Datang: Get Xiang Yu's divine power at the beginning

Chapter 298 The Political Influence of the Aristocratic Family

As soon as they heard that there was a solution, everyone regained their energy and listened attentively to Li Chengdao's next words.

"We have to start from three aspects."

"Why are the aristocratic families so arrogant now? In fact, these three reasons are political influence, cultural influence, and economic and financial resources. These three reasons determine that these aristocratic families have the ability to compete with our royal family!"

"politics?"

"culture?"

"economy?"

Li Yuan, Li Shimin, and Li Jiancheng each asked a question.

Only Li Yuanji didn't make a sound, because as a salted fish king, he was crazily eating corn cobs at the moment, and he found it addictive.

Let’s look at the national affairs discussion group.

Li Shimin asked suspiciously.

"Your Majesty, we can still understand a thing or two about the culture you mentioned, but what are politics and economics? We have never heard of it?"

The terms politics and economics were introduced in recent times, and of course they didn't know what they meant.

Li Chengdao explained to them.

"Politics, what I'll tell you in an easy-to-understand way is equivalent to officialdom; and economics is equivalent to money."

Li Chengdao can only explain it in this way. It is impossible for him to say that politics refers to the behavior of the government and political parties to govern the country. Politics is the superstructure based on the economy...

With this explanation, it is estimated that Li Shimin and others will be even more confused.

But as Li Chengdao explained just now, they understood immediately.

"Oh~"

"That's what it means, so please tell us the meaning, Your Majesty!"

Li Chengdao waved his hand.

"Don't worry, wait for me to eat a piece of twice-cooked pork first."

After eating twice-cooked pork, Li Chengdao continued.

"First, let's analyze the political influence of these aristocratic families."

"We all know the current situation, that is, the official positions of the third rank and above in the imperial court are controlled by these aristocratic families. In addition, we are now implementing the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, which has led to the aristocratic families' differences in the appointment and dismissal of officials. Great power!"

"Because the third rank and above are all their people, and then the big officials recommend the small officials, and the ones they recommend are still their people! I am sure that most of the officials in the court are family members, even in the army. People infiltrated in!"

Hearing this, Li Yuan couldn't help feeling a little hot on his cheeks, because what Li Chengdao said was true, and it all happened under his governance.

"But there is no way, because the vicious circle has already unfolded, and it is extremely difficult to suppress them."

Hearing this, Li Yuan felt better.

Li Chengdao continued.

"Do you think that they control the appointment and removal of officials, so how can they not have much influence in the court? I don't know how many small families will try to curry favor with them!"

"Continuing like this will not only endanger the status of our royal family, but also cause most of the officials in the court to be idiots, while many truly talented children from poor families cannot enter the official career. This will cause my Tang Dynasty to lose countless talents!"

After hearing these words, everyone looked solemn. After Li Chengdao's explanation, they also understood the stakes.

These aristocratic families are even more hateful than moths, and they may endanger the status of the royal family at any time, thus endangering the entire Tang Dynasty!
"So..., Your Majesty, how should we solve this problem?"

Li Jiancheng asked.

Li Chengdao said unhurriedly.

"It's very simple, just solve the problem from the root."

"What do they rely on to control the government? Isn't it that most of the officials are theirs? The root cause is actually the problem of the official selection system. We only need to abolish the nine-rank system and use other systems that are beneficial to us. It will be over soon."

"As long as they don't have the power to appoint and dismiss officials, who will curry favor with them, and their influence will naturally decline rapidly."

"And they will have fewer and fewer people in the court, and their political influence will become smaller and smaller, until finally they completely decline!"

This made the eyes of the three of them shine brightly, as if they had seen the clansmen get out of the court in embarrassment
Li Shimin looked suddenly enlightened.

"I understand!"

"No wonder Your Majesty, you want to implement an official evaluation system. After passing the evaluation, you can kick out people from aristocratic families, and then implement a new official selection system. Then they will be stunned!"

"Hahaha!"

I have to say that Li Shimin is indeed a little genius in governing the country, and he actually guessed what Li Chengdao meant.

Li Chengdao really intended to do so, and this move was also called dredging from the bottom of the pot.

"Second Uncle, you are such a clever little ghost."

Li Shimin didn't care at all about the title Li Chengdao gave him, but asked enthusiastically.

"And then, what is the new official selection system? Come on and let us hear!"

Li Yuan and Li Yuanji were in the same state, they both looked fanatical.

Seeing that they were so eager to know, Li Chengdao of course decided to keep it a secret.

"Let me talk about this later."

Three people: ...

If Li Chengdao was not the emperor now, they would definitely curse him.

fuck! (a plant)
Li Chengdao didn't care about their expressions of wanting to scold their mothers, and continued.

"Among the three reasons, the political reason is the most important. As long as the political reason is resolved, we will basically win more than half of it!"

"But there is the second most important thing, and that is their cultural influence!"

"Cultural influence is popularly known as fame. We all know that the Li family of Zhaojun, the Cui family of Boling, the Cui family of Qinghe, the Lu family of Fanyang, the Zheng family of Xingyang, and the Wang family of Taiyuan are all famous families."

"We all think so, don't those common people think so even more?!"

"As big clans, these aristocratic families have great influence among the common people. This is the cultural influence of big families!"

Li Shimin and others fell into deep thought, and they carefully considered what Li Chengdao said.

In the end, I found out that this is really the case.

I don't know when it started, people's subconscious minds have already identified these families as famous families, it seems that they just want to be superior to others.

At this time Li Chengdao continued.

"In fact, most of their fame is brought about by political reasons, and this is also a cycle. If they are proud of their officialdom, the greater their reputation, the greater their fame, the more proud of their officialdom!"

"In the minds of the common people, these big families are even more noble than our royal family!"

"So what we have to do is to suppress their reputation in the hearts of the people and establish the majesty of our royal family!"

Having said that, the three suddenly realized.

Right!

Such a simple truth!

Why didn't I think of it before!

It seems that Daoer has a way, our ability is really not as good as Daoer!
Fortunately, Datang was handed over to Daoer to take care of him. I believe that under his leadership, Datang will definitely be able to move towards a prosperous and prosperous age!
They still call Li Chengdao Dao'er in their hearts. After all, they are used to it and they won't be able to change it for a while.

But this time they learned how to be smart and didn't ask Li Chengdao what to do, because they knew that if they asked Li Chengdao, they would not say it for the time being.

(End of this chapter)