As soon as his eyes were closed, the old hen turned into a duck, he didn't notice it before, even when he watched a magic show, no matter how big his eyes were, it was useless, and the disappeared things slipped away from under his nose, Zhen Qian's eyes closed and opened, and even the surrounding environment changed, the antique room, the Chinese dialect of Tang Yin, and the maid in ancient costumes, I didn't know and thought I was filming?

Through the three nos, don't travel to troubled times if your body is not as good as Rambo, don't be reincarnated as a homeless person if your life is stronger than a small one, and don't dream of dominating the universe if you have a thief's heart but no courage.

Zhen Qian unfortunately came to the late Tang Dynasty, a few years of good life passed, an era of feudal town separation, a world of military generals chaotic government, reasonable and unreasonable regardless of whose voice is loud, order, fairness, benevolence and righteousness have long become garbage thrown out of the clouds, hunger, war, and massacre ......, today Zhang San beat Li Si, tomorrow Ding San usurped the throne of Wang Er, the grass-headed king and the banner of the king are dizzying, it is too late to grieve, it is too late to bury the corpses of relatives, the tears have not been wiped dry, and the ghost gate is already beckoning to himself.

There is no way out for him, he can abandon literature and business, he can abandon business and become a thief, but if he abandons a thief, he can only follow the king of Hades.

According to luck, one bad news is always followed by another, and good news usually coincides with bad news. Zhen Qian's good news is that he is still alive, and the bad news is that he is not far from the troubled times.

It has been almost a year since Zhen Qian arrived in the Tang Dynasty, and he has been separated from the Zhen Mansion for half a year, so he is quite satisfied with being reborn in the Zhen Mansion.

Although the Zhen Mansion does not have the reputation of the seven sects and five surnames, it is also regarded as a high-ranking family and a scholarly family in Hengzhou, so it is natural to eat and wear without worry, and to live happily.

The seven clans and five surnames are the Li clan of Longxi (present-day southeastern Gansu Province), the Li clan of Zhaojun (present-day Zhao County, Hebei), the Boling Cui clan (present-day Anping County, Shenxian County, Raoyang, Anguo and other places in Hebei), the Qinghe Cui clan (present-day Qinghe County, Hebei), the Fanyang Lu clan (present-day Baoding City and the area of Beijing), the Xingyang Zheng clan (present-day Xingyang City, Henan Province), and the Taiyuan Wang clan. Among them, the Li family and the Cui family each have two county wang clans. Therefore, it is called the seven clans and five surnames, the five surnames and seven wangs or the five surnames and seven families.

Xue Yuanchao, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, once said that one of the three major regrets in his life was that he failed to marry a girl from the five clans of the seven clans as his wife, which shows the ...... of the scenery of the seven clans and five surnames back then.

Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, almost all feudal regimes have been controlled by the Shi clan. Because the Sui and Tang dynasties relied on the support of the Guanzhong clan, and the Shandong clan still retained the centuries-old tradition of reading and lecturing the scriptures, they still enjoyed a superior political and social status.

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, there have been monarchs who have devoted themselves to destroying the gate valves, and the social and economic status of these Shandong clans, which have existed for hundreds of years, is still very superior. But they had credit for the establishment of the dynasty, so the monarch weakened the clan with moderate policy reforms, gradually excluding them.

During the tenure of Emperor Wen of Sui, the Nine Grades Official Law was abolished and the imperial examination was changed to select talents, with the purpose of destroying the gate valve appointment system. It is a pity that the Sui Dynasty was very short, and by the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination system was not developed.

Tang Taizong instructed the ministers to set the rank according to the grade of the minister at that time, and re-judged the "Chronicles of the World". As a result, the imperial clan was changed to the first class, followed by the queen's relatives Changsun clan, and the Cui clan, the Shandong family with the highest folk prestige, was demoted to the third class.

In order to confront the Tang clan and ministers who held power, Empress Wu promoted the status of Jinshi in the imperial examination system, so that the imperial examination system gradually became more and more perfect.

The politics of the scholar clan in history sprouted in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty and died in the last years of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, in a sense, it is believed that the politics of the scholar clan, from the Eastern Han Dynasty, through the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, with the disappearance of the two major privileges of the economic "Zhantianyin Customization System" and the political "Jiupin Zhongzheng System", is gradually weakening and disappearing. In fact, this is a huge misunderstanding. Because, judging from historical facts, there are two most glorious stages in the political era of feudal scholars, one is the two Jin and Northern Dynasties, and the other is the Tang Dynasty.

During the Tang Dynasty, especially in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the politics of the scholars not only did not dim; On the contrary, it is once again strangely brilliant, which is not a simple sense of "returning to the light".

The concept of "seven clans and five surnames" in the Tang Dynasty was widely flowed, so that the Tang Dynasty scholars established since the Wei and Jin dynasties actually showed an upward trend, especially since the Middle Tang Dynasty, the concept of people's families has been further deepened, and there is still a deep gap between the high and cold of the Shishu. "Five surnames and seven families", "relying on their clan prestige, ashamed to marry all surnames", arrogantly intermarriage within the family, in order to maintain a noble bloodline. For example, according to the tradition since the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Qinghe Cui family and the Longxi Li family and the Fanyang Lu family have been married for generations; The Li clan of Zhaojun and the Boling Cui clan have been married for generations; Fan Yang Lu and Xingyang Zheng generations married, Longxi Li and Fan Yang Lu generations married, they disdain to marry other surnames.

So Xue Yuanchao, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, sighed: "The one who regrets in this life failed to marry a woman with five surnames!" The Xue family is already one of the "four surnames in Guanzhong" with Wei, Pei, Liu, and Xue as members, but they still look up to the "five surnames and seven families", which shows its influence. In Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong couldn't stand the arrogance of the family, and said: "There are four surnames of Shandong Cui, Lu, Li, and Zheng. Every time she marries a woman of another clan, she will ask for money extensively, and the more will be more expensive, and the number of contracts will be the same as that of the city, which will damage the customs and disorder the etiquette. It is not only appropriate to be serious, but it is necessary to reform". At that time, Taizong repeatedly issued questions containing confusion and anger: "I really don't understand why the four surnames in Shandong are self-conscious, and why are they important in the world!" So, he ordered the ministers to revise the "Clan Chronicles", but in the first draft, the editors ignored the royal family and ranked the Boling Cui clan among the Shandong scholars as the first in the world. Later, under the intervention of Taizong, the "Clan Chronicles" elevated the royal family and suppressed the Shandong scholars, but it did not achieve practical results.

In the Tang Dynasty, the "Seven Sects and Five Surnames" did not have an absolute advantage in the imperial court, and it can be described as a slight statement.

The first reason is that the merits of the Tang Dynasty at that time: the Guanlong military group still had great power, and after the war in the early Tang Dynasty, the vitality of the Shandong Shi clan was greatly damaged, and it was difficult to have a say in the court.

Second, the emperor deliberately suppressed it, and during the period of Li Shimin and Wu Zetian, there were many fears about the influence of the scholars in the court, and the phenomenon of persecution of the family by cool officials on charges occurred from time to time.

Third, the vigorous implementation of the imperial examination system led to the emergence of many Shu courtiers, and at that time, most of the seven clans and five surnames entered the official with the shadow of the door, and they did not adapt to and did not accept the new way of performing the imperial examination.

Fourth, the jealousy of the court ministers from a poor family (such as Xu Jingzong, the prime minister of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, and Li Yifu).

However, after the Anshi Rebellion, the political center of the Tang Dynasty was rebuilt, and the seven clans and five surnames re-emerged with the help of the imperial examination system. For example, the Zheng family in Xingyang, it was difficult to find the prime minister in the Tang Dynasty, and since the beginning of the Middle Tang Dynasty, more than ten prime ministers and important ministers have appeared in a row, so there is a saying of "Zheng Banchao"; Another example is the Qinghe Cui family, there is the Tang generation, and its branch Nanzu Fang, Qinghe big house, Qinghe small house, Qingzhou house A total of ten people served as prime ministers, and only two former prime ministers of the Anshi Rebellion, after the incident, entered the Tang Dynasty, and there were eight people as prime ministers. The reason for the resurgence of the family is closely related to the mastery of the imperial examination power, and the second is that after adapting to the imperial examination system, the profound family style and intellectual tradition of the family give them a special advantage in the examination. For example, Fan Yang Lu's family, there are Tang generation, especially since the Middle Tang Dynasty, there are more than 100 Jinshi, which is amazing.

You must know that in the Tang Dynasty, the Jinshi examination in the imperial examination was the most difficult, and the number of admitted students was small. However, there are also those in the Gaomen clan who have always despised the scientific examination system and adhered to the concept of medieval aristocracy, such as Li Deyu of Zhaojun, the prime minister of Zhaojun, and Zheng Qin of Xingyang, who "are ashamed of all living in the countryside and do not like the scientific examination", "especially evil Jinshi", and Zheng Qin of Xingyang even suggested abolishing the Jinshi system.

In the Huangchao Rebellion at the end of the Tang Dynasty, a large number of casualties were caused by the clansmen, the rich homes and industries were also tragically destroyed, and the ancestral genealogy that the North China clans were proud of was also lost, and the clans declined, and finally there was no difference between them and the common people, and the status of the clans was replaced by the landlord and gentry class.

(This chapter describes the influence and survival of the Seven Clans and Five Surnames in the Tang Dynasty, and the Seven Clans and Five Surnames were unwilling to accept the decline of their political status and secretly cultivated their own spokespersons, which also laid the groundwork for the development of the story!) ）