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The words Zhao Changhe had spoken at the banquet had shaken many. Whether or not Bashu and the new Han court would truly become allies because of his ideas, there were those who could not risk it happening.
He was digging at the roots of everything they stood on.
Land redistribution, education for all… This is the work of demons!
If these ideas truly took hold, it would not just sound the death knell for the aristocracy; it could dismantle the foundations of small martial sects and even the local bureaucratic class. Legacy and monopolies would be shattered, replaced with open competition.
Even Li Shentong’s massacre of the aristocratic families had not gone this far. Yet with just a few words, Zhao Changhe threatened to uproot Bashu itself.
Even within the Divine Brilliance Sect, not everyone supported these ideas.
After all, their sect was one of the most prominent forces in the monopolization of martial arts. If cultivation knowledge was freely distributed, what place would they hold in this new order?
Everyone had assumed Li Shentong would reject the proposal outright. Yet, from his reaction, he seemed… enticed. Whether he would truly implement such changes, nobody knew, but the fact that he had even wavered was enough cause for alarm.
Regardless, Li Shentong believed that if Zhao Changhe spread these ideas around to...
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