A brief story about Chapter 9: Because Sima Ying, the king of Qi, acted perversely in the court, Sima Hao, the king of Hejian, and Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, united again, and coerced Sima Yi, the king of Changsha, who was weak in the court, to crusade against Sima Yi, the king of Qi, and did not think that Sima Yi was in Luoyang, the capital of the Western Jin Dynasty, and unexpectedly killed Sima Jian, who was in power, but Sima Hao and Sima Ying were dissatisfied with Sima Yi's overall control of the government, and tortured and killed the weak Sima Yi, and the two shared the power of the Western Jin Dynasty equally.

Speaking of which, I really feel sad for Sima Yi, the king of Changsha, and often feel that Sima Yi's ingenuity should be able to maintain the normal operation of the entire Western Jin Dynasty, but after savoring it, you will find that in the face of the powerful royal relatives Sima Hao and Sima Ying, the weak Sima Yi was finally betrayed by Sima Yue, who was also a clan, and died tragically in the hands of Sima Hao's general Zhang Fang, which is also the inevitable development of history.

In fact, when the aristocratic landlord class failed to reach a consensus and jointly supported a common master, it was impossible for any royal clan to maintain the stability of the dynasty, such as Sima Lun, Sima Jian, and Sima Yi. Moreover, as the ruling class, the clans saw that the royal family and clansmen were killing each other, the various tribes of the local nomads had risen up to stand on their own, and the entire Western Jin Dynasty was on the verge of collapse, so safeguarding the interests of their own families was the first priority of the clans. The landlord class of the scholar clan headed by Wang Yan began to gradually appoint scholars in the family to serve as the local governor of the relatively quiet and stable Jiangnan region, making final preparations for crossing the Yangtze River south and becoming the ruling class of the small court in the south of the Yangtze River alone.

Speaking of which, I personally think that in fact, the nominal ruling class of the Western Jin Dynasty is the Shi landlord class, but this statement is not accurate, because the Sima family's understanding of the family family, after they became the rulers, re-delegated power to the aristocratic landlord class, then the power of the Shi landlord class was relatively weakened, so the ruling class of the Western Jin Dynasty should be dominated by the Shi landlord class and the aristocratic landlord class as the constraint of the transitional nature of the ruling class. The aristocratic landlord class was completely abandoned by the rulers after the return of the Western Jin Dynasty, and in the subsequent historical dynasties, the aristocratic landlord class never had the opportunity to become the ruling class.

Similarly, because the landlord class of the scholar clan completely became the ruling class in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a series of things within the Eastern Jin Dynasty that threatened the imperial power appeared in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and were finally abandoned by later rulers.

That is to say, during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the ethnic problem intensified, and several countries in the north were numerous, and chaos was everywhere, while the south was actually in a state of great families competing for power and profit. Whether it is the Western Jin Dynasty or the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the whole country is in a deformed pathology, so the episode of this history eventually became the prelude to the main theme of the Shu landlord class becoming the ruling class of the feudal dynasty.

How difficult it is to prosper the country, when the Jin Dynasty is worried about internal and external troubles, the children of the Hanmen Shu clan saw the opportunity to get ahead, and they also threw themselves into the war and power struggle, and obviously achieved the results that the Hanmen Shu clan wanted. Here, we will use the history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties to talk about the struggle process of the Shu landlord class.

Speaking of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, we must start with the Jin Dynasty, in fact, the division between the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty is artificial, and there is no interval between the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty There was no short period of dynasties. In other words, the rulers of the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty were continuing. The Jin Dynasty was not cut off by Wang Mang's new dynasty like the Han Dynasty, but the scope of its rule was shrinking. The period of the Sixteen Kingdoms was actually attached to the Jin Dynasty, and some of the countries of the Sixteen Kingdoms were actually orthodox in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

When the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River was completely reduced to a dynasty dominated by the big families, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was actually in turmoil. The merger between the clans and the impact of the clans on the imperial power finally led to the gradual shrinking of the power of the clans. Just when the family continued to attack the imperial power, the Hanmen Shu clan represented by Liu Yu, the commander of the Beifu army, gradually mastered the political power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the process of maintaining the imperial power, and the power and prestige of the family began to decline in the process of continuous internal struggle and power struggle.

Then, Liu Yu, as a Hanmen Shu clan, when he basically eliminated the family clan in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it represented that the Hanmen Shu clan replaced the Eastern Jin Dynasty supported by the clan and established the Liu Song Dynasty. It is precisely because the Liu Song Dynasty was built by the Hanmen Shu people, and the children of the Hanmen Shu people also maintained this dynasty to their heart's content, which is why among the four feudal dynasties of the Southern Dynasty (Song, Qi, Liang, Chen), the Liu Song Dynasty had the strongest national strength and the highest cultural achievements, but the Liu Song Dynasty was only an attempt by the Shu landlord class to become the ruling class, so sixty years later, the Shi landlord class represented by Xiao Daocheng carried out a crazy counterattack, and successfully replaced the Liu Song Dynasty and established the Southern Qi Dynasty. And because the family family continued to fight, Xiao Yan, who was also a family member, replaced the Southern Qi Dynasty and established the Southern Liang Dynasty. The creation of the Southern Qi and the Southern Liang was actually a return to the light of the landlord class of the Shi clan, when people saw that the Southern Qi and the Southern Liang represented by the great families were simply unable to maintain the stability of the country. Chen Baxian, who was born in the Hanmen Shu clan, finally replaced the Southern Liang Dynasty with continuous civil strife and established the Southern Chen Dynasty, which also became a historical necessity. The establishment of Nan Chen completely let the Shi landlord class withdraw from the ruling class, but the family in Jiangnan still exists, but the power is already very weak, and the Jiangnan region that has experienced power struggles and wars is also the people's livelihood is withering, the economy is depressed, Nan Chen did not wait to restore the prosperity of Liu Song, and was destroyed by the Sui Dynasty, a new dynasty ruled by the same Hanmen Shu clan.

Compared with the north, the fate of the family is even more tragic. Because the rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty, who unified the north, were born nomads, although they relied on the family in the process of rule, the rulers themselves were out-and-out Hanmen Shu clans. In my opinion, the Northern Dynasty was the ruling class of the Shu landlord class and the Shi landlord class, and after the national integration, the rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Hanmen Shu and the Shijia reached a political balance, but the struggle between the Hanmen Shu and the Shijia clan to become the ruling class was irreconcilable.

Eventually, under the smoke of the Six Towns Uprising. The ability and talent of the Hanmen Shu people have been reflected, after the criminal ministers, Gao Huan and Yu Wentai, who were born in exile, occupied Guandong and Guanzhong respectively to support the Northern Wei clan to build the Eastern Wei and Western Wei Dynasty, at this time, the ruling class of the Northern Dynasty began to change to the Shu landlord class, so a ruling class like the Shu landlord class and the Shi landlord class came into being, which was the Guanlong aristocratic group.

The Guanlong aristocratic group is basically a military general, and it is a hereditary high-ranking official. The military generals are certainly not from a family, but like the Hanmen Shu clan, but they have been officials in the feudal dynasty for generations, unlike the Hanmen Shu clan, but they are like a family clan, so this is a transitional ruling class, and it only exists in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, which replaced the Western Wei Dynasty. Then this transitional ruling class is the most adaptable to the development of history and the course of history, so it eliminated the powerful but reused the family to replace the Gao clan and Northern Qi of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Moreover, after the Guanlong aristocratic group became the ruling class, and because the national integration had been basically completed, the Yuwen family, who was born in the nomadic people, could not adapt to the rule of the unified feudal dynasty dominated by the Han people, so Yang Jian, a Xianbei Han man born in the Guanlong aristocratic group, replaced the Northern Zhou Dynasty and established the Sui Dynasty is also an inevitable historical development.

When Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty, he had basically established the prototype of the system of the Shu landlord class as the ruling class, that is, the imperial examination system, and the Jiangnan region, which had been a disaster for a hundred years by the family, had already been riddled with holes, and the dynasty with the Shu landlord class as the ruling class, and the weak Nanchen was destroyed by the Sui Dynasty, which was only a matter of a snap of a finger, and the Sui Dynasty completely unified the world.

And the eloquent Yang Jian also knew deeply that the ruling class of the dynasty must complete a thorough transformation from the Guanlong aristocratic group that was like both the scholar landlord class and the Shu landlord class, so Yang Jian abolished the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, began to select officials in the form of passing examinations, and set up five provinces and six ministries in the court.

After his death, his son Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty wanted to eagerly get rid of the shackles of the Guanlong aristocratic group, further improved the imperial examination system, and began to move the capital to Luoyang, dig canals, and cruise the south of the Yangtze River.

In the end, the Guanlong aristocratic group, represented by Li Yuan, regained power and established the Tang Dynasty.

However, the rulers of the Tang Dynasty still had to build a stable ruling class. Therefore, the imperial examination system was still continued, and the five provinces and six ministries were reformed into three provinces and six ministries, and at the same time, in order to guard against the Guanlong nobles, the capital was also set in Chang'an, Guanzhong.

With the continuous improvement of the imperial examination system, the children of the Shu people were finally able to enter the ruling class openly, and the situation that the big families relied on fame and experience to become officials no longer existed, and the landlord class of the scholars tended to disintegrate. After the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, as long as the common people want to enter the ruling class, they must pass the imperial examination, and no longer value blood and family lineage, so the children of the Han family, once they become officials, will inevitably try their best to maintain the rule of the feudal dynasty, especially in the Song Dynasty, the important ministers in the court are out of the cold family, and the prosperity of the Tang and Song dynasties is also reasonable with the efforts of the children of the Han family.

In fact, in the feudal dynasty of the Shu landlord class as the ruling class, each dynasty basically maintained about 300 years of enjoying the country, the Tang Dynasty after the Sui Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty These four dynasties can be regarded as the most prosperous dynasties in China's feudal society, relatively speaking, the Yuan Dynasty founded by the Mongolian people has not been able to solve the internal ethnic problems well, and was finally driven back to the Mongolian steppe by the rebel army led by the Shu landlord class, but it also maintained the national fortune for more than 100 years.

However, when the Hanmen Shu people entered the ruling class, they actually wanted to maintain the interests of their own family through some means, and it was very difficult to become an official, and the Shu landlord class saw that only the possession of land could make their family prosperous, so the land annexation in the middle and late stages of each dynasty began to become more and more serious, and eventually led to the collapse of various dynasties. This is also the weakness of the landlord class of the Shu nationality.