For a moment, the room became quiet.
After a long time, a family head finally said: "It seems that there is no use in discussing these things."
"It's of no use. For now, that's it. Our failure this time is certain. With the ability of His Highness Yuelai Trading Company, it will be easy to save the two merchant families." The head of the Cui family nodded.
"But we have to do something. We can't do nothing. If we don't do anything, everyone knows the final result. There are more than a thousand schools. Take ten years as an example. Ten years for each school is considered a teaching A thousand people come out, that’s one million scholars! The ratio of one million scholars is more than our families combined!”
"At that time, is there still a shortage of officials in the world? At that time, the reform of the imperial examination system will be nothing more than a word from His Majesty."
"What's more, can a school only educate a thousand people in ten years? I know you think that these schools cannot be as dedicated as our private schools, but don't forget, if there are more people, there will always be genius!"
"And there are more scholars. They can become prime ministers without having to come up. Their knowledge can be enough to become sixth- or seventh-rank officials, which is enough to shake our position. Do I need to say more?"
The head of the Wang family in Taiyuan sighed: "The problem is, even if we do it, it doesn't seem to have any effect. The most we can do is make His Highness the King of Qin pay attention to us and know the strength we have gathered."
"This is enough. We can't let him do whatever he wants." The Cui family leader paused and said.
Everyone discussed for a while, and soon the party broke up.
People from each family gradually began to leave. About half an hour later, seven people sat together again in the same room, and these seven were the real top nobles of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes.
"Will this plan succeed?" asked the head of the Wang family in Taiyuan.
"That's almost it. Anyway, our goal is not to win over His Highness, but we have to do something to force His Highness to expose something. I believe you all should feel that there must be something behind His Highness's continuous reforms in the court. There are still many things hidden." The head of the Cui family in Qinghe said with a serious face.
"If we don't force, we can only wait for His Highness to be exposed little by little. That would be too passive and we can't keep up if we want to do anything. So we can only gather everyone's strength to take action and force His Highness to use more back-ups. We Let’s analyze what His Highness is going to do.”
"It seems that you all want to follow the trend." The head of the Li family in Zhao County said.
"Actually, when His Highness the King of Qin invented printing and papermaking and could easily spread them all over the world, and the cost was so low, the way we used to do it was already coming to an end." The head of the Zheng family in Xingyang was a little old. The voice rang.
"So, you Zheng family have started betting on both ends?" Zhaojun Li asked.
"Are we the only ones? In the Dunhuang house of the Li family in Longxi, why didn't Li Zhene, the western ancestor of the Li family in Zhao County, place a bet on both ends?" the head of the Zheng family in Xingyang said calmly.
"Why are you talking about this? Since we want to change and get on His Highness's boat, we have to do something." The head of the Li family in Longxi said.
In fact, no one really wants to hear what the Li family of Longxi said. Nonsense. You, the Li family of Longxi, are the natal family of the Imperial Family of the Tang Dynasty. You are talking nonsense. But naturally this cannot be said openly.
"Are you really determined to change?" The head of the Cui family in Qinghe sighed.
"If you want to survive, you can only follow the trend of the times, otherwise you will be smashed to pieces by the huge waves. If you want to survive the huge rocks in the river, all the edges will be smoothed by the river water, let alone a family as big as ours." The head of the Wang family in Taiyuan paused. For a moment.
"This boat is not that easy to get on." The head of the Cui family in Qinghe smiled bitterly, "The point is, as for the final position, it is difficult for you to bet on His Highness the King of Qin."
Mentioning this, everyone was speechless for a moment. In the past, they could still see this clearly, but now... it's a fucking fog. I don't know what weird operations His Highness King Qin has performed. Anyway, about that position now, they I just don’t understand.
Do you think His Highness King Qin has an advantage? have! Now all seven of their families know that the identity of His Highness King Qin’s mother and concubine is no longer a problem.
His Highness King Qin has done too many things, and these things can change a lot. At least if His Highness King Qin tells the seven families that he wants to be in power, they will definitely support him. But the point of the matter is, you can’t help but make people don’t want to do it! Can you bear this?
And His Highness the Crown Prince... is even weirder. His Highness the Crown Prince was very wary of Li Tai trying to compete for that position before, but now... Li Tai supervises the country, King Qin supervises the country, and His Highness the Crown Prince doesn't even show his face. If His Highness the Crown Prince is doing this They recognized whatever I ordered.
The problem is that His Highness the Crown Prince...has really done nothing! They can still get this bit of information!
And Li Tai... he used to do everything possible to get that position, but now he is forced by His Highness King Qin to help supervise the country in Liangyi Palace, but he himself avoids it like a snake.
This operation really makes people speechless. The three most powerful princes are like this now. How do you think they can guess?
Don't talk about them, if you ask Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng to guess who is going to be in charge, they can't even guess it!
Is it possible that they bet on Li Zhi?
Everyone simply wants to die, and this is not the key point. The key point is that I don’t know how His Highness King Qin did it. Now, whether it is the prince or Li Tai, let’s not talk about the prince. The prince has always been very stable, and his thoughts are not that easy. figure it out. But Li Tai's thoughts are easy to see.
In the past, Li Tai trusted his staff, but now... those staff feel that in front of Li Tai, they are not as powerful as a fart. At least there is a smelly fart. Li Tai probably has to cover his mouth and nose to hide. hide.
"Anyway, no matter what, we can only follow His Highness King Qin's path now. If we don't follow His Highness King Qin, others will have no chance. If we want to avoid being eliminated, we can only adapt to the times. This time, we will force His Highness to reveal more hidden things. We can make more plans. If we want to place a bet, we have to see if the bookmaker gives us this opportunity!"
"Everyone, please mobilize the strength of each of your families. I hope you have any information to share. Our ship is so big. If we want to turn around, we always need enough time and opportunity." The head of the Boling Cui family sighed. road.
The small meeting of seven people quickly broke up. Looking at the other six people leaving, the old head of the Zheng family in Xingyang sighed. They were the first to confront His Highness King Qin and suffered a loss. He knew very well that His Highness King Qin's ship They want to get on the boat, but it's not that easy!
Even if it succeeds, the situation will change when the first person to board the ship gets on, because once the boarder gets on the ship, he becomes one with the ship. He knows how many people around him still want to get on the ship. , it’s a very simple thing to just kick a few down, so in the end, there will be a big wave of people falling into the water.
And at that time, the person who fell into the water was not willing to accept it, hey.
