"How do you feel when you walk down this circle of Imperial College?"
On the path between the mountains behind the Imperial Academy.
Zhao Chongyuan and Zhao Ding walked on the path in the mountains one after the other.
There were only a few personal attendants responsible for security following the two of them from a distance in twos and threes.
But even so, it still maintains a relatively long distance.
Only the father and son were left walking in front, talking about some private words that only the two of them knew.
"Do you want to hear the truth or lies?"
Seeing that there was no one around, Zhao Ding frowned slightly and glanced at his father.
"I want to hear the truth from you."
Zhao Chongyuan rolled his eyes and said angrily.
"I'm afraid you won't like to tell the truth."
Zhao Ding pouted and chuckled.
"Just say it, you don't care if I like to hear it or not."
Zhao Chongyuan chuckled.
Zhao Ding also laughed and said: "A simple summary can be summed up in two words: split!
The separation between the gentry class and the common people.
This group of supervisors and Confucian scholars from the Imperial College, who were not able to punish the officials, listened to them, and they also listened to the emperor's herdsmen's prestige and blessings.
But I just didn’t listen. Being an official brings benefits to the people of one place.
As for serving the country and benefiting the people, that's probably even less so.
And I feel..."
Having said this, Zhao Ding stopped talking.
"What do you feel?"
Zhao Chongyuan asked with a smile.
"I say it or I don't say it. If you don't want me to say it, I won't say it."
Seeing Zhao Chongyuan's smiling face, Zhao Ding rolled his eyes and said.
"Just tell me, I didn't punish you."
Zhao Chongyuan smiled disapprovingly.
Hearing this, Zhao Ding rolled his eyes again.
This is the capital, not Youzhou. If it were Youzhou, I must let you know why the flowers are so red!
Zhao Ding complained in his heart and continued: "In my opinion, the Imperial College is the reserve place for officials of the Daqian Dynasty. If the Imperial College can do this, it should be more serious when it is placed in the local government. Therefore, the situation of the Daqian Dynasty Bureau should not be So simple."
"Um?"
Hearing Zhao Ding's words, Zhao Chongyuan's brows wrinkled for a moment, and he couldn't help but look at Zhao Ding.
"What are you looking at me for?"
Zhao Ding's heart tightened.
Afraid that I said the wrong thing.
After all, this is Yingtian, not Youzhou.
It is not his own territory.
"nothing."
Zhao Chongyuan shook his head.
After a while, he seemed to be sighing and said: "You have indeed changed a lot in these eight years."
Zhao Ding grinned.
These eight years have indeed changed him a lot.
After a long while, Zhao Chongyuan sighed and said: "You are right, the situation in the local area is more serious than that in the Imperial College.
It has been 212 years since the founding of Daqian. For any dynasty in history, it can be regarded as a dying dynasty.
There are too many moths and too many water leaks on this dry ship.
Sometimes, you and I both wonder, if it weren’t for Nanchen and Beiliang, plus, your grandfather worked hard in the past twenty years, and you and I have worked hard in the past twenty years.
Is this Daqian still named Zhao? "
Zhao Chongyuan recalled with his eyes, and said with emotion, "Nowadays, the Daqian gentry class and the common people class are separated.
The gentry did not want to benefit the people, but only pursued their own selfish interests. They were officials just to make a fortune, and they were officials just to benefit their families.
When it comes to local areas, land annexation is serious, and a large family with less than a hundred people can occupy hundreds of hectares of fertile land.
Using a simple routine of collecting grain in good years and selling it at high prices in lean years, he repeatedly harvested the fields in the hands of the people, causing refugees everywhere. Those refugees who lost their land had no choice but to sell themselves and depend on the wealthy families in order to survive.
This will intensify the annexation of land and cause more people to lose their fields.
The fewer farmers there are, the less taxes the court can receive. Local tyrants collude with local officials to hide land secretly, deceive the superiors and conceal the people and their families.
It also makes it difficult to collect taxes.
After a long time, these local tycoons cultivated their own children, entered the court, and colluded internally and externally, causing the court's decrees to fail.
That’s what you see, and that’s what you infer. "
In addition, when your grandfather was still alive, he was obsessed with cultivating immortals, was obsessed with immortality, ignored the government affairs, and abandoned the imperial court, which further exacerbated all this. "
"well."
Hearing Zhao Chongyuan's words, Zhao Ding also sighed.
In fact, when he first arrived in Youzhou, the place in Youzhou was similar.
Even more so.
There are even among the people there are wealthy families and yamen with running water.
The Qian family was a large family in Youzhou. They almost single-handedly occupied tens of thousands of acres of fertile land and raised as many as a thousand evil slaves.
If it weren't for Zhao Dinggou who had been working for a while, he secretly developed the Continental Crossbow, and also raised the first private army by robbing houses in Nanchen and Beiliang.
He was counting on the hundreds of guards the court had given him when he entered the vassal state.
It is estimated that he will become a loser.
The saying that a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake is not just a saying.
If a foreign prince wants to fight against the local rich, he really can't do it without some capital.
And this is just Youzhou.
If we look at the entire Daqian, it will only be more complicated.
After all, Daqian is the Thirteenth Prefecture of Kyushu, and it occupies a much larger area than Youzhou.
The situation is also more complicated.
"Do you know why I let Zhou Xing here even though I knew the situation in the Imperial College? I let Zhou Shan control the staff?"
After a while, Zhao Chongyuan suddenly asked.
"Are you telling the truth or lying?"
"The truth."
"Because you are not the founder of the country, you are just a conservative king. In addition, it is difficult for Dagan to return and the shortcomings left by the previous dynasty. What you can do is to balance the situation of the government, pull one faction to fight against another, so as to maintain Dagan's rule. The government will not completely collapse."
Zhao Ding said bluntly.
Hearing Zhao Ding's words, Zhao Chongyuan's face suddenly turned uglier than eating a fly, he pointed at Zhao Ding, and after a long while, he couldn't help but cursed: "You damn thing, can't you give me some face? "
"Father, isn't this what you asked me to say?"
Zhao Ding smiled sarcastically.
Zhao Chongyuan: "..."
However, he was somewhat relieved that Zhao Ding could realize this in his heart.
From this point alone, it is much stronger than Zhao Heng and Zhao Gang.
After all, they are still counting on the forces behind them to help them ascend to the throne.
Little did I know.
If you want to take advantage of them, they also want to take advantage of you!
Everything has a price tag on it.
It is true that the Qian family and the Ye family are extremely powerful, but if they cannot control this power, they may become man-eating tigers, and they will be backlashed if they are not careful.
"Since you understand, I won't say anything more, but you still have to remember that if you can win over Zhang Shiwei, what you can get will be no less than that of a Zhou family member. .
At the same time, you must also be careful of the Zhou family. Today you and I, my father and son, transferred Zhou Xing, which is equivalent to breaking an arm of the Zhou family.
Zhou Shan doesn't dare to embarrass you, me, and I, but he will definitely embarrass you overtly or covertly.
Especially when it comes to disaster relief. "
Zhao Chongyuan patted Zhao Ding's shoulder and said meaningfully.
PS: The text is stuck, the text is stuck, it’s hard to write, just update it. This kind of article is really difficult to write.
