(The next two chapters have a lot of descriptions of the power settings of the central and local governments of the Han Dynasty, and it is difficult to explain many things later without mentioning these backgrounds first.) ）

"So, there are only about 20 families in your village?" Ma Qiang was talking to Lu Qingcheng as he walked.

"Yes, there were only five of us at first, and then more than a dozen of them moved in from outside the mountain."

Lu Qingcheng looked at the giant tiger pulling the bear away, and nodded indifferently.

Although they have been walking together for almost a day, Lu Qingcheng still feels that this situation is so dreamy.

The giant tiger that has never been seen before not only does not eat people, but also really understands human speech, and can also help people pull things.

This means... I'm afraid only legendary immortals can have it.

Lu Qingcheng looked at Ma Qiang, who kept asking all kinds of strange things along the way, with some curiosity, who is this young man.

Looking at the young man's clothes, although they are a little tattered, they are obviously not kudzu cloth or linen cloth, but extremely delicate materials, and only Uncle Lin has one such material in the village.

There are also that shoes, colorful and green, they are really good-looking, looking at the leather shoes sewn from animal skins on his feet, Lu Qingcheng couldn't help blushing a little, and even felt that he couldn't walk anymore.

And this young man's skin, how can it be so white, doesn't he bask in the sun?

Ma Qiang was originally an ivory tower person, and he really didn't bask in the sun, his exercise was solved in the gym, and now he still survived in the wild for a while, if Lu Qingcheng was met by Ma Qiang when he first came to this world, he would probably doubt Ma Qiang's sexual orientation.

The Han Dynasty was quite popular with philosophical love.

And Ma Qiang is analyzing the current situation of the world at this time from Lu Qingcheng's words in combination with his understanding of the two Han Dynasty.

Although the Han Dynasty claimed to be 400 years old, in fact, the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty were completely two dynasties, especially politically, there was a world of difference.

The initial power structure of the Western Han Dynasty was the separation of imperial power, phase power, and royal power, and the royal power was the princes and kings in various places, because the royal power represented the local separation, from Liu Bang to Lu Hou and then to Wenjing, both places were committed to cutting the domain, which caused a series of turmoil, until the end of the Seven Kings Rebellion, the princes and kings around the country were no longer able to call the central imperial power, and the death of Zhou Yafu also announced that the relative power was weaker than the imperial power, which led to the monopoly of the imperial power of the Western Han Dynasty, which is also one of the reasons why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could wave as much as he wanted.

But power is like air, it will never go away, and even if a strong person takes most of it into his own hands, time will keep passing it to other places.

While Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty comprehensively suppressed the local royal power and relative power, he also cultivated a new powerful group, which was the Hao clan.

Many people who know some history know that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty fought for many years, which made the treasury empty in the end.

But Ma Qiang, who has read the "History of the Chinese Population", knows that the population loss during the period of Emperor Wudi of Han was only about one-eighth at most, and the so-called halving of the household registration was actually close to 30% to 40% of the population hidden, not in the official household registration, that is, it became a hidden household of a wealthy family or a hidden household hiding in the mountains and forests.

And these wealthy families from all over the country with a large number of hidden populations also became the predecessors of the Eastern Han Dynasty family at this time.

And in order to check and balance the wealthy family, especially when the emperor was too young to use the imperial power, the substitute relatives of the imperial power began to play a role, whether it was Huo Guang who abolished the emperor or Wang Mang who usurped the Han Dynasty, they were all foreign relatives attached to the imperial power, and the struggle between the relatives, the imperial power, and the wealthy family ran through the second half of the Western Han Dynasty.

After Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, the Hao clan counterattacked in an all-out counterattack under the leadership of Liu Xiu, and successfully recreated the Han Dynasty, and Liu Xiu, the Xiu'er, also began to design the rules of the power game of the Eastern Han Dynasty under the military all the way.

Originally, Xiu'er's design was okay, after all, both relatives and eunuchs were subordinate to the imperial power, which could ensure that the emperor would not be usurped by foreign dynasties when he was young, and also allow the emperor to have a way to regain power when he grew up.

But it's probably because Xiu'er has absorbed too much power from the plane, so that few of his descendants will live long.

The Eastern Han Dynasty counted from the third emperor Emperor Han Zhang, Emperor Zhang of Han died of illness at the age of thirty-one, Emperor He of Han died of illness at the age of twenty-seven, Emperor Han died of illness at the age of one, Emperor An of Han died of illness at the age of thirty-two, Emperor Shun of Han died of illness at the age of twenty-nine, Emperor Chong of Han died at the age of two, and Emperor Han Zhen was poisoned at the age of nine.

It stands to reason that the central government is in chaos like this, and the place has not been divided by the local wealthy families a long time ago, but Xiu'er seems to have known that this will be the case, and everything was arranged clearly at the beginning of the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The officials of the Eastern Han Dynasty took 600 stone as the dividing line, and those above 600 stone could be said to be high-level officials, and below were low-level officials.

The selection of low-level officials is that the top leaders of each county and county recruit "honest officials" on their own every year, to put it bluntly, it is a dividend for local forces, and the local tycoons will solve it by themselves, which is the downline for the wealthy families, and your descendants can be petty officials no matter how bad they are.

The high-ranking officials were solved by raising "Maocai" and "filial piety", Maocai is actually Xiucai, but because Xiu'er is called Xiu'er, he is called Maocai.

Therefore, this Maocai is much more valuable than the later Xiucai, which is basically equivalent to the Jinshi of the Song Dynasty.

These Maocai and filial piety are limited by the number of recommended people according to the population, and after being recommended, they all enter Beijing for an interview by the emperor, and the test is Confucianism, classics, and current political countermeasures.

Therefore, the content of the later imperial examination was basically finalized from the Han Dynasty, and those who passed the examination were all admitted to Shangshutai as "Lang Guan"

This Shangshutai is basically equivalent to the State Council in later generations, which means that these high-level talents not only have to stand guard for the emperor, but also take on the handling of core political affairs.

Of course, the so-called processing is probably to write a policy document or something, and whether this document can pass or not is still up to the three princes and nine secretaries and these bigwigs nod.

In such a situation, whether there is any ability can be said to be seen at once, which not only requires good health (to take turns to stand guard), but also requires that you understand Confucian theory, but also understand politics, law and taxation, and the requirements are quite high.

As mentioned earlier, low-level officials are actually divided by local wealthy families, and people's desires are endless, if they have two hundred stones, they want to have six hundred stones, and if they have six hundred stones, they want to have two thousand stones.

If the Hao clan of the Western Han Dynasty is synonymous with what is rampant in the countryside and the depreciatory term of invading the fishermen, the Eastern Han Dynasty is a positive term such as helping the clan and giving good to Zhouyi.

This situation began to change until the appearance of Huan Ling, who was talked about by Prime Minister Zhuge every day, and the two emperors who broke the curse of being the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty who could not live to be thirty-five years old.