"Oh, yes."

The emperor suddenly remembered something: "Wang Chuzhong's people, there should have been a story about Sima Zhengdu's creation of a demon catastrophe and a disaster for the Central Plains, right?" ”

"The minister won't believe a word." Cheng Jinyang hurriedly expressed his loyalty, I only have His Majesty as a sun in my heart.

"Well, actually, what he said is true." The emperor said.

Cheng Jinyang: ???

Is it okay for the emperor to personally deceive his teachers and destroy his ancestors?

"However, disclosing the truth selectively is in itself no different from lying." The Emperor continued, "Wang Chuzhong only told you that it was Sima Zhengdu who single-handedly caused the cataclysm. ”

"But I didn't tell you that before the cataclysm, the power of the family had already shown signs of rising. Emperor Gaozu Xuan's ancestral motto was to 'pull out the Hanmen', but the rise of the Hanmen's power was far less rapid than the expansion of the family's power, especially the development of the supernatural bloodline, which greatly exacerbated this imbalance. ”

"The most lethal thing is the loss of the advanced productive forces of the royal family. Before Sima Zhengdu, cutting-edge technology had always been in the hands of the Sima family, and the imperial business provided a large amount of profits for the Sima family, and the bulk of these profits would be fed back into the research of science and technology, and the surplus would be used to support the social welfare system. ”

However, the proliferation of technology is also inevitable, especially since the ability itself has no cost, resulting in many things that would have required investment of technology and resources to do, which can be done more easily by the Ability Family. By the time Sima Zhengdu reigned, the Shi clan industry had eroded 70% of the market value of the imperial merchant enterprises, once endangering the survival of the Sima family itself. ”

Cheng Jinyang's secret thinking ability is indeed unreasonable. For example, the mass effect of Xing's in Hejian directly reduces the weight of goods, and other trains can pull dozens of rolls of steel bars in one carriage, and Xing's family can pull hundreds or thousands of rolls, where can this cost be competitive?

Seeing that he didn't react, the emperor chuckled lightly and said:

"Do you think that it's just the existence of the Sima family itself, and it has nothing to do with the world society?"

"However, if the Sima family dies, how long can the emperor hold on? If the emperor is also replaced, and one of the five surnames is put on the throne, what do you think will become of the human world? Cheng Jinyang, you are now the patriarch of the Cheng clan in the Shendu, and you should also know that the family is employed, and only the same surname is preferred, how many commoners with different surnames are there around you now? ”

There are no civilians with different surnames, but there are many ladies of the opposite sex...... Cheng Jinyang found that he couldn't refute it, so he could only deal with it in silence.

"The Sima family must not be self-conscious with blood, this is the ancestral training of Emperor Gaozu Xuan." The emperor said abruptly, "So when the Abnormal Ability Family arose, only the Sima family never drank blood and maintained the blood of ordinary humans. ”

"Because of this, under the rule of the Sima family, you can meet many bureaucrats from civilian backgrounds, that is, the ancestral training of Gaozu to 'promote the cold family'. However, unlike the royal family, the Scholar class has a very strong exclusivity of its own: if you don't have a Bloodline, you will never be able to enter this class, so the Scholar Clan has little circulation with the outside world. Even if there is circulation, it does not look at your personal talent at all, purely on your pedigree. ”

"Once the Sima family declines and the Alien Family ascends to the throne, then the commoners will really never come out. Not to mention anything else, you can find out how many children of the family are in Wang Chuzhong's camp now, and how many civilians are there? Compare it with Jiankang, and you will come to the answer. ”

"The world pursued by Wang Chuzhong is the world ruled by the Taiyuan Wang clan and ruled by other scholars, that is, the world of the Alien Family. There will be no way out for ordinary civilians, and there will be no way out for the poor. You are from a poor family, and you should have experienced the hardships of survival in a poor family. If most people are destined to live like this since they were born, do you think there is any hope for such a world?

"Sima Zhengdu, it is precisely in order to avoid such an outcome that he took the risk of large-scale promotion of experimental vaccination, hoping to break the barrier that the supernatural bloodline only circulates among the scholars, so that ordinary civilians can also gain the power to fight for status...... Of course, he failed, but instead created an anomaly like a demon, which eventually led to the collapse of half of the country. ”

"I will not deny Sima Zhengdu's guilt. Even if his original intention was good, it did bring profound disasters to the world, but Emperor Gaozu Xuan once said, 'Things should be viewed dialectically, and people's merits and demerits should be separated'. If Sima Zhengdu is said to be a naturally heinous person, and further blame the entire Sima family, I do not agree with this. ”

"Because of Sima Zhengdu's fault, he also denied his original intention, and even used it to argue that 'civilians cannot be allowed to gain power', which is the so-called overkill. The nobles may be willing to push such public opinion, but I will not give in. ”

Speaking of this, the emperor seemed to be a little tired, and said with a smile:

"Of course, with the split and rebellion within the Cheng clan in the Divine Capital before, the remaining people are all loyal people. You don't have to say more, I know it. ”

"Cheng Ben and the old patriarch have passed away, and the status of the Cheng clan in the divine capital is in jeopardy. In normal times, this may be a little troublesome, but now that it is a time of war, even Wang Maohong has already compromised with me, and you don't have to worry about the Cheng family being expelled from the family in a short time. ”

"The minister is grateful to your majesty." Cheng Jinyang hurriedly said.

"Don't be in a hurry to thank you first, the relationship between the Shendu Cheng clan and the Sima family is not a secret." The emperor interrupted his thanks, "After this incident, Wang Maohong will inevitably doubt your relationship with the imperial family, and he will probably find time to test you." You know how to answer. ”

"By the way, you seem to have a close relationship with his daughter Wang Wanrou?"

"This ......" Cheng Jinyang was speechless, and said after a while, "It's just a friend." ”

"Well, the fifth surname is not easy for you to get, and it is definitely not a good match. Even if you marry Wang Wanrou against all odds, it will only make the Shendu Cheng clan one of the many vassals of the Taiyuan Wang clan. The emperor reminded him and said, "Xing Yuanzhi of the Xing clan in the river is more suitable for you." It's just that since Cheng Ben and the old patriarch passed away, Xing Shuhe may not be willing to promise the Xing family Qingfeng to you anymore. ”

"However, you don't have to put your mate in the family circle." He suddenly changed his voice and said, "How is my Nankang princess?" Although she is a child of the Sima family, she has part of the Yanling Yu clan's bloodline, so you don't have to worry about your heir's bloodline growth value being affected. ”

Cheng Jinyang: ???

Sister Xinnan is indeed white, big and long...... No, I mean gentle and reliable. But why did this cheap father-in-law suddenly sell me his daughter? Too fast, too fast!

"Don't like her? What about my Princess Luling? The emperor continued to jokingly ask, "If you don't like to be older than yourself, Luling is also a good choice, and it will not affect the relationship between you and Nankang." ”

"Minister......" Cheng Jinyang was about to break out in a cold sweat behind his back, and he couldn't understand whether the emperor was sincere at this time, or whether he was trying to ...... at all, "The minister hasn't considered marriage yet."

"Really?" The emperor was a little distraught, "Then you can think about it slowly when you go back." ”

"Also, you don't have to call yourself a minister anymore. You are not my courtier, but you are my junior, so there is no need to be so outside. If you want to visit me in the future, you can always go to the east gate to see me. ”