You know, the last time the Jin army went deep into the north was during the era of Huan Xuanwu. At that time, he didn't last long before he ran back in disgrace.
And he also used the military exploits that were not a complete victory to blackmail the court, and finally made him disgraced.
And this time, with such a capable grandson-in-law, why doesn't Xie An accept his credit?
In the current Jin Dynasty, as long as Xie An supports him, Wang Mi will have a strong backbone, and he can completely ignore the pressure of other ministers.
However, this also reflects the current situation, that is, when Wang Mi wants to have the support of the court, such as a lot of weapons and equipment, financial and food support, and even assistance from friendly forces, it is very difficult.
Because the friendly forces will take it for granted that you belong to Xie An, and whether you win or not win this battle is your Xie family's business.
What does it have to do with us?
Our Jingzhou soldiers still need to maintain their strength.
Now, the Jin army, especially the Beifu soldiers led by Wang Mi, were forced into a situation.
If you don’t win, retreat!
fighting!
Only by constantly fighting and conquering cities and territories can you continue to survive. As your power becomes stronger and stronger, you can gradually get rid of the control of the court and no longer look at the eyes of those court ministers.
Next, the master of this court will be changed.
In the past, emperors who started their careers with military exploits did so through a series of operations.
For Wang Mi, his current situation is certainly much better than that of civilian generals who made their fortune purely through military exploits.
He now not only has military merit, he also has a dignified background, and this background is also very high, half a level higher than most people in the court.
These people cannot reject him or look down upon him because of his origin, and the inexplicable emotions of being looked down upon because a member of a noble family joined the army are not worth mentioning.
Wang Mi is not the Huan Wen he was before. He will not be depressed because these weak things look down on him.
So what if he was born in the military?
When I gain power and sit on the throne, no matter how crooked these people are, won't they still have to work for me?
This kind of emotion is almost the same as Li Erfeng's back then.
You see, I, the Guanlong Li family, can be considered a big family, but those traditional Central Plains families still look down on us.
They kept talking about the Cui family of Qinghe, the Lu family of Fanyang, the Li family of Zhaojun, etc., and suppressed them all.
If this were an ordinary emperor, he would still fall for their tricks.
In fact, the so-called ranking of being born in a noble family is also a kind of status pua, which is obviously inferior to others in all aspects.
But they still use their so-called background to put others down.
What's wrong with people who work hard to get rich? Are they born to be inferior to others?
What they, the children of aristocratic families, are best at is compiling family trees. They often bring out ancestors from eighteen generations ago, research the sources, and compile them into books. Then, don't underestimate these family trees.
The so-called genealogy became popular from the late Jin Dynasty.
Why did so-called genealogical societies become popular at that time?
It's all for a reason.
Imagine that after the Eight Kings Rebellion in the late Western Jin Dynasty, a large number of northern gentry families traveled thousands of miles from the north to the south.
The so-called crossing south in clothes.
When everyone gradually gains a firm foothold, how can we prove that we are a big family?
Originally, the gentry in the south did not recognize you stowaways from the north.
What's more, when crossing south, the situation was very chaotic. Some of the children of aristocratic families who came with them found it difficult to find their own clans.
Who will prove their identity?
What's more, you have to make others believe it?
Of course I wrote it myself!
Just because of this genealogy issue, I think back then, in the late Northern Qi Dynasty, many children of aristocratic families had a fight, which was very embarrassing.
Wei Shou, the compiler of the Book of Wei, was born in the Julu Wei family of a wealthy family in Hebei. He was also the ancestor of the famous Wei Zheng in the Tang Dynasty.
However, the character of this Wei Shou was not that of Wei Zheng. He was such a person. At that time, the chaotic Northern Qi ushered in a rare period of relatively stable politics.
That was the ten years when the famous lunatic emperor Gao Yang was in power. At that time, Gao Yang was committed to integrating the Xianbei nobles and the traditional Central Plains gentry within the territory to maintain a relatively good relationship.
So, he organized Wei Shou and others to write the Book of Wei. On the one hand, he helped write the history of the long-gone Wei Dynasty. On the other hand, he promoted the traditional families in the north and asked them to browse their family trees and write them in the history books.
Very face-saving.
As a result, this Wei Shou did something very strange.
Writing the history of previous dynasties was a very important event in ancient times and must not be ignored.
The selection of people cannot be ignored, but in the Northern Qi Dynasty, there were not many people with good writing skills.
Therefore, Gao Yang chose Wei Shou, whom he favored.
What happened to Wei Shou?
Putting aside his writing skills for the moment, he actually engaged in nepotism when writing history books.
If you are a good Wei Shu, as long as you have a good relationship with Wei Shou, even if you were a gatekeeper in the previous dynasty, you can still be written as a general.
But if the relationship is not good, or the person is from a better background than him but is not as successful as him, Wei Shou will have room to show off.
At that time, there was an official from the Cui family in Qinghe who was looked down upon by Wei Ting because he had no children.
He even moved his ancestors to another family and refused to admit that he was from the Cui family of Qinghe.
Is this okay?
Ancient people, especially the nobles who experienced the nine-level Zhongzheng system in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, valued this most.
I may not be an official, or I may be unhappy in my life, but no one can slander my origin!
Wei Shou did this kind of thing once or twice, he did it often, and he was often caught.
In this case, how could the ministers in the imperial court spare him? Memorials complaining about him came to Gaoyang like raindrops every day.
He was simply overwhelming.
The ministers were spitting and insulting Wei Shou without any curse words, but he did have his own way.
No matter how much you scold me, I am still the same and I am not moved at all.
In the end, Gao Yang couldn't do anything to Wei Shou, and certainly he couldn't do anything to those ministers who passionately insulted him.
The only thing we can do is to give each of them a fifty-fifty vote and push the matter aside.
Therefore, it is up to future generations to judge for themselves how much of the history books left today are honest statements by honest people and how many are written by evil people.
But you can’t believe everything. After all, there are some people who write history books with such character!
These family trees, which have been passed down for many generations, are roughly equivalent to ID cards, but modern ID cards only prove your citizenship.
And these beautifully decorated family trees are the identity certificates of the children of aristocratic families. With such family trees, people have deceived generations of monarchs.
It stands to reason that when the person who conquers the world becomes an emperor, he should be respected. Within a single dynasty, everyone will have his own territory, so he should be the one who has the final say.
However, during the Wei, Jin, and subsequent Northern and Southern Dynasties as well as the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the identity of an aristocratic family was an identity card that traveled north and south.
As long as they are from a first-class family, not to mention ordinary traffickers and lackeys, even members of the royal family must look high on them.
Don't dare to provoke.
Because, over the long years, the children of the aristocratic family have already formed a value system through their painstaking efforts.
That is, as long as you hang out within the scope of Middle-earth, you have to accept that only the surnames of high-ranking children are the most noble.
Others, no matter how many achievements you have made and no matter how big your official position is, you can't surpass our big families.
Whenever a new dynasty is established, the children of aristocratic families will peddle their own theories, and they often fail to succeed despite repeated attempts.
It seems to be quite unbelievable. For example, Liu Yu became emperor in history. Although he claimed to be a descendant of Liu Bang and a proper orphan of the royal family, people at the time actually knew it.
He, Liu Yu, was just a man with muddy legs. Although his father was an official in his family, he was still a minor official as big as sesame seeds and mung beans.
The family is not decent at all. If not for this, with Liu Yu's ambition and ability, he would have been able to hold a hereditary official position long ago, so why wait until he was very old before joining the army?
By the time Liu Yu became emperor, he was supposed to be the most powerful person on the south bank of the Yangtze River. However, when facing the children of the previous big families, he still couldn't help but feel short of hero's breath.
Liu Yu conquered the world all by himself. It can be said that he started from scratch and was a true hero. What about those children from aristocratic families?
They could neither turn the tide from the fall, nor could they lead the Jin Dynasty step by step to regain the land they once had.
Even so, they can still openly surpass Liu Yu, put their own status before Liu Yu, and use various means to expressly hint to him that they must respect the family, so that everyone can be better off.
Then since Liu Yu himself is not from a noble family, and his achievements were achieved with his own sword and gun, why should he obey the mercy of these noble families?
Isn’t it because the land is not big enough and there are not enough people available?
The so-called aristocratic families, to put it harshly, are just some families who have believed in being an official for generations. These families often do not have people they want to be emperors. What they look forward to most is the emergence of a dynasty and a long-lasting country.
A little longer, but don't be too strong, and you must give face to the descendants of the family.
To govern the territory, the royal family must need talents. Before the imperial examination system, the easiest way to find talents was to select from several major families.
On the one hand, this is a lazy way; on the other hand, the reason why it can be done is because, in these turbulent times, ordinary people have too few opportunities to study.
Since he doesn't study, he won't be sensible, and he won't be able to master the various skills needed to govern the country. Think about it, if he can't even read a bunch of big characters, can you still expect him to be able to calculate all the household registration books in one day?
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Of course not!
Take Liu Yu, for example, who became emperor. Although he really conquered the world immediately, he was really excellent in military literacy and a natural genius.
But, there really is no culture.
When he becomes emperor, he will soon realize that he cannot control the entire court. Even when he was commanding Beifu soldiers to fight, he also understood that he could only lead troops to fight. This is also
What he is good at, and the remaining tasks must be left to more suitable people, that is, scholars.
For example, the logistics of the army, or the restoration and construction of the occupied city, Liu Yu would not interfere with these matters.
He handed them all over to Liu Muzhi, and although Muzhi was not from a noble family, he was indeed a scholar.
It can be seen that after Liu Yu became emperor, his respect for the family was also out of help.
Above the court, there must always be people who work for him, and such people basically come from several major families.
Moreover, over the past hundred years, the forces between aristocratic families have long been intertwined. Even if you don't have a certain surname, you might be someone's son-in-law or someone's nephew. It is always inevitable.
Therefore, we can only select available people from these aristocratic families. Since we are using people from other families, we will naturally favor the children of these aristocratic families in various decisions.
and identify with them.
Don't forget that Liu Yu was born and raised in an era when the aristocratic family was at its best, and his ideas were inevitably influenced by the idea that children of aristocratic families were the upper class.
From his own perspective, he also thinks that the children of aristocratic families are really powerful, although many of them are just idiots.
However, even if it is a straw bale, it is also a straw bale with a gorgeous appearance, which is essentially different from ordinary straw bales.
The more important point, perhaps that many people have not noticed, is that any era when aristocratic families were able to dominate was an era of continuous wars.
There are many divided dynasties in the north and south of the Yangtze River. At this time, ordinary people are in turmoil and living in hardship. Relatively speaking, it is a good time for the family.
Because the territory was limited, the divided court needed to win over the big families within the territory and use their support to maintain its own court.
And often, those big families with a history of more than a hundred years are the most influential families in this region.
The two often overlap.
When a unified court cannot be established, the villagers who have no fixed residence always need a strong support.
Large families often play such a role within the country. When the situation is turbulent, they will stand up to ensure the safety of the people in one area.
Although their control power cannot catch up with the bottom-up governance model of a unified court, they are still a force that cannot be ignored.
Therefore, compared to a unified court, the children of aristocratic families may prefer small divided courts such as the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
The ability of these courts to control the territory was much weaker. The so-called county system often existed in name only, and the court could only rely on the power of the family to maintain local stability.
On the contrary, a pattern can be seen.
That is, when the central court is very powerful, the power of aristocratic families will also shrink, showing a trend of one ebb and flow.
For example, when Erfeng became emperor, although he respected the children of the aristocratic family on the surface, he already wanted to deal with them in his heart.
On the one hand, Li Tang started his own business by himself and did not rely on the support of aristocratic families. Furthermore, Li Tang was a unified dynasty with a vast and powerful province. At the local level, it had its own system, which was very sound and well managed.
strict.
This eliminates the need for aristocratic families to fill this gap locally.
Furthermore, people like Erfeng will not listen to the pua of the aristocratic family. What the hell are you, the Li family of Guanlong?