When Liu Qi was thinking, he heard Liu De reported: "It is indeed my own wish to return to my father's throne!"
Liu De stood up and looked at Liu Qi.
In fact, Liu De had already wanted to move the imperial examination system out in advance in his previous life.
However, at that time, how could a small Hejian king participate in national affairs?
Moreover, in his previous life, Liu De did not dare to act rashly at first because he was not familiar with this era.
But after more than ten years in his previous life, Liu De already has some understanding of this era.
First of all, one thing that can be absolutely certain is that at this time, the clan politics are still in a state of sperm and have no impact at all.
The powerful political families of various countries formed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were completely destroyed by the unification war of the Qin State and the competition among heroes at the end of the Qin Dynasty. Not even Mao and Mao were left. In his previous life, Liu She became the emperor and wanted to
It is not easy to find a direct bloodline of the Ji family.
Furthermore, it has only been a few decades since Liu Bang determined the world and divided the heroes.
The old aristocratic system was completely destroyed, but the new aristocracy was still in its infancy.
The heroes of the early Han Dynasty, the Chehous, have even begun to decline now.
Pingyang Hou Cao Shen's family has been passed down for three generations. This generation's Pingyang Hou Cao Shou and Liu De had met him in his previous life. He was a very weak scholar and was not in good health. The Pingyang Hou lineage was pretty good.
The descendants of Zanhou Xiao He are a tragedy. In the past eleven years, Zanhou's position has been changed by three people.
The descendants who were left to wait for Zhang Liang were even worse. During the reign of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, their titles were taken away and they were reduced to common people...
The eldest brother is like this, and the younger brothers are not doing well either.
The descendants of Fan Kuai, Marquis of Wuyang, accidentally became victims in the process of annihilating Zhu Lu. Emperor Taizong Xiaowen kindly found a collateral descendant for him to adopt and inherit the incense. However, he failed to live up to his expectations and was actually cuckolded. etc.
The Wuyang Marquis was exposed after his death, and Wuyang Marquis became history.
Basically, the vast majority of Chehous are nothing to fear.
More importantly, they have no soldiers...
Power comes from the barrel of a gun, and sound comes from the barrel of a gun.
Without a gun, there is no right to speak.
What's more, the imperial examination is being conducted now to protect the nobility!
You must know that this was an era when bamboo slips were used to record knowledge. Bamboo slips were heavy, difficult to copy and difficult to preserve.
This means that the difficulty for ordinary poor people to acquire knowledge is geometrically higher than during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Therefore, knowledge was actually monopolized by the aristocracy.
For example, many classics that can be easily seen in later generations, such as the Book of Songs, the Analects of Confucius, and the Book of Documents, were all occupied by private individuals at this time and hidden at home, and most of them were fragments.
In real history, Liu Den was able to leave his name in the history books because he participated in the rescue and protection of the Book of Songs!
Furthermore, studying also costs money. Without enough financial resources, how many poor people can afford one person to study full-time?
Therefore, if the so-called imperial examination is really implemented in the world, it will definitely be a feast for the nobles and powerful, and it has basically nothing to do with the common people! Even if a few common people occasionally leak out, wouldn't it be harmless?
The most important point is that after the Lu family's chaos, the princes and ministers counterattacked again, and then Liu De's grandfather Liu Heng was afraid that the heroes would be successful, so he played a beautiful pass and catch, and Chen Ping and Zhou Bo were defeated.
They all rushed back to the feudal country and were purged three times, which directly led to a consequences that frightened all the Chehous: they had no spokesperson in the court.
Prime Minister Gu Anhou may be barely regarded as one of the heroes, but Shen Tujia was just a leader in his early years. When the heroes were first assigned, he didn't even drink soup. It wasn't until Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, Liu De's grandfather, that he became a Guannei Marquis.
Later, the prime minister Zhang Cang died of illness, so he was appointed prime minister and granted the title of Marquis of Che.
Therefore, Shen Tujia was not actually very close to the founding fathers. Instead, he had closer friendships with officials like Yuan Ang and Shi Fen.
Tiehou Zhou Yafu, as the son of Jianghou Zhou Bo, may be a member who is relatively close to the Chehous.
But Zhou Yafu is notoriously stubborn. Want to use his back door? It's basically impossible.
As for Tao Hou Liu She and Kaifeng Hou Tao Qing, these two people later became prime ministers.
Well, okay, Taohou Liu She is the descendant of Xiang Xiang, the yes-man raised by Liu Bang. Xiang Xiang is a tribesman of Xiang Yu. How can he be a Chehou and be given the surname Liu?
Isn’t it because they sold Xiang Yu for a good price?
Such a person would naturally follow the emperor's footsteps and say goodbye to other colleagues.
Kaifeng Hou Tao Qing, everyone in the court didn't know that this imperial censor was just a puppet acting as a front, and it was the emperor and Chao Cuo who really sat behind and commanded him remotely?
And when the court lost the spokespersons of these people, the consequences began to show.
Being an official? It’s none of their business!
The governors of various counties, the supervising ministers of various vassal states, the prime ministers, and the powerful positions such as lieutenants basically have no share in them!
Want to make money? Tingwei's butcher knife is worried about not being stained with blood!
The Han Dynasty basically followed the principle of never leniently leniently treating Marquis Che if he was caught breaking the law, and would brutally abolish the feudal state at every turn.
For example, when Liu Che later became the emperor, he went on a killing spree on the pretext that the gold offered to his ancestors and the ancestral temple was not of sufficient quality. He stripped off 150 nobles in one fell swoop and demoted them all to common people.
It can be seen from these things that the Han Dynasty did not have a living environment for the so-called elites at all, and all they had were fat sheep and rice worms.
As for the local power, that is even more of a joke.
It has been decades since the founding of the Han Dynasty, but the world has only been truly stable for more than 20 years. Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, and even the emperor continued to lead troops to conquer the rebellious kings of different surnames. It was only during the period of Empress Lu that things began to gradually stabilize.
After the annihilation of Zhu Lu, there was not much turmoil in the Han family, and the refugees who had hid in the mountains to escape the war began to come down to live in peace.
What kind of local power can be produced in just twenty years?
A very simple piece of evidence is that Zhidu took office as the governor of Jinan County. After taking office, he first crushed the big families in the county. As a result, he killed many people without even a protest. Jinan County even became a big government because of this, reaching the point where no one would pick up lost objects on the road!
The real clan politics in history did not begin to develop until Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty Liu Xun believed that frequent changes in local county governors would hinder the implementation of policies, so he allowed a county governor to serve in one place for ten years or even a lifetime. By the time he became emperor, his relatives
The Wang family had one family and five ministers, which opened the door to clan politics. Liu Xiu restored the Han Dynasty, relying on the support of the powerful landlords, reciprocating favors, and allowing local powerful people to gain power. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms were at war, and the Sima family of Cao Wei implemented the nine-rank Zhongzheng system.
, and finally released the monster of clan power.
It was based on these understandings that Liu De dared to implement the imperial examination at this time.
Because first of all, neither the local powerful nor the nobles of Chehou would refuse the imperial examination. Only fools would refuse a system that is obviously good for them.
At this time, not only was the imperial examination not a roadblock for the powerful nobles, but it was also a ticket that allowed them to participate in politics openly and have a say!
You must know that all previous recommendation systems have very high requirements. For example, you must first be famous in the local area, and this reputation must reach a certain level before you can be recommended, or you must be a filial son and a virtuous grandson, and be recommended because of your morality.
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You must know that in these days, the bureaucratic class and the powerful landlords have not yet evolved to the stage of later generations, and such dramas as raising hopes have not been invented yet.
So no one dares to cheat on recommendations yet...
Furthermore, objection is invalid!
Without soldiers, guns, power or influence, who will listen to their objections?
Of course, Liu De would not be so naive that he would immediately replace the current recommendation system with the imperial examination. That would be unrealistic!
Later generations began to implement the imperial examination from the Sui Dynasty, and it took hundreds of years in the Song Dynasty for the imperial examination to truly replace the recommendation system and become the mainstream.
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Well, it is true that there was no resistance to the imperial examination in the early Han Dynasty.
Think about it, everyone, a bunch of scumbags who don’t even know how to cheat in the recommendation system, would they think that this imperial examination might hinder their future?
Another thing, the imperial examination is actually not out of the ordinary. Liu Che's decision to abolish hundreds of schools of thought and only respect Confucianism is really out of line. The good guy knocked all Huang Lao, Legalists, and strategists to death in one go. But no one objected, and everyone was interested.
Exuberantly played the trick of being a fool.
The victory in the war against the Huns may be one reason, but more importantly, there is no fixed political force or group formed at all. Without a big brother who takes the lead, there can be no trouble~~~~~~
Well, that’s all for today, and I promise to update 4 tomorrow. Mainly because I had something to do during the day, so I only came to type in the evening, and ended up having an animated debate with people in the book review area~
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