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Chapter 1501 Ten Years Later
Guanzhong started.

When the decree reached all parts of Guanzhong, the powerful families who had been prepared for a long time responded immediately.

They clamored to take the head of the traitor, and quickly assembled their troops.

At this time, we can see the gap between the big clans in Guanzhong and the local tyrants.

On weekdays, the big clans in Guanzhong practiced their troops in secret, collected and built armour, and only waited for the Patriarch's order to form a large army quickly.

"Rise up!"

The heads of the family proudly reviewed the army at home on horseback.

At this moment, they thought of Chen Guo's last years.

……

"A bunch of idiots!"

A certain patriarch of a rich family sneered at home: "Why did the Yang family and Chunyu family bow their heads? The butcher's knife was hanging above their heads. They didn't want to be exterminated, so they had to bow their heads. Those idiots thought they could enter Chang'an and repeat the same old story. That scene. Let's not move!"

In the whole pass, two completely different scenes appeared very strangely.

On the one hand, he was murderous and wanted to rebel, and on the other hand, he hid at home and said nothing.

……

"Chen Guo's decline and fall, at least half of the credit goes to them."

Pei Jian and Jiang Cunzhong are currently sitting in Chang'an, commanding various places to suppress the rebellion.

The weather is fine today, and you can see the mountains in the distance from the top of the city.

"When will we do it?" Jiang Cunzhong asked.

He is an old man in Beijiang, and one of the earliest confidantes of the emperor, so he does not obey anyone in Beijiang, except Pei Jian.

Not to mention the art of war or cultivation, the identity of Pei Jiu's son is enough to make the people of Northern Xinjiang miss him.

"What Your Majesty means is that it is best to complete all their achievements in one battle and uproot those big clans." Pei Jian saw more than ten riders galloping towards this side, and thought of the poem the emperor recited at that time.

"If he was so young, how dare he laugh at Huang Chao for not being a husband!"

"Whose poem?" Jiang Cunzhong asked.

"Your Majesty's." Pei Jian said.

"Who is Huang Chao?"

"I don't know."

More than ten riders entered the city, and then led the team to the top of the city.

"The powerful clans in Guanzhong have dispatched troops."

"Have all those powerful families taken action?" Pei Jian asked.

"Never." It was Jin Yiwei who came to report, "At least [-]% are hiding at home."

"It's a pity." Jiang Cunzhong sighed.

"Those are all smart people, otherwise they wouldn't be able to continue the family to this day. If that's the case, don't wait, let's do it!"

In April of the first year of Yongde, the emperor ordered the population of Guanzhong to be cleaned up. With a decree, [-]% of the rich and powerful families in Guanzhong raised troops, claiming to seek rebellion.

The emperor ordered Pei Jian and Jiang Cunzhong to lead the army to suppress.

……

"...A lot of in-laws have sent people here, saying that His Majesty is too ruthless, at least leave some leeway for my family..."

In Kunning Palace, Mrs. Guan is reporting the situation at home.

"The Zhou family has handed over the roster and is going to let those people be naturalized. Why can't they?"

Zhou Ning said coldly: "Go back and tell them, don't say anything about the overall situation. A Liang is my son, and this country will belong to him in the future. The aristocratic family is the opponent of the emperor. Let them think carefully, what should I do?"

"Both public and private, the empress should support this matter." Aunt Guan laughed.

Yiniang came, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty told you about the palace, and asked your Majesty if you want to go."

Later, the empress left the imperial city in plain clothes.

"Very lively!"

The emperor said with emotion.

The square walls on both sides of Suzaku Street have been left all the time, but they have been knocked down frequently recently.Especially this year, the emperor's words came out of the palace: In my opinion, the square wall is a superfluous thing.

As soon as these words came out, the people became even more unscrupulous. In broad daylight, some people dared to tear down the walls of the square and carried the mud back home, saying that they could build walls after mixing them again.

Almost all the houses on both sides of the street have been turned into shops, with pretense hanging everywhere, people coming and going, hawking, bargaining...

"It's all thanks to His Majesty."

"When did you become so unfamiliar?" The emperor squeezed the queen's hand.

"Rules!"

"I am the rule."

"Zi Tai..."

"That's right."

The two wandered along the street like ordinary couples, bargaining occasionally when they saw something they liked, and handed it over to the following guards after they bought it.

At noon, the two of them found a place to eat outside. A Liang and Li Laoer in the palace could only stare sleepily.

After the meal, the emperor said to sit down at the Zhou family and have a cup of tea.

When we arrived at Zhou's, Zhou's news came out to welcome us.

Lin Feibao could clearly feel Zhou Xin's discomfort.

After entering to serve tea, the emperor looked at the cleanliness of the room and said with a smile, "It's elegant."

The queen gave Zhou Xin a meaningful look, expressing dissatisfaction with such tactful complaints.

"The aristocratic family has been passed down for many years. If you say that every family has ambitions, I don't think so!"

It was disturbing that the emperor opened his mouth.

Zhou Xin hurriedly expressed his opinion, "Mr. Zhou just wants to live in peace."

"Since you have no ambition, what are you aiming for? Money, fame. In your eyes, money can only be obtained from the fields. This has been the case for generations, so stupid!"

"Your Majesty!" Zhou Xin stood up and cupped his hands to express his dissatisfaction.

"Why, do you think I've made a mistake?" The emperor took a sip of tea and said calmly: "Throughout the millennium, from emperors to aristocratic families, everyone has sharpened their heads and tossed about in the Central Plains, wishing they could dig three feet into the ground. But no one looked outside."

Zhou Xin looked up.

"The Central Plains is such a big place. When the population increases, there must be insufficient resources. But what about outside?"

The emperor pointed to the outside and said: "The sea is not covered. You can go to sea to find business opportunities. There are many islands overseas, and gold and silver are everywhere on those islands, and there are countless minerals. Those alien races are ignorant, and they are willing to give some benefits. You work. Why is no one taking such benefits?"

"Overseas is dangerous..." Zhou Xin cryptically retorted.

"Why is there no danger?" The emperor said: "Did the ancestors of the aristocratic family come here smoothly? How many people carried their heads and wandered in the crisis. The family business was passed on to you. What about the courage of our ancestors?"

Zhou Xin was silent.

"I just want to sit back and reap the benefits, I just want to sit at home and money will fall from the sky. Therefore, what you like most is the fields. You can earn a lot of money without using your brain or taking risks. But today I am here to say, Such good days will be gone from now on.”

The emperor said: "It's not just you waiting, those powerful and high-ranking officials, including the clan, are gone."

This is a revolution!
Innovation from the top down.

"A courageous family walks out of the Tang Dynasty with a horizontal knife on their waist, goes overseas, and looks for business opportunities outside the Tang Dynasty. Those who have no courage will wait in the Central Plains to slowly decline..."

The emperor's words were passed on by those who cared.

Guanzhong was fighting, but the emperor's words sparked fierce debate in Chang'an.

Some people say that the sea is dangerous, but some people refute it. There are also many merchants who go to sea to trade!
Some people said that those fields were passed down from ancestors, but the emperor's refutation came from the palace.

——The field belongs to the means of production, and private individuals cannot monopolize the means of production.

Got it!
Facing this god-killing emperor, those people changed their tone.

"Your Majesty, don't just say it! Do you dare to send the prince to sea?"

You don't have a back pain when you stand and talk, and if you have the ability, you can let your relatives go to sea!

Hey!
This is too exasperating.

The public opinion in Chang'an City was shocked.

Chen Hua sneered at home, "Those businessmen are resigned to fate when they go to sea. Every time they go to sea, there will always be ships and people buried in the sea. How dare he?"

The former prodigy wowed the aristocrats with a sharp counterattack.

In the evening, after a busy day, Master Li... No, it was the emperor who had been busy all day, after hearing this, he casually said, "I will go!"

Snapped!
Chen Hua felt a pain in his cheek.

The emperor let go, saying that he would go to sea!

Is this crazy?

Public opinion in Chang'an City was in an uproar.

The words of the king, the words of the emperor, must be done.

On the second day, Chen Hua sent a message: "There is no day, who will believe this?"

Yes!

The emperor said he was going to sea, but he didn't say when he would go!
When he is seventy or eighty and burps, who can pursue this?
When the emperor got the news, he said with a smile to his ministers: "I once heard an old boatman say that there are big islands overseas, and the big ones are boundless. They are not worse than the territory of the Tang Dynasty. And there are countless gold and silver mines on them. , with countless rivers... If such a large new continent is occupied by other races, it will only take one or two hundred years to become a powerful country. For the sake of future generations, I will go and see."

"Your Majesty, there is no need to do so now that the territory of the Tang Dynasty is vast."

"It looks very vast, but the population has been multiplying and multiplying. After all, there will be a day when it will not be enough. I should plan ahead..."

The ministers hurriedly persuaded him, and Han Ji even moved out the crown prince, "Your Majesty, the crown prince is young!"

The Lord is suspicious of the country!my lord!

"Of course I have to wait for the day when the prince becomes an adult and can take on this burden." The emperor obviously thought about this question a long time ago, "Ten years! I will personally teach the prince for ten years, and after ten years, I will go to sea !"

Word spread quickly.

"Ten years later?"

Ten years later, the prince will be in full bloom.

The emperor went overseas, is the prince supervising the country or something?
The sea is dangerous, and you may not hear from me this time.The prince has been in charge of the country, is it possible that he will be in prison until he dies of old age?

Therefore, the emperor must be...

"I will abdicate."

The emperor and the empress were outside the main hall, watching Ah Liang writing an article inside. The husband found the empress and just wanted to come out to salute, the emperor waved his hand, and turned to leave with the empress.

"But ten years later, you will still be in your prime!" Zhou Ning felt that the person next to his pillow became more and more unfamiliar.

"Ah Ning, the emperor is more like a responsibility and a profession to me. The Northern Liao Dynasty was destroyed, and the Southern Zhou Dynasty was destroyed. After the Guanzhong subsides, I will march into Shu and destroy the false emperor and his son. After that, is it true that the Western Xinjiang will return? Can it stop my tigers? Ten years is enough for me to reshape the Tang Dynasty. Ten years later, it is enough for me to leave A Liang with a solid foundation!"

"You are tired!"

"Yes!"

The emperor held his wife's hand, "I'm tired of endless memorials and endless intrigues. The sea is wide and can accommodate everything. King Wei first went overseas to find a foothold, and I will look for him ten years later. Aning , when the time comes you..."

The queen looked sideways at him.

"Of course I'm with you!"

(End of this chapter)