In this era, there was no strict class division, but classes did exist. The gap between the high gate and the poor family or directly the high gate and other families is reflected in all aspects, political first, economic foundation, cultural monopoly, and public opinion control.

These gaps in all aspects are enough to make ordinary people have no courage in the face of the high gate, and they are willing to be the last. The so-called nobility and humility brought about by a person's background are difficult to make up for through acquired efforts.

This is probably a relatively simple genetic viewpoint, even in later generations when the construction of spiritual civilization has been extremely sound, how a person's family background can still affect other people's views and expectations of him. A person from a poor family is destined to endure more criticism and frustration in his upbringing.

Shen Zhezi was a human being in two lifetimes, and in his own feelings, this kind of discrimination in origin cannot be solved through the system, but is more similar to the castration of people's minds by the whole society, as long as it is the process of civilization or relying on blood to transmit, it will exist. The difference between ancient and modern times is that later generations have more means of gambling in obtaining resources, rather than relying only on inheritance, which dissolves this inequality of origin to a certain extent.

But nowadays, being able to elevate one's door is fatal to one's attractiveness. To a certain extent, the Wei and Jin dynasties were an era of emancipation of individuality because of the weakening of famous religions. A person's social status is not determined solely by his power, but by his surname.

But this emancipation of individuality is not worth boasting, because the embodiment of a person's value does not lie in having the courage to assume the social responsibility that he should bear, but in escaping from reality and competing to make trouble.

Based on such a reality, each other is only a cooperative interest relationship, and there is no strong personal control, nor does one believe in the unquestioning idea of unity of righteousness. Even if there is a temporary cooperation, once there is a greater temptation and a better choice, this cooperation will inevitably end.

This point was already clear when Shen Zhezi restructured the Yinjue from simply accumulating wealth and goods to cooperating with each other to promote the circulation of goods. The relationship with the Hidden Lords is just a relationship of interest exchange, and it does not have to rise to the level of an alliance.

It is true that these Yin Jue families, who had a difficult life earlier, gained a lot of wealth because of their cooperation with the Shang Alliance, but the Shen family did not blindly pay in this cooperation. Through the cooperation with Yinjue, not only did it integrate the countryside and create a business alliance that was more closely related to Yinjue, but also established a firm foothold in Jingkou, where overseas Chinese gathered, with its Wu family.

To be honest, even if the Hidden Jue fell apart now, Shen Zhezi would not feel pity. Because in the process of cooperation, his family's own strength and influence have undergone qualitative changes, and the gains far outweigh the pay. Although Yinjue can be said to have been created by him, it is possible to stare at Lao Tzu when he raises a son, not to mention that his purpose was not pure when he first thought of engaging in Yinjue.

Through Shen Ke's description, Shen Zhezi also knew that the infiltration of Qingxu Qiaomen into Yinjue was much the same as what he thought.

The first is to pull people into their own social circles, such as holding some elegant gatherings, fairs and so on. This may seem simple, but it is a great breakthrough. The so-called Shishu is not the same, what kind of people are friends with what kind of people, and how a person's social circle reflects his social status to a certain extent.

This can be seen from Shen Zhezi's dating trajectory. There are several obvious nodes in his circle of friends, becoming Ji Zhan's disciple, marrying a princess, and so on. After crossing this hurdle, you are qualified to be friends with others, and whether you will be marginalized or become a small center after entering the circle depends on the individual's ability.

Shen Ke told Shen Zhezi in detail about some of the things that happened in Jingkou in the past period, it is true that Han Huang's invasion of Wu County caused a certain amount of turmoil in the situation in Jingkou, but with Shen Zhezi's recovery of Gyeonggi, Lu Ye and others came to report the victory, the development of the war became clearer and clearer, and the overall impact was not great.

Shen Ke alone knows that in the past ten days, there have been twenty or thirty gatherings that can be called large-scale, either simple prostitution play, or large-scale safaris, or feasts such as birthday celebrations. And on the day Shen Zhezi arrived, Shen Ke alone received as many as seven invitations!

These gatherings, however they may appear on the surface, are by no means simple on the inside, and can glimpse a little of the surging of the dark tide. Among these gatherings, in addition to Shen Ke, the most invited are Lu Ye, an old guy, and Wang Bin, who is hated by Wang Dao. These two people represent the Wu people Qingwang family and the Qingxu Qiaomen respectively, and their popularity is natural, but their results are uneven.

Lu Ye's main communication is still with the Wu group, which is the business alliance in Jingkou. However, the business alliance is different from Yinjue, the main body is the Wuxing family, in addition to the exchange of interests, there is also a layer of local knowledge and friendship, relatively speaking, the cohesion is stronger. And now that Shen Chong has become the assassin of Dongyangzhou, he provides a way out for these people politically better than Lu Ye.

What Lu Ye can rely on at the moment is only his family's original Qingwang and the connections and qualifications he has accumulated for most of his life, mainly to promote the relocation of the capital to Wuzhong, but because of the Shen family's great power in Huiji and Wuxing's inherent foundation, there are not many places he can choose, only Dantu and Wuxian.

With such an obvious intention, it is bound to be impossible to gain much support. Even if some Sergeant Wu people are co-opted, they have already been marginalized by the business alliance, and they are not vested interests, so they can't make any noise. Even the Gu family Gu Zhong made it clear to Shen Ke that they didn't think it was a good choice to move the capital to Wu County. If it weren't for the Shen family's scruples and inconvenience to make a clear statement, Lu Ye wouldn't even be able to make this momentum.

In short, the establishment of Dongyangzhou has initially integrated the interests and cooperation of the business alliance with the political demands of each family, and Wuzhong is no longer a place where the Gu Lu family can make a decision. Under the contact of Shen Ke, the president of the business alliance, the business alliance is still stable, although there are some people who hope to move the capital, but it is not shouted as a formal political slogan.

However, the situation in Yinjue is not optimistic, after Wang Bin arrived in Jingkou, he should have reached some consensus with Wang Shu, and with Wang Shu's support, he was extremely active. In addition to running between various families in Jingkou, the children of the Wang and Ge families who originally followed Wang Shujun were also very popular among the younger generation in Jingkou and made friends.

There is also a more important point, that is, Tao Xia, the son of Tao Kan, who stayed in Xingtai earlier, has recently been in close contact with those children of the Wang family. According to Shen Ke's guess, it is very likely that Tao Kan's rumors of abolishing the Yu clan are Tao Xia's spread.

The Qingxu overseas Chinese led by the Wang family shouted hard at the entrance of Beijing, which naturally made those overseas Chinese who were unwilling to think about it. According to Shen Ke, in the past short period of time, the younger generation of Jingkou has been called five friends and four jun. Most of them are the children of local overseas Chinese in Jingkou who bundle propaganda with Wang Jiazi and invite some fame.

"People know that these young people really don't love themselves, and now the pearls are shining in my family, how can others share the light?"

When he said this, Shen Ke couldn't help but sneer and said. It is true that this kind of bundling propaganda was an excellent means of inviting fame in the past, but now Shen Zhezi's fame is in full swing, and Shen Mu and his ilk have made great contributions. Those young people have nothing to do, they have no talent to show, and they spend their days foolishly behind the Jingkou every day, and the more they boast about themselves, the more shameful they will be.

Shen Zhezi didn't care about these little things, but said with a smile: "Everyone has their own ambitions, so you don't have to force them." It's just that the Hidden Lord has recently changed his industry, can his uncle have a breakdown? ”

When Shen Ke heard this, he handed a scroll he was carrying to Shen Zhezi: "Recently, there have been many changes in the shares of the Hidden Lord, which is dizzying. The income of the change of capital alone will be hundreds of thousands of dollars this month! ”

The so-called easy capital is the stamp duty on the transaction. In order to avoid suppressing the circulation of personnel, the stamp duty amount formulated by Shen Zhezi is not high, and he can actually have an income of hundreds of thousands of dollars, which shows that the transaction of goods and goods should be hundreds of millions!

Yinjue itself is the downstream organization of the business alliance, the so-called capital shares can only affect the share of the goods, no matter who is in the hands, anyway, the right to supply is still here in the business alliance, no matter how the capital shares are changed, there will be no trouble below. Moreover, after the Xiyang King committed the crime, Yu Tiao had transferred many of the capital stock industries under his name to Shen Zhezi for the first time, plus Yu Tiao and Yu Family's relatives themselves, in terms of capital shares, Yin Jue could not turn the sky.

However, the specific industries in Jingkou, especially the warehouses directly facing the market and many downstream distribution channels, are still in the hands of the specific Yinjue's family. If there is a problem, this aspect is relatively easy to come up with.

Shen Ke had a look of worry on his face, pointed to the warehouses next to the canal along the way, and said: "If people with ulterior motives are enveloping downstream, or hoarding, or manipulating prices, it is not a good thing for Shangmeng. Tetsuko, do you think it's necessary to restrict the buying and selling of these people's private properties? In the past ten days alone, nearly three-thirds of the wharves and warehouses around Jingkou have changed! ”

He was worried that after the Qingxu family was too deeply involved in the Hidden Jue, if he wanted to hurt people, it would be a big trouble for the Shang Alliance. After all, the total amount of territory and goods involved in the business alliance is too large, and the slightest delay may cause a very bad impact.

Shen Zhezi shook his head with a smile after hearing this, he was also worried that these people were not deep enough, how could they restrict the transactions of those industries. In the past, the contest with Qingxu Qiaomen was often limited to secret disputes at the political level, and to be honest, even now, Qingxu Qiaomen is still a powerful group politically, even if the Wang brothers have differences, it is also a broken bone and tendon.

Political superiority is the foundation of their existence, and even their voice in public opinion is still in their hands. This can be seen from the fact that a mere rumor has caused great turmoil in the Hidden Lord. Although the Shen family is now powerful, even with the half-crippled Yu family, it is difficult to occupy any advantage.

But now, Qingxu Qiaomen is involved in the Hidden Jue, which is to take the initiative to open up the second battlefield. If Shen Zhezi would fall behind in the competition for interests in Jingkou, it would have been in vain in the past few years. He also plans to encourage those people to invest more in Jingkou and directly pit them to the point that there is nothing left.

In this regard, Shen Zhezi has full confidence. His large concession in sales is to weaken and disintegrate the production capacity of each family. Shangmeng barely intervened in the sales process in Beijing, and what it did was to dig up the production resources of land and population little by little. The dirty work of building workshops, cultivating wasteland, and recruiting displaced people is all undertaken by the Shang Alliance, and the Yinjue family only needs to pick up the goods and resell them to make quick money.

These arrangements have destroyed the qualifications of Yinjue as an independent economy, if they dare to use the sales channels in their hands to blackmail the business alliance, some luxury goods will be overturned, such as salt and rice, and other rigid needs, if there is not enough supply, only those homeless people in Jiangbei dare to tear them apart!

And for Yu Yinjue and Shang Meng, Shen Zhezi has already had a whole set of combination punches brewing, and the deeper these Qingxu people fall, the more they will be unable to be calm in the future!

Another important point is that Qingxu Qiaomen joined the Hidden Jue, admittedly for a short time, but in the long run, it lost a very important label, that is, Jian Ao Gao cold!

It is true that these families in Jingkou have many old surnames in the north, but more of them are inferior families with no background. It is not for nothing that they need nearly a hundred years of accumulation to join the current situation and make a difference.

A more significant example is the Lanling Xiao family, his family is really not good at the moment, even if he has become an emperor in the Southern Qi Dynasty, Qingwang is still slightly inferior, it can be said that it was not until the Prince Zhaoming of the Southern Liang that there was a big outbreak, and a monument was erected in culture, becoming a well-deserved high gate!

At present, due to the relocation of Xingtai to Jingkou, coupled with the economic advantages of these families, they have joined the current situation prematurely. This brings about a problem, that is, the background is too shallow. Don't say that these people, even the Shen family today, still have to face such a problem, and they still have no achievements in culture and public opinion.

In other words, Qingxu Qiaomen has always been a glamorous and cold existence like a Qinglou Oiran, but now it is mixed with some inferior families, and it turns out that it is still a private prostitute with a half-hidden door! This alone can deal a heavy blow to them in public opinion!

Moreover, these inferior families have entered the current situation through Qingxu Qiaomen, but if they want to go further in the future, it is difficult to follow the promotion trajectory of those Qingwang Gaomen, because the background is too shallow. So for them, if they want to make progress in politics again, merit is the best choice!

A group of guys who worship Xuan and retreat rushed to the doctor when they were sick, and as a result, they attracted a group of people who value their work, isn't this digging a pit to bury themselves? Even if they wanted to stop in moderation, Shen Zhezi would not give up. dug the corner of his own hidden lord, how could he say that if he didn't play, he wouldn't play! They had to be left to die in the pit they had dug themselves!