I am not a deposed emperor of Han Dynasty

Chapter 553: Do you betray your old father to me for the sake of all the people in the world? Is that considered loyalty and filial piety?

Liu He thought about it in his heart, and after confirming that there were no mistakes, he was ready to let Dai Zong send it out.

There are still two days left before the Shangsi Festival, and we can’t wait any longer.

Liu He hadn't spoken yet, but he saw the expression on Dai Zong's face that was hesitant to speak.

"Huh? Do you have anything to ask?" Liu He asked indifferently.

"Da Sima Wei Xuancheng... His Majesty seems to have not arranged his whereabouts yet..." Dai Zong asked carefully.

Liu He did not respond to Dai Zong's question, but looked at Fan Ke aside.

"Is Wei Xuancheng here?" Liu He asked displeasedly.

"Here we are, we have been waiting in the side hall for a long time." Fan Ke said quickly.

"Dai Zong, please go to the dormitory for a while and listen to what Da Sima has to say." Liu He sneered.

"Wei!" Dai Zong didn't dare to ask any more questions and hurriedly hid in the bedroom at the back.

"Fan Ke, call Da Sima in." Liu He said.

"only!"

Not long after, the door of Xuanshi Hall opened, and Wei Xuancheng hurriedly walked into the hall.

As usual, Wei Xuancheng prostrated himself from a distance and saluted Liu He solemnly.

Liu He did not let Wei Xuancheng come over immediately, or even let him level up, but said nothing.

Just like this, Wei Xuancheng was suppressed with silence, keeping him lying on the ground.

Wei Xuancheng was among the first batch of talents recruited by Liu He, and he was promoted from a wealthy family.

At that time, Liu He hoped to use this method to carry out slow and gentle reforms to the aristocratic family.

He wanted to find some talents who could "transcend class" among the children of aristocratic families, so as to arrange a decent ending for the aristocratic families.

But to his disappointment, most officials from wealthy families failed to do this, and instead hugged each other more and more closely.

Yang Chang's sons, Zhang Anshi's sons, Bingji's sons, Liu De's sons, and Wei Xian's other sons...

On the surface, they all sit upright and behave upright, but privately they form a party, intermarry among themselves, and form their own system.

For example, Liu De's son Liu Anmin also actively participated in the "First Imperial Examination" piloted by Liu He and stood out.

Later, Liu He continued to reuse him, and finally succeeded in taking over the position of Zongzheng after Liu De's death.

Liu He gave him enough trust, but Liu Anmin became more and more conservative and got closer to the wealthy family.

Maybe everyone is like this. When they are young, they want to betray their families, but they will return in the end.

Today, Liu Anmin is very prestigious among his clan members, and he can be regarded as an official in handling political affairs, but he only has family interests, not the world's blessings.

I don’t know how deeply he will be involved in the subsequent conspiracy.

Compared with all these people, Wei Xuancheng is the one who is most valued by Liu He.

From the very beginning, the Chief of Menxia Temple, to the later Da Honglu, and now to the current Da Sima...

Liu He gave him enough trust.

The main reason is that there are still people in the world in Wei Xuancheng's letter, and no aristocratic family is tied to death, which makes Liu He have some expectations for him.

But now, Liu He is very unhappy with him.

Liu He was almost certain that Wei Xian, an old man in his nineties, must be involved with Zhang Anshi.

Wei Xuancheng was the Grand Sima, so he must have heard about Shangsijie's conspiracy, and was even asked to participate in it.

But so much time has passed, and Wei Xuancheng has never approached Liu He, let alone received any secret edict.

How could this make Liu He not suspicious.

Now that there are only two days left before the Shangsi Festival, Wei Xuancheng may have finally made up his mind, and Liu He wanted to see what he had to say.

"Wei Qing, come on flat." Liu He finally spoke.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wei Xuancheng stood up quickly.

"Come here and sit in front of me."

"only!"

Wei Xuancheng walked quickly to Liu He and saluted again before he dared to sit down.

By the light, Liu He saw that Wei Xuancheng was also old.

When we first met, Wei Xuancheng was only in his early thirties. Although he was taciturn, he was also full of heroic spirit.

More than ten years have passed. Although Wei Xuancheng is still very thin, he also looks old and no longer has that heroic spirit.

Wei Xuancheng has always been loyal and devoted a lot of effort to the Han Dynasty.

Thinking of this, the anger in Liu He's heart dissipated a little.

"Wei Qing, when you enter the palace today, do you have anything to report?" Liu He asked.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, I have something important to report." Wei Xuancheng's voice was trembling and panicked.

This kind of panic is not often seen on the face of the mature and steady Wei Xuancheng.

"I've said it before. I want to rest quietly and recuperate. Political affairs will be handled by the cabinet. You don't need to talk to me." Liu He said uncertainly.

"Your Majesty, forgive me! But this matter is too dangerous, and I can only report it to Your Majesty." Wei Xuancheng said.

"Dangerous?" Liu He suddenly sneered, making Wei Xuancheng feel a little scared.

"If it was really dangerous, why did you wait so long to come forward? Could it be that you wanted to hedge your bets?"

Liu He's rhetorical question, which was both meaningful and straight to the point, made Wei Xuancheng's face suddenly turn pale.

How could he dare to sit still on the couch? He quickly got up and bowed again, asking for forgiveness from the emperor.

"Your Majesty, forgive me! Your Majesty, forgive me! It's just a humble minister who is confused!" Wei Xuancheng paused frequently and said.

"Get up and talk!"

"The guilty minister dare not..."

"Get up and speak!" Liu He raised his voice.

"Nuo..." Wei Xiancheng stopped and sat back on the couch hesitantly, but he did not sit as peacefully as before.

"Don't talk about it first, let me take a guess first..." Liu He gave up and sneered, "This matter must be related to your father Wei Ge."

"Your Majesty, your Majesty is wise." Wei Xuancheng said with sweat.

"Moreover, this matter is still a head-turning matter, so why are you so cautious, why do you ignore your loyalty and hide it from me for so long?"

"Your Majesty..." Wei Xuancheng wanted to defend, but after opening his mouth, he found that he had no words to reply, only shame.

Then, the Great Sima, who had the authority to examine all the officers of the Han army, had red circles in his eyes, and there were two old tears in his eyes.

Liu He saw the contradiction in his heart, couldn't help but secretly sighed, and felt a little softer.

It is not an easy task to betray one's own father, no matter what the reason is.

"The Master said: The son hides himself from his father, and the father hides himself from his son. He is always there... I don't blame you for this. If you have anything to say, just say it." Liu He's tone softened.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!" Wei Xuancheng suddenly burst into tears. He didn't care about the etiquette of the monarch and his ministers, so he wiped his tears. After wiping away his tears, he said what his father had said to him more than ten days ago.

From start to finish, nothing is held back.

When Liu He heard the words "Shangsi Festival", he finally no longer had any doubts.

Liu Bing had already obtained the time of "Shangsi Festival" from Zhang Pengzu.

Wei Xuancheng also got the time of "Shangsi Festival" from Wei Xian.

Comparing the two, there is absolutely no mistake in the time of the incident, which also proves that neither Liu Bingji nor Wei Xuancheng lied to them.

Liu He's worries were lessened, but his expression did not soften.

"How do Mr. Zhang Ge and Mr. Wei Ge plan to deal with me?" Liu He asked indifferently.

"They want the minister to issue an order in the name of Sima Mansion to have Sanfu's patrol pavilions return to the office for review..."

"However, the soldiers who patrolled the city in charge of Jinwu will not be transferred back to the office for review until the next day."

"In this way, on the day of Shangsi Festival, the three auxiliary officers can control the soldiers of the patrol pavilion of the headquarters and the soldiers of the Jinwu patrol pavilion at the same time..."

"And Zhijinwu will have no soldiers to use."

Until this time, Liu He finally saw the second step in Zhang Dang's rebellion plan.

He thought of some things that happened a few months ago, and suddenly realized something.

At that time, Liu He was assassinated by Fan Zhi. Long Yan was furious and publicly accused Zhijinwu Jian Kou.

Zhang Anshi took the opportunity to propose the rotation of the three auxiliary patrol soldiers and the Jinwu patrol soldiers.

At that time, Liu He could not see clearly why Zhang Anshi did this, but he only thought that it was Zhang Anshi's cautious and loyal move.

He would never have imagined that Zhang Anshi had already begun to lay out the plan for this big game from that time on.

At this time, Liu He combined the letters from Liu Bingji and others and the love letter submitted by Xiu Yiwei to see the whole thing clearly.

King Guangling’s rebellion is related to the aristocratic family!

Fan Zhi's assassination of Liu He was related to the wealthy family!

The inexplicable witchcraft case is related to a wealthy family!

The Huo bandits who appeared out of nowhere are related to aristocratic families!

And all the aristocratic families are related to Zhang Anshi and Wei Xian.

They were like a huge net, slowly spreading across the territory of the Han Dynasty, and the target of this net was Liu He.

Before coming to this world, Liu He thought that the aristocratic family would not reach its peak until the late Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

He was completely unaware that in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, the aristocratic families already had such great strength and energy.

He suddenly remembered those history books he had read, and there were actually similar records in them, but he had simply ignored them.

From the military meritorious group that founded the country in the early Han Dynasty, to the relatives and ministers of the Emperor Xiaowu period, to the aristocratic families in the Zhaoxuan period... Which group is easy to mess with?

It is true that the aristocratic families did not become aristocratic families until the late Han, Wei and Jin dynasties.

But the aristocratic families of the Western Han Dynasty were already a force that could not be ignored.

Moreover, it is very "cannot be ignored".

It has been recorded in history books that the Gongsun clan, a wealthy family in Beihai County, was very powerful and could kill people anytime and anywhere, defying the laws of the Han Dynasty.

Dong Xuan, the prefect of the county, beheaded Gongsun Dan and his son, but Gongsun Dan's clan members directly attacked the county government by "camping against the government and complaining about injustice."

What's worse, Xia Changsi and others privately "imprisoned the prefect in Chuxing and occupied Yingling City", openly separatist power in the royal territory.

The aristocratic families in this county can be so arrogant and unscrupulous, let alone the original Huo family and the current Zhang family, Bing family and Wei family...

They talk about morality and benevolence, talk about loyalty and righteousness, and seem to be role models for the world, but in fact, what they do is just embarrassing the common people.

However, their appetite is larger, so the appearance of eating is better.

For more than ten years, Liu He has spared no effort to attack the wealthy families and suppress their space for survival and development without stopping.

However, Zhang Anshi and others still gathered such a large force to try to overturn the foundation Liu He had laid in the Han Dynasty.

Liu He couldn't imagine that if he allowed the powerful families to grow barbarically like Emperor Xiaozhao and Emperor Yuan of Han, he didn't know what kind of chaos he would face today.

Of course, it was precisely because of Liu He's extreme suppression that Zhang Anshi and the others became a team and jumped out to plan a big move that "transcends history."

Otherwise, they will only slowly accumulate strength in the dark, eat one bite at a time to become a behemoth, and eventually swallow the entire empire in a few decades.

At that time, it will no longer be an empire of aristocratic families, but an empire of aristocratic families.

In the original historical line, the aristocratic families had been running rampant for hundreds of years, eating up several empires in one go.

Finally, it declined completely during the peasant uprising in the late Tang Dynasty.

With this conspiracy, Liu He will make the decline of the famous family come earlier.

Thinking of this, Liu He silently read out two lines of poetry: "The inner treasury will be burned to ashes, and the public's bones will be trampled on in the street!"

Wei Xuancheng, who was still in fear, was stunned for a moment, and then his whole body felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, feeling chilled all over his body.

He didn't know where the first half of the sentence came from, but he knew what the second half meant.

The emperor is about to go on a killing spree.

I am afraid that the city of Chang'an will be bleeding and the river will be filled with blood, and that the entire Han Dynasty will no longer have aristocratic families.

Wei Xuancheng couldn't help but have some fears and doubts. He didn't know if betraying his father would give Wei a way to survive.

"Wei Qing, do you have anything else to say to me about this conspiracy?" Liu He asked.

"My father has always been wary of Wei Chen. He didn't tell Wei Chen too many details. He only asked Wei Chen to issue this order under the Shangsi Festival." Wei Xuancheng said.

"Why did you come to show off to your old father today? Don't forget that your Wei family is also an aristocratic family." Liu He Leng asked.

"Weichen believes that aristocratic families should not pass down the family through power, but should pass down the family tradition and knowledge... and it should be passed down through people."

"Maybe sometimes you will be temporarily lonely because of the loss of power, but as long as people are still passing on, they will be glorious again one day."

"Your Majesty is a sage and a wise king who meets once in a thousand years. Following your Majesty is the best way out for a wealthy family. Fighting with your Majesty is just a dead end."

"If all the members of the clan are gone and all the temples are lost, how can we talk about inheritance?"

"We thought that my father was confused and did not see the difference between His Majesty and the previous emperors, so he did evil things..."

Wei Xuancheng said a lot in one breath, which made Liu He feel a little relieved. As expected, there are indeed people in the aristocratic family who have general knowledge.

Of course Liu He was willing to give aristocratic families room to survive, but he also did not allow the existence of aristocratic families that competed with the world for profit and power with the emperor.

"What do you think the aristocratic family should do in the future?" Liu He asked gently.

"Wei Chen believes that aristocratic families should become models for the world. His Majesty is the leader of the Han Dynasty..." Wei Xuancheng said quickly.

"Young man," Liu He suddenly called Wei Xuancheng's cousin and said, "Today you not only saved the Wei family, but also saved many aristocratic families."

Wei Xuancheng heard the implication of the emperor's words and seemed to see a glimmer of light.

He quickly stood up, bowed before the emperor again, and said, "Thank you for your mercy, Your Majesty!"

"I promise you that I will only destroy the aristocratic families involved in this matter. The rest of the aristocratic families will have to obey and I will not embarrass them."

Liu He's simple words determined the life and death of countless people. The wealthy families could still live, but they could not live like before.

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