"Team Sacred Martial Arts, you can do it!"
"Great Tang Glory Team will win!"
"Team Sacred Martial Arts!"
"Great Tang Glory Team!"
……
When Li Xian and Alohai appeared on their warhorses, their entire bodies wrapped in armor, cheers rang out on the field.
The aristocrats sitting on the steps watched as Wu Zetian appeared on the city wall, desperately cheering for Team Sacred Martial Zhou and expressing their stance.
The citizens of the Old City were proud of the Old City Team, grateful for the good days that Li Xian had brought them, and cheered for the Tang Glory Team.
On the contrary, the Chang 'an people were envious of the people of the old city who dared to oppose the dignitaries.
As the days went by, the citizens of the old city gradually became more confident.
Through the coordinated transformation of fields and the repair of cities, the people of the old city also felt the power of unity.
And the Great Tang's glory competition had also bestowed upon the people of the old city something else.
The competitive teams that had been established in the past month all had powerful backgrounds.
Among them, there were even some descendants of wealthy families who personally participated in the competition in search of excitement.
The citizens of the old city had witnessed the soldiers of the old city using bamboo swords to remove the children of the noble families from their horses.
In the arena, it was the victory of the low-level prefecture soldiers against the powerful families.
The bravery, hard work, and fearlessness of power in the competition had already been imperceptibly influenced. It was like a spring breeze that affected the mental outlook of the people in the old city.
In fact, this was Li Xian's goal.
This competitive sport was not created by Li Xian.
He had imitated the swordsmanship competition between the western nobles.
The western nobles used this method to preserve the bravery of their descendants.
As for him, other than his goal that was already known to everyone.
Allowing the people to participate and encouraging them to participate was to change this era with the bravery, hard work, and fearlessness of power passed on through the competition. The rich and powerful families restrained the natural bloodline of the people.
He had no choice.
Wu Zetian wanted to use him like a knife. He was bound to stand on the opposite side of the powerful families and nobles in this era.
Wu Zetian relied on non-Guanzhong families to deal with Guanzhong families.
He could only rely on the commoners to deal with the tyrants.
He might as well imitate Yang Guang and become enemies with the tyrants of this era.
If he succeeded, he would completely shatter the aristocratic family system.
If he lost, he would just be another Yang Guang.
Let's see who will chop off Li Xian's head!
Moreover, his way of doing things was different from Yang Guang's.
Yang Guang attacking the tycoons was an indiscriminate blow.
In order to deal with the tyrants, they sacrificed the people.
Therefore, it was not only the wealthy families who opposed Yang Guang.
What ruined the Sui Dynasty was precisely the uprising of the commoners who could not survive.
Those who felt sorry for Yang Guang and felt that Yang Guang's boldness was not inferior to the First Emperor were mostly people like him.
Only in this era could one feel the hatred of the people towards Yang Guang.
Because as a person of the later generations, they couldn't put themselves in the shoes of others. During the end of the Sui Dynasty, in the face of Yang Guang's various pioneering work that the later generations talked about, in the process of indiscriminately attacking the powerful families, they were in this era and the suffering of the common people.
The commoners did not have that much ambition, nor did they have the ambition of Yang Guang to be the one emperor in history.
Their most basic requirement was to live a comfortable life.
Just like the Sui Wendi era.
Secondly, under the premise that basic survival was guaranteed, if Yang Guang could eliminate the tycoons and create more rising channels, the people would be willing to support him.
It was impossible to let the people live in a torturous life without food and clothing, sacrificing themselves for an illusory future.
It was also unrealistic.
Yang Guang failed because he was the emperor. He didn't realize the order of life and ideals for the people.
He arrogantly believed that for the sake of his grand ambitions, for the sake of an unprecedented golden age, the people should make temporary sacrifices.
This was an idea that completely deviated from reality.
Li Xian fully learned this lesson.
Remember, any beautiful future that you describe must be based on reality and improve the lives of the people.
Wu Zetian could feel that the natural reverence of the people in the old city towards the powerful families seemed to be disappearing bit by bit.
She was happy to see this happen.
Ever since Emperor Taizong of the Great Tang, he had begun to suppress the noble families.
She was the same.
As the emperor, as long as he sat in the position of the emperor.
They did not like a group of people threatening the imperial power and pointing fingers at it.
Yang Guang is like this, Taizong is like this.
She was the same.
The only difference was that Taizong had learned from Yang Guang's failure, and in addition, the Great Tang had just been established, so it was not wise to go to war and shake the foundation of the country.
They used the meritorious deeds of King Qin's Mansion in the past to deal with the powerful families.
He even proposed to endow the new nobility with hereditary provincial governors.
The provincial governors of Emperor Taizong were different from the provincial governors at the end of the Han Dynasty. The provincial governors of the Sui and Tang Dynasties only had the power to supervise the local government and did not have the power to interfere with local political affairs.
To put it bluntly, it was equivalent to supervising the army.
The provincial governors in the early years of the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties were the same.
However, after the end of the Han Dynasty, the imperial power fell to the side. In order to curb the separation of the local areas, the central government could only give the provincial governor more power.
In the beginning, the provincial governor relied on the imperial power to fight for power with the local authorities. It was indeed effective.
However, it was inevitable that the central government was weak. Once the provincial governor gained control of the local government, his ambition would grow and he would quickly collude with the local government to fight against the central government.
Emperor Taizong granted the title of hereditary provincial governor to the newly rich and meritorious people, and the essential purpose was the same as that of the provincial governor in the early Han Dynasty.
Using the new nobles to suppress the local aristocratic families that had been passed down for hundreds of years.
After all, there were only so many benefits in the world. If the new nobles wanted more, they could only snatch it from the mouths of the old aristocratic families.
In the end, Zhangsun Wuji and the others objected and gave up.
It was also because the famous officials of Zhenguan had already seen that this method was effective in the early stages.
However, as long as the central government was weak, they would definitely follow the old path of the provincial governor at the end of the Han Dynasty.
It was a good thing that Li Xian could make the citizens of the old city not fear the powerful!
At the same time, the aristocratic families also saw through that Li Xian's actions would attract the hostility of the aristocratic families.
At this moment, the solemn expressions of the nobles beside him were the best proof.
The only fly in the ointment was that Li Xian had gained a lot of prestige from it.
The influence of the Great Tang's glory was bound to expand.
This competition must be won!
The competition had to be the glory of Wu Zhou!
This thought was unprecedentedly strong and urgent.
Wu Zetian glanced at Wu Chengsi, who was standing beside her.
Even though Wu Chengsi was nervous, he still intentionally revealed a confident expression when he noticed Wu Zetian looking at him.
Wu Zetian was a bit more confident and suddenly said,"Junbei, give me the flag!"
Hearing this, Qiao Junbei hurriedly presented the flag with both hands.
"Great Tang Glory…Third match, begin!”
Qiao Junbei stood beside Wu Zetian, his voice trembling as he shouted out the Great Tang's glory.
Wu Zetian personally waved the flag.
The hundreds of thousands of eyes in the stadium widened and stared at the arena!
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