In the morning, in the official residence, Li Li supervised his son Li Fang to practice skipping rope and perform physical exercise.

Li Xin is nearly eight years old. According to Li Li's requirements, he eats more shrimp (shrimp shells supplement calcium) and basks more sunshine (which helps calcium absorption).

In addition, parents have a tall figure, congenital advantages and acquired supplements, so they are significantly taller and stronger than their peers.

Now the little guy is not at the age of development, and when he is "drawing the bar", the increase rate will be very obvious.

Li Li was very satisfied when he saw his son training hard. Although Li Fang had already started to be confused, if he followed the mainstream approach, he should study all day long, try to wash away the aura of a warrior (born) on his body, and become more literary.

But Li Li thought this was useless, not that studying was useless, but because the efforts to integrate into the gentry were completely useless, because in the eyes of the gentry, a person's origin determines the class he is in.

Li Li, who was born in a slightly cold family, even though he was the governor of Xuzhou and the title of Duke of Pengcheng County, his ancestors were fishermen and officials, so he was a lowly person.

In the eyes of the gentry, his son Li Fang was still a lowly person, and it was simply delusional to squeeze into their circle.

Not to mention marriage, there is no gentry who is willing to marry his daughter to Li Li's son Li Fang, because in their eyes, Li Fang does not have the qualifications to be a noble gentry girl.

This is not Li Li's self-deprecating self. Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, countless deeds have proved that the discrimination of the gentry against other classes is real and continues to this day.

Among them, it also includes double discrimination against warriors.

Therefore, Li Li would not have the illusion that he was on an equal footing with the aristocratic family just because he became a prefect and his title was a county duke.

He does not intend to do "useless work" and will not try to establish good relationships with the gentry, such as marriage.

Li Li did not think that he and his son were inferior to the so-called Gaomen A clan. In the future, his son would not be humble to marry any gentry girl.

When taking a concubine, you can consider it.

Li Li believes that in a world where the strong prey on the weak, a group of sheep with gorgeous furs has the right to discriminate against the strong tigers with scars?

You must not forget your roots. What he can do today is due to military merits. Those who follow you are also Micambrians. He will not betray his origin or his followers.

If you forget the foundation of your life, you will become a water without a source and a tree without roots. You will not be accepted by the gentry or follow by the warriors.

If your son wants to inherit the family business in the future, he must not forget his roots, be a brainless and reckless man, nor can he become a weak scholar.

Therefore, you must be knowledgeable and knowledgeable, skilled in archery and horses, and have sufficient martial ethics.

However, can it be done?

This is an era when even the emperor wants to integrate the royal family into the gentry circle...

Li Li thought to himself, and saw that his son had finished dancing in a group, he handed off his sweat towel: "Good, have made progress, take a break, can't stand still, walk slowly."

"Yes." Li Fang was praised by Aye, and was happy, walked back and forth, slowly breathing.

"Tomorrow, Aye will take you to set up a stall and change into a cloth clothes. He will be like a hawker and will not be recognized by people. What stall do you want to set up?"

Li Fang was overjoyed when he heard this: "Set up a food stall and sell cold shrimps!"

Then he thought of something and his eyes darkened: "I will be unhappy if I know."

"Just be happy. Don't worry if Aye is here." Li Li smiled. Seeing Aye as the decision, Li Fang nodded vigorously: "Yes!"

The dignified Xuzhou Patriarch and the Duke of Pengcheng County actually took his children to set up a stall. If this matter was spread, it was probably not a "shame of Liang State" and would have lost all the face of the court.

But Li Li didn't care. As long as his children were happy and knew the sufferings of the people, it would be fine.

When he was reading history books, he found that many foolish monarchs like to play "role-playing games", such as setting up stalls, so he wondered if these emperors' natures were suppressed for too long when they were young, so that they let themselves go after they were left uncontrollably?

That's true, even in later generations, children like to play "Home Play" games very much.

He found that his son Li Fang and Li Qi were very interested in "role-playing games" such as setting up stalls, so he decided to "it is better to lose money than to block" to make his son enjoy it and learn about the sufferings of the people.

As soon as he talked to Huang Yan, Huang Yan was so angry that his eyes turned red. Now, while Huang Yan was away, Li Li decided to let his son get what he wanted.

Of course, he knew Huang Gui's concerns, and also knew that Huang Gui was very inferior about his family (including the Huang family), so he hoped that his sons could squeeze into the gentry circle in the future and the Li family would achieve a leap in class.

As parents, of course, I hope that their children will go to the next level and endure less hardship. This is a common human nature.

Even in later generations, how many parents enrolled their children in a large number of interest classes, learned piano, violin, and tried their best to buy school district houses to let their children go to prestigious schools. Isn’t it just for the purpose of “class crossing”?

But in this era, most of the efforts to cross classes were useless, and Li Li would not waste his efforts.

He believes that a decadent circle is not necessary to squeeze in.

After all, if the gentry of the Southern Dynasty was powerful, what would the Sui Kingdom do to destroy the Chen Kingdom and unify the Central Plains?

......

In the afternoon, when Li Li listened to Zhang Ying's analysis of the current situation, he said that Zhang Ying was just talking, talking about an inevitable trend in Jiankang City over the past hundred years.

What is the trend?

Zhang Ying first mentioned a premise: because the gentry lived in Jiankang and Yangzhou, and the number of high-ranking officials was mostly elected, and the children of the gentry were unwilling to leave Yangzhou and go to other places to become officials, thus forming a "gentry capital circle" with Jiankang and Yangzhou as the scope.

Circle is a word that Zhang Ying learned under the influence of Li Li.

No matter who it is, they want to integrate into this "genius gentry circle" and hope that their family will become one of them.

And trend: First, no matter who becomes an emperor, he must be arty and turn the royal family into aristocratic family with a shameless face and integrate into the "Greater Circle".

The Xiao family of Lanling was a powerful clan when Xiao Daocheng built Qi, but it was quickly transformed into a genius. This is an example.

Secondly, the founding nobles basically had to take off the skin of the martial artists, so that the world would gradually forget their own and their descendants' military backgrounds, and strive to integrate into the "Greater Circle", that is, to integrate into the gentry.

When Wuxun's children heard others ask how many stone bows they could drive, they would always say "the bow cannot be opened", for fear that they would be ridiculed for being martial, and would not ride horses to travel, so as not to be ridiculed and excluded.

If you cannot "abandon martial arts and follow literature", you will not be recognized by the gentry, and your descendants will be far away from the power circle of the capital, and you will be extremely likely to be unknown.

Third, the founding emperor's powerful brigades were all foreign counties. After being permanently stationed in the capital, they would gradually become "the capital" and the imperial guards were replaced by the children of the Three Wus.

For example, the powerful armed forces of the two Huai Rivers who were relied on by Xiao Qi, and the troops of Emperor Gaozu of the State Dynasty, Yongzhen.

Fourth, the emperor appointed the cold people to take the key points (fortunately), and since the Emperor Ming Dynasty of the Song Dynasty, most of these cold people came from Kuaiji.

In short, it is the "government of the capital" of the imperial court, whether it is the leader (founding emperor), the left arm and right arm (founding nobles), or the imperial guards (center-level army).

Such a consequence is that the power of the imperial court is concentrated in Jiankang, Yangzhou, the "Golden Circle" and the manors of the gentry gathered here.

In the Yangzhou, Sanwu area, where the imperial court had the strongest control ability, the people's strength gradually became exhausted due to repeated military service and repeated recruitment of force.

This leads to poor combat capabilities of the imperial guards, fewer household registrations, decreased resources (manpower, taxation) controlled by the central government, and weaker suppression capabilities on local areas.

The foreign tyrants were unable to squeeze into the power circle of Gyeonggi and lost their channels for advancement, so they tended to use abnormal means to "enter the center".

That is to encourage local officials to rebel and become a minister who follows the dragon.

Since the Liu Song Dynasty, the practice of the royal family leaving town has also allowed local tyrants to easily obtain the status and representatives of rebellion. In addition, the center is weak, so the hidden dangers of local rebellion have always existed.

When Hou Jing was in a rebellion, why did the powerful Huainan enthusiastically abdicate?

One of the reasons is that they want to take advantage of the troubled waters. Since they are unable to advance under the existing system of the court, it is better to be a founding minister.

"There is no royal family in Xuzhou! This statement does not apply." Li Li asked knowingly, and Zhang Ying routinely fanned the flames: "Isn't there a lord in charge?"

"I'm very curious, as you said..." Li Li changed the topic routinely, "Whoever, after becoming an emperor or reaching Jiankang, will have to repeat the same mistakes and enter the dead cycle."

"Our family is transformed into the capital, the general is transformed into the capital, the army is transformed into the capital, and the Shaoxing division is looking for the secret... Kuaiji Han people need to rely on some meager tax revenue from the Three Wushous to maintain the imperial guards."

"Send people from the town to open their eyes, preventing any ambitious person from appearing in the place and killing Jiankang along the path he had walked back then..."

"Isn't this cycle of cycles over and over again just a vicious cycle of drawing the ground into a prison?"

Zhang Ying's voice became smaller: "But with the copper mine in Poyang... and the jars and jars in Xuzhou, this is not a problem."

This was already very straightforward. Li Li looked at Zhang Ying and smiled: "What, do you think I should make a choice?"

"No, not now." Zhang Ying replied, Li Li was surprised: "Then?"

Zhang Ying smiled: "The world still has an illusion about the court. After all, the situation is very good now. Seeing that the revival is imminent, whoever jumps out will be angry, wouldn't it be a public anger?"

"No matter how you look at the young emperor, it doesn't seem like a rejuvenation." Li Li smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Over the past hundreds of years, which young emperor has been able to hold his position?

The struggle for the imperial throne will inevitably cause bloody storms and even the mountains and rivers will change color.

"What the Lord said is very true. Anyone who is clear-headed can see this."

"So?"

"Jiankang is changing, and the king and the prince are watching coldly."

With a pun, Zhang Ying actually told him to "don't meddle in other people's business", that is, the eyes and ears in Jiankang City, don't 'move around'.

This made Li Li feel uneasy: "What do you want to do?"

Zhang Ying shook his head: "The official did not plan to do anything, he just hopes that what should happen."

"The dilapidated house that Emperor Gaozu had been unable to save for nearly fifty years. If he should collapse this dilapidated house, let him collapse it."
Chapter completed!