Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 207: Several Years (Part Two) [Second update, please subscribe]

After listening to Chen Zheng's words, everyone in the audience looked at me and me with confusion and hesitation on their faces.

Several people in the crowd were trembling uncontrollably, their eyes filled with fear and terror.

With the sound of "plop-", several people fell to the ground.

Chen Zheng just waved his hand, and then said softly: "Where are the others?"

"Do you really have a clear conscience?"

These four words are the rules that Chen Zheng, or Chen, has always adhered to. His eyes swept across the people standing there, and his eyes stayed on a certain person for an extra moment.

Chen Ping.

Chen Shou's grandson is of the same generation as Chen Jun, Chen Zhong, etc.

He is also the highest-ranking elder among the descendants of the Chen family in Guandu so far. He stood there with an indifferent expression, as if everything had nothing to do with him.

What Chen Ping said was very contagious, making some of the Chen family's children standing in front of the ancestral hall feel a little moved.

"I did these things."

"Uncle Ping, aren't you ready to explain? Explain the collusion between you and the Chen Communist Party, explain the sudden increase in land and the sudden increase in "silver money" that several of your family members have acquired in the past few years? "

"You have the power to do it now. If you try to gain power in the future when the king is no longer favored by you, it will be too late!"

"Is the Chen family worse than other nobles?"

Who doesn’t want to have fun?

Who doesn’t want to live a luxurious life?

Land! Release silver!

Taking out any one of them is no small matter, but Chen Ping just stood there, looking very peaceful.

"Why can other clans live a life of luxury and enjoyment, but the Chen clan can't?"

Desires are endless, but desires can make people live happier.

Wanting to live is desire, and wanting to live better after living is also desire.

Chen Ping's face was full of reluctance: "I don't understand what Chen is asking for, but I know that in life, you must not live in poverty and hardship."

"Is this wrong?"

People are selfish, and Xunzi's statement that "human nature is inherently evil" does make sense, because people are composed of "desires."

Chen Zheng stood there and let the crowd in the audience make noise. He looked at Chen Ping who looked proud and wanton, his expression unchanged.

Chen Zheng looked at Chen Ping with some regret and disappointment on his face.

Chen Ping raised his head and said with a smile: "The Chen family's status is here, Guandu is the Chen family's fiefdom, and my father is the teacher of the King of Qin. Am I not allowed to do these things?"

He sneered: "This big Chen family shouts about the so-called "clear conscience" all day long, forcing the children of the clan to do things that meet your requirements."

He even took a step forward, looked at Chen Zheng and said, "Not bad."

nobody.

He stared at Chen Zheng: "I don't want to be a sanctimonious gentleman like you, I just want to be a person who can enjoy his life!"

Who wants to keep restraint on their behavior and be an aboveboard person?

The noise in the audience also gradually eased down.

They raised their heads and looked at Chen Zheng, who stood on the high platform without saying a word, hoping to get an answer from Chen Zheng, at least an answer that could convince the crowd.

But Chen Zheng just took a step forward slowly and walked out, with a bit of coldness in his eyes: "Uncle Ping, this is the last time I call you that."

"What you just said is really ridiculous."

He shook his head and chuckled: "It is not wrong to want to live a life of enjoyment. This is one of the most fundamental desires of human beings."

"Don't we, the descendants of the Chen family, live a life of enjoyment? Don't we live a life of luxury?"

"The life Chen is living now is the best life she can live if she can afford it."

"Think about it, if you were not in the Chen family, not only that the world is unified now, but just in the past few years when the world was in chaos and the countries were fighting, would some people be able to survive?"

"You say that the other nobles are living extravagantly by taking advantage of the king's favor. But if the Chen family didn't have the king's favor, would they be able to have the fiefdom of Guandu and let you live such a life here?"

Chen Zheng's voice was calm, and he asked: "Does the king's favor come for no reason?"

"You guys think that the Chen family has inherited five generations of Qin kings, and what is it that can still gain the king's favor and trust so far?"

He walked up to Chen Ping and looked directly into Chen Ping's eyes. He did not ignore the flash of fear in Chen Ping's eyes: "Chen's ability to reach this day relies on the "questioning the heart" that you despise. "With no shame" and "A gentleman's conduct."

"If you leave these behind and think that the luxury of those nobles is the life you want, then you will soon lose the "foundation of your life." And the Chen family, who has lost the favor of the king, can still allow you to live the life you have today. What?"

Chen Zheng's voice was not loud, he just expressed his doubts in the most normal voice.

"I'm not stopping you from wanting to live a good life, but are you responsible for your own life?"

"You let your children in the family invade the fields in Qianshou under the name of the Chen family and take them as their own; you let your children go out to put money in the name of the Chen family. They did it well, but you deliberately Create trouble for them, make them pay back, and then occupy their fields and even their children and buy and sell them.”

Chen Zheng said quietly: "What you did did not violate the Chen family's family law, but the Qin family law." "It was not you who supported your so-called extravagant life before, but the entire Chen family's family law." Credibility.”

Chen Zheng couldn't see the "system panel", and he didn't know that there was a system or political credibility. However, when he returned to Guandu, he could clearly feel the changes here.

Chen's "credibility" seems to be slowly declining.

The decline is not obvious now because most people still believe that the Chen family is good, but there are just a few moths in the Chen family.

He turned his head and looked at the confused people standing there: "Don't you feel something is wrong?"

"Where has the respect from the head of Guizhou gone when I went out a few years ago?"

"If this continues, over time, what will be the difference between the Chen family and those families that are like a falling star?"

"A hundred years are like dry bones."

There was a hint of meaning in Chen Zheng's voice. He just looked at Chen Ping who was standing there and said, "I'm not saying this to find an excuse to deal with you."

His voice remained unchanged, but it seemed a bit sarcastic and sneer: "I just want to let many Chen family members know that what you support your family is the credibility of the entire Chen family! It is the blood and bones of the entire Chen family that has been in business for hundreds of years. !”

Chen Zheng could naturally take Chen Ping to the ancestral hall and kill him, or even twist him to the Yamen.

But that would make the disciples within the Chen family feel that he was too ruthless. After all, Chen Ping was considered his elder and the third generation of the Chen family.

He needed to make the Chen family's children hate "Chen Ping", and the best way was to let them know.

Chen Ping's "happiness" is based on their pain.

This is the most effective way to awaken evil in people's hearts, which is to tell them that their own interests have been "harmed."

Chen Zheng looked at the silent crowd around him and waved his hand slightly: "Send Chen Ping to the Yamen."

He whispered: "In addition, within ten days, no one is allowed to enter or leave Guandu, and no one is allowed to leave without authorization. No one is allowed."

A series of things must not be said from Chen Zheng's mouth.

Now that he is back, he has no intention of lifting it up high and putting it down gently. He wants to clean "Chen's family" thoroughly. Those who should be treated according to family law will be treated according to family law, and those who should be sent to the Yamen will be dealt with according to Qin law. Legal treatment.

No one can be "exceptional."

This is the purpose of Chen Zheng's return.

Zhangtai Palace

Dunruo reported in a low voice what Chen Zheng had done in Guandu, not missing anything, including the fact that Chen Zheng had been checking all the Chen disciples in Guandu in the past few days, sifting through them one by one like sifting through sand.

Even if there were some "minor" mistakes that Dunruo himself seemed to have made, Chen Zheng did not forget them.

These days, people are kneeling outside Chen’s ancestral hall.

Outside Chen's house, screams came one after another.

In Chen's house, money also flowed out like water, flowing in their original direction.

Mrs. Chen admitted the crimes committed by the Chen Ping family without any objection, and then tried her best to help these people rebuild their lives.

Pieces of rotten flesh were cut out of Chen's body and then abandoned in the wilderness. The remaining "body" came to life again, growing wildly on this piece of Central Plains land.

This is "Chen's" self-rescue.

Ballads related to Chen's family are spread all over the world.

In the second year of the First Emperor's reign, after Chen Zheng finished handling the affairs at home, he sat on the chariot and headed towards Xianyang City.

He actually did not expect that the Chen family would have deteriorated to this point in just a hundred years.

Almost 40% of the Chen family's children have problems. Of course, there are not many big problems, there are just small problems one by one, but this is enough to indicate the Chen family's problems.

Chen Zheng sighed quietly, maybe a huge family would have such problems when it develops.

While the big tree grows silently and provides shade, there must also be some "borers" inside it.

It was also in this year that the First Emperor Ying Zheng once again established a parallel system for the world, the county system, despite everyone's obstruction.

This time, there was almost no one in the court to stop him.

Because those who blocked Ying Zheng were either exiled by Ying Zheng and could no longer join the core court of Qin, or they were persuaded by Ying Zheng and began to support Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng didn't care about this.

Because he knows that Qingshi Zhaozhao will remember everyone's "contributions" and actions. He believes that even if no one can understand his choice now, many people will recognize him and praise him in the future history.

This is Ying Zheng's self-confidence.

He believed so.

In the third year of the First Emperor's reign, the world gradually calmed down after its unification.

After the leaders of Guizhou adapted to the life of Qin, Ying Zheng began to implement his plan.

(End of this chapter)