The conversation was divided into two parts. The situation in the Central Plains was unified. It was naturally a good thing for Ye Zhao. His plan had already begun to be laid out since the chaos. Now, the situation has basically taken shape, and it would be useless for him to continue to be in chaos.

In fact, if you look at Ye Zhao's development route carefully, not to mention technology, it is actually no different from Wang Mang, who established the New Dynasty two hundred years ago. At that time, Wang Mang also tried to seize land from the gentry and gentry, equalize the land, stabilize prices, promote education, and fight against foreign races, etc., which are similar to the policies Ye Zhao has implemented along the way.

But the result was a huge difference. Wang Mang's new policy directly led to the destruction of his reputation among the people for many years before he seized the throne. Rebels rose everywhere and wars were everywhere. The New dynasty lasted only a few years before being overthrown.

The same method has been different now, which makes many scholars in the world puzzled. They are also enemies of the entire scholar class. Why did Wang Mang lose a crushing defeat, but Ye Zhao realize the ideal that Wang Mang had not realized back then step by step?

In fact, if you carefully study Wang Mang's life and look at Ye Zhao's past half of his life, it is not difficult to find that the seemingly connected end points are actually completely different.

Wang Mang was born into a family of relatives and was considered a member of the scholar, so he was not as good as Ye Zhao in employed people, and could only use his talents. Wang Mang's personality could not achieve justice. Although the policies were good, the people who implemented the policies often had selfish intentions. No matter how good the policies were, it would be a waste of time.

Ye Zhao used his strength to fight and broke the monopoly of the scholar class on culture from the beginning. However, this backlash was taken over by Liu Hong and the shaky Han Dynasty. The private land in Shu was borne by the country. Ye Zhao started to implement it after almost defeating the power of the aristocratic families. Moreover, Ye Zhao had a special supervisory officer for the execution of the officials under his command. He was completely independent of the official system. He was only responsible for Ye Zhao. If there were any officials under his rule, those who violated Ye Zhao's laws and regulations, Ye Zhao could know and execute them quickly.

In order to promote agriculture, engineering and business, Ye Zhao could also completely separate from the aristocratic family in terms of economy. With the opportunity of book circulation, he established a college so that the only place where scholars could control Ye Zhao was smoothed out by Ye Zhao, so he had a large rear like an iron barrel in Shu.

Secondly, I have to thank this chaotic era. The warlords in Guanzhong fought against each other, and the aristocratic families were either destroyed or slaughtered. The remaining ones were also constantly weakened because Li Jue used Ye Zhao's plan to continue to be weak. Therefore, when Ye Zhao sent troops to Guanzhong, the power of the aristocratic families in Guanzhong was weak and vulnerable.

The acquisition of Guanzhong is of great significance to Ye Zhao. The climate in Xiliang and Bingzhou are all weak places in the aristocratic families. By this time, Ye Zhao had already had the strength to face the entire scholar class, not to mention the beginning of the Silk Road, coupled with the vigorous promotion of manure in the four prefectures and the political capital brought to Ye Zhao by the successive destruction of the Xianbei and the Xiongnu, which made Ye Zhao run the four prefectures extremely fertile.

Compared to Wang Mang's high-level but unruly approach, Ye Zhao's every step was almost steadily built up, so Ye Zhao's current foundation is quite solid.

But the solid foundation does not mean that everyone is willing to live under the shadow of Ye Zhao.

Especially now that the world is about to be unified, Ye Zhao's momentum is at its peak. After Ye Zheng was sent back by Ye Zhao this time, his attitude was a bit aggressive.

After all, Ye Zhao and Liu Bian had a friendship, so in the past, he would have taken care of Liu Bian's face in the court, but what about Ye Zheng?

Speaking of which, as Liu Wei's son, Liu Bian is still his uncle, so he should be close to Liu Bian. But obviously, Ye Zheng does not take much attention to his uncle. In the court, whenever he disagrees with his opinions, Ye Zheng's attitude will become quite tough. Even if Liu Bian, his uncle, asks each other softly, Ye Zheng will never compromise or make concessions.

For example, when Ye Zheng first came back, a famous scholar Hongfan followed the law and was punished by corporal punishment.

What is corporal punishment? Simply put, it is to chop off a certain organ of the body, such as hands, feet, nose, eyes, or drag it out to castration. In fact, during the reign of Emperor Wen, corporal punishment had been abolished. There is also a story about Tiying saving his father. In short, since then, corporal punishment has been gradually replaced by corporal punishment, but some people who are extremely guilty will still be punished with corporal punishment.

In the new law set by Ye Zhao, corporal punishment was moved to the punishment again. However, this time, corporal punishment was specifically targeted at officials who were corrupt and abused, and had nothing to do with the people.

Hongfan was a famous scholar in Hejian. He did not come after Ye Zhao occupied Jizhou. Instead, after Liu Bian officially became emperor in Chang'an, he joined the court, but he did not serve as loyal to Ye Zhao, but to Liu Bian.

In the past, Ye Zhao was in Chang'an and had a clear political ambition. These scholars did not dare to directly attack Ye Zhao, so they were quite at peace. But now, Ye Zhao was in charge of the Central Plains and could not come back in a short period of time. Even though Ye Zhao had told officials countless times that violations would be punished, Ye Zhao was gone after all. Although Ye Zhao's minions were full of Chong and Xiahou Lan enforced the law, Ye Zhao was not there. Some people, Man Chong and Xiahou Lan sometimes found it difficult to move.

For example, Hongfan was a famous scholar in Hejian and was a close minister of Liu Bian. He had a good relationship with the Huangfu family and had some connections in the court. This time he was arrested by mistake and was punished according to the law, which was punished by the nose cutting. After the incident, he was arrested directly by Man Chong. However, immediately afterwards, many officials in the court jointly asked Liu Bian for his orders to protect him.

It was naturally impossible for Man Chong to execute it, so some officials wanted to expose this matter to Ye Zhao and recall Ye Zhao back to the court to deal with the matter, which made Man Chong a little difficult.

In fact, to put it bluntly, some people are seeing the world's unification trend and are unwilling to unify the world at this moment, so they want to use a secret trick behind their backs to recall Ye Zhao back to the court, thus breaking the unification trend.

At this time, Ye Zheng brought Gao Shun and Cao Xing back to the court. After learning about this, he laughed and said: It’s just a few trivial matters, why should the Prime Minister return to the court?

Then, just when everyone thought Ye Zheng would stand on his emperor's uncle's side in this matter, Ye Zheng directly asked Man Chong to execute him.

Facing Liu Bian who was a little angry, Ye Zheng said calmly: "Your Majesty, my father once said that if there is a law, you must follow it. Your Majesty's country can be as stable as it is today because the laws in various places have been implemented and the court can gain the trust of the people. If you break your word by a villain who violates the law, it will only make the people disappoint our court. How can you still be as united as you are now? Please put the country first. Don't believe the villain's slander and miss the major affairs of the country!"

Ye Zheng didn't say who was a villain, but this attitude made Liu Bian very angry, but it was difficult to have angered. He could only watch Xiahou Lan take Hongfan away.

After that, Ye Zheng presented Ye Zhao's memorial and appointed Gao Shun and Cao Xing respectively. In just a few days, the military power of Chang'an fell into Ye Zheng's hands.

Later, Ye Zhengqiu settled the accounts and punished several ministers who had been wronged in the court these days. Among them, Liu Bian's father-in-law was directly killed. This made all officials see that Ye Zhao was so powerful that Ye Zheng was not a fool, and Ye Zheng was definitely not a foolish master. In many aspects, Ye Zheng did more ruthlessly than Ye Zhao.
Chapter completed!