Two months ago, Jiang Chengyi proposed the reform of the new policy in response to the situation in the court, hoping to persuade the Emperor of Wei to reform the filial piety and brotherly recommendation system, abandon the selection system of talents recommended by the gentry, set up four subjects, divided into civil and military personnel, so that all the well-educated scholars and those with high martial arts skills have the opportunity to participate in the selection of talents in the court and become officials in the court.

Nowadays, the great Wei Dynasty, the poor scholars who are well-read in poetry and books can enter the court and become officials. Often, only poor children who have experienced the sufferings of the people can put themselves in their shoes and think about the people's livelihood of the people.

Although there are also people with aspirations among the gentry families like Dou Yuelan, Yin Liming, Chengzhi, etc.; there are also Li Chengyi, who was also a talented and loyal gentry of the three dynasties, who was also a Situtu, who was talented and loyal. However, these honest officials who were for the country and the people who could truly understand the people's sentiments in a timely manner were only a few of the innocent officials compared with the other gentry children who were spread all over the court and the country. This led to the fall of the imperial power of the Great Wei and being controlled by the relatives and royal relatives.

If the Great Wei does not change this trend, it is only a matter of fear that the ambitions of the major gentry will in the future, resulting in local divisions and divisions, and the turbulence and collapse of the court. Then, the people of the world will fall into endless wars again.

Jiang Chengyi's book was strongly supported by the prince. Since childhood, he personally saw that Emperor Wei spent all his efforts to balance the power of various gentry. He had long regarded the growing power of the gentry as a cancer. He was passionate and wanted to change this state.

However, Emperor Wei believed that the new policy was indeed necessary to be implemented, but this time is not suitable.

Jiang Chengyi knew what he was worried about. The reason why Emperor Wei was able to compete with Ning Zheng now was because half of the gentry in the court strongly supported him. He would never easily touch the gentry before he could seize the power in Ning Zheng's hands.

Therefore, Jiang Chengyi proposed to slow down the reform in the new policy, and without touching the interests of the gentry, establish a moderate selection system for poor children in various places, starting from the bottom of local governments or military camps, and through monthly performance verification and annual performance inspection, he introduced good-performing bachelors into the court as officials. This repeated, the poor children slowly penetrated into the gentry's trend, and in the long run, the new policy reform can be carried out quietly.

But even so, Emperor Wei refused.

The implementation of the new policy could only be given up. The prince once expressed his righteous indignation in front of Jiang Chengyi, believing that his father was too afraid of the power of the gentry.

Jiang Chengyi had no choice but to persuade him first and put the new policy aside for the time being.

Now, Jiang Chengjia found out that the various gentry were recruiting troops and becoming increasingly separatist. He also learned that Fu Bo and Ma Yue were ambitious and wanted to use the various gentry handles that Song Zong had privately investigated over the years to control the government and the country. He knew that the new policy had to be implemented.

After he handed over the account book to the Emperor of Wei, the prince also took it and read it carefully, and was shocked that his father was young.

After Jiang Chengyi told the letter of A Luo, including a secret room under the secret village trading base that contained the handles of all the gentry members, he explained to the Emperor Wei. The prince, who was still young, was already full of sadness at this moment.

I thought this was a good time to persuade Emperor Wei to implement the new policy. After thinking about it for a while, Emperor Wei still rejected Jiang Chengyi's proposal.

Jiang Chengyi was too anxious and said, "Your Majesty... Now Guangxin's incident is arousing the snake, and the account books of the soldiers and horses of various gentry are also in our hands. At present, Fu and Ma will definitely hide their edge. In order to avoid you being aware of it, they dare not act rashly. At this time, it is a great time to implement the new policy, use water-soluble momentum, and have a three-year attitude to quietly resolve the situation of the gentry's control of the situation of the soldiers and horses...you..."

The dark eyes of Emperor Wei, as gloomy as a vulture, swept the young man in front of him again and again. At this moment, his expression had already learned from the momentum that Fu and Ma wanted to jointly control the court, and they had already had the intention of rebellion and returned to calm. Then he said coldly: "Jiang Qing's new policy to slow down the penetration method is indeed a good strategy to prevent the continued expansion of the gentry's power, but... this strategy still needs to be opposed to the public. The most difficult thing to pass the checkpoint is to be the Regent King Huai. I, the emperor uncle, have a calm and cautious mind. Do you think he can't see... the new policy I and you want to implement is actually a powerful medicine to embezzle the power of the gentry?"

Jiang Chengyi naturally knew about this, but when he decided to enter the court, he made complete preparations, so he continued: "Your Majesty does not need to worry about the regent of the Huai King. I have made complete plans. The trend of land annexation in various places is intensified. In the third year of Jiankang, the "land division policy" promoted by Your Majesty has not been fully implemented until today.

Although this matter is related to the rights and interests of the gentry, land annexation seriously affected the tenant's autumn harvest and the circulation of currency and goods, causing the national treasury to be deficient, the grain storage is greatly reduced, and the prices of private goods have risen frequently. Therefore, when the Regent Huai King dispatched the treasury, he also felt that the annexation trend was not good for the royal family and even the Huai Kingdom, and he would support His Majesty in this administration at the beginning.

I can use the "land division policy" to go to various places to implement new policy reforms, elect poor scholars to specialize in the merger, and recommend talents to local governments to jointly assist His Majesty in implementing various key policies of "land division policy". In this way, this method can be implemented without the regent of the Huai King knowing the new policy... and eroding the power of the gentry."

He had already spoken to this point and looked at Emperor Wei with a sincere face.

The young emperor sitting cross-legged in a high position, holding a black square treasure mo, frowned and stared at Jiang Chengyi. A trace of suspicion appeared in his deep eyes, and said, "Jiang Qing... is he trying to implement the new policy like Deng's... to install his own hands..."

He asked a tentative question.

Jiang Chengyi was stunned and stared at the emperor motionlessly, then turned to a disappointed and chilled look and said, "If Your Majesty thought this was the case... When I first recommended myself, Your Majesty shouldn't have appointed me as the Eastern Palace Office..."

Emperor Wei continued to test: "Jiang Qing's talent should be assigned to the position of Dongfu. My decision at that time was to test the attitude of the gentry towards Jiang Qing, a poor man who was born in the world. However, what surprised me was that King Huai was in the same heart as me and suppressed the opposition from the court officials for you. Although I knew that this was probably the plan of my uncle who deliberately provoked you and me.

But it was unexpected that not long after, the gentry in the court had no opinions about your position as the Dongfu Office... I am really curious... Although Jiang Qing is a talented Confucian scholar in the literary world, his disciples and scholars are also spread all over the world, he is still a poor family. Why did the geniuses accept you as an official in the court so quickly?"

This series of questions made Jiang Chengyi's dark and bright eyes dim.

He knew that the Emperor of Wei had never completely trusted him, and he knew that the Emperor of Wei was full of doubts about him, but now he was a minister, not only for the loyal and righteous people in the world, but also for those talented and scholars who admired Emperor Wei's reputation outside. How could such a king be worthy of entrusting and how could he display their ambitions?

Jiang Chengyi sneered, her eyes were pure and unrestrained. She looked at the gaze that Emperor Wei came to search for, and said coldly: "Your Majesty is suspicious. It is because Jiang has no power to let go of his doubts and let others use it. This is Jiang's fault. If Your Majesty thinks that Jiang is interested in circling the court and seizing power, now, he can depose Jiang's position as the Eastern Palace Office. Jiang also wants to retire to the mountains and rivers and go happily."

He had called himself Jiang, rather than surrendering, and his tone was slight unhappy.

The prince was stunned. Seeing the husband say such words, he couldn't help but feel a little worried. In a furious manner, his father really agreed to Jiang Chengyi's request and let him go to the mountains and rivers and no longer care about the affairs of the court.

Seeing this, Emperor Wei felt certain, his eyes sank, and then he smiled slightly, "Look? I just told a few jokes. How could Jiang Qing take it seriously?"

Jiang Chengyi bowed to the Emperor of Wei without expression and said lightly: "Jiang is brave. Since Your Majesty does not want to believe in Jiang's loyalty and sincerity, Jiang also feels that there is no need to continue wasting time. Today, he will resign from the position of the Eastern Palace Office and bid farewell to Your Majesty. In this way, it is also cheap."

The atmosphere in the Nanyu Palace became awkward for a while. The prince stood aside, a little anxious, and was about to come forward to say a few words to persuade the two of them. Unexpectedly, Jiang Chengyi, who had been kneeling in the hall and never got up, glanced at him, with a warning in his eyes.

The prince paused suddenly, frowned slightly, and then held his words in his heart and continued to stand beside the Emperor of Wei without saying a word.

Emperor Wei had long been used to Jiang Chengyi's words with a straight face. He raised his eyebrows gently, and turned the good ink in his hand, and said lightly: "Forget it, it's my fault. Jiang Qing was devoted to the future of the Great Wei and the world. It's me that I was suspicious and worried..."

He had no doubt about Jiang Chengyi's intentions, but was just a test.

Now he felt relieved and apologized to him personally, and then made another promise: "The new policy proposed by Jiang Qing... Although I and the prince think it is feasible. However, the gentry is in power and the power is too large. Rampantly implementing the new policy may anger the gentry. Even if the new policy is slowed down and infiltrated, it cannot guarantee that the gentry will not notice something strange.

As Jiang Qing said, since Song Zong used the private secret transactions of many secret villages to collect unknown handles from the gentry, and colluded with Fu and Ma family to recruit soldiers and horses. If the records on this account book are true, now that the matter has been exposed, Fu and Ma family will temporarily lose their edge.

However, Sikong Fu Bo and Qinghe Shuma Yue were both important officials of the three dynasties, and their ancestors were founding elders who made great contributions with the Emperor Shizu. The two were cunning. In addition to this account book that could mobilize the soldiers of the gentry, there must be other transfers that could gather the soldiers of the gentry with tokens, which would cause harm to the Great Wei. If there were any problems when the new policy was implemented, it would inevitably lead to arouse the Fu family. Ma family took risks and raised troops to rebel.
Chapter completed!