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Chapter 1009 No Life
When the ship carrying the former emperor of the empire sailed towards Izu Island, the departing ship foreshadowed the end of an empire.

The transfer of power has been as smooth as possible, but in reality it is impossible to be truly smooth. Without going through the reshaping of blood and fire, there can be no change of power.

Today's government is filled with New School members, old imperial bureaucrats, old aristocrats, as well as landlords and big businessmen who stood up at critical moments. The New School members thought they could control the empire, but when they held the supreme power, they found that they could hardly control the rudder of the empire at all.

The biggest problem is - prestige!
Among the New School Party, there was no one who could serve as a core candidate. When they were in the opposition in the past, they were able to create such a great momentum because there were people who supported the New School in every province. They had a common opponent, which was the imperial system.

But when the imperial system collapsed, the originally united parties instantly became opponents. Even though they needed to form a coalition government, the quarrels in the National Assembly continued all day long.

Therefore, this newly established government, like every dynasty with inherent deficiencies, may have only one way, which is to maintain the existence of the central government by ceding power to the local areas, because their ruling foundation comes from the New Learning Party in various provinces.

The empire was not at peace. In places far away from the empire, some members of the Li clan were trying to rebuild the kingdom in an effort to overthrow the Xia Dynasty and restore the Tang Dynasty.

In some provinces, because they were unable to gain enough benefits from the establishment of the central government, they were instigated by their financial backers to become independent again.

Another very crucial thing is that the new government has never carried out the cleansing of some old aristocrats.

Because there is still one person alive in this world, that is Luo Changqing, the leader of the old aristocracy and the current protector of the royal family.

After a new government comes to power, it always releases a large part of its vitality by taking action against the previous regime, but now that Luo Changqing is alive, no one dares to do so.

The ruling class of the new government found themselves in an extremely embarrassing situation. They dared neither take action against the old aristocracy nor take ruthless measures to put pressure on the lower classes. All this was because Luo Changqing was still alive.

As a ruler who has ruled the empire for more than half a century, his prestige is even greater than that of an entire new government.

"Many people are concerned about my grandfather's identity, so the city of Luoyang is relatively peaceful."

Luo Qingyi whispered as he added tea to Luo Changqing.

Luo Changqing leaned on the railing and looked out. This huge palace was full of flowers and plants, and was lush and green. There were not many people in the palace. This palace had been in the hands of the Luo family for four hundred years, and there were traces of time everywhere.

Luo Changqing gently stroked it, and after a long while, he whispered, "How many members of the family are still in Luoyang?"

Luo Qingyi replied: "Grandfather, since thirty years ago, the only descendants of the main and side branches of the family who stayed in Luoyang were basically those from Qianhang. The rest had long been scattered in various provinces. The scale of ancestor worship in recent years has been very small. In addition, some descendants are thousands of miles away, so many of them have not been seen for many years.

Now that the Tang Dynasty has been destroyed, only a few people remain in Luoyang to maintain the operation of the money bank. This is the only thing in the empire that has not been handed over to the new government.

However, I heard that the new government recently plans to establish a new central bank and wants to take a lot of power away from the bank. They say that state resources should not be in private hands.

Maybe in the future, the bank can only be an ordinary commercial bank."

As a family, the Luo family seemed very strange to everyone. When ordinary people mentioned this family, they all felt that it was extremely powerful and no worse than the royal family. Even the princes of the Li royal family felt so.

But in fact, in society, even in the imperial capital of Luoyang, the Luo family is almost invisible. This does not mean that ordinary people cannot see the big shots, but even those who belong to the ruling class cannot see the Luo family. After all, even the emperor has never seen a few Luo family members with holy marks. These Luo family members seem to have disappeared, but they often appear in the world. For example, if they have developed some theories and new technologies, everyone knows that these people are traveling in the world, but no one knows why they do this, why they don’t become officials, and with their status and background, it is easy for them to hold high positions.

Perhaps only Luo Changqing knows why. They have seen many cruel things, so they want to pursue the truth and hope to transform this society.

"Everything that hinders this world should be reduced to nothingness."

After hearing Luo Qingyi's words, Luo Changqing did not respond, but said this irrelevant sentence, and then another sentence that made Luo Qingyi pale, "Now I am the biggest obstacle."

Luo Qingyi's face changed and he wanted to say something, but Luo Changqing raised his hand to stop him. He looked at Luo Qingyi and said softly: "I am very clear about the current situation. If this world is a net, then everyone caught in the net will have different fluctuations due to prestige, status, and ability, and the weight on the scale will be different.

but me.

I am the most important person. Even if I don’t speak, everyone will guess what I am thinking, try my ideas, and test my bottom line, and then do what I think is right.

They dare not liquidate the old aristocracy, nor do they dare to overthrow many of the now outdated systems I established, because I am still alive.

But they don't know that I hope they will overthrow it. I have long been dissatisfied with those old nobles, but they have stayed until now only for the sake of the royal family's reputation.

I have been misunderstood, and this misunderstanding will continue.

They may abide by morals for a while and pretend to be good people, but I hope they can do those things that go against the will of heaven as soon as possible so that everyone can see their true nature.

Let all people of insight abandon their illusions.

accelerate.

accelerate.

Speeding into the final struggle. "

Luo Qingyi's face turned paler and paler. He didn't know what to say anymore. After a long while, he said, "Grandfather, maybe you can join the new government and make your ideas known to the public."

Luo Changqing said in a deep voice: "Serving in a government made up of rotten flesh and blood and bones? That's impossible. Have you forgotten the article from a few days ago?"

Luo Qingyi certainly did not forget that it was a piece of reportage titled “Contracted Laborers”, which made one really at a loss for words after reading it.

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The Tang Dynasty fell, and Changqing died. ——"The Book of Tang: The Family of the King of Luo"

(End of this chapter)