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Chapter 1515 Cut off the roots of scholar-bureaucrats

The old land of the Southern Zhou Dynasty has not stopped since it was conquered.

At the beginning, some people rebelled under the banner of restoring the country, but Li Xuan was so wicked that he moved the royal family to Chang'an.If you restore the country, whose country will you restore?

So those careerists shyly played the banner of going to Chang'an to rescue His Majesty.

But even the people of the Southern Zhou Dynasty don't believe this... Damn it!If you have such abilities, will Da Zhou destroy the country?

After these rebellions were swept away, Chang'an began to cleanse the officialdom in the old place of the Southern Zhou Dynasty.

Those who supported the New Deal were mostly retained or even reused.

Anyone who opposes the New Deal should leave.

It has been said that many people opposed the New Deal not for their own benefit, but that the New Deal was a scourge.

The voice of the emperor came from Chang'an: "If there is no change, the Southern Zhou Dynasty will surely perish. There is at least a glimmer of hope for change. This kind of people can't even see this, and they will only harm the people as officials!"

Immediately, those officials who felt wronged hid their faces and left.

As a result, the officialdom in the Southern Zhou Dynasty changed drastically, and many officials from the mainland took over the power.

"Strike!"

In a mansion in Bianjing, a group of scholar-bureaucrats are discussing secretly.

"Strike?"

"Yes, the business of Great Zhou has become more and more prosperous now, and Chang'an has been provided with countless taxes every year. Li Xuan is preparing to conquer the land of Shu. If Great Zhou is chaotic..."

"That's right, a lot of grain is purchased from grain merchants, if the market goes on strike..."

Immediately, this group of people began to use their influence to incite merchants to strike.

But there are very few responses.

"Those businessmen didn't agree!"

A group of people meet again.

"Why?"

"Don't they care about righteousness?"

"Those merchants said that after returning to the Tang Dynasty, their taxes will be reduced, and the officials will be much cleaner, and the trade routes will become smoother. If this is the case, why should they stop the market?"

"A group of thieves who only have money in their eyes!"

Qin Dezhang, the former Southern Zhou prince and Taifu, said angrily.

A follower ran in, "There are officers and soldiers coming!"

"What?" Qin Dezhang sneered, "Alright!"

"Duke Qin, let's go!"

The crowd scattered as birds and beasts.

Qin Dezhang walked to the street, watching the soldiers blocking him on both sides.

"Come the knife!"

He stretched out his hand, and the attendant said, "Ah Lang, these are fierce soldiers, useless."

"Bring it!"

After receiving the dagger, Qin Dezhang suddenly laughed.

"Hahahaha!"

The sergeants stopped, watching the old man go berserk.

"The back is blocked." Someone shouted.

So, the old gentleman is left.

"The Great Zhou has supported scholars for hundreds of years, and today is the day when righteousness becomes benevolence."

Qin Dezhang put the short knife on his neck, "Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, commerce has flourished and the treasury has been full. Not to mention the prosperity of singing and dancing, it is also a rare pure land in the world. In addition to assisting the king, we entertain ourselves with poems and songs.

Literary and romantic is Da Zhou, but what is Da Tang?The emperor is shameless, father and son are the same wife.The people of Tang Dynasty were tyrannical and would often draw their swords at each other.Above the temple, they shouted conquest at every turn... This is a violent Tang Dynasty! "

Those pedestrians stopped, and the businessman was stunned.

Several royal guards came.

"This person's name is Qin Dezhang, and he was the former prince and grand tutor. He was highly respected. After the fall of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, this person asked to resign. Recently, he has jumped up and down, and we have found many people with ulterior motives. However, he What is this for? The dog jumps over the wall in a hurry?"

Qin Dezhang looked at those passers-by and said, "Will you know later? The navy has gone to sea. The navy that has always only guarded the coast of Dazhou is now going overseas. What is the emperor going to do? He wants to conquer overseas."

The news of the sailing army's departure was brought by merchants, and the Bianjing merchants looked forward to one day being able to travel across the ocean to do business by boat.

"Where will the gentle Da Zhou be taken by Bao Tang? The old man seems to have seen you wearing armor and carrying weapons, and rushing to the battlefield following Chang'an's will. But why is there such a conquest in this world? ? Is it not good for An Sheng to live a life by guarding the border?"

"But the emperor of Chang'an has a strong will. He has been fighting since he was a boy, and he will not stop. And my people of Dazhou will be tied to his chariot. Woohoo! My people of Dazhou He Gu?"

"Stop talking to him."

A few Jinyiwei came over.

Qin Dezhang pointed at them with a dagger, and said with a smile: "You are afraid that the old man will tell the truth, so you want to silence him? You don't need to wait!"

Qin Dezhang turned the knife against his lower abdomen, raised his head and shouted: "Da Zhou has been a guardian for hundreds of years. Today, I pray to God with my death... Please save me Da Zhou!"

The knife stabbed hard into the lower abdomen, and Qin Dezhang knelt down slowly.

Jin Yiwei used Hayabusa to spread the news to Chang'an.

"Qin Dezhang?"

The emperor read the news and said: "Since taking the Southern Zhou Dynasty, I have cleaned up many bad policies, not to mention Haiqing and Heyan, but life is much better than during the reign of the Nian clan. People's minds are settled, so naturally no one thinks of rebellion .This person seems to be in a hurry, jumping up and down, but there are very few people who respond. This is trying to arouse people's hearts by dying... It's ridiculous!"

He Lianyan said: "There are still some people in Nanzhou who sympathize with him."

"Sympathy is sympathy, but life is life. When you go home and see that there is meat in the pot, grain in the rice jar, and oil in the oil pot, this is happiness. Life is good, who is free to play rebellion?"

"Your Majesty, the power of the scholar-bureaucrats in the old land of the Southern Zhou Dynasty is deeply rooted and should not be underestimated!" He Lianyan said.

"Really?" The emperor smiled with his hands behind his back: "After conquering the land of Shu, many subsequent innovations will require money and food. I am worrying about how to get so much money and food. Cao Ying's hair has turned gray because of this. No, it's just right!"

Immediately, a decree came out from the palace.

"I asked people to check the taxes in the old place in the Southern Zhou Dynasty, and found that the accounts were in disarray... Jin Yiwei went to the Southern Zhou Dynasty to check the tax arrears in previous years, with a period of 20 years. The local governments and garrisons cooperated."

Very simple purpose.

But Nian Xu, who was in retirement, was shocked.

"Those idiots, those idiots!"

He was playing chess with Nian Ziyue at home. After hearing the news, he got up and said, "Those scholar-bureaucrats in Dazhou haven't paid taxes for many years. The officials are with them. I can't do anything about it. Originally, the emperor didn't have such thoughts." Pursue it, but Qin Dezhang made it like this..."

"Father, what's wrong with Qin Dezhang?" Nian Ziyue was somewhat impressed by the prince and Taifu.

"Qin Dezhang instigated people to fight against Chang'an everywhere, and after the defeat, he instigated the people... and finally committed suicide in the street."

Nian Xu sighed, "He thought he could inspire the people of the Zhou Dynasty to rebel against Chang'an, but the emperor slapped them back and cut off their roots. If the roots are gone, how long can the group of scholar-bureaucrats survive?"

The emperor was finally going to attack Nan Zhou's group of clubs.

When the news got out, those powerful families in Guanzhong were gloating.

I thought that my colleagues in Nanzhou would be more cautious after being stabbed.Unexpectedly!
Even Chun Yudian dismissed the Southern Zhou scholar-bureaucrats, "A group of idiots who don't know the heights of the heavens and the depths of the earth."

But the emperor ate an extra cake for lunch.

"Aye!"

The prince is here.

"Have you eaten?" asked the emperor.

"Eat." The prince opened fire by himself today.

"Aye, today a gentleman mentioned the matter of the Southern Zhou Dynasty."

"Oh! How did they say it?" The emperor gestured for the prince to sit beside him.

He hopes to use this kind of intimacy to maintain the kinship between father and son, and to dilute the exclusiveness and contradictions brought about by power.

The prince sat down and said: "He said that the scholar-bureaucrats are the soul of the Southern Zhou Dynasty. Once the group of scholar-bureaucrats declines, the Southern Zhou Dynasty will have no bones."

"Oh! This statement is new." The emperor said calmly, "Ah Liang, what do you think?"

"I didn't think about it." A Liang said very sincerely; "But Mr. said that if the dynasty changes, then a new group will appear, and this group will have its own soul, and gradually become the bones of the country. But the Southern Zhou Dynasty It was annexed by my Great Tang, and there is no chance to form a soul."

This understanding is also interesting. The emperor said: "The so-called soul is actually the meat-eater's view of the world and the means to rule the world. In the Southern Zhou Dynasty, literature was used to control martial arts, and the literati were unprecedentedly powerful. The so-called soul is too weak. .”

"Oh!" Ah Liang suddenly realized.

"Is anyone bewitched?" the emperor asked.

A Liang shook his head, "No."

It seems that the killing of one person last time really woke up A Liang's gentlemen.

The emperor's good mood lasted less than a quarter of an hour.

"Your Majesty, King De beat someone."

"Called!"

Facing his second son, the wise and mighty emperor could only hold his forehead and have a headache.

"Aye, he bullies people!"

De Wang pointed to a servant who was kneeling beside him clutching his stomach and said.

"Who is he bullying?"

"Her!" King De pointed to a court lady next to him, "I saw him forcing that court lady to say something... Follow us, we can give you something..."

Damn!

Isn't this the opposite food?
"Then how do you judge that she was being bullied?" The emperor glanced at the court lady, and the King De had a look of pride in my bravery, "I saw her put her hands on her chest and said... I'm so scared."

……

King De was beaten up by the emperor, and many people in the harem applauded.

The palace was full of chaos, but outside it gradually became more and more murderous.

Many monks of Xuanxue were dispatched to the Shu land.

The same is true for Yunshan.

Troops from all over the country continue to gather in Chang'an.

The same is true for grain and grass everywhere.

"The storm is coming!"

A Shu businessman watched a group of soldiers pass by, shook his head and sighed, then turned around and ordered, "Immediately tell Tongcheng, Chang'an, that troops will definitely be dispatched this year."

……

The small imperial court in Tongcheng had an inexplicable luck. They all felt that Li Xuan would not send troops this year, and the reason was simple: the world still hadn't completely returned to their hearts. If Li Xuan sent troops, who would be in charge of Chang'an?

When the news of Chang'an's vigorous troops and horses came, Tongcheng was silent for a long time.

"That evil seed is finally coming."

Yang Songcheng got a rare boost of energy, "The Yang family in Yingchuan has been dormant for many times for thousands of years, but they have never avoided their opponents. When I arrived in Shu, I felt like a lost dog. Now that my opponent is here, no matter whether I win or lose, I will always take care of myself." Let the world know the background of the Millennium Yang Clan!"

In the palace, Li Mi was silent for a moment after hearing the news, Han Shitou saw Limang in his eyes for a long time.

It's like when the palace change was launched for the second time that year.

"I have been waiting for him for a long time."

(End of this chapter)