Datang broom star

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"Where's the prince?"

"I haven't come back yet."

……

Li Hong was wandering around Qinghe County with more than ten riders.

The weather was hot, Li Hong wore a bamboo hat, and felt uncomfortable drinking water from time to time, but there were farmers working under the scorching sun in the fields.

After working, the farmer sat on the ridge of the field and took out the clay pot to drink water.

"belch!"

With a loud belch, farmer Chen Erlang looked at the field in front of him comfortably.

A group of people walked slowly along the field ridge.

"I have seen the noble."

Chen Erlang stood up and saluted.

The young man in the lead nodded, "I waited to enjoy the game so far, and missed the way..."

Chen Erlang enthusiastically showed them the way, and the young man thanked him and asked, "Are you a hermit?"

Chen Erlang nodded.

The young man asked in surprise: "Why do you still have to join the big clan when you have your own land?"

Chen Erlang said with a smile: "The nobleman doesn't know that when I enter the rich family, I will pay less taxes..."

"How many generations later?" The boy said, "I heard that the big clan will take advantage of the opportunity of the hermit's illness or the family's hardship to annex their fields. Will you become slaves in the future?"

Chen Erlang sighed: "Your honor also knows...At the beginning when A Niang was ill, she had no choice but to borrow money from the Cui family. The illness was not cured, and A Niang also went, but the borrowed money had to be repaid. Later, the land was confiscated. Let's go, my family has to live..."

A follower said: "His family's field has been confiscated. If he doesn't follow, he will freeze and starve to death."

The young man asked: "When the land was granted, there were Yongye Field and Koufen Field, and Koufen Field cannot be traded... Where is your Koufen Field?"

Chen Erlang said in astonishment: "The nobleman is afraid...the nobleman doesn't know, saying that the land is not allowed to be bought and sold, but the local government can't control those big families."

The boy nodded, "That is to say, it doesn't matter where the big clan annexed the land."

Chen Erlang squatted there, giggling, a little self-deprecating, "It is said that there are gods in Beizhou, and the god's surname is Cui! Who dares to care about the gods?"

The boy is Li Hong.

He got up and said, "Thank you."

Back at the station, he found Jia Ping'an.

"Today, I went to the countryside of Qinghe and talked with a few farmers. In words, I was in awe of the Cui family and thought it was a god."

Li Hong was a little annoyed.

Jia Pingan said: "At the beginning, the first emperor wanted to marry the gentry, but he couldn't get it. Your royal family regards the gentry as gods, what will happen to the common people?"

The strict hierarchy of this era is beyond the comprehension of later generations, and the existence of the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System has further subdivided the hierarchy.

Li Hong felt disappointed, "Why is this so?"

Jia Pingan smiled, "The Han Dynasty implemented the inspection system. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Wei occupied most of the world. The talent, money and food can be said to be able to crush Shu and Wu. Why can't the world be pacified for many years?"

Li Hong said: "Shu and Wu are not weak."

Jia Pingan nodded, "Yes! They are not weak. But you have to see Cao Wei's situation at that time. Cao Wei took over Zhengtong, and the so-called Zhengtong includes Emperor Han and that set of bureaucrats, as well as big clans everywhere... those big clans It's not a fuel-efficient lamp, and they have to bow their heads when they team up with Cao Wei, and Cao Wei, who is constantly fighting internally, can't form a joint force, so there is the so-called nine-rank Zhongzheng system."

Li Hong was silent.

It turns out that the end of the Han Dynasty can be interpreted from another angle?

"The so-called Ninth Rank Zhongzheng System is actually Cao Wei's method to appease the family and ease the conflict between the two sides. The Ninth Rank Zhongzheng System has been poisonous for many years. It reached its peak in the former Jin Dynasty, and its legacy has reached the present."

"Over the years, from the emperor to the common people, they have consciously or unconsciously regarded those noble families who have been passed down for many years as gods. The royal family is the royal family, and then the dignitaries and high-ranking officials, the local big families... Most of the officials are from these families. It is another nine-rank Zhongzheng system."

Jia Pingan waved his hand, and Bao Dong and others resigned.

"Look good, don't allow anyone to approach."

Jia Ping'an's order made people's hearts tremble, and Bao Dong and others immediately dispersed.

Li Hong was quite happy, "Uncle has something to say."

Jia Pingan glanced at the door and said, "What is a country? What is a dynasty? Who is the owner of the dynasty?"

"Country...country and home."

"A country is a collective made up of countless families."

"What is a dynasty? A dynasty is a country ruled by an emperor. Who is the owner of the dynasty?"

Li Hong said: "Emperor."

"wrong."

Jia Pingan said: "When you read history, you can see the changes in the Qin and Han dynasties to the present. The power of the emperor is often the most stable in the early days of the dynasty, but after a few generations, the authority of the emperor is no longer...Why?"

Li Hong was thinking carefully.

"Minister of power."

"Where did the powerful officials come from? Where did the emperor's authority go?"

Jia Ping'an looked relaxed while drinking tea.

Li Hong said: "The ministers of power came from forming a party, and the authority of the emperor...was taken away."

"This is just the surface. I will teach you a lesson today, and this lesson should not be taught by anyone except the empress."

Li Hong was excited, "Yes."

Jia Pingan's expression was in a daze, "After the establishment of the dynasty, it was also the time when the martial arts were at its peak and the emperor's authority was the highest, and then the dynasty entered a period of prosperity... During this period of prosperity, the dignitaries and officials at the top... the powerful families below, They all do one thing, and that is to acquire capital."

"Capital?" Li Hong obviously didn't quite understand this concept.

"What is capital? Capital is all the tools to create wealth. From the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, what is capital?"

Li Hong said: "Businessmen earn limited money, it's the fields."