Datang: I am the prince of salted fish, I impeach Li Er at the beginning

Chapter 100 I'm Not, Don't Accuse Me Wrongly
"There's one more thing I don't quite understand."

Li Shimin thought for a while, then said suddenly.

Hearing this, Li Zhi raised his eyes and looked over, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, you can ask any questions, I will tell you everything, and you can talk endlessly."

"Why did you ignore Jinyang, Quancheng, Langya, Youzhou and other places when you said you were going to turn your face?"

Li Shimin looked at him, frowned, and said in doubt: "Is there any other deep meaning in doing this?"

"If you want to talk about deep meaning, that's not enough." Li Zhi smiled indifferently, and replied lightly: "Facing the aristocratic family, we still have to give them some face. You can't push people too much."

"Waiting masters must be queried?"

Li Shimin was thoughtful, he felt that he understood Li Zhi's meaning, but he didn't understand deeply enough.

"There must be something about that." Li Zhi didn't deny it, he thought for a while, and then said: "To save some face for people, on the one hand, it is to avoid greater turmoil, so that they don't jump the wall in a hurry, but more importantly... ...Do it for the people at the moment. Tell the ministers of the court that even if the court wants to deal with a certain interest group, it will not kill them all, and this attitude must be shown."

Everyone will have a time when the rabbit dies and the fox is sad.

As far as the royal family is concerned, killing the gentry class is absolutely harmful but not beneficial.

But for the courtiers, this may not be the case.

Their attitude towards the gentry is actually quite complicated.

On the one hand, these newly rich people who have finally come to the fore hope that they can join the gentry class and enjoy superior treatment.

On the other hand, they also hated the superior attitude of those gentry, and hated the condescending gaze of the gentry.

Therefore, for the courtiers, killing the gentry is a very relieved thing.

At the same time, it is also a bad event that will make them feel jealous.

Because there are many similarities between the gentry and the court ministers.

The only difference is that there is one less background and inheritance that can be repeated back to ancient times.

Considering the issue from the standpoint of court ministers, the royal family can target the gentry class today, so will they suppress their important ministers tomorrow?

In fact, it is very likely to happen, and this is a question worth pondering.

The reason Li Zhi said was to leave enough face for the gentry and leave them a way out.

Its real intention is to tell these courtiers.

Even if the royal family intends to confront them and fight them, they will not directly kill them.

Even if the country needs their sacrifices, the royal family will leave them with enough dignity to let them retreat unscathed.

This is just like Hou Junji who has obviously committed the crime of deceiving the emperor, but in the end he was still protected by Li Shimin.

It's not that Li Shimin really wanted to be kind to the emperor and his subjects and wanted to save the old man's life, but he had a reason to do so.

He could ignore Hou Junji's feelings, but he had to take care of the feelings of those ministers standing in the hall.

The struggle in the court will always affect the whole body.

No matter what you do, you must consider the consequences and try to evaluate the impact afterwards as much as possible.

If the emperor made a decision with a slap in the head, the world would have been in chaos long ago.

Li Shimin was originally a master at checking and balancing the forces of all parties. Hearing what Li Zhi said, he already fully understood what Li Zhi wanted to express.

He frowned, and asked tentatively: "So, we can't kill them yet, we have to keep them alive."

"Yes..." Li Zhi said naturally: "Otherwise, what can we do? If the aristocratic family is dying and insists on dragging down all the founding ministers of the dynasty, Father, how many people do you think can stand in the position of the royal family with authenticity?" superior?"

"This matter really can't be too extreme. We are all decent people, so we have to save some face for each other no matter what."

"Not only that, even if we win this battle, our imperial court will have to continue to reuse these gentry."

"Although their power will only decrease day by day, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse."

"When it comes to high-end talents, we have to rely on those who come from aristocratic families. It would be too laborious to cultivate them ourselves."

From the existing aristocratic families in the world, if you pick any one at random, they are all big families that have been passed down for more than 500 years.

The crystallization of wisdom accumulated in 500 years is not comparable to the bottomless people without foundation.

The purpose of the court's dealing with the aristocratic family was nothing more than to get rid of the gentry's restraint on the imperial power, and it didn't really want to kill them.

As long as we win this battle and force the gentry to bow their heads and solve the problem of class solidification, that's enough.

"So, talents still have to be used!"

Li Shimin cleared his mind and had a clearer understanding of the final effect of the plan.

"Yes! Not only must it be used, but it must be reused!"

Li Zhi agreed, but then he added: "But we have to wait until the aristocratic family bows their heads and is willing to break the knowledge blockade. Otherwise, when it is time to suppress, it must be suppressed."

"Oh...I see."

When you have a complete context, it's not so troublesome to think about it.

But what puzzles Li Shimin is how did things become like this?

"Didn't we discuss the difficulty of implementing the land equalization system at the beginning? How to deal with the aristocratic family?"

Li Shimin looked at Li Zhi with some confusion, and said hesitantly: "Hiss...Xiao Jiu! Are you planning something in secret? I always feel that my thinking has been induced by you, but I can't find any definite evidence. Now I suddenly realized that this matter is not that simple."

Li Shimin can say with certainty that this is by no means his illusion.

Here, there is definitely a case of language guidance.

Otherwise, he wouldn't consider suppressing the family right now.

Li Shimin really hated those gentry classes, but he didn't go to the point where he had to fight against them.

In other words, all of this is the result of Li Zhi's guidance.

Hearing what he said, Li Zhi immediately became unhappy.

"Isn't it? Father!"

"From the beginning to the end, it was you who asked my son to give advice, but my son never took the initiative to mention this matter to you!"

"It was like this before, and it's the same this time. My son is about to leave and leave. It was you who suddenly told me that there was a problem in the execution."

"Since you asked a question, the minister can only answer."

"As for why the government changed from managing the government to planning for the gentry class, this can only show that the gentry is an obstacle to the court, but it cannot explain anything else."

Li Zhi put on an attitude that this matter had nothing to do with him, and his tone of voice was as innocent as possible.

Li Shimin observed his face for a while, and asked doubtfully, "Is that so?"

(End of this chapter)