Chapter fifty-one, the crisis of the Daxia court
When Pan Long heard Li Wu's statement, he was surprised and asked: "Di Luonan wants to carry out reforms? What is he going to do?"
"First of all, we must investigate the land, imperial fields, official fields, and civil fields in the world. At the same time, we must also investigate the industry in the world... In short, we must determine the two questions of 'Whose things belong to? Whose income belongs to the benefits?'."
Li Wu said just a few words and stopped: "There are too many contents and I can't explain them clearly for a while - when I saw that document, there were more than ten thick pages, and I didn't read them carefully. Anyway, your martial arts skills are very good, and after the New Year, the news should also be transmitted to the North. The capital of the North is Bei'an City, you can go to Bei'an City to check it out."
Pan Long nodded, but couldn't help but frown.
He also felt that the Great Xia Dynasty had many problems, and it was indeed time to change. But like Di Luonan, he would go straight to the most important issue as soon as he took action, for fear that the conflict would be intensified. Don’t fail to succeed in the reform, but instead cause rebellion everywhere, which would be troublesome!
He expressed his worries, but Li Wu disagreed.
"Intensify conflicts? Rebellion? That's a good thing!" Li Wu smiled slightly and said with ease, "It will help us a lot. Daxia has been founded for thousands of years, and the war has not been fought several times. All the troops in the army are eager for military achievements. If someone rebels, we will go to quell the rebellion, and legitimately cut off its thousands of heads, and everyone will be promoted to the title."
Pan Long looked at his relaxed expression and couldn't help but say, "What if there were people in the world who were in trouble?"
"There is always a sequence." Li Wu said, "If all the forces in the world can really discuss and raise the flag to cause trouble together, then they would have taken action long ago. Why wait for Di Luonan?"
Pan Long asked again: "The soldiers in the army did not fall from the sky, but also had parents, brothers, wives, children, and young people. What should they do if their family and friends were also rebelling?"
Li Wu's expression became serious and became cold: "You can marry your wife and have children again; it's okay if you cheat your parents; you should have a relationship with relatives and friends who cause trouble long ago... The court reforms the laws and regulations, and you can have opinions or raise them, but if you dare to stand up and join the rebels, you will be seeking death and killing them without mercy!"
Pan Long shook his head: "You think about the situation too easily, or... Anyway, you are ninety years old, and most of your relatives and friends were no longer alive, so you can see it openly. But ordinary soldiers are not in their twenties or thirties, and their families are still alive."
Li Wu was stunned for a moment and began to think.
His brows slowly frowned, and his expression gradually became severe.
After a while, he said, "You reminded me! Most of the generals in the army are of this age, and many of them are even older. But the situation of those ordinary soldiers is completely different from ours. I will go back to the capital to talk to the generals, or simply go to Prince Di Luonan... In short, thank you!"
Before he finished speaking, he had already walked out of the window like a gust of wind and disappeared without a trace.
So in the private room, only Pan Long sat alone, facing a table of wine and food.
Pan Long shook his head, sighed, and laughed again.
"Forget it, it's going to rain and my mother wants to marry, let him go!"
As he said that, he went over and closed the window that Li Wu had just pushed open again, and focused on eating without mentioning a full meal.
When he got home, he talked to his parents about what happened just now.
When Pan Lei and Ren Yue learned that their son actually knew Li Wu, the third 24th Captain, were shocked.
"The Li Wu you mentioned is Li Wu who is 'Red Flame Gun, Fire Ridge'?" Pan Lei asked, "He was already a famous general in the army forty years ago. He once represented the court and fought a life-and-death battle with the experts of the Feixian Sword Sect in the East China Sea. He fought seven days and seven battles, killing seven masters who could control the sword and fly. The Feixian Sword Sect's plan to make a comeback is ruined. He is the best warrior in the world!"
"Yes, when I was a child, I often heard his stories." Ren Yue said, "but he never appeared in the world again... If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have thought he was too seriously injured in that battle and was already dead..."
Pan Long was also shocked: "He is the 'Red Flame Gun Fire'? Isn't that person's surname is Huo?"
"Red Flame Gun and Huo Liaoyuan are both his nicknames... The two nicknames are connected, do you think this is a nickname and name?" Pan Lei smiled, "or is this legendary in the world now?"
"The stories I heard about in the Jianghu River are all about the 'Red Flame Gun' Huo Laoyuan. I always thought that this person was called Huo Laoyuan..."
Pan Lei and Ren Yue looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly.
The world is really good at forgetting. The people who were so powerful in the world back then have even forgotten their names in just forty years!
After sighing, the family discussed the reform of Diluan.
Pan Lei and Ren Yue are not as worried as Pan Long. On the contrary, their views are quite similar to Li Wu.
"The fundamental reason of Daxia lies in the nobles in the army. For these nobles in the army, as long as they can achieve success, not to mention relatives and friends, parents, wives and children can also be abandoned. So I think Li Wu's statement makes sense." Ren Yue said.
Pan Lei nodded and agreed with his wife's opinion: "It is impossible for all the world to rebel together. As long as the court kills a group of people and proves its strength and determination, the remaining people will naturally not dare to rebel. In the final analysis, the people who rebel because of the reform of Di Luonan do not really cannot survive, but they just refuse to give up their own interests - but compared with their wealth and life, what kind of interests cannot be given up?"
Pan Long nodded slightly. Compared to Li Wu, he certainly believed in his parents more.
Moreover, he also thought the father's statement made sense.
The rebellion of interest groups and the rebellion of hungry people are completely different in nature.
The latter has no way out, either fighting or dying—or maybe fighting just to vent resentment, and had no intention of surviving from the beginning.
The former is not the case. It’s just that Shancai is reluctant to give up his own interests and wants to protect the benefits he has already obtained through intimidation or even force.
As my father said, those who can rebel will not be unable to survive. If they really find that rebellion is a dead end, their choice will definitely be compromise.
"According to your words, can Diluan's reform really succeed?" He frowned and asked with some displeasure.
Pan Lei shook his head again: "Who can tell the things in the world accurately? For example, if the court quells the rebellion and loses, what would the various forces think?"
Pan Long asked puzzledly: "How could the court lose? Not to mention anything else, dispatch the Sixth Army of the Emperor, led the team of Emperor Luonan, and the 24th Captain of the Tianji Camp to participate in the battle - which force in the world can defeat them?"
Pan Lei smiled but said nothing, but Ren Yue sighed: "You kid, your idea is still too naive!"
“Where is naive?”
"According to your words, Di Luonan led the twenty-four captains and commanded the six armies of the emperor. He was indeed invincible and could be defeated in every way." Ren Yue paused for a moment, but shook his head with a smile, "What if he wanted to be the emperor?"
Pan Long was stunned.
"We all know that Emperor Renchen has been in power for twenty-two years. When he ascended the throne, he was nearly forty years and now he is in his early sixties. If nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely pass the throne in the next ten or eight years." Pan Lei said, "So who do you think he will pass the throne to?"
"It should be the Prince Emperor Hedong?"
"That's right, everyone knows that our prince of Hedong, has been very responsible over the years, has been doing things steadily, and has a good relationship with the ministers. Both the court and the people think he is a very suitable successor - I believe Di Renchen thinks so too. But what if Di Luonan makes great contributions and wants to be the emperor in the future?"
Pan Lei said and laughed: "You have also read a lot of history books. You should know how Di Yihai succeeded to the throne, right?"
Pan Long nodded.
Of course he knew that Emperor Yihai, who was called "Sword Emperor", was not originally the successor appointed by his father Emperor Jiaxu. However, he took advantage of the opportunity of the court's spring hunt and led a personal army to raid the emperor's camp and seized Emperor Jiaxu, the prince, several brothers and several important officials.
Then, in the tent of Chunshou, Di Yihai slashed his brother with a blood-dropped sabre and forced his father to abdicate.
He stayed in the camp for seven days, and waited until the throne was passed down all over the world, and the years were replaced by the prefectures, counties and even the county governments, and even the county governments, before he released the ministers.
Then he kept guarding the third year of Emperor Jiaxu. Three years later, Emperor Jiaxu died of illness and officially entered the court and truly started the first major dynasty meeting. At the major dynasty meeting, the first thing he decided to do was to send troops to Mobei, and to cross the desert to invade the border with the Mobei royal court, which had fought several rounds in the Yumen City area!
These past events are famous allusions in history, so Pan Long certainly knew it.
But he had never thought about this before.
But when he was reminded by his parents, he realized that no matter what, the one that the court could most likely fully trust was Di Luonan!
Di Luonan is a real master and has a very strong strength. Di Renchen and the prince cannot be afraid of him - otherwise he would not have been under house arrest for more than ten years after Baixi suppressed the rebellion.
If Di Luonan leads troops to suppress the rebellion and receives the support of generals and soldiers in the army, then Di Renchen will never be able to suppress him again. Once he wants to rebel, what can Di Renchen do?
Not to mention, if even the twenty-fourth captain of the Tianji Camp was conquered by Di Luonan, Di Renchen would have lost his power to fight back.
Among the twenty-four lieutenants, there are several real masters. In addition to Di Luonan himself... Not to mention that there may be powerful seniors in the Daxia royal family, why do they have to stand up for Di Renchen and fight against Di Luonan?
In the final analysis, Di Luonan is also a prince, and he wants to succeed to the throne - there is actually no big problem, isn't it?
After understanding this, Pan Long immediately understood.
"If Di Luonan didn't lead the troops personally, who would be responsible for suppressing the rebellion?" he couldn't help asking.
"Anyway, it's definitely because he has a bad relationship with Di Luonan." Pan Lei said.
"Who has a bad relationship with Di Luonan?" Pan Long continued to ask.
Pan Lei frowned, thought for a long time, and finally sighed.
"The generals in the army are not bad with Di Luonan." He said, "The prince, Hedong, has always focused on making friends with civil officials - probably to make Di Renchen believe that he does not have the intention of coup to seize the throne. He has always deliberately kept a distance from the generals, and at most it can only be considered a little friendship. However, Di Luonan has had a good relationship with the generals since he was a child, and many people are simply short of being a disciple of him."
"According to what you said, would the court ask civil servants to lead troops to fight?" Pan Long asked in surprise.
Pan Lei smiled: "It's not impossible. Civil and military officials are actually just different positions. No one stipulates that civil officials cannot be very skilled in martial arts - your father, I am also a serious imperial examination. If you want to be an official, there is no problem at all to be a civil official, but am I not good at martial arts?"
"The ancestors also worked as officials back then," Ren Yue said, "At that time, he was also a civil servant."
Pan Long thought about it, but finally he could only shake his head and sigh.
Things become more complicated as they are, and they are like a smatter of hemp.
He talked about being a human being in his two lives, but he had no research on politics in his past and present lives. Even if he was a netizen in his past life, he mainly played games and watched Douyin Kuaishou... Not to mention that later society progressed, everyone's life was very stable, and their enthusiasm for politics dropped significantly. In addition to a few strategic game madmen, most people are more interested in enjoyment and entertainment.
As for this life, life is not that happy, but he does not have the all-encompassing Internet and the omniscient sculptural netizens...
(Alas! If it weren't me who traveled through time, but Lao Cheng's historical madman, he would definitely be like a fish in water...)
(When I think about it this way, could Wen Chao and Zhao Sheng be both silly netizens who are passionate about political topics?)
Pan Long changed his mind for a few more thoughts, and then tried hard to deduce what would happen if there was a rebellion everywhere. In the end, he became more and more confused as he thought about it. He could only sigh and not think about him.
No matter what, he was sure of at least one thing.
If Di Luonan's reforms really caused rebellions in various places, then Teacher Bi Lingkong would definitely be very happy.
She had been thinking about civil strife in Daxia for a long time.
At that time, the teacher might raise the banner of rebellion, and raise the poor people of Yunzhou who had long regarded her as a god and had a bad relationship with the court, and rose up and fought with the court.
By then, of course, I would participate in this vigorous uprising under my teacher's command.
So...in fact, he doesn't seem to have to think so much.
Anyway, his ancestors were traitors and his teachers were traitors, so he also had reasons to have to go against the court.
So how to choose is not clear at a glance?
Or, can he have other choices?
From the beginning, there was no such thing as this!
After dinner, he sat in the yard and thought for a long time. All his thoughts finally turned into a sentence.
Rebellion is good, rebellion is wonderful, rebellion is terrifying!
Chapter completed!