Chapter 447 High and Low End Route
Looking at the records in the investigation report.
Luo Sheng said, "Emperor Xiaoding's attitude towards his family is not bad. My uncle, Marquis Guanjun Jinghuan, is his cousin, and my aunt is his cousin's wife. Emperor Xiaoding invested a lot of resources in the establishment of Wushuang Marquisate. He is a peaceful emperor and has no antagonistic feelings towards his family. It's just that my aunt has not been to Chang'an since my uncle passed away. It's possible that Emperor Xiaoding was affected during this period."
Luo Wuji coughed lightly and said, "It is very likely that Emperor Xiaoding is a bit soft-hearted and is more likely to believe in some slanders. His attitude towards the family depends on the ministers and relatives around him.
Where is the emperor today?"
A Luo clan girl said crisply, "Unfamiliar. The current emperor is unfamiliar with our family. He came to Changle from a vassal king, and our family has never had any contact with him. However, he is determined and is basically not influenced by his ministers."
Emperor Liu Dan was a martial emperor who fought on the battlefield. Such a person usually would not change his orders every day and had his own judgment.
Um……
At least that's how it was when we were young and wise.
No one knows whether he will become demented when he gets old. After all, even an emperor of Li Longji's level in the first half of his life became so demented that he had a hemorrhage and didn't even recognize his mother.
"So currently the family is not a threat in the eyes of the emperor."
This is not based on feeling. The family is not very surprised by this result. Everything has a law. Unless you encounter a war god, the decline will always come slowly. The same is true for the relationship between the family and the royal family. The political mutual trust built over the years cannot disappear suddenly.
"But it is indeed getting worse. The overall quality of Emperor Liu is declining, and the mutual trust between the two sides is decreasing. It may encounter unexpected events, but the family has nothing to fear."
The fate of most loyal ministers depends on the emperor. Many people praised Li Shimin for not killing his meritorious officials because there were not many emperors who did not kill their meritorious officials. Similarly, there were not many emperors who were willing to give their ministers a good end.
Because the treacherous ministers were unwilling to take the blame for the emperor, the emperor had no choice but to choose loyal ministers to take the blame. We usually call this quality of the emperor "mean and ungrateful."
Many people list being mean and ungrateful as qualities of an excellent emperor, and often use Emperor Jing of Han as an example, which is actually putting the cart before the horse.
Emperor Jing of Han had excellent political abilities. His harshness and ungratefulness were not his strengths. How could such a trait, which only caused disunity, be an excellent quality?
Emperor Chongzhen was also mean and ungrateful, and he was crazy about passing on the blame. The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were indeed corrupt, but there were also many loyal ministers, many of whom worked for him, but when something went wrong, they were killed by him.
What was Chongzhen’s final outcome?
He couldn't even find someone to take the blame for his crime. Before he died, he could only feel helpless and furious, leaving behind the words "all civil officials can be killed."
I guess the ministers feel aggrieved. Those who worked for you were dealt with by you yourself. Now no one is taking the blame for you, and you are still feeling aggrieved.
"The family has nothing to fear!"
Everyone spoke in unison, their words full of determination. What the Luo family feared least was conspiracy and intrigue, and what they worried about most was being upright and aboveboard. After all, the emperor was the emperor, and unless the Luo family was willing to break the political rules, they would naturally be at a disadvantage facing the emperor.
"The Liu clan's attitude towards the family is not very good."
Luo's son sneered and said, "The Liu clan has always had a bad attitude towards the family. They are always trying to prove that they are the most noble."
The royal family seems to have an obsession with being the number one family. Li Shimin ranked Li first in his clan chronicles, and when the Song Dynasty compiled the Hundred Family Surnames, Zhao was also ranked first. The Liu family does the same now, but people's habits are not so easy to change.
Among the Zhou states, Ji Jiang was the most noble, and among Ji Jiang, Luo and Lu were the most noble. This was a custom passed down for thousands of years. The main branch of the Lu family was destroyed, and its reputation suffered a major blow. However, the Luo family was different and could not be shaken by a simple century-old royal family.
Power can change people's words but cannot change their thoughts. Even though people put Liu before Luo on the surface, in fact even the emperor knew the true ranking.
This is the root cause of the Liu royal family’s dissatisfaction with the Luo family. It sounds a bit funny, but the values of people at that time were so different.
"The attitude of the Liu clan is both important and unimportant. Their power is strong, but too weak. Even if they are dissatisfied, it will disappear in less than 50 years."
The power of the Liu family's princes was not weak. Although they could not threaten the central government, they were behemoths in the local areas. After all, the princes' territories had at least several counties. Although it was far from comparable to when the Han Dynasty was just established, they were still stronger than the marquises.
However, the power of the Liu clan princes had a very short shelf life. The continuation of their wealth and power depended on how quickly the new emperor would give birth to sons and whether the emperor trusted them and allowed them to make contributions to maintain the kingdom.
"The power of the Liu clan princes is basically only in the local area, not in the court. Instead of focusing on the Liu clan, it is better to focus on the marquises and relatives. These two types of people are the ones who decide the top positions in the court."
It is an indisputable fact that the influence of the marquises and relatives on the court is far greater than that of the princes.
"The family has considerable influence among the marquises, and has many allies, but many of them are drifting away, mainly because these marquises have always wanted to start a war, and the family disagrees. However, the five marquises, the Huaiyin Han family, the Anyang Han family, the Jimo Lu family, the Linzi Lu family, and the Lanling Xiao family, have relatively close relations with the family, enough to suppress the marquises."
There is no need to say much about the Han and Lu families. The Lanling Xiao family is the descendant of Xiao He, Marquis of Ling. During the reign of Emperor Liu Che, they were re-enfeoffed to Lanling. The Xiao family is very different from the Liu family and belongs to a very close family of marquises.
Lanling is a very important location, so the Xiao family was sealed here to guard it for the Liu family.
"The in-laws of Emperor Liu Dan have similar brains to the former King Han's mother.
Before, I thought I was rich and wanted to marry into the family, so naturally I didn’t even respond. At that time, I made harsh remarks, which might have been slandered to the emperor, but it was not a big problem. "
The King of Han was Liu Ruyi, and his mother was Concubine Qi, a woman who might have mental problems. She was a negative example in the Luo family and was always brought up when educating their children.
This was the case with Liu Dan's maternal family. Because of her beauty, she was taken into the palace by Emperor Wu of Han and gave birth to Liu Dan. As a result, Liu Dan suddenly became the emperor, and his family became prominent all of a sudden. They even thought they could use their power to marry the daughter of the Luo family.
Although it felt incredible, there are always many things happening in this world that can make the Luo family dumbfounded. When Luo Sheng dealt with this matter at that time, he naturally refused it directly.
After hearing what Luo Sheng said, many people showed astonishment and asked in confusion: "Sir, you just said that someone asked for marriage with the family?
Marry into the family, or marry a woman from the family?"
If she marries into the family, the Luo family might actually investigate. If the other party's family background is clean, the woman has good character and appearance, and is well-educated, they might really arrange a marriage for her.
What if I marry a daughter of the Luo family?
In other words, go as far away as the world allows. Marrying a daughter of Luo family depends on fate and whether you are compatible with each other. Proposing marriage is not an option.
"Marry a woman from the family."
Luo Sheng gave a positive answer. Luo Wuji was silent after hearing this. He didn't know about this outrageous thing. He smiled helplessly and said, "What do you think?
I have a daughter in my family, the whole world wants her, but I can't get her. What an unexpected disaster."
Everyone laughed at Luo Wuji's words, and the somewhat depressing atmosphere in the room was swept away. If this happened in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it would definitely be featured in the "Humor Collection".
When we take stock of this, it's actually nothing. The Luo family has always taken the high-level route, and the high-level officials have always had less hostility towards the Luo family. Just like during the Zhou Dynasty, the attitudes of the various countries towards the Luo family were very good.
"Let's take a look at the people's first."
Luo Wuji said, directly skipping the middle class. Everyone understood why, because the situation at the upper and lower levels was predictable, but the thoughts of the middle class were much more complicated.
“Thanks to our ancestor, the Su King, the Luo family, as a descendant of the Su King, has a very good reputation among the people, especially when the people are in crisis. However, this reputation is false because the family does not directly control the survival of these people. You all know that people will obey the orders of those who control their survival resources.
But this is something the family cannot do. The family has done its best to control the current scale of the Luo family. Unless we move up further, we will be able to legitimately control more people and resources."
What Luo Sheng said was later called means of production!
Whoever controls the means of production controls power.
Means of production, at a smaller scale, include food, weapons, and resources. At a larger scale, they include reputation, knowledge, etc.
In addition to the power of the Divine Artifact of Destiny, the reason why the Luo family is so powerful is because the Luo family controls so many means of production, second only to the emperor.
Moreover, the means of production controlled by the Rockefellers are indestructible, like a stone fortress, and are difficult to lose.
“That’s enough.
The human heart is like water, constantly changing. For the same thing, some people are grateful while others are resentful. This is the human heart.
Even money cannot be liked by everyone. There are people like Zhuangzi who hate it. What about a family that ultimately lives on the earth?
As long as there is a little faith in the ancestor among the people of the world, the family will be able to gather them together and set off a wave that is enough to destroy everything. "
The Luo family is the Luo family, and the Su King is the Su King. People in the world can make a relatively clear distinction between them. The sacredness of the Su King is related to the reputation of the Luo family, but not much. The reputation of the Luo family is mainly accumulated from generation to generation.
Moreover, for people born in the Central Plains, when this world was created and gradually improved, there was a rule that caused people to be born with a -50% BUFF of faith purity. There were very few people who were so fanatical, which was exactly the opposite of the Western Regions.
Everyone turned their eyes to the last stack of papers, the middle class which was the most troublesome, had the most changing ideas, and the most complicated interests.
(End of this chapter)
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