Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 432 Spare your life

   After listening to Li Xin's words, Lord Fujun's expression changed slightly.

Today's Li Xin is no longer the poor boy he took care of two years ago. Now, the Marquis of Jing'an can be said to be the most popular person in the Taikang Dynasty, and he has seen the emperor more often than the ministers of Shangshutai. He has seen the Son of Heaven many times, and his words are very credible.

  Li Ye looked around, saw no one around, and lowered his voice.

   "What does the Marquis of Jing'an mean?"

   Li Xin smiled indifferently: "Is there any connection between the Lord Fujun and the Li Clan of Zhao County?"

"and also."

  Li Ye's face was slightly dark, and he lowered his head and said, "My late father was born in the Li family in Zhao County. Although he later established his own business, this old man has often returned home to worship his ancestors these years."

   "The era of clansmen is coming to an end."

  Li Xin's voice was calm.

Before   Emperor Wu, the five kingdoms in the world stood side by side. At that time, the most honorable people in the world were not necessarily the royal families of the five kingdoms, but the sons of these aristocratic families.

  The lifespan of these aristocratic families can reach more than a thousand years. The country does not die without the family. Each family has a large talent pool. They monopolize knowledge and master the academic discourse power. This situation reached its peak during the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

How exaggerated was    at that time?

   Zheng Gui, the head of the Zheng family in Xingyang, said that when his father came to the capital, the Great Jin Dynasty was still the Southern Jin Dynasty, which was in the south of the Yangtze River.

   This situation was broken by Emperor Wu.

   At that time, the most powerful country in the world was the Northern Zhou Dynasty, so most of the aristocratic families were officials in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and only a small number of families sent a few branches to the other four countries to be officials, and the purpose was not to put eggs in one basket.

   At that time, Li Zhijie and Li Zhili, two brothers of the Li family in Zhao County, were separated from the Li family in Zhao County and settled in Jinling.

   Later, when the war was about to begin, Emperor Wu didn't even dare to use a man from an aristocratic family like Li Zhijie to attack the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

   Then, Old Man Ye used a big spear to smash the seemingly huge and mighty Bei Zhou.

   This is the prelude to the decline of the family.

   After that, although the power of these aristocratic clans was greatly weakened, they did not suffer a fatal blow. After all, after the Jin Dynasty ruled the world, they still adopted a gentle policy towards these aristocratic clans.

  The real fatal thing is the scientific research.

  The scientific examination is actually a new thing. Originally, only the Southern Jin Dynasty, where the literary style was popular, would use the scientific examination. Most of the officials in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and Nanshu were selected from noble families, and there was basically no examination.

   But after the Jin Dynasty ruled the world, scientific examinations were introduced to the world and enforced.

   Of course, in the scientific examination, the children of the aristocratic families with monopoly knowledge still took a lot of advantage, so that many local officials who graduated from the scientific examination in the Dajin nowadays have aristocratic backgrounds.

   The last straw that killed the clan was the seventh year of divine work in the period of Emperor Wu. A bookshop craftsman came up with a mature engraving.

   This has led to the family no longer monopolizing knowledge. From Emperor Wu to the Chengde Dynasty, two generations of emperors have vigorously promoted the imperial examination. More than 30 years later, the influence of the family is gradually weakening.

   is a good example of this.

   Among the five chief ministers of Shangshutai, only Zhongshu Ling Gongyangshu was born in an aristocratic family, and he was not a big aristocrat.

   And those old clans can only control some places and cannot dominate the government.

Take the Li Ye in front of him as an example. His father, Li Zhili, was an official in Jinling during the Emperor Wu’s reign, before the Jin Dynasty had ruled the world. Jin people, even so, the lord of the mansion has been wandering at the entrance of Shangshutai for nearly ten years, but he still can't get in through the door, and was pressed to death in Jingzhaoyin's position.

   Several generations of emperors of the Great Jin Dynasty were all digging holes and filling soil for the aristocratic family.

  Because of this, these aristocratic clans are willing to risk their lives and take risks with Li Shen, because only with a new day, these gradually declining clans can have the opportunity to regain the right to speak.

  As Li Xin said, the era of aristocratic clansmen has come to an end, and even the graves have been dug. Emperor Taikang and Li Xin’s generation are the last people to fill the soil.

   Of course, the old man of the aristocratic family, who was buried under the neck, was not willing to die like this, and he wanted to jump again, so they hit it off with the Ping Nanjun and the abolished prince.

   Li Xin looked at the old man in front of him with a smile.

   "After Mr. Fu Jun finished his busy work here, he would close the door to thank guests when he returned home, and keep a low profile. As Fu Jun said, Li Shen is already dead, and even if there is a big change, it is unlikely that Fu Jun will be implicated."

   Having said this, Li Xin paused.

   "If something really happened to Fu Jun, Li Xin would help if he could."

   Said, Li Xin left the only surviving small courtyard of the Pingnanhou Mansion with his hands behind his back.

  Li Ye looked at the back of the young man leaving and was dazed.

   This young man who was in a state of embarrassment two years ago, he doesn't quite understand what he says now.

  …

  Li Xin did not leave the Pingnanhou Mansion, but turned around and went to another courtyard.

  This yard has been burnt into a piece of scorched earth, and the scorched wood is no longer there, and was moved out by Qianniuwei, leaving only a bare flat ground and a broken courtyard wall.

   But in this yard, there is a cellar.

  This cellar was discovered early in the morning. At the beginning, the twenty-seven members of the Zheng family in Xingyang were discovered here, and then they were arrested by Qianniuwei. Li Xin also came here to see it.

  He followed his memory and found the entrance to this tunnel.

  Li Xin took a torch and took pictures left and right of the entrance of the cellar. Then he turned to the personal guard behind him and said, "You guys are guarding here, I'll go down and have a look."

"Yes."

  Just like that, Li Xin held a torch, jumped down, and after walking about ten steps, he finally reached the interior of the cellar.

   There was only one stone table, empty and nothing.

   looked left and right in the cellar, and after knocking around, Li Xin didn't notice anything unusual, and then he sat down beside the stone table.

   This young Marquis of Jing'an seems to be talking to himself.

   "I've been thinking about where you would hide for more than a month, but after thinking about it, you should be hiding here."

   Dark under the lights.

  Li Shen wanted to hide under the eyes of the three imperial guards. It was not safe to hide anywhere in the capital. The safest place was this cellar where people had been searched and arrested.

   Not many people will come here for a second time, so it is most suitable for Tibetans.

   Therefore, Li Xin suspected that there was not only one level of this cellar, but another level, and Li Shen had been hiding here for more than a month.

   But he knocked around just now and found no secret door.

   He sat down, his voice calm.

   "I don't know if you can hear it or not, but if you can hear it."

  Li Xin closed his eyes and said in a clear voice, "Today, the funeral is being held for you, which means that from today onwards, you and your wife will be dead."

   "Don't worry, whether you're here or not, I won't ask someone to dig this cellar."

A mocking smile appeared at the corner of Li Xin's mouth: "If you are really here, then today I will spare your life and give back the life you gave me. In the future, you and I will have grudges and grudges. revenge."

   "Whether you can escape from the capital depends on your ability, I won't stop you."

   After saying these words, Li Xin felt a lot more comfortable. He stood up, glanced left and right at the empty cellar, and smiled: "Li Shen, you are..."

   "It's really boring to live."

   After saying this, Li Xin climbed up the same way.

   After he had left the cellar for an incense stick, somewhere in the cellar, a discordant sound suddenly came.

   As if a jade pendant was smashed.

   (end of this chapter)