"The emperor actually asked about these ......" Zhao Yanshen really didn't expect Gao Wei's first question with him to be such a grand proposition, but after all, he had already touched the core of this empire when he was Emperor Shenwu, and if he understood this country, he thought that he was not under anyone.

Pinching his beard and groaning for a long time, he slowly spoke: "It has been more than 20 years since Emperor Wenxuan founded the country...... But in the past 20 years, my Great Qi has often had a turbulent situation of the country, and now the national strength and military strength are not as good as one day, but in turn they are suppressed by the Northern Zhou Dynasty. ”

Gao Wei frowned, thinking carefully, it is true that the Northern Qi Dynasty had a period of glory, and the national strength was once stronger than the Northern Zhou Dynasty during the period when Gao Huan was in power until Gao Yan became the emperor, but in just a few years, the Northern Qi Dynasty was surpassed by the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and he often wondered if there was something wrong with the Northern Qi Dynasty, otherwise how could it fall from the peak to the bottom at such a fast speed.

When Gao Wei was still thinking, Zhao Yanshen said: "Lao Chen has gone through the Eastern Wei Dynasty and Daqi, I have seen a lot, and I often think about this problem. ”

"Disagreeable?" Cushman became interested and asked, "I'd like to hear about it." ”

"What the old minister said here is that the people are not aligned, not the soldiers are not brave, not the officials are not effective, but the most fundamental contradictions within the country!" At this moment, Zhao Yanshen's cloudy eyes swept away the haze, like a sharp arrow, and the essence was exposed.

"The prime minister is saying that the contradiction between the Xianbei people and the Han people?" Cushman asked cautiously.

Zhao Yan glanced at Gao Wei with deep relief, and said: "Yes, in the opinion of Lao Chen, the so-called Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Turkic invasion, and the so-called natural disasters and civil changes are not to be feared, what is really terrible is that this has always been hidden in my Daqi's hidden danger, it is like a cancer, I don't know when it will attack!" ”

Zhao Yanshen stroked his gray beard, looked at the snow outside the hall, seemed to be caught in complex thinking, and said softly: "The Xianbei people and the Han people are in the same place, but there are great contradictions. Once there is a national disaster, the Hanchen and Xianbei ministers in the court are also very different, which leads to the fact that the power of Daqi cannot be completely used, which is the real reason for the weakness of my Daqi! ”

Gao Wei was silent, he understood that Zhao Yanshen was telling the truth, and he also knew that what Zhao Yanshen said was reasonable, but this issue was too much involved.

The question of the Xianbei and Han people goes back to the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang, vigorously promoted cultural reform, and the Xianbei people who moved south gradually sinicized in the Central Plains. For the reform of Emperor Xiaowen, the whole Wei State is not of the same mind, and there are many people who support the reform of Sinicization, but there are more opponents. At the beginning, in order to guard against the Rouran people on the grassland, the Northern Wei Dynasty set up six military towns in the north to guard the border, and its members were mainly Xianbei people. These people belonged to the group of diehards who were opposed, and since they could not be persuaded and could not be killed, the measure taken by Emperor Xiaowen was to leave them in the north and leave them to fend for themselves.

With the reform of Emperor Xiaowen's southward migration, the military and civilians of the six northern towns became a forgotten group. They lived in poverty in the wind and snow, and their status was very low. Seeing that the people who moved south were "good at the wealth of the mountains and seas, and the wealth of the mountains and forests", a sense of injustice arose spontaneously in their hearts.

In the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the military and the people revolted on a large scale, and Er Zhurong and other heroes took the opportunity to cause chaos in the world, the six towns mutinied, and a large number of displaced people poured into the Central Plains. Gao Huan, who was born in the Six Towns, was under Er Zhu Zhao's account at the time, and he came up with an idea at that time to persuade Er Zhu Zhao to send a capable person to absorb the displaced people in the Six Towns. When he took control of the soldiers and horses of the Six Towns, he immediately turned against Er Zhu Zhao, marched into the Central Plains, and established the puppet dynasty of Eastern Wei.

The Eastern Wei Dynasty, later the Northern Qi Dynasty, had a fatal wound on the day it was founded. The military households of the six towns who moved south believed that the Northern Wei Dynasty was destroyed because they had listened to the Han people, and had turned their long-standing political injustice into resentment against the Central Plains scholars, so they clung to the old customs of Xianbei and despised the Central Plains culture. In addition, these nobles sit on the merits of the establishment, so they are "insatiable and endless" to the people, and the Xianbei people often regard the robbery of the Han people as a matter of course.

For the Han people and scholars in the Central Plains, the nobles also released words such as "a money man, and then die", "the dog man is unbearable, but he must be killed". It can be said that he completely despises the Han people, and he does not think at all about the Han people's way of governing the country and securing the country.

For these phenomena, Gao Huan, who was in charge of the Eastern Wei regime, saw it in his eyes. Gao Huan was originally a Han Chinese, and because he lived in Huaishuo Town, one of the six towns, he subtly regarded himself as a Xianbei person since he was a child. Whether it is in the administration or when marching to war, what is admired in the bones is the Xianbei people.

When the Six Towns nobles clashed with the Central Plains Scholars, this old brother who was posthumously revered as Emperor Shenwu was a little unreliable. Why? Because he likes to smear mud on both sides when dealing with the conflict between the two races.

For example, Gao Huan said to the Xianbei people: "The Han people are your family, the men farm for you, the women weave cloth for you, and the food and clothing you eat and wear are all provided by others, why do you still bully others?" He turned his head and said to the Han people: "The Xianbei people are your good friends, he just took some grain and some cloth from you, but they blocked the enemy for you, why do you still hate them?" But it turns out that Gao Huan is still too naïve, how can the serious social contradictions caused by the rampant nobility of the Six Towns be eliminated by this kind of "language art"?

Gao Huan has not made substantial efforts. Xun Gui Wei Jing is insatiable and oppresses the people, Gao Huan, who originally planned to turn a blind eye, can't stand it, and admonishes Wei Jing: "You can take it away, don't be so greedy." Wei Jing was not afraid, and replied with a big grin: "Who is more greedy than you and me?" I only take money from mortals, you take it from the Son of Heaven! "It is a fact that Gao Huan coerced the Son of Heaven to order the world, but in the face of accusations, Xungui dared to make such nonsense, and Gao Huan was helpless. No way, who let him still rely on others to fight?

The reason why Gao Huan was unable to make up his mind to punish corruption was fundamentally related to the fact that he relied on the power of the displaced people in the six towns to start his business. Moreover, Gao Huan does not have the courage and skill of Zhu Yuanzhang to fight against the nobles and fiercely punish corruption, and he does not have Li Shimin's ambition to treat Huayi equally, so that Hu Yuecheng is a family. This led to the limitations of the development of the Northern Qi Dynasty later.

In the face of lawlessness, Gao Huan is more often conniving.

Once, the scholar Du Bi plucked up his courage and asked Gao Huan to get rid of the thief. Gao Huan asked who the thief was, and Du Bi said: "All the nobles and nobles are those who plunder all the people. Gao Huan listened, ordered the Xianbei warriors to stand in two columns fully armed, and ordered Du Bi to pass through it. These few steps made Du Bi walk in a daze. Gao Huan said proudly, they didn't dance the sword and sword, they all scared you Du Bi to the death, they are all people who died on the battlefield, even if they are greedy, but they have made great contributions to the battle array, and it is not difficult to open up to them.

History said that Du Bi was terrified, "suddenly apologized".

It should be said that these heartfelt words reveal Gao Huan's bitterness. But to put it bluntly, Gao Huan's logic is nothing more than that he is not afraid of the people's confusion in extraordinary times, but only the army's confusion. But since ancient times, it is those who win the hearts of the people who win the world, how can they rely on force and condone ink officials to achieve long-term peace and stability?

Isn't this losing a watermelon and picking up sesame seeds? It's really puzzling, why is Gao Huan, who is deep and steady, so inconsiderate? This is unknown, maybe he wanted to defeat the Northern Zhou before making a move, but unfortunately he died before waiting for that day, and his son Gao Cheng took over the beam.

All in all, Gao Huan's favoritism and inaction made the Northeast Qi regime plant a time bomb since the day it was established, and since then in the Northern Qi Dynasty, the nobles of the Six Towns are still rampant, and the contradictions with the Central Plains scholars are deepening day by day, and the two sides are infighting, framing and killing each other, which is the most terrible internal injury of the country.

After Gao Zhan took over the empire, this situation was further exacerbated, and history was reversed, and he was originally in the Central Plains. The invasion of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was only the appearance, and what really led to the demise of the Northern Qi Dynasty was actually the internal affairs, and the two ethnic groups were constantly opposed, and the Northern Qi was powerless to resist the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the powerful Northern Qi perished step by step in the internal strife and the greed of the ruling class. It's a pity.

Gao Wei knew that he would have to face such a situation sooner or later since he crossed over, but when Zhao Yanshen put it in front of him, he still subconsciously felt breathless. To change this situation means to be the enemy of most of the ruling class at the national level, and it means that the Northern Qi Dynasty will have a complete blood change from the court to the military town to the people! There will be many people who fall under the butcher's knife of change, and perhaps, the one who falls will be himself!

Cushman & Wakefield can't help but be lucky these days, and with inertia considering whether there is a way to make the country strong without a big blood change. And now Zhao Yanshen's words have completely shattered Cushman & Wakefield's beautiful idea.

Qian Mu said: "Where there is an improvement in history, there is often a reaction. "It seems that the hope for peaceful evolution may not be feasible......

Gao Wei smiled bitterly and said: "The prime minister knows that the state affairs are difficult, if this is the case, I don't know what can be taught to me?" ”

"Anyone who wants to achieve great things must have a resolute and never-say-die heart, and if you decide, you must achieve your goals at any cost and by unscrupulous means." Zhao Yanshen looked directly into Gao Wei's eyes, and said word by word: "In the past, Emperor Shenwu used a mess of lines to test the princes, and only by unlocking it can it be regarded as passing, Wenxiang, Xiaozhao and even the first emperor can't solve it, only Emperor Wenxuan can solve it, does Your Majesty know what Emperor Wenxuan did at that time?" ”

Gao Wei smiled slightly and said, "Emperor Wenxuan raised his sword and cut this thread directly, saying: 'All the rebellious ministers and thieves will be killed!'" ’”

Emperor Wenxuan Gao Yang, this eloquent talent is probably not lost to any king!

Cushman & Wakefield's heart suddenly became enlightened, and bloodshed on the road of change was inevitable! Since the storm is coming after all, it is better to let him come vigorously!

It's just that Gao Wei still had doubts in his heart and asked Zhao Yanshen: "Why does the prime minister believe that I can do something like this, which Shenwu and Wenxuan have not done?" ”

Zhao Yanshen had a smile on his face, but his eyes were extremely solemn, and he said, "Because Daqi has no choice." ”

Gao Wei couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, laughed at himself for being too narcissistic, and said, "I see......"

Zhao Yan said in a deep voice: "But Your Majesty should not be too arrogant, you must know that Your Majesty may not be inferior to Shenwu and Wenxuan......"

"The prime minister laughed, how can I compare with Shenwu and Emperor Wenxuan?" Cushman & Wakefield gently blew on the tea surface.

Zhao Yanshen looked directly at him; "The minister didn't laugh, looking at His Majesty's handwriting today, if it is said that it is a temporary intention, it is absolutely impossible, it is planned in advance, and then moved, which shows that His Majesty is very calm. The fact that he was accused of being beheaded in Cairo shows that His Majesty values the rule of law. Fighting with the Queen Mother's party, knowing how to take advantage of the situation, and being uncompromising in the face of the Queen Mother's prestige, this shows that Your Majesty has an ambitious heart and great wisdom, and the minister is even more determined in the conversation with His Majesty. Therefore, for Your Majesty, the minister has only two words to evaluate......"

Zhao Yanshen smiled, and the two words fell like thunder:

“…… Hidden Dragon! ”