The concept of a famous family is much simpler than that of a clan.

Compared with the powerful clan who relies on the land and people to accumulate strength, the famous family is often because the family has produced prominent figures, has considerable power or fame, so as to obtain the land and people.

Just like the Jiangdong Sun family, the family business was very small in the past, and the money, grain and land owned by the family were only equivalent to the middle and powerful at the county level. When he started to be an official, Sun Jian was just a non-mainstream official in the county. However, the level of the starting point does not affect the take-off of Sun Jian, the Jiangdong tiger. When he was a teenager, Sun Jian became famous in his county for fighting off pirates, so he began to be promoted, but at this time he was still in the position of deputy.

When each dynasty was at the end of its strength, all kinds of uprisings emerged one after another. In fact, before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there had been quite a few riots and uprisings in the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, the scale and influence are limited to the county level. There was also civil unrest in Jiangdong, so Sun Jian's opportunity came again. Taking advantage of the serious "banditry" in Jiangdong, Sun Jian took the opportunity to recruit soldiers and horses, and made a greater name with his extraordinary bravery.

After pacifying the "bandits" in Jiangdong, Sun Jian, who shone brightly, began to take up his official post. But at this time, Sun Jian was still holding a low-level official position such as a county leader. In the late years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, where we were already very particular about background and background, we can clearly see here that Sun Jian's family is not really a wealthy family in Jiangdong, but just an ordinary hero.

What really made Sun Jian's Jiangdong Tiger famous all over the world was the Yellow Turban Uprising, which was incomparably grand in scale and had an incomparably far-reaching impact!

There is no doubt that the Yellow Turban Rebellion has achieved countless heroes in troubled times, such as Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Tao Qian, Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, etc., it can be said that many protagonists on the stage of the Three Kingdoms have risen in this big wave. And Sun Jian is just one of these heroes.

Sun Jian, who had moved to the Quartet, was rewarded with a reward that matched his own military exploits - the position of Changsha Taishou. After Sun Jian's development momentum was even more rapid, after helping Yuan Shu to win Nanyang, the largest county in the world, the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family also gave Sun Jian the title of general and the position of Yuzhou Assassin!

In the subsequent battle against Dong, Sun Jian, as the vanguard of the Kwantung Coalition Army, made the first great achievements. Although after the battle against Dong, Sun Jian had to rely on Yuan Shu, but at this time, the Sun family already had a certain prestige because of Sun Jian's strong performance and stepped into the ranks of famous clans.

Although after this, Sun Jian fell for Liu Biao's plan to lure the enemy in Jingzhou because of excessive conceit, and died in Yanshan. But Sun Jian's fame is still there, and these great fame finally greatly helped Sun Ce and was able to successfully dominate Jiangdong.

To this day, the Sun family, as the ruler of Jiangdong, is also the number one family in the world.

Let's talk about the old Yuan family, the first family in the world. For the old Yuan family of the fourth and third dukes, we don't have to analyze it in detail. In short, we just need to know that the old Yuan family was just an ordinary scholar family who had been born for generations, and it was not until Yuan Shao's grandfather's generation that he began to produce three prince-level figures for four consecutive generations. Not counting these four generations ago, these four generations of the Yuan family have accumulated a hundred years of prestige, so today they can boast without boasting: "Men are all over the world."

This is the family, the family that has produced great people from generation to generation.

Since the advent of cultural education, there has always been scarcity and inequity. In modern times, the gap between education in the countryside and in the city, and between the city and the big city, is often measured in ten years. In ancient times, this injustice was more reflected in the distribution of resources among different classes.

In ancient societies where the official position and government-run education had always been dominant, such as local wealthy clans, relying on financial resources and connections, could send their children to top government-run institutions such as Taixue, which was unfair to the poor scholars. But for those who hold the power of the bull, it is only a matter of one sentence to let the children of the family into it, and in many cases, it is even a natural thing.

This kind of near-monopoly on high-quality educational resources, coupled with the fact that it can provide good conditions and environment, makes it easy for the bureaucrats to train the next generation. The first generation is an official, and the next generation has a good background and the shadow of their parents, and continues to be officials. The third and fourth generations also continue this cycle. The continuity of the monopoly in education and the inheritance of the family formed the family class.

With power, money and land are not a matter at all for the family. With the donated land and the loyal and serving disciples, the power of the family was fully formed. Because it is different from the landlord who first accumulated land, it is said that the history of the family is top-down.

Now, let's return to the struggle between the two major strata in Jingzhou.

For example, the Cai family and the Kuai family are all families of prominent people who have held power, belong to the Jingxiang family, and are the representatives of the entire Jingxiang family. And Zhang Xian completely represents the powerful clan class in Jingzhou.

Although they belong to the same ruling class, the famous family and the powerful clan do not always pee in the same pot. We know that in feudal times, two things were the most important. One is power, and the other is land!

Here power can be understood as a superstructure, something political. And land represents the economic base, it is an economic thing. The clans controlled the main powers, but the clans controlled the main lands. One represents the core of the social system, while the other represents the foundation of the society, and the two are in a relative relationship.

To put it more complicated, this is a question of interdependence, mutual influence, and mutual transformation between the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction. To put it simply, it is a question of the two complementing each other and fighting each other.

From the perspective of the balance between the two, the family is at the top, and they need the support of the economic base to hold the power. The clans are at the lower end of the ruling class, and they who own the majority of the wealth of society need the proper functioning of political and social order, and they need the necessary protection from power.

However, regardless of whether the family is famous or the clan is powerful, it is very important that they are all human beings, and they are all human beings and units. And man is precisely a kind of person who has both desire and selfishness.

So many times, the powerful families want to directly control the wealth, enjoy the direct wealth, and achieve absolute control within the ruling class. In the same way, the powerful clans, who own the vast majority of the wealth of society, are unwilling to accept their power and want to seek more say in politics.

You think of me, I want yours, and that's a contradiction.

Liu Biao started by taking advantage of the opportunity of the battle against Dong Zhuo. It was to take advantage of the world's heroes, especially Yuan Shu and Sun Jian, to take care of Jingzhou when they had no time to take care of Jingzhou. This is an external factor in Liu Biao's success. The internal factors are part of Liu Biao's personal factors, but the support of the Jingzhou family represented by the Cai family and the Kuai family

But it's the main reason!

Before Liu Biao came to Jingzhou, Jingzhou was dominated by the powerful clans of various counties and counties, and completely overwhelmed the famous families.

However, since the ban on the scourge of the party has been lifted, the vitality of the family has gradually recovered. The local families in Jingzhou can no longer tolerate the clan Haoqiang, a group of turtles riding on their heads. So the representatives of the Shi family, the Cai family and the Kuai family, found Liu Biao, the clan relatives of the Han family.

As we said, Liu Biao, who participated in the Tai Student Movement and the Party Movement, was originally on the side of the Shi family, which can explain why Liu Biao needed to ride into Jingzhou alone. Cai Mao, Kuai Liang, Kuai Yue and others are naturally right to bet on Liu Biao.

In the end, the dormant of the Jingzhou family was not in vain, and the clan was already scattered, and the family class with the flag naturally won a big victory. It's just that the strength is limited in the end, but it only won an absolute victory in the Jingbei region, and did not win a complete victory in the entire Jingzhou region.

Fortunately, the clans need to digest it well, and the powerful clan forces in the Jingnan region have also been made so powerful by Liu Biao's grace and power that they have to temporarily clamp their tails and be people.

But what should come is always coming. Zhang Xian, the representative of the powerful clan class, who had served as the chief guard of the three counties of Lingling, Guiyang, and Changsha, finally almost integrated the powerful clan forces in Jingnan, and finally openly drew a line with Liu Biao, set up his own door, and at the same time declared war on the famous clan class of the Jingxiang family, which thought they were superior!

In history, Zhang Xian's rebellion was also in this year. However, it is slightly different from history that Zhang Xian also took advantage of Zhang Xiu and Sun Ce's alliance to the east wind of westward expansion this time!

That's right, when Sun Ce's heavy troops were approaching Changsha, Zhang Xian asked Xiangyang to send the transfer of troops to the sigil so that the counties of Jingnan could resist the Jiangdong army.

In order to be able to get by on face. Anyway, whether or not to give half of the state and county-level military talismans is actually the same, Zhang Xian can still mobilize the soldiers and horses of Changsha and other three counties at will, it is better to be generous, so as not to make a real excuse.

When Xiangyang's talisman arrived, Zhang Xian was not polite. Directly bypassing the county guards, captains or county horses appointed by Liu Biao, he openly mobilized the soldiers and horses of Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang to reach various locations, and the soldiers and horses of the three counties were purged, and the generals appointed by Jingbei were all removed and transferred!

All of this was done reasonably, the seals were all in Zhang Xian's hands, and those nominal Taishou Lieutenants of the Jingbei Department had no choice.