The Tang Dynasty started from saving Empress Changsun

Chapter 278
The conversation between Li Tai and Chen Jingke soon turned into information that appeared in front of Li Shimin.

Regarding Chen Jingke's outrageous words, although he kept muttering presumptuously and boldly, he was not really angry.

Instead, he said to his eldest grandson Wugou: "Guanyin maidservant, you have found a good lobbyist."

Changsun Wugou smiled and said, "Erlang, don't praise him. He is as daring as a fool to say such outrageous things. Fortunately, you have a big heart. If you were someone else, you would have killed him long ago."

"Haha, you actually said that I like to hear it." Li Shimin was very proud, and then said:
"Qing Que has never heard such presumptuous words at such a young age, so he must be very angry. But the more so, the easier it is for these words to touch his heart."

The eldest grandson Wugou said approvingly: "Yes, I didn't expect Jing Ke to use such a method. I hope it works. I really don't want to see their brothers fight against the wall."

The smile on Li Shimin's face froze, and he said, "Don't worry, I won't let this happen."

Then he lowered his head and continued to read the information in order to resolve the awkward atmosphere.

When he saw the words 'The gentry also despise the royal family for this reason', the unhappiness in his heart instantly found an object to vent, and said coldly:
"The gentry is powerful, I will destroy you all."

……

There are two major capitals in the hands of the gentry tyrants, one is the right to interpret the classics, and the other is the land and the hidden population.

The first phase of Li Shimin's plan is to snatch the population.

Although many people complain about Yang Jian and Yang Guang and his son, there is one thing they do better than Li's father and son.

From the beginning of Yang Jian, the nobles of the gentry were suppressed to death, and even Guan Long's power was greatly restrained.

As far as the population is concerned, Yang Jian successfully snatched most of the population back from the nobles of the gentry and distributed the land. That is the real land equalization system for the whole people.

When the people had land, they were naturally unwilling to be tenants to the landlord, so that the nobles of the gentry had empty land but no one to cultivate it.

This is also the reason why Li Shimin, as the son of the Duke, had to work in the fields himself when he was a child.The imperial court snatched away all the people, and if he didn't work, his family's land could only be left unused.

In fact, everything was good for Yang Guang in the early stage, but it was a pity that he began to lose control in the middle and late stages, which eventually led to chaos in the world.

The gentry tyrants and Guan Long nobles took advantage of these decades to hide some of the people again.

Li Yuan became the Taishang Emperor within a few years of being the Taiping Emperor, so let's not talk about him.

After Li Shimin ascended the throne, he learned the lesson of Yang Guang and used appeasement methods to deal with Guan Long Xungui.But overcorrection and excessive caution also made the court lose the ability to check the population.

He can only use the method of initiative to call on everyone to free the slaves.Sometimes when the imperial court is rich in finances, it will spend money to redeem part of the release.

From this aspect, he is really aggrieved as the emperor.

It can only be said that no one is perfect, and living in the present has the limitations of the times.

These things are the conclusions that Chen Jingke came to based on the historical data of his previous life combined with some current situations after he traveled through time.

But the appearance of Chen Jingke gave him a chance to jump out of the era. The enfeoffment allowed him to completely surrender Guan Longxungui, and then he attacked the gentry.

Li Shimin is a decisive person, once he has made up his mind, he will not hold back.

After more than a dozen generals took office, he immediately adjusted the officials of more than [-] states. These states were mainly concentrated in Shandong, Henan, and Jiangnan Road.

Shandong and Henan are the basic sites of the northern gentry, and Jiangnan Road is the basic site of the twelve families in the south.

The so-called Twelve Aristocratic Families in the South of the Yangtze River refer to the twelve high-ranking gentry families inherited from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, such as the Xie family where Xie An lived, the Langya Wang family where Wang Xizhi lived, and so on.

Although the Twelve Aristocratic Families have lost their influence in the whole country and become second-rate gentry, their strength in Jiangnan should not be underestimated.

Li Shimin wanted to wipe out the powerful power of the gentry, so naturally he would not forget them.

……

If it is said that at the beginning, the emperor ordered the general to sit in the pass and the important town, and everyone was still confused, then the second step is too targeted.

The gentry could no longer keep calm and took action one after another.On the one hand, they gathered local forces just in case, and on the other hand, they began to use family relations to inquire about the situation.

The calm water surface of Chang'an City became choppy.

The eldest grandson Wugou repeatedly warned: "Recently, if you don't have to go out, don't go out, even if you go out, you have to bring a guard."

Chen Jingke is a life-saving person, and immediately said: "Auntie, don't worry, I am very afraid of death, I promise not to go out if I have nothing to do, and I have to bring ten or eight guards when I go out."

Chen Jingke did what he said, except for occasionally going to the palace to see Xiao Sizi, the rest of the time he really stayed in Zixiao Temple and never left.

But he wants to be quiet, and some people don't want him to be quiet.Every day, people came to see Sun Simiao, and they would receive several letters from all over the world every now and then.

Just by looking at the envelope, he knew that it was written by his old friends of the gentry.

For those who came to visit in person, Chen Jingke's answer was always: the teacher went to the mountains to study blind medicine, and it is still unknown when he will come back, sorry.

At this time, Sun Simiao was conducting a closed smallpox experiment, and had not shown his face to outsiders for nearly a month.

Coupled with the fact that he used to see the head and tail of the dragon, those who visited had no doubts and had no choice but to leave.

For the person who wrote the letter, just ignore it.

It was a coincidence that Sun Simiao was studying medicine in seclusion, otherwise it would be difficult for those old friends from the gentry to ask him for help.

Don't help, it's too unkind.Help, is against the emperor.It is easy to make two people not human.

How good it is now, no one can say anything if they are perfectly staggered.

However, although Chen Jingke was so conscientious that he didn't even dare to leave the door, it didn't mean that he would honestly do nothing.

This day he found Wu Shu and said, "Sister Wu, how are the sales volume and coverage area of ​​Mochizuki Tan?"

Wu Shu said without thinking: "The sales volume is fixed at around [-] copies, and it is difficult to make a big improvement in a short period of time."

"Except for the remote states, the rest of the states have our booksellers... Why did you, the hands-off shopkeeper, think of asking this?"

Chen Jingke called Qu and said, "I believe in you, okay, how can you call it the shopkeeper, Sister Wu, you hurt my heart too much."

Wu Shu covered his mouth with a smile and said, "Okay, okay, I'll just treat you as trusting me, then Master Chen, what do you want me to ask you?"

Thinking of the business, Chen Jingke put away his smile, took out a few pages of folded paper from his sleeve and handed it to her:

"Put this article on the Mochizuki talk in this issue. It doesn't need to be too conspicuous, just put it on an unimportant page."

Wu Shu picked it up curiously, and after reading it he asked in puzzlement, "Are you flattering the gentry?"

Chen Jingke said meaningfully: "Sometimes flattery can kill people."

(End of this chapter)