Chapter 1012 The Future of Falling Dust
Liu Ying didn't answer.
"When conflicts arise between the central government and local governments, there are laws to deal with them!" Guo Hao stood up and responded to Yuan Shu's question in plain language.
At that moment, one-third of the officials in the Weiyang Palace stood up to support this proposal. Among them were former students and officials of the Yuan family, mainstream pillars of the court, and officials from humble origins.
Only those officials who came from aristocratic families had gloomy faces almost the entire time.
He deeply expressed that this proposal was beneficial to both the country and the people. The aristocratic families and the common people would be governed separately and the two sides would not be subordinate to each other. The people outside the rule and the people inside the rule would infringe upon each other. This would both recognize the patriarchal relationship between the state and the aristocratic families and avoid the impact of the aristocratic families on the centralized system.
This time, Yuan Shu directly pointed out in the Weiyang Palace that the existence of aristocratic families was the core reason for the conflict of interests between the central and local governments.
It also points out the reasons why problems arose in the feudal system.
To a certain extent, the interests of local governments are the interests of the local people. In the late Han Dynasty, local people could be directly replaced by local county leaders. The conflict between the central and local governments can be essentially explained as a conflict between national interests and family interests.
The fundamental problems with the feudal system are due to people’s greed and the fact that the master is weak and the branches are strong.
The Yuan family is the father of all of your families. In line with this idea, Yuan Shu directly jumped out and pointed out this fact. He didn't care where this was or what the scale of the court meeting was. The old Yuan family will be your father today!
Of course, Yuan Shu himself did not have this plan. This was all analyzed by Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shao, who was under house arrest, was a pillar of the south sky in adversity. All these things could be fully understood at a glance.
However, Yuan Shao's original intention was to help Yuan Shu analyze the path and lay more foundations for the Yuan family to go abroad in the future. He had no intention of letting Yuan Shu make it clear.
Because many things are unspoken rules, once you put them out there, it will become very embarrassing.
But Yuan Shu didn't care about that. What Yuan Shu always believed in was to go his own way and let others talk.
So Yuan Shu directly put out in front of everyone some things that should have been discussed privately, making it almost impossible for everyone to back down.
For a while, the Weiyang Palace was in chaos. Doctors, medical officers, and imperial eunuchs kept coming forward to make suggestions, and some even directly pointed out facts that no one had dared to speak out for two hundred years.
At this moment, the faces of all the heads of the noble families were as black as the bottom of a pot. They really wanted to ask, what good will it be for your Yuan family to expose these things? What can be said and what cannot be said? Don’t you know about this?
Are your Yuan family still worth anything? Or is it that you, Yuan Gonglu, are worthless?
However, some things have already happened, so there is no point in cursing. Even if the heads of the aristocratic families scold the Yuan family to death, it will not help. What's more, the matter has been exposed by the Yuan family, so why don't they stand up and explain.
Looking at Chen Zichuan's meaningful smile and Guo Hao's calm expression, all the heads of the noble families felt an inexplicable pain in their livers.
Looking at Yuan Shu's confused look, the heads of all the noble families felt not only pain in their livers but also in their hearts.
This group of people obviously came from aristocratic families, but they were actively suppressing the aristocratic families. Looking at the expressions of that group of people, all the heads of the aristocratic families knew that the outcome of today's incident was doomed.
The heads of many noble families now want to beat the Yuan family's heads off. Is that how you play it?
In the Han Dynasty, all the aristocratic families, all the court officials, and even the emperor who had a brain knew that the so-called Han court politics was actually just the politics of the aristocratic families, because since the founding of the Later Han Dynasty by Liu Xiu, the court had been full of aristocratic families.
The network of students and former officials, the kinship relations of aristocratic families, and the geographical barriers of east, west, south and north ultimately led to the fact that even the emperor could not break through this big network called aristocratic politics.
However, the emperors after Liu Xiu did not need to break through this big network. The Liu family itself was the largest aristocratic family, and they were also the beneficiaries of aristocratic politics.
Therefore, the emperor only needs to understand the imperial mind and use it to balance the political tendencies of the left and right families.
Suppose we regard the Han Empire as a giant, the royal family is the heart, and the aristocratic families are the oxygen.
When the heart dies, the Han Dynasty will naturally perish and become another country.
The noble family remains unaffected and can continue to survive, but some oxygen will be consumed in the process of breathing.
Although it may not seem important, the heart cannot survive without oxygen.
Without a giant, it would be difficult for the aristocratic family to play its own valuable role.
After Emperor Guangwu's restoration, the two became almost inseparable and became one.
Everything that happened during this process was a game of chess between the two parties, but no one ever wanted to make this matter clear.
In the past, even though the Emperor of Han and his ministers knew this fact, for the sake of face and interests, neither the aristocratic families nor the Emperor of Han would expose this fact.
The reason can be summed up in one sentence: the aristocratic families will never give up the rights they have already obtained. After all, the pie is so big, how can they survive if they give it up?
The same is true for the Han emperor. He has long understood that the overall political environment is family politics. No matter what tricks are used, even if they change one group of people after another, they are essentially still the same people.
After all, there are only individuals who betray their class, but no class that betrays its interests. The aristocratic class is destined to have the interests they need to seize, so no matter how many people the Han emperor changes, he cannot change the overall environment of aristocratic politics.
Not to mention that the Han emperor himself is the head of this aristocratic political alliance.
Naturally, family politics is destined to be an unspoken fact between both parties. Everyone understands the situation, but no one will ever expose it.
However, this time the Yuan family simply overturned the chessboard and slapped the faces of all the family heads.
If it happened in the past, it would be nothing and everyone could just listen to it for fun. Even if you, the Yuan family, turned the table over, you still couldn't change the overall environment, just like people cannot live without oxygen.
But things are different now. After Guo Hao and Chen Xi emerged, the proportion of aristocratic families in the country has been declining, and now it does not even reach one third.
From the most basic perspective, the soil for the survival of the aristocratic families has begun to loosen, but no one can get off Chen Xi's chariot.
They could only pray that they could still occupy a certain proportion when Chen Xi died, otherwise it would definitely be a catastrophe.
Just like the appendix, if nothing goes wrong, it’s fine, but once the disease occurs, the appendix will become the part that needs to be removed.
It will certainly cause trauma to the body, but it will undoubtedly recover, thus solving the problem directly and fundamentally.
The group chat of the heads of the noble families had become extremely noisy, and even the likes of Chen Ji, Sima Jun, and Xun Shuang could no longer sit still.
They racked their brains but couldn't figure out why Yuan Shu did this.
After all, the Yuan family also benefited from this incident. How many of those who spoke out in the court were Yuan family’s students and former officials?
They were completely unable to understand Yuan Shu's thought process, just as it would be difficult for a normal person to understand why there would be a mental illness.
Yuan Shu's idea was actually very simple.
You think I want to eat? No, no, no, I'm here to ruin the pot!
In the past, there was only one cake, and naturally, the power that had been seized must not be given up, because it was the guarantee of their family's life.
But now, after opening a new territory, it’s completely different. Even if my Yuan family throws the cake away and throws the cake in your face, I can still make a new cake to eat!
After Yuan Shao analyzed the situation to Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu figured out one thing, that is, since their Yuan family’s rebellion failed that year, they should go out and build an empire of their own.
Since there is no plan to divide the cake, why not just smash the pot and sell it to Guo Hao, which will make it easier to get out later.
So, in essence, this matter is actually equivalent to Yuan Shu selling out the aristocratic family, and the Yuan family directly betrayed the entire aristocratic class.
In fact, it is not surprising that Yuan Shu did this. If we analyze it rationally, many of the close allies of the Yuan family had already been liquidated by Li Ru and Jia Xu.
If it weren't for the stability of the country, Guo Hao would have stayed in the Yuan family. Not only because of Yuan Shu's contribution, but also because of a factor of letting bygones be bygones. The Yuan family would have been liquidated.
Yuan Shu of his time figured it out: it is better to rely on oneself than on others. It turns out that the method of hedging is simply stupid.
They were hedging their bets, and in the end they had to depend on others, and their so-called allies could only play dead.
Although this is the rule of the game, Yuan Shu is a person who does not follow the rules.
Come on, I'll smash them all for you, let's see what else you can do.
As a chaotic and evil person, Yuan Shu doesn't care about other people's opinions at all. If you have the guts, come and kill me.
The situation of aristocratic family politics has gradually declined after Guo Hao and Chen Xi entered the court.
Of course, this does not mean that this political situation has subsided. In fact, it can only be said that it has avoided the general trend and hidden behind the scenes.
This can be considered a way of survival for aristocratic families. If one generation fails, they will just avoid it. After all, immortality is not possible in politics. Even if I am as long as I am alive, you will always be princes. The problem is that the emperor must die eventually.
Even the Qin Emperor and Emperor Wu of Han could only dominate for a while, not for the whole life.
It’s just like the current situation of the Yuan family. Although this generation has surrendered, their subordinates are still there, and one quarter of the court officials in the Weiyang Palace are still their family’s students and old officials.
These people support each other, and the Yuan family continues to exchange interests behind the scenes to guarantee these people's careers. Ten years later, twenty years later, and thirty years later, this generation will eventually step down, and their positions will be vacated sooner or later, and sooner or later their tentacles will be in place again.
After all, Chen Xi was facing a group, not an individual. It was not like they had never seen anyone who dominated the world before, but as long as they were human, it was impossible for them to continue like this forever.
Even Chen Xi's own family will become a noble family and he will become one of them, or they may be directly exterminated and declared completely extinct.
It’s the same thing. That was the environment in the past that no matter the noble families or the big guys could escape.
But now, the overall environment has changed. The originally unbreakable unspoken rules seem to have become a piece of paper when Yuan Shu put this thing out in the open.
All the heads of the noble families realized in the brief chaos and quarrels that they had no choice but to accept the fate that was pronounced upon them. It was because the Yuan family saw this day that they made it clear directly.
They argued fiercely, but in the final analysis, the decision was made by the two men above, one civil and one military.
Moreover, because the overall environment has changed, it seems that exposing this matter is not such bad news for the family that has basically decided to go abroad to make cakes.
After all, it is different from the previous situation where if you let go you will definitely die, but if you don’t let go and fight to the death you may live a better life. So you have no choice but to hold on to the power in your hands tightly.
Now, even though the Yuan family is a bastard, they have clearly demonstrated benefits that are enough to attract everyone's attention. Compared to the aristocratic families that could only divide the cake before but can now make the cake, this proposal is not completely out of the question.
"This will benefit future generations and will benefit all generations to come. The Yang family second the proposal!" The head of the Yang family stepped forward and said solemnly, then stood next to the Yuan family.
The Yuan family, which had three officials in four generations, and the Yang family, which had three officials in five generations, stood together.
The head of the Yang family understood the same truth as Yuan Shu very early on: other people are unreliable, and relationships maintained by interests are always too fragile. Moreover, since they are not the ones who control the interests, their relationships are even more fragile.
Since Yuan Shu has made it clear today, we might as well go all out and burn our boats.
Therefore, seeing that the Yang family seconded the motion, the Chen family, the Xun family, and the Sima family also began to second the motion, the heads of other aristocratic families could only nod in secondment. It was no use thinking about it anymore, as this matter had basically become a surging trend and there was no way to stop it.
The country's destiny is determined by heaven.
This is the feeling of the many noble families who made the final decision on this matter. The Liu family's destiny seems to be quite far from the end. All the heads of the noble families who seconded the motion couldn't help but glance at Chen Xi and then at Guo Hao.
Finally, they turned their attention to Liu Ying. After talking so much, even they themselves began to doubt themselves.
Did Liu Ying really have a destiny? The originally decadent Han Dynasty was revived three times because of the sudden emergence of Guo Hao and the existence of Liu Ying.
And because Guo Hao rescued Chen Xi in a busy city, the story might even be passed down for thousands of generations.
They could only sigh that it was destiny and curse Yuan.
What a good way to make a good relationship. I want to make one too.
The Yuan family and Yuan Shu are really not human. They will arm themselves to cause trouble when we go abroad.
"In that case, after the court meeting, the prime minister can take over the meeting." Liu Ying said casually. The pot can be thrown away, no matter how well it is done.
Liu Ying didn't care at all. If anything went wrong, the blame wouldn't be on her.
Besides, there are tall people to hold up the sky if it falls. As long as Guo Hao and Chen Xi don't fall, she will definitely not take the blame.
