Humane Yongchang

Chapter 375 The Family
The sky is gloomy, and the north wind is as cold as a knife.

Chen Dao hurriedly arrived at Xiapi, Xuzhou, under the escort of a thousand royal guards. The many secret agents of the special warfare bureau that accompanied him had already been divided into two groups, and the first step was to break up into pieces and enter Xu and Yang.

This time, the Han court decided to take action against the great families of Xu and Yang, but it is still in a state of being in a state of indifference.

On the surface, apart from Chen Feng's sudden eastward movement, there was nothing unusual.

And all the civil and military ministers who participated in the court meeting of the Yanqing Palace that day also kept silent, just pretending that they had never attended the court meeting that day, and they did not know Chen Sheng's attitude towards the great families of Xu and Yang.

No one dared to report or warn the aristocratic families in Xu and Yang.

You must know that most of the ministers of civil and military affairs who participated in the court meeting of the Yanqing Palace that day were inextricably linked with the aristocratic families.

Like Li Si, who was born in the well-known Li family of Chen County. Before the Taiping Dao incident, even the son of the state shepherd had to treat him with courtesy!

Another example is Fan Zeng, who seems to be alone and his family background is not obvious, but in the current era when the powerful class masters the inheritance of knowledge, his Taoist lineage can be passed down to his generation in Yangzhou. Maybe he has no connection with the local aristocratic family in Yangzhou? ?
It is actually extremely rare in Kyushu for officials from so many aristocratic families to collectively betray their own class.

It may be exaggerated to say that it was the first time in the world, but it is by no means an exaggeration!
The ills of Kyushu can be seen by any monarch who is not blind.

The existence of aristocratic families in itself means weakening the authority of the monarch and hindering the monarch's rule.

Therefore, it is impossible for any monarch not to have the idea of ​​suppressing the aristocratic family of Kyushu!
Whether he is a faint king or a wise king!
The Hunjun may even be more radical!
So why has Ji Zhou existed for more than 700 years, and these aristocratic families have existed for more than 700 years?

Lian Xiongcai is roughly like King Ping of Zhou. Eight thousand remnants raised troops to rebuild the country and changed the feudal system to a centralized system. In the end, didn't they still have to confer the clans of the princes from all walks of life as the clans of state herdsmen and county guards?
Could it be that they don't want to?

of course not!

It's because they can't!

Whenever a king wants to raise the butcher's knife against these great families, he will be obstructed by the officials of countless great families.

If the monarch insists on going his own way, at least the policy will not work. Before the butcher's knife is handed over to the capital, the aristocratic families in that side will have received the news in advance, and the aristocratic families from all over the country will jump up and down, depending on the strength of the monarch. , Take the initiative to admit mistakes.

The most serious thing is that the people betrayed their relatives, the wolf smoke is everywhere, the aristocratic families unite, break the capital, change dynasties... Kyushu is eternal, the class represented by the aristocratic family failed, maybe only the time when King Ping of Zhou rebuilt the mountains and rivers, and that time, it was just Weakening the authority of the classes represented by the aristocratic families did not really hurt the vitality of these aristocratic families, and the aristocratic families also took advantage of that opportunity to break out of the confines of the fiefdom and blossom everywhere.

exaggerate?

No, this is not an exaggeration at all!
Boss Cao from another time and space, just because he killed a prominent figure of the Yanzhou gentry, aroused the overall dissatisfaction of the Yanzhou gentry, which caused Chen Gong to welcome Lu Bu into Yanzhou, and almost lost the Yanzhou base that he had so hard to get .

Boss Cao’s era was separated from the current era of Kyushu, and the Qin and Han dynasties were also separated. During this period, many wise and powerful emperors devoted their efforts to strengthening the centralization of power, which is still the case.

In the current Kyushu era, the bloodlines from the ancient times have not yet been broken down. Many families still have clear genealogy, which can be traced back to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. And the gentry group in a group is closer and more indestructible!

You know, the three emperors and five emperors add up to only eight!
And there are more than two or three hundred aristocratic families who are all over Kyushu and really control the ruling power of Kyushu?
So many aristocratic families can be clearly traced back to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. Among them, there are many big families that have several ancestors of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. What does this mean?
This means that many families with different surnames seem to be incompatible on the surface, but secretly they are descendants of different lineages handed down from the same ancestor.

In the current era where noble blood is proud, these different lineages handed down from the same ancestor often have internal connections that are unknown to outsiders.

If outsiders do something to them, if you don't drive them to the point of desperation, you don't even know how many backhands they have hidden. Maybe a small family in a remote small county will involve a distant relative of the imperial capital , wouldn't that make people desperate?
The most stark example.

Just Xiong and Qu.

These two families are different lineages descended from one bloodline.

Chen Sheng killed the head of Xiong's family in Chen County, before Xiong's side branch could make a sound, Qu's from Yangzhou backhanded Chen Sheng and sent a whole team of killers over, almost overturning Chen Sheng's car.

At that time, if Li Si, an "insider" who also came from a big family, explained the ins and outs to Chen Sheng, he might have been killed by someone, and he still didn't know who was attacking him.

How can the water here be described as "deep"?

This is also the reason why Chen Sheng didn't immediately attack the noble families in Xu and Yang after the red army took over the two places.

It was also at His Royal Highness Yan Qing that day, Han Fei knew how strong Han Ting's power was, and he still said that...

Attacking the aristocratic families of Xu and Yang at the same time is tantamount to stabbing the biggest hornet's nest in Kyushu!
The meaning and sequelae inside are definitely more profound than when Li Xin knocked on the city gate of Luoyi before!
After all, the Ji family, to put it bluntly, is just the largest and strongest family in Kyushu.

And even if his Ji family is sitting in the position of the co-lord of the world, whether they can use the power of Kyushu is still up for debate.

And the alliance of these aristocratic families who really control the ruling power of Kyushu will definitely be able to exert the power of Kyushu!

Of course, that's all there is to it...

Many senior officials of the Han court chose to betray their own class and kept silent about the matter. Of course, there is a centripetal force within the Han court at work.

But the main reason, of course, is that these senior officials, from their own standpoint, are pessimistic about the fate of the aristocratic families in Xu and Yang.

They don't think that the aristocratic families of Xu and Yang can cause much trouble under the current powerful power of the Han court!

Even if they can link up the great families of the other states and unite the inside and the outside to attack the Han court, it will be difficult to shake the Han court's rule over the four southeastern states of Kyushu.

If the aristocratic families in other states still have the guts and the energy to stroke Han Ting's tiger's beard...

In addition, there is another very important reason, which made them have to hang their proud heads for thousands of years!
That is—Hanting is not indispensable for them!
Even they themselves feel that this sentence is absurd. If it is spread, it will definitely attract the ridicule of all the aristocratic families in Kyushu.

But they are in it, and they have a very clear and very firm understanding of this.

The aristocratic family can exist in Kyushu for such a long time, of course, it is not only relying on the skills of playing games with the king.

The most important thing is the existence of their aristocratic families, which can maintain the rule of the king!

To be precise, most of the time, as long as the king doesn't make a fool of them, their interests and the king's interests are the same, they are all the leeks of the poor!
Without them, the king's decree can't even get out of the capital.

Not to mention ruling the land of Kyushu and guarding tens of millions of common people!
So even if there are occasional wise kings who bring down a few families, they just transfer the power and wealth of those families to other families, which does not help the overall situation.

Even many princes of the clan surnamed Ji will gradually join the system of the aristocratic family after becoming a vassal, advancing and retreating with the aristocratic family, playing games with the center together, and safeguarding their own interests.

This is the confidence of the aristocratic family!
You can't understand me?
Can't I stop serving you?

Resign and still not let me go?
Then kill me if you have the ability!
You are amazing, you are noble, you can really kill me!
But what?One of me falls down, and there are tens of thousands of me standing up, and then disgusting you!
What?without us?

Then please dig out my eyeballs and hang them on the door, I want to watch you perish!
But in Hunting, this method is completely unworkable!
Jixia Academy, which they have always known should not be underestimated, but finally found that they are still too underestimated, has unknowingly broken the knowledge blockade maintained by their aristocratic families for thousands of years, and has gradually grown. For a behemoth that can completely replace them!

They don't resign.

All of them below are capable officials from Jixia Academy, with green eyes staring at the position under their buttocks without blinking.

Dare to resign?
At noon, the official temple mopped up the ground, waiting for the new official to take office.

In the afternoon, the Special Warfare Bureau and judicial officials came to check the family property and dig deep into past crimes.

Before dark, the whole family can enter the prison neatly to catch up with a warm dinner...

How dare you go against Chen Sheng's will?

Do you really think it's too obtrusive for the whole family to have heads?
……

Even though he has seen the royal guards many times, Meng Tian was still greatly shocked by the sight of a thousand fully armed royal guards rushing across the land like a torrent, and he made up his mind to train the red army Become a strong army like the royal guards!
"The last general pays his respects to General Meng!"

Seeing that Meng Tian came out of the city to greet him in person, Chen Feng hurriedly rode his horse first, and took the initiative to salute with his fists clasped.

Meng Tian went out to meet Chen Feng, holding his fists heartily as he walked, and said, "It's been a while, Director Chen, how is everything going?"

Chen Feng: "Everything will be fine at the end, General Xie Meng misses you!"

The two met each other, and the guards of the royal court and the generals of the red-clothed army who followed the two stopped in a tacit understanding, leaving room for the two to meet.

Meng Tian sized Chen Feng up and down: "The New Year's Eve is approaching, what's the matter? Director Chen, come to Xuzhou in person?"

Chen Feng did not answer, but asked instead: "The last general asked the general to strengthen the garrison in Xuzhou's counties and towns, did the general do so?"

While speaking, he took out the cast iron token representing Chen Sheng from his waist, and showed it to Meng Tian secretly by virtue of his body position.

When Meng Tian saw the word "King of Han" embossed on the cast iron token, he was secretly startled, nodded calmly and said: "Director Chen wrote the letter himself, I dare not be careless!"

Chen Feng nodded: "That's it, everything will be discussed in detail after entering the city... By the way, after entering the city, please send troops to block Xiapi, send marksmen to the four cities, and shoot all the birds that leave the city. If the Special Operations Bureau wants to send a message, it will take the order of the last general to go to the city and release the birds."

In Yangzhou, he has already sent a message to Chen Shou, asking him to secretly send troops to keep an eye on the biggest families in Yangzhou. When Xuzhou makes a move, Yangzhou will start at the same time. First arrest people, and then investigate past crimes!

It's really not that their methods are too aggressive, as far as the virtues of these aristocratic families are killed, there may be injustice, but if every other person is killed, there must be another fish that slipped through the net!

Therefore, it is more appropriate to take all of them first and then trace them.

In Chen Sheng's words, a good person should not be wronged, but a wicked person must not be spared either!
Meng Tian's heart was even more shocked after hearing Chen Feng's words.

Even when they invaded Xiapi City for the first time, the city was not closed so tightly!

"Director Chen is right, this place is indeed not a place to talk!"

Meng Tian turned his horse's head and spread his hands to Chen Feng: "Please!"

Chen Feng quickly returned the salute with a smile: "General Meng is the top general, how can the last general be presumptuous, General Meng please first!"

Meng Tian smiled, grabbed Chen Feng's arm, and drove side by side: "You and I have fought against the enemy side by side for several months, how can we be so unfamiliar?"

Chen Feng also had no choice but to allow him to use his own arm to walk into the city of Xiapi together.

His heart is like a mirror.

The reason why Meng Tian praised him so much was not because Chen Feng was so talented, but because Chen Feng was not only the director of the Special Warfare Bureau, but also the second child of the Chen family!

Meng Tian's promotion of him is not only showing his loyalty to his elder brother, but also expressing his closeness to the Chen family.

Don't look at Meng Tian's straight-forward approach, and even his elder brother dared to refute publicly, but in fact, his thoughts are the most delicate among the generals in the royal court.

Meng Tian knows when to refute his elder brother, when to obey orders, and when to show favor to the king's court center.

Of course, my elder brother also sees it clearly, otherwise he wouldn't have given up all the achievements of defeating Shen Renxiao to Meng Tian and promoted him to be the acting commander of the Red Army.

The two of them passed through the dark city gate side by side, and walked into the bloody setting sun.

It is really rare to see the setting sun in early winter.

……

at the same time.

In the southern suburbs of Chen County, the Huben Army Camp.

The north wind flapped the handsome flag with the word "Li" making a buzzing sound.

With a stern face, Li Xin pressed his sword and stood on the high general platform, watching the 30 troops divide into three groups and rush to the northeast of Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Xuzhou.

Several generals stood behind him with worried faces, but they didn't dare to speak.

"The food and grass are already in place!"

"There is only one request from a certain family!"

Li Xin said without turning his head: "Complete this cold disaster relief project on time, quality, and quantity!"

"If it can't be completed, a certain family will raise their heads to see the king on their own!"

"But before that, a certain family will take the head of your head first!"

　The earthquake made my mind a little unstable today, the quality of the chapters may not be very high, Fengyun's fault, I will make up for it tomorrow... Kneel down to the lords!
　　
　
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