"You're a madman!"

Li Zhi was silent for a long time, shook his head slightly at Li Xiao, and spit out a sentence.

"I am willing to be Your Majesty's madman and sweep away the gate lords of the Shi clan for Your Majesty."

Li Xiao is not a madman, but he is more terrible than anyone else when he is crazy. For others, the gate valve of the scholar clan is an unattainable mountain, let alone take the initiative to challenge.

Li Zhi sighed again, the gate lord of the Shi clan, it is said that his Emperor Tang Li family is also one of the five surnames and seven families, although the Li family said that he was Longxi Li back then, but in fact, he was not recognized by those Shi clans.

Even the royal family is bent on getting into the list of the five surnames and seven families, which shows the admiration and yearning of the people of the world for them.

"Your Majesty, when Emperor Taizong cultivated the clan chronicles, he had clearly listed the royal Li clan as the first class in the world, followed by relatives, and honored ministers and high-ranking officials again. But now, the world still regards Cui Lu Zheng Li Wang as the head of the clan, which is too undeserved. ”

According to the clan chronicles that were repaired that year, Boling Cui, who was originally listed as the first in the initial repair, was reduced to the third class, and the Li family of the imperial family was listed as the first class, and the newly revised "Clan Chronicles" "where there are 293 surnames, 1,651 families", basically implemented the instructions of Tang Taizong, with the imperial family as the head and the relatives second.

The strength of the Shi clan was not conducive to the imperial power, and Tang Taizong especially could not tolerate the Shandong Shi clan above the imperial family.

In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the pedigree was the basis for the selection of officials, and the division of the door was determined by the situation of the officials in the past dynasties. The "Chronicles of the Clans" broke the tradition of using the county surname as the difference in the ranks, and as for the criteria for dividing the ranks of the families, they did not consider the situation of being officials in the past, but only looked at the officials in the Tang Dynasty. These changes touched the previous family hierarchy for the first time, and were progressive and in line with the changing conditions of the old and new noble classes at that time. However, it must be pointed out that Tang Taizong's principle of "Shang Guan" only replaced the standard of "Shang surname" since the Wei and Jin dynasties, which is not equivalent to denying the concept of gate valves, but focuses more on supporting the ruling group and reconciling the gap between gate valves in order to maintain a general balance.

The surname Shang to Shangguan is actually not to eliminate the Shi clan, but to suppress the old Shi clan and support a new Shi clan.

Even Taizong Li Shimin didn't dare to say that he would exterminate the Shi clan, but Li Xiao dared to shout such words, what is not a madman?

At that time, through the cultivation of clan chronicles, many Shu landlords who were officials in the Tang Dynasty also obtained the status of scholars, and the declining old gate lord clans were further hit, while the old scholars in the Guanlong group still maintained their old status because they stood on the right side.

The new dynasty achieved the goal of strengthening imperial power and consolidating its rule by supporting the landlords of the Shu nationality and suppressing the old clan lords.

Now there are no important people in the court with five surnames and seven families. Except for Cui Dunli of the Boling Cui clan, who was worshipped as prime minister for his merits in supporting the emperor in the battle against the senators, the rest were just some unimportant positions.

However, these old scholars are still in the state, county, and township, and still control the most basic things in this country, which is why the old scholars cannot be eradicated even by Emperor Taizong.

What Taizong did back then was just to use the Guanlong group to suppress the old Shi clan in the court, and on the other hand, to support the Shu landlord as the new Shi clan, so as to weaken the status of the old Shi clan.

The great Heavenly Khan can only do this, but Li Xiaoyi, a little viscount, said that he would sweep away these scholars.

"Your Majesty, we can go to war without declaring a war and weaken them little by little, until the final fatal blow."

Li Xiao is crazy.

He wanted to do something big and replace the traditional scholar gate valve with the scholar class.

What is the difference between the scholars of the Song and Ming dynasties and the gate lord scholars of the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties? Although they are all scholars, but the difference is very big, before the Song Dynasty, it was a family-based scholars, and after the Song Dynasty, it was actually a scholar who was born in the imperial examination.

Before the Song Dynasty, the scholar clan was still a family at all, and it was a family. After the Tang Dynasty, this kind of scholar gate valve has been difficult to exist, scholars are born by the imperial examination, regardless of their background, they can enter the imperial examination through the imperial examination, and the imperial examination is a steady stream of new scholars.

The scholars are a solidified class, although the scholar class is also a privileged class, but it is not fixed, like an iron-clad battalion of soldiers, although the scholars are a privileged class, but the scholars are not hereditary, they are constantly supplemented through the imperial examination.

Of course, the scholar clan gate lord and the scholar doctor are less threatening to the imperial power, and the scholar class even naturally maintains the central unity, while the scholar gate valve is a natural threat to the imperial power.

At the peak of the gate valve of the Shi clan, the Shi clan relied on three magic weapons to maintain their transcendent status, what are these three laws?

The nine-product Zhongzheng system, the customization system of the product official Zhan Tianyin, and the monopoly of academic education.

The Jiupin Zhongzheng system ensures that the children of these scholars can become officials directly from the family, and basically have hereditary official qualifications, which is the guarantee of their political status.

In addition, these scholars can also legally shade a certain number of diners and tenants, etc., and these diners and tenants who are sheltered by them become private guests who only pay rent to the master, do not serve in the court, and do not pay taxes to the court, in fact, it is the same as the situation in the Ming Dynasty when those who took the initiative to take refuge in the officials and scholars as slaves.

The Jiupin Zhongzheng system allows the scholars to have political privileges, and the officials occupy Tianyin, so that they have great economic privileges, coupled with the monopoly on academic education, so that the scholars have been big for hundreds of years since the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The tail is too big to fall off.

Emperor Taizong was also helpless against them, and in the end, he could only rely on the Guanlong group to suppress the old Shi clan with one hand, and support the emerging Shu landlords to fight against the old Shi clan with the other hand.

Give me a fulcrum, and I can move the earth.

"Your Majesty, although the gate valve of the scholar clan is incomparably powerful, it is actually just as fragile, as long as there is a fulcrum, you can pry them over."

"What fulcrum?" Li Zhi asked. Although he also felt in his heart that it was a bit too funny to talk to Li Zhi here about this kind of thing that Taizong couldn't solve, he couldn't help but ask in his heart.

Seeing that the emperor was following his train of thought, Li Xiao was very satisfied.

The decline of the old scholar clan is inevitable, even if these new scholar clans are established by Li Tang, they will not be able to last for a long time. After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, all the Shi clans will be doomed, old and new.

The Jiupin Zhongzheng system has long been abandoned, and the Tang Dynasty is now dominated by the door-shade system, supplemented by the recommendation system and the imperial examination system, and the door-shade system is a guarantee for the interests of the Guanlong group, not a support for the interests of the scholars.

As for the officials who occupy the fields, there is also the privilege of the officials to occupy the fields, the officials will have additional Yongye fields, the officials will also have the Yongye fields, the knights will also have the Yongye fields, and even the real seals will also have food households, but this article is still a guarantee for the interests of the bureaucrats and nobles in the court.

The old scholars who have lost the Jiupin Zhongzheng system have no advantage in the court, let alone directly rely on the family, so they have no advantage in Zhantian.

Although the aristocratic officials of the Tang Dynasty can occupy the land, they can no longer shade the guests, unless they are private slaves and tribesmen, no one is allowed to shade the private household, and the good people must not rely on the scholars or even the nobles, unless they are slaves.

Under normal circumstances, no one is willing to take the initiative to serve the nobles and scholars as slaves, unless they really can't get by, and now after all, it is not long after the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, it is not a catastrophe or anything, and life is still going on.

Although the old scholars still have a lot of land in their hands and still have a lot of slaves, they are no longer as good as before, at least, they can't openly dig the walls of the court and turn the tax payers of the court into their own private households.

You must know that the Yin guest system is actually equivalent to the aristocratic fiefdom of the imperial court, turning the citizens of the country into someone's private household, how can the imperial court tolerate this kind of thing?

Now the imperial court will not easily give the true title to high-ranking officials and ministers, how can it make those scholars easy to shade?

In fact, since the Sui and Tang dynasties, or since the Western Wei and Northern Zhou dynasties, these old scholars have been suppressed. The old nobles have lost many privileges, both political and economic.

Now the only thing left for them is that little bit of academic education privilege, which is also their last trump card, and with this trump card, the scholars let most of the scholars in the world come from them, or the private schools they have established.

Now, Li Xiao is aiming at their last vital point.

Quietly enter the village, don't shoot, let's not declare war with open swords and guns, let's quietly do it, and cut the flesh with a blunt knife one by one.

Monopolizing academics, in fact, not only controls the right to education, but also controls the right of public opinion, after all, scholars have a pen, and no one can control what they write.

For example, Wang Mang of the Han Dynasty, before the Han Dynasty, he was definitely a saint praised by everyone, and it is said that at that time, the world's scholars basically supported him, and he also held a referendum of all scholars to support this Dai Han.

It was only later that the reform measures of the new emperor violated the interests of too many nobles, scholars, and landlords, so in the end, Wang Mang left a bad reputation as a usurper and a madman in history.

Another example is Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, his great cause reform also violated the interests of too many people, especially the interests of those old scholars, so Yang Guang became a brutal faint king.

Taizong's support for the Shu landlords was not too successful, the key is that most of the Shu landlords who were supported were included in the Xinshi clan after becoming officials by virtue of military merits, and there were few who really read and came out.

Books are too expensive, there are too few schools, and there are a few Shu landlords who can get ahead by reading, even if they are small landlords, they can't afford to read books in this era, let alone study knowledge. Even if they read it, most of their teachers are those scholars, and they have to be respectful to them after they come out.

"Printing books, running schools, so that more Shu people can read books, the imperial court will greatly promote the imperial examination, increase the number of talents selected by the imperial examination, and reuse these scholars from the imperial examination as officials and officials, so that there is no longer any need to be afraid of the pervasive entry of the scholar clan and control the foundation of the country."