The power struggle at the highest level has nothing to do with Cui Deben, but it has a direct relationship with Cui.

Today, Cui Hongsheng, the head of the Cui family, is the prefect of Zhuo County, the general of the Left Wu Guard, and is a brigade official in charge of the territory. He is relatively close to the center, but still a distance from the core level of the center.

The Cui family is the first family in Shandong, a super wealthy family in Zhongtu. It has a supreme and respectful position in the minds of the Middle Earth people and is very powerful. Such a family naturally flocked to it in the era of the splitting and fighting for hegemony between China and Earth, and the overlords naturally wanted to help. However, when China and Earth were unified, these forces threatened the development of imperial power and became hidden dangers for the stability of the dynasty, and were the target of containment and attack. Therefore, from the actual situation, Cui Hongsheng was not only a distance from the central core level, but a distance that could not be reached at all.

Whether the moderate reforms of the late emperor or the radical reforms today, the essential goal is to curb and crack down on the wealthy families, reduce and deprive the privileges of the wealthy families, and to completely eliminate the politics of the aristocratic families while centralizing the power to the central government to the greatest extent, so as to make the wealthy families permanent history.

The centralized system began with Qin Shihuang, and gradually got on the right track to Emperor Wu of Han, and was basically formed by Emperor Guangwu of Han, but due to the extreme lack of cultural communication means and the extreme unfair distribution of wealth, there were few people with the ability and opportunity to receive education. The excessive lack of talents directly restricted the development of the centralized system. By the Wei and Jin Dynasties, this system was quickly replaced by the politics of aristocratic families, and the nobles who controlled the culture and wealth of Zhongtu did not push Zhongtu towards prosperity and development, but instead brought wars and divisions to Zhongtu for nearly four hundred years.

After the late emperor unified Zhongtu, he resolutely implemented the centralized system. If we want to realize this system, we must first redistribute Zhongtu's power and wealth. To redistribute Zhongtu's power and wealth, we must first curb and crack down on the wealthy families that controlled Zhongtu's power and wealth. This is actually a tiger's mouth to seize food, which is very difficult, but it is not without hope, because the poor class in Zhongtu absolutely supports this reform. The poor family is not civilians, but aristocrats, but they have very low rank and have very little power and wealth. They have an innate hatred for the wealthy families that dominate most of Zhongtu's power and wealth. Therefore, since ancient times to the present, those who have made great wise men who are not afraid of life and death to "kill" vested interest groups are basically great wise men born in poor families.

Today, with the development of papermaking and printing technology in Middle-earth, as the rulers attach importance to popularization education, cultural communication methods have become more and more abundant. In the process of Sino-earth transitioning from division to unification, emerging aristocrats who rose with military merits have also flourished. Today, the absolute number of "poor families" in Middle-earth has become very large. Children of poor families with knowledge are full of strong reform awareness about the extreme unfairness of power and wealth distribution in the current national policy. This class is the basis for the reformists who follow them to carry out political system reform without hesitation. They are not afraid of no one to support them. Due to reality and the urgent need for reform of the entire poor family, they have to compromise, and have to give some vested interests to the poor family, and have to adjust the distribution system of rights and wealth in order to protect and maintain the politics of aristocratic families to the greatest extent.

Since the founding of the late emperor, the brothers Cui Hongdu and Cui Hongsheng have been relied on by the late emperor and assisted the late emperor in formulating and implementing a series of national policies that would help the unification and development of China and Earth. The late emperor was a moderate reformist faction. If he wanted to achieve his ruling philosophy and political goals, he would first need to win the support of wealthy families. Therefore, the late emperor also needed the Cui brothers to charge him in political reform in order to play an example and take the lead.

However, when the reform reached a certain level, the wealthy families had to give up vested interests and bear the cost of reform, the conflict became fierce and the conflict broke out. While the late emperor and the reformists spared no effort to crack down on the wealthy families headed by the Cui family, they were also severely damaged. The deposition of the prince Yang Yong, who shocked the Middle Earth, was the result of the fierce conflict between the two sides.

The late emperor won a miserable victory. The Grand Emperor, who was consistent with his ruling philosophy, finally won the imperial reign, and the Grand Emperor's reform cause with centralization as the core was continued. However, the Grand Emperor under the Nine Springs probably did not expect that the new reformists with the Grand Emperor as the core accelerated the pace of reform and replaced the "moderation" with "radicality". The contradictions and conflicts caused by this were far beyond the late period of the late emperor's rule, and the new huge empire fell into an unprecedented survival crisis.

The emperor is actually not a person, but a political group. The wealthy family is not a separate individual, but a political group. In order to maintain his rule, continue the country's destiny, and lasting peace, the emperor must centralize power. Only centralization can be stable. In order to maintain his power and wealth, the wealthy family must share the emperor's authority. "The king and the horse share the world" is the pinnacle of the politics of the aristocratic family, but while decentralizing power, it also laid the root of division and war. This is proved by history, and there is no need to repeat it. Whether it is the emperor or the wealthy family, one knows it, so one strongly wants to centralize power, while the other firmly opposes centralization.

For the emperor, you threatened my survival, of course I have to deal with you, and for wealthy families, dynasty changes are the norm. Since I can help you to the stage, I can knock you down from the stage. The current state is that the emperor uses reform as a weapon, war as a means, and army as a backing, and launched a fierce attack on the wealthy families. The wealthy families are at a disadvantage and can only defend passively, but the best defense is attack. Faced with the step-by-step pressing of the emperor and the reformists, the wealthy families have to fight back.

The twelve ladies of the Cui family repeatedly mentioned the white-haired stranger in the letter, and even made hints of increasing support in their words.

Cui Deben first did not believe the predictions of the white-haired strangers. It was just nonsense. Several of them died in the core level in the central area, which was too absurd. If such a thing really happened, wouldn’t the emperor collapse? Can the Eastern Expedition continue?

However, this unprecedented miracle that is rare in history really happened. Sikong, who was in charge of the Shangshu Province, the governor of the Inner History, the governor of the Inner History, the Minister of War, one of the eight ministers of the Shangshu Province, the General Zuotun Guard, one of the generals of the Twelve Guards, and the Supreme Military and Political Head of Zhongtu, actually died five of them in just four months. It is incredible that the impact was too great. Although there is no consequence yet, Cui Deben, who had been full of confidence in the Eastern Expedition, was no longer optimistic, and even pessimistically predicted that the Eastern Expedition would be about to start or end, and he returned in vain.

This war will definitely not be able to continue. The death of these military and political leaders seems to be affected by the center, the emperor suffered a lot of blows, and the morale of the military is getting worse, but in fact these are all small problems that are not worth mentioning. The real big problem is that the political balance built by the emperor and the reformists over the years has been broken, and it has been irrescuely broken, and there is no possibility of adjustment and repair.

The premise of reform is political stability. The basis of political stability is to establish an effective balance mechanism between political forces, that is, to restrain each other and restrict each other. This constraint is based on the equality of strength of various political forces. With the sudden death of several political bosses, especially the death of Yang Xiong and Yang Da brothers, the sudden decline of the royal political power, now this kind of equal strength no longer exists. The equal strength no longer exists. It will be difficult for various political forces to restrain each other, which will inevitably trigger a new round of power struggles. As a result, political storms continue, political situations are turbulent, and the pace of reform will inevitably stop.

Once the pace of reform stops, the reformists are in trouble, and one rises and the other falls. The forces against reform will definitely take advantage of the momentum and take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to exhaust all means to launch a counterattack against the reformists in order to destroy the results of reforms and regain control of the direction of China-Turkey's progress.

The wealthy families are the object of reform and the ultimate goal of reform. The wealthy families naturally need to launch a counterattack.

The Guard Army had twelve generals, twenty-four generals, a total of thirty-six senior commanders, some of whom had to stay in the two capitals and some had to guard the border, so there would be no more than half of the generals and above-level senior commanders on the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition. Among these generals, there would be no more than half of the generals who were absolutely loyal to the emperor. Now, the Expeditionary Force had not yet crossed the Yalu River and entered the hinterland of Goguryeo, and five generals who were absolutely loyal to the emperor had fallen down. It is not difficult to calculate that today, there are still several generals who were absolutely loyal to the emperor on the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition? They would absolutely follow the emperor's orders and implement them without fail.

In the army, all those who are in the army, generals, generals, Wu Ben and Wu Ya must have a considerable aristocratic status in addition to their outstanding achievements. The so-called "there are no poor families at the top and no nobles at the bottom" has been integrated with the cultural thoughts of Middle-earth for hundreds of years and penetrated into the souls of every Middle-earth man, just like the pillar of a river. Even if there is a shocking tide, you can't even touch it.

These senior commanders from wealthy families, especially the reform of the military system, have seriously damaged their vital interests and have long been full of resentment towards reform. Now they have finally seized an opportunity to fight back, how can they miss it? The benefits obtained from overthrowing the reform are not comparable to those obtained from limited merits after the victory of the Eastern Expedition. It is not difficult to infer that if the Eastern Expedition continues, any incredible result may occur.

There are only things you can't imagine, and there are nothing they can't do.

At the beginning, the white-haired stranger said that the Eastern Expedition was not optimistic and there was a possibility of failure. Cui Deben scoffed. Now, he began to believe in the prediction of the white-haired stranger. If the Eastern Expedition failed, what changes will happen in the situation in China and Turkey? If the Eastern Expedition really had an incredible result and failed, what kind of drastic changes will occur in the situation in China and Turkey? Among these possible changes, one thing is very certain that the wealthy families will launch a crazy counterattack against the emperor and the reformists. Then, will both sides be equal in size, both sides will be injured, or will they be destroyed by the death and be destroyed? Will Middle-earth move towards division and war again?
Chapter completed!