Under the turmoil of the times, there must be trendsetters of the times.

In the chaos in the Song Dynasty, many people took advantage of the troubled waters, many people sighed, and some people saw opportunities in such chaos.

The man who stood out in such a chaos is named Dai Cong.

The Dai family is the surname of the nobles of the Song State and is also one of the powerful nobles in the Song State. The Dai family originated from the Duke of the Song Dynasty and was named after the posthumous title.

Dai Huan, who was expelled by the Sicheng Emperor clan during the coup twenty years ago, was the Dai clan.

Dai Cong and Dai Huan are relatives who are not far away. After the coup, the Sicheng Emperor clan could have been killed, but the Mo family came forward to disrupt the conflicts, and they simply wanted to take advantage of the conflicts between the nobles and did not want the imperial father clan to dominate the family, which led to a chaotic situation in the Song Dynasty.

In addition, the Sicheng Emperor clan was warned by the other nobles, so after driving Dai Huan away, the Dai Cong clan was not implicated.

However, the Dai Cong clan was not a big clan, and it was less than the top three among the nobles in the Song Dynasty, so there was no possibility of seeking final power at all.

If the Song State had always been like it was more than 20 years ago, the Dai Cong clan would naturally choose to hold his thighs tightly and choose to stand in a team, and it would be impossible for him to choose to come out on his own.

But the chaos in the Song Dynasty allowed Dai Cong to see the opportunity.

Times have changed.

After the monarchy lost the original patriarchal system or feudal system, the etiquette and law were questioned and opposed by the public, and it was difficult for it to maintain its original rule.

So people like Dai Cong took the means of turning the rudder with the wind, showing off their charm and giving false goodwill in order to get the support of those who are rich and powerful but have no power for the time being.

We should implement bribery in order to please, rather than relying solely on swords to maintain rule. After all, etiquette and law have been abolished, and the thought of equality and virtuousness spreads like a plague.

Even though Dai Cong is not one of the top nobles in the Song Dynasty, he is also a big family, inheriting the identity of the Gentleman Courtyard.

The emperor's father Yue Ling replaced his father, Empress Zang, and Dai Cong was silent at first because he knew that his power was not enough to shake the status of the emperor's clan.

After the storm a few years ago, Dai Cong keenly discovered the opportunity and packaged himself as "the nobleman closest to the civilians."

Because after the Qi Mo War, the emperor's father Yue Ling no longer dared to be the "noble who is closest to the civilians", because once this fire was burned, it was likely that the emperor's father Yue Ling would be burned to death by himself.

This location is empty, so people will naturally seize it.

For Dai Cong, if he doesn't take a try, he will never be able to get involved in the supreme power of the Song State. The power of the Emperor's Father clan is too great. Even if the Emperor's Father clan is not strong enough, there are also a large number of nobles such as the Le family and the Xiao family.

The farmers who lost land and poured into Shangqiu, the merchants who were dissatisfied with the feudal system and the handicraftsmen who suffered from high taxes, were all powers that he could borrow.

Just before the Gentleman Court issued a decree to increase taxes on self-cultivated farmers and industry and businessmen, Dai Cong started his activities for the first time as a civilian aristocratic friend.

He said that he firmly opposed the hike of taxes on the people. In order to protest, he turned himself out of the Gentleman Court. Public opinion was in an uproar for a while, and many civilians regarded him as someone they could rely on.

Such a thing has been more than once in the history of the Song Dynasty. Many people borrowed the power of civilians to come to power, but in fact they still secretly compromised with the great nobles in private.

For example, Gongzi Bao gave wine and meat to people over 70 years old, exempting debts to people who owe usury, and no gifts to the scholars.

But at that time, the changes in the land system and political system were not involved, and they just needed to be a good person. The little grandmother, who wanted to have an affair with him, did her best to help him maintain the relationship between the nobles. In the end, she united the other nobles to kill many public tribes, redistributed her fiefdoms, and won the hearts of the people.

Nowadays, the times are different. The power of civilians is gradually becoming stronger. There is also Si Shang next to him who can be used as foreign aid. Dai Cong seized this opportunity and claimed to be a civilian faction and completely gave up the support of other nobles.

This is a big bet.

What he bet is that the Mo family of Si Shang can win, what he bet is that he trades with nobles and Wei Chu countries with small bargaining chips and gains less profits; but the bargaining chips with Si Shang and civilians can be made better, and the benefits he gets more.

A deeper reason is that his main income now comes from investing in the Chamber of Commerce in Sishang, and his annual rate of return is extremely high.

If my fiefdom is maintained in the previous ritual and legal system to seek military power, it will not be enough to influence the highest power of the Song State, and if the income is not large, it is better to give up.

So he made a more radical policy than the emperor's father Yue Ling, granting his fiefdom to the people, who only need to pay a redemption fee of twenty years to own their own land.

In addition, he also advocated his policy in front of the people if he asked the Chief Minister's Order.

That is, to reclaim the land occupied by the nobles and distribute it to the lost people according to small pieces; unify the Song Dynasty's government orders and revoke the Song Dynasty's checkpoints; to revoke the nobles' power to cancel the nobles' privileges; to ban the gentleman's courtyard and the common people's courtyard, but there is only one inquiry about the various things...

One reason is that his fiefdom is not much, two because his income does not depend on the fiefdom checkpoints and franchise fees, three because he was opposed by the nobles in the Junziyuan for opposing taxes on industrialists and businessmen and self-cultivated farmers.

So the things he advocates are things he doesn't have at all.

He just changed his butt, but he might have been involved in the supreme power of the State of Song, which immediately caused an uproar, making the already chaotic Song State even more chaotic.

In addition, he also advocated the absolute monarchy, believing that the current "Inquiry Yuan" is the fault of the nobles, and even the common people's house is just a group of rich speculative merchants and large landlords. The only thing that can restrict them is the absolute power monarch.

He wanted to be the elected "Song Gong" and let the elected give him greater power.

A large number of people supported him.

Because self-cultivated farmers and landless farmers actually prefer a monarch with absolute power.

Nobles, merchants... are actually enemies of peasants. What they need is a skilled monarch who can completely suppress nobles and merchants by relying on power, rather than the so-called equality and freedom to choose the emperor.

Of course, on the one hand, he shouted like this, dressed himself up as the spokesperson for civilians and landless people, and on the other hand, he also colluded with those big businessmen. He also half publicly stated that the land should be absolutely private, and that the remaining ones after the land was distributed to landless farmers in the future can be sold to those with higher auction prices.

Anyway, what he gave was not his own.

This is why he received support from landless farmers who flocked to Shangqiu, some self-cultivated farmers oppressed by speculators, and some merchants who had money to buy land and operate.

After receiving support from some internal people, Dai Cong contacted the people of the Mo family again, looking like a gentleman with a "heart to benefit the world".

At that time, inside Si Shang, Shi once commented: Dai Cong was a shiny but pure and charming prostitute who dressed himself up, but he looked like what we like. We didn't like him, but we liked his dress. Although we liked dressing, we had to be thought that we liked him to make people know what dress we like.

At that time, the Mo family had already had a semi-public rupture with his emperor father Yue Ling. Dai Cong, who dressed himself up as a spokesperson for the civilians, immediately received support from the Mo family.

As for Dai Cong's ambition, it doesn't matter. Si Shang has no interest in the State of Song for the time being, nor does he have the energy to fight another battle in the Central Plains.

Anyway, if the world is stable, the Song State will naturally be stable; on the other hand, if the Song State is in chaos, the world will be in chaos early.

If he is willing to be Duke Song, let him be; if he is willing to be the monarch of Song with absolute power, then support him; all the Mo family needs is a buffer country that is sandwiched between Wei and Chu and is close to the Mo family.

In fact, the nobles of the entire Song State were looking for their own wild fathers except the emperor's clan.

It is nothing more than that the Xiao, Hua, Mu and other clans want Chu people to be wild fathers; the Le, Niu, Shi and other clans want Wei Han to be wild fathers; Qi was beaten five years ago and was not qualified to be wild fathers; the Dai clans are looking for Si Shang to be wild fathers.

Only one emperor's father, Yue Ling, wanted to be independent and survive in the cracks by relying on the contradictions of various countries. He did not hesitate to pull Wei, Chu, Si and others into the war in order to weaken them and keep Song State truly independent.

This was destined to be the tragedy of the emperor's father Yue Ling, because the forces outside the surrounding areas were too strong, and it was too difficult for him to maintain the pride of the descendants of the Shang Dynasty.

Just after Dai went to Si Shang, the Mo family immediately came forward to give Dai enough face, which was also a signal to force the emperor's father Yue Ling to act against the situation.

The emperor's father Yue Ling had to guard against Dai Cong and the Mo family, so he had to find a way to get money to arm his private soldiers. This was the method of Si Shang forcing the emperor's father's clan, and it was also a means to intensify conflicts.

Dai Cong's prestige among the civilians became increasingly high, and the nobles hated him more and more. This time the outbreak of the chaos in the Song Dynasty was that Dai Cong was assassinated. Although someone protected him and did not die, this incident immediately caused chaos in Shangqiu.

A large number of people from the State of Song demanded strict investigation of the murderer, and all kinds of rumors were flying everywhere.

Some people say that this was the attack of the emperor's father's clan, because Dai Cong's prestige was enough to serve as the chief of the Inquiry Yuan, so he had to get rid of it first and then quickly.

Some people say that this was the action taken by the other nobles, because Dai Cong called on him to regain the power of the nobles and divide the extra fiefs of the nobles.

Some people also speculated in secret that it might be Dai Cong directed and acted by himself to arouse the resentment of the conservative nobles of the lower class.

These messy things came one after another, and the harmless covenant was ten years, and the ten years later continued ten years after the expiration of ten years, and now the deadline has come.

The nobles all understood that the peace before was impossible, and this balance that was maintained by external forces would burst out immediately as soon as the external pressure was withdrawn.

In recent years, the Emperor's Father clan has always wanted to centralize power, and the conflict between the other nobles and the Emperor's Father clan has been very deep.

The Mo family suddenly became more radical than before, especially after the Fei State Incident, the emperor's father Yue Ling felt that the Mo family's ambitions were obvious and the Song State was in danger. It was already quite difficult for him to reconcile with those nobles at this time.

Because he was the most powerful among the nobles, and because he had been centralizing power before, several nobles were still considering issues with the thinking of the feudal era, despising the people's hearts and overly valuing the peasants and soldiers on the fiefdoms and fields, Dai Cong, who had no threats before, stood out.
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