When Yan Fei came to Tai Chi Palace again, he found that the number of guards here was increasing than before. The eunuchs and palace maids were almost gone.

"I've seen Your Majesty." Yan Fei entered the side hall and saw Li Shimin talking to Du Ruhui in his confidant adviser Fang Xuanling. After stepping forward and giving Li Shimin a confession, he greeted the two prime ministers.

As the emperor, Li Shimin must have hated Yan Fei's inappropriate attitude. However, Li Shimin is a pragmatist. Compared to the etiquette shown by outsiders, he attaches more importance to the benefits in reality. Therefore, when he received the benefits given by Yan Fei one after another and knew that even the army had no choice but to deal with Yan Fei for the time being, he chose to ignore it.

As for Fang Mou Duan, these two are top-notch smart people, so naturally they would not take the initiative to come out and provoke trouble when the emperor pretended not to know.

They had tried to place Yan Fei with a formal official position or even title before, but Yan Fei refused. At this time, Yan Fei refused to perform the ceremony on the grounds of foreigners, but once he accepted the official position and title, it was equivalent to joining the Tang Dynasty system, so his reasons would not work.

"Yes." Li Shimin nodded casually, "It's important to come to you to discuss with you."

Yan Fei did not rush to speak, but looked at Fang Mou and Du Duan first. He was convinced that at least at this time Wei Zheng, who was very famous in the textbooks of the modern world, was not Li Shimin's true confidant. Although Wei Zheng was very famous in the modern world, Li Shimin's true confidant was still Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui.

As for Wei Zheng, who was once a confidant counselor of Li Jiancheng, he also came up with the idea to kill Li Shimin in advance. The reason why he was famous in later generations was not only because he was a square person and was called the mirror of the eternal people. A very important point is that Wei Zheng was actually one of the representatives of the Shandong family on the surface. And the subsequent generations were mastered by those Confucians, so naturally they praised Wei Zheng.

And this time the private discussion target is those aristocratic families, so naturally they would not call Wei Zheng.

"Zihou." Du Ruhui stepped forward and smiled and said, "Thank you, Zihou, for delivering food the day before yesterday, alleviating the food shortage in Chang'an City. He also borrowed the livestock in the cattle pen outside the city to my Tang Dynasty. I am deeply grateful."

"Wait a minute." Yan Fei interrupted Du Ruhui's words, looked him carefully, then took out a plate of broad-spectrum antibiotics with a shelf life of up to five years from the bag he carried and handed them to him. "This is the medicine from our house, you can take it. If you have a critical condition of wind evil entering the body within five years and keep the fever going, then you divide the medicine into nine portions and take it three times a day for three days. If it doesn't work, continue to take it until the disease is cured."

"You must remember that if you have more than five years, you must not enter the mouth again. Because if you lose the effect after five years, it will become poison. After you go back, you will be stored in a cool place and you will never see the light."

The reason why Du Ruhui was given antibiotics was because Yan Fei remembers historical records that Du Ruhui would die of illness after more than two years because he had an acute illness and high fever. A generation of famous officials had not even had time to use his talents to die in the hands of a sudden disease. Yan Fei was not sure if he would be here in more than two years, so he simply gave him a chance to survive.

Du Ruhui looked at the strange medicine board in his hand with a strange look. Because it was fully sealed, he couldn't see what was inside. However, the expression on Du Ruhui's face was very exciting. He was only in his early forties at this time, and he was just ambitious.

He is ambition to do a big fight. But Yan Fei's meaning seems to be unable to live for a few years, so no one likes to listen to such words.

Fang Xuanling, who was standing beside him, touched Du Ruhui for a moment, and gave him a faint look. Du Ruhui, who suddenly came over, immediately smiled and took the medicine board. Not only did he thank Yan Fei solemnly, but he also sincerely invited Yan Fei to his house to be a guest.

Li Shimin's eyes changed, and he exchanged his eyes with his two confidant ministers at the same time. From time to time, he would look like "you see, I'll know" floating towards Yan Fei.

Looking at the pantomime played by the three monarchs and ministers in front of him, Yan Fei understood in his heart that they regarded themselves as charlatans who could calculate and calculate, and that Du Ruhui would suffer from illness within a few years. Although Yan Fei was not a charlatan, he did learn about this through historical records, which was also a premonition for the uncertainty.

After finally waiting for Li Shimin and the others to finish the pantomime, Yan Fei could finally wait until they got to the point.

"Does Zihou know that my famous family in the Tang Dynasty?" Du Ruhui continued to follow the previous topic.

"Five surnames and seven hopes?" Yan Fei understood as soon as he heard this. He was preparing to deal with these famous families. No wonder he didn't call Wei Zheng over.

The imperial examination system founded by Emperor Yang of Sui was an epoch-making feat. This system gave the common people a formal opportunity to stand out. But before that, China had continued the economic divination system and the political nine-rank Zhongzheng system.

The customization of land occupation has led to a large number of land being concentrated in the hands of a few aristocratic families. This extreme land annexation directly led to the bankruptcy of a large number of self-cultivated farmers and became slaves and tenants. Naturally, the result is that

The class contradictions intensify, and the result of a large number of farmers losing their land was that the national power quickly fell until foreign invasion turned the farmland into pastures and completely destroyed everything.

The nine-rank Zhongzheng system led to the fact that those aristocratic families that monopolized knowledge also monopolized political resources. At its peak, any official had nothing to do with these aristocratic families. As for ordinary civilians, they had no chance to make a name for themselves. Unless they were raising flags and rebelling.

Relying on the fields and tenants in hand, relying on monopolizing knowledge and inextricably linked relationships with countless officials, these aristocratic families have even reached a point where the emperor cannot resist.

Yang Guang, who was able to rank among hundreds of emperors in history, was moved by the pressure from these aristocratic families and the Guanlong military group. Therefore, he launched a large-scale war to consume their power. At the same time, he started a canal to recruit their tenants. He even created an imperial examination system that could be said to be a fatal blow to the aristocratic families.

It is precisely because these measures greatly touched the interests of the aristocratic families that Yang Guang's world was defeated so quickly under their joint counterattack.

The representative forces of these aristocratic families are the famous Five surnames and Seven Hopes.

It's ridiculous to say that the so-called five surnames and seven hopes were actually enthroned by Emperor Xiaowen of Wei, who was a Hu person. But these gentry, who have always claimed to be the blood of the orthodox Han, have accepted the enthronement of such great surnames from all over the world and the great families.

It’s not that they don’t understand that those Hu people want to use their power to continue to enslave the ordinary Han people who occupy the vast majority, but because they get the benefits they want, of course they will not object. In the face of interests, everything else is just a cloud.

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Shandong mentioned here is not a Shandong Province in the traditional sense. It refers to a vast area east of Wushan, which almost covers the entire Central Plains.

Among these five major families, there are two branches of the Cui family, one is the Cui family of Boling and the other is the Cui family of Qinghe. The Li family also has two branches, namely the Li family of Longxi and Li family of Zhaojun. The Li Yuan family is from the Li family of Longxi. However, it seems that he took the initiative to lean over with him by himself.

The power of these aristocratic families is extremely strong and can have a vague influence on the government. They even intervened in the dispute over the crown prince.

The person they supported before was Prince Li Jiancheng, and even Li Jiancheng's princess Zheng Guanyin came from the famous Zheng family in Xingyang. The five surnames and seven families have always been in the same spirit and are connected to each other and intermarried within. This shows how great their capital under Li Jiancheng is.

Although Li Shimin launched the Xuanwu Gate Incident for various reasons, the result was that the investment of the five surnames and Qiwang for many years was so vain that their first counterattack was when Jie Li's army headed south, taking advantage of the opportunity of foreign invasion to boost the grain prices in Chang'an City. At the peak of the grain prices, the rice was worth a piece of silk, which was as high as more than 500 min per bucket.

Although there are a large number of officials, wealthy businessmen and powerful people in Chang'an City, the vast majority of them are still ordinary citizens. The price of more than 500 ciders per dou of rice is to force them to death, and various chaos naturally erupted.

Stimulated by this internal worry, Li Shimin, who had just ascended the throne and had not been able to sit firmly for a while, had to endure a huge sense of shame and kill a white horse with Jie Li on the banks of the Weishui River. He almost emptied the Tang Dynasty's treasury to Jie Li as his hard work to withdraw his troops.

This is an unbearable humiliation for Li Shimin, who had been in great ambitions since childhood, and after the uprising, he fought against the north and north, and used his own strength to conquer the Tang Dynasty.

Jie Li, who directly humiliated Li Shimin, is already done, but for Li Shimin, who has a strong self-esteem, he has only avenged half of his revenge. When Jie Li went south, he caused trouble to him and almost made the entire Tang Dynasty overturn him, the Five surnames and Seven Hopes, which almost overturned the entire Tang Dynasty, became his next target of attack.

In history, Li Shimin could not bear the pressure of these aristocratic families and suppressed them repeatedly through various methods. For example, re-revising the clan, using various reasons to kill and exil the core figures of the Five Clans and Seven Hopes, etc., but he was never able to completely eradicate these aristocratic families.

The real collapse of the Five Sects and Seven Hopes was during the period when Wu Zetian was in power. Wu Zetian, who had been practicing cold-blooded and ruthless in the harem, severely hit the aristocratic families and led to their demise. By the time the Tang Dynasty was destroyed and the world was in chaos again finally arrived at the Song Dynasty, these aristocratic families had dissipated in the long river of history.

"I want to take revenge." Li Shimin directly explained his thoughts to Yan Fei. "I want to use food to attack those families with inhumane families. I need your help."

Yan Fei also had no fondness for the aristocratic families headed by the Five Clans and Seven Wangs. The reason is that it is very simple, because he himself is from a civilian.
Chapter completed!