These families also have a very apt name, called Gate Valve.

Gate valve, is the joint name of the door and the valve reading, as the name suggests, that is, refers to the generation of officials of the famous family, and the election and appointment of later generations are different, in the era of Duan Ye, the door valve system is the fundamental method of selecting officials, it can be said that it has affected the history of hundreds of years, from the beginning of the Han Dynasty, until the Sui Dynasty, the creation of the imperial examination system, only to fundamentally reverse the situation, so Duan Ye actually believes that the imperial examination is the greatest invention in Chinese history, and later generations have reached a turning point, It is unfair for some people who have not been able to pass the imperial examination and have no ability to arbitrarily demonize the imperial examination.

In the past, scholars mainly through inspection, recruitment, the people who were lifted, the people who were exalted, become the protégé of the lord, the lord of the house, the old officials, and the obvious truth is to receive the favor of others, of course, to reciprocate, the biggest rule of officialdom, is not to owe favors, owed to repay, protégés, the old officials, for the sake of profit, even do not hesitate to flattery, bribery in order to consolidate the knot, the big bureaucrats and their own protégés, the old officials form a group, in order to increase their own political power, so it can be said that each takes what he needs.

In this way, among the scholars, it is natural to form some families of successive ministers, most of these people are local heroes, there are vast fields, there are countless properties, the strength is strong, intertwined, once you become an official, you can use power to cool wealth, and then use wealth to keep power, in this way, once you become an official, you will basically not step down when you come to power, you must be in a high position, and your protégés and officials are all over the world.

Protégés and former officials are all over the world, and it is natural that these people are the leaders of the scholars, and if something happens, someone will take care of it, and if something makes a meritorious service, someone will protect it, naturally the stronger the stronger, the weaker the weaker, their power is unshakable, and the children of the common people have no chance.

The court selectors first look at the family surname valve reading, so the children of the gate valve clan in the inspection, conquest as usual to get priority, as for the talent, morality or anything is not important, as long as you reincarnate well, there is food to eat and officials to do, a long time, their power has been so strong that it does not matter whether it is in the court, even if it is in the body of the wild cloth, the same can command the world, the relatives and eunuchs in power must be connected with them, circulating, the power of the gate valve clan in the state and the county is more monopolistic, in fact, ruling these states and counties.

In Cao Pi's era, in exchange for the support of these people, Cao Pi simply adopted the method of the nine-grade officials suggested by Chen Qun, that is, the nine-grade Zhongzheng system, and the later Jin State also directly continued this system, but Zhongzheng generally only paid attention to the knighthood and official position of the assessed person's family background, and rarely paid attention to the real talent, and could not play the role of selecting talents. The Jiupin Zhongzheng system has completely lost the effect of selecting talents for the imperial court.

What's more, there are still a lot of things, after Duan Ye became the Taishou of Dunhuang, he was originally going to re-clear the land, census the population, and implement the system of cultivators having their fields, so that they can not only alleviate social contradictions, but also figure out the real strength of society, and facilitate mobilization and tax collection, but they did not expect to encounter great resistance, and the resistance was so great that this time he really became the commander of the light pole, and no one supported him, even the people he trusted the most, such as Duan Ping, Hu Kai, Chu Yunshen, did not support himself, and his own women, Whether it is Liu Yiru or Jiangyu, they also politely suggested that they should not do this.

Later, Duan Ye learned that since the Sima family ruled the world, it was clearly stipulated that high-ranking officials and dignitaries should occupy the fields according to their official rank, and that private dependence on peasants was recognized in the form of laws and regulations throughout the country. Although the decree stipulates the number of households exempt from state taxation and forced labor, in the case of possession of a large amount of land, the high-ranking officials and nobles must have more dependent population than the law stipulates for labor.

In this era, land and population are the biggest resources, with land, it is equal to having money and chassis, with population, it is equal to having an army, and people with money and an army will of course have power, and they will have the right to speak, which is also the foundation of the existence of these gate lords.

The people around Duan Ye. Although there are people from all kinds of backgrounds, but in general, there are still a lot of middle classes, those who are too poor to come from this era, there is no possibility of getting ahead in this era, and they can't come to Duan Ye's side, and those who are really from the scholar family, Duan Ye's temple is still too small, and they won't come at all.

Originally, Duan Ye was quite happy, because at any time, people in the middle class can often be more rational and far-sighted, unlike the bottom who can't see the sky, and they won't be like the top who have a bad conscience because of their own interests.

But? The matter of land is too sensitive, and it is related to the vital interests of too many people, although they are not big landlords, but they also have land interests to some extent, and they are sensitive to any land-related changes, and they would rather be conservative, which is also a matter that there is no way to do.

It was only at this time that Duan Ye realized how serious this gate valve system and the land problems and selection problems that were derived from it.

Although the makers of these systems have found all kinds of rhetoric and arguments for this system, their actual impact is that the important official positions of the imperial court and the state are almost monopolized by a few clans, and the influence of personal background on their official careers is far greater than their own talents and expertise. Instead, it first depends on whether several big families can reach an agreement, and after reaching an agreement, we can see whether the family in this position can be balanced, and if so, the matter is decided.

There is no doubt that Duan Ye himself was also a coincidence to get his current position, if it were under normal circumstances, if it were not for the fiasco of the Great Qin Empire in the Battle of Weishui, a person like Duan Ye would not have the slightest chance, from this point of view, Duan Ye could not be regarded as a beneficiary of this system, therefore, let Duan Ye use the knife for this system, he did not have any psychological pressure.

In fact, Duan Ye had already thought about reforming this system and introducing an examination system like the imperial examination to select talents in a timely manner, because the simplest truth is that the larger the sample, the more possible talents there are.

And the various problems faced by Duan Ye recently, as well as the sudden appearance of Zhang Gon and Cui Hao today, directly made Duan Ye feel a sense of urgency, from the word front door valve, it was just a noun here in Duan Ye, but now, the people of the gate valve really stood in front of Duan Ye.

Cui Hao and Zhang Gon have been looking at Duan Ye, and since Duan Ye knew Cui Hao's identity, his expression was a little wrong. Although they were sure that Duan Ye would definitely not be able to and would not have any bad intentions for the two of them, Duan Ye would not be unaware of the weight of the Shanggu Zhang clan and the Qinghe Cui clan, and now that he had come to the door in person, the other princes could not ask for it, and Duan Ye would not be able to play any moths.

But Duan Ye kept his head down and pondered, which still made the old and the young feel a little uncertain, and even the two of them didn't know why they, who had been through the wind and waves for a long time, couldn't do the same weightlifting in the past in front of this young man.

And Duan Ye is actually struggling at this time.

The contribution of such two people, of course, Duan Ye can't ask for it, although Duan Ye has only one county in his hands now, but it will definitely accelerate the expansion in the future, the so-called thousands of troops are easy to find, Duan Ye needs talents the most, not to mention geniuses like Zhang Gon and Cui Hao.

It's just that in Duan Ye's heart, he is actually still worried about whether he can control them, and this worry is definitely not superfluous.

When it comes to personal wisdom and ability, Duan Ye is actually quite confident because he has thousands of years of accumulation more than people of this era, but the problem is that Cui Hao and Zhang Gon represent not one person behind them, but a huge family, and even an unshakable class.

It is really a great challenge for one person to face a class.

What's more, there has never been a free lunch in the world, Zhang Gon and Cui Hao came to help themselves, of course, because they have great potential, but they must repay them when they do this.

Moreover, the most important thing for the gate valves is interests, of course, they can work together for the sake of interests, but for the sake of interests, they disregard their feelings, part ways, and even fight back, for them to make a little pressure, if one day the interests of the two sides are no longer consistent, what to do, Duan Ye does not believe in feelings, reason, can avoid these.

These questions are all unknown, but Duan Ye has no way to think about it now.

That's it, since you can't think clearly for a while, it's better not to think about it, let time and history make the decision! Duan Ye decided to take care of the present.

After a while, Duan Ye finally raised his head and said with a smile: "The two of you can come to Guzang, you can come and say these words to Duan Ye, Duan Ye has a deep feeling, since we all have the same ambition, since we also have the same views on many issues, then let us join hands and create a great cause together!" ”

"Create a great cause together!" The hands of the three men were folded together.

From this moment on, Zhang Gon and Cui Hao joined Duan Ye's team, and this day, considered by many later historians, to be a turning point in this era, and countless comedies and tragedies in the future were calculated from this moment.