Shipin Dalizheng

Rong Tang naturally knew what happened at that time. He also felt that Xiao Poyun's behavior was inappropriate and offended the Cui family, the leader of the world's literati. His official career was doomed to be unsuccessful. However, he did not expect that the Cui family was so bold that they dared to privately detain and humiliate even the candidate who was taking the exam and the top scorer in a state.

It's ridiculous that the Southern Emperor was obsessed with holding imperial examinations to recruit scholars, but in the end he couldn't even keep the number one scholar he had chosen. This also indirectly shows that the Southern Emperor's regime has long been unstable and all real power has been hollowed out. Even the Cui family has no one actually holding office in the court, and they interfere in state affairs without limit.

"Where's your paper?"

The clerk sighed, "It was destroyed long ago. How could those people have kept his papers?"

However, Xiao Poyun fumbled slowly, took out a piece of paper from his arms, folded it neatly, and handed it to Rong Tang with both hands.

"Annanbo, from your words that day, I can tell that you are a person with compassion for all living beings. They can destroy my paper, but they can't destroy my brain. If you take this, maybe..."

He couldn't imagine what it might be like. Rong Tang sighed, "Brother Xiao, come with me. I can always give you a chance to live again."

Before leaving, he threw a large ingot of silver to the clerk as a reward for taking Xiao Poyun in. The clerk was ecstatic.

After bringing Xiao Poyun back to the Bo's Mansion, Rong Tang asked the servants to clean and change his clothes, while he himself was reading Xiao Poyun's papers in the study.

You don't know until you see it. Once you see it, Rong Tang understands exactly why the Cui family is so determined to kill him. The question is how to reform the civil service system to ensure peace and prosperity for the people. Using the Jinzhou disaster as a starting point, Xiao Poyun denounced the aristocratic families for enclosing land and buying slaves, saying the country is neither the emperor's nor the people's, but merely a sheepfold for the aristocratic families.

Their greed was insatiable, amassing the wealth of the land and land of the land for themselves, and using their monopoly on knowledge to control all the students. They had the power to appoint officials, and scholars who wanted to rise to the top flocked to them, and once they became officials, they served them. Their words were so sharp and their facts so clear that even the clans themselves could not refute them.

In the second half, he gave several measures to suppress the aristocratic families, encourage agriculture and sericulture, and for the court to build schools to cultivate talents. Many of them even exceeded Rong Tang's expectations with modern thinking, making him applaud and sigh at the same time, "How dare you think so! If I were them, I would kill you too. This is digging into their lifeblood!"

Being too radical would mean premature death, so he felt that he needed to talk to Xiao Poyun, who was one of the few people with the same ideas as him in this strange world.

Of course, he still presided over this meeting, but there were many more participants. The four guards must participate, as well as Lao Wen, Rong Dahai, Lao Tan who represented the veterans of Fu Xinzhuang, and Feng Qingqing, who had an extremely special identity.

Of course, Feng Qingqing put on Wu Ji's mask at this moment, and like Lao Wen, participated in the incident as a gangster on the surface.

Xiao Poyun was invited to the study to attend a current affairs analysis meeting. He could hardly believe that the participants included retired veterans, martial arts masters, farmers, women, and even slaves.

Rong Tang explained slowly, trying his best to make sure everyone could understand. Even if they couldn't understand everything, at least they would be mentally prepared for what he would do in the future.

As a result, the only people who could fully understand what was going on at the scene were Feng Qingqing and Xiao Poyun, especially Xiao Poyun, whose political views were almost 80% consistent with his. An Nanbo was simply his confidant.

Old Wen used to be a pure gangster who had followed Zheng Changzhi for many years. He claimed to understand officialdom and politics, but he always felt out of place for many years. He pondered for many years, until today when he heard Rong Tang and Xiao Poyun's analysis of current affairs, he realized where the problem lay.

He also came from a poor family and knew the difficulties of the poor. Zheng Changzhi was not a bad person, but once the interests of the Zheng family were damaged, he would immediately crush the enemy, even if the entire Zheng family endangered the lives of people all over the world.

It turns out that this is what is called a family dynasty, not a country dynasty, nor a people dynasty.

Rong Dahai grew up in the countryside and could barely read, but he now understood why the people had been poor for generations. Only when you remained poor could others remain rich. If you became rich and stopped working for others, wouldn't they earn less?

Only by forcing the poor into difficulties and ensuring that they are never hungry or die of hunger can the wealth of the rich be sustained for a long time.

Old Tan burst into tears. A general's success is built on the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers. When they can kill enemies on the battlefield, they are useful people. When they can no longer fight, they are immediately abandoned by the court. Who cares whether they starve to death or freeze to death?

As for the four guards, they... they have no ideas. The master's ideas are their ideas. The master says, "I am stupid, but I am obedient."

Xiao Poyun's blood boiled when he heard this. "Annanbo, what do you think we should do next?"

He was eager to try and looked forward to hearing him say the word "rebellion". He was willing to use all his life's learning to help him reach a higher position.

"you listen to me."

Rong Tang pressed him down, "What I just said is just the truth of this world. I said all this not because I want to rebel and become emperor. Because essentially, under this political system, no matter who becomes emperor, they will all be the same. In the end, they cannot escape the curse, that is, the dragon slayer will eventually become the dragon. Because once a person ascends to a high position, his thoughts will also change. In order to protect his own interests, he will actively protect this system. In the end, those who vowed to save the people will become those who oppress them. Don't gamble on human nature, you will always lose."

Xiao Poyun was completely chilled by this remark, and his heart froze for a moment. "According to you, this world is hopeless. Humans are just like animals, the law of the jungle, full of killing. No, humans are even more terrifying. Wild beasts won't kill indiscriminately when they're full, but human greed is never satisfied."

Rong Tang knew that this was hard to accept, but that was the way it was.

"Brother Xiao, any reform will inevitably lead to a backlash from vested interests. This is a long and difficult road, taking hundreds of years at the shortest and thousands of years at the longest. But please believe that humanity must progress, and it will eventually progress. What we must do is to ensure that humanity is not completely annihilated in the long course of history. Survive first, then seek development. I promise you, given enough time, I will make Da Yue change."

Xiao Poyun's eyes were red. "How much can we change? If the powerful clans are not eradicated, the people will be in hell forever."

"Brother Xiao, if we kill all the current families, others will soon appear. Brother Xiao, if you have the opportunity to reach the top, can you guarantee that your descendants will not become a new aristocratic clan?"

Xiao Poyun choked. If he ascended to a high position and became a high-ranking official, his descendants... we don't even have to wait until his descendants, but even he himself, how many years can he stay awake?

I broke out in a cold sweat in an instant. It turns out that when people look at a problem, their thinking will be different depending on their perspective.

"Killing is never the only way to solve problems. What we need to do is to insert a needle at a certain turning point in history, letting this needle pierce the bubble of the aristocratic clan's monopoly. In the short term, it may not be felt, but thousands of years later, everything will be different. Of course, I won't let your work be in vain. Using your own abilities to exchange for a good life and to ennoble your wife and children is nothing wrong. We are not those who resist the rules. We are stirring up trouble within the existing rules to protect ourselves and others."

Xiao Poyun lowered his eyes and thought for a while, "What are you going to do next?"

Rong Tang said, "I believe in Buddhism and hope that fewer people will die. If you are willing, I hope you can do something."

"what's up?"

Rong Tang spoke each word with emphasis, "Publicly persuade the various prefectures to surrender to the North Vietnamese court."