"The reason for that is because you previously demonstrated much danger, and we had no choice but to guard against you. The stronger the strength, the greater the destruction—that much you should understand. If your interests align with the nation's, your growth also signifies the strengthening of the nation, and we will not impede you, so..." Chen Xi no longer elaborated, leaving the rest for them to comprehend on their own.
Chen Xi was willing to say even this much because he recognized that the aristocratic families indeed had not been deficient in virtue; even if they had erred terribly in another history, in the present, aristocratic families had no opportunity to exercise the Nine-Rank System, and Chen Xi would not completely overturn them with a single stroke, for they had a necessary place in existence.
In Chen Xi's view, the future Great Han Dynasty would need the moral philosophy of the aristocratic families, but this philosophy was relative to the state.
