As a guest invited by the Crown Prince, Li Chengfeng's location is naturally different from that of ordinary people. He does not have to stand in the square square below the stage with the monks, nor does he need to crowd on both sides of the road or on the roof trees like ordinary people. .
The viewing platform under the high platform is in the shape of a trapezoid. The narrowest part of the trapezoid is the top, which is also where the high platform is located. The long stairs all the way to the high platform are filled with red carpets, with various orange-yellow flags and wooden pillars on both sides. Behind are the VIP seats placed on the north and south sides respectively. On the north side are dignitaries and guests specially invited by the royal family; on the south side are the monks who did not participate in the fighting ceremony in Shenjing.
On the west side are various sects arranged in squares of various sizes. Their costumes are different and each one is clearly distinguishable. There is at least ten meters between each sect and a man standing in the middle. The monks of the Qiankun Cult in black robes not only show division, but also represent intimidation.
There were a total of seventy-three large and small sects present, including 538 monks who did not have a sect but participated in the fighting ceremony, for a total of 7,492 people.
These people watched the secret fight between the prince and the imperial master on the stage, secretly exclaiming for a good show, but their faces were as pale as a lake. Those who were able to come here through the sect's selections all had two brushes in their hands. Those who must be assessed will naturally not make a fuss or whisper at this juncture.
Li Chengfeng saw the two people's overt and covert fighting, and was secretly worried in his heart. From this point of view, the conflict between the power of the prince's line and the power of the divine religion of the national master's line was inevitable and irresolvable.
The prince wants to refresh the official system, but this only treats the symptoms but not the root cause. The biggest problem in Daqi today is that it cannot make ends meet, and there is a serious imbalance between expenditure and income. This is a very simple arithmetic problem that even a child can understand.
Just like an adult, if the energy produced by the food he eats every day is less than what he consumes, he will lose weight first. After he loses weight to a certain level, his vitality will begin to be lost, and slowly over time, he will lose weight. Towards death.
It has been more than 500 years since the founding of Da Qi. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that he has now reached the stage of an old man who has become a derelict old man. However, because his coat is still gorgeous and majestic enough, it is still quite intimidating, but Once another external force suddenly tears off this coat, everyone will see Da Qi's devastated interior.
The fundamental reason for all this is the main reason that the prince firmly believes: the cultivation sects and wealthy families are too powerful, and their existence squeezes the living space of the Qi court, and then squeezes and affects the living space of the people.
The prince can deal with wealthy families, but it is difficult for him to deal with the spiritual sect.
When it comes to reforming the practice sects, the first one to bear the brunt is the Qiankun Divine Sect!
The prince must make the Qiankun Divine Sect bow its head. Only through the reforms he proposes can other sects follow suit, so as to avoid causing a terrible blood disaster.
However, what the prince wants to touch is not a small issue of interest, but the prince is holding the guillotine high to cut off a large part of the interests of the practicing sect: taxing the practicing sect, and a heavy tax based on the number of heads! !
Only in this way can we stop the evil practices of the spiritual sects and wealthy families from constantly absorbing the people and annexing the land.
The prince has rich practical and governing experience. He knows very well that his reforms will surely touch a large part of the interest groups in this society. If he is not careful, he will be shattered to pieces. Moreover, once he takes the throne, his policies will definitely cause problems. In the future, if the rich and powerful families start a crazy struggle, they will definitely encourage the villagers and scholars who rely on them to take the lead in resisting the tax. By then, violent resistance to the law will definitely appear in endlessly, and their eyes will be fixed on the Qiankun Divine Sect.
Everyone’s thoughts will be: What is the attitude of the religion? If the divine religion doesn’t obey, then we won’t be afraid and will continue to make trouble! Once the world is in chaos, the prince's policy will definitely not be implemented.
As for how the world is doing and how the people are, the monks and nobles will not care about these dignitaries, and they will not be the ones beaten to death anyway.
And if you want to make the divine sect bow, the one you must defeat is the old man standing in front of the prince who looks thin, but his back is as towering and huge as a mountain.
After the prince finished ringing the bell, he stopped and looked at each other from a distance with the imperial master Chang. Both of them saw determination and strength in the other's eyes.
One of this power comes from faith, and the other comes from self-confidence.
The national preceptor Chang Yuan stared at the prince for a while, then turned around, ignored the prince, and just raised his hands toward the audience. Everyone in the audience and the surrounding people stood up one after another.
The prince was left alone, but he was not discouraged. Instead, he walked back to his throne and raised his hand to the national ceremony team on the side. This huge orchestra of two to three hundred people immediately met, and the three leaders headed Ten trumpeters immediately blew the huge copper trumpets.
Just as National Master Chang Yuan was about to speak, a low sound of horns suddenly rolled in. Then, other trumpeters placed in other places throughout Shenjing City also blew their horns. The sound of the horns was really loud. The tide was raging and rolling, making everyone tense and tense.
Immediately after the drums sounded, the orchestra began to play music. This was the special music of the Daqi royal family, "The Victory Song of the Heavenly King." For a time, the drums sounded in unison, and the sky was noisy. In the majestic and majestic music, the Imperial Master Chang Yuan was stunned for a moment, but he did not continue to speak, because once he spoke, he violated the ancestral rules, just like the prince should salute him according to the ancestral rules, but he did not need to salute the prince.
Once the music starts and he opens his mouth again, it is against the rules!
Although the Imperial Master Chang Yuan could easily crush the prince to death with one finger, he also knew that once he did so, the prestige and legitimacy of the divine religion would be over.
Having lost its majesty and legitimacy, no matter how powerful a behemoth is, it will be constantly attacked and challenged, and then abandoned by the world, eventually heading towards decline and destruction.
Throughout the ages, no large country or power group has been able to escape this law.
Here, he must dance according to the rules of the game within this system. They can express themselves, but they are very careful not to completely break the rules.
Fight without breaking, this is the bottom line of the current tacit understanding between the two.
However, through this brief confrontation and staring at each other, they understood the fact that this secret war had just begun, and a more cruel fight would follow.
Imperial Master Chang Yuan gave up lecturing him. He walked slowly to the side of the prince, stood beside him, looked at the audience in front of him with a smile, without squinting, and said slowly in a voice that only two people could hear: "Your Highness is really tall. It’s big.”
There was a pun in this sentence, and the prince naturally understood it, and he said in a low voice without looking away: "The Imperial Master has worked hard for Daqi for so many years, and it's time to take a rest."
Imperial Master Chang Yuan remained calm and continued, "Yes, it's time to take a rest, but the tree is big and has deep roots, and strong winds can shake it."
Of course the prince understood that the meaning of this sentence was to accuse the prince of being eager for quick success and touching the foundation of the Qiankun Divine Religion. At the same time, he also secretly threatened the prince. The divine religion has "big trees and deep roots", huge power, and its interests are closely related to the entire Daqi. Once it is touched, , one move affects the whole body, and the consequences are disastrous.
But who is the prince? Of course he thinks clearly about all this!
This was a prince who dared to stand up and fight at the front in the face of thousands of corpses in Taiyang City. How could such a person back down at such a juncture
The prince said softly: "The national situation is difficult and time has not waited for us. Teacher Chang is the national teacher. Shouldn't you think more about serving the country? You must know that the divine religion is also the divine religion of Daqi."
This last sentence is very powerful, because its power lies in the subtext that is left unspoken: The Divine Religion is the Divine Religion of Daqi, but Daqi is not the Daqi of the Divine Religion!
Although the current comparison of strength shows that the priorities of the two have long been reversed, from a legal perspective, the priorities between the two cannot be confused!
Chang Yuan, the national preceptor, has lived for more than five hundred years and has never dealt with any situation. He smiled slightly and said lightly: "Serving the country is a matter of course, but managing a big country is like cooking a small dish. Sometimes it is not beautiful if you do it too hastily. If Your Highness thinks that I am old and frail, and that I am in the way, why don't you go boating with me on Nanhu, ignore the worldly affairs, and be carefree?"
This sentence instantly hit the prince's heart!
Is it okay for the Imperial Preceptor to "exchange his son" with the Crown Prince