Chapter 186 Luoshui Farts

Putting aside the fighting and killing of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in their minds, the officials of Zhenguan only felt that the direction of the light curtain made them more and more frightened.

So Li Shimin picked and chose, and chose a question that didn't seem so dangerous:

"Do the famous scholars of the Later Han Dynasty have real talents and knowledge?"

Li Shimin glanced at him and said disdainfully:

"Real talents and knowledge, what if they have them, what if they don't?"

"Just like the so-called eight chefs, aren't they just using their status as scholars to exchange wealth for fame more ostentatiously?"

Li Shimin shook his head and said to himself:

"It doesn't matter how talented the famous scholars are, but it is more important to hold on to this power and bless their descendants."

"If you hold power in your hands, the scholars who come here for power will naturally call out the names of the famous scholars."

The officials of Zhenguan couldn't help but straighten their backs slightly, and felt a faint chill climbing up from their tailbone.

Changsun Wuji laughed again and said:

"Without your majesty's heroic strategy, without the loyalty of the ministers of Zhenguan."

"Where would the Great Tang Dynasty come from? Where would the prosperous Tang Dynasty come from? Where would the great Tang Dynasty come from?"

Li Shimin nodded slightly, and then smiled:

"Why don't you say anything, my dear ministers?"

The atmosphere in Ganlu Hall was relaxed at this time. Du Ruhui had already thought about it, and at this time he stepped out and said:

"Your Majesty, since it is said that this exam will have an impact for a thousand years, then perhaps the current imperial examination policy can still be improved."

Li Shimin nodded slowly, and he understood this. For example, last year he ordered to patch up the imperial examination and added the examination content of "reading a book of classics and history".

These systems were inherited from the Sui Dynasty by the Tang Dynasty and then patched up, but as to where there were problems and where they needed to be improved, they could only try slowly.

"It's impossible to really imitate the Song Dynasty and include painting in the imperial examination, right?" Li Shimin said to himself unconsciously.

The ministers were curious, so Li Shimin simply said:

"Before, when I was reading the light curtain alone, I saw that there was a brothel emperor in the later Song Dynasty, who included painting in the imperial examination."

Brothel emperor! The ministers of Zhenguan were shocked and felt that the Song Dynasty could always surpass everyone's imagination.

"Such a title must be a tyrant." Wei Zheng made a simple comment, and the others nodded together.

Li Shimin complained in his heart, that's because you haven't heard of the name of the Mediterranean king of debauchery called Rome, otherwise wouldn't you be crazy?

It's just a pity that it was not taken seriously at the time, and the name of the Roman monarch was inevitably too long, so it was not written down, and the opportunity to open the eyes of the ministers was lost.

After reviewing the records copied by Fang and Du again, Li Shimin was not stupid when he saw the description of monopoly at the end:

"Since Wang Mang's expansion of the Imperial College has become a disaster for the aristocratic families."

"Then I should expand the imperial examination system to help the people, so as not to have the tragedy of... Wei and Jin's false filial piety."

Li Shimin's words were more firm than ever before, and all the ministers bowed to receive the edict.

[Regarding the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there has been a related heat on the Internet in recent years. It is probably that some people, who are either more pedantic than the UP host, or who fantasize that they are the descendants of the king, sighed:

"The Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, absurd and beautiful."

Let's not talk about how the two words absurd and beautiful are put together. Just talking about absurdity, if it is second in this era of Chinese history, it should be rare to dare to claim the first.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Liu Xiu was pacifying the world, he faced Zhu Yu who was trapped in Luoyang City and swore by Luo River that he would never pursue the matter. Later, he made Zhu Yu the Marquis of Fugou, which set an example for the emperor's golden words.

During the Gaopingling Incident, Sima Yi faced Cao Shuang who held a large army and swore by Luo River that he would never pursue the matter. He then executed Cao Shuang and his three clans, leaving behind the good name of "Luoshui Fart".

Since then, political struggles have almost become a matter of life and death, and no one believes in promises anymore, even if the other party is the emperor.

Later, Jia Chong instructed Cheng Ji to kill Cao Mao in the street. After Jia Chong's death, the ministers wanted to give him the posthumous title of Huang, but Sima Yan did not accept it and changed it to Wu.

Since then, regicide and forced abdication have been common, so Liu Yu later wiped out the Sima family, and the most common evaluation was: Good kill!

Luoshui Fart and Jia Chong's regicide basically set the tone for the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The Jin Dynasty essentially became a collection of clans that were fighting each other.

The dispersal of power and the bottom line of political struggles brought a long list of notes:

The Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the Yongjia Rebellion, the Five Barbarians’ Rebellion, and then the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty. The people and the aristocratic families moved south, and the north entered the era of the Five Barbarians and Sixteen Kingdoms.

Then the south was successively hit by the Wang Dun Rebellion, the Su Jun Rebellion, the Huan Wen Dictatorship, the Huan Xuan Rebellion, the Sun En and Lu Xun Rebellion, the Qiao Zong Self-reliance, the Liu Yu’s destruction of the Sima, and the Hou Jing Rebellion.

If the Cao family’s behavior still had a little hypocritical warmth, then the Sima family’s usurpation of power and regicide was basically equivalent to rebelling against Confucianism, which was undoubtedly a great treason in Confucianism.

The biggest problem here is that the Sima family still wanted to rule the country with Confucianism as the previous dynasty, but the means of gaining the country was essentially to deny Confucianism.

The exclusive Confucianism set by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was both a means of governing the country and a universal social belief. After all, Confucianism respects rituals and laws, and this collapse brought about the collective degeneration of the aristocratic families.

On the one hand, they regard money as the meaning of existence and indulge in extravagance; on the other hand, they regard money as dirt and like to talk about nihilism. There are too many such examples in history books.

Wang Chen of Hejian in Wei liked famous horses and built a gorgeous stable, with silver as the trough, jade phoenixes and gold dragons as decorations.

Yu Hong, the general of the Southern Dynasties, boasted to others that he had four great powers under his rule! What's the meaning? All the fish and turtles in the water were caught, all the deer in the mountains were hunted, all the rice and grain in the fields were plundered, and all the common people in the villages were taken captive.

Even though he had wiped out an entire county, he still had a plausible argument: A man can only live a hundred years, so if he doesn't enjoy himself now, when will he enjoy it?

So he married hundreds of concubines, decorated his carriages and horses with gold and jade, and used only Thuja cypress that grew on the cliffs for the entire bedroom and bed. Silver and golden flowers were used as the word longevity, which people at the time commented were "amazing."

Chen Sunjuan's family, the singing boy and dancer Lin Quan was said to be a rare person in the world. When he was ordered to leave Yingzhou, he didn't want to take a carriage, so he built a huge ship with more than ten large boats, built a rockery and lotus pond on it, and sailed down the river with him. Guests had a party on the river.

Wang Ji, who also came from the Wang family in Taiyuan, recorded a small incident: Sima Yan went to his house for dinner and felt that the pork tasted unusually rich. He asked how it was made.

Wang Ji answered easily: There is no secret method. The main thing is that pork is good. This little pig grew up eating human milk.

The record of this incident at the time was "Unknown to Wang and Shi", which means that this kind of behavior was not comparable to that of Shi Chong and Wang Kai.

There should be no need to introduce these two people. Their fight for wealth has left the story of Shi Chong’s fight for wealth and has even been included in history textbooks.

During this period, the powerful attributes of the powerful families were also steadily displayed. For example, the estate of the Xie Lingyun family, who praised Cao Zhi for his talent, was a little larger than the current capital of Bangzi, Seoul, and was approximately equivalent to 1.4 million acres in the Han Dynasty.

This manor is closed to the mountains and covers a lake. In addition to needing to purchase iron ore and salt from outside, it can also handle papermaking, textiles, medical clinics, iron smelting, pottery making, wine making, etc. and is self-sufficient.

The Xie family has more than one such manor, and the Wang family has more than a dozen. 】

"Kong Ming, as Yide said, we have become bumpkins."

Pang Tong sighed to his side.

Zhang Fei's face became clouded after seeing Wang Ji's deeds:

"Babies in farm families can still die due to lack of milk. How is this behavior different from that of pigs and dogs?"

"On the surface, poems and books are handed down from family to family, but in fact, what they do is worse than bandits!"

Liu Bei also opened his mouth wide. This short record of deeds shocked his soul. The powerful family can do whatever they want.

And what about the people? Where are the people?

Looking down at the written records handed over to him, Liu Bei only saw the figures of the common people from the corners.

They were massacred during the Wuhu rebellion in China, and they were all captured in Yuhong's territory. They built huge ships for Chen Sunjuan, and their mother even had to feed pigs to Wang Ji...

The people are like rice and wheat in the fields, far inferior to the horses that can live in houses of gold and silver.

These people created a dynasty that was probably the most extravagant in Chinese history. However, this dynasty could neither defend against foreign enemies nor quell powerful powers.

"It is unreasonable for the Jin Dynasty not to fall." Liu Bei sighed.

His gaze continued to fall, and Liu Bei felt that his eyes almost bulged out:

"One hundred and forty thousand acres?"

"And there's more than one? Then there are more than a dozen in the Wang family?"

"How is this different from founding a country?"

Pang Tong explained: "Of course it's different."

"If the establishment of a country requires the establishment of a state minister and the need to amend the law, all actions and punishments must be carried out in accordance with the rules."

"However, in such a manor, the powerful owner can take whatever he wants, and it can be decided with a single word."

"That's really more comfortable than the emperor. No wonder..." Zhang Fei smacked his lips and felt that if he led the troops, it would be difficult to attack without three thousand soldiers.

"There are still people who think this and that future life is beautiful?"

Zhang Fei was surprised, and then said quite bluntly:

"You still want to be a member of a powerful family, why don't you see if you are worthy of it?"

Kong Ming remembered the words on the light screen before and chanted:

"In the old days, the king's swallows flew in front of the hall and flew into the homes of ordinary people."

"It seems that this Wang Xie could not escape the fate of death and the destruction of his clan, and was eventually cast aside by future generations."

After shaking his head and sighing, and looking back further, Kong Ming had time to curse:

"This Sima family is really evil!"

"He only pursues the throne but acts like this. How is he different from Yuan Shu?"

Liu Bei shook his head: "Yuan Jiujiu is just ignorant, and his actions are not so despicable."

Wei Yan asked curiously: "How can Cao Shuang, who has a large army, be deceived like this? Is this a fool?"

Pang Tong thought for a moment and guessed:

"Gaopingling Mausoleum sounds like the tomb of Emperor Cao's family?"

"Sima Yi took advantage of people visiting their graves and captured them all, so Cao Shuang threw a rat weapon into his trap?"

Then Pang Tong shook his head in denial:

"Guangmu said before that Cao Shuang was the head of the clan and had conquered Shu. He should not be easy to deal with."

"And this Sima Yi can be named Kong Ming's old enemy, which shows that he is also a character."

"The internal situation between the two of them should be extremely complicated."

He knew a little about politics, so he naturally understood that the Gao Pingling incident should be just the result. The Cao family and the Sima family should have been fighting for who knows how long before this.

"It's just..." Pang Tong's eyes darkened when he thought of the trouble: "This Sima clan killed the king in the street, which is also regicide."

"It will eventually lead to disaster, and you are as short-sighted as a rat from the east of the Yangtze River!"

Wei Yan also boldly looked at Kong Ming at this time and said:

"If the military advisor is..."

What if? Wei Yan couldn't speak any more.

So what if Sima Yi is killed? The military advisor's days are also numbered.

I just hate that the Chinese New Year is not false!