This meeting is an exchange meeting for the world, nobles, and veterans of the previous dynasty. They naturally know that the people here have long taken refuge in a certain hot-tempered and cheating Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

But this meeting has to be held

Without it, one family alone would not be able to compete with the Tang Dynasty, which Li Mingda informed was on the road to tyrant dictatorship.

The emperor must know how to allocate resources and how to rule the world together with the aristocratic families.

Think about how good the era of Li Yuan and Li Shimin was. As long as they committed a crime and it was not a heinous crime, they could just pay some money. Like now, they always go out with their tails between their legs for fear that the ubiquitous Jinyiwei will take them to the Fusi District of Jinyiwei Town with a horizontal knife.

Not coming.

Lao Wangtou sat peacefully in his seat, holding a tea bowl in his hand and slowly eating pastries on the small table in front of him.

After inquiring into the content of this meeting, he knew that Jin Yiwei was powerful and knew that he didn't have to worry about it.

Coming here is to show your identity.

The Lao Wang family is still an aristocratic family and has not fallen. This kind of meeting must be participated in by the Wang family.

It doesn't matter what is discussed in the conference room and what resolutions are made. As long as you don't speak, it doesn't matter.

Lao Wangtou was like a melon-eater, which made the people around him feel even worse.

Originally, the purpose of this meeting was to brainstorm solutions to the new decree issued by Mingzun Saint Emperor Li Mingda so that his family could continue to survive.

To put it bluntly, it is to find some loopholes in the policy, to make profits or even to resist.

Now comes an old Wangtou who is known to have taken refuge with the emperor. He cannot swallow because of a fish bone stuck in his throat.

(〃＞ dishes＜)

(〝▼plate▼)

(??へ??╬)

_(:з　∠)_

Lao Wangtou pretended not to see this and continued to eat and drink as he should.

It doesn't matter whether they die or not, and it has nothing to do with the old Wang family. After all, they are just pawns in the hands of His Majesty the Mingzun Saint Emperor.

What makes Lao Wangtou even more miserable is that his family seems to have no hope for anyone except his granddaughter. However, his granddaughter is still throwing away the family property to the emperor.

What a waste~!

With a little reluctance in his heart, under Li Mingda's deliberate efforts, the influence of Lao Wang's family among the people and the court began to decline, and their wealth continued to rise.

As an old fox who has survived for many years, he knows that there is a reason for every drink and peck.

After a period of silence, the meeting began.

"Everyone, it's getting late, let's get down to business."

"The new decree issued by His Majesty the Mingzun Holy Emperor this time is to recruit a group of civilian talents. There should be some people of suitable age in your family. Should you continue to study at home, or go out and participate in the election?"

"Continuing to study will miss the opportunity. If you participate, everyone will not know what will be tested."

"According to the situation of the last women's imperial examination, it can be said that hundreds of schools of thought have learned from it. We used to teach Confucianism, which is probably a bit difficult."

"If you fail too many exams, it will have a big impact on your family."

"I remember that there are professors in the new school outside Chang'an. There must be some peripheral children in your family studying there. Maybe we can let them try."

The peripheral children of ancient families, said to be family members, are actually high-level wage earner slaves. They are dependent on the family and rely on the family's resources to develop. On the contrary, they may support the family at certain times.

For the benefit of the family, give up some ideals for the family, give up some beliefs, and even at some point, you need to die for the family.

What sounds good is called dedication and sacrifice, but what sounds bad is called cannon fodder serving the direct family.

Most of the family members who were thrown into Xinxue were branches of the family, and very few had direct descendants. Even if they did, they were not well received.

These people are stubborn in their thinking, but they know how to throw some unimportant eggs into other baskets.

"Those people, maybe we can try, but we don't have enough control over them."

Someone raised this point of view, and the people around him showed a trace of doubt.

As a big family, there are many ways to control the peripheral branches. If someone says these words, it will either reveal his incompetence or have other secrets.

What I am doing are all those who have experienced ups and downs outside, warbles and swallows, and everything I have never seen before. Everyone can write a copy of The Old Fox in the Liaozhai Studio.

There are people in their own family studying there, but no one believes what they say.

There is a saying that you can never wake up a person who is pretending to sleep, unless you throw him directly into the latrine and see if he is full to death or crawls out on his own.

This kind of method is a bit cruel, and no one can use it as long as they don't fight to the death.

Of course, except for those like Li Mingda who just flipped up the table and played cards for you without following common sense. He was obviously playing mahjong, and the cards included Army Commander, Flush, Tractor, Airplane with wings, and occasionally threw some killer mushroom eggs and cheated.

If anyone dared to do this in front of Li Mingda, Li Mingda would definitely throw the person pretending to sleep into the pit in front of everyone.

See if the opponent will be so cruel that he will push himself to death, or he will crawl out and admit defeat.

Will Li Mingda let him go if he climbs out and admits defeat?

The answer is naturally no, Li Mingda will throw him in again, and it will be over when he is exhausted.

When a person's heart is evil and his hands are evil, he cheats again. It doesn't matter what rules or irregularities you have, as long as you complete your purpose and continue to rule the Tang Dynasty, turn the world around and move towards the sea of ​​stars.

╭(╯^╰)╮

"Brother, what you said is like your family's pill. Stop using these useless things. We are here to discuss things this time, not to listen to your misfortune."

It is true that the aristocratic families, nobles, princes, nobles, the elderly and the young are all in an alliance. It is because of the rules and the pressure exerted by Li Mingda that they had to join the alliance.

It's an old story, but the most basic competitive relationship still exists. After all, there can only be two tigers in a mountain, there can only be one bully on a street, and there can only be one emperor on the emperor's throne.

I can have more concubines

Several big families in the Tang Dynasty have been suppressed by Li Mingda to a great extent in recent years, and many families in the south have been bloodbathed, regressed and even exterminated.

For those who survived today, with the continuous popularization and improvement of the laws of the Tang Dynasty, their previous methods of using knowledge, law, officials and businessmen to collude to make money became increasingly unworkable.

Their living space has been severely shrunk, and without an environment for expansion, their living space will be reduced.

Anyone who has watched Animal World knows that once the dry season enters the African savannah, various animal groups will fight fiercely for resources in order to keep their own groups alive.

"It's miserable. It's terrible. After all, business is hard to do now. It's not like some people who eat and drink to their heart's content."
Chapter completed!