When Pei Ju said this, he paused abruptly and said: "Pei heard that the local Chengji Li family, they also married the local northwest wealthy families Ai family, Shangguan family and Yin family, and this is why they started. ”

Yang Tingfeng blinked and asked: "Since the Han Dynasty, in order to prevent officials from forming parties for personal gain, successive dynasties have implemented the avoidance of origin, not only with explicit provisions. The recusal system is also quite strictly enforced, and the scope of recusal is constantly expanding. In addition to the need to avoid their own nationality, even the marriage family also has to avoid each other's original nationality, so how did the Li family manage to become a local official? ”

"That's right." Pei Ju laughed, his smile was full of cunning, and said: "It's just that there are policies and countermeasures." No matter how strict the three-mutual law is, there are loopholes. ”

Yang Tingfeng frowned and asked, "Loophole?" ”

Pei Ju didn't answer his question, just smiled mysteriously and continued the story......

Since marrying the Li family, I suddenly realized that this method is really good. So, I began to send people to the surrounding counties of Honshu to make friends with the local wealthy families.

They are Wang Wujia, Zhao Liujia, Sun Qijia, Zhou Bajia, Wu Jiujia, and Zheng Shijia.

Although, their comprehensive strength is not as good as my old Zhang family. However, my attitude towards them is to try my best to form alliances, win over, and marry.....

Therefore, the seven families of them are willing to respect my family, and our state has formed the 'Eight Great Families' and the 'Scholar Alliance' headed by my surname.

At this time, what I don't know is how powerful our Scholar Alliance is, even if it is the history of the state pastor, when he sees our eight families, he must be respectful and submissive.

Because he knew very well that without the support of our wealthy people, all his decrees would not be able to be carried out.

But at this moment, a voice lingered in my head, and it was intensifying.

That is, our eight families, although they control all the power, soldiers, horses, money and food in this state.

However, because of the existence of the Three Mutual Laws, we can only serve as deputies in our state, and there are still two mountains of state pastoral history pressing down on our heads.

So, how can we truly become the masters of this state?

To this end, I specially gathered the patriarchs of the other seven families to discuss countermeasures with each other.

After a night of discussion, we all set our eyes on one place

- The Imperial Court

Therefore, our eight families took out money and food, recruited famous scholars and heroes from all over the country, came to Benzhou to serve and teach, taught the descendants of our eight families, trained them into capable generals and fierce generals, and 'befriended' the court historians, leaving a strong mark on the local history and national history.

After doing all this, finally, some of the big officials of the imperial court also became 'interested' in us.

So, we 'tried every means' to send our own sons and nephews to study and serve under these big men.

Through decades of 'hard work', these children of ours have become important members of the imperial court one by one, and they are in control of the country's military and political affairs.

Some of them are good, and they are even ranked among the three princes and nine kings, and they are the officials of the frontier.

And the children's children's nephews and relatives were also sent to various parts of the country one by one to serve as local officials, managing the soldiers and the people.....

From then on, no one in the government or in the opposition dared to look down on our eight families anymore.

Just when our power was in full swing, at this time, the wealthy families in other states also began to rise gradually, and they did the same, accelerating the annexation of land, resulting in a large number of peasants without food and land.

These peasants, over time, have gradually become homeless.

In this year, foreign invasions broke out outside the border, and in China, there was a drought that was rare in a century, resulting in a great famine.

You don't see, Qinghai head, no one has collected the white bones in ancient times.

The new ghost is annoyed and the old ghost is crying, and the sky is cloudy and rainy, and the wet voice is chirping!

In this context, the common people can no longer live, at this time, some people raised their arms and shouted, shouting a slogan.

It can be: cutting down the unreasonable, punishing the tyrannical Qin, and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning!

It can also be: the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious!

It can also be: the Son of Heaven is not subordinate to the order. I am sick and rich and poor, and now you are equal. The law divides the rich and the poor, and it is not a good law. I practice the law, and I should be equal to the rich and the poor, both rich and poor.

The sassy west wind is planted all over the yard, and it is difficult for the cold fragrance and cold butterflies to come.

If I am the Green Emperor in his year, I will report that the peach blossoms will bloom together.

When autumn comes on September 8, I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom.

The heavenly incense array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor.

It can also be: kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine syrup, open the city gate to meet the king, and the king will not pay for the grain when he comes. Eat his mother, her mother, and eat not enough to break the king. If you don't pay for it, you don't pay for food, and everyone has a happy life.

There is land and ploughing, food and food, money and work, everywhere is uneven, and no one is not full and warm.

Expel Hulu, put loyalty first, walk the way for heaven, and regain the mountains and rivers.......

In short, it doesn't matter what the slogan is.

The important thing is that the homeless people who had no food to eat all ran over and rebelled after the man.

For a time, large-scale uprisings broke out in various places, and the smoke of the beacon rose again.

The imperial court was struggling to cope with the lack of skills.

At this time, our sons and nephews in the imperial court proposed to His Majesty the Emperor that the wealthy families in each state should be strong, rich and food, and not make an order to let the wealthy families in each state and county raise troops to quell the chaos.

The advantage of this is that it can quickly quell rebellions in various places, and it can also cost the court not a single soldier, money or food.

The emperor thought about it, is there such a good thing? So I immediately agreed.

At this time, I had already received news from the imperial court.

Therefore, half a month ago, I ordered the eight major families in this state to gather the township warriors, took out the weapons and armor that had been hidden for many years, and waited for the holy decree - to grab money, grain, and land

You must know that these soldiers of ours have been trained by our family's famous men and heroes for many years, and they are well-equipped, rich in money and food, and extremely powerful in combat.

Eliminating this rabble, who only know how to farm, is as easy as digging into a bag.

Within three months, the popular uprising will be overcome.

Sure enough, after a "click" killing, some of the leaders of these peasant rebel armies chose to surrender.

At the same time, they cut off the head of the man who was the first to shout the slogan of rebellion, and sent it over as a sign of sincerity.

Looking at the head in front of me, as well as these 'simple' peasants who had surrendered, I suddenly felt a wave of disgust in my heart.

These bastards, when they take up arms, they are soldiers, and when they put down their weapons, they think they are the people?

Sorry, it doesn't work with me.

Therefore, I ordered the army to get drunk on all these peasant troops who had surrendered on a dark and windy night, and then kill them all, cut off all the heads, and send them to the imperial court for merit...... By the way, these regained lost territories were also annexed at the same time.

And it should be recorded in the history books of the imperial court: In a certain year A.D., my family led the tribe to pacify the thieves and recover the lost territory......

Then, the people revolted, and the chaos reappeared, killing all of them in one place, and regenerating them in another; One place was leveled, and the people in another place were in turmoil again, killing thousands of people and ten thousand people, leveling one place and then chaotic a city.

And this time, the anger of the people seems to be difficult to extinguish, and it can be appeased with one shot, but it is out of control if it is repeated again......

In fact, what the court didn't know was that this was a game within a game from beginning to end

With the army of the imperial court, it will inevitably be able to overcome the popular uprising.

No matter whether the wealthy clans in various places send troops or not, the displaced people will inevitably be wiped out, or die in encirclement and suppression, or die in internal strife.

The defeat of the displaced people is only a matter of time.

They were poor and thin, lacking neither weapons nor food and grass, and they knew nothing about marching and arranging, and had no experience in marching.

It can even be said that these people are just peasants who took up arms, and not rebels. To annihilate them is to enter the flock of sheep and capture them with your hands.

However, what the court didn't know was that these peasants rebelled and rebelled precisely because they lost the land they cultivated, sold their sons and daughters, and could not survive to survive.

And the source of the disaster is land annexation.

Killing does not deter displaced people. Force cannot suppress popular sentiment. As long as the land annexation continues, the rebellion will recur and will intensify and intensify.

It is precisely because the source of the disaster has not disappeared that our family's army has a reason to continue to be stationed here and take the opportunity to annex more land. Even, in order to repay the merits, the rebels who had been reinstated, disarmed, and surrendered were all killed, and the whole family was wiped out.

And in this way, they robbed a large number of young women, plundered property, and revived, which had already tended to ease.

After all, the people cannot live, only rebel again.

Actually, I know the reason for their "rebellion".

As long as there is an environment where there is a chance to live, so that they can live, these displaced people are not willing to "oppose".

However, we have been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, after all, our state and county are such a big place, if we don't take advantage of the endless civil changes and the commotion in the world to make a big profit, I am afraid it will be difficult to have such an opportunity in the future.

Our banditry finally aroused the disgust of the local nobles, so they wrote to the court and sued us severely.

Soon, the imperial court's edict demanding that we withdraw from the army arrived.

In any case, this face of the imperial court still has to be sold, and we are very happy to withdraw the army.

However, the land and other things cannot be returned.

Nonsense, what gets to the mouth, can you spit it out?

As a result, we left a lot of 'our own people' on the newly occupied land and continued to operate.

This move, of course, was impeached by the attack of the local gentry. However, all of them were forcefully fought back by our sons in the court.

Not only that, but we also found various reasons to suppress these local nobles and prevent their children from gaining real power.

Under such circumstances, some scholars chose to compromise and admit defeat and respect us as the boss of the scholars.

And those who don't know each other will be eradicated, exterminated, and destroyed by our eight families for major reasons......

And the history books record: In a certain year A.D., our family assisted the imperial court and eliminated the head of the rebellion.....

Finally, the rebellion was quelled.

The court talked about the reward for meritorious deeds, and all the meritorious ministers were secretly happy, waiting for the reward.

At this time, however, I proposed to dismiss the subordinates, seal the official seal, and return to my hometown.

And asked the children of the eight major families to stay at home and behave in a low-key manner.

At the time, no one could understand what I was doing.

It wasn't until decades later that many scholars fell into bad luck, were uprooted, and all over the house were beheaded, and chickens and dogs abounded.

However, only the eight of us have not been liquidated, and the favor of the imperial court is getting heavier and heavier day by day.

Later, the old emperor's health failed, and he was afraid that the successor would not be able to control the situation in the court, so he married the princess to our Zhang family, and left a will for the new monarch.

The content is basically that after his death, in the name of the new emperor, the people of our noble clan will be reinstated as officials.

Before I died, the old emperor specially recruited me to enter Beijing alone, and in front of the sickbed, he kept tears that I didn't know whether they were true or not, and told me, "Zhang San, in this life, he only trusts me alone." ”

And I also howled a few symbolically, tears broke down, and kowtowed like pounding garlic.

Subsequently, the first emperor, the little emperor and the descendants of our scholar clan joined hands to become the new monarch and minister and rule the world together.

And I, after all, did not return to my hometown again, but stayed in the capital as a hostage with the title of the first product of the dynasty.

Three years later, my life has come to an end, recalling my grandfather's teachings, I called my children and grandchildren to the bedside and warned them, "As an official, you must think of danger, think of change, and think of retreat." If you don't have the ability to be a powerful minister, you can return to your hometown as soon as possible and keep your family's power in the state. ”

My children and grandchildren have remembered my family motto, which is that whenever a new dynasty changes and a new monarch ascends the throne, he will return to his hometown and not ask about the world.

Once the world is in turmoil, he will provide money and talents to assist the new overlord of the troubled times and ascend to the throne. In the long run, no matter who sits in that position and how the imperial court changes hands, our family will always stand tall in this state......

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