At the beginning, Emperor Yang of Sui was kidnapped

Chapter 179 They Are the First to Sorry Me

At this stage, Luoyang City is completely paralyzed due to the strike of the aristocratic families.

There is no money and food in the army, and there are no people for all the important positions.

If this continues, it won't be long before the army in Luoyang City will completely lose its combat effectiveness.

If it weren't for this army, it was controlled by Wang Shichong's direct line, so the army was relatively stable.

The main reason is that political affairs are paralyzed and cannot provide normal operation.

Wang Shiyun knelt down in front of Wang Shichong, with a mournful expression, and wanted to beg him to admit his mistake to the aristocratic family.

Wang Shichong, who turned into a thousand faces, sneered, and said unmoved: "Why should I admit my mistake?"

"Duke Lu, tell me, what's wrong with me?"

Wang Shichong looked at Yun Dingxing with cold eyes.

Yun Dingxing's body trembled, and he said hastily: "Your Majesty is certainly not wrong! The fault is all these aristocratic families, who are bold and reckless. This is clearly not taking His Majesty seriously!"

Wang Shichong took a deep breath, nodded his head and said, "What Dingxing said is true. Since ancient times, the aristocratic family has been so arrogant. If we don't take this opportunity to punish them, wouldn't they want to ride on my head to shit and piss?"

After all, he ignored Wang Shiyun's objection, and ordered in a deep voice: "Yun Dingxing, pass on my will. Now Li Yuan is invading and Luoyang is in danger. I want to build trenches and barriers outside Luoyang City, but... there are not enough manpower. People with five surnames and seven wangs, regardless of gender, can help each other!"

As soon as this remark came out, Wang Shiyun felt dizzy even more, and hurriedly stopped him: "Your Majesty, you can't—"

"Since ancient times, aristocratic families have been exempted from hard labor. If Your Majesty does this, not only the aristocratic families in Luoyang will be dissatisfied, but the aristocratic families in the world..."

Wang Shiyun knelt in front of Wang Shichong, like the loyal minister he hated the most.

But at this time, he had no choice.

Luoyang's army is under the control of his Wang family, and he and Wang Shichong are tied together.

If the aristocratic family is really in a hurry, and the aristocratic families in the world attack Luoyang, I am afraid...

Before long, the new Great Zheng Kingdom will be directly destroyed!

however……

Wang Shichong insisted on going his own way, and stared at him coldly: "Brother, you have also seen how arrogant the family is. They were the first to let me down, so don't blame me for ignoring their privileges!"

Hearing this, Wang Shiyun always felt that something was wrong...

Didn't you start this matter?

When he was in a daze, Yun Dingxing immediately led his army out of the palace gate with a frenzied face after receiving the order, heading towards the great families in a mighty manner.

For him, this is another great opportunity to be promoted!

He must do well!

……

Yangcheng.

Xu Mu soon received the latest news.

Knowing the family's reaction.

Even though he had expected it, he was still shocked by such a frenzied move by the family.

Four-fifths...officials stopped the court and ignored political affairs, and the entire Luoyang government could barely function.

"No wonder Lao Yang is determined to take action against the family. This family... is already a cancer!"

Xu Mu sighed endlessly, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Overnight, the government of Luoyang was deposed. I wonder if such an aristocratic family is scary?
Moreover, such an aristocratic family cannot be formed overnight and decades.

It is the result of hundreds of years of accumulation.

The real horror of the family is not the money and food they have, but the connections they have.

For hundreds of years, they have monopolized knowledge, monopolized official positions, and monopolized everything owned by the upper class.

So... they were able to do it. Four fifths of the officials in Luoyang City belonged to them.

The remaining one-fifth may be one of the few poor disciples, and they are the ones with relatively small official positions and insignificant ones.

"Your good days are over."

Xu Mu stared in the direction of Luoyang City, and handed a secret letter written by himself to Shen Guang.

He sent it to Luoyang City urgently.

There are only four characters in the letter: "Kill the chickens to warn the monkeys"!
……

In Luoyang City.

The family headed by Wu Xing Qiwang is playing a game with Wang Shichong.

For them, apart from the fact that the army is not in their hands, everything in Luoyang is under their control.

Especially now that the Tang army under Li Yuan's command is about to attack...

They expected that within three days, Wang Shichong would definitely come to apologize!

If it was the real Wang Shichong, in order to solve the urgent need, he might really condescend and come to apologize.

But this Wang Shichong is not that Wang Shichong.

There was no thought of an apology at all.

They waited for three days, and finally when Wang Shichong's army came to the door, and issued a decree that made all the aristocratic families tremble with anger.

"Your Majesty has a decree. Now that the Tang army is approaching, there are still a lot of fortifications to be built outside Luoyang City. I... will set an example and personally lead the army to build trenches. I hope that the big families will do their own thing and send at least half of their manpower to build trenches!"

The purpose of this will is obvious.

The viciousness of his heart made Qiwang of the five surnames immediately hold an emergency meeting...

Everyone gathered at Cui's house and looked at Cui Zheng.

Cui Zheng clutched the so-called imperial decree, threw it on the ground, and trampled on it a few times.

"It's unreasonable! Wang Shichong is too deceitful! Throughout the ages, who would dare to conscript my family as corvee?" Wang Zuochuan said in a deep voice.

Although Wang Shichong said tactfully this time, he will take the lead in building trenches...

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is true to build trenches and let them serve.

If they really serve, they will really become the laughing stock of the world.

So many aristocratic families in the world would laugh at them.

Although they are only a branch of Wuxing Qiwang, they also represent the face of Wuxing Qiwang.

"Never compromise! If I compromise this time, the face of my five surnames and Qiwang will be completely lost!"

Zheng Duan stood up and said in a deep voice.

"But Wang Shichong controls the army, so what if he forces us to wait?" A middle-aged man from the Li family in Zhaojun asked with a frown.

Cui Zheng glanced at him, and said indifferently: "From today onwards, I will stay behind closed doors and see what he can do."

"There are very few people who dare to break into the door of my family—"

As soon as the words fell, the door of Cui Mansion was opened with a violent crash.

Yun Dingxing rushed in with his personal guards and surrounded the meeting hall.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect you all to be here, but the provincial general has been looking for it everywhere." Yun Dingxing's eyes lit up, looking at Cui Zheng and the others.

The hearts of Cui Zheng and other members of the aristocratic family thumped.

Yun Dingxing didn't have any family background, he was just a fool.

And he is the kind of muddleheaded person who loves flattery very much.

As long as he is given an official title, he can offend anyone.

"Come here, take them all away! Your Majesty has started to help build fortifications, how can you be an exception!"

After all, Yun Dingxing waved his hand...

The members of the aristocratic family who were still complaining about Wang Shichong's mediocrity were taken to the trench outside Luoyang City, and they saw Wang Shichong holding a shovel from a distance, pretending to be digging fortifications.

"Here, this is your tool!"

Soon, they were each assigned a tool.

Yun Dingxing directly turned into a supervisor, holding a whip, and kept waving it in their ears, making the sound of howling wind.

"Hurry up and work! Didn't you see that His Majesty is working!"

Yun Dingxing glared at the group of them, as long as he found that anyone was not working...

He greeted the past with a whip.

However, this group of children from aristocratic families, have they ever done such a job?
Since they were young, they were the kind who didn't touch the spring water with their five fingers, and they were born to be the end, let alone do labor.

Several family heads headed by Cui Zheng gathered together and looked at Yun Dingxing coldly.

Especially Cui Zheng said in a deep voice: "I am the third house owner of the Cui family in Boling, do you have the ability to hit me?"

He didn't believe that Yun Dingxing really dared to beat the world by whipping him.

It's just obvious that he overestimated Yun Dingxing's lower limit...

Wang Shichong explained earlier that the harder Yun Dingxing beats, the more rewards he will get.

So...

"Snapped!"

A whip cut through the air and slammed Cui Zheng's arm.

"hiss--"

Cui Zheng was in pain for a while after smoking.

"Yun Dingxing, do you have the guts to hit the old man again?" Cui Zheng endured the pain, pointed at Yun Dingxing, and trembled with anger.

Then came another whip.

"Snapped!"

This time it was even more ruthless, directly on the left side of his face.

A whip mark appeared directly on his left face.

There was even a trace of blood oozing out.

"I have never seen such a request like yours in my life!" Yun Dingxing looked at him coldly, with an expression that refused to budge.

Cui Zheng's lips trembled and he kept trembling, but he didn't dare to say any harsh words.

Patriarchs of other families...

I was also terrified by this scene.

Cui Zheng was a young bird, so he received two whips, one of which hit his face, which was very likely to disfigure him.

Adhering to the principle that a good man does not suffer immediate losses, they picked up the shovels in their hands one after another, jumped into the trench consciously, and began to bend down to dig.

Yun Dingxing was very satisfied with this, turned to look at Cui Zheng, waved the whip in his hand, and said with a sneer, "They all started digging, how about you?"

Cui Zheng took a deep breath, his expression extremely gloomy.

He wants to continue defying the power to resist...

But looking at Yun Dingxing, such a fool, he might really be beaten to death...

So...he also chose Congxin, and started to work honestly.

……

In Luoyang City, all the noble families served in the army one after another, and the news spread quickly throughout the world.

The aristocratic families from all states and counties all turned their attention to Luoyang.

Without exception, they criticized Wang Shichong one after another.

Numerous appeals flocked to scold Wang Shichong for being fatuous and immoral.

For a time, the world boiled again!
It seems that people who don't respect the family, the family remembers that grass has started to grow on the last grave...

Yang Guang was like this back then. He frantically attacked the aristocratic family, opened the school first, promoted the imperial examination later, and finally promoted the poor disciples continuously, consuming the aristocratic family's financial resources, material resources and manpower...

It's just that he's too idealistic.

Too naive.

I thought that the deep-rooted family that had been accumulated for hundreds of years could really be solved so easily.

So the boat capsized in the gutter.

(End of this chapter)