The crown prince's favorite girl, she found another good match

Chapter 197 Great Change! ! !

The maid asked: "Then what should we do?"

Li Rulan said: "Don't worry, I won't go back during this period. I will find a way to stay here longer."

In fact, she didn't want to go back at all, and was waiting at the border with Guangping. Although the palace was not short of silver, life at the border was difficult even if there was no shortage of silver.

Thinking of the yellow sand there that wrinkled her face, she couldn't help but grit her teeth.

She is only in her early twenties now. She came back yesterday to visit the ladies of the aristocratic family. Many people looked several years younger than her.

And now she has fine lines at the corners of her eyes at a young age, which makes her angry.

Moreover, the management of the Marquis made her even more tired. Now that she was back, she felt that the days at the border were not meant for human beings.

Why should she accompany him there to suffer?
It's just that as Mrs. Qing's favorite disciple, she has always flaunted herself as gentle and virtuous, a standard virtuous woman, so naturally she would not speak her true thoughts and slap herself in the face.

Therefore, others naturally just thought that she was worried about her mother's current situation and came back to fulfill her filial duty.

That's what she always said externally.
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Ten days later.

Zhao Yi has been in court for a few days, and he went out again this afternoon, probably because of something else.

Li Baojia was swinging alone in the backyard outside the palace.

Several major events have happened in the court recently.

First, the Zhou family was found to have collaborated with the enemy and treason. The prince personally issued an edict to investigate and punish the entire Zhou family, and exiled them to the north.

When this edict came out, both the government and the public were shocked.

The Zhou family was one of the first-class aristocratic families in the Zhao Dynasty, the maternal family of the Queen, and logically their position was the most stable. However, being investigated and exiled overnight was like a dream.

The most surprising thing was the queen's attitude. After such a big event happened, she was actually quiet, just shrinking in the palace without saying a word.

What they never expected was that this was just the beginning.

The eldest son of Wei Guogong suddenly wrote a letter to exterminate his relatives and report Wei Guogong's crimes.

The parent and son complained to their father and were punished with a hundred lashes. Wei Jiangsheng received the punishment without saying a word.

He went to the government office in the capital and wrote a petition, detailing all the crimes committed by Duke Wei, and also brought irrefutable evidence such as accounts and letters, which almost exposed Duke Wei's reputation.

The most important of them is selling private salt and privately forging weapons.

Full of uproar.

Duke Guo of Wei was arrested and imprisoned that night. When he was dragged away, he shouted that the evil son was harming him and shed tears.

After the trial at Dali Temple and the re-examination by His Royal Highness, a series of aristocratic families related to the case were discovered.

This case involved a lot. A series of aristocratic families in the capital either ransacked their families or exiled to the border.

The eldest son of the Duke of Wei was able to inherit the Duke of Wei due to his meritorious service and became the new Duke of Wei. He was also the youngest Duke in the dynasty and was not implicated.

The outside world gave him mixed reviews, but the aristocratic family hated him to the core.

In recent years, aristocratic families have become more aggressive in annexing land, almost monopolizing official positions in the court, leaving the Dazhao treasury empty and tax revenue decreasing year by year.

This time it was just a cover, a trigger. They all knew inside. On the surface, they were investigating illegal salt sales, but in fact, they were investigating land annexation.

Among those arrogant gentry and gentry who go around forcibly harvesting and plowing fields, which one of them is not missing his head and leaving his body covered in blood?
Yesterday I was guarding my money and living in debauchery, but today my body and head are separated.

For a time, everyone in the capital's family was in danger, and the court was completely silent. A few old foxes in the court quickly realized that something was wrong. They hurriedly expressed their sincerity and donated land and money to save their lives.

This approach was quickly imitated, and the national treasury was quickly filled. Zhao Yi allocated money to various places in disaster, and a large part was used for military affairs in the north. The originally difficult war situation immediately became smoother, and even Liang Liang was captured. Three cities in the state.

Not long after the turmoil subsided, there was another shock. Several bachelors from the poor cabinet jointly submitted a letter requesting that the imperial examination quota system be abolished and that the most capable people be admitted.

In the original imperial examination, in addition to reading articles to judge talent and learning, it also looked at family background.

There are quotas for imperial examinations, and the stronger the family, the more quotas, and the remaining quotas for the exams are divided among states and cities.

At this time, there are not many places left, not to mention that the examiners are always occupied by aristocratic families, so the possibility of secret operations is greater.

Therefore, fewer and fewer poor families passed the imperial examinations over the years, and aristocratic families almost monopolized the road to officialdom.

Once this system is reformed, the aristocratic family will face being marginalized. The children of the family will no longer be protected. No one can say what will happen to the aristocratic family in the future.

If the previous ones were okay, the later changes to the imperial examinations simply stepped on the painful feet of the aristocratic family, and everyone jumped up to remonstrate.

He tried his best to state the various advantages of the quota-based imperial examination system and the ancestral rules that cannot be changed at will.

Most of the people who requested restructuring were officials from poor families, and the court was so quarreling about this matter that it divided into two groups and almost started a fight in court.

Without this system, the influence of the aristocratic family will only be infinitely weakened in the future. How can it still stand in the court?
This is simply hundreds of times more uncomfortable than asking them to give up their money.

Zhao Yi rarely expressed his opinion on this matter. In the past few days, the papers were being handed out like crazy, but he still did nothing.

In the court, you were fighting over each other, with open and covert attacks, but he seemed to have no idea about it. He went to court step by step every day, and listened to the people below him blushing.

It wasn't until last night when the heads of the aristocratic families who danced the most joyfully died suddenly and suddenly one after another that they came back to their senses as if they had been given a drink.

Someone immediately understood that without the support of the prince behind this big move, how could the poor family dare to raise the flag and call for reform.

The prince is not satisfied with resolving the land annexation issue at all. He wants to completely weaken the family and stabilize the imperial power!
However, it was too late to realize it now. Even though the family was shocked by Zhao Yi's cruel methods, they could only break their teeth and swallow it.

Compared with Zhao Yi, these people seem to have lived for a few more decades in vain. The previous actions have caused the aristocratic families to fall into disarray and rush to bankrupt the national treasury to protect themselves. When they are dying, they will step on the final kick. Trample them into the dust.

After killing a person, he still has to peel off the skin and cramp the material to make the best use of it. This is him.

The scariest thing is that from the beginning to the end, whether it was Wei Jiang's lawsuit against his father or the battle over the imperial examination reform, Zhao Yi had the same expression, smiling as if he was carved out of a mold, but they no longer felt that he was the same as before. This smile is blowing in the spring breeze, it is simply more terrifying than the Lord of Hell in hell!
Wei Jiang is just an unpopular eldest son of the Duke of Wei with no power and no support. How could he have such great ability to collect evidence and carry out such a righteous act of killing relatives?
Who dares to believe that there is no shadow of the prince behind this.

After this incident, the family problems that had been brewing for a long time and had troubled kings for several generations were eliminated in Zhao Yi's hands. The poor families cheered and the whole country celebrated. The Zhao Dynasty completely changed the day and ushered in a new, passionate life. The imperial examination boom.

This year was recorded in the annals of history, and was known as the Change of the Poor Family.

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