After about half a month, Zhang Chao took advantage of the holiday to leave the palace with Liu Renliang, and then walked towards the street.

"Liu Renliang, did you say you knew Wu Shi Tong?" Zhang Chao asked.

Liu Renliang thought about it for a while, and immediately said: "Yes, my position is Qianniu Wei Cao to join the army, and Wu Shi Tong is the right wing guard of the school, responsible for the emperor's personal guard, which is one of the important positions. However, this samurai Tong is the most unsatisfactory among the founding heroes, although it seems that he is the right wing guard of the inspection school, but in fact, not a single soldier can be mobilized, and his official position is added to the inspection school, which is actually equivalent to almost nothing. And he was the founder of the country, one of the emperor's cronies when he was in Taiyuan, and even like Liu Wenjing back then, he was an important adviser of the emperor. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he was a second-class meritorious hero, and he was almost appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry two years ago. But he took the initiative to resign from his position and chose to serve as a senior guard of the emperor himself, this class is really loyal to the emperor! This is enough to show that the emperor trusts him very much and is willing to hand over his safety to him. ”

"It's a pity, I'm afraid he's not very satisfied with this position!" Zhang Chao said.

And Liu Renliang was also silent, because this right wing guard of the school inspection is actually equivalent to an empty official position. Anyone who adds the word "inspection" before an official position means that they are all empty official positions, and they can only receive salaries and have a certain rank, but they do not have any real power. The inspector is a kind of additional official, which belongs to the emperor's favor. And the Feng Deyi, who appreciated Zhang Chao at that time and was able to let Zhang Chao stay in the Ministry of Officials, was actually the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, although it was called the Ministry of Officials, but he did not have much real power. This warrior Tong is the right wing guard of the school, which means that he is just an empty official position, and he has no real power, just Li Yuan's first senior guard.

If it is a new person who has entered the army, or even a middle and low-level officer, if he can become the emperor's bodyguard, then naturally many people are willing to do it. But with the identity of the samurai Tong, he belonged to the founding hero of the country, and almost became one of the six Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, but he asked him to be this senior guard, which was simply insulting to him. He is a founding hero, and you just let him be a guard, and you can't even get an actual official position, this is simply cheating people.

"Wu Shi Tong, in fact, his greatest thing is not to become the founding hero of my Tang Dynasty, but that he has a good daughter!" Zhang Chao said.

"Good daughter?" Liu Renliang didn't know what it meant.

Of course, Zhang Chao would not say that if in the original history, the daughter of Wu Shi Tong would become the first female emperor in the ages. However, now Zhang Chao is not interested in caring about her daughter, and he is now looking for Wu Shi Tong, which has his own purpose. Next, he must be looking for something to do with the samurai, because only the samurai can help him in the future.

"Zhang Chao, the head of the Ministry of Officials, brought Qianniu Wei Cao to join the army Liu Renliang and asked to see the prince of Yiyuan County." Zhang Chao said to the door outside the house.

The Duke of Yiyuan County is the current title of the warrior, so Zhang Chao also takes the initiative to call the title, so the status is higher.

Soon, news came from inside.

"The county prince is willing to see you, you can go in!"

Zhang Chao and Liu Renliang walked inside, and then walked into Wu Shitong's study, and then saw this middle-aged man who was about forty years old.

"I've seen the prince of Yoshihara!" Zhang Chao said.

"Director Zhang, what are you doing with me?" Samurai asked.

The reason why Wu Shitong was willing to meet Zhang Chao was actually mainly because Zhang Chao had recently won the attention of Emperor Li Yuan, and even such an open party did not care. And the warriors also admired Zhang Chao a little, not only openly forming a party, but even openly gathering poor students to confront the scholars. And this warrior Tong has to say that he is bold, and the warrior Tong is deeply aware of the ruling power of the warrior clan, and the warrior clan occupies an absolute dominant position in terms of politics, economy and people's hearts. Cao Cao thought about suppressing the scholars, but in the end Cao Cao still did not succeed, because Cao Cao wanted to usurp the Eastern Han Dynasty, and finally after his death, his son could only implement the nine-rank Zhongzheng system to curry favor with the scholars in order to usurp the Han.

And Liu Yu also thought about restricting the Shi clan, but in the end, the Liu Song Dynasty was finally destroyed due to internal friction, and there is definitely the shadow of the Shi clan in it. After the fall of the Liu Song dynasty, the policies that restricted the scholars were again canceled on the grounds of "tyranny".

As for the human heart, it was a terrible situation. Through the long-term control of the public power of the state, and even the power of cultural propaganda, the scholars have made everyone think that the scholars are naturally noble, and even many ordinary people have recognized the status of the scholars. Many people also pretended to be scholars and assumed their identities. Although many of them are impostor scholars, this is enough to show that the whole society has an open acquiescence to the rule of the scholars and the privileges of the scholars, and even recognizes it. The Shi clan is like a big mountain, pressing on countless people in the whole world.

So if he wanted to fight against the Shi clan, Wu Shi Tong didn't think that Zhang Chao would be able to do it, if the Shi clan was so easy to eliminate, it would have been wiped out by those ancient masters. Therefore, although Wu Shi Tong thought that Zhang Chao was very bold, he did not think that Zhang Chao could fight against the Shi clan. In the eyes of the scholars, Zhang Chao is just a very "naïve" child, who actually wants to challenge the huge three major systems of political and economic ideology established by the entire scholar clan with his own strength, which is simply looking for death. However, the reason why the Shi clan did not clean up Zhang Chao is that Zhang Chao is behind Li Yuan, and if Zhang Chao is killed, there will be other people who will be supported by Li Yuan, so it is useless to kill Zhang Chao. So they didn't do anything to Zhang Chao, and chose to let it develop, anyway, they would be defeated.

"Yiyuan Jungong, you don't seem to be doing well in my Tang Dynasty, right?" Zhang Chao asked.

"Well, what do you mean by that?" Samurai asked.

Zhang Chao asked rhetorically again: "Yiyuan Jungong, you contributed money and effort at the beginning, and then helped me establish the founding of the Tang Dynasty." Later, some time ago, you were almost appointed by the emperor as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, but in the end you took the initiative to resign from this position and came to the emperor as a senior guard, why do you say this? ”

When the samurai heard this, his face suddenly changed, and it was very ugly. This can be said to be a forever sore spot in the samurai's heart, because as one of the founding heroes, he is almost the worst founding hero. All the living founding heroes are the worst mixed up, not only do they not have any actual positions, but they can only be the emperor's senior guards. If it is the head of the guard, it can be said that it is reasonable, but he is just a "school inspector" and does not have any real power, which is simply an insult to a founding hero.

"Yoshihara Jungong, why do you say you're like this? Are the nobles who have rejected you? Zhang Chao asked.

Wu Shi Tong then said: "I am from too low background, and I used to be a merchant, so the whole court is very suspicious of serving as the secretary of the Ministry of Works. Therefore, I voluntarily resigned from my position. ”

Samurai turned out to be a timber merchant and was very wealthy. Later, when the world was in turmoil, he voluntarily gave up running a business, and chose to take refuge in the army of the Sui Dynasty, becoming a team leader, managing the number of soldiers equivalent to the platoon commander of later generations, and participated in several battles to suppress peasant uprisings. As for the aftermath, he relied on Li Yuan to rise, and in the process he funded Li Yuan to gradually become the emperor. And he is also one of Li Yuan's most important cronies, but in the end, his status is worse than many people.

At that time, he almost served as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, but in the end, he was forced by those scholars because he was once a businessman, and then voluntarily gave up the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry. This is a very huge tragedy, if it weren't for Li Yuan's view that he was an important hero for his own sake, and arranged a vacant position for him as a guard, he would probably have to return home and eat this title to retire. Back then, he took refuge in Li Yuan, that is, he wanted to become famous, but in the end, because he was in business back then, it turned out to be a stain on his life, which made him extremely angry. Because he used to be a businessman, he was unable to obtain an official position, and was even excluded by many officials from the noble clan.

Although there have been many reasons for the contempt for commerce since ancient times, the scholars took advantage of the right to interpret the culture, greatly demeaning the merchants, and even often used public power to plunder the merchants. And although the merchants have a lot of wealth, they cannot be officials, and they cannot obtain all kinds of rights to enjoy wealth and wealth. Therefore, once many businessmen have money, they will instead want to become officials, and through becoming officials, they will obtain changes in their status and social status. Otherwise, if you keep being a businessman, you can only be exploited by the nobles and officials in the end.

However, if a businessman wants to become an official, this is full of difficulties, not only because of the entry into the office, but also because many people are stuck. Even if some lucky people can successfully enter the ranks, they will still be blocked by those scholars in the end, and then they will not be able to get promoted. Samurai Tong was the founder of the country, but because of his business experience, he was forced to give up his official position, so you can imagine how many problems there are in this. Although the merchants are rich, they are also a ruled class, and if they are businessmen for a day, they will be lowly people all their lives, and even they are lower than the peasants. By holding the power of public opinion, the nobles belittled the merchants, and even the common people looked down on the merchants.

"Yiyuan County Prince, the merchant and our poor family are all in the same disease, the merchant has a lot of wealth, but he is wantonly used by the scholar clan to exploit the public power. And our poor students have no talent, but they can't have the opportunity to glorify their ancestors. But are those scholars really light on business? Even privately, they use other people's identities to do business, and then use public power to earn wealth one by one. They are light on business, not enough to covet the wealth of merchants, and then hope to use their power to plunder at any time. And even if it is such a status of the prince of Yiyuan County, it is inevitable that he will be rejected by the scholars, and you can imagine the difficulties in this. ”

"And even if it's you, even if you become the founding hero of my Tang Dynasty, you can't really be spared, and you still have to be suppressed by the scholars. And I think that even your descendants will always be branded as merchants, and this brand will always be a lowly representative in the eyes of those nobles. They look down on us, but we can't look down on ourselves. There is no true nobility in this world, and true nobility does not come from blood, but from the glory of the depths of the soul. Back then, you hoped to assist Ming Jun to calm down the troubled times, but in the end, you fell into a fate of being excluded because of your status as a businessman. Haven't you seen it clearly? If I don't really create a situation where the capable are superior to the mediocre, and everything depends on ability rather than bloodline, then we will always be oppressed by those so-called scholars who rule by blood, even if we become officials. We can only take the initiative to fight back, and only we can rely on our ability to fight back, instead of complaining. ”

"There is no savior in this world, no one can help us. We can't survive on the charity of the scholars, if we don't work hard to create space for our survival, then we can only be sucked dry by the scholars in the end, and then we will be raised as sheep by the scholars forever, and let them eat some meat when they need it, and finally continue like this for generations. Therefore, those of us who are oppressed by the scholars should take the initiative to keep warm, so that we can truly get rid of the oppression of the scholars, so that those who have the ability and ambition can get the glory of their ancestors and the opportunity to benefit the people. ”

And the samurai Tong immediately said: "However, we cannot be the opponents of the scholars, the scholars not only have official positions, but also a lot of wealth, and even the common people agree with their rule, thinking that they are born to obey the scholars, how easy is this!" ”

Samurai Tong put forward this remark, which means that Samurai Tong has begun to be tempted, because Samurai Tong has also been said to the heart. Even if he became an official, even if he became a founding hero, in the end, he could only be forced to give up his official position, and then worked hard for many years, just to obtain the title of a county duke. Even, he knew that in the future, this martial artist would also be branded as a merchant, as long as those warriors were still ruling for a day, it would be impossible for the martial artist to obtain true wealth.

Later, when Wu Zetian, the daughter of Wu Shitong, wanted to seize the position of queen, because Wu Zetian was born in a cold family, he could not get the support of those old warriors. Therefore, in order to seize the position of the queen, Wu Zetian could only rely on the officials of the Hanmen and those Shu landlords. And when Wu Zetian ruled, it was also the process of the decline of the Shi clan. Although Wu Zetian may not be the spokesperson of the Hanmen, she definitely relies on the power of the Hanmen Shu clan to ascend to the position of the queen and the emperor, and those old scholars will not support Wu Zetian who was born in the Hanmen.

"Of course, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and naturally we can't think of completely destroying the Shi clan in a short period of time. But now that the scholars have decayed, I dare to assert that it will not take a few decades, as long as there is an opportunity, it will be enough to cause the scholars to suffer a heavy blow. So now is our best chance to fight the Warriors, and as long as we can seize this time, then we will definitely be able to win. The rise of the world's poor men is the trend of the times, so Yiyuan Jungong, if you are willing to be oppressed by the scholars for eternity, then I didn't say it. ”

The samurai immediately said, "What do you want me to do?" ”

Of course, Wu Shi Tong is a very gambler-minded person, and he was able to rebel with Li Yuan back then, which shows that he is also a very courageous person. Later, Li Yuan became the emperor, but he did not get the status he deserved. Wu Shi Tong did not get the "reward" he deserved, and all this was because of the suppression of the Shi clan, if it were not for the Shi clan, he would not have been able to be squeezed out of the officialdom to be a senior guard for Li Yuan.

And since Wu Shi Tong was able to rebel with Li Yuan in the troubled times, it shows that he is a very gambler character, and now he has given everything, but the harvest is not as big as he imagined, but he has only obtained a worthless title, which makes him very depressed. And he knew that if he didn't defeat the warriors, his martial arts would never be able to gain true wealth. Therefore, if you want to get real wealth, you must defeat the nobles, otherwise they will always be a lowly "merchant".

Therefore, now that he heard that someone wanted to fight against the warriors, it naturally made him have the idea of gambling again. If they can succeed, then their martial arts family will be able to truly gain wealth and wealth, and then they will be truly powerful. Therefore, Wu Shi Tong hopes to support Zhang Chao, if Zhang Chao can succeed, then their martial arts family will naturally be able to gain wealth.

"Yiyuan Jungong, you should have a lot of old friends in the business world, right?" Zhang Chao asked.

"You want me to give you money?" Samurai asked.

Zhang Chao shook his head and said, "That's not what we mean, I want you to gather those businessmen, and then regularly use your wealth to set up a large number of righteous schools." I hope that businessmen all over the world can gradually cooperate together, and then set up a free school. ”

"What do you mean?" Samurai asked.

Zhang Chao said: "Didn't the scholars control the minds of the people? Then we will also be in the next generation, snatching back ideas. Most adults have already solidified, so as long as we can popularize the culture and let us capture the hearts of the next generation, then we can also achieve invincibility. And the scholars are not going to start a righteous school, they don't realize this. And don't merchants have money, but many times they have nowhere to spend it? Why don't they stop it? ”

Zhang Chao's meaning is very simple, if the businessman directly gives them money, it is too obvious, so that a discerning person can know at a glance that Zhang Chao is in alliance with the merchant class. And Zhang Chao asked businessmen to invest in the establishment of a charity school, which was naturally different. With the establishment of Yixue, the monopoly cultural privileges of the scholars were eliminated, and the scholars could not monopolize the control of culture, and the people of the world read more, so they naturally would not listen to the so-called "explanations" of the scholars. And let everyone in the world study as much as possible, and the reserve force of such Zhang Chao's poor family is also very sufficient.

As long as they are unable to monopolize the spread of the world's culture and hit the status of the "scholars" of the scholars, then one of the three pillars that they are equivalent to supporting the scholars has also been knocked out. Next, those businessmen set up Yixue and popularized education, and those students entered the officialdom through the imperial examination or various means, and the businessmen used capital again to support those students who entered the officialdom, so that they could gradually regain the officialdom controlled by the scholars, so that the second pillar of the scholars was also broken.

What Zhang Chao has to do next is to develop the productive forces, and through the development of the productive forces, the output of grain and various agricultural products can be increased. And in this way, the scholars have gained a lot of wealth by controlling the land, and the wealth owned by the scholars will inevitably shrink greatly. As long as the next productive forces are sufficient, the era of commodity economy will come, and the land advantages owned by the nobles will inevitably become unable to keep up with the times. Originally, the reason why the scholars gradually declined in history was actually because the commercial economy had reached a high enough level, and the commercial development in the middle and late Tang Dynasty was not something that ordinary people could imagine. When commerce occupies a certain position, if not even the main position, in the country's economy, the gentry who depend on the land will inevitably gradually disappear. Because the strength generated by commerce, and the strength that can be mobilized, is not something that the land of the nobles can influence.

Therefore, what Zhang Chao wants to do is to replicate the process of the disappearance of the original Shi clan, so that the Shi clan, which could still last for hundreds of years, will completely disappear in just thirty years.

"Amazing, I'm convinced, if you can think of these three aspects, then you are the real master of the generation. Back then, Cao Cao and Liu Yu couldn't think of this, but you thought of it, you are the real master! Samurai said.

Wu Shi Tong attacked Zhang Chao, a scholar from three aspects, from politics, economy to ideology, and removed the soil for the survival of the scholar clan, so that the scholar clan will inevitably lose its foundation and collapse. At that time, Cao Cao and Liu Yu only thought that they could suppress the scholars, and did not think of how to clean up the scholars.

"I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants and looking at the world." Zhang Chao replied.

If there was no mature political economy in later generations, Zhang Chao would not have been able to see this. Analyzing the scholars from the economic aspect, that is the core of the real attack on the scholars, so Zhang Chao believes that he must start from the economic aspect. Political, economic, and cultural aspects are attacked together, so that the soil for the survival of the scholars can disappear.

"Yiyuan Jungong, not long after your second daughter was born, right?" Zhang Chao asked suddenly.

"Oh, my second daughter was born just a few months ago, a few days after the New Year, and has not yet been named." Samurai said.

And Zhang Chao immediately said: "Since this is the case, then I dare to give her a name." ”

"Oh? Since Director Zhang has this interest, then please come! Samurai replied.

"Let's just call it a single name, Wu Mei!" Zhang Chao said.

"Yes, yes, my second daughter will be called Wu Mei in the future!" Samurai said.