After the meal, Yuwen Wen finished his mouth and brought Yuchi Mingyue's speech. He wanted to know that his sister-in-law/concubine had been speaking at the meeting for so long, and was it meaningless nonsense or was it meaningful.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t look at it, but you’re shocked: the speech is full of tens of thousands of words.

There is actually an outline.

Just like writing an essay, the speech is first made outline, and then divided into detailed outlines. Yu Wenwen roughly browsed the contents to be said and found that in general, the content mentioned in this speech is intertwined.

He asked with some admiration: "Mingyue, how much time has it taken to prepare this speech?"

"It's only two days, very quickly." Yuchi Mingyue said while sorting out the information, "I have all the templates. I will list what I want to say one by one according to the framework, then put the corresponding examples in it, then summarize it in paragraphs, and finally summarize it, and it's done."

Yuwen nodded silently when he heard this. It seemed that Yuchi Mingyue had trained, but when he looked at the speech, he suddenly had an idea:

It is because it is easy to write on paper that you write so much. If it was still the era of remembering things in bamboo slips, just using a knife to engrave words on bamboo slips can make you tired and break your hands. That's true, you still have so much nonsense!

Tonight is Yuchi Mingyue serving the bed, but because she has to hurry up and write a summary, she has not had time to serve Yuwen Wen yet. Yuwen Wen sat aside, looking at Yuchi Mingyue's serious pen and writing, smiled, and picked up the information and looked at him.

The content of the information is a summary of the social surveys of Yousi on Henan this year. Based on these summary, Yuwen Wen can draw a conclusion that new "species" have appeared in Henan.

What is a new species?

New landlord.

Traditional landlords, their large and small manors are self-sufficient, growing their own grain, growing their own kudzu, twigs, planting their own trees, raising horses, raising farmers, and serving as guards to solve the problem of clothing, food, housing, and transportation. The landlords can even keep their doors in the city.

This is the manor economy of this era. Unless there are materials that cannot be produced by the manor, food and cloth will be purchased as currency.

Then the new landlord is completely different.

In the new landlord's manor, except for some of the land still planting grain "guaranteed", other lands plant economic crops such as rapeseed, cotton, beans (soybeans), and timely vegetables according to market demand, which is completely aimed at participating in market sales as the main purpose of operating the manor.

Or, on the basis of this, open various workshops, hire workers, participate in the growing social economy, and become a member of the new social system, and no longer a traditional manor that is closed-door.

Apart from the Jingxiang area in Shannan, Henan, Huainan, and Jiangnan, due to military and political reasons, the "stubborn forces" have been eradicated by Yuwen Wen for several rounds. Therefore, the proportion of new landlords in the above areas is very large, and the number of people is not simply more than half.

Some of these new landlords have transformed from old landlords, and some are foreign households who obtained land through military merits, and then started to thrive under the promotion of various factors.

It has grown to this day and finally became a climate, so it began to have political demands.

This is exactly what Yuwen Wen wanted to see.

The industry of new landlords needs to participate in commodity circulation to make profits and requires hiring a large amount of labor. Therefore, it is opposed to the old landlords tying farmers to the land, and agreeing to "low grain damage farmers", forcing farmers to go out to work.

But the premise is that some people in the court support their claims, or some of them are officials in the court, which will affect decision-making.

Therefore, the imperial examination is just at the right time.

By changing the business model, the new landlords have made more profits from the rapidly developing Henan, Lianghuai, Jiangnan economy and maritime trade, and have enough financial resources to purchase textbooks and tutoring books, and invite excellent teachers to let their children and their tribesmen study hard and prepare for the imperial examination.

If it really doesn't work, you can "invest" and spend money to cultivate scholars from different families with poor families but good qualifications, and even win over scholars who are expected to be selected through marriage.

If this situation continues, a new bureaucracy will be formed, that is, the imperial examination bureaucrats.

Such imperial examination bureaucrats were from the cold, but they were different from the cold imperial examination bureaucrats who were from old landlords. They had completely different political demands based on their own class interests.

The bureaucrats who were born in old landlords pursued a small peasant economy where men farmed and women weaved. They did not like risks and did not like the circulation of people. They hoped that the people would stay in their hometowns and be bound by the land. They advocated that "the parents are there and not travel far away", and they did not like the imperial court to expand externally.

However, bureaucrats who came from new landlords were completely different. Their demands had obvious differences from traditional literati and traditional cold landlords. This difference could be used by the emperor to achieve the purpose of political checks and balances.

In order to prevent "unified complications", Yuwen Wen needed to solve many unstable factors, one of which was to suppress the powerful and powerful, so he needed a reliable political force.

This kind of political power is traditionally a royal family, but the problem is that the development of history shows that it is difficult to use the royal family. If you use it more, you will have internal conflicts sooner or later. If you are alienated, your imperial power will be fragile. If you have any trouble, you will be done. It is really a dilemma.

But now, with the imperial examination bureaucrats originating from the new landlords, the situation will be completely different if it takes ten or twenty years.

Just as the imperial examination bureaucrats in history tended to rely on imperial power, the cold-stricken children who passed the imperial examination naturally could not stand with the aristocrats, and as spokespersons of new landlords or new interest groups, these people naturally had to fight for more political rights.

Or strive to influence decision-making and make national policies more biased towards the interest groups they represent.

In this way, after the imperial examination bureaucrats who were born in the new landlords formed a scale in the officialdom, they would inevitably have political battles with officials of all sizes, powerful and powerful families who represented conservative forces.

Therefore, as the emperor, Yuwen Wen could allow such imperial examination bureaucrats to play a slander and suppress the powerful.

This is his plan. Not to mention whether there will be any overseas bans in the future, in terms of domestic matters, Yuwen Wen believes that there is no need to enfeoff his son to guard the place, because if he does this, it is very likely that his brothers will be killed after his death.

Yan Wang Yu and Wen Weihan were in charge of Youzhou to monitor Hebei, while Wei Wang Yu and Wen Weining were in charge of Bingzhou to monitor Hedong in order to suppress the local tyrants. They did not have a country in the local area, and their position in charge would not be hereditary. They would be transferred back to Beijing for a certain period of time and other princes would continue to take over.

This is the qualification-based envoy, which is also applicable to the royal family. When princes (the royal family) go out to the town, they will take the envoy or envoy. As long as the emperor revokes the appointment, they will have to come back obediently.

This arrangement is a guarantee for brothers to get along in the future. Yuwen Wen knew that after his death, he could no longer control how his sons would get along with each other, so what he could do was to make a good start and set the rules.

The new king relied on the imperial examination bureaucrats to suppress the powerful people in the capital, sent the royal family to suppress the local area, and granted military power to protect the imperial power when necessary. He was very flexible. If he felt that a certain royal family was unstable outside, he could take back his appointment, and the royal family had to come back obediently.

If you are not at ease, then the new king can also take the imperial examinations and check and balance the royal family.

The emperor's reliance on imperial examination bureaucrats to suppress the powerful and nobles and royal families does not mean that the national policy will follow the old path and become increasingly conservative, because these interest groups represented by imperial examination bureaucrats themselves have the need for expansion and need more raw materials origin and dumping markets.

Yuwen Wen felt that under such an arrangement, the possibility of the royal family growing outside is very low. Without this risk, the new king would probably be more tolerant of the royal family.

Of course, if the new king was cold-blooded and ruthless, he would still slaughter the royal family, Yuwen Wen would have been no longer in the world at that time, so he would not care about it.

After such careful design, a perfect political balance emerged. Can he rest assured?

not necessarily.

Emperor Wu of Jin, Sima Yan, designed a political structure for the incompetent prince Sima Zhong. With two families of foreign relatives assisting the new kings and checking and balanced each other, and the eight royal family members guarding the capital, shocking various families and local snakes from all over the country. It is a perfect balance. What is the result?

Therefore, Yuwen Wen knew that no matter how carefully he designed it, he might not be sure to win.

The political balance designed by Emperor Wu of Jin for his son collapsed, and the political balance designed by Emperor Taizu of Ming also collapsed. So, if his son was not good at playing hard, after the political balance collapsed, will history repeat itself?

Sorry, if a civil war really breaks out, the winner will still be my son, and no one else will have any chance!

Yuwen Wen put down the information and looked at the wall ahead, as if he was looking at the non-existent void.

He had a son and many sons, and his names were all recorded in his clan, but he also had a son whose name was unknown.

That was his illegitimate son, right in front of the world, but no one realized that it was his flesh and blood.

This illegitimate son will protect his brothers and win in the civil war, and no one can beat him.

The name of the illegitimate child is...

Huangzhou Group.
Chapter completed!