Chapter 364: Ass decides the head (seven)
"Hahaha..." Li Shimin laughed loudly in the back palace.
Empress Changsun immediately asked, "Emperor, what are the happy events?"
Li Shimin said proactively: "Today, Chen Fei broke up with the Chen family, and Chen Fei will never be able to get together with the Chen family in the future. So, I am very happy."
"Chen Fei, the Chen family, their surname is Chen, why did they get into trouble? Even if they were not together, they were also a family five hundred years ago!" asked Empress Changsun.
But Li Shimin said, "What I am most worried about is that Chen Fei and the Chen family are getting together, which will not benefit me. Chen Fei is a talent. Recently, I just got the news that the military weapon surveillance can prepare enough weapons and equipment before the Northern Expedition of the Turks next year. Even more, this is brought by Chen Fei. Chen Fei is competent for any position and does not seize power too much. Such a person is born to be a prime minister. The only pity is that he is not our family. If it is my family, then I can use him more!"
"Your Majesty, isn't he already engaged to Princess Wanchun?" asked Empress Changsun.
"But Wanchun is not my real sister!" Li Shimin said.
Empress Changsun immediately said: "Emperor, this may not be a good thing. Because didn't Chen Fei claim to be a farmer in the morning and ascend to the emperor's hall in the evening? Since this is the case, it means that the emperor still attaches great importance to talents. As long as he is a talent, he is not afraid of not being valued. Moreover, since Chen Fei gave up the idea of entering the Chen family for the sake of the emperor. He is a loyal minister. The emperor might as well let him be a proposition and let poor scholars in the world see how the emperor attaches importance to poor talents!"
Li Shimin also nodded. Chen Fei refused the Chen family's recruitment, which was a very good thing. In this era, it was not easy to reject the recruitment of the gentry! The power of the gentry is very huge. This power is not only reflected in the official culture and financial resources, but also in a way that people want. Even ordinary people think that they should be born inferior to the gentry, and even the most ordinary people think that their status is lower than that of the gentry, which is what they should do. They are all complaining that their origins are too low and their bloodlines are too low. This thinking has been deeply rooted in the bones. Countless people think that a person's future is born, that is, they will always be a gentry, and ordinary people are always ruled and are not qualified to strive for progress.
This social atmosphere is very terrible. So Li Shimin wanted to reverse it. Of course, as an emperor, he was actually very contradictory. On the one hand, he hoped that the people could recognize the imperial power and were naturally noble in their blood. But he was also worried that the people below would lose the idea of challenging the gentry. If the people were born to lose the idea of fighting with them, then in the end, the gentry would probably always threaten the emperor by controlling the people. Therefore, the emperor hoped that the people would have the courage to challenge the gentry, but on the other hand, he did not want to destroy the gentry's thinking of the gentry's divine authority.
If these gentry were allowed to deliberately raise their so-called bloodlines and make the people dare not resist, then the country would be very sad. In this way, the entire country would be content to rule. However, the final result would be a bad result for imperial power. This result would inevitably be a feudal backward world, which can be seen from the later caste system of India.
But Chen Fei is different. Chen Fei doesn't take the so-called nobility of the gentry seriously. Instead, he can have the courage to challenge the gentry and can fight against the entire gentry. This spirit is the positive energy and main theme that we should encourage at present. The emperor hopes that more and more people can take the initiative, challenge the status of the gentry, and then strive to trample on the gentry. However, after those who trample on the gentry, another group of people will continue to trample on the front, which means that they cannot form a family that has been hundreds of years. Only when a family that has been hundreds of years can the ruling class be rotated frequently and the emperor will be safe!
But the atmosphere of the entire era is that origin determines everything. Both the gentry and ordinary people think so, which makes Li Shimin very upset. At this time, Chen Fei came up with a saying that "general and minister are not born with a seed, and men should be self-reliant", which gives Li Shimin the idea of establishing a typical example. As long as Chen Fei can be erected as a typical example, countless poor students, even ordinary people, can have the courage to challenge the status of those gentry. As long as there are people who constantly challenge the status of the gentry, the gentry will definitely be unstable.
It took hundreds of years for the gentry to make ordinary people acknowledge their noble bloodline, which gave the people an illusion that they could not violate it. However, Chen Fei slapped the gentry hard. Obviously, Chen Fei would rather be a poor family than be a gentry, which would be equivalent to spraying the remarks of noble bloodlines into stinky dog shit.
How could Li Shimin dare not make such a "good courage" person? As long as the world regards the so-called noble theory of the gentry as stinky dog shit, how could the gentry be proud? As long as the people in the world do not recognize that the gentry is born noble, the gentry will be pulled down from the altar. It took them hundreds of years to create an image that looks extremely noble, but this time they will inevitably be gradually offset by Li Shimin's creation of the gentry. As long as they can continuously let everyone see, those who despise the gentry and look down on the gentry can ride on the full scale to shit, what majesty can be said? The noble thought of the gentry that took hundreds of years to establish, Li Shimin hopes to break this idea.
"Emperor, you must protect Chen Fei well next, so that he cannot be trampled by the gentry. He must make him live a free life, because he has become a public enemy of the gentry. As long as people in the world can see it, someone seriously offended the gentry, there is no problem, it is equivalent to slapping the gentry in the face!" Queen Changsun said.
"Well, it's reasonable! Next, I must protect Chen Fei well and show the people of the world through it. The gentry is not something that tigers cannot touch. I want the people of the world to have the courage to touch the tiger's butt. What's more, this gentry may not be a real tiger, maybe it's a paper tiger!" Li Shimin said.
Li Shimin did not expect that the word "Paper Tiger" appeared a lot in advance with just one sentence. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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