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Chapter 1076 Infighting

There are only two ways to implement law change, one is a peaceful way from the top down, and the other is a violent way from the bottom up. Tang Yu used the latter one, while Shangguan Xiu chose the former one.

With the current ability of the above official show, he can completely kill all the ministers who do not support the change of the law, and forcibly push the change of the law by means of force and deterrence, but in this way, I don't know how many people will die during the implementation of the change.

Killing cannot make the nobles accept the change, it will only cause the maximum dissatisfaction and resistance of the nobles, the current Fengguo is chaotic enough, internal and external troubles, there can be no more internal turmoil, self-chaos, this is the main reason why Shangguan Xiu chose a peaceful way.

Another main reason is that Shangguan Xiu himself, he is a descendant of the Shangguan family, and the children of the traditional Shi clan of the Feng Country are all the old heroes of the Feng Country who fought side by side with the Shangguan family back then, the old founding fathers, and they want to kill all the descendants of these people, and Shangguan Xiu can't be so ruthless.

With the support of the nobles, the change will go very smoothly, if it attracts the joint resistance of the nobles, the change will only be difficult, and the representatives of the nobles of the Wind Country are all above this court, so Shangguan Xiu must let the ministers accept the change first, and only if they accept it first, the resistance of other nobles will be minimized.

This court meeting is destined to be a difficult psychological warfare and tug-of-war.

Tang Ling's illness has almost gotten better with Shangguan Xiu's return, and Tang Ling can also understand Shangguan Xiu's proposition, Fengguo has indeed reached the point where it can no longer continue to move on without changing the law, but if she wants to support the change of the law, she can't do it.

She said that she was sick and did not go to court, and this is the reason. In the dormitory, Tang Ling was keeping an eye on the movements of the court. This time, the court meeting has been held from yesterday morning to noon today, and the wind country has never had such a long court meeting.

She asked the female officials beside her, "How is the situation in the court?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the ministers who support the change are close to variable, and in addition, there are eight adults who are unconscious, I don't know what the attitude of these adults is. ”

"What about Lord Cai and Lord Qiu?"

The two adults were resolute and did not support the change. ”

If it was something else, with Qiu Yi's personality, he would definitely stand on Shangguan Xiu's side, but to implement the changes he advocated, it would touch the core interests of the Qiu family, and Qiu Yi would not waver on the issue of principle.

"Who are the ministers who support the reform?"

"They are all low-ranking ministers, and among the second-rank ministers, only the newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Gan Pinggan, supports the change. ”

Tang Ling nodded and said, "The Gan family is not an old Fengchen, and it is not surprising that Gan Ping will support the change." After a pause, she asked again: "Looking at the situation in the court, how long do you think this court meeting will be held?"

The female official pondered for a moment and whispered: "Weichen doesn't know, and he can't judge, His Highness has made it very clear that the opinions of all ministers must be unified and agreed on the matter of changing the law, and there can be no dissent." ”

Tang Ling smiled and muttered: "This is in line with Ah Xiu's personality, either you don't do it, you have to do it, you have to do it to the extreme, and you must ensure the success of the first battle." "Plan and then act, this is Shangguan Xiu's principle of doing things.

The female official said worriedly: "Now, His Royal Highness and the ministers are on the same bar, such a stalemate, I don't know how long it will drag, Weichen is worried that some adults' bodies will not be able to hold on, and now eight adults have fallen." ”

Tang Ling nodded and said, "Let the palace maid prepare more heat-relieving soup and chrysanthemum tea and send them to the front hall." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

In accordance with Tang Ling's order, the female official sent the sour plum soup and the chrysanthemum tea to the front of the Jinluan Palace, but the gate of the Jinluan Hall is now full of military police, and it has been sealed by the military police.

Now, Shangguan Xiu is boiling with the ministers, grinding with the ministers, to see who has stronger endurance and willpower, and who can persevere to the end. The second day of the court meeting was spent in this kind of confrontation and stalemate without gunpowder, and it was the third day in the blink of an eye.

I didn't go home for two whole days, I didn't change my clothes, and my clothes didn't know how many times they were soaked in sweat, and they were so sour that they smelled in the hall.

At this time, even Shangguan Xiu's face was not very good-looking, sitting on the steps, closing his eyes and recuperating, trying to let himself breathe less, while the ministers below were lying down for a long time.

Of course, there has been progress in dragging it to this extent, and the number of ministers who support the reform has increased a lot, at least to about seventy percent, and even the Minister of Military Affairs Du Xian and the Minister of Agriculture Zhuang Cheng, two second-class officials who resolutely oppose the change, are now on the side of supporting the change, but there are still about 30 percent of the ministers such as Cai Xiao and Qiu Yi who insist on refusing to support the change, and the opinions demanded by Shangguan Xiu are completely unified, which is still far from being completely unified.

When the third day passed, the number of fallen ministers was even greater. Tang Ling finally couldn't stand it anymore and sent someone to summon Shangguan Xiu. When Shangguan Xiu came to the dormitory, as soon as he walked into Tang Ling, the latter's brows twisted into a small pimple, and he subconsciously took a step back and asked, "Ah Xiu, what does it smell like on you?"

Shangguan Xiu smiled bitterly, and he had been holding back in a small room with so many ministers for three days and three nights, so it was strange that the smell on his body could be good. He quickly said, "I'll take a shower first!"

The layout in the palace dormitory is similar to that of the Shangjing Imperial Palace, there are baths in the dormitory, Shangguan Xiu walked to the bath, took off his clothes a few times, soaked in the pool water, and then, he closed his eyes and sighed comfortably.

Tang Ling called in a palace maid, pointed to the group of clothes that Shangguan Xiu had taken off, and said, "Clean it up and throw it away immediately." ”

After waiting for the palace maid to leave with her sour and smelly clothes, Tang Ling walked to the bath, took off her shoes and socks, sat down on the edge, soaked her two little feet as white as jade into the pool, and said: "Ah Xiu, what you said to me, implement the law, no matter whether it is successful or not, you will not kill anyone in the court." ”

Shangguan Xiu held up one of Tang Ling's jade feet, kissed her lightly on the tip of her foot, and said with a smile: "In the past three days, I have not killed anyone." ”

Tang Lingyu's face was slightly red, and he tapped him with his toes, and said, "But if it goes on like this, I think that the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty will have to be suffocated to death by you!"

Shangguan Xiu shrugged his shoulders and said, "Xiang'er, don't worry, you can't die, I'm fully prepared, dozens of imperial doctors are waiting outside the palace." ”

It could be seen that Shangguan Xiu had made up her mind to spend it with the ministers, she rolled her eyes and said, "It's better to let those ministers who support the change come out to rest first, what does Ah Xiu think?"

Shangguan Xiu didn't think about it, and immediately refused: "No, no one can leave, whether they are in favor of the change or against the change, all the ministers have to stay in the hall." ”

Tang Ling sighed helplessly, not letting those ministers who opposed the change of the law go out, she could still understand that it was Shangguan Xiu's torture of them, but it was clear that many ministers had changed their positions and supported the change, what was Ah Xiu still torturing them?

Regarding Tang Ling's doubts, Shangguan Xiu just smiled, tilted his head to the side, gently pillowed on her lap, and said, "It's been three days, and it should be almost over." ”

In the court, Shangguan Xiu was not there, but many ministers came to the spirit. Du Xian, Zhuang Cheng and the others, who were originally lying on the ground, sat up one after another, looked at each other, and complained weakly: "When is this a head!"

"In my opinion, as long as there are still people who oppose the change, it is impossible for His Highness to let us out and let us go home!"

As they spoke, the eyes of Du Xian, Zhuang Cheng and the others swept over to the people opposite, asking the two of them to accuse Cai Xiao and Qiu Yi, they didn't have the guts, but they would not be polite to those ministers with lower official ranks.

"Lord Tian, you are a deputy envoy of the third grade, and you also insist on changing the law, do you think that changing the law will have a great impact on your Tian family?"

"Lord Zhao, the Zhao family was only born in businessmen, and they relied on their ancestors to buy officials, so they occupied a place in Beijing.

Some ministers were ashamed to give up their positions and stand on the side of supporting the change, while some ministers were directly stunned.

This is the effect that Shangguan Xiu wants, and it is also the reason why he insists on refusing to let the minister who supported the change leave.

As people's physical strength is exhausted and their physical load reaches the limit, what follows is the collapse of willpower, the collapse of psychological defenses, and the change of position, and the more people who support the change, the more unpleasant it will be to see those who insist on opposing the change, because their existence will only show their weakness, and moreover, people will blame all the suffering they are suffering on their heads, thinking that it is caused by their intransigence.

At the beginning, the ministers who supported the reform of the law only sneered at the ministers who opposed the reform, but as time passed, people's cynicism gradually turned into insults, and even turned out the eight generations of the ministers who opposed the reform, and scolded them from beginning to end.

Even Cai Xiao and Qiu Yi were not spared.

"Lord Cai resolutely opposes the change of the law, and there are extenuating circumstances, the Cai family has produced a total of eight first assistants and twelve ministers of finance for hundreds of years, and they have been deeply benefited by the laws of Gaozu, but what about you, you ask yourself, have you ever produced a minister of first assistant, have you ever produced a minister of finance, have you ever produced a minister of internal history, and a minister of seal?"

"Qiu Zhen, the ancestor of the Qiu family, was the founding father who insisted on implementing the meritocracy policy the same as the Holy Ancestor Emperor back then, and the descendants of the Qiu family have now become the ministers who are most opposed to the meritocracy policy, which sounds really ironic!"

"Isn't it, it's a shame on the ancestors!"

Cai Xiao and Qiu Yi heard the ridicule of the ministers opposite, and both looked over. The frothing ministers immediately shut up and hung their heads in unison, but it wasn't long before the cynicism of the people began again.

Everyone's will has collapsed, their minds are all blurred, they just want to get out of this sea of suffering immediately, where can they care about the friendship of the same palace, where do they care about the long-term fear and respect for Cai Xiao and Qiu Yi?

said that Qiu Yi was stubborn and conservative, Qiu Yi didn't care, but said that he had lost the face of his ancestors, which made Qiu Yi unbearable, but he couldn't find anything to refute.

At that time, Qiu Zhen was the biggest beneficiary of the use of meritocracy, and he himself was also the person who supported the principle of meritocracy, and now Qiu Yi insists on opposing the new law, which is indeed contrary to the concept pursued by the ancestors.

He took a deep breath and slowly raised his legs, before he could take this step, Cai Xiao grabbed his wrist and asked, "Is Lord Qiu also afraid?"