Chapter 94 Uniting the Majority against the Minority
Unite the majority to attack the minority
Unite the majority and attack the minority. This strategy has proven successful time and time again.
Once, Li Zhiyun united the emerging nobles and Shandong gentry to attack the Guanlong people. Later, he united the Guanlong people and the southerners to attack the Shandong gentry. Now, he unites the Guanlong people and the Shandong gentry to attack the southerners.
Smart people can naturally see through the strange things, but the problem is that smart people can't change reality.
Can the people of Guanlong refuse the emperor's offer of release?
cannot!
Yu Zhining is extremely happy to investigate the case now.
Can the Shandong gentry refuse?
Still can’t!
No one can refuse the good intention of a prosperous imperial saint, even if this good intention is to appease them, they cannot refuse!
The fundamental reason is that they are not of the same mind at all.
The Guanlong nobles consider themselves to be the mainstay of the empire and the heroes who established the country. Even the Li family of the royal family was born in Guanlong. They have always been enemies with the Shandong gentry and the southern gentry!
Even though the world was in chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Guanlong nobles did not choose to join forces with these two parties, but supported Li Yuan alone to replace the Sui Dynasty and establish the Tang Dynasty.
Further afield, the same was true in the Sui Dynasty and Northern Zhou Dynasty!
The same is true for the Shandong nobles. They don't deal with the Guanlong nobles, and they don't deal with the southern nobles. If there is a chance, why not suppress the other party?
Don't mention that aristocratic families are connected by the same spirit, it's pure nonsense!
There are only so many resources. The more other families die, the happier they will be.
Don’t believe it?
Ask Wang Gui, who was born in the Wang family in Taiyuan, if he enjoys investigating crimes.
Aristocratic families are like the roots of an old tree, buried deep in the ground and intertwined with each other. Those who act like Emperor Yang of Sui are courting death!
It was not wrong for him to choose to kill the Guanlong nobles, because the Guanlong nobles were indeed not a good group of people, but he forgot the more crucial point.
The Shandong gentry and the southern gentry had no centripetal force towards the Sui Dynasty!
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the southern gentry gradually emerged from the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Later, during the Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen dynasties, their shadows were indispensable with the change of dynasties. They struggled to take root in the south. In other words, their regional characteristics
Very strong and narrow-sighted!
Why do you say this? Because from the beginning to the end, none of the Southern Dynasties countries supported by the southern gentry had the power to unify the world.
Remember, it's power, not mind.
Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen all had the idea of unifying the world, but they did not have the strength. The fundamental reason was that the southern gentry did not work hard and only wanted to live in a corner, taking drugs and playing metaphysics all day long.
rotten!
It's just purely rotten at the root.
Let’s look at the Northern Dynasty. It split from the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties stood side by side. Needless to say, the Western Wei Dynasty was supported by the Guanlong nobles. The supporters of the Eastern Wei Dynasty were the Shandong nobles!
The Gao family who later replaced the Northern Qi Dynasty was also backed by Shandong nobles!
To put it simply, for a long period of time, the Shandong nobles supported the Northern Qi, the Guanlong nobles supported the Northern Zhou, and the southern nobles supported the Southern Dynasties, and the three kingdoms stood side by side.
In the north, the Shandong gentry knew well that eggs cannot be put in one basket, and they also invested in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, which was supported by the Guanlong people. Therefore, after the Northern Zhou Dynasty defeated the Northern Qi, the Shandong gentry successfully merged with the Guanlong people, and both sides supported one country.
Its powerful force instantly crushed the southern countries.
At the end of the Jin Dynasty, the five barbarians and barbarians took over the Central Plains, and injected their powerful blood into the weak body of China. The dead spirit disappeared, the vitality came, and the vitality reappeared!
Why could the Southern Dynasty never defeat the divided Northern Dynasty?
What's the reason?
Isn’t this what is called ‘metaphysics’!
Those idiots in the Eastern Jin Dynasty were talking about war on paper all day long, and the only thing they could do to 'raise their hopes' was to take drugs!
They perfectly inherited the root causes of the Jin Dynasty’s stubborn diseases!
A chronic illness in the family!
What is a chronic disease?
There are no poor families in the upper class, and there are no noble families in the lower class.
The capable people are squeezed out of breath, the incompetent losers only talk to support their hopes, and the court is full of a bunch of rubbish who only know how to fight in a nest. If they don't die, who will die?
As for the Northern Dynasties, although the north was beaten into a sieve in the early days, with ten houses and nine empty houses, it was precisely because of the unreasonable cruelty of the Hu people that they suppressed the arrogance of the aristocratic families and forced them to bow their heads and cooperate obediently.
Isn’t the Northern Family powerful?
No, they are very powerful.
In the early days of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty suppressed the Northern Zhou Dynasty and suppressed the Southern Dynasty. If there was no cooperation from the Shandong nobles behind them, how could they have always had the strength to wage war.
The history of the Guanlong nobles is not as long as that of the Shandong nobles, but they are perfectly compatible with both qualities.
The wisdom of the Han family and the bravery of the Hu people.
From the Northern Zhou Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty and then to the Tang Dynasty, basically all important ministers who were born in Guanlong could become generals or prime ministers. Although the Guanlong people also talked about their family background, their requirements for family status were not as pathological as those of the Shandong gentry and the southern gentry!
In other words, the Southern and Northern Dynasties period was a competition between bad guys.
The insane royal family of the Northern Qi Dynasty tried their best to become Xianbei. Several emperors in succession went too far. They either killed ministers wantonly, killed each other within the royal family, or snatched each other's wives. Ethics were trampled under their feet.
The countries in the Southern Dynasties have been obsessed with internal strife and cannot extricate themselves.
The Northern Zhou Dynasty was also bad!
The twelve generals of the Eight Pillars Kingdom were killing each other, and there was no shortage of these things.
However, it is not as bad as Northern Qi and Southern China.
Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty wanted to kill the Guanlong people first, which was a wrong choice. Although the Guanlong people were still obsessed with the past of the "Eight Pillar Kingdoms" co-ruling the country, they were the most powerful supporters of the founding of the Sui Dynasty.
Kill the Guanlong people, and the Shandong gentry and the southern gentry will be grateful to your Yang family?
Dream on!
When Bei Zhou beat Northern Qi to death with a stick, Emperor Sui Yang could not see how the Shandong gentry ruthlessly abandoned Northern Qi.
Li Zhiyun also believed that the Guanlong nobles were a serious problem, but he did not think that if he kept suppressing the Guanlong people, the Shandong nobles and the southern nobles would be 100% loyal to him.
How is it possible!
When it comes to internal fighting, who can compare with these Shandong gentry and southern gentry who have been passed down for thousands of years?
Historically, where did the Anshi Rebellion begin? Doesn't this explain the problem?
Therefore, in Li Zhiyun's heart, all the aristocratic families in the world must die, regardless of whether they are Guanlong Nanfang or Shandong gentry, they are all not good people.
On this basis, he can suppress the Guanlong nobles, and he can also treat them appropriately.
To put it bluntly, the Guanlong people's centripetal force towards Li Tang was slightly more than that of the Shandong gentry and the southern gentry.
Well, only a little more, no more.
Li Zhiyun has been on the throne for more than ten years and has stayed in Guanzhong without moving the capital. This is not to show his attitude to the people of Guanlong.
Brother has never forgotten where he came from!
In terms of suppressing the aristocratic family, he did not imitate the idiot of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, and only focused on the Guanlong people.
You know, people don’t suffer from scarcity but from inequality!
You only suppress the Guanlong people, and Sha Bi also knows that you have opinions against the Guanlong people. How can they just sit back and wait for death?
Like now, he has been exposed to rain and dew, and he will not let go of any disobedient thorns. He will use the aristocratic family to deal with the aristocratic family.
This process is similar to a histogram.
In the first two times, if the strength of the Guanlong nobles and the Shandong nobles was 'ten', then after suppression, they are still 'five'. However, the southern nobles did not move, and they were still 'ten'. In this case, Guan Long
How could the people and Shandong gentry accept it?
This time, he once again reduced the strength of the southern nobles to 'five' to balance their triangle.
The next step is very simple, keep repeating this process, suppressing these three forces in turn, allowing them to become swords in their own hands in the internal fight, fighting each other to the death.
What's the key?
There is no rush!
Whoever rushes first will be finished.
Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty was in a hurry, so he died without a burial place.
Li Zhiyun was not anxious at all. He clung to military power, and then frantically gathered the people's hearts to control these two points and stabilize the basic market. Then he guided the situation to make the three forces of Guanlong, Shandong, and Nanfang hostile to each other.
What is it essentially?
Unite the majority and attack the minority.
Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was a lesson learned from those who tried to use imperial power to fight against aristocratic families alone.
Use magic to defeat magic.
Don't try to reason with the aristocratic family, let alone think that they will remember your kindness.
This time, he gave Yu Zhining and Wang Gui a chance to perform, which was equivalent to telling them that I am very fair and will give face to whoever is obedient.
Anyone who disobeys will be doomed.
In the final analysis, Li Zhiyun will not let them go.
It’s just that this is a long process that requires pulling, and taking turns to consume and suppress. Don’t dream of achieving it overnight.
The attack on the South this time is not only for the sake of the people of the world, but also to suppress them.