Can you live forever

Chapter 410 Contradictions of interests

The most painful problem in the world is not how good your opponent is, but how stupid your teammates are.

To truly practice the idea that the world is for the public, we all need to face the problem of selfishness, not to mention that they are just using the banner to sell dog meat there?
Meat eaters are contemptuous and fail to seek far.

Blinded by immediate benefits, few people can control themselves even if they know the cost and risks.

Xu Jie has already begun to suffer the backlash brought about by selfishness.

Fortunately, he knew this from the very beginning, so he first developed his lineage, cultivated his own power, and then asked Nanjing to invite him to become the master. With Donglin Academy and Donglin Lecture Hall, Xu Jie was not afraid of the representatives of those congressmen. The gentry is out of control.

But problems arise when interests collide.

Fighting against the imperial court with these problems is like a fight between two masters, one of them has a hidden wound on his body, and when the hidden wound breaks out, he will lose.

and so.

Xu Jie has already intentionally prepared to start the second phase of the plan. Capital intensiveness can not only transfer the price downwards, but also upwards. This is what Qin Shihuang did.

Xu Jie himself doesn't care about public or private matters.

But to defeat Zhang Zhixiang's longevity revolution, one must be more "fair" than them.

To truly realize a fair democracy...

……

Xu Dong was hit by a vase, although he was injured, but it was not serious, Xu Jie made a sudden move, more just to express his position, otherwise, if he really wanted Xu Dong to die, there was no need to use any vase.

After this negotiation, Xu Dong came to Nanjing.

I had a meeting with Zhan Ruoshui and the others, mainly with the gentry since the Song and Ming Dynasties, the real shareholders of the Nanjing Parliament, and asked how to solve the problem.

If it was the former Xu family, there was no need to listen to their opinions.

But times are different after all.

Although Xu Dong relied on Xu Jie to keep him safe, he also understood that Xu Jie was different from them during more than half a year of getting along. Xu Dong was really "doing things for the people".

They don't know that what Xu Jie really wants is the development of productivity and industry.

Therefore, for them, what is shown is like a saint without desires, and such a person is often terrifying. When he does not have enough strength, he will be as humble as Wang Mang, but once he no longer needs to rely on businessmen, With the power of the gentry, there is no guarantee that Xu Jie will not be like the first emperor.

and so……

"It seems that Xu Zisheng is going to despise us for being short-sighted."

"Heh, we followed Xu Zisheng's strategy. To equalize the land, we cooperated with him, made his reputation, and helped him complete the equal land. He said he was cashing out his assets and investing them in industry."

"There's nothing wrong with that."

"But the key point is that the Ming Dynasty issued precious banknotes, and the currency hegemony directly cut off most of our wealth, and the only thing we can do is to use hibiscus to slow down the process of cutting the flesh."

"But the ending is not much better. I escaped the first wave, and there are the second and third."

"Left and right are just a question of the imperial court's decree."

"As long as Jiangnan is not independent, it will not have enough size to compete with Daming, and it will not be able to issue corresponding currency to counter the financial means on the banknotes."

"I can only watch helplessly as the court uses financial means to seize our wealth."

"We kept making demands, but Xu Jie repeatedly shied away, asking us to be patient and to look to the long-term."

"Okay, bear with it, and look at the long run."

"But after the victory of this war, with Xu Jie like this, can we benefit? It's just that the dragon slayer will eventually become a dragon, and Xu Jie will still follow the old path of Zhang Zhixiang and Jiajing. Turn around and immediately You have to deal with us!"

This meeting is related to the future rise and fall of each family.

Shareholders no longer hide and hide, one by one struggling to get in, wanting to gain dominance.

The one who spoke at this time was the son of the Ye family in Nanhai. The ancestor of the Ye family was Ye Zhengjian. Ye Zhengjian was a Jinshi in the Southern Song Dynasty. , one school of eight Jinshi, compared with Su Dongpo's one school of three Jinshi, it is even more powerful.

Now it is Ye Xiongshi who represents the Ye family.

Ye Xiongshi always believed that Xu Jie was not on the same side as them, and now cooperating with Xu Jie is also seeking skin from a tiger, although he has to rely on Xu Jie to continue fighting with the court.

But why is Xu Jie's problem smaller than that of the imperial court?
Ye Xiongnian is not the only one who has the same opinion. Since the Song Dynasty, besides the Ye family, there are also the Fan family, Qin family and other noble families.

The head of the Qin family in Jiangning, Qin Huai should be the head of the noble family.

He stroked his beard and said, "Nephew Ye Xian is right, Xu Jie is very similar to Wang Mang."

"He has only the world in his heart, and he has already fallen into it. He wants to show what he wants in his heart and transform the country into what he imagined."

"So it is doomed to betray all relatives."

"In the past, when Wang Mang ascended the throne, the world elected him. After he ascended the throne, he insisted on going his own way. What is different about Xu Jie now?"

They compared Xu Jie to Wang Mang, and obviously regarded themselves as a powerful family between the Han and Tang Dynasties. Zhan Ruoshui had no objection to this. Killing Xu Jie, he will be the speaker, which is good for him.

But the question is how they can deal with the imperial court after killing Xu Jie.

Several people were also thinking deeply about Zhan Ruoshui's reminder.

Before that, they were ready to move, but after all, they didn't have a clear consensus, so they didn't prepare a plan in advance. Regarding this, Ye Xiongshi suggested: "We don't want to kill Xu Jie immediately, but we just need to give him a little warning."

"Xu Jie can use external pressure to coerce us, and we can also make Xu Jie have to compromise with us because of external pressure."

"Jiangnan is independent and seizes currency hegemony."

"This is the real way to fight against the imperial court. Otherwise, in the face of the currency hegemony of Baochao, no matter how much blood we have, we can only be drained, and it is impossible to win the war."

What Ye Xiongshi said made sense, even Zhan Ruoshui thought he had to deal with Baochao's hegemony.

Instead of not caring like Xu Jie, he didn't care about the court sucking blood from the south, he only cared about the unified big market, and only cared about more labor surplus feeding the industry...

And he doesn't care whether this feeding is a southern industry or a northern industry.

Xu Jie did not safeguard their interests, which was the root of their conflict with Xu Jie.

Yes, can't go on anymore...

Zhan Ruoshui took a deep breath and said, "Yes, Xu Jie must be forced to agree to Jiangnan's independence, otherwise we will part ways and act on our own. Jiangnan is gone, Xu Jie who lost the stage is the one who has lost the most."

"He must promise us."

"In other words, even if it is not independent, Jiangnan must have its own currency! This is the bottom line!"

"How to negotiate with the imperial court is something Xu Jie has to consider."

(End of this chapter)