Cao Yi was silent, things were a bit unexpected to him, even if he was a traverser, he had a very obvious advantage and judgment of the future direction compared with the people of this world, but if he compared with the family and gate valve with super background in this world, it seems that he can't have any advantage, at least before he became a climate.

Fei Haomiao showed a wry smile on his face, and said with a smile: "There is one more thing that I think I need to tell you, senior brother......

Looking at the look on Fei Haomiao's face, Cao Yi's heart moved: "Could it be that this Liu family has a more powerful identity?" ”

"Yes and no!" Fei Haomiao waved his hand to let He Li go out first, Cao Yi's eyes flickered, he said before that the Liu family and the prince were related, and the four major families of the Salt Gang did not let He Li out, but now when he talked about the news, he let He Li leave, so the information to be said next is far heavier than the previous one.

After He Li bowed with both hands and bowed out of the room and closed the door, Fei Haomiao turned his head, looked at Cao Yi, and whispered: "Senior brother, I told you before, the Salt Gang has existed for thousands of years, why is it not famous?" ”

Cao Yi also showed a puzzled look on his face, and echoed and said, "Yes, senior brother, why is this, I have been wondering before. ”

"Because behind them, they all have the support of the gate valve family!"

"A family of gate valves? Isn't it already in decline? Cao Yi asked in surprise.

"An emaciated camel is bigger than a horse!" Fei Haomiao sighed, and then lowered his voice and said: "Since the founding of Taizu in this dynasty, he has concentrated the military and government in his own hands, and vigorously promoted the imperial examination system, especially opened the palace examination and Enke, which greatly increased the number of meritorious names in each imperial examination, so that more children of the poor family can carp and jump into the dragon gate, in fact, on the other hand, it is also to suppress and weaken the number and proportion of these gate valve families occupying high-ranking positions in the court officialdom in disguise, and prevent these gate valve families from slowly declining from rising again!" ”

Cao Yi showed a cautious look on his face, and asked in a low voice, "What about the Liu family where Liu Chengze is?" ”

Fei Haomiao said solemnly: "Peixian Liu! ”

Cao Yi, who was originally sitting, suddenly stood up and said in shock: "What! Pei county? Not Pengcheng? ”

Fei Haomiao shook his head: "It's not Pengcheng, it's indeed Peixian." ”

The Peixian Liu family is the most prominent royal family in Chinese history. The Western Han royal family, the Eastern Han royal family, the Shu Han royal family plus the Liu Song royal family, but now when others talk about the Liu family, the first reaction is the Pengcheng Liu family, like the famous poet Liu Yuxi of the Tang Dynasty is the Pengcheng Liu family, his sixth ancestor Liu Liang, who moved to Luoyang with the reform of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, is the descendant of Liu Yuan of the Xiongnu, that is, the founding emperor of Han Zhao during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. Although it seems that the Pengcheng Liu family is greater than the Peixian Liu family, in the long history, the influence of the Peixian Liu family is mostly large, and in the early days, both the strength and family background are not comparable to the Pengcheng Liu family.

When Cao Yi was still shocked, Fei Haomiao spoke again: "However, the Liu family in Yangzhou is only a side branch of the Liu family, and it has been responsible for accumulating wealth for the main family for hundreds of years, but now the Liu family in Pei County has declined, and their Yangzhou vein does not want to become a vassal of the main family, and the money they have worked hard to earn is sucked by the main family, so they will take advantage of the relationship between the prince......

Cao Yi nodded, now that the gate valve family has gradually declined, the previous side branch counter-pressure on the main family, or the previous vassal subordinate family head against the main family, and with the improvement of the imperial examination system in the Tang Dynasty and the expansion of the imperial examination in the Great Yan Dynasty, the Hanmen scholars have been fully developed, and the strength of the already declining gate valve family has been further weakened.

If it is really calculated, the imperial examination system was perfected only when Wu Zetian, the first empress of the ages, established the palace examination and martial arts. Before this, the vast majority of the talents who managed the country in the entire world dynasties were from the family gate valve, especially from the late Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the family gate valve flourished to the extreme, and they dominated the dynasty and affected the rise and fall of the world. It is really true that there is no thousand-year-old dynasty, but there is a thousand-year-old family!

How did the family keep it alive for thousands of years and survive the change of dynasties?

If we talk about the initial stage of the rise of the gate valve family, it is from the period from Cao Pi's proclamation of the emperor to the period of "the king of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the horse share the world", Cao Pi and his brothers Cao Zhi, Cao Zhang and others competed for the crown prince, because they could not get the strong support of the military and the clan, they could only look for foreign aid, and imitate Liu Xiu to continue to rely on the power of the family to stabilize the Cao Wei regime after the usurpation of the Han Dynasty.

But everyone knows the final result, Sima Zhao's heart is well known to passers-by, at that time, Sima Yi and Sima Zhao were not called emperors, but Sima's family was the most powerful family in the world at that time, and it was even more prestigious than the emperor. Moreover, after Sima Zhao's son Sima Yan claimed that the emperor usurped Wei, he learned the lessons of the Cao Wei regime, and it was because the Cao Wei regime did not give too much military and political power to the clan relatives and nobles, so it led to the success of the Sima family from a family. Therefore, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty wantonly divided the feudal princes and vassal kings to defend the power of the Sima family, fearing that he would be seized by other scholars. As a result, many fiefs and local military and political powers were given to the feudal kings in various regions, which also led to the Eight Kings Rebellion of the same clan later.

Since then, after the rebellion of the eight kings, the five chaos of China, and then to the south of the cloth, the power of the family gate valve in the north and south formed a differentiation, and finally there is a saying that the king and the horse share the world, because after the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the establishment of Sima Rui of the Eastern Jin Dynasty from the beginning is dependent on the Langya Wang family, Langya Wang clan at that time with their own background and strong influence, ordered and convened the north and south Shi clan to Kuang Jin room.

Therefore, more than three-quarters of the officials of the dynasty at that time were related to the Langya Wang clan or related people, even if they had no relationship, they were also the children of other southward migrants of the Langya Wang clan at that time, and the Wang clan maintained a high degree of overlap in social interests, and it was precisely because of this that there was a saying that "the king and the horse share the world".

In the hundreds of years since then, from the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, to the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, and even the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period before the unification of the Great Yan Dynasty, every time the world is in turmoil, there is the influence of the power of the gate valve family. Although the perfect imperial examination system in the Tang Dynasty gave the world's poor scholars the opportunity to carp and jump into the dragon gate, it did not fundamentally break the advantages of the family gate lords in the government at this time, at least they were faster and easier than the ordinary poor scholars in adding officials to the knighthood.

Because the foundation of the gate valve family from the beginning is better than that of the poor family scholars, the continuation and inheritance of each gate valve family must have its good family motto and family rules, and every gate valve attaches importance to the education of the children of the family. Since the beginning of the Wei and Jin dynasties, every family valve that can be inherited for a long time is inherited by very wise ancestors and after several generations of hard work, and these families attach great importance to the education of the children of the clan, after all, talent and knowledge are the foundation and foundation of the inheritance of the family door valve.

Therefore, most of the scholars uphold the tradition of cultivating and reading heirlooms, poems and books, and if they need to collect financial business, most of them are arranged for side branches. The clan relatives of the clan attach importance to teaching and discipline, advocating literature and martial arts, promoting morality and self-discipline, honesty and self-discipline, and maintaining a simple family style, so the children of the main family are many famous people, shining in history, and there will be great people in the martial arts.

The reason for this is that every family that has left a name in history has a rule that those whose descendants are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall gate and not enter the genealogy. Therefore, the side branch clan basically does not have this treatment, so that the resentment between the main family and the side branch is getting bigger and bigger, and the people of the main family themselves look down on the side branch a little, they are all a group of businessmen who have no fame and only a copper smell. However, the side branch of business and wealth has to continuously supply the main family with expenditures, and its key position is not as high as others. Chang Chang was called and drunk, different from the same sect and more like a subordinate.

After such a long time, maybe there is still a family concept in the first few generations, but in the back, the feelings of the clan relatives are getting thinner and thinner, and the differences and grievances between each other will become bigger and bigger.

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