As for Zhang Chao and those who had just joined the official career to form a political organization of the Reform Comrades Association, it was soon known to all parties. The first one to know was Li Yuan, and some "underground workers" began to report the relevant situation to Li Yuan, and Li Yuan's review was the three words "know", without any specific expression. And this made many people very depressed, and they didn't know how to deal with Zhang Chao. According to the traditional concept, kings generally hate party affiliation, and they wish that all the ministers had no party affiliation and would listen to him alone. Zhang Chao actually formed a party so openly, which was obviously challenging the king's bottom line of tolerance, but Li Yuan didn't say anything, obviously he didn't care too much. And everyone couldn't feel Li Yuan's pulse, and they didn't know what Li Yuan wanted to do. And this kind of news is not trivial and restores the sentence "I know", so that everyone does not know what to say. However, many people have also begun to focus on this reform comrade association, because they are the first people in Chinese history to openly form a party.

Although this reform comrade association claims to be a gathering of like-minded "comrades", it does not change their image of openly forming parties for personal gain. In ancient China, no one could tolerate this kind of faction and selfishness, but it was already a bit taboo for them to be so bold and openly form an organization. But Zhang Chao still dared to do this, this is obviously very bold, but Li Yuan didn't pay much attention to it, this is not normal.

"It's easy to dominate the world, but it's hard to go to the court and friends!" Li Yuan suddenly sighed and said.

Of course, Li Yuan knows that in any era, it is impossible to rule out the similarities and differences of political parties. There are all parties and factions fighting against each other, and there are all party disputes. But if it is a mediocre emperor, they are naturally afraid of party strife, they are very afraid of their subordinates forming a party, and even whoever dares to form a party emperor will kill someone. However, this kind of bloody killing will not only not be able to curb the struggle of the party against the same party, but will also aggravate this kind of party formation and selfish interests. On the contrary, this kind of bloody killing will make the party more secretive and more hidden.

In a restaurant, Zhang Chao began to give "political lessons" to those who had just joined the Reform Comrades Association.

"You may think that we are fighting in a party and will make the emperor very dissatisfied. But I want to tell you that the emperor is very particular about balance, and in fact, balance is what the emperor needs. Now the scholars are all over the court, and these scholars monopolize many official positions in the court, they don't look at them as good ministers of the emperor, but in fact they obey the family far more than the court. And no king would allow his courtiers to collude like this, and then deceive their superiors and subordinates. Therefore, the emperor will not only not have any opposition, but will secretly support it. A wise emperor will not only not limit and exclude party strife, but will take advantage of it. Only when there are regular fights among his courtiers can any of the last superiors be able to master them. Not only the emperor, but also any prime minister will not allow his subordinates to have one heart, because if it is true that all his subordinates have one heart, it must be very dangerous in the end. The emperor will not allow those scholars to continue to monopolize the officialdom, and if the emperor wants to control his own power, he naturally has to rely on us. Rely on us to fight with the warriors and then form a balance. In this way, the emperor can really sit back and relax, otherwise the court is now full of scholars, and those scholars only have families in their eyes, not countries, so they will naturally not be liked by the emperor. And as long as we can do things well and charge at the forefront of the fight against the scholars for the emperor, so that the emperor can find our usefulness, so that the emperor will also help us. Zhang Chao said.

Zhang Chao gave political lessons to these subordinate officials, who were all newcomers and young birds, and they still didn't know anything about the partisan struggles in officialdom. They also don't understand the thinking of class struggle, and Zhang Chao wants to teach them a lesson, that is, the knowledge in the books of later generations. If it was an ancient official, then this knowledge had to be understood by oneself, and could only be understood but not spoken. However, later generations were different, and later generations Chi Guoguo also wrote all kinds of class struggles, as well as the means of mutual struggle and compromise of various classes, into the history books, so that many people knew the essence of this. If a person has not studied, maybe he will have to comprehend and learn everything by himself after entering the officialdom. This process is very dangerous, and at least 90% of people do not succeed in getting through the process of understanding their identity.

As an official, you must first understand your own class representative and which class you are a representative of. The officials of the Shi clan are naturally the representatives of the Shi clan, and they understand this very well. However, there are many poor officials who don't know this, and they really think that being an official is a nobleman, that is, a nobleman, and can become the ruling class. But in fact, it is very wrong, being an official does not mean becoming a ruling class, being an official at least means that you are qualified to work for the benefit of your own class. However, too many poor officials have fallen to the situation of confirming their own class, which will inevitably make them "die" in the first battle, and from then on do nothing.

And a small number of people have understood this, they have gone through a period of ups and downs in officialdom, and naturally know that their origin determines everything. His background is a poor scholar, so he naturally can't stand with the scholars, and this conflict of interest cannot be obtained by simple officialdom means, and a class struggle must be carried out. Otherwise, the class they represent will not be able to reap the benefits, will not be able to achieve high enough development in the political arena, and will not be able to seek benefits for their own class. And those officials who understand it will inevitably find a way to confront. However, these people will also be alone with each other at first, and then regret gradually merging and becoming a cold political group.

Originally, it took more than 100 years for the development of the Hanmen in the Tang Dynasty to truly form an officialdom interest group dominated by the Hanmen, and what Zhang Chao had to do was to mature it, and through his own efforts, the Hanmen officials could realize their identities in advance. His own background has decided everything, and it has been decided that it is impossible to get together with the scholars, and the scholars will desperately suppress them. No matter how good they are, they will not be able to gain the support of the scholars. The official positions of the scholars themselves can't be arranged, where are there any extra official positions and benefits for you poor families? Everything depends on oneself to compete, and only when you compete can you really get benefits. Don't think about what to do to get advantage of the nobles, because you are just a lowly person in their eyes.

"Do you know how lowly we are in the eyes of the scholars? A female beggar from the Shi clan is unwilling to marry an official from a poor family, which is the status of us from a poor family in the eyes of the Shi clan. In the eyes of their scholars, the blood of our humble family is full of filth, full of sin and lowly. Even if we become officials, if we really become officials, we will not gain their respect. Because in their eyes, our blood is already extremely dirty and cheap. So if we don't compete with them, they will just attack us even harder, and they won't have any mercy. And if we don't compete with them, it means that we give up our right to resist. It's like a flock of sheep, in the face of a tiger all the time, if they can unite and resist, then in the end the tiger can only leave, and cannot eat a sheep. But if we don't concentrate on resisting, we can only let the tiger eat the sheep in the end. Don't think that a sheep and a tiger can talk, the tiger will always be a tiger, they will both eat meat, and there will be no mercy. ”

"And for those of our humble family, it is a flock of sheep. And if we don't take the initiative to stand up and resist, we can only be eaten by them one by one in the end. And we, the poor people, are actually the sheep that are free-range by those scholars, and they will eat once when they need it, if they are temporarily full, and they can't fish for the sake of long-term interests in the future, then they will also take the initiative to feed us. When we have enough wealth, they will eat some of us again, and then the process will be repeated. That's why we're so sad, so I'm going to unite against the nobles, or we won't be able to truly be safe and free. ”

Those who have just joined the officialdom have heard of these theories for the first time, and they suddenly feel that this is a "long posture". They didn't think of so much at all, they all thought that if they became officials, they would be nobles, that is, noble people. But after they entered the officialdom, those officials from the noble clan were very cold to themselves and did not have much good feelings. Even many officials from the noble clan, even in the same department, deliberately or unintentionally ignore themselves and regard themselves as different. At first, everyone didn't understand what the reason was, but now they finally understand, and now they finally understand that they can't see themselves in their bones. In the eyes of those scholars, even if they become officials, they are not worthy of working with them, and even in the eyes of those scholars, their bloodlines are extremely dirty, and they are naturally lowly people. That's why they reject themselves so much, but now that they have listened to Zhang Chao's words, they all understand.

If they had to understand it for themselves, they probably wouldn't have understood it at all. And Zhang Chao learned all kinds of class struggle knowledge from later generations, and he was also very able to understand these things, and then passed them on to these new officials. Let them understand that they naturally represent a class, not one that can be easily betrayed. Even Zhang Chao could not betray his own class, he was born in a poor family, and almost everything he wanted to implement in the future would be to mobilize the interests of the scholars. Therefore, before Zhang Chao's reform, he had to gather a large number of people to form a team, so that he could take them to work together. If you want to reform by relying on your own strength alone, you are doomed to failure.

Although the current examination method has been implemented, it does not mean that it can really shake the scholars. Because the test method is just to be able to choose the best among the officials, but if the vast majority of officials are scholars, then in the end it is better to change the soup and not the medicine. So why didn't those scholars desperately oppose the examination method, in fact, the fundamental reason is that this examination method did not shake the interests of the scholars, because the scholars still monopolized the vast majority of official positions, so even if the examination method is just to promote those who have the ability, it does not mean that the scholars are excluded. Therefore, the scholars did not desperately oppose it, on the contrary, they also hoped to select a group of excellent people to help their families rule the country.

And when Zhang Chao gave lessons to the officials of the poor family, some scholars also knew that Zhang Chao had begun to openly form a party.

"Head of the family, should we give that Zhang Chao to ......" A member of the Cui family in Qinghe asked the head of the Cui family.

The Qinghe Cui family is the most senior scholar clan in the world, and it is the leader family in the scholar clan, and this kind of Zhang Chao has formed a party to become a rival scholar clan, so it is impossible to hide it from them.

And the head of the Cui family immediately said: "If you can kill Zhang Chao today, then can you kill Li Chao and Wang Chao in the future?" ”

"But if they are allowed to form a party like this, then what's the point? They are openly going to gather those cold men against our warriors, can we tolerate them? ”

The head of the Cui family shook his head and said, "You don't look at who is behind them, behind them is the one on the dragon chair." As long as that person is willing, he can support Zhang Chao at any time, and he can also support Wang Chao and Li Chao, so it is useless for you to kill him, press down the gourd and float the scoop, it is not interesting at all. If you act rashly, you will break the rules. In officialdom, killing is a last resort, and it cannot be abused! Otherwise, if you kill me today, and tomorrow I will kill you, then what's the matter? Therefore, you can't use the knife unless you have to. This is the rule, no one should easily break the rules, otherwise it will be themselves who will suffer in the end. ”

"But they want to fight against our warriors! Is it possible to turn those lowly people against me? ”

The head of the Cui family still shook his head and said, "For hundreds of years, there have been many people who want to dig up the foundation of our Shi clan. Cao Cao at that time, although he seemed to be the dominant party, but in the end, in order to usurp the Han, he still had to cooperate with our Shi clan, and then implemented the Jiupin Zhongzheng system. Then the Jin Dynasty reached the peak of the Shi clan, and even if Liu Yu usurped the Jin Dynasty later, it was just a flash in the pan. And although Liu Yu suppressed our Shi clan, our Shi clan did not survive as well, and instigated the Liu family's own civil strife. In the end, the Shi clan helped up a Xiao Daocheng again? Xiao Daocheng had to cooperate with us, and then gradually abolished the so-called 'tyranny' left by Liu Yu back then. Later, although Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian ruled the world, didn't he rely on our scholars to maintain his rule? And didn't Yang Guang also want to eliminate us, but didn't they all fail in the end? In the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, although Yang Guang did not love the people too much, he was also a generation of heroes, but in the end, if there were no scholars like us to fan the flames behind, the glorious Sui would not have collapsed so easily. ”

"As for this Zhang Chao, hmph, it's just a clown who jumps off the beam. Could it be that he can compare to Cao Cao, Liu Yu, and Yang Guang back then? How much can such a poor person have? Also, he wants to single-handedly challenge the entire vast rules established by our noble clan, which is simply impossible. Our scholars are not only the rules of officialdom, but also a set of methods for obtaining wealth from the foundation. We own the land, and then we get a lot of wealth by renting the land, and then we use that wealth so that we can continue to be officials. With wealth, we can maintain our rule. So, to rule, there must be wealth, and if there is no wealth, how can it help us? Since ancient times, controlling the government has been a sword in one hand and a money bag in the other. Although don't look at those Cao Cao Liu Yu who became emperors with swords, but without the money bags provided by our scholars, those huge armies will collapse sooner or later. As long as we have the money in our hands, then we will have peace of mind. We have land, we have a steady stream of wealth. But what do those Zhang Chao have, they have no money, no soldiers, what can they do to us? Therefore, Zhang Chao is just a clown who jumps off the beam. ”

And many people in the Cui family also nodded, obviously agreeing with this statement. Because the scholars are not only the wealth of officialdom, they are actually a combination of power and money, using money to maintain their rule, and using the ruling power of officials to obtain wealth for them and protect wealth, this is a circular process. And although the poor people have talents, they have no money, and there is no money that will allow them to climb to the top of the ruling class. Even if they have talents, there is nothing they can do without money.

Why do the princes of those troubled times attach so much importance to cooperating with the scholars, in addition to the talents of the scholars, the main reason is that the scholars are rich. If it weren't for the fact that the nobles had money, and the princes in those troubled times had to have money to maintain their armies, they could only keep compromise. As a warlord, you not only have to have an army, but also have money! Don't look like there is an army and everything, but with food can you gather soldiers, and if there is no food, the soldiers will not listen to you. In this case, those tyrants in troubled times maintained their armies for money and wealth, and in the end they could only compromise with the nobles in a steady stream. If they don't cooperate with the nobles, they will also find themselves in financial difficulties, unable to maintain a large army, and eventually fail.

And even if you sit firmly in the country for a while, the nobles can use the money to support those opponents of yours, and then let your country burn everywhere. Even if the world is too peaceful to support your opponents, you can sow discord within your royal family, and then make your good country become full of devastation. Therefore, it is not possible to rule without money, especially when ruling a country, the wealth spent is incomparably great, and it is impossible to gain the right to rule without money. The nobles are not afraid of those warlords at all, because they have the money bags and the land, that is, they have the economic resources.

So they don't pay attention to Zhang Chao, they don't think that Zhang Chao can be better than Cao Cao and Liu Yu. However, they didn't know that although Zhang Chao was not as powerful as Cao Cao and Liu Yu, he had mastered the "advanced revolutionary theory" of later generations, and he had very rich experience in this kind of class struggle, and this knowledge was also written into textbooks in later generations, so Zhang Chao stood on the heads of countless people to see the world, so of course he knew very well how to clean up these warriors. In particular, the destruction of their economic and political and social systems.

"The nobles used the wealth they had accumulated over the years, and then through propaganda, support, and so on, they established the so-called noble narrative of the scholars. They have the money, and they have the right to interpret the culture, and they use the so-called classics of the ancients to determine their own so-called noble statements. They use money to get the majority of people to help them publicize, and then make the people think they are noble. And the lie told a hundred times has become the truth, so many people have also thought that they are born lowly and should be ruled by the nobles. They hold the money bag in one hand, the book in the other, and the official seat in the other, so the trinity situation naturally means that they have the power to make all the rules. ”

"And if we want to break the game, it's actually very easy, and we also have to master these three things. Money bags, books, official positions. We have books, we are all literati, and there is naturally no shortage of books. And the official position, we also have a beginning for the time being. Since the imperial examination, it is equivalent to opening a crack in our cold door, so that we always have a group of people who can obtain official positions, which can be regarded as opening a small gap. Next, the only thing we lacked was the money bag. If we don't have money, we can't keep us running. And then if we don't have money, we can't get the support of the people. We have to make money through money, so that more and more people get wealth, so that more and more people will support us. So, as long as we have money, then we can also get the last link in the Trinity. As long as we have all three things, then we will have the conditions to compete with the scholars. As for the money bags, I have some way to get them, and there is a group of people who will take the initiative to cooperate with us, and then let us provide money to fight against the nobles, and it will not take much in return. ”

Liu Renliang asked curiously: "Is there such a big wrong?" ”

"Why not? I believe that there are many people in this class who are willing to be the culprits of this wronged! Because, although they are rich, they are the same as our Hanmen, and they are the objects of exploitation by the scholars. And if we can unite, then we also have the trinity of the scholars, so that we can be regarded as having the basis for continuous struggle with the scholars. Zhang Chao replied.