Lord, in fact, I have always been very strange, it seems that in your eyes, there is no distinction between high and low in this world, although Wei knows that your ambition is noble and you are self-made, but it is really incompatible with this world." ”

Wang Shichong sighed: "They are all raised by their parents." They are all flesh and blood, so why do they have to be distinguished by their wealth and origin? Chen Sheng shouted out the king and the general, rather there is a kind of this, isn't this sentence wrong? ”

Wei Zheng's eyes sparkled, and he said loudly: "Wei thinks that this is of course inappropriate, although Wei also admits that there may not be no heroes in the grassy family, and there will always be some unscrupulous descendants among the Gaomen clans, but in general, the Gaomen family has a long history and honor, and their children have received both the education level and the environment in which they grew up. They are far stronger than ordinary civilians, and the ability and knowledge of the children of the family are far stronger than ordinary people. ”

Wang Shichong shook his head: "Xuancheng." These high-ranking families have already had too many advantages over ordinary commoners in terms of talent, and if they can't outperform others in terms of talent, but have to pass the restrictions of the system and only grasp the highest official position in the hands of the children of the family, then sooner or later there will be people like Xiao Mo who will lead disgruntled civilians to rebel and cause chaos in the whole world. ”

Wei Zheng shook his head, and there was a hint of coldness in his smooth voice: "What happens after the chaos is over?" After changing the emperor, it is still the family that controls the world, and talented civilian heroes like Dou Jiande can't have the last laugh, and the highest official positions still can't escape the hands of these families. ”

"Lord, you should know a wise saying, there is no cold man in the upper grade, and there is no scholar in the lower grade. This is the hierarchy that we Han people have formed over thousands of years, and we cannot violate it. ”

Wang Shichong sighed: "Xuancheng, this system is really a legacy for thousands of years, constantly blocking the upward space of those with extraordinary abilities among the civilians from the grassroots. When I read history books, I always covered the scroll and pondered that in the early days of each dynasty, this system of large families taking turns to sit in the village would promote the development and stability of the dynasty in a certain way. ”

"Because at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the status of the family was not completely stable, and it was still facing competition between other middle-class families and other families, forcing the children of the family to work hard to maintain their family status. Therefore, the family and royal relatives can also play a positive role in promoting the development of the whole society. ”

"However, after each dynasty reached the middle and late stages, the status of these big families was stable, and they occupied a dominant position both in political power and economy.

Therefore, at the end of each dynasty, there will be such a super-family monopoly and control of the country's political and economic lifeline, and the children of the clan will have a decrease in their ability to guide and a rise in greed because of the lack of competition. The final result is all from the common people or the heroic people of the middle family, instigating the people of the world to rise up and change the dynasty. ”

"Xuancheng, why can't our nation and our country never get rid of this repeated fate? Isn't it because of this system that people are born unequal? In fact, how can this be a good thing for the family? If high-ranking officials are born to be obtained, how can the children of the big families work hard, and how can such children compete with the children of the middle scholar clan who desperately want to make contributions? ”

Li Jing clapped his hands violently and praised: "The lord said it too well. Although Li had this idea before, he has never been as deep and mature as the lord thinks, and he always has the feeling of being powerless to serve the country and having no way to be promoted. ”

Wei Zheng's voice was still calm and revealing a trace of coldness: "Lord, the hearts of the people in the world are not something that we ordinary people can change, the equality you envision only exists in a dream, according to what you said, as long as there is an emperor and an official, then there is inequality, why can someone be born an emperor, dominating the power of life and death of the whole world, while the vast majority of ordinary people are born to only run around and work for three meals a day?" ”

"Lord, Wei admires the compassion of your kind of Buddhism, but you are not a Buddha, you don't have so much magic power to make all beings equal, even a Buddha can't change the way of heaven in this world. Going against the sky, in the end, you can only let yourself be crushed, no one can change this way of heaven, we can only follow the trend, this is Wei's heartfelt words, and please ask the lord to learn from the heart. ”

Wang Shichong smiled: "How can I not understand Xuancheng's good intentions, only our brothers will be so heart-to-hearted!" I'm actually not stupid, I know that it is impossible for us ordinary people to establish a truly equal heavenly dynasty, which only exists in the era of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors and Holy Kings of ancient legends. By the way, in fact, the imperial examination that Yang Guang is about to implement is a bit of a break from the meaning of this kind of hereditary control of official titles and titles. ”

Wei Zheng said coldly: "So no matter what Yang Guang's motive is, this move is against the sky, and there will not be too good results." In the matter of moving the capital to Luoyang, he offended the Guanlong military nobles who were mainly Hu generals, and this imperial examination would offend the Han family in Shandong. ”

"If these two groups of people don't support him, and only rely on some children from middle-class families to be admitted to the imperial examination, and then slowly mix up their qualifications from the grassroots officials, I'm afraid that they can't wait for these people to become high-ranking officials, and the world will already be in chaos."

Wang Shichong shook his head: "Actually, although I really don't look down on the emperor's character, but I have to raise my hands in favor of his approach, if the imperial examination can really succeed, it will undoubtedly open a channel for the middle and lower class people to become officials, and it can also bring healthy competition to the children of the family, which is not a bad thing." ”

Wei Zheng sighed: "My lord, since ancient times, no matter how good the law is, it is to change the ancestral system and offend the people who are now benefiting from these ancestral systems. Far away Shang Yang changed the law, and more recently there was Wang Mang's reform, all of whom had to die well, Wang Mang was even more dead, the country was destroyed, and the people were destroyed, because their reform offended the powerful conservative forces, and they had many defects, so it was difficult to continue. ”

"Our new emperor, is he a saint like the ancient kings? Apparently not. Even those of us are not optimistic about his character, and we are all doing these tandem heroes now, and we will one day rebel against him in the future, let alone others. ”

"Lord, believe me, Yang Guang will definitely make a big mess in the world, because he doesn't know how to really govern the country, and he is just a son and brother who plays with conspiracies and tricks and is so happy. Even this method of the imperial examination is just a trick by him to promote a group of upstarts who are grateful to him in order to set up a powerful old minister like the lord who was born in a big family, and it is far less noble than the lord said. ”

Wei Zheng's eyes were blazing, and his tone was sonorous and powerful: "The same thing is completely different for a person who is dedicated to the people and has high moral character to do it, and a person with a dark belly and a sinister belly who is despicable and shameless. Just like preparing for possible troubled times in the future, can what we do now be the same as what Xiao Mo is doing? They are rebelling against their own ambitions, and we are just leaving a way out for our own survival. ”

"Therefore, Yang Guang will not use the imperial examination to select any real talents. Don't forget, in the last years of the emperor's reign, the emperor ordered the abolition of schools in the world, there were no township schools and village villas, and most of the children of ordinary families could not even read and write. ”

"Yang Guang just needs to pick out some sycophants who obey his words in this way, so as to support his vanity of becoming the first emperor of the ages."

Li Jing nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, he is indeed such a person, in order to show that he is broad-minded, the emperor recently ordered that He Ruobi and Gao Xi were re-awarded some honorary official positions, but they have no real power." ”

"The people who really grasp the major policies are Su Wei, Yu Shiji, Pei Shiju, Pei Yun, and Yu Wenshu. These people have talents, but they are far inferior to Gao Xi and not as good as the lord, but they know how to cater to the emperor's thoughts. ”

Wang Shichong sighed: "If you can't protect yourself, then you can only take advantage of the situation and take the tyrant's world." ”

Li Jing said: "But we still have to prepare for this, right." When I return to Luoyang, I'll see if there are any outstanding talents worth befriending. (To be continued......)