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Wang Bo and Meng Rang raised a banner in Changbai Mountain to rebel, with the slogan "Anti-conscription, anti-Eastern Crusade." ”

Henan, Hebei and Qilu were the closest to the battlefield of the Eastern Crusade, and in accordance with the principle of conscription and conscription in the vicinity to save costs, civilians in Henan, Hebei and Qilu were conscripted in large numbers. When the main labor force went to the battlefield, farming became a problem, and the old and weak women and children who stayed at home were barely able to pay their rents.

The Eastern Crusade needed various war materials such as grain, grass, silk, and silk, and these war materials had to be borne by the local government, and in order to complete the task, the local government could only increase the intensity of collection, so a contradiction arose.

There are unforeseen storms and clouds in the sky, but at this moment, the lower reaches of the river are flooded, the fields are submerged, and the grains are not harvested. The victims are waiting for the government's relief, and the government is in a predicament, not only can not collect rent, but has to open a warehouse for relief, which will definitely not complete the task assigned by the imperial court, but this task is a hard indicator, whoever can't complete it, whose official hat will be gone. In order to keep his official hat, the government did not hesitate to give up the victims and sent the food and other materials that were originally used for disaster relief in the official warehouse and the righteous warehouse to the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition.

The victims of the disaster were desperate and took risks.

In order to gain a foothold in the general righteousness and win more support, Wang Bo and Meng Rang put forward the slogan of "anti-conscription and anti-Eastern crusade". If there was no Eastern Crusade, the government would not have levied unrestrained conscription, let alone sent disaster relief materials from the official warehouse and Yicang to the battlefield of the Eastern Crusade; If the labor force is at home, even if the flood explodes, there is still the ability to provide disaster relief, plus the government opens warehouses to release grain, natural disasters will not evolve into **.

However, a closer look at this slogan shows that it coincides with the position of the conservative wing in the DPRK and China. Who in the imperial court was against the Crusade? Conservatives, of course. Seeing that the victims had risen up and that the rebels had raised anti-Crusades, the conservatives took advantage of the situation and did their best to sabotage the Crusades. Whatever the means used, if the crusade failed to achieve the desired results, the conservatives won, giving them a "sharp weapon" against the reformers.

Taking a step back, even if the Eastern Crusade was won and the emperor and reformers built great martial arts, the domestic situation deteriorated sharply due to the Eastern Crusade, and the stable environment needed to promote reform no longer existed, so that although the emperor and the reformers won the military victory, they were defeated in the political process, and the pre-war goals were still not achieved, so the reform came to a standstill, and the conservatives had the last laugh and dealt a heavy blow to the emperor and the reformers in the political situation.

This is the fundamental reason why since Wang Bo and Meng Rang Changbai Mountain raised the flag, the wave of uprisings quickly swept across the north and south of the river. It is not that the government does not fight chaos, nor does the Yingyang Mansion not suppress thieves, still less can the responsibility for the smoke spread be shifted to the Eastern Crusade and natural disasters, but the fundamental contradictions within the ruling stratum of Middle-earth have finally exploded under the attack of internal reform and foreign wars. This is an irretrievable and unstoppable "**", and this "**" explosion will inevitably lead to the ongoing internal reform and foreign war into a crisis of failure, and once the internal reform and foreign war fail, the force to suppress the "**" will dissipate violently, and the "**" will inevitably show an explosive exhibition, and the tide of uprising will inevitably set off earth-shattering waves and sweep the entire Middle Earth, and the great cause of reunification may collapse, and the Middle Earth may once again move towards division and war.

This is the last thing Cui Deben wants to see.

The rebel army is a double-edged sword, it can destroy its opponent as well as hurt itself, and once it gets out of control, the consequences are unimaginable. Even if the conservatives achieved their desired goal, destroyed the emperor and the reformers, and put an end to the reforms, the core of the conservatives, the wealthy families, would not want to be left alone, and they would definitely pay a heavy price for it. Killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, this is a battle in which both sides are injured and even the jade is burned, and history proves that countless wealthy families buried in the dust of history disappeared in this bloody and cruel battle.

This is a question of "degree", and this "degree" is too difficult to grasp. The leader of the rebel army is never willing to be a "chess piece", let alone work hard but sit in a wedding dress for others. At this stage, they need the support of wealthy families, and the wealthy families also need them to achieve their own political goals. But when the rebel army reaches a certain scale, and the wealthy families gradually lose control over them, it will be difficult to grasp the "degree", once the balance of strength between the two sides is subverted, the rebel army will fight against the wealthy families with independent emerging political forces, and the survival crisis of the wealthy families will come.

However, this is only one of the worst consequences that may occur in the future, according to historical experience, in the process of competing for hegemony, although the wealthy family is on the cusp, but risks and opportunities coexist, as long as the strategy is appropriate, not only can avoid risks, but also grasp the opportunity to grow stronger. In this regard, wealthy families with hundreds or even thousands of years of inheritance are too experienced to be worried. Therefore, although Cui Deben is worried about the future situation in Middle-earth, he is still full of confidence in the anti-risk ability of Cui's big ship, he is not worried about Cui's future, what he needs to consider is how to use the power of Bai Yishi and the rebel army to the greatest extent to set off a big storm that swept Middle-earth in the shortest possible time, and then completely bury the beast called "reform" that has opened its bloody mouth to the wealthy family.

At this point, Duan Wencao's thoughts are the same as Cui Deben's. Duan Wencao asked Cui Deben for assistance in his letters, and behind the request for help, he clearly showed his appeasement attitude towards the Qilu Righteous Army, and his accommodation, connivance, and even unprincipled tolerance made Cui Deben see the quiet change of the Beihai Duan clan's stance on reform after the fall of the "big banner" Duan Wenzhen.

Duan Wenzhen came from a family, but he was a staunch reformer, and the reformers who surrounded the two generations of emperors after the unification of China and Earth were all proud of their families without exception.

During the period of the division of Middle-earth, no matter what kind of political system was implemented in large and small kingdoms, in its glamorous surface, the core of the package was the political system of the gate lord clan, and the authority was held by the great nobles who had been passed down from generation to generation, or the emerging nobles who rose with military merits, and the lower nobles were not qualified to enter the upper echelons of power at all. After reunification, China has entered a new era, and the political system must of course adapt to the new era after reunification, and only in this way can we maintain unity and move toward prosperity, so reform is the trend of the times, the desire of the people, and the inevitability of history, which is unstoppable. However, after the reunification, it is still those big nobles who hold the authority, they must first safeguard their own interests, and to protect their own interests, they must first ensure the peaceful unification of Middle Earth, and only the general environment of peaceful reunification can further promote the development and growth of wealthy families. The two complement each other, but there is a fierce conflict in the pursuit of interests.

The simple truth is that if you make the pie bigger, the general interests of China and Turkey will increase, and all social strata will benefit, but the problem is that if you want to make the big pie bigger, you must make concerted efforts, and those who cannot contribute will be lazy and lazy, and the distribution will be unfair, and once the unfairness in distribution is strict, the contradictions between all social strata will intensify, and the society will be turbulent, and this will affect the general environment of the peaceful reunification of China and Turkey, and affect the increase of the total interests of China and Turkey.

Therefore, under the premise that the great aristocracy controls the authority, the general idea of the reform is to find a balance between making a big pie to increase the total interests of the Middle Earth and maintaining the increase of its own interests, that is, the economic reform takes precedence over the political reform.

The rapid development of the economy and the sharp increase in the total economic volume have benefited all levels of society, but the unfair distribution has become more and more stringent, especially the absolute number of Han men, most of whom are emerging aristocrats who have risen with military exploits, and are full of resentment towards the unfair distribution of power and wealth. The high aristocracy among the emerging aristocrats who have risen with military merits also lags far behind the wealthy families who have been passed down from generation to generation in the distribution of power and wealth due to irrevocable reasons such as history and culture, and because of the gap in comprehensive strength, they have a tendency to be gradually driven out of the top of power. As a result, the emerging high-ranking aristocracy that rose with military exploits, and the sheer number of poor families, became the main force to promote reform.

The fierce contradictions within the ruling class, which had been led by unfair distribution, threatened the peaceful reunification of Middle-earth, and began to force the high-level power in Middle-earth to carry out reforms in the political system.

The reform of the political system is a duel between the centralized system and the political system of the gate lords. From the standpoint of the firm reformists, it is to curb and crack down on the privileges of the wealthy families, weaken and deprive the wealthy families of their power and wealth, completely eliminate the unfair distribution of the wealth, and thoroughly eradicate the root causes of division and war.

Of course, the wealthy family has to protect its own interests, but because of the status quo, it has to compromise, has to reform, and has to come up with a part of the interests to alleviate the contradictions within the aristocracy, so many of the big nobles who control the authority of Middle-earth have become reformers, many of whom are very determined to reform, the reform ideas are very advanced, and the reform methods are also very radical, but its fundamental purpose is to find a new balance between the prosperity of Middle-earth and the survival of the wealthy family. Its essence is to maintain the dominance of the wealthy families in the distribution of power and wealth in Middle-earth, or to maintain the government of the gate lords.

In the era of the first emperor, Gao Ying, Yu Qingze, Yang Xiong and Su Wei were called the "four nobles", as well as Yang Su, Cui Hongdu, Pei Shiju and many other civil and military generals, their reform ideas were basically the same as those of the first emperor, all advocated reform, and actively promoted the development and strength of Middle Earth, but at the same time, they were also divided into two factions, one group insisted on ceding a part of the benefits to other social strata, while the other faction spared no effort to retain the privileges of wealthy families.

In today's era, Yu Qing is already dead, Yang Su is also dead soon, and Gao Ying is driven out of the center, Yang Xiong, Su Wei and Pei Shiju are still there, Yuan Shou, Yang Da, Duan Wenzhen and a number of highly respected and meritorious nobles have also been promoted to the center because they have won the trust of today, and the center is strong, and the political reform can be carried out drastically.

The political reform touched the bottom line of the wealthy families, and the fundamental contradictions within the aristocracy became increasingly intense, and this fundamental contradiction centered on interests quickly prompted the contradictions between the Guanlong people, the Shandong people and the Jiangzuo people, the contradictions between the old nobles and the emerging nobles, the contradictions between the wealthy and the poor, and the contradictions between the nobles and the commoners, and the result was that the contradictions in the whole society intensified and exploded in just a few years. The political reform encountered unprecedented resistance, and this resistance exacerbated the contradictions between the emperor and the wealthy families, and intensified the contradictions between the central and the military, and between the central and local governments.

Duan Wenzhen was a staunch reformer, but this did not mean that the Beihai Duan clan recognized and supported his reform ideas, let alone that the entire Qilu aristocratic group unswervingly followed him. After the reform of the government had already harmed the wealthy family and affected the entire aristocracy, the Beihai Duan clan and the Qilu aristocratic group could only use Duan Wenzhen's authority to protect themselves to the greatest extent. Now that Duan Wenzhen is dead, the umbrella is gone, and the Beihai Duan clan and the Qilu aristocratic group are exposed in front of their opponents, but there are too many opponents, at this time, if they continue to stubbornly adhere to the radical reform concept and continue to support the emperor's reform, they will inevitably be attacked by a group of opponents like a storm, so changing course and changing their stance from "radical" to "conservative" in reform is the only way out for the Beihai Duan clan and the Qilu aristocratic group to protect their own interests.

From this, it is not difficult to speculate why Duan Wenzhen tolerated the righteous army and why he connived at the expansion of the righteous army.