Emperor Shuang: The counterattack started from the Gaopingling Incident Chapter 99: Cao Zhaobo wants to deal with the noble family and remove the cancer from Wei!
Chapter 99: Cao Zhaobo wants to deal with the noble family and remove the cancer from Wei!
The temperature in Cao Shuang's banquet hall was once again affected by the bustle of people. There were so many courtiers and people from aristocratic families here to help Bingjian lower the temperature.
It has increased a few degrees, but the temperature here is still very comfortable and pleasant. The cicadas on the green ginkgo trees outside are still chirping tirelessly.
However, the people at the banquet in the hall could not hear anything and continued to enjoy the banquet without any interference.
Different from previous catastrophes that broke out in the Central Plains, the Huang Chao Uprising and its successors Zhu and Wen not only failed to cooperate with aristocratic families and existing bureaucracies,
Establish an effective governance mechanism as soon as possible and establish a dynasty that relies on the talents of aristocratic families.
Instead, he launched a large-scale and organized killing of the bureaucracy and noble clans.
The inner palace was burned to ashes, and the bones of public ministers were trampled down in the sky streets, which expresses the chaos created by Huang Chao's army in Chang'an.
In the subsequent White Horse Disaster, Zhu Wen adopted the advice of Li Zhenjian, who had repeatedly failed in the imperial examination: "This generation often calls itself a clear stream, so it is better to throw it into the Yellow River and turn it into a turbid stream!", and killed many ministers before throwing them into the water.
Corpses in the river, this has never happened before, it is the first of its kind!
You know, even during the Anshi Rebellion, people as vulgar as An Lushan never did such behavior.
From the mid-Tang Dynasty to the late Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination system, the cheapness and popularization of paper, etc. all made it easier for the people at the bottom and poorer families to have access to knowledge, and the monopoly of knowledge by the gentry was broken.
Therefore, by the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties period, even if they no longer relied on the support of the children of the aristocratic families, powerful powerful men from all walks of life could gain a foothold.
The war in the late Tang Dynasty lasted for a very long time, and was followed by the five generations of turmoil. It physically wiped out the noble families on a large scale, and spiritually replaced some of their social functions. Finally, it promoted the gentry clan that lasted for more than 700 years.
The clan is gradually dying out.
From the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to the late Tang and Five Dynasties, it is a history of the rise and then the gradual decline of aristocratic families.
Although the Hu and Han Dynasties are one and the same, absorbing the spirit of the grassland, they still cannot escape the wheel of historical evolution.
With the popularization of knowledge, the development of production tools and productivity, especially after the Anshi Rebellion, China's economic center of gravity gradually shifted from the Central Plains to Bashu and Jiangnan, making a new chapter about to come.
After all, today's powerful men also have many scholars from poor families who can be used, and they no longer need to beg aristocratic families to make deals with them as in the past.
Let the aristocratic family give them enough scholars from the aristocratic family to be able to govern the place, kick the people from the aristocratic family away at will, and then destroy them all physically.
After all, the aristocratic family is now dispensable. There is already a large group of cheap and useful people like the poor scholars.
Unlike those aristocratic families in the past, they always greedily sucked the blood of the dynasty, and they would suck more and more blood, until they sucked the dynasty dry, sucked it down, and harvested the wealth in the hands of the people.
Desperately squeezing the people's labor force, the people continued to harvest one crop after another, and continued to accumulate their own strength.
During the dynasty change every few hundred years, aristocratic families take more advantage in the reshuffle, obtain more benefits, and ensure that their strength and status do not decline.
After all, the aristocratic family group is also divided into first-rate, second-rate, and third-rate echelons. If the strength declines and the original echelon falls,
It is very likely that he was suppressed and divided by the aristocratic families who had quarrels with each other in the same echelon before, and is squeezed out by the aristocratic families of the same level now.
Therefore, most of these aristocratic families were very involved at that time, and they had to do everything possible to maintain their current strength and status by any means, or even go one step further!
The later Guanlong Group was such an interest group of an aristocratic family. A powerful leader of the aristocratic family took turns to lead the interest group, which was temporarily tied to a chariot.
Temporarily working in the same direction and the same goal, such as supporting an emperor that is in their interests, etc., it is not difficult and can be accomplished as long as they unite.
The birth of this family group has gone through several dynasties, and it has just been at the top of the family, with emperors and dynasties changing.
Later in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowu secretly ordered He Dayue to fight against Gao Huan, pierced the flesh in front of his heart, took out the blood, and sent an envoy to He Dayue.
He Bayue was appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Eryong, Erhua, Erqibin, Four Liang, Sanyi, Baer, Xia, Wei, Ningjing and twenty prefectures of military affairs.
He Bayue began to integrate the military forces in the Guanlong area. The Guanlong Group was born!
In the Bazhu Kingdom, which was later established as the top position of the imperial army, the twelve generals were firmly in the hands of the Guanlong Group. The members of the various families in the Guanlong Group were inseparable from each other, and there was no separation of civil and military affairs.
It can be said to be overwhelmingly powerful!
In this Eight Pillar Kingdom, the twelve generals were all generals and prime ministers. They were not only the commanders of the army, but also the core leadership of the country. They were also the twenty most prominent families in the Guanzhong region at that time, and they were at the top of society in all aspects.
The four emperors of the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang dynasties all came from this group. Among them, the ancestors of the Western Wei, Northern Zhou and Tang dynasties were all one of the Eight Pillar States, and the ancestor of the Sui Dynasty was one of the twelve generals.
It can be said that it has pushed the power of the family to its peak, allowing the throne to take turns among the most powerful families in the Guanlong Group. Next year, when my family reaches this point, it will be unrivaled in power.
It is not comparable to the aristocratic families in the current Wei Dynasty. These aristocratic families are still a little less courageous. Except for the Sima family who almost succeeded in rebellion after being stopped by Cao Zhaobo,
After that, the Wang family, which followed the original trajectory, and the Wang family and the Ma family emerged, and the Huan family after that were all extremely powerful families.
But in the end, they flourished and then declined. They failed to reach the highest position, so they bowed out.
But even these extremely powerful aristocratic families will still prosper and decline. In the end, they will be eliminated by the times in the turmoil of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, swept into the garbage heap of history, and their existence will gradually not be known to future generations.
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Although it is not a blessing to say that "in the old days, the king of Xietang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people", now Cao Zhaobo also wants to do that and no longer be constrained by the family, but he cannot do it.
We can only temporarily persuade them to obey their leadership, and wait until they have the prestige of Emperor Qin, Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Wu of this dynasty to further come up with a better way to solve this problem.
Now they can only continue to endure the aristocratic family sucking blood from the Wei Dynasty, provided that they do not continue to touch the highest position and conspire to usurp the throne like the Sima family did...