The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

The emperor acted very quickly. Not long after receiving the detailed secret letter from Zhao Yao, he announced the implementation of dividing the land into acres, returning the fire to the public, and the officials and gentry to pay the grain together.

Before implementation, the emperor discussed with several ministers in the cabinet to see if there was anything that needed to be added or if there were any deficiencies. He Xiang and the others felt that His Highness the King of Han's proposal was very detailed and there was nothing they needed to make up for. As for any flaws, they didn't find any.

Since there were no problems with the three policies proposed by Zhao Yao, the emperor immediately announced their implementation without any hesitation or hesitation.

Before the emperor's announcement, Taishi Liu and others reminded the emperor that once they announced the implementation of these three policies, they would inevitably encounter strong opposition, even more serious than the imperial examination that year. The emperor said he was not afraid.

After the emperor announced the implementation of the three policies of apportioning children into acres, he encountered strong opposition from the ministers. Among them, the strongest opponents were the aristocratic families and the powerful.

Although the imperial examination has been implemented for several years, the ministers who hold important positions in the government are basically from aristocratic families or powerful people. Most of the officials selected through the imperial examination were sent to serve as officials in various places. Although a few remained in the capital, they were only in the Hanlin Academy and did not hold important positions. They have little say in the DPRK for the time being.

The aristocratic families and the powerful knew that there was no chance of winning by being tough with the emperor, so they planned to use the method of "conquering strength with softness" to resist the emperor. Of course, before they oppose, they are ready to recruit some people with status to resist with them. First there are several princes who own a lot of land. If the three new policies such as dividing one person into one mu are implemented, the interests of several princes will also be harmed.

The ministers who supported the princes Dai Wang and Jing Wang were basically from aristocratic and powerful families. If they want to continue to gain the support of ministers, then they must protect the interests of these ministers. Furthermore, safeguarding the interests of aristocratic families and powerful people is also safeguarding their own interests.

In the palace of Dai Wang, the ministers who supported Dai Wang asked Dai Wang to persuade the emperor to suspend the implementation of three new policies, such as dividing one person into one mu.

However, Xuanping Hou did not agree with Dai Wang taking the initiative to persuade the emperor to abandon the implementation of the three new policies such as dividing children into acres. "Just because His Highness is the eldest son of the emperor and his words have weight, he cannot be the first to stand up and oppose it." Your Majesty. If His Highness stands up to oppose, the Emperor will definitely be angry with His Highness, and may even be disappointed with Him."

King Dai originally planned to go to the imperial study to persuade the emperor to give up, but now he was shocked when he heard what his uncle said.

"If His Highness King Dai opposes the emperor, but His Highness King Chu supports the emperor, who do you think the emperor's heart will be biased towards?" Marquis Xuanping understood the anxious and worried mood of these ministers, but they were thinking about themselves instead of King Dai. This made him a little dissatisfied. "If you allow His Highness to go against the Emperor, it is tantamount to ruining His Highness's future."

After hearing the words of Marquis Xuanping, the ministers immediately became quiet.

After a while, a minister murmured: "Then we are just going to watch helplessly as the emperor implements three new policies, including dividing the land between children and households?"

Marquis Xuanping said in a deep voice: "If you want to object, go and object, but you cannot drag His Highness to oppose it with you. Your Highness must not stand up and speak against the Emperor at this time."

The acting king nodded and said: "Uncle is right, I must not go against my father."

Seeing that the faces of the ministers were not good-looking, Marquis Xuanping calmed down and said to them: "You object first, and then make the matter bigger. When the matter gets out of hand, His Highness will naturally stand up and speak for you. When the time comes, It is very likely that the emperor will not implement the new policy.”

The ministers felt that what Xuan Pinghou said was right, "Then let's go make trouble first."

Next, the ministers who supported the king discussed how to make the matter bigger.

After deliberating for an hour or two, the ministers left the Prince Dai's Mansion with satisfaction.

"Uncle, will the fourth child really support these three new policies made by the father?" Although the Li family is not a powerful family, nor is it aristocratic, the Li family also owns a lot of land. If the fourth child supports the new policies of the father, it will be tantamount to Regardless of the interests of the mother clan.

"Yes, the King of Chu may express his support for the emperor's new policy at the morning meeting tomorrow." Xuan Pinghou said firmly, "This is the best opportunity to show off in front of the emperor, and the King of Chu will never miss it."

"Then I will get ahead of the fourth child tomorrow and show my father that I support the new policy." He must not let the fourth child get ahead of him. He had to get ahead of the fourth child.

Marquis Xuanping waved his hand and said, "Your Highness, you cannot express your position in support of the emperor's new policy."

When King Dai heard this, he was shocked and puzzled and asked: "Uncle, you just said that this is the best opportunity to show off in front of your father. Why can't I express it?"

"Your Highness, you have forgotten that the ministers who support you are basically from aristocratic families or powerful people. Once you express your support for the emperor's new policy, you will offend the aristocratic families and powerful people. How can they support you in the future?" Xuanping Marquis Shen Su With a straight face, he said, "Your Highness, the emperor can offend the emperor, and he doesn't even care about aristocratic families and powerful people, but you can't, so you can't support the emperor like King Chu."

King Dai frowned and asked, "Then what should I do?"

"Your Highness, you don't have to do or say anything."

The king asked: "Uncle, if the fourth, seventh and eighth children all support my father, what should I do?"

"The King of Wei should also support it, but King Jing will not. The Zhenguo Palace behind him will not let him agree."

"Perhaps Lao Qi, in order to win the favor of his father, stood up to support his father regardless of the life and death of the Zhenguo Palace." When King Dai thought of how King Jing usually made the emperor happy, his teeth itched with hatred, "Old Qi I’ve always been good at pleasing my father.”

"If King Jing also supports the emperor, your highness, you can only agree." If King Chu is the only one who supports it, then there is no problem if the king does not support it. If even King Jing agrees, then King Dai cannot disapprove. "With King Jing's temperament, if he agrees with the new policy, he will definitely speak before King Chu tomorrow morning. When he speaks, your highness, you will follow immediately and be ahead of King Chu."

Dai Wang nodded: "Okay."

"Sigh...I'm now worried that this matter will cause a bloody storm." Xuan Pinghou thought of the emperor's tough methods and became increasingly uneasy.

At this time, in the palace of the King of Chu, the ministers were also discussing with the King of Chu the emperor's implementation of three new policies. Unlike the situation in Dai Wangfu, most of the ministers who supported King Chu agreed with the emperor's implementation of the new policy.

These ministers are basically civil servants, and not many of them come from noble families. They knew that the three new policies implemented by the emperor would benefit the country and the people.

The aristocratic families and powerful people only care about their own interests and do not care about the life and death of the people, nor the country and the country, so they strongly oppose it. As for the civil servants who came from scholarly families, most of them cared about the life and death of the people and the country, so they agreed to implement the three new policies.

The King of Chu did not need to be persuaded by his ministers to support the three new policies. The biggest difference between King Chu and King Dai is that he cares about the country and the country, while King Dai only cares about his power and interests.

Most of the ministers who supported the King of Chu were people who had the world at heart. The reason why they support the King of Chu is because the King of Chu is the same kind of person as them.

After seeing off the ministers, King Chu returned to his study. Yang Ling was already waiting for him in the study.

"Your Highness, let me guess, the ministers came to you to ask you to support the emperor's new policy, right?"

King Chu nodded slightly and said, "That's right."

"Your Highness, do you plan to support the Emperor at the morning meeting tomorrow?"

King Chu nodded again: "That's right."

Hearing what King Chu said, Yang Ling was not surprised at all.

"Your Highness, I'm afraid this new policy will cause a lot of trouble." Yang Ling said with a worried look on his face, "Aristocratic families and powerful people will not give up."

"Sir, are you worried that my father will eventually compromise with the aristocratic families and powerful people?"

Yang Ling nodded lightly: "Aristocratic families and powerful people unite, and their power cannot be underestimated." "Sir, you have underestimated my father." King Chu smiled slightly, "Father will never betray aristocratic families and powerful people. The powerful ones bow their heads. Only the aristocratic families and the powerful people bow their heads to the father."

"Your Highness, this new policy has directly affected the interests of aristocratic families and powerful people. Do you think they will bow to the emperor easily?"

"Sir, my father will never allow anyone to stop the implementation of the new policy. If the aristocratic families and powerful people are determined to oppose it, then there is only one end waiting for them."

Yang Ling asked: "What will happen?"

King Chu had a murderous look in his eyes, and said in a cold tone: "Blood is flowing like a river!"

When Yang Ling heard what King Chu said, she remembered the emperor's iron-blooded tactics, and the worries in her heart suddenly disappeared.

"I forgot about the emperor's methods."

"Normally, as long as aristocratic families and dignitaries do not touch my father's bottom line, my father will turn a blind eye to them. However, this new policy is a major event that is beneficial to the country, and my father will never allow them to hinder it. ." King Chu said expressionlessly, "If they unite to resist, only a more severe punishment from my father will await them."

Yang Ling suddenly remembered the fate of those aristocratic families in Yangzhou many years ago, and felt a chill in her heart.

"It seems like there will be a bloody storm soon."

King Chu raised a sneer on his lips: "Sir, you think too highly of these aristocratic families and powerful people."

"Did I look down on them?" Yang Ling asked with confusion, "Your Highness, why did I look down on them?"

"Sir, don't you think they will resist my father's new policy tenaciously, even if they shed blood?"

"Isn't it?"

"Sir, you have forgotten that these people are most afraid of death. Once they realize that their resistance is not only useless, but also angers their father and uses strong methods to suppress them, they will immediately compromise and never dare to resist at all. "The King of Chu has long seen clearly the faces of aristocratic families and powerful people, "The three new policies have harmed their interests, but compared with their lives, they have become not that important."

Yang Ling looked astonished: "What Your Highness said is that I think highly of them." Other emperors would be afraid of being enemies with aristocratic families and powerful people, but the current emperor would never be afraid.

Noble families and powerful people could not threaten the emperor. If they really threaten the emperor, given the emperor's temper, he will only eradicate them and will never bow to them. Having said that, the aristocratic families don't have the ability to hold the emperor hostage.

The current emperor is extremely powerful in both his scheming and his schemes. The thoughts of civil and military officials cannot escape his discernment. The emperor is like a cat, and the ministers are like mice. How can a mouse defeat a cat?

The aristocratic families once wanted to threaten the emperor with their reputation, but the emperor didn't care at all. As long as he thought it was right, he would carry it out regardless, even if it cost him eternal infamy.

"Aristocratic families and dignitaries want to make trouble, and Emperor Father allows them to make trouble. However, it is impossible for them to make a big fuss." King Chu said with a smile, "Actually, they know in their hearts that once Father promulgates something, it will mean that it will The matter is finalized and it is impossible for the father to change his mind, but they will still object because they want the father to know their attitude, but the father never cares about their attitude."

"Only the emperor doesn't care about the attitude of the aristocratic families. The previous emperors all looked at the faces of the aristocratic families." The late emperor and the emperor were both from grassroots backgrounds, and they hated the people of the aristocratic families the most. They don't care about the noble family's attitude. If the aristocratic families were obedient, they would not do anything to them. If the nobles disobey, they will beat them until they do. If the aristocratic families still disobey in the end, then there is no need for them to stay in this world.

"Both the emperor and my father once said that if a dynasty has no common people and only has aristocratic families, then the dynasty will die. If a dynasty has no aristocratic families and only has common people, then the dynasty will not only not perish but will also thrive. "The king of Chu said, "Grandpa Huang and my father also said that our Zhao family fights for the sake of the people of the world, not for the aristocratic family." The original words were "not for some bullshit aristocratic family."

Yang Ling cupped her hands and bowed her head in the direction of the palace: "The late emperor and the emperor were both wise kings who loved their people like their own children."

King Chu: "Let them make trouble during this period and see how far they can go."

Yang Ling joked: "No one will want to hit the pillar anymore."

When the king of Chu mentioned the matter of hitting the pillar, he thought of the emperor's regretful expression.

"Father, I really want to see the minister hit the pillar."

When Yang Ling heard this, she wanted to laugh but didn't dare.

Generally speaking, a minister's death remonstrance is a very important thing. If it is not handled properly, the emperor will be recorded in the history books as being guilty of forcing ministers to death, and it will also leave the emperor with a reputation of not being a wise king. Therefore, the emperor will prevent ministers from admonishing him to death. However, not only did the Holy One not stop him, but he also wanted to see the ministers stand in the way of his admonishment. It was really...

For the emperor who did not play his cards according to the routine, the ministers were very troubled and helpless.

The emperor not only did not stop the ministers from hitting the pillars, but also watched carefully how they hit the pillars. Maybe after watching, the emperor would applaud and praise them for their good performance. Or maybe the emperor was dissatisfied that someone did not hit the pillar well and his death was not honorable enough, and then let the next person hit the pillar properly. Ordinary people cannot do such a thing, but as the emperor, he can definitely do it, because he is a person who does not hesitate to mix colors.

Yang Ling asked: "Your Highness, do you think the other three His Highnesses will support the Emperor's implementation of the three new policies?"

"The King of Wei will meet. It's hard to talk about King Dai and King Jing."

"Behind King Dai is the support of powerful people, and behind King Jing is the support of aristocratic families. It's hard for the two of them to agree." Yang Ling guessed, "However, King Jing is very likely to support the new policy in order to please the emperor. King Dai has no objection when he sees King Jing. , naturally we have to stand up and support.”

King Chu nodded and said, "It's very possible."

Yang Ling smiled meaningfully: "If that's the case, that would be fun." After saying that, his expression became curious, "Did the emperor come up with these three new policies, or did He Xiang and the others propose them? ?”

"It shouldn't be He Xiang and the others. They were called to the palace by my father in the middle of the night. It was probably my father's idea."

Yang Ling shook his head and said, "I think it's unlikely that it's the emperor." The emperor is indeed smart, scheming, and resourceful, but he doesn't look like the person who proposed three new policies. "I guess the person who proposed the three new policies is the same person who proposed the imperial examination to select officials."

"Sir, do you think so too?" King Chu thought so too. "Who do you think it could be, sir?"

Yang Ling thought deeply: "The only person in the world who can propose these astonishing policies is Zheng Taiwei." Apart from Zheng Taiwei, he could not think of anyone else. "Many policies of the Great Zhou Dynasty were proposed by Zheng Taiwei. It is not surprising that he proposed three new policies, such as the imperial examination and the sharing of land."

"Heroes see the same thing."

"Zheng Taiwei is really a talented person who knows the world and is admirable." Yang Ling originally thought that he was similar to Zheng Taiwei, but now it seems that he is much inferior to Zheng Taiwei. He relied on his extraordinary talents, but he could never come up with policies that would benefit the country and the people, such as the imperial examination and the sharing of land. "Humbled."

"There are specialties in the art, so sir, you don't have to belittle yourself."

"Your Highness is right." He is indeed not as good as Zheng Taiwei in formulating policies, but in other aspects, he is no worse than Zheng Xilin.

The two continued to talk about the three new policies, and they became more and more excited as they talked. The more they talked, the more they felt that Taiwei Zheng, who proposed the three new policies, was great.

Zhao Yao, who was far away in Lingnan, sneezed several times in a row. (End of chapter)