One of the Only and Only
"Father, you don't know about this?"
Jiang Pengji thought that with Liu She's attention to her, nothing that happened around her could be hidden from his eyes.
Liu She shook his head. Ever since Jiang Pengji asked Xu Ke to convey her attitude, he had let his guard down.
He did not expect that his daughter would send Meng Liang to the afterlife. Did she need to be so efficient?
"I am not omniscient and omnipotent. How can I know everything?" Liu She felt a slight pain in his forehead, but he was already dead. What happened was done, and there was no turning back. He might as well think about what to do next. "You used Meng Liang's life as a favor to Meng Hun … Based on your temperament, you must have gotten more benefits than that. Did you blackmail the Meng's?"
Blackmail?
Eh, that was not a good way to put it. It was called asking for benefits openly.
Jiang Pengji revealed a little of her plan. Liu She looked at her helplessly.
"Didn't I give you the list before? If you still need more, go to the accounts room and get more … "Liu She said with some forbearance." You are the only child in the family. These are all yours. Why do you have to be so calculative with me? "
To put it nicely, his daughter had her own abilities. To put it bluntly, she was estranged from him. That was not what Liu She wanted.
Jiang Pengji was silent for a while.
If it were in the past, she would not have bothered to explain. But now, she felt that it was not a good idea to do so.
"Father, you misunderstood me. It's not that I am calculative with you. I just don't want to be involved with the aristocratic families." Jiang Pengji hesitated for a while. Liu She looked at her in shock. She said, "Starting from scratch, it will be easy to distinguish in the future."
Whether it was Xu Ke, Meng Hun, or Qiguan Rang, all three of them had one thing in common — they had low social status.
It wasn't that she couldn't attract people of high status. In fact, as long as she put up the banner of "Liu She's son," she could also attract people of a certain status with Liu She's halo. As the "son," she could also attract people of a certain status.
Why didn't she do that?
Because she did not want to.
If she got involved too early, she would be passive in the future.
Jiang Pengji's goal was very clear, so in order to achieve it, she needed to formulate a series of plans.
Considering the current social climate, she decisively gave up the more convenient path of relying on her father.
The benefits in the early stages were indeed great, but what about the middle and later stages?
She wanted to nurture her own team and talents, not those who were only thinking about clan bloodlines.
Don't be fooled by how those aristocratic families boasted about their family name and bloodline, and how they preached their loyalty. In fact, for the benefit of the clan and for their own benefit, under special circumstances, they were willing to give up their backbone, reservedness, and righteousness.
Are they like a piece of poison wrapped in sugar? Medicine, at first it tasted sweet and greasy, but when the sugar coating was finished, only poison was left.
It looked tempting, but it was extremely delicious.
The path she was going to take would inevitably touch upon the most fatal interest of the aristocratic families — education!
Why were aristocratic families called aristocratic families?
This was because they had money in their hands and food in their granaries. They monopolized education and made studying a privilege for a minority of people. They also indirectly monopolized the imperial court … Talents were all from aristocratic families. One generation, two generation, three generation … After generations, the officials in the imperial court were more or less related by blood or marriage. When this group of people worked together, how could the emperor have a say?
Did they want to attack them?
Haha, they didn't mind firing the emperor first.
Jiang Pengji had enough of this ignorant era. Out of 100 people she met outside, 99 of them were illiterate.
In addition to education, there was also the land.
Were the farmers in Dongqing not hardworking?
They were very hardworking. Jiang Pengji was very clear about this. They worked before dawn and only returned home with their hoes when the sun set.
They worked from dawn to dusk, and they couldn't even save a surplus of food throughout the year.
If they were unfortunate enough to encounter a natural disaster, they couldn't eat a full meal throughout the year. Perhaps a large number of people would starve to death.
Starving people everywhere. Was this just a word?
This was a living hell on earth!
But why were they so hardworking, but still unable to eat enough and wear warm clothes?
Was the land too barren, or was the tax exploitation too vicious?
Although Jiang Pengji was criticized by the System for not going out much, in fact, she was trying her best to understand this era from books and understand their lives through chatting with the farmers … The more she understood, the clearer Jiang Pengji was about the path she wanted to take.
This path was very long, but she would try her best to plan and perfect it.
Obviously, in the path she planned, the aristocratic families were not allowed to interfere in the beginning.
If they were, the development in the middle and later stages would be more restrained.
She wanted to promote education so that all children could study, regardless of their status. Would the aristocratic families be willing?
She wanted to reform the land so that all the hardworking people could reap the benefits they deserved. Would the aristocratic families be willing?
Her ideas touched the most important thing in their lives.
They would use all their strength to oppose it!
When the time came, would they listen to her, or would she listen to others?
As a son of an aristocratic family, Jiang Pengji's ideas were simply unorthodox. She was a living freak.
"Why?"
Liu She held back for a long time before he asked these few words with trembling lips.
Jiang Pengji asked calmly, "Father, do you think there is a difference between being the only one and being one?"
She was very clear that because of her cheap mother's influence and spoilers, Liu She had long been mentally prepared for this reality.
In terms of stirring up trouble, Liu She fully supported her and supported her to take that path.
Therefore, she wanted to have a frank talk with the other party.
"The only … one …" Liu She was smart and instantly understood what she meant.
What was the only one?
There was only one since ancient times.
What was one?
One among all the living things.
The meaning of Jiang Pengji's words was very clear.
She wanted to step on the aristocratic families, promote education, reform the land, and enlighten the people … To the small group of people in the aristocratic families, she was indeed hateful. But to all the living things and people in the future, she might be the only one to reach this step since ancient times.
Those who came later would not be able to catch up!
Jiang Pengji smiled suddenly and said confidently, "If father thinks that I am disobedient and unfilial, it is still not too late."
She was still young. If Liu She wanted to deal with her, there was nothing she could do, right?
Of course, if Liu She wanted to keep her, he had to have the ability to do so.
Liu She choked. The shock in his heart turned into helplessness.
"You know that I won't hurt you. If not for the fact that you have a strong backing, why would you say this to me?"
Because she was sure of it, she dared to talk to him frankly.
"To your father, there is nothing more important than your mother, you, and your two elder brothers."
Besides, even if the aristocratic families were weakened, as the future royal family, who would treat the Liu family unfairly?
Liu She was a smart person.
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