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

Chapter 538 Huang Zongxi ([-])
One month later

Penglai Island

The sky is blue, and many seabirds are circling, and there are a large number of ships moored in the harbor, and these ships come from various regions.

Under Yan Ji's call, nobles and guilds from all over the country sent representatives here to discuss how to expel Hou Jing.

"Go to City Hall."

"okay."

Huang Zongxi got into a carriage and came to the place of discussion.

In the entire Penglai Island, all the inns were cleared out and specially provided for representatives from all over the place to live in. Even the houses of some common people were expropriated by Yan Ji.

On the streets, nobles and wealthy businessmen who fled from Yandu are publicizing Hou Jing's crimes and calling on the people of the country to unite.

"I have seen with my own eyes that they rob from house to house, and if there are young women in the house, they are taken into slavery."

"The fire has been burning... They were only five years old, and they were..."

Standing on the railing of the second floor of the inn, Huang Zongxi looked at all kinds of beings on the street.

"After such a long time, I'm afraid the inner city has fallen."

"The Marquis of Nandu is still in the mood to hold a meeting here."

"I'm afraid it's because I'm worried that Jiuqing won't die."

Some people talked a lot about this matter, and those guild representatives were the ones who made sarcastic remarks. As the saying goes, "Business women don't know the hatred of subjugation of the country, and they still sing flowers in the backyard across the river." The rise and fall of the country has nothing to do with them, they just want to protect their own interests come.

"The state of Yan is what it is today, all because of the reckless actions of the monarch. When the first monarch Lian was in power, he followed the example of the Central Plains, implemented corvee service, increased oral taxation, abused people's power, and resorted to military force."

"The monarch is like a beast. If not restrained, it will harm people. This is a lone husband and a thief of the people."

Huang Zongxi also joined the discussion among the crowd, and what he said was approved by most people.

"You dare to ask your surname, you have such a brilliant opinion." A young man asked Huang Zongxi politely.

Huang Zongxi is only 27 or [-] years old this year. He is the age group for youth, inspiring words, and pointing out the world. He replied to the man, "Miangui's surname is Huang, his name is Zongxi, and his style name is Debing. He is from Chang'e City."

"Disrespect, disrespect." The man poured a cup of tea for Huang Zongxi, instead of discussing his views on the current situation.

"Hou Jing is a tyrannical and cruel person. He is not a target for cooperation. He should be eradicated, but we can't be used by the imperial court. We must fight for our own rights, especially the arbitrary monarchs like Xianjunlian. "

Huang Zongxi expressed his attitude that he must not cooperate with a butcher like Hou Jing, otherwise the situation of the people will only be worse. Helping the court to eradicate Hou Jing is their only choice, but they can't help in vain. They must take this opportunity to fight for more More rights will do.

He spent several days in prison because he said something wrong before, so he deliberately emphasized the last sentence.

Everyone was also harmed by Yan Lian's exorbitant taxes, but they dared not speak out. Now that the country is about to perish, they dare to speak boldly about Yan Lian's right and wrong.

another month later

Government office
"What did they say?"

Yan Ji kept reading the latest information from Yandu, and by the way asked the attendants around him about the situation of those representatives.

"They have nine demands. First, restore the municipal councils of each city. Second, allow non-nobles to join the Yan State Council. Third, cancel commercial taxes and abolish corvee. Fourth,..."

The entourage answered truthfully, and finally added: "The one who submitted these requests is a guild representative named Huang Zongxi in Chang'e City."

"Oh? It's him?" Yan Ji had met Huang Zongxi at the [Conference on Daoism] before, and saw with his own eyes how Huang Zongxi fought against the Confucians with his tongue, refuting those old Confucian scholars who still maintained the old tradition of monarchs and ministers speechless.

The Dao Discussion Conference is a debate held every year in Yandu. Talented scholars and beautiful people are allowed to express their opinions. Even if they say something about the monarch and the court in person, they will not be convicted. Of course, it is certain that they will inevitably be put on small shoes afterwards.

Huang Zongxi previously promoted his own set of ideas in the academy, which aroused the dissatisfaction of many old Confucian scholars. In the end, the old Confucian scholars jointly signed a letter and strongly demanded Huang Zongxi's arrest, so Huang Zongxi was imprisoned by the court for a few days for the crime of deceiving people.

With the background of the Yan Kingdom, it is actually not difficult to eliminate a small Hou Jing.

The key point is that as the size of the Yan Kingdom grows, internal conflicts also increase, and the forces of all parties fight each other and check and balance each other, and it is impossible to unite to destroy Hou Jing.

Internal fighting leads to subjugation of the country, and subjugation of the country also requires internal fighting!
This is not a characteristic of a certain dynasty, but the law of almost all regimes when internal conflicts erupt.

In the past, when the Wang family was only less than a county in size, the brothers and sisters in the family were extremely united, united to engage in corruption, and tried every means to make money from the Central Plains, so as to obtain development funds for the family. Even if there were conflicts, they were still under control. within range.

But when the size of the Wang family was equivalent to a state in the Central Plains, the conflict between the head of the family and the family members became more and more difficult to control, and finally the Wang Ting Rebellion broke out.

This is an important reason why big countries cannot expand indefinitely.

Many people look at history and only look at the comparison of the strengths of the two countries. They think that the Tang Dynasty is stronger than a certain country. If it weren't for the Anshi Rebellion, it would have gone to the West long ago.

This is a typical ignorance of history. In fact, without the Anshi Rebellion, it would be impossible to fight to the West. As soon as the army arrived in the Western Regions, various rebellions would have occurred in their own homes.

As the volume increases, there will be more and more internal conflicts. This is inevitable. A wise monarch will try to contain the outbreak of internal conflicts and delay the outbreak. For example, Li Shimin, a fatuous monarch will immediately ignite internal conflicts. It's over, like Yang Guang.

"Their request...well..."

Yan Ji is still considering whether to agree to the various demands of the guilds, especially the second one, allowing non-nobles to join the parliament, which is a big deal for the Yan Kingdom.

"Is it appropriate for a group of outsiders to become members of our royal family's ruling class?" Yan Ji was worried that if he agreed, he would be infamous forever.

After all, the Yan Kingdom is the Yan Kingdom of the Wang family. If outsiders are allowed to become members of the ruling class, then the family system of the Yan country will be disintegrated. If this happens, wouldn't Yan Ji become a sinner of the Wang family?
"If you want to use the blood of the royal family to distinguish outsiders from non-outsiders, then there are almost no outsiders in Yan." At this time, Yan Ji's wife came and brought him a pot of hot tea.

"What do you mean?" Yan Ji was a little puzzled, his wife was a daughter of the Taoyuan Guild, and also had the blood of the Wang family in her body, because his mother-in-law was a branch of the royal family.

"If blood relationship is used to distinguish the royal family from the non-royal family, then do I count as the royal family or not?" Yan Ji's wife replied with a chuckle, and then added a few words of explanation:
"The real non-royal family members have just immigrated from the Central Plains Grassland in the past few years."

"After more than 700 years of reproduction, the natives of Yan State, almost from the ninth floor up, belong to the Yuan branch of the Wang family, and their ancestry can be traced back to the ancestor Kang."

"Of the more than 100 million people in our country of Yan, there are at least 90 people, and they can trace their ancestors back to the ancestor Kang."

"A slave randomly picked from a plantation has the blood of the Wang family flowing in his body, and his ancestry can also be traced back to the ancestor Kang."

"Over the past few hundred years, the real non-Wang family has lost their children and grandchildren in a certain generation because they are too poor to marry a wife and other reasons. Those who can survive are almost all the distant branches of the Wang family."

These words of Yan Ji's wife made Yan Ji fall into deep thought.

What should be used to distinguish the royal family from the non-royal family?

If we use blood relationship to distinguish, the Wang family already has nearly 100 million people. Any slave who is picking up wasteland in the plantation is actually the blood of the ancestor Kang of the Wang family. It also has the blood of the Wang family, and is essentially the Wang family.

The real non-royal family members have long been unable to leave their genetic genes in the country of Yan because their status is too low and their competitiveness is too weak.

Natural selection, those who can leave their genes to be passed down from generation to generation, their ancestors are all nobles, and the real commoners have long been eliminated in the cruel social environment, and finally lost their children and grandchildren.

If blood is used to distinguish, isn't the Wang family enslaving the Wang family?The royal family intermarried with the royal family for generations?

"According to the blood relationship method, if those rich merchants in the guild really want to trace their ancestors, nine out of ten can be traced back to their ancestor Kang. They are also members of the Wang family in essence. Since they are all members of the Wang family, why? Can't they be made part of the ruling class again?"

His wife's words gave Yan Ji the confidence to persuade other nobles and descendants, so he doesn't have to worry about leaving a bad reputation forever.

(End of this chapter)