Li Shimin listened to the commotion among the various scholars in Chang'an who came to report outside, and they all laughed happily. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Shi Bufan, you are really bad. Such nonsense, those scholars themselves made a fuss. It seems that you are right, those scholars were actually selling their daughters. This manpower is also a resource, and we must tout this too much, which will make them unable to go up and down. In this way, those merchants and the new Shu clan will not marry the daughters of those small families because of this, and those big families cannot do this kind of thing of selling their daughters for money. This is better than sparse, rather than directly banning, it is better to directly hold it high, then in the end they can't go up, can't come down. Li Shimin replied with a smile.

The fact that these scholars were able to "sell" their daughters for a high price was nothing more than the kind of unique mystery they had built up over the years, and even when they "sold" their daughters, they were all at a fixed price, and they were never given any chance to bargain. But now they really go up, but they can't come down. Shi Bufan deliberately "clearly marked" the daughters of those broken scholars with 200,000 yuan, so that if they didn't come up with 200,000 yuan, they couldn't be worthy. In this way, those new classes do not dare to spend money to marry, because the price is too great, and they cannot afford this price. But those shabby warriors knew that their daughter was not worth the price, but they also did not dare to take the initiative to reduce the price.

The fact that they were able to sell their daughter for such a high price was based on their uniqueness and mystery. Once they take the initiative to reduce the price, it is also reducing their so-called mystery, which is definitely a blow to the so-called prestige of their warriors. A family that takes the initiative to lower the price for itself shows that their hearts are weak. So even if they actually knew that this was an extraordinary ruse, they had to grit their teeth and endure it. Once they take the initiative to lower the price for themselves, it is not far from breaking their mystery and nobility. It is impossible to take the initiative to reduce the price.

However, those new classes did not know much about the scholar class, and the news channel they received was the imperial court. However, the imperial court actually "recognized" their nobility, and as a result, those broken scholars were upside down to a high status. The high-ranking noblemen were knocked down. Therefore, out of "cost" considerations, those new classes went back to the daughters of those big families. But where can the big family stand such a thing, there is no need for them to sell their daughters for this money, they will naturally not get married. Now it's okay, those families who want to "sell" their daughters, the price is very high by Shi Bufan's bad idea, and they can't go up and down at all. If they take the initiative to reduce the price, it is to destroy their mystery and nobility, once they sell their daughters into bargaining, their mystery and nobility will disappear from then on, who will be willing to marry their daughters at that time?

Shi Bufan did this, which sent them up to the high wall, but he took away the ladder, and they couldn't come down, which was extremely embarrassing.

"Recently, the people of the Qinghe Cui family have gone to find trouble with those small families. The sons of the Cui family in Chang'an are all indignant, and they are very dissatisfied with the small family actually riding on their heads. So they went to find trouble one after another, and finally made these Chang'an scholars make a lot of trouble. Recently, there are not a few scholars in Chang'an, who quarrel with each other and abuse each other. It's really interesting, it's so interesting! Li Shimin said with a smile.

Shi Bufan explained: "Your Majesty, people's hearts are actually so strange, when what you get in name does not match what you actually have, then your heart will be unbalanced." This trick, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, it was simply tried and tested. Especially Jingzhou, Jingzhou is actually in the hands of Liu Bei, but Cao Cao deliberately canonized Sun Quan as the official position of Jingzhou, so that there will inevitably be some cracks in the Sun-Liu alliance. Although it may not be much in a short period of time, it will inevitably be extremely difficult for a long time. ”

"Even, there are many times when the canonization of the imperial court is used to deliberately raise the status and title of the generals under the lord to the same status as the lord and duke. This is interesting, so that what they were originally united within has become complicated. This is actually the inversion of nominal status and actual status, so that both sides are very reciprocal in their hearts, then they will definitely plant the seeds of opposition to each other. ”

"Your Majesty, you might as well be good at taking advantage of the righteousness of the imperial court. Although the scholars look down on the court and the emperor. But after all, the emperor, you are the central righteousness of the imperial court, and for ordinary people, your influence is far greater than that of their scholars. Many new classes do not necessarily know the scholars, and you are the most authoritative channel for publishing news, Your Majesty. They believe in you, more than the Yushi. Although the nobles look down on you, they have to take advantage of each other with you. Therefore, making good use of the righteousness of the imperial court can actually play a role in sowing discord. This inverted their nominal and actual status, and that was also a means of stirring up internal turmoil. ”

"And it gives you a chance to play with them. It is difficult to protect this clan chronicle, and deliberately invert the status of those broken scholars, so that they will instead inspire the idea of competing for power and profit with those big families, take the initiative to cooperate with the emperor, and unite around the emperor. At that time, they were not necessarily monolithic within their clan. ”

"Your Majesty, you have the power to compile this clan chronicle, so it's better not to compile it all at once. It can be rewritten every ten or even five years, and it will be enough to make them miserable. ”

Li Shimin felt that Shi Bufan's move was ruthless enough, although the group of scholars generally looked down on the Li Tang Dynasty, but the Li Tang Dynasty held the supreme power of the state apparatus. The compilation power of this clan chronicle is actually still in the hands of Li Shimin, and whoever Li Shimin wants to be on it, who can do it. Although this is only a nominal status, many times the nominal status is sufficient. As long as the state apparatus is mastered, then those scholars will not be tossed hard, and in the end they will be made to have no power to resist at all.

As for rebellion, the scholars have no military power, so they naturally cannot rebel. can only let Li Shimin toss, and recompile it once in this decade or even five years, which is enough to make these scholars cry and cry for their mothers.

In the courtyard of the Cui family in Chang'an, Cui Xin looked at this clan chronicle and said, "Ruthless, too ruthless." This move is really vicious enough, so that we, the warriors, will not fight, but will also fight among ourselves. got our Cui family to the fourth class, but in a daze, we got this Xun family to the so-called second class. This is a complete mess of playing the piano, but we have to be led by the nose. This is too ruthless, after all, the one in the Taiji Palace has mastered the righteousness of the country, and we are really difficult to deal with! ”

"Father-in-law, is that the Cui family just like that?" Cheng Yanjin asked.

The Cui family has already agreed, and after Cheng Biting Jin's original partner dies, he can marry one of the Cui family's daughters to him. But Cheng Yanjin's wife is now seriously ill and her life is not long in coming, but Cheng Yanjin hurriedly called out to his father-in-law.

Cui Xin looked at this clan chronicle and said, "The person who came up with this clan chronicle must be a master and knows this well!" This is a yang scheme, a real yang scheme. In the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and used the righteousness of the court to sow discord among other princes. It is strange to deliberately use this method to sow discord, so that there are no problems within the princes of all walks of life. There is almost no way to solve this, because the person in the Taiji Palace is the one who really controls the righteousness of the court, and there are many more people who are willing to listen to him than they are willing to listen to us. Especially those foolish men and foolish women, sometimes they are more willing to listen to the court than to us. The orders of the imperial court are more authoritative in their eyes than ours, so since they are the clan chronicles of the imperial court, they have a higher status in their eyes. ”

"The most terrifying thing about this clan chronicle is not that it deliberately improves the Li Tang royal family, nor does it deliberately belittle our clan. Rather, they play the harp indiscriminately, and they want to muddy the waters, so that the general public cannot see the true level of our scholars. Once our scholars themselves are fighting internally for this so-called clan chronicle, it will be just the one in the Taiji Palace who is sowing discord. He deliberately played the piano indiscriminately, raising the status of those broken families, but maliciously lowering the status of our Cui family. Messing around like this is tantamount to breaking the level that our scholars have formed over the years again, so that our scholars can return to the era of competition with each other, and he can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. ”

Cheng Yanjin hurriedly asked, "Father-in-law, what should we do?" Could it be that this loss was eaten in vain? ”

"It's hard! It's difficult, after all, he has mastered the righteousness of the court, unless we rebel, otherwise we really have no good way to deal with him. Cui Xin said.

Cheng didn't dare to let go of the golden fart, because if he was asked to help the Cui family do some small things, then he could still do it. But if there is a rebellion, it is impossible for this Cheng Yanjin to choose to rebel against Li Shimin for the Cui family. At present, the general trend of the world can no longer tolerate the existence of rebels, and the people are at peace, and rebellion is certain death. At most, it was just an internal mutiny, but it didn't have that condition at the moment. So rebellion, this Cheng bites the gold and doesn't do it!

Cui Xin also knows that as long as this Li Shimin grasps the righteousness of the country, then this is actually incomprehensible. The superstition of the common people and the authority of the government is a very traditional. Even more than a thousand years later, this situation has not been completely changed. Although many people scold the central media, if it really comes to the time when a major event happens, everyone's first impression is actually the central media. This kind of official authority is already deeply rooted in the bone marrow. As long as Li Shimin grasps the righteousness of the imperial court, the mouth of the scholar clan is really not as big as Li Shimin's. Perhaps among the common people and the new class of merchants and the Shu clan, the authority of the court is far greater in their consciousness than that of the scholars, and they are more willing to believe what the court says. Although the nobles also believed it, at the same time they believed what the court said.

After this suggestion of Shi Bufan, this clan chronicle is completely messing around, which is tantamount to breaking the strata within the Shi clan that have been formed over the years, and almost nominally disrupting the class system that has been formed within these Shi clans. The class solidification within the gentry was also nominally broken, so that there was no balance within their gentry.

As Cui Xin said, the most terrifying thing about this clan is not to improve the status of the Li Tang Dynasty, but to break the internal class solidification formed by the Shi clan over the years. Even if Li Shimin deliberately raised the Li Tang royal family, deliberately raised the eldest grandson queen and other meritorious families. But as long as the nobles remain independent of this "system", it is not a big problem. As long as the hierarchical arrangement of the scholars is still accurate, it will not have much impact on the internal ranks of the scholars. However, this clan chronicle completely reverses black and white, making the order of the scholars completely chaotic. Some small families that are not in the stream are ranked at the top of the ranks of the scholars, but those real big families have been pressed to the fourth level, can the top scholars like the Cui family be willing?

As for the more terrifying, families with the same strength, they were forcibly divided into two ranks. The strength of the Xun family and the Xie family is about the same, but the Xun family is the second class and the Xie family is the third class, so of course the Xie family will look at the Xun family unhappy. And Boling Cui's family is listed as the third class, but Qinghe Cui is listed as the fourth class, which makes it clear that it is Hongguoguo's sowing discord. However, Bo Ling Cui and Qing He Cui may not have conflicts in a short period of time, but they can restrain their direct children not to contradict each other, what about those side children? It is easy for the children of the collateral to contradict each other, and finally gradually spread to the entire family. This kind of conflict from small to large, with points to faces, is simply too much.

Cui Xinye finally said: "I'd rather the imperial court not write the privileges of this scholar clan into the laws of the Tang Dynasty now, and this now makes things worse." I think we really made a mistake, we thought that by writing the privileges of the nobles into the laws of the imperial court, we would be more secured. But we also ignore that the one in Taiji Palace is the one who really holds the legislative power, and if he wants to play with the law, it really doesn't have to be too simple. Although he doesn't have much impression of our actual status, he has made a hole in our originally monolithic clan. When the time comes, if our clan wants to unite again, it will be difficult. ”

"It seems that it was indeed our mistake to write the privileges of the nobles into the law, but now they are also irreparable." (To be continued.) )