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Chapter 1026: A Bold Attack (Part )
Just by looking at the faces of these people and the scale of their appearance, Fang Xuanling knew that this was because the noble families did not want to completely break off relations with the new emperor and only wanted to squeeze the new emperor's influence. Otherwise, there would definitely be more people standing up now than just these few.

Fang Xuanling knew how terrifying the true power of the aristocratic families was, and Li Shimin, who was lying deep in the Daming Palace, also knew it.

But the new emperor may not know it?
Important officials such as Fang Xuanling and Zhangsun Wuji all looked worried. They could play a minimal role in the struggle between the imperial power and the aristocratic families. The new emperor had only ascended the throne for two days, and he did not have the power of calling people like Li Shimin.

He was able to unite the civil and military officials in the court and compete with the aristocratic families.

Cui Hongzhi lowered his head and stood respectfully, acting as a subject, seemingly giving the new emperor enough face. But in fact, the act of forcing the emperor to abdicate undoubtedly appeared particularly ostentatious and domineering under such a submissive appearance.

To be honest, this was also a very bad start for Li Yan.

Last time, Hou Junji showed off his power, which opened the eyes of the officials of the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago. They were surprised to find that this kind of pretense under the low profile was really very stylish, and it blinded everyone as soon as it appeared.

That incident not only deeply shocked Li Shimin, but also many children from aristocratic families were amazed.

Cui Hongzhi is one of them.

Cui Hongzhi proposed to adopt this method when the nobles attacked the new emperor after Li Shimin's death.

In the past, when submitting memorials, one minister would make the first proposal, and other ministers would gradually join in. Each of the seconding ministers would quote classics and make a lot of arguments. In this process, they would also deal with the ministers from the hostile faction one by one.

Instead of putting all the cards out at the beginning, they are played one by one according to the situation, with verbal sparring and fighting with each other, similar to a duel of generals.

But ever since the last incident with Hou Junji, Cui Hongzhi keenly discovered that the previous method was really weak!
It's not fun at all to be sticky and messy, and in the end it all ends up being a mess, so it's easy for the emperor to put your opinion aside.

Now, when one person charges forward, the others will come out to support him, one group after another will come out to take their positions, like a surging river, one wave after another, without stopping. And there is no need to talk about any great principles, just a simple sentence "Please allow the emperor."

Then, they put on an attitude of not retreating even if they would rather die, without dragging their feet, and acted decisively. The force, the momentum, and the determination they wanted to express to be unstoppable and invincible were simply shocking, and could be called a dimensionality reduction attack.

Before the enemy can react, the enemy is overwhelmed.

He didn't even have the courage to stand up and argue with his own side, and invisibly achieved his goal of defeating the enemy without fighting.

Now, seeing that everyone in the hall was shocked but no one came out to refute, Cui Hongzhi felt secretly proud.

Last night, as soon as Li Shimin was sure that he would not wake up, the nobles met and discussed overnight, and decided to take action at the court meeting today to give the new emperor a warning and to save his reputation in front of the civil and military officials.

Because of the short time, there was no time to contact more people, but these people were enough. If there really was another scene of the ministers forcing the emperor, it would be difficult to deal with in the end. After all, the nobles did not really want to turn against the new emperor.

If that were the case, Li Chengqian would never have been able to ascend the throne smoothly.

Li Yan didn't know that the noble family did this specifically for him. Because the other adult princes knew the strength of the noble family, but Li Chengqian had been away from the Tang Dynasty for many years, so he might not be clear about it.

Therefore, the nobles only used this opportunity to demonstrate their strength and let the new emperor know who is the real master of this world.

Originally, everyone planned to let Zhangsun Wuji take the lead, and the nobles would follow suit according to the situation.

But halfway through the performance, for unknown reasons, Changsun Wuji backed off, and the effect was not very good, and he failed to suppress the emperor. In this case, the nobles had to fight on their own, and they also prepared more powerful backup tricks.

As expected, the noble family shocked the court with one move, and everyone looked at Li Yan sitting on the dragon throne.

Li Yan watched this scene quietly, his eyes calm as water, his heart was unperturbed, even his hands on the armrest did not tremble at all.

In the eyes of others, Li Yan must have been pretending to be calm, but in fact he must have been extremely angry.

First of all, when Li Shimin was in power, the decision was unanimously passed by all the officials. Now that Li Shimin has just "left the stage", you want to overturn it. When Li Shimin was in power, why didn't you even say a word? Isn't this clearly bullying?

Furthermore, even if one had objections to a resolution, one could submit it privately rather than catching the emperor off guard at the court meeting.

Finally, even if you want to depose him, you can follow the normal procedures.

The emperor didn't even express his attitude, let alone say he didn't allow it. When your proposal came out, he didn't allow the emperor to ask a single question or inquire about the opinions of other ministers.

Immediately, a large group of people were brought out to create a momentum to force the emperor to abdicate. This was simply too much. Even Fang Xuanling, Xiao Yu and Cen Wenben did not even have a chance to stand up and give the emperor a way out.

It's really too much to use your hands to decide the outcome right from the start!

Li Yan sneered secretly. It must be because he had been too stable and smooth before, so they could not find an excuse to pressure him. These people were afraid that if they proposed this motion, they would ask other ministers and finally argue about their own interests.

In the end, even if he agrees to depose, it may take some time and will not affect his imperial majesty.

This is clearly an attempt to use power to pressure others and to humiliate oneself.

Li Yan looked at these people expressionlessly one by one. The descendants of the aristocratic families who held real power in the six ministries, including the Cui family of Boling, the Li family of Zhaojun, the Lu family of Fanyang, the Zheng family of Xingyang, the Wang family of Taiyuan, and the Pei family of Wenxi, all took action.

It seems that they are determined to let me know who is in charge of the world.
If it were before, Li Yan might have fought for it, but now he has made up his mind to imitate the past deeds of Emperor Yang of Sui and use force to solve these stubborn problems. Naturally, he will not fight with them in the court for the gains and losses of a city or a piece of land.

Seeing that Fang Xuanling, Zhangsun Wuji, Xiao Yu, Cen Wenben and others below did not come forward to refute, Li Yan knew that the aristocratic family had the best of time, place and people, and they were very experienced in seizing the opportunity and finding the entry point.

Half of the officials in the court now belong to the aristocracy, and the other half either cling to the aristocracy or want to become a new aristocracy. Naturally, they are not very interested in the new version of the "Enfeoffment Order". The aristocracy has found the interests of everyone just like he did last time.

Li Yan easily found that he could not refuse this memorial at all.

If he were to fight the noble families on a battlefield that was disadvantageous to him but advantageous to all his subjects, he would surely die miserably in the end. In Cen Wenben's words, he had to take a step back to avoid disaster.

After figuring out the importance of the situation, Li Yan slowly stood up.

Looking at the ministers who made the memorial, they were not angry at all, but rather looked casual: "Master Cui, please stand up. In fact, as soon as you said it just now, I had already agreed to your memorial. It's just that before I had time to speak, the ministers behind me stood up."

"This is my first time as an emperor. I didn't expect that you, who have been court officials for a long time, would be so anxious to report to me. Haha."

As soon as these words came out, many of the ministers felt relieved, and the tense atmosphere that had just been brewing in the Taiji Hall also dissipated. Everyone laughed along with Li Yan, and turned to look at Cui Hongzhi, whose face was red and embarrassed.

Fang Xuanling and Cen Wenben both secretly praised that those who understand practical matters are heroes.

The emperor was indeed wise, knowing that he would be at a disadvantage if he got entangled with the nobles on this issue. He decisively avoided the sharp edge and maintained the dignity of the emperor. Although he was helpless, it was the best way to deal with the current situation.

Although the emperor was young, he acted very maturely, not impatient or irritable, and not out of loyalty. It was just a law in name only, so it was abolished. After all, the emperor was still young, and there was plenty of time to make up for it in the future.

"Sir Cui, actually, when the Imperial Censor Wei Qing brought up this matter privately before, I expressed my different opinion. It seems that he hasn't told you yet?"

Li Yan immediately stood in front of the dragon throne and said solemnly: "If that's the case, then let's not discuss this matter. I will decide here to abolish the law on the equal distribution of property among common people's families. How to distribute the property of each family is decided by each family, and the court will not interfere."

"My emperor is wise!"

All of the officials knelt down and shouted, "Long live the emperor!"

Only Cui Hongzhi and the six ministers from aristocratic families looked unhappy and felt as if they had eaten shit. This decree was originally in name only, and after Li Shimin left the stage, no family would take it seriously.

The court does not have enough power to implement the policies, so any decrees are meaningless.

Or some policies may be well-conceived, but during implementation, they are found not to work as intended, or even have negative effects, so they are abandoned.

But even if it is no longer implemented in the future, it will be shelved or ignored, and will not be publicly abolished.

To specifically depose him, wouldn't that be a slap in the face of the officials who had proposed and passed the decree in the first place? If the people knew that the court's laws and decrees were changed every day, not only would the emperor lose face, but the entire court would also suffer a great loss of image.

There are many such decrees, but most of them are left unresolved.

This time, the nobles did the opposite in order to undermine the prestige of the new emperor. However, Li Yan did not care about Li Shimin's face at all and gave up just like that. Not only did it not affect his image, but he also won the hearts of the people.

Cui Hongzhi and others seemed to have thrown a punch with all their strength, but hit cotton. They even sprained their waists and felt extremely depressed.

(End of this chapter)