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Chapter 275 I'm going to overturn the sky (9) [Two in one]

July 16, the 13th year of Huaian.

After six days of travel, the brothers Wang Dongjing and Wang Dongyang finally arrived at the area ruled by Bai Sheng.

The so-called anonymity of the aristocratic families does not really mean changing their names, or hiding their names completely. They just don't tell others which family they come from and try to keep a low profile.

Besides, Bai Sheng is a traitor now after all.

It's not easy for them to take sides openly.

The brothers Wang Dongjing and Wang Dongyang were the two members of the Wang family who recognized Bai Sheng's destiny and were willing to give it a try. When they entered the country, they were full of confidence and even a little proud.

I feel like they've all condescended to come here.

It is really unacceptable not to give preferential treatment.

After all, the dozens of counties that Bai Sheng conquered were all poor counties, belonging to the remote areas of the Han Empire.

Their coming here is definitely to help the poor in the countryside.

However, after they actually entered the country, they were completely confused. They had a feeling that they had no idea what year or month it was, and even a feeling that they had mistakenly entered a foreign land.

"Brother, are we going the wrong way?"

Looking at the straight and wide cement road, the various carriages galloping on the cement road, the towering chimneys not far away, and the densely packed strange buildings that were much taller than the tallest restaurant in the county government, Wang Dongyang couldn't help swallowing and began to doubt his life.

Doubt your own eyes and doubt your own feelings.

Was he dreaming or had he accidentally entered a foreign land?

"I...I don't know either!
The road should be fine, and the map should be fine. Could it be that we have accidentally entered the paradise described by Tao Yuanming? But that shouldn't be the case. The legendary paradise doesn't look like this at all, and there are no peach trees.

I…should we keep going?"

Wang Dongjing didn't expect his brother to answer. He was purely asking his own heart, a heart that was already shaky and afraid of the unknown.

People naturally fear the unknown. Why do many people feel safe at home? In addition to factors such as family affection, the most important point is that everyone is very familiar with their home, especially the home where they have lived for many years. The more familiar it is, the more secure they feel.

I accidentally changed to a strange place.

You won’t feel so at ease.

But if the strange place contains some familiar buildings and objects, then this feeling of uneasiness will not be so strong. But if everything is strange, everything is strange and has never been seen or heard of.

Then peace of mind will turn into uneasiness.

Even turned into fear.

Everything the brothers saw at this moment was unfamiliar, unfamiliar roads, unfamiliar houses, unfamiliar buildings. Only the carriage gave them a sense of familiarity.

It would be strange if you could remain calm and composed.

The two brothers stood by the road and discussed for a long time. In the end, they felt that it would be too cowardly to go back like this. They would be laughed at by the whole family. In addition, they also wanted to know whether they had entered a foreign secret place like a paradise.

Or did that Lu do something here?
If all these were done by Lu, wouldn't it further prove that she was the one chosen by heaven? After all, if she wasn't the one chosen by heaven, how could she have the ability to change the world so much?

With this in mind, the two brothers quickly suppressed their fear and continued to move forward. Of course, they saw more and more strange things, strange people, and even strange rules. Fortunately, Bai Sheng did not implement measures such as martial law, so they were still free to move around and it was convenient to find out information.

After settling down in the county town and spending half a month separately to gather information, the two brothers finally gathered together at the hotel they had agreed on earlier.

The two of them looked at each other in silence.

After a long time, Wang Dongyang couldn't help but speak first:
"Brother, I feel the situation is not good. Everything here is too unfamiliar to us. There are many things we can't understand, and there are all kinds of terrifying machines.

The most terrifying thing is that the Lu family is actually popularizing education.

Along the way, I saw that there were literacy classes in every village, night schools in every town, and compulsory education colleges at the junction of every few villages.

These places are all teaching places.

And it's free.

Even books and paper and pens are provided free of charge.

It's really terrible. I don't know where she found so many teachers, so much paper, pens and books, and how she got the money to support her to do these things.

There are so many strange places..."

"Although there are many strange things, there is one thing I am sure of, that is, the Lu family has great malice towards us aristocratic families, and may not even have thought of using us to help her govern the country. As for other measures, I don't understand what her ultimate purpose is yet.

But the purpose of promoting education was definitely not just to teach those untouchables a few words, but to select the best people among them who could help her govern the country. She would rather waste so much money, time and energy to train people from ordinary untouchables and civilians who had no background.

Nor is he willing to give up power and cooperate with our family.

This shows how deep the malice is.”

Wang Dongjing obviously could not fail to see what Wang Dongyang had seen, but it was precisely because he saw it that he felt particularly chilled and frightened. He did not see any sign from the Lu family's actions and policy plans that they were willing to cooperate and compromise with their aristocratic families.

Everything seems to be preparing for a tough battle.

When thinking about her previous operation of encircling and exterminating all the noble families in the area she ruled, it was an unbelievable idea, but one had to believe it.

It suddenly occurred to him.

I'm afraid that the Lu family will fight to the end with their powerful families, and even have the idea of ​​destroying their families, not just a certain family, but all families.

This was something no one had ever dared to think of before.

Several generations of the Liu family who were destined to succeed did not dare to think about it.

The most he could do was to appropriately weaken the power of some aristocratic families, or to recruit more of them for his own use, and barely increase the feudal centralization.

"Brother, what should we do?" "We can only go back. We must go back and inform the tribe of the situation and let them make preparations in advance."

"Perhaps we can abandon our status as aristocratic families and help the Lu family as ordinary children from poor families. As long as we can make contributions, we may become a new aristocratic family under her rule. No matter how much the Lu family wants to destroy the aristocratic families, at most they can only destroy the old aristocratic families of the past, and there is no way they can destroy the aristocratic families of the future."

"what do you mean……"

“When Emperor Gaozu started his rebellion, didn’t he also destroy the entire old aristocratic system? Many of today’s thousand-year-old families made their fortunes at that time. Some of them were born into common people, while others were remnants of the old aristocracy. They became wealthy not because of their original identities, but because they followed the right people.

If we can also follow the right people, we can accomplish great things.

It is not impossible to open a new family tree.

And don't you think that the current situation is a bit like when Emperor Gaozu overthrew the Qin Empire and replaced the Ying family with the Liu family? Now that the Lu family has the Mandate of Heaven, it should be beyond doubt.

If she were to destroy the aristocratic families.

It feels right to start a new empire.”

"Dongyang, your idea is good, but everything depends on our ability to perform meritorious service. However, after half a month of investigation, haven't you discovered that there is no work here that our two brothers are capable of doing?
We don't understand those instruments at all.

Maybe they don't even know as much as ordinary craftsmen.

How can we compete when the knowledge we are so proud of, such as numeracy, is accessible to even village children here and can be easily obtained? "

"We can learn. I don't believe that we, the children of aristocratic families, can't be better than those low-class people in learning!"

"We can learn, but don't forget those teachers, those teachers who can work non-stop for twelve hours a day, who know everything and can do everything. With those teachers who are said to be gods, how do you think we can learn to surpass the teachers and be more powerful than them?

In the past half month, I have been trying to test the ability of those teachers, and the result is unfathomable. No question can stump them, but they have answered many of my doubts..."

At this point, Wang Dongyang, who originally had some ideas, was instantly hit. Yes, although there was nothing wrong with his ideas, they should have been useful if he met a normal person with destiny. But he met such a person like Lu who could create a lot of omnipotent people to act as teachers and help her with other work.

His plan was completely stuck at the first step.

Stuck on making meritorious contributions.

Without merit, it will be useless no matter how many of the soldiers who fought with Liu Bang back then could develop their families into aristocratic families. Not to mention aristocratic families, it is even a question whether the bloodline can be passed down.

With so many almost omnipotent and loyal celestial beings at her disposal, there was no need for Lu to recruit other people to work for her, and it would be difficult for others to surpass those special celestial beings and gain enough credit.

Anyway, no matter what they think.

Joining the Lu family is not a good choice.

So the final result was that the two Wang brothers quickly found an opportunity to leave. While giving up on joining Bai Sheng, they also planned to go back quickly to inform their clan members about the situation so that they could be mentally prepared in advance.

In addition to the Wang family, there are actually many other powerful families who have also sent some people to Bai Sheng's territory to investigate the situation and see if it is possible to surrender, or whether they need to surrender.

The result, of course, was that most of them were scared away.

He was scared away just like the Wang brothers.

The wealthy and powerful families were just a little arrogant, but they were not stupid. It would be strange if they didn't see Bai Sheng's obvious intention. After seeing it, some of them were scared away, while others thought it over again and again and felt that there was no profit or even many hidden dangers, so they quickly chose to run away.

The few who stayed behind either wanted to stay as spies to find out the situation, or were interested in the various knowledge taught here and stayed here to study. Moreover, because they had no household registration, they had to pay a sum of money.

Cannot enjoy free compulsory education.

Bai Sheng was actually basically aware of these situations, but she was too lazy to care, and she was not afraid that those people would leave and spread the news, so the people sent by the wealthy and powerful families could enter and exit normally as long as they did not break the law.

Soon, those families who knew about the situation in the area ruled by Bai Sheng became completely desperate, and secretly prayed in their hearts that this Lu family must not be the one destined by heaven, otherwise those families who were close to them would be in big trouble. After all, if this Lu family began to expand and capture cities and territories, they would be the first to bear the brunt!

Unfortunately, it was useless for them to be anxious.

They have no say. Since the people above are not in a hurry, they can only worry about the eunuchs being anxious even though the emperor is not.

For example, four months after Zhu Huaijin's death, the imperial court finally selected a new county governor after countless arguments. Then more than a month later, the new governor finally arrived, and as soon as he took over the county governor's office, he invited local noble families to visit and discuss borrowing troops.

The newcomer also felt that the last failure was purely due to Zhu Huaijin’s incompetence, lack of ability, and blind command.

Everything will be fine if he goes there himself.

We will be able to easily wipe out the Lu family rebels.

The process was very embarrassing. Basically, no powerful family was willing to lend troops again. Firstly, they suffered heavy losses last time, and secondly, they knew that the Lu family was so strange that they seemed to have a destiny and were not willing to send anyone to deliver prisoners. It would be strange if there were no conflicts between them.

Although the new county magistrate came from a second-rank family, he could not force the local powerful families to borrow soldiers. Besides, it was also a fact that they had lost 30,000 soldiers before, so in the end they had no choice but to compromise.

Both sides compromised and took a step back.

The powerful families no longer needed to send troops, but they had to provide enough food and weapons to help the county magistrates arm the local garrison as quickly as possible and complete conscription at the same time.

That’s right, the new guy is quite confident in himself, so he plans to temporarily recruit 30,000 to 50,000 soldiers.

Then after a little training, we went to attack the Lu family.

The credit doesn't come easily.

The local wealthy and powerful families felt that they had done their duty of giving warnings, but the county governor, who came from a second-rank family, just didn't believe them. What could they do?
I can only let him do what he wants and watch him make a fool of himself.

However, because it takes time to recruit and train new soldiers, it took the county magistrate more than a year to finally be ready and order the troops to completely wipe out Bai Sheng, the old woman traitor.

Bai Sheng was still not ready at this time.

So in the end, I chose to repeat the same thing.

The only difference was that this time, Bai Sheng did not take action until the troops that came to attack her were less than a day's journey from the border. Then she did not let those troops come to her on their own, but specially dispatched a team to a place dozens of miles away to bring back those soldiers who had become cowards.

Successfully harvested another 70,000 to 80,000 young and strong laborers.

As the news spread back to the county governor's office, the newly appointed county governor hurriedly submitted a letter of apology and put all the blame on the local noble families, thinking that it was the local noble families who did not provide enough private soldiers that led to this great defeat. Regardless of his other abilities, at least his ability to pass the buck is not bad at all, and he is an excellent student.