Han Yuan's incident cast a shadow of gloom on Li Shimin's heart.
The children of those aristocratic families always think about the aristocratic family.
Han Yuan is like this, what about the others?
After Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, he began to make important use of children from poor families.
But starting from the Jin Dynasty, the aristocratic family's monopoly on knowledge became more prosperous than before.
Most of the officials in the Tang Dynasty now come from aristocratic families, and even Li Shimin's confidants mostly come from aristocratic families.
Needless to say, there are Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and Changsun Wuji.
Take military generals as an example. Hou Junji was born in the Shanggu Hou family, and his grandfather served as governor during the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
Even Cheng Yaojin, who seems to be a big boss, comes from an aristocratic family.
In the romance, it is said that Captain Chi Gong was born as a blacksmith. In fact, Captain Chi Gong was born in a family of military generals. His great-grandfather Yu Chi Benzhen was the champion general of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Dr. Zijin Guanglu was the governor of Jizhou in the Northern Zhou Dynasty; his father Yuchijia was the general Yitong of the Sui Dynasty. He was given to the governor of Youzhou, Duke Changningan.
Poor literature and rich martial arts are not just words.
Compared with the Four Books and Five Classics, those books on the art of war and strategies are even rarer.
However, martial arts training requires very high food requirements, which ordinary people simply cannot afford.
Without adequate nutrition, not to mention practicing martial arts, it is estimated that people will waste time practicing.
If Han Yuan can consider the family and join the Cui family, will his close ministers also choose to support the family for the sake of the family?
Li Shimin is confident that he can suppress the family while he is here, but what about the emperor behind him?
In fact, Li Shimin's worries were somewhat unnecessary. The most successful person in the Tang Dynasty in dealing with aristocratic families was actually Li Zhi.
You read that right, it’s Li Zhi.
As we all know, after Wu Zetian came to power, she showed no mercy to the five surnames and Qi Wang, and she was ruthless in killing them.
But in the final analysis, Wu Zetian was able to kill people from aristocratic families so unscrupulously, which was largely attributed to Li Zhi.
Historically, Li Zhi's dethronement of Wang Liwu has been praised and demoted with mixed reviews.
The reason why Li Zhi deposed Wang Liwu, apart from his love for Wu Zetian, may not be because he was putting out bait to get those officials to take sides.
After Li Zhi succeeded to the throne, the family forces headed by Changsun Wuji occupied high positions. Li Zhi was actually almost a puppet.
The queen doesn't just want to abolish her, at least there must be a convincing reason.
The reason why Li Zhi abolished Queen Wang was that Queen Wang had no children.
In fact, this reason is somewhat untenable. Empress Wang did have no children, but at that time Empress Wang adopted Li Zhi's eldest son Li Zhong into her name.
Under the plan of Queen Wang's uncle Liu Shi, together with Chu Suiliang, Han Yuan, Changsun Wuji, Yu Zhining and others, they successively petitioned Li Zhi to make Li Zhong the crown prince.
Li Zhi could not withstand the pressure and made Li Zhong the crown prince.
This also made Li Zhi deeply feel the threat from Changsun Wuji and others.
But at that time, those ministers who dared to go against Changsun Wuji and others would have been squeezed out long ago.
The remaining people also began to protect themselves wisely.
Li Zhi could only throw out the bait of deposing the queen.
Changsun Wuji and other representatives of the family would naturally not agree.
And those officials who were suppressed by Changsun Wuji and others finally saw the opportunity to bring down Changsun Wuji and others, so they naturally would not let it go and jumped out to support Li Zhi. Gu Ni
Whether the queen is deposed or not at this time represents who of the two sides can win.
In the sixth year of Yonghui (655), Li Yifu, a member of Zhongshushe, was the first to support the "abolition of the king and establishment of military power", and was highly rewarded by Li Zhi and Wu Zetian. Xu Jingzong, Cui Yixuan, Yuan Gongyu and other ministers who were originally neutral also acted according to the opportunity and turned their backs.
Support the establishment of Wu Zetian as empress.
With the support of another Tuogu minister, Li Ji, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian's unfavorable situation on the issue of deposing the queen was suddenly reversed. Li Zhi finally issued an edict: charging the king with "conspiracy to poison".
The queen and Concubine Xiao Shu were deposed as common people and imprisoned in another courtyard. Their parents, brothers, etc. were also demoted and removed from official positions and were exiled to Lingnan.
In April of the fourth year of Xianqing (659), Wu Zetian and Li Zhi reached a consensus: Sun Wuji, Yu Zhining, Han Yuan, Lai Ji and others would be dismissed from their posts and demoted from the capital. At this point, Li Zhi basically realized
The monarch centralized power.
The vacant positions will naturally be filled by those who support Li Zhi.
Although these people achieved victory, they also offended the aristocratic family, and it was destined that they would never be able to get together with the aristocratic family.
On the contrary, in order not to be retaliated by the aristocratic family, they have to suppress the aristocratic family.
As a result, the power of the aristocratic family in the court was greatly weakened. After Li Zhi died, Wu Zetian wanted to become emperor herself, but the aristocratic family once again jumped out to stop her.
Wu Zetian is so angry. When I was the queen, you stopped me. Now that I want to be the emperor, you stop me again.
With Wu Zetian's character, she would not be merciful, she just raised the butcher's knife like a noble family.
After the abolition of the aristocratic family, their strength was greatly weakened, and they were naturally unable to resist.
It can be said that Wu Zetian was able to become emperor because of her great contributions.
Li Shimin didn't know the future history, nor did he know that his son and Wu Zetian, who he didn't know whether he was his wife or daughter-in-law, had ruined the family, so he was still having a headache about the family's affairs.
However, if Li Shimin knew that Wu Zetian dared to usurp his Li family's power, he would probably kill Wu Zetian now.
Returning to the topic, Li Shimin thought for a long time and finally thought of a way.
That is to enfeoff the kings.
The enfeoffment mentioned here is not just a title or land, but a real enfeoffment.
The ennobled prince directly controls the military and political power in the fiefdom, which is equivalent to a state within a state.
As long as it is passed down for several generations, the prince will become the largest aristocratic family in the area, which can greatly weaken the influence of the aristocratic family in the local area.
However, these are just Li Shimin's preliminary ideas. How to implement them requires careful consideration.
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After three days of preparation, the Western Turks launched another attack on Xue Yantuo.
Although Lin Xuan did not send troops to participate, he took Cheng Chumo and others to a hillside a few miles away from the battlefield.
Ancient wars were very cruel and full of blood types, especially the battles involving all cavalry.
As long as you fall off your horse, no matter whether you are seriously injured or not, you will be trampled to pieces by the cavalry on both sides.
Although Lin Xuan participated in the Battle of Gaochang, he had never actually been on the battlefield. He had never seen such a purgatory scene, so his face was a little pale, and even the hand holding the telescope was trembling slightly.
After a long time, Lin Xuan put down the telescope, looked at Cheng Chumo and the others around him, and found that their faces were also pale, and said: "I think the grass in this area will be much lusher next year."
I don't know how many people have their bones buried in this battle.
The grasslands have the same tradition of sky burial as the Tibetans, so they will naturally not collect the bodies after the war.
They are all turned into meat paste and mixed together, so even if you want to collect them, you can't tell them apart.
"General, although Xue Yantuo is not much different from the Western Turks in terms of numbers, he is much weaker in terms of momentum. It will not be long before he is defeated." Although it was the first time for Xue Rengui to see such a blood type scene.
, but he often went into the mountains to hunt in order to eat, which was much better than Lin Xuan and others.