Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 539 Huang Zongxi ([-])
"Is Nanduhou crazy? How can a group of outsiders become one of us?"

"Yan Kingdom is the Yan Kingdom of our royal family, not those cats and dogs!"

"With such bugs, how can you govern the country?"

"The enemy is on Penglai Island, we must not let the chaos of Wang Ting repeat itself!"

When many nobles were informed of the terms of cooperation between Yan Ji and the guilds, it could be said that one stone caused a thousand waves.

Because of the lessons learned from the Wang Ting Rebellion, any behavior that directly damages the power of the nobles for no reason will be highly vigilant by all the nobles.

The nobles stopped marching. Most of them were waiting and watching, while some were preparing to separate and stand on their own. Only a very few were willing to obey Yan Ji's command.

Hou Jing occupies the capital of the Yan Kingdom, and is still proclaiming himself emperor in Yandu. However, the nobles of the Yan Kingdom are obsessed with internal fighting, the guilds are still taking advantage of the fire, and various civil uprisings are still happening one after another.

No matter how you look at it, the Yan Kingdom looks like it is about to perish.

……

another month later

Penglai Island

"Several city lords have already opposed such a cooperation plan, and said that if they cooperate according to this plan, they will... um..."

"Hey!"

As soon as the entourage finished speaking, Yan Ji sucked up a piece of Wushisan, and inhaled the powder of Wushisan into his nasal cavity, his originally pale face turned rosy after a while.

His cousin Yan Lian likes Buddhist scriptures, while he likes Wushisan.

After years of research and development, Yan Guo's Wushi powder has more and different types, and has reduced toxicity and addiction.

After wiping his nose with a handkerchief, he picked up a teacup on the table next to him, took a sip of hot tea, and said to his entourage, "Bring the pen and ink."

"Yes." The servant quickly fetched the pen and ink, carefully unfolded the white paper, and rubbed the ink for Yan Ji.

Yan Ji wrote a letter to appease the nobles, telling the nobles that what he did was for all the nobles, not for those treacherous businessmen and ignorant people.

In the country of Yan, it is politically correct to love the nobles, but to love the people will be criticized by thousands of people.

"Someone misunderstood me, thinking that I want to protect the interests of those treacherous businessmen and ignorant leaders. I don't know who spread this rumor. I want to clarify to everyone. From the beginning to the end, I am for the royal family and for the family. brothers and sisters."

"God will witness that the compromise with the guild and the civilians is just to win their power and use their power to help us take back the capital, that's all."

After finishing writing, Yan Ji ordered several scholars to make multiple copies of the letter, and ordered his followers to deliver it to the city lords by boat.

At night, Yan Ji gave another speech in the howling cold wind: "Whether we are nobles, businessmen, or common people, at this moment, we are all Yan people. Now, our country is being ravaged by butchers, and our compatriots are being killed."

"The killing is spreading here, the rebels will trample on all order, our wives and daughters will be taken away, wealth..."

This speech lasted for an hour, and Yan Ji's woolen sweater was about to freeze. When he returned to the bedroom, he was thinking about a new cooperation plan.

The aristocrats of the Yan Kingdom tended to dress plainly, so Yan Ji only wore warm warm clothes with monotonous colors. On the contrary, a maid who served him next to him wore a light blue palace dress.

The guilds are not allowed to enter the parliament, and the guilds are unwilling to cooperate. The guilds are allowed to enter the parliament, and the nobles are unwilling to cooperate.

This matter is difficult.

For the next few days, Yan Ji kept arguing with the representatives of various guilds, especially with Huang Zongxi, but he couldn't get past the other party.

Government office
hall
"Are you going to watch your country be ravaged by a butcher?" Yan Ji's entourage yelled loudly, standing on the moral high ground and speaking righteously: "Don't you have any conscience at all? On the day when the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, we They are all subjugated slaves!"

"Sir, that's your country." Huang Zongxi retorted, "Of course we don't want to see our country being ravaged, but where is our own country?"

"The sheep that are kept in captivity don't dare to say that this is their pasture."

After Huang Zongxi finished speaking, the other representatives present gave him appreciative glances, and even Yan Ji frowned at the young man.

"Loyalty to the monarch is the responsibility of every subject, but you, pardon me, are just a beast without a king or a father." A Confucian scholar beside Yan Ji scolded Huang Zongxi.

"I'd rather be a beast that runs freely on the grassland without a king or father than be raised in captivity by a shepherd." Huang Zongxi replied.

Cough!

Yan Ji interrupted the quarrel and said: "Everyone, according to reliable news, Hou Jing's rebels have colluded with Goguryeo in the north and captured several cities. Every time they capture a city, they will burn, kill and loot. , There are countless people who have been slaughtered, I believe that no one wants to face such a tragedy.”

"But what are we doing now? The enemy's army is suppressing the land and attacking the city wantonly, but we are still quarreling here, and we even have to fight each other."

"Don't you all know the painful lessons of the civil strife in the past dynasties of the Central Plains?"

"Infighting, the country is about to perish!"

As soon as Yan Ji finished speaking, everyone present was only slightly worried, fearing that Hou Jing would kill him, but they were still unwilling to accept such cooperation.

"The imperial court wants us to help suppress the rebels, but they are unwilling to share their power. How can there be such a reason in this world?"

"As for the country's imminent collapse, isn't this just your own masterpiece, great men?"

"You made the country into the predicament it is today, but in the end you made us take responsibility."

"A scholar went to a brothel for a night of spring dinner, but in the end he refused to pay. He also said some saintly principles, accusing prostitutes of being too greedy for money, heartless, and ungrateful for profit. Isn't this too much?"

After Huang Zongxi finished speaking, many guild representatives present applauded.

After wrangling each other for a long time, Yan Ji simply ended the meeting, and everyone broke up again.

The only thing the two sides agreed upon in this meeting was that there was no consensus.

"Businessmen are a group of people who have no propriety, justice, integrity, don't care about the survival of the country, and only serve their own interests without a king or a father. They should follow the example of the Central Plains and suppress them severely!"

An old Confucian scholar beside Yan Ji said viciously.

"Alas..." Yan Ji sighed, returned to his study, and continued to read the latest frontline information.

Several nobles who volunteered to fight in Liaodong were defeated by Hou Jing when they attacked Hou Jing. One noble was captured, two nobles died in battle, and two nobles fled back to the peninsula.

Just as he went to the backyard to meditate, a passing maid accidentally fell to the ground and threw an iron pot on the ground, and the food in the iron pot fell to the ground.

"Master, please forgive me."

The maid stood up in a panic, pleading guilty to Yan Ji carefully, for fear that she would be punished for disturbing Nanduhou.

"Yeah." Yan Ji didn't care, and waved his hand to let the maid continue with her own business.

However, when the maid saluted and was about to leave, he saw the iron pot in the maid's hand.

I saw that the iron pot was separated by an iron plate in the middle, and there were still some meat dishes on one side, and some vegetarian dishes on the other side.

This is the mandarin duck pot of the court of the Yan Kingdom. One iron pot can hold two kinds of dishes, which is very convenient. It is a thoughtful little invention of [Shen Jiangsuo].

Seeing this pot, Yan Ji suddenly thought of a solution.

Since the same pot can hold different dishes, the two dishes do not affect each other.

Then, can the same parliament have two completely different institutions, and the two institutions will not affect each other?

In this way, both nobles and guilds can be satisfied.

(End of this chapter)