Chapter 80 Liu Han’s transformation ([-])
Perhaps, he went in the wrong direction at the beginning, blindly thinking that killing those nobles who threatened the imperial power would save the terminally ill man. This idea was wrong from the beginning.
Is the emperor considered the master of a dynasty? From the pre-Qin Dynasty to the present, the person who truly controls the country in feudal history has never been the supreme imperial power, because no matter how concentrated the imperial power is, it still needs people to cooperate. The emperor must have people who can help him govern the country, and these people, this A force that can compete with the imperial power has different names in each dynasty. They may be called princes, they may be called local powerful men, they may be called noble families, or they may be called gentry and landlords.
This is a flaw caused by the system. Blindly trying to suppress people with iron and blood will not work.
From ancient times to the present, in the operating system of human society, a small number of people have always led the vast majority of people. Technology is lacking and information transmission is slow. Therefore, if the emperor wants to break through this kind of management, he must find a group of people who can jointly manage with him. The people of the country, and these people are the princes in the pre-Qin period, the noble families from the Qin Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the gentry and landlords from the Northern Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty.
How to balance the relationship between this group of people and the imperial power so that they can assist the emperor in governing the world but not enough to overturn the entire imperial rule is the main problem faced by feudal emperors.
Because the aristocratic clan inherits from the princes at the top and the landlords at the bottom, it better reflects the particularity of this group and their inevitability to control the world.
During the Western Han Dynasty, due to the lack of knowledge and the lack of a socially recognized assessment standard, the only way to elect a small number of people was through recommendation and examination, which was the inspection system.
The people at the bottom did not have access to knowledge, so the emperor often intentionally or unintentionally avoided this group when selecting partners for cooperation.
Yes, that’s the partner.
The king of a country, who sits high in a temple, has a cooperative relationship with local current state and county governors in each locality are responsible for the selection of the next state and county governors.
This also leads to the inevitable formation of a mutually binding relationship between the recommender and the recommended person. They control knowledge, control the local economy, and unite with each other to achieve a monopoly on local official people had no possibility of being recommended, and this group of people who seamlessly monopolized official positions was the source of the later local powerful group.
During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the expansion of this group was still able to be suppressed by relocating the area and collecting property. However, even so, after Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, local powerful people were still able to put Liu Xiu on the throne.
A strong imperial power is certainly enough to destroy the power of local powerful people, but the emergence of this group is essentially the inevitability of feudal society.
As long as this dynasty still exists, and as long as the people who make up this dynasty are still people, even if the old forces are eliminated, new forces will eventually be born.
This is the inevitable result of the social system, and it is impossible for even you to change it.
After the old gentry is eliminated, new gentry will appear, and they are the people under him, the people he personally promoted. One day, they will stand on the opposite side of the imperial power, stand on the opposite side of themselves, and become the ones fighting for power. of enemies.
The reason why it hasn't happened yet, and the reason why they listen to themselves now, is because they haven't reached that height yet.
The more he thought about it, the more nervous Liu Han felt, and the more he thought about it, the more cold sweat broke out on Liu Han's forehead.
How to break this situation?
Liu Han continued to think in his mind. He could try some of Emperor Guangwu's methods. After realizing this,
Instead of wiping out these local tycoons and spawning a force that you cannot control, it is better to eliminate dissidents, eliminate the forces that oppose you, and support the forces that support you.
"Peace Road."
Liu Han wrote these three words on silk. The corruption of the system and the monopoly of social production resources by powerful nobles will inevitably give birth to a group of people who are not afraid of death to resist.
Although the Yellow Turban Rebellion shattered the foundation of the Han Dynasty, the separatist regime that emerged next still had nothing to do with ordinary Cao Cao, Sun Wu, or even Liu Bei, who was born as a straw sandal seller, most of these famous figures came from the local powerful group, and they were just representatives elected by these nobles to fight for power.
"Nine-level Zhongzheng system."
Liu Han wrote these words on the silk again.
The difference between the official selection system of the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System and the Chazheng System is that it deprives the previous Zhongzheng Officer of the personnel power, and then establishes a Zhongzheng Officer in each state and county. Finally, the Zhongzheng Officer is responsible for the selection of local in the final analysis, the role of Zhongzhengguan also comes from powerful local forces. It is just that the powerful families with the position of Zhongzhengguan gradually began to move from the local area to the center of power.
Powerful families without Zhongzheng official positions will be cut into pieces by other powerful families. This can certainly strengthen the court's control over the local area, but if the powerful clans go further, they can only seize the world and let the country change hands.
A dynasty of flowing water, a family of iron.
This sentence was born from this.
Since then, although there have been frequent chaos in the Central Plains, including the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the Rebellion of the Five Husbands, and the emergence of nine countries in more than 100 years, the power of the clan has not been affected at all.
Because no matter which force takes control, it must cooperate with the clan in a short period of time to quickly complete the control of a place, collect taxes, and maintain it. From this period onwards, the essence of the Central Plains dynasty’s cultivated land was The flow of power within the gate valve.
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the power of the noble clans reached the highest point in history. They controlled the lifeblood of a country, and imperial power was just a tool for them to compete with each other.
The Liu family is also a gentry, and is the largest gentry today. However, those gentry have not yet expanded to completely monopolize the means of production and social resources, nor have they fully controlled military power.
So, there is still a chance.
The gentry was at fault, and their fault was that they were too greedy. But it was not just the gentry's fault, the imperial power was also at fault. The system itself was a fault.
However, I alone cannot change this system in my lifetime.
"Is it still necessary to work hard?"
Liu Han looked at the dim room, feeling as if he was drowning and couldn't breathe.
It is difficult to change the pattern of the Han Dynasty and solve this fundamental problem just by relying on this little thing in my mind.
"Taiping Road, Zhangjiao."
Liu Han looked at these words again.
Originally, Liu Han's plan was to suppress it as soon as possible to reduce the losses of the Han people and prevent it from shattering the foundation of the Han Dynasty, but now Liu Han changed his plan.
"The enemy of an enemy is a friend."
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