The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 543
Why is the aristocratic family terrible in the late Eastern Han Dynasty?
Because the aristocratic family monopolized knowledge output and monopolized the promotion channels, thus monopolizing the political power and military power, all talents came from the gentry, and there were pens and guns, and the pen also included internal affairs talents and economic talents. This is the foundation of the gentry's strength !

Think about the talent output of a regime. The generals of the army, the talents who manage the country, and the power to manage the economy all come from one group. How terrible is this group?How can power not get out of control?
Therefore, the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty could only use their relatives and eunuchs to control the gentry. The fundamental reason was that no one could use those emperors!All are from the family!
There is an essential difference between these two types of people, let's talk about relatives first!

Because of the relationship between the Queen's Party and the emperor, the relatives can become their own people in a disguised form to fight against the rights of the gentry.

But the problem is that relatives can only be regarded as variants of the gentry. Basically, relatives are only part of the gentry because one woman or multiple women are connected with the emperor, so they are still gentry in essence.

In fact, it is to use a small part of the gentry to fight against the majority of the gentry. In essence, it is equivalent to hitting the right with the left hand.

Besides, eunuchs are the closest people to the emperor. Because they cannot reproduce, they often become the most trusted people of the emperor. It can be said that many emperors trust eunuchs more than officials.

The fundamental reason here is still the word 'right'. There are not many people who can not be confused by rights, but there are too few, especially when this right can even be greater than imperial power. The emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty were in this era.

Because of the monopoly of knowledge and the monopoly of rising channels, the emperor cannot promote the talents he trusts. All the talents have been stamped by the family before they are promoted. To make an inappropriate analogy here, a country in later generations relies entirely on imports. If there is a problem, the country will be over.

The gentry and emperors at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty are like the country and food in this analogy!

Some people want to refute, there are so many talents in the gentry, why don't they choose those who are loyal to themselves and have strong abilities, for example, wouldn't it be the case that Emperor Ling reused the people who were imprisoned by the party?
People who say these things are basically wise after the fact. The biggest advantage of the traversers is that they know that the result can be reversed. Before Qin Hui was captured, he was still a staunch main fighter. Pick your own talent?

Of course, the behavior of the emperor himself is also a problem, which is beyond the scope of the discussion. For example, Chongzhen is quite reserved, right?Still not subjugated?
Therefore, each generation of emperors in the late Eastern Han Dynasty had different priorities in order to regain their rights. For example, Emperor Huan started with eunuchs and used eunuchs to regain his rights, but the two root causes were not resolved. He became a nobleman and took refuge with the eunuchs, so he turned to his mouth for a while.

However, Emperor Ling chose the economy as a breakthrough point. Since the gentry and eunuchs cannot be trusted, the only thing they can trust is money. Therefore, Emperor Ling bought and sold officials wantonly, thinking that if he grasped the economy in his hands, he would control everything. the lifeblood of a person.

Emperor Ling was taking a slanted sword. In a sense, Emperor Ling had the right idea. If he had money, he could pay the army to control the army, and if he had money, he could pay the salary to control the court.

But Emperor Ling forgot one thing, because for the gentry, Emperor Ling believed in eunuchs more. Emperor Ling thought that the trading of officials and nobles could control the economy, but he didn't expect that the way to rise was dominated by middlemen.

Then to invest so much in order to buy an official, you have to pay back, right?How many people pat their chests and say that they only pay and don't ask for anything in return?Anyone who writes an article wants to make money, not to mention buying an official, isn't it?

After buying officials with money, those who became officials exploited the people in disguise and led to the Yellow Turban Rebellion!
Therefore, to fundamentally solve the problem of the gentry, it is to open up the wisdom of the people and then the emperor himself promotes the officials. This is also the evolution of history, or what the vast number of traversers are doing.

These Lu Hengs are also doing it, including Jiangdong College, including the college examination system, etc., but the same problems that have been left over from the aristocratic families are also to be dealt with. The root problem is that it will take a long time to slowly transform. What about the legacy aristocratic families? ?
Many web articles have written about solving the fundamental problem, but what should I do if I don't write about the existing aristocratic family?How to deal with such a big force?

For example, what should Cao Cao do with the Xun family, Xiahou family, etc.?Almost all of these are just one stroke!
You say that Xiahoudun, Xiahouyuan and others are absolutely loyal to Cao Cao, no problem, then Chen Qun's Chen family, Sima Yi's Sima family, Wang Ling's Wang family, Li Dian's Li family, Xu Chu's Xu family, etc. are attached to Cao Cao. What about the family?
Changes in people's minds, heirs Mengyin are the fundamental reasons for most of them to follow princes like Lu Heng and Cao Cao. Of course, there are very few individuals who want revenge in their hearts. How many people do not ask for these?
But you must know that 'Li Guang is hard to seal' is the normal state in the world!
Even the talented and strategist Boss Cao, his son Cao Pi couldn't bear it after the meritocracy at the beginning and started to change to the 'nine-level Zhongzheng system'. You can see the power of this group of people.

There are also online articles that are straightforward, just kill!

All kinds of killings, starting from Yizhou to kill all the gentry, and using the poor to kill the gentry, it can be said that this is the writing of online articles, Lu Heng is really going to do this, and it will fall apart every second, believe it or not.

Because of the monopoly of knowledge, as long as the talent is more or less related to the family, it's just that the family has fallen. For example, Guo Jia is a representative of a poor family, but he has an inseparable relationship with Xun Yu.

How do you kill like this?Ask Guo Jia to kill Xun Yu?
Take that online article as an example. The right assistants in the early stage were Fazheng and Huang Quan. The latter was from a well-established family and nothing could be said about it. Fazheng seemed to be from a humble family, but he was a descendant of the family. Fazhen was a famous person. When he met Fazhen The disciples also started to kill?joke!
Some people said that it would be fine to deal with it after the unification. If it was so easy, there would be no 'yellow robes' and no 'right to release soldiers with a glass of wine'.

Do you really think that after unification, the power of life and death is the emperor alone?The traveler who thinks this way is probably going to end up almost the same as Wang Mang!
The word that emperors are most afraid of is called "government and field turmoil". 80% of the emperors will choose to compromise when they hear this word. Among them, there are many outstanding emperors such as Henkel, Han Wu, and Qianlong.

It is as strong as Liu Bang who dared to kill Han Xin, Peng Yue and others, but could not replace the prince.

The smaller the influence of this group of people, the smoother Lu Heng's reform will be in the future, so Lu Heng's choice is differentiation, all kinds of differentiation!

(End of this chapter)