Yang Shu has been a person with a strong heart since he was a child. He seems to be doing things out of control, but in fact he has always had his own plans.
Success after success strengthened Yang Shu's confidence little by little. When he finally overcame all obstacles and won the "big test", this confidence reached its peak.
But the appearance of "Red" in the ancestral hall gave Yang Shuli a new change in his original self-contained confidence.
Those who are blindly confident are fools. When the unknown appears, cautious people can live longer. So Yang Shu understood that all his confidence actually needed someone's guidance when facing the unknown. And the person who could guide him is now exhausted.
Hearing Yang Shu's question, Yang Jian leaned back on his chair and turned his head and said, "You did a good job, you don't need me to explain anything to you."
Yang Jian was telling the truth. He did not think that some of his understanding and knowledge could help his son. Moreover, he found that his youngest son had a special ability that no emperor in the past had ever had, and his path was also very special. In addition, Due to his character and circumstances, Yang Jian believes that Yang Shu is likely to bring about a new change in the Jingjiu Dynasty.
An empire cannot remain unchanged, and remaining unchanged often means decline. Therefore, Yang Jian seemed to have no guidance for Yang Shu, and the transfer of imperial power was arbitrary and casual. In fact, Yang Jian just did not want to affect his son's ideas and concepts that were different from his.
But Yang Shu didn't know this. He still hoped to hear some of his father's views on the empire, including the war, the people in the temple, and the people of the world.
"Father, the situation is delicate now. Many people in the court are dissatisfied with my son, and even secretly collude with others to plot something. My son has a stubborn temper and does not want to make compromises with them, so he is preparing to prune it. I don't know what my father is doing. What does the emperor think?" It was not easy for Yang Shu to see his father, but he couldn't help but ask about an important plan in his heart.
The so-called private collusion and conspiracy, these people are not named by name, they are from various aristocratic families and clans. These two are the oldest forces formed by the Jing Dynasty for thousands of years. Although it may not always be the same surname, and there are also the ups and downs of aristocratic families, these two groups have existed and are deeply rooted since the establishment of the Jingji Dynasty.
Yang Shu directly stated that he was going to attack the two largest vines clinging to the big tree of Jingjiu Dynasty, and he also wanted to see his father's reaction.
To Yang Shu's expectation, there was no surprise on his father's face. Instead, he smiled slightly and said, "The aristocratic families and clans have long been inextricably linked. They exist in every aspect of the country, and they appear to be loose but actually connected. They are very tight-knit and like to do their own tricks behind closed doors, not letting outsiders in. If you are confident, you might as well prune these people."
When Yang Shu saw that his father agreed with him, he felt slightly relieved. Then he asked: "Since my father also agrees, what can I teach my son? Now I have been looking for a suitable breakthrough, but I have no clue."
"A clue? Aristocratic families and nobles are very cautious. They never directly reach into the temple. They claim to take care of the emperor's emotions, but in fact they are just covering themselves up.
Civil servants and military generals are either from the noble family, the noble family, or the military family, and there are also cultivators in them. In fact, most of these messy undercurrents include aristocratic families and noble families.
Therefore, you don’t need to deliberately look for a breakthrough at all, you just need to grab someone who is strong enough to get on the stage and tear it apart. As the saying goes, pull out the carrot and bring out the mud. As long as the "carrot" you find is big enough, do you still worry about not affecting the fundamental interests of the family and the family?
As long as they feel that their fundamentals are threatened, they will naturally launch a counterattack against you. When the time comes, it will be easier to just show off your tactics. "
Yang Jian opened his mouth and said a long paragraph. Jiang is still old and spicy. Although he has never touched the aristocratic family or family, it is not that he has not thought about these things. Just like the metaphor Yang Shu made just now, the Jingjiu Dynasty is like a big tree, and the aristocratic family and the family are like vines clinging to the trunk. If the vines are wrapped too tightly and grow too densely, they will kill the big tree. Pruning is naturally necessary.
Yang Shu's eyes lit up when he heard this. He and his counselors have been discussing this issue for the past few days. Most of the strategies the counselors have come up with are to gradually eat away at the wings of aristocratic families and clans from the local level, and then slowly eliminate their influence in the country over time. force, and at the same time support emerging nobles or businessmen to fill the gaps that arise.
But Yang Shu knew in his heart that although the strategies presented by the counselors were feasible, they contained a lot of private goods, and the results were too slow.
How huge is the family and the family? Just slowly eroding from the bottom to the top, let alone whether it will fail, even if it goes well, it will take ten years. There are too many variables in such a long time span. As a result, although Yang Shu was determined to change the upper-level structure of the dynasty, he had not yet finalized a plan on how to proceed.
Now he took a chance and asked his father. Unexpectedly, the other person helped him open up a new way of thinking in just a few words.
Unlike the strategies proposed by the counselors under his command, which need to be slowly eroded from the bottom over a long time span. Yang Shu discovered that what his father said was the true nature of the aristocratic families and clans. They were hidden under the temple and seemed to be restrained, but in fact they occupied a large amount of power.
Pick someone with high authority and use it as a way to tear open the pretense of aristocratic families and noble families?
This is a good idea. It's just that this kind of person is not that easy to find.
"Father, are you talking about Ye Lansheng?" Yang Shu quickly went through it in his mind and found that all those who could be called high-ranking people in the temple and were currently underdogs were Ye Lansheng, the former leader of the civil service group and the left prime minister. .
"That's right." Yang Jian was very satisfied with his son's reaction ability and found the key person so quickly. Then he added: "Ye Lansheng is too selfish. In order to suppress the army, he even wanted to take back my will and collaborated with several ministers to give me power.
Haha, it's a pity that I didn't even take action, but you snatched Bai Changqing from Hube, and then you turned around and dealt Ye Lansheng a cruel blow, making all his evil plans behind him aborted.
So Ye Lansheng should have died a long time ago, but he was left to be killed by you so that you could gain momentum for your ascension to the throne. I didn't expect you to have the idea of building a noble family and a powerful family. This is still a mistake. If you grasp Ye Lansheng, he will definitely help you open up the situation. "
Yang Shu nodded. He had already guessed what happened to Ye Lansheng. He had made the assertion when he was trying to win over Bai Changqing. Now it sounded like Ye Lansheng had his own way of killing himself.
