All Hail Cousin Brother

When the yamen ascends the hall and hears the case publicly, it means that it has further mastered the relevant characters and physical evidence, and the case has made a breakthrough.

Liu Dagen's death may seem complicated, but it is actually not difficult to investigate. With Ye Xiaoci's ability, the case can be investigated in three to five days.

True and false bezoar, as long as a clever doctor can distinguish.

After carefully sorting it out, Yu Youyao has a clear understanding of the many things that have happened recently.

The feudal lord, the government, and the gentry, the three forces contained each other, forming a stable, deep-rooted, and difficult-to-break check-and-balance situation.

The first time that the balance was broken was when the Di people attacked aggressively. Regardless of victory or defeat, they seriously threatened the interests of the gentry.

The gentry itself has no real strength to fight against the vassal king. The checks and balances are based on the equal strength of the three parties, and no one can shake the position of the other.

The addition of former Weining Hou and now Ning Yuanbo shifted the focus of checks and balances to the gentry, so that the government did not dare to interfere, and finally ended in the tragic death of Zhou Li's family.

The second time to break the checks and balances is this sudden drought.

This drought has brought some subtle changes to the interests of the three parties.

The Lord of Shaoyi County planted sweet potatoes, which relieved the drought in the north, and gave King Wumu, who helped the Lord of Shaoyi County and popularized the cultivation of sweet potatoes among the people, to gain an advantage under the situation of three-way checks and balances.

The center of gravity of checks and balances began to tilt towards King Wu Mu Dingbei.

Afterwards, King Wu Mu's body recovered, causing the gentry to be in disarray, and they did not dare to sit still and wait to die.

At this point, the checks and balances have further cracked.

The gentry, however, didn't know it, because he had a gold medal for avoiding death in his hands.

The court re-used King Wumu, and even gave him many honors, because King Wumu was able to stabilize the situation in the north.

But at the same time, the court also sent Ning Changbo, a veteran who fought alongside King Wumu in the battle against rebellion in Shandong. Going to the battlefield, but in fact, to let Chang Ningbo replace King Wu Mu to guard the northern border in the future.

In fact, it was to abolish the rule of the Northern Territory.

The military generals guarding the northern border are more reassuring to the court than the vassal kings.

I have to say that the emperor's plan is really clever, and the abacus is too precise.

However, the sudden recovery of King Wu Mu's body undoubtedly made the emperor's calculations fail. While the emperor regarded Wu Mu Dingbei King highly, he would also be more afraid of him.

The gentry restrained King Wu Mu, which was the result of pondering the holy will.

But in Yu Youyao's view, this is an act of death. Once the checks and balances are broken, there will always be people who will fall victim to their interests, and Zhou Li's family is the first.

But before Zhou Li Wang was killed tragically, Yin Huaixi would never be the second.

This is the best time for Yin Huaixi to deal with the gentry.

Yin Huaixi knew very well that in order to defeat the "gentlemen", he must first obtain the support of the imperial court.

The court's trust in the gentry needed to be dismantled.

Yin Huaixi quietly started the layout, intending to further disintegrate the three-way check and balance situation. On the one hand, he deliberately accommodated refugees in areas rich in materials in the Liaodong area, and actively helped the court to relieve disasters.

This is the result the court would like to see.

Let the world see, in the face of drought, the court is not helpless, do nothing.

further gained the trust of the court.

However, those gentry who were indifferent in the face of the disaster naturally caused criticism from the common people and dissatisfaction with the court.

After taking in a large number of refugees, food became the [biggest] problem.

How to solve this problem, Yin Huaixi is more logical, in the name of further expanding sweet potato planting and alleviating the drought in the northern border, invited the owner of Shaoyi County to come to the northern border to help promote sweet potato planting, and obtained the support of Xiefu in Quanzhou.

At that time, the royalists were still in charge of the empress dowager, and the ruler of Shaoyi county belonged to the royalist faction.

This move received strong support from the courtiers.

Yin Huaixi further gained the trust of the imperial court, and the cracks in checks and balances became wider and wider.

After completely controlling the situation, Yin Huaixi began to induce the wind direction in the shelter camp for the victims. The victims fled to Liaodong, and they will inevitably be there in the future. However, there is a shortage of supplies in the north. How should such a large number of victims be resettled?

Teaching the disaster victims to raise silkworms, fish, etc., can the refugees be able to live in peace with their skills?

of course not!

In fact, the resources in the north are all controlled by the gentry. Without the support of the gentry, there is no way for a large number of refugees to survive in the north.

The spear was directed at the gentry, further aggravating the dissatisfaction of the court with the gentry.

Until this moment, Yu Youyao suddenly realized.

I had a conversation with my grandfather earlier, and my grandfather mentioned the various "national policies" implemented by Emperor Gaozu in the northern region that year, which made her feel like she was enlightened. Refugees, to increase the population in the north, solve the dilemma of low productivity and insufficient materials.

But what if all this was caused by Yin Huaixi?

Yin Huaixi helped the court to solve the problem of refugees. It was in the interests of the court and King Wumu to accommodate the refugees. King Wumu and the court reached an agreement on their interests, and the relationship between them was unbreakable.

However, the resettlement of refugees required the strong cooperation of the local gentry, which seriously violated the interests of the gentry.

The calculations, one after another, seem complicated, but they are actually just to completely disintegrate the court's trust in the gentry step by step.

When the interests of the imperial court contradicted the interests of the gentry, the gentry had unknowingly come to the opposite side of the imperial court.

Millions of disaster victims gathered in the north, and the gentry only made a symbolic donation, but did not give strong support, which in itself was not in the interest of the imperial court.

Are they daring and ignoring national policies?

no!

Are they too stupid to ignore the disaster?

Neither!

Is it because they can't see the situation clearly and ignore the imperial court?

Still not.

But under the careful layout of King Wu Mu, they have fallen into a dilemma.

On the one hand, he studied the Sacred Heart and dared not give too much support to King Wumu, so that King Wumu would gain power, so as not to cause the emperor's suspicion.

On the other hand, the death of King Li of Zhou has made most of the gentry turn to the opposite of King Wu Mu. This kind of national hatred and family hatred cannot be reconciled. The gentry has no way out, so they ignore the national policy. Perfunctory" national policy, vainly trying to use materials to go further and restrain King Wu Mu.

If due to lack of supplies, the refugee camps would break out, such as riots, epidemics, etc., this is the result that the gentry would like to see.