I am the cook, but I am Li Er's son-in-law

The Confucius family is an example of scholars in the world.

Kong Yingda, as the head of the Kong family, speaks out for scholars all over the world—there is nothing more legal and justifiable than this in the world.

When they objected, it was not just the strategy of an official, not just the opinions of a group of people, but they stood against the poor scholars in the world represented by Kong Yingda.

No family would dare to do such a thing.

Maybe... They would have dared to do such a thing a hundred years ago.

But after Liu Song and Hou Jing's rebellion, they realized that their power was actually limited, not as powerful as they thought.

They may be enough to influence the court, but they cannot decide the court.What they can do is, like rice worms, grab as much profit as possible before this behemoth collapses.

Is it possible to gain benefits by standing on the opposite side with the poor scholars in the world?

No.

So they kept silent, and when Kong Yingda finished speaking, they didn't stand up and say a word of objection.

Li Shimin looked at this group of silent courtiers with his head down, so that he couldn't see who was a member of the family, and couldn't see the faces of these people, but he could figure out what kind of face it was.

This made him smile a little more, and then he said softly: "If there is no objection, then this move will be settled."

Of course Li Shimin hoped that someone would jump out.

The aristocratic family's silence, not saying a word, and not responding in the slightest is the last scene he wants to see.

It's about time.

If it doesn't come out, this matter is finalized.

Wang Xima stood up and said, "I think it's inappropriate. The imperial examination is a matter of the foundation of the country. This matter should be discussed further."

Li Shimin nodded: "Oh, Qing is right."

As he spoke, he paused, stood up slowly, glanced at the group of ministers, and said, "If there is a discussion, I'm afraid it will be delayed by another hour or two."

"I will give you a chance."

"Within three days, every minister has to submit a memorial to me, without exception."

An official from the Ministry of Water stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I will also wait for non-official officials..."

Before he finished speaking, Li Shimin lowered his hands: "I'm talking about all officials."

The officials stared.

This is... let them stand in line.

The faces of the officials of the aristocratic families gradually became clear. If Li Shimin settled this matter with thunderous means, they might only have to use thunderous means to finalize the matter.

But in this way, the tough measures they had prepared in their hearts could be let go.

These three days were enough for them to win over most of the officials in the court.

Too……

After Kong Yingda said this strategy, they seemed a little panicked, and there were still two full years until Chunwei next year.

There are too many variables in two years.

They don't need to be so anxious.

Zhou Xiaosan's face was very serious. Although he didn't understand what was going on inside, he could understand the anxious and stormy smell in the air.

Of course, the most troublesome thing for him was writing the memorial.

He is just a rough man who can kill people with a knife. He can read some common characters with Dou Da's handwriting, but if he needs to write with a pen, he can probably only write "Ah, Da Lang's food is cooked again today." It's delicious, I ate five bowls in one go, and I want to eat more, but I can't take it anymore." This level of writing.

Let him write imperial examinations or something.

This is not difficult for him.

Zhou Xiaosan pulled his hair, went down from the court, changed his clothes, and went straight to the restaurant - he couldn't write anything, so he had to ask Yin Xuan for advice.

In the backyard, Zhou Xiaosan honestly told Yin Xuan what happened in the court.

"I'm just a little puzzled. According to the posture in the court, as long as His Majesty is a little tougher, the matter will be settled."

After finishing speaking, Zhou Xiaosan crossed his arms, and he figured out something wrong when he looked back.

"Why does Your Majesty bother us?"

"Just to see how many can stand with those aristocratic families?"

If it's just like this, Zhou Xiaosan always feels that the loss outweighs the gain.

Compared with looking at the attitude of these officials in the court, it is faster to deal a blow to the aristocratic family, isn't that what Li Shimin should do?

Yin Xuan shook his head: "Li Shimin's attitude is indeed to declare war with those aristocratic families."

"but…"

"It's not that easy."

"What your Majesty wants is to deal with these difficult and miscellaneous diseases without blood. Whether it is him using the knife, or those aristocratic families who can't help but use the knife, it is not what he wants to see."

Family is an extremely difficult problem to solve.

Li Shimin has almost nothing to do. Even if Wu Zetian proposed a vague name, it was just wishful thinking. He had to wait until the man who actually wrote "I will kill the flowers after they bloom" and then appeared with a knife to kill the flowers. question.

In the Song Dynasty, the real aliasing can begin.

"I have to say, he is a very smart person." Yin Xuan sighed, this old fox is really admirable, "It's the right thing for him to do."

Is this the right thing to do?

Zhou Xiaosan was taken aback for a moment, pursed his lips, and frowned, he didn't realize how wrong this approach was.

Yin Xuan went on to explain: "The method he used is called the sausage tactic."

Sausage tactics?

Zhou Xiaosan's complexion twisted and he became weird. He thought of some strange things.

"What are you thinking about?" Yin Xuan waved his hand angrily, "This is a description of the way of fighting step by step and making progress."

Yin Xuan paused, and then asked a question: "Let me ask you, do you think if your Majesty sends troops to encircle and suppress these great families, will these great families resist?"

Zhou Xiaosan didn't hesitate, and nodded, "That's for sure!"

The knife is on the neck, if you don't resist, isn't it just waiting to die?
Yin Xuan asked again: "Then if I were your Majesty, I just doubled the strength of the troops in the nearby cities of those aristocratic families, and used the name of training. If you were a noble family, would you resist?"

Zhou Xiaosan hesitated for a moment, then shook his head.

It's just an increase in troops, although it makes people uncomfortable, but if you just resist like this, wouldn't it be the same as being convicted of treason?
Yin Xuan continued to ask: "At this time, I changed the chief officials of Taiyuan, Qinghe and other places, and began to thoroughly investigate the violations of the laws of the Tang Dynasty by the major families. If you are an aristocratic family, will you resist?"

Zhou Xiaosan hesitated longer this time, shook his head, nodded again, then shook his head again.