Before we reached the city gate, we saw a large group of people coming out of the city gate.

This meeting was very low-key, but the meaning of the representative was quite significant. It was the first face-to-face meeting between the emperor and the top family of Shandong.

An old man stood in front, although he was arrogant and had to be accurate in his position. This emperor was more reasonable, and he was more reasonable. He was not reasonable and he would turn against him quickly. At least in terms of momentum, he should be welcomed by the emperor, and he could not let the people have the impression that the emperor came to pay homage.

In a rational way, they stay at home and wait for Li Wei to pay a visit. It is very likely that Li Wei will take a look in Mengyang, and the Zheng family will not take a step forward, and then leave Mengyang.

Uncle Zheng Lian introduced: "This is my father."

"See Your Majesty."

"Wen Zheng asked him to get up", Li Wei helped him up. Then he looked at it and looked thin but energetic. He was wearing a long robe with a wide top and a very wide bottom. It was different from the current Tang suit and was very similar to the clothes of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

It's orthodox, not surprising.

I looked at the crowd, including the children of the Zheng family and the officials of Mengyang.

He welcomed Li Wei directly to Zheng Mansion.

A very spacious mansion does not have the tall buildings of Wei E in the palace, but the courtyard is deep, and many walls are covered with moss, and a heavy history can be found in almost every corner. This is also the foundation. But Li Wei knew that the Zheng family in Xingyang is not only this mansion, but strictly speaking, one-third of the residential houses in Xingyang City are the industries of the Zheng family.

When it was time for dinner, a table was set up in the hall of Zheng's family, and the wine and food were brought up like running water. The top families also pay attention to etiquette when eating, and they absolutely do not speak. After eating, they brought up tea, but this tea was not for drinking, but for mouth-testing. After the strong aroma of shabu-mouth tea, everyone rinsed their mouths and put on sugar-burning corn-flavored mouths (the ancients did not have toothbrushes and toothpaste. Sometimes when they were angry, the mouth was very smelly, so they stir-fried corn seeds with sugar to chew some stench in their mouths). Then they brought the tea after meal.

Bier said, "Good show."

Li Wei also whispered: "No, although the Zheng family is big, they support many people. In terms of living standards, they may not necessarily be as rich businessmen. This is to entertain me...."

After chatting casually, the officials of Mengyang were tactful and stood up to say goodbye one by one.

Uncle Zheng Lian's father stood up and came to Li Wei and said, "I heard that Your Majesty has liked books since he was a child. Our Zheng family has been lucky enough to have replaced it several times and preserved some books. I want to ask Your Majesty to admire you, are you willing?"

"It's a good job Zheng Weng."

The two stood up and stood up.

It is fake to ask Li Wei to go to the study room to read the book, but it is true to go to a secret conversation.

When he came to the study, Li Wei looked at it and found that there were indeed many books... Some of them were kept for a long time and even the bamboo slips turned yellow because of the long history. Li Wei read it slightly, and under the guidance of the old man of the Zheng family... he came to the desk to sit down.

The servant brought the tea and immediately stepped down.

Zheng's father said, "I have heard of many things about Your Majesty in Mengyang for a long time, and I have admired you for a long time."

This is a polite remark of malnutrition. Don't take it seriously. The Zheng family moved to Mengyang for hundreds of years and experienced several dynasties to pass the remarks. Some of the emperors were still very good, and they had never seen them put down their bodies.

"I dare not behave, I just remember the words of the ancestor emperor: The king is a boat, the people are water, and they can also carry boats and overturn the boats. I just want the Tang Dynasty to stand a longer time so that the people can have more peace."

How can we be more long-term? These aristocratic families think that dynasties can be destroyed, but whether a dynasty can be destroyed will have many things to do if it is long-term. Li Wei did not want to delay and vaguely brought the words to the topic.

"Your Majesty can definitely do it, I have heard of the Huaizhou case."

"Um."

"I have something to say."

"But it's okay."

"When it comes to annexation, some do things for profit, and some are forced to do things. For example, some common landlords have wealth and countless manors, but they only need to support their relatives but only dozens of people. But some have huge families, with tens of thousands.

The peaceful development of the court is a blessing for the people. But the population is growing more and more, I don’t want to do it, and I have to do it.”

"Wen Zheng, please forgive me for being frank. What you said is very absurd. I thought about the situation of your Zheng family when I was the prince for a long time. If you had not been annexed, what you said might have happened. Therefore, I thought hard and thought about good strategies, so I had sailing. It was nothing but win-win. If you were ashamed of talking about business, overseas are all unparalleled lands. Even if there are some indigenous people, their civilization and weapons are far from being enemy of the people of the Central Plains. On the contrary, these indigenous people can serve as gangs. On the contrary, these indigenous people can serve as gangs.

To raise and help us cultivate these new areas. In this way, since we can solve the disadvantages brought about by the increase in population, we can also expand the territory for the imperial court. If we are nostalgic about the countryside, how can ordinary people defeat you famous families? Even if our dynasty emperors and wise men of all dynasties cannot be left with you, the top families in Guanzhong, Henan, Hebei, in the future, are you the top families? Do aristocratic families have perfect good things? Without long-term plans, they will have immediate worries. It is better to leave them to the descendants to solve them."

Because there is overseas, Li Wei is justified.

But this sentence is very serious, and Zheng’s father’s face looks a little ugly.

Li Wei pretended not to see it and said, "Weng Zheng, I discussed it with my husband Liu Rengui on the way. I once said, "In the country is a country, at home is a family, and in the clan, as the head of the family, we always want to make our family and clan live a better life."

"yes."

"But I am the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but I can't think about how to make dozens of families strong and how rich. What I want to think about is how to make the entire country stronger and the people become richer. This people are not the hundreds of thousands of subjects of the top aristocratic family, but tens of millions of people in the entire Tang Dynasty. Although your aristocratic family also made contributions to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, "This is a saying that was once again boosted. In the Tang Dynasty, several disciples of the Zheng family had contributed their efforts, but the entire Zheng family continued to watch. Not only the Zheng family, but in addition to the Pei family, the top aristocratic families in Shandong, including the five surnames and seven families, did not contribute much. Continue: "I can only consider the overall situation. But your big families have a long history, a rigorous family style, and many talents."

He bit the talents very seriously. In the early Tang Dynasty, the five surnames and seven families were still standing by and watching, and did not devote himself to the court.

There may be many talents who can serve the imperial court, but not many.

"The red flowers still want green leaves to match. Therefore, I am not evil to your big families. Even now, I am not thinking about how to prevent annexation. As long as I do not blame others, my attitude towards this is just to close one eye. This trip is just to look at people's livelihood, water conservancy, and how to expand more arable land and settle people without land or with little land. Even if there are some land seals, I will ask for rewards according to my merits and will not make the rich rich, the poor become poorer, and the country's Great Wall."

This is the signal emitted.

The problems of your big families will not be too serious if you take the initiative to surrender to the court. If I don’t touch you, you will use other means to win over civilians or common people, or the children of meritorious people to come to power. As one goes down and the other goes up, the power of your big families will become weaker and weaker.

The attitude is still very tough.

Zheng's father lost his teacup for a while and finally asked, "My Majesty, what do you think of our big families?"

"Wen Zheng looked at this pot of bonsai..." Li Wei pointed to a pot of Wu Lao Pine bonsai on the table and said. The bonsai is very delicate, with thick and vigorous branches, and several branches are curved and twisted, which is very easy to miss the southern bonsai.

"Your Majesty is..."

"Beautiful means beauty, but this pine will never grow tall and not grow big. The country is also a big tree, with roots, stems, branches and leaves. I said that red flowers need green leaves to be violated, and the same is true for trees. If the branches are not multiplied, how can the leaves flourish? Only when the branches are lush can the trees grow taller and bigger. But there is a prerequisite: each branch is thicker than the trunk, but it is not a single branch, but a few or dozens of branches are thicker than the main trunk. Will this tree grow into a towering tree?"

This is the second signal sent. I do not reject your major families, but you must rely on the jurisdiction of the court.

"Your Majesty, the same is true for several dynasties and our major families."

"Wen Zheng, I also talked about this. Since the emergence of the clans of the Eastern Han Dynasty, some clans, such as your Xingyang Zheng family, have been promoted from dynasties, but your family stands tall. The Northern Wei entered the Central Plains, and in exchange for the support of the Han people, they even carried your big families to an unprecedented height." This sentence is a bit sarcastic. Why did the five surnames and seven families exist, but it was still a Hu regime? Zheng's father's face became ugly again. Li Wei continued: "However, when Qi and Zhou Dynasty saw that your big families were too big, they began to think of suppression. When the Sui Dynasty, suppression was gone, and it was useless."

Not only during the Qi, Zhou and Sui Dynasty, Li Shimin and Li Zhi were unable to speak with each other and were not allowed to associate with each other, but also to compile the "Clan Chronicle", which was also suppressing it. But it was still useless. Li Wei, who was not saying it, continued: "However, the flowers are not red for a hundred days, and your family is rigorous, and you survived. But when you look at the Yuan family in the Eastern Han Dynasty, where is the current scene of the overseas Chinese in the Southeast? Zheng Weng, can you guarantee that every generation of your family can still maintain its former glory under the extreme dissatisfaction of the court? Remember, this is the Tang Dynasty. After the hard work of Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Taizong and Emperor Taishang, it has been a scene of hundreds of years of foundation. Instead of the short-lived era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and Sui Dynasty, there is still time..."

"Does Biping also want to suppress our major families?"

"Yes, I really want to think deeply in my heart. There are many benefits to being able to suppress your big families. There is no force in China that cannot be defeated, and government orders are connected to the top and bottom, which is easy to govern. Without the leaders of your big families, there will be no more people who imitate you, slouch the court, and trade marriages. Without your big families, there will be no more family opinions and distinctions between noble and humble. If you carefully manage it, it will be easy to achieve theoretical equality for everyone and equality for everyone, and the people will not complain, and the country will not have the Zhang Jiao and Chen Sheng rebellion."

Zheng's father sneered and said, "Your Majesty, you are not the one who has this idea alone, but has any emperor succeeded?"

This is in the study, otherwise the thrilling conversation between these two people would stunned all the audience.

"It seems as Zheng Weng said, but how did Baoding dissolve the cattle? Not only are you big families, the power of Tubo is stronger, and the Goryeo people. However, this powerful cow in Goryeo fell to the ground after several dissections of our court. Tubo is not long. I am not anxious. If this cow is very disobedient and has to solve it, I will definitely solve it, but it will solve it slowly. Don't wait for my descendants, I believe that I will have decades of light and shade in my life, and this cow will definitely be dissected in my hands!"
Chapter completed!