Chapter 813: Thoughts

Yang Shu has been a person with a steelyard in his heart since he was a child. He seems to be out of tune in doing things, but in fact he has always had his own calculations.

Success after success made Yang Shu's confidence stronger little by little, and when he finally passed the "big exam" over all obstacles, his confidence reached its peak.

But the appearance of "red" in the ancestral hall brought new changes to Yang Shuli's original self-contained confidence.

Those who are blindly confident are fools, and those who are cautious when the unknown appears can live longer. So Yang Shu understands that all his self-confidence actually needs someone to point him out when facing the unknown. And this person who can guide him is now exhausted.

Hearing Yang Shu's question, Yang Jian leaned on the back of the chair and turned his head, saying, "You've done a good job, I don't need to explain anything to you."

Yang Jian was telling the truth. He didn't think that some of his understanding and insight could help his son. Besides, he found that his youngest son had a special trait that the emperors of all dynasties did not have, and he walked in a very special way. Personality and fortune, Yang Jian believes that Yang Shu is likely to bring Jing the old dynasty to a new change.

An empire cannot be static, and static often represents decline. Therefore, Yang Jian seemed to have no guidance for Yang Shu, and the transfer of imperial power was arbitrary. In fact, Yang Jian just didn't want to affect his son's thinking and ideas that were different from his.

But Yang Shu didn't know this, he still hoped to hear some of his father's views on the empire, including the war, the people in the temple, and the people all over the world.

"Father, the current situation is delicate. Many people in the court are dissatisfied with the sons and ministers, and even colluded with many people in private. I don't know what they are plotting. The sons have a stubborn temper and don't want to make false claims with them, so they are going to start pruning. What does the emperor think?" It was not easy for Yang Shu to see his father, the emperor, but he couldn't help asking an important plan in his heart.

The so-called private collusion and conspiracy, these people almost didn't name them and said they belonged to various aristocratic families and powerful families. These two are the oldest forces formed in the Jingjiu Dynasty for thousands of years. Although there may not always be a certain surname in it, and there are ups and downs of aristocratic families, these two groups have existed and deeply rooted since the establishment of the Jingjiu Dynasty.

Yang Shu directly stated that he was going to attack the two largest vines clinging to the big tree of Jingjiu Dynasty, and he also wanted to see his father's reaction.

To Yang Shu's surprise, his father didn't show surprise on his face. Instead, he smiled slightly and said, "The aristocratic family and the clan have long since become irreversible. They exist in every aspect of the country, and they seem to be loosely connected, but they are actually connected." Tight, I like to do tricks of closing the door and not letting outsiders in. If you are confident, you can trim these people."

Seeing that his father agreed with him, Yang Shu heaved a sigh of relief. Then he asked again: "Since the emperor also agrees, what can I teach my son? Now my son has been looking for a suitable breakthrough, but has no idea."

"Clue? The aristocratic family and the clan are very cautious. They never put their hands directly into the temple. They pretend to take care of the emperor's emotions, but in fact they are just pulling a fig leaf for themselves.

Civil servants and generals are either Qinggui, Xungui, or military, and there are Xiu clans in them. In fact, most of these chaotic undercurrents are from aristocratic families and powerful families.

Therefore, you don't need to deliberately look for a breakthrough at all, you just need to grab someone who is enough to get on the stage and tear it apart. As the saying goes, when you pull out a radish, you will get mud. As long as the "radish" you find is big enough, are you worried that you won't be able to touch the fundamental interests of the aristocratic family and the powerful?

As long as they feel that their fundamentals are threatened, they will naturally launch a counterattack against you, and it will be easy to deal with it when the time comes. "

Yang Jian opened his mouth for a long time. Jiang is still old and hot. Although he hasn't touched aristocratic families and powerful people, it's not that he hasn't thought about these things. Just like Yang Shu's analogy just now, the Jingjiu Dynasty is a big tree, while the aristocratic family and clans are vines that cling to the trunk. If the vines are too tightly entangled and grow too densely, it will entangle the big tree to death. Pruning is naturally necessary.

Yang Shu's eyes lit up when he heard it. He and his counselors have been discussing this issue for the past few days. Most of the strategies proposed by the counselors are to gradually erode the wings of aristocratic families and powerful families from the local area, and then use time to slowly eliminate their influence in the country. At the same time, support emerging nobles or merchants to fill the gaps that appear.

But Yang Shu knew in his heart that although the strategies presented by the counselors were feasible, there were a lot of private goods in them, and the results were too slow.

How huge is the family and clan? Just slowly eroding upward from the bottom layer, let alone whether it will fail or not, even if it goes well, it will take ten years. There are too many variables in such a long time span. So much so that although Yang Shu made up his mind to change the structure of the upper echelon of the country, he has never finalized a plan on how to proceed.

Now I was lucky enough to ask my father, but I didn't expect that the other party would open up a new way of thinking for him with just a few words.

It is not like the strategy that the counselors under his command come up with, which needs to be eroded slowly from the bottom, with a long time span. Yang Shu discovered that what his father said was the essence of aristocratic families and aristocrats. They were hidden under the temple, and they seemed restrained but actually occupied a lot of power.

Pick someone with a high position and authority, and use it as a hole to tear apart the camouflage of aristocratic families and elites?

This method is very good. It's just that such a person is not so easy to find.

"Father, are you talking about Ye Lansheng?" Yang Shu quickly ran through his mind, and found that all the people who can be called high positions in the temple and are currently underdogs are Ye Lansheng, the former leader of the civil official group. .

"That's right." Yang Jian was very satisfied with his son's responsiveness, and found out the key person so quickly. Then he said: "Ye Lansheng is too selfish. In order to suppress the army, he even wanted to push back all of my will, and connected several major books to give me power.

Hehe, it's a pity that I didn't even do anything, and you snatched Bai Changqing from the household department, and then turned Ye Lansheng ruthlessly, making those vicious plans behind him aborted.

So Ye Lansheng deserved to die a long time ago, but I just left it for you to kill so as to give you a strong momentum for enthronement. I didn't expect you to have the thought of pruning the aristocratic family and the powerful. So it's still going wrong, Ye Lansheng, if you grasp it, you will be able to help you open the situation. "

Yang Shu nodded. He had guessed about Ye Lansheng a long time ago. He had asserted it when he wooed Bai Changqing, but now it sounds like Ye Lansheng has his own way of death.