When Zhang Chao told everyone a lot about the monopoly politics of the scholars and the monopoly of the government's public power, everyone was silent. Because they were officials during this time, they all probably knew the influence of the scholars in the officialdom. Don't look at them, these people are some lucky people who can go to the officialdom, but in fact, even if the lucky people go to the officialdom, in fact, their future is very poor. When they compete with those scholars for official positions, they are also arranged to be considered later, and any official position is also given priority to the scholars, and it is too difficult for officials from the poor family to be promoted. Even if the poor officials can go to the officialdom, it is difficult to progress in the officialdom, so Zhang Chao's words make them all feel the same way.

Because they were usually in their respective departments, they were also looked down upon by those Shi officials, and the Shi clan looked at them with colored eyes, obviously not treating them as their own kind. Therefore, they all felt very humiliated, and even those scholars and officials excluded them from their work, unwilling to communicate with them too much, and did not have any close relationships between colleagues and colleagues. So they all felt very uncomfortable, but they couldn't help it. Because in this era, the poor family is naturally inferior, and naturally it is very low. Even if he becomes an official, he can't get rid of the status of "untouchables". Those scholars and officials also looked down on them, and no matter how high their achievements were, they didn't take them seriously.

"Are you willing to go on like this?" Zhang Chao asked.

"I'm not reconciled!" Liu Chun said.

But Liu Renliang said: "What if you are unwilling? ”

"Haha, Liu Renliang, what you said is not right. The so-called status should be fought for by oneself and one's own ability, so that even if the competition is not enough, there will be no regrets. And it should not rely on the power of the so-called ancestors, and what other bloodlines are there to obtain inheritance. In this way, everyone can exchange for the wealth, status, status, and wealth they should obtain through their own efforts, which is a heavenly principle. Instead of relying on some privileges to obtain wealth for generations, is it reasonable to do so? As for Liu Renliang, what you said is unwilling, this is really wrong. If you don't have a sense of challenge, how can you climb the peak? As for whether it will succeed or not, then we will talk about it later. ”

"Are you afraid of the nobles? Are you afraid of the retribution of the nobles? What is the fear of revenge from the nobles? You are all people who have survived in troubled times for many years, can the revenge of the warriors be more terrible than the troubled times? Moreover, are you afraid that the nobles will kill you? And I don't think so, I think the most precious thing in a person is life. Life is only once for a person. Therefore, a person's life should be spent in such a way that when a person looks back on the past, he does not regret that he wasted his time, nor is he ashamed of his inaction; In this way, when he was dying, he could say that I had devoted my whole life and all my energies to the most precious cause of my life -- to fight for the well-being of all the people of the world. ”

And when Zhang Chao said a famous sentence in the world-famous book "How Steel is Made", this surprised everyone. Because this sentence has influenced several generations in later generations of China, even Zhang Chao often heard his father mention it when he was a child, and countless people took this sentence as a motto. And Zhang Chao has now changed the tail in the back, but it has not reduced the effect much, because this sentence alone is enough to make several people present feel excited and enthusiastic.

"Yes! What are the nobles afraid of? As long as we can unite, then what are we afraid of? If we didn't unite in the past, we wouldn't be able to fight the nobles with great wealth. But as long as we can unite, then what are we afraid of? Zhou Yang also said excitedly.

Zhang Chao immediately added: "Yes! As long as we are united, then we don't have anything to fear. The Shi clan in the world are just lonely people, they just rely on their relatives, and we rely on the people of the world, and then we have the support of more than seventy percent of the world's scholars, and then what are we afraid of? ”

Zhang Chao knew that if he wanted to carry out social change, he had to attract intellectuals who were unwilling to join him. Although Zhang Chao did not belittle peasant workers, he profoundly knew from the situation of later generations that it was difficult for a true peasant and worker to take on the responsibility of leading a country and a class group to carry out social change. And those who can lead this society will always be intellectuals. And the imperial examination, in fact, is a way for those poor intellectuals to go to the officialdom and change their class.

However, in later dynasties, Zhang Chao deeply knew that those intellectuals who were admitted to the imperial examination actually betrayed their own class one by one and became landlords. Because they can be exempted from taxes if they are admitted to the imperial examination, they have also become landlords. And this is not what Zhang Chao wants, but what he wants are those intellectuals who really strive for the well-being of all the people in the world, and only by allowing these intellectuals to join their own teams can they help more people live a happy life.

And if you want to make social change, you must have a huge number of like-minded people, and these poor students are also their important allies. After they read the book and understood the reason, they naturally wanted to work hard and change their social status. However, the scholars blocked their path to upward development, and cutting off people's futures was like killing their parents, and the hatred of their parents was not shared, so most of these ordinary poor students were definitely dissatisfied with the scholars. The gentry clan has less than one percent or even only one thousandth of the population, but they occupy more than ninety percent of the government's public power, and they can become officials without examinations, and they have obtained official positions from generation to generation. They could even rely on their so-called gentry status to obtain tax-free privileges, taking the opportunity to annex land on a large scale and then exploit the common people.

And those who are poor scholars, they work hard and read at the same time, and then they find that they not only have no benefit from reading, not only can they not change their class and improve their status, but because the upward passage is blocked by the scholars, this will inevitably cause them to study uselessly. If those scholars are stronger than them, relying on exams or fair competition to brush themselves down, then they naturally have nothing to say. However, in this era, too many scholars relied on their so-called bloodline background to directly obtain official positions, and they were much worse than those in the poor students. So, this is actually a lot of anger that has been pent up.

"However, the scholars occupy more than ninety percent of the official positions in the imperial court, how can we oppose them in the officialdom?" Liu Renliang asked.

But Zhang Chao smiled and said: "Actually, it's very simple, as long as we can hold the big tree of the emperor, then we will definitely be able to defeat them in the end!" Since the implementation of the imperial examination, the general trend of the gradual decline of the scholar clan has begun, and we poor children can truly become the mainstream of the imperial court. However, this process will inevitably be a little long, but our core foundation is to rely on the emperor, as long as we rely on the emperor, then we can go to the high position step by step, and then really start to compete with the scholars. ”

"Emperor?" Liu Renliang was thoughtful.

Zhang Chao's method is to rely on the imperial power and form an alliance with the imperial power, so that he will inevitably be able to gain advantages. Because in addition to the poor scholars who wanted to gain social status, the emperor was also very disgusted with the scholars, because the scholars relied on their families and marriages in the officialdom to form a huge network of relationships. Then the emperor, who was nominally the supreme man in the world, also had to be controlled by them. Therefore, in addition to ordinary poor students, the emperor must also be an important person who wants to fight the scholars. In order to increase the imperial power, the emperor of course hopes that those poor students can start and help the emperor against the scholars. Poor students don't have too many relationship networks, and all they can rely on is people who are also from poor families, and they hold each other for warmth. And in the end, they can still rely on the alliance with the imperial power, and then use the imperial power to improve their status, and the emperor can also need those who don't have too many connections to help him rule. The woman met the stream. Hooligans, apparently a natural match.

So when Zhang Chao talked about the emperor, this made Liu Renliang thoughtful. The emperor hates the scholars the most, and the one who can form an alliance with the Hanmen team is the emperor. Of course, the emperor likes to use poor talents, after all, poor talents don't have too many networks, and they can be completely controlled by the emperor. And the Hanmen is also a force that cannot be underestimated, and usually the Hanmen is a plate of loose sand, but if there is a suitable leader and the support of the imperial power, then it will inevitably seize the resources of the scholars step by step.

And the poor family has ninety percent of the world's population as the foundation, no matter how bad it is, it can always select a group of outstanding talents as leaders. But the scholars can't, they all rely on family inheritance, and then give birth one by one, they can't guarantee that every generation is talented. And the scholars of the poor family can, their leaders have only come to power after a long struggle, whether it is theoretical knowledge, practical experience or even struggle experience, they are very powerful, so if the long-term struggle continues, it will inevitably be the failure of the scholars.

The history of the development of the Tang Dynasty is actually a history of struggle between the Hanmen and the scholars. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the scholars had a great advantage, and the vast majority of high-ranking officials in the court were also from the scholars. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the scholars and the Hanmen began to be evenly matched, and at that time, the Niu Li Party Dispute, an official party struggle from different classes of the Han and the Shi clan, broke out. In the later period, in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the warlords were actually ordinary officials from the Shu clan who occupied the mainstream of society. The vast majority of those martial artists were born in poverty, and then they also used a large number of Hanmen when the local area was divided, and finally the scholars were squeezed out of the officialdom, forming the process of Hanmen ruling the country.

What Zhang Chao wants to do is to catalyze this process, so that the Hanmen Shu people can rule the country as soon as possible. It was possible to expel the nobles while keeping the country from civil war, so that the country could develop in a normal and orderly manner. Therefore, what Zhang Chao has to do next is to gather a group of equally unambitious poor officials, and then be able to fight against the scholars in the officialdom together, so that everyone can drive away the scholars and make the scholars have no place to stay.

"Okay, what do you think? Our future is still very bright, anyway, our background and bloodline, we can never really get together with the scholars, we can only be the object of exclusion by the scholars. So we have to come together so that we can be truly successful. Otherwise, we rely on the scholars, by selling our dignity and selling the interests of all the people in the world to fatten those scholars, and then step by step relying on the blood of the people to stain our government, then we are not sorry! Are you willing to go on like this, to be suppressed by the scholars for such a long time? So if we don't unite, we won't be able to achieve real long-term prosperity at all. Therefore, the more this happens, the more we have to huddle together to keep warm, otherwise we will not be able to survive. Zhang Chao said.

The three people at the scene were also silent, and finally Liu Renliang said: "Since this is the case, then what should we do next?" ”

"Next, we should attract those who are unwilling in the officialdom, so that they can slowly join us and fight with us. Then they advance and retreat together, and finally they can gradually expel the nobles. Moreover, we also have to find our wealth support, without wealth support, we will not be able to deal with the nobles! Zhang Chao said.

"But isn't that a partisan? Director Zhang, didn't you say that a gentleman should be a group and not a party? Liu Chun asked.

"! Some people believe this kind of thing, are you stupid to read? Zhang Chao suddenly scolded in his heart.

But for the sake of his own future comrade, Zhang Chao certainly can't directly scold people, so he said: "We are united with ideals and prospects, and then we are people who strive for the well-being of all the people in the world, and we are people who conform to the teachings of the sages." So, we are gentlemen's friends, not friends! ”

"Well, we are fighting for the well-being of the vast majority of the people in the world, and naturally we are not friends!" Liu Chun said.

Next, Zhang Chao immediately said: "Okay, we will all be comrades in the future, we will develop some new people to join us in the future, and then go together to deal with the Shi clan." However, I would like to say first of all that this road is very tortuous, but the future is very bright, and you must be prepared to deal with difficulties! ”

"Okay, we must insist, I don't believe that all the cold families in our world are united, and we can't fight the Shi clan!"