Under the waves of the times, there must be the tide of the times.

Under the chaos of the Song Kingdom, many people fished in troubled waters, many people sighed, and some people saw opportunities from such chaos.

The person who stood out from such chaos was named Dai Cong.

Dai is the surname of the nobles of the Song Kingdom, and it is also one of the nobles of the real power faction in the Song Kingdom.

Dai Huan, who was expelled by the Sichenghuang clan in the coup d'état twenty years ago, was the Dai clan.

Dai Cong and Dai Huan are not close relatives, after the coup d'état, the Sicheng Emperor family could have been wiped out, but the Mo family came forward to stir up, simply wanted to take advantage of the contradictions of the nobles, and did not want the imperial father's family to dominate, so it made the Song State such a chaotic situation.

In addition, the Sicheng Emperor family was vigilant by the rest of the nobles, so that after driving away Dai Huan, the Dai Cong family was not implicated.

It's just that the Dai Cong family is not a big family, and it is not ranked among the top three nobles in the Song Kingdom, and there is no possibility of seeking ultimate power at all.

If the Song Kingdom had been like more than 20 years ago, the Dai Cong family would naturally choose to hug their thighs and choose to stand in line, and it would be impossible for them to choose to come out by themselves.

But the chaotic situation in the Song Kingdom made Dai Cong see an opportunity.

Times have changed.

After the monarchy lost the solid pillar of the original patriarchal system or feudal system, the ritual law was questioned and opposed by everyone, and it was difficult to maintain the original rule.

So people like Dai Cong resorted to the rudder, flirting and giving false goodwill in order to gain the support of those who had money and power but had no power for the time being.

Bribery was practiced in order to curry favor rather than to maintain rule by the sword alone, after all, the law of etiquette was abolished, and the idea of equality and virtue spread like a plague.

Although Dai Cong is not one of the top nobles in the Song Kingdom today, he is also a figure of a big family, and he inherits the identity of the Junziyuan.

After the imperial father Yue Ling replaced his father, the imperial father Zang, Dai Cong was silent at first, because he knew that his power was not enough to shake the position of the imperial father's family.

After the turmoil a few years ago, Dai Cong keenly saw an opportunity to package himself as "the nobleman closest to the commoners".

Because after the Qimo War, the imperial father Yue Ling no longer dared to be the "nobleman closest to the common people", because once this fire burned, it was likely to burn the imperial father Yue Ling himself to death.

This position is vacated, and naturally someone will grab it.

For Dai Cong, if he doesn't fight, he will never be able to get his hands on the supreme power of the Song Kingdom, the power of the imperial father's family is too great, even if the emperor's family is not strong enough, there are a lot of nobles such as the Le family and the Xiao family.

The peasants who lost their land and poured into Shangqiu, the merchants who were dissatisfied with the feudal system, and the craftsmen who suffered from high taxes were all forces that he could borrow.

Just before the Gentleman's Court issued a decree to raise taxes on yeoman farmers and businessmen, Dai Cong began his activities for the first time as a noble friend of the commoners.

He said that he was resolutely opposed to raising taxes on the people, and in order to protest, he went out of the Gentlemen's Court, and for a time public opinion was in an uproar, and many civilians regarded him as a person who could be relied on.

This kind of thing happened more than once in the history of the Song Kingdom, and many people borrowed the power of commoners to come to power, but in fact, they still secretly compromised with the great nobles in private.

For example, the prince Bao of the year gave wine and meat to people over 70 years old, forgave debts to people who owed usury, and did not give gifts to the scholar class.

But at that time, it did not involve the change of the land system and political system, just need to be a good person, and the little grandmother who wanted to have an affair with him tried her best to help him maintain the relationship with the nobles, and finally united with the rest of the nobles to kill many princes, redistribute fiefs, and win the hearts of the people.

Now that the times are different, the power of the commoners is gradually getting stronger, and there is a Sishang next to him who can be used as foreign aid, Dai Cong seized this opportunity, claiming to be a commoner, and completely gave up the support of the rest of the nobles.

It's a big gamble.

The bet is that the Sishang Mo family can win, and the bet is that he has small chips and few benefits in trading with the nobles and Wei Chu and other countries; And the bargaining chips for dealing with Sishang and the common people are bigger, and the benefits are more.

The deeper reason is that his main source of income now comes from investing in the chamber of commerce in Sishang, and the annual rate of return is extremely high.

His own fiefdom, if he maintained the previous ritual system for military power, it was not enough to get involved in the supreme power of the Song State, and the income was not much, so it was better to give up.

So he made a more radical policy than his imperial father, Yue Ling, and granted his fiefdom to the people, who only had to pay a ransom fee for twenty years to own their own land.

In addition to this, he also advocated in front of the people that he would consult the policy of the government council.

That is, to recover the land occupied by the nobles and distribute it to the people who have lost their land according to small plots; the decree unifying the Song State and abolishing the checkpoints of the Song State; to reclaim the power of the nobility and to cancel the privileges of the nobility; The Gentleman's House and the People's House were banned, and there was only one Inquiry Yuan......

First, he did not have many fiefs, second, his income did not depend on the checkpoints and franchise fees of the fiefdoms, and third, he was opposed by the aristocracy in the Junziyuan because of his opposition to the taxation of industrialists and merchants and yeoman farmers.

So these things that he preaches are things that he doesn't have at all.

He just changed his buttocks, but he might have been involved in the supreme power of the Song Kingdom, which immediately caused an uproar and made the already chaotic Song Kingdom even more chaotic.

In addition, he also vigorously advocated absolute monarchy, believing that the current "Inquiry Yuan" is the fault of the aristocracy, even the common people's court is just a group of rich speculative businessmen and big landowners, and the only thing that can restrain them is the monarch of absolute power.

He wants to be the elected "Song Gong", and he wants to let the people give him more power.

A large part of the population supported him.

Because yeoman peasants and landless peasants actually prefer a monarch with absolute power.

Aristocrats, merchants...... In fact, they were all enemies of the peasants, and what they needed was a skillful monarch who could completely suppress the nobles and merchants by virtue of his power, not the so-called equality and freedom to choose the son of heaven.

Of course, on the one hand, he shouted like this, dressed himself up as the spokesman for the commoners and the landless, and on the other hand, he also colluded with those big businessmen, and also semi-openly stated that there should be absolute private ownership of the land, and that the remaining ones after the land was distributed to the landless peasants in the future could be obtained by public auction at the highest price.

Whatever he gives is not his own anyway.

As a result, he was supported by the landless peasants who poured into Shangqiu, the yeoman farmers who were oppressed by the speculators, and the merchants who had the money to buy land to operate.

After receiving the support of some people inside, Dai Cong came into contact with the people of the Mo family, like a gentleman with a "heart for the benefit of the world".

At that time, in Sishang, Shi once commented: Dai Cong is a prostitute who dresses himself up in a fancy but pure and lovely way, but the way he dresses is what we like, we don't like him, but we like his dress, although we like to dress up, but we always have to be felt that we like him in order to let people know what kind of dress we like.

At that time, the Mo family had already had a semi-public falling out with the emperor's father, Yue Ling, and Dai Cong, who dressed himself as a spokesperson for the commoners, immediately received the support of the Mo family.

As for Dai Cong's ambitions, it doesn't matter, Sishang has no interest in the Song Kingdom for the time being, and he doesn't have the energy to fight another war in the Central Plains.

Anyway, if the world is stable, the Song Kingdom will naturally be stable; On the other hand, if the Song Kingdom is in turmoil, the world will be in chaos early.

If he is willing to be the Duke of Song, let him be; He is willing to be the monarch of the Song Kingdom with absolute power, then support him; What the Mo family needs is just a buffer country that is sandwiched between Wei and Chu and is close to the Mo family.

In fact, the nobles of the entire Song Kingdom, except for the imperial father, are looking for wild fathers for themselves.

It is nothing more than that the Xiao, Hua, Mu and other clans want the Chu people to be wild fathers; The Le, Niu, Shi and other clans wanted to find Wei Han as a wild father; Qi Guo was beaten five years ago and was not qualified to be a wild father; The Dai family is looking for Si Shang to be a wild father.

There was only one emperor left, Yue Ling, who wanted to be independent, relying on the contradictions of various countries to survive in the cracks, and did not hesitate to drag Wei Chusi and others into the war in order to weaken them so that the Song State could maintain its true independence.

This doomed the tragedy of the emperor's father, Yue Ling, because the external forces around him were too strong, and it was too difficult for him to maintain the proud dream of the heirs of Yin Shang.

Just after the Dai family went to Sishang, the Mo family immediately came forward to give the Dai family enough face, which can be regarded as a signal to force the emperor's father Yue Ling to go against the grain.

If the emperor's father Yue Ling wants to guard against Dai Cong and the Mo family, he has to find a way to get money to arm his private soldiers, which is the means of forcing the emperor's father and his family on the side of Sishang, and it is also a means to intensify the contradictions.

Dai Cong's prestige among the commoners grew, and the nobles became more and more hostile to him, and this time the flashpoint of the chaos in the Song Kingdom was that Dai Cong was assassinated, although someone protected him and did not kill him, which immediately caused chaos in Shangqiu.

A large number of Song Guoguo people demanded that the murderer be strictly investigated, and all kinds of rumors flew all over the sky.

It is said that this is the hand of the imperial father's family, because Dai Cong's prestige is enough to serve as the commander of the Inquiry Yuan, so he must be eliminated first.

It is said that this is the hand of the rest of the nobles, because Dai Cong's call to take back the power of the nobles and divide the excess fiefs of the nobles.

Some people also secretly speculated that it may have been directed and acted by Dai Cong in order to arouse the resentment of the lower class against those old-fashioned nobles.

All these messes were done one after the other, and the original covenant of innocence was ten years, and the ten years were renewed after the ten years, and now the time limit has come.

The nobles understood that the previous peace was no longer possible, and that this equilibrium, which was maintained by external forces, would explode as soon as external pressure was withdrawn.

Over the years, the imperial father's family has always wanted to centralize power, and the contradictions between the rest of the nobles and the imperial father's family have been very deep.

And the Mo family suddenly became more radical than before, especially after the change of the Fei country, the imperial father Yue Ling felt that the ambitions of the Mo family were clearly revealed, and the Song country was also in danger, and it was quite difficult for him to reconcile with those nobles at this time.

Because he is the most powerful among the nobles, and because he has been centralizing power before, several nobles are still thinking about problems with the way of thinking of the feudal era, despising the people's will and paying too much attention to the peasants and soldiers on the fiefdom and land, causing Dai Cong, who was not a threat at all before, to stand out.

Now there is no choice but civil war.