This week, Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang are still studying law and criminal investigation knowledge step by step, and they don't need to worry about Xunze.

And Liu Xiu and Wang Mang's side are more troublesome.

After Liu Xiu ascended the throne, the contradiction between the old and new nobles and the prevention of the counterattack of the family became a problem that the two had to solve.

"I think it's normal for the two factions to have contradictions. After all, there are also partisan struggles within many modern countries. As long as Liu Xiu and I don't meet each other, then the people below may not be incompatible. ”

Wang Mang was the first to speak after thinking for a while.

"But isn't the history of this change very clear? In order to kill each other, the two factions even want to re-elect the leader. Although in the end you killed your son in righteousness. But my side was usurped by my eldest brother. ”

Liu Xiu was a little disagreeable with Wang Mang's words.

"You can't just look at things at the surface. ”

Wang Mang motioned to Liu Xiu to look at him:

"There are two main reasons why it ended up like this. First, the two of us didn't realize the seriousness of the matter at the time, and let it unfold, which eventually led to things getting out of hand.

If we consciously let the struggle between the two factions be controlled within the normal scope of political struggle at the beginning. It's never going to happen that things are going to be like this.

Second, I believe that the struggle between the old and new aristocracy, in addition to the desire for power, is inseparable from the provocation of the great families.

Therefore, the focus of what we want to do this time is still how to suppress or even completely disintegrate the family. ”

"If the cultural monopoly is not broken, the family will not be eliminated. ”

Called Xun Ze to interject at this time,

"Although you have opened the imperial examination. However, the number of literati among the people is still too small, and the imperial examination is more like a preparation for those concubines who are not valued in the big families.

Although these concubine disciples are not valued in the family, they are also members of the family after all, so it is impossible to think that they will want to eliminate the family family for a while. ”

"Teacher, do you remember the united front you taught me?"

Wang Mang looked at Xun Ze and said.

"If you need to deal with a powerful enemy, then you need to unite all the forces that can be combined. The family is the powerful enemy that Liu Xiu and I need to face. ”

"I taught you this method before, because I wanted you to win over one faction and suppress the other. However, according to the actual effect, it is not ideal. Because although this method will eliminate the old clans, it will also lead to the emergence of new clans. ”

"So, we got the people who needed to unite wrong from the start. ”

Wang Mang smiled,

"We shouldn't unite a part of the family. Because no matter how willing this part of the family is to kill other family families. They are essentially no different from other families. ”

"Then what other forces can unite?"

"Confucian!"

Wang Mang said,

"Since the Han Dynasty and Wu respected Confucianism and overthrew the hundred schools, Confucianism has represented Chinese culture to a certain extent. As long as you master Confucianism, then it is equivalent to mastering Chinese culture. ”

"But aren't those people behind Confucianism a big family?"

Called Xun Ze, at this time, he already understood Wang Mang's meaning a little. But Liu Xiu was still confused.

"If you want to support Confucianism, you must support people who understand Confucian culture. And aren't the people who understand Confucian culture those who are in the big families?"

"Nope. ”

asked Xun Ze to answer Liu Xiu for Wang Mang.

"The people of the great family are Confucians, but Confucianism is not a big family. ”

Asked Xun Ze to turn on the computer and call up the historical materials to Liu Xiu.

"Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, why has the family gradually declined, and its influence has dropped to negligible.

On the one hand, it is because there are more literate people in the world. On the other hand, these newly born Confucians no longer hold together in the family, but in the school.

The family lineage is reliable, but it is too limited. During the same period, a series of relationships between teachers and students, fellow villagers, and the birth of the imperial examination system gradually replaced the family as the first choice for Confucian scholars to unite with each other.

In other words, these new-age literati who were born under the imperial examination system no longer needed to run a large family with great local power to obtain power, and they could achieve the same effect by relying on their own networks. ”

"Bureaucracy. ”

Liu Xiu finally understood what Xun Ze and Wang Mang were talking about.

The power of the family is so great because they have a monopoly on local governance.

But once the bureaucracy is formed, officials no longer need to rely on the power of local families to serve in the local area, but through the network of connections they have formed during their studies to obtain help and govern the local area.

When the time comes, the family will fall apart into countless scholarly families. Although they will still get involved in local power, for the imperial court, these families are too small, even if they are united, they will not cause much harm, and they are much easier to manage than the big families.

Of course, this bureaucratic system will gradually erode the foundation of the state under the imperfect system of ancient times. But as long as you don't make the mistakes of the Ming Dynasty, this erosion can be controlled.

However, the number of literati in the Sui and Tang dynasties was extremely large, so they had the conditions to hold each other together and get rid of the control of the family. We don't have so many active poor people. ”

Liu Xiu asked the most important question about himself.

"It's simple. ”

Wang Mang snapped his fingers and said,

"We can open schools. I have already thought about it, once you enter Chang'an, the rebel forces will be wiped out. He re-established the Jixia School Palace, and then hired talents from all over the country to enter the Jixia School Palace to teach.

In this way, in the good atmosphere of the school palace and the living environment that is easy to have feelings, a large number of Confucian disciples will spontaneously form schools and help each other.

Once these people find out, they don't need to rely on the family to get the power and money they want. Then they will immediately abandon the backward family way of survival. Backed by the school palace, the relationship between teachers and students, and classmates is the leading role, and a more open rights group is established. ”

"Exactly. ”

Liu Xiu listened to Wang Mang's words, clapped his hands happily and shouted,

"I learned papermaking techniques and movable type printing techniques from my teachers. With these two technologies, we can quickly expand the size of the Academy. ”

"We're going to succeed this time. ”

Wang Mang suddenly heard that Liu Xiu had learned papermaking technology and movable type printing behind his back, and he was a little stunned at first. But it quickly figured out the joints in it.

At this moment, he put aside all his prejudices about Liu Xiu, held Liu Xiu's hand tightly and said,

"We will definitely succeed. ”

Note: Jixia School Palace was an academic holy place founded by King Qi Wei during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and once accommodated almost all schools of thought at that time. In addition, all literati and scholars who came to the Jixia Academy, regardless of their academic affiliation, ideological views, political tendencies, as well as their country, age, seniority, etc., were free to express their academic opinions, thus making the Jixia Academy a center where various schools of thought converged at that time.