Chapter 665: Weakening the foundation of the world's strong clan

At the beginning of February in the first year of Guangxi, after selecting the auspicious time, Liu Hong, the emperor of Xiaoguo, was buried in Wenling, these times, and then Fuquan dealt with things in the mansion every day, that is, to enter the palace to accompany the funeral, until Liu Hong's coffin was sent to the mausoleum, and the body was buried, which could be idle.

And once free, all kinds of policies and plans prepared by Fuquan should also be implemented one by one, the first thing to start is to recommend a new list to the Empress Dowager Song and the little emperor Liu Chong in the court, because it was Fuquan in order to control the basic court, so these people are mostly hundreds of stone court officials, and the distribution of personnel is mainly not the local noble family and scholars from poor families.

As for the children of the state and county clans, except for the people from the big families who became high-ranking officials above a thousand stones recommended by Fu Quan after Liu Chong ascended the throne before, Fu Quan deliberately chose less this time, but relatively selected some of the children of the clan that he was comfortable with.

Of course, such a recommendation, Fuquan also deliberately arranged more of the children of the poor family in those departments with real power, although he needed talents, and in this era, there are often strong talents in the world, which are much better than those in the cold family, but Fuquan, who knows the strong virtue of the family, really does not dare to use more.

After all, once there is a change, the family heroes often betray him for the sake of their family and their own future, but those who are pulled by him are different. Although there will be people with poor character among the Hanmen scholars, most of them are grateful people, and because Fuquan is hand-pulled, as a former official of Fuquan's protégé, they are politically prosperous and lossy, unless they reach the point where there is no hope at all, otherwise they will follow Fuquan all the way to the end. Therefore, for those small official positions that the powerful of the world look down on, Fuquan deliberately mixed a lot of real power into the cold door.

Of course, it is not that Fuquan is unwilling to reuse the children of the poor family, it is that there are few talents from the poor family, and elite talents are even more scarce, after all, compared with the powerful people of the world, the educational resources they have are really a lot worse, whether it is the number of talents, or the degree of elite, the strong and powerful of the family do not know how much better than the children of the poor family.

Even if since the present dynasty, the promotion of Confucianism and integrity, not only the style of learning is prosperous, but also private learning in various places, but the quality of those private learning is uneven, and private students are limited by their own objective conditions, and there are not many people who can really persist in becoming talents, which is also the inevitable reason why the poor family has always been weak compared to the strong people of the world.

In this regard, Fuquan has no better way for the time being, in addition to increasing the proportion of Hanmen officials in the central and local governments as much as possible, in terms of civil and military affairs, he also gives these people more opportunities to come forward, so that Hanmen can first become a large force in the government and the opposition.

This is also an important topic for Fu Quan and Jia Xu to discuss the appointment of officials, even if he intends to win over those party members who want to take refuge, but he can't accept everyone, if they all accept the powerful people of the world, God knows if some of the national policies behind him will definitely damage the interests of the powerful people of the world, will let these people fight back against him.

From later generations, for the land annexation of the Later Han Dynasty, the family occupies important social resources, Fuquan is well aware of the harm, although it will not ask for the life of the Han Dynasty, which is to promote Confucian benevolence on the surface, but internally it is a militaristic Han dynasty based on exploration and conquest, but it will make it more and more difficult for the central court of the Han Dynasty to balance the powerful people in various places, and finally indirectly want the life of the Han Dynasty.

This is evident from the many acts of the party leaders in history and the subsequent party figures against the Han family.

Although after the revival of Guangwu, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, who was a top-level ability in all aspects, treated the heroes well, but it did not say that the powerful people from those heroes would be given more preferential treatment, and no emperor would not see the harm of the wealthy families in these places, in fact, they were trying to balance them and ensure the prestige of the central government.

Moreover, when quietly using various policies to balance the wealthy families in various places, Liu Xiu vigorously advocated Confucianism, which in addition to Liu Xiu was a student and was deeply influenced by Confucianism, there was also Liu Xiu who knew the benefits of Confucianism for controlling thoughts, and he wanted to control and limit the powerful people to the greatest extent in thought.

When the sons and daughters of the powerful people of the world all go to learn Confucianism, and take it as their responsibility to be loyal to the monarch and love the people in Confucianism, and not lose their integrity, these powerful people who are the great enemies of the central dynasty have obviously dropped several grades in terms of threat, so that the central dynasty will be much smaller in terms of control, restriction and balance of their strength.

However, the times will change, Liu Xiu took into account the evolution of thought, and avoided the reappearance of the former Han Dynasty Wang Mang to the greatest extent, but it is smart to not be able to carry people, and it will change with the times.

People are greedy, and among the scholars who are mainly the sons and daughters of the wealthy and powerful clans, they obviously want more and more when they feel the checks and balances of the court, and they are dissatisfied with the status quo, so they naturally want more rights. Coupled with the prophecy that has been circulating in the Han Dynasty that "the 400-year period of the Great Han Dynasty" has been circulating, the scholars have many ideas in their hearts, and they and their friends have formed alliances with each other, and they have gradually formed a group of party members who are upright, want to fight against corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and also have a clear political situation in the Han Dynasty.

However, except for a small number of party members who really want to do practical things, the majority of party members actually only regard becoming party members as their political umbrella in the future, hoping to be beneficial to their careers, and they are political speculators, nothing more.

Of course, in fact, it is nothing for scholars to form a party, after all, they are just a group of political alliances, the key is that with the expansion of their political group, they are no longer satisfied with their current political power, and want to obtain greater power, which can seriously affect the imperial rule of the feudal dynasty.

As the party became more and more powerful, the more they targeted the imperial power, which naturally aroused the emperor's suspicion, and because they were born scholars, they were born with an advantage in public opinion, which constantly stimulated the emperor's nerves, and at a certain point, that is, when Emperor Liu Zhi of Han Huan, the emperor couldn't help it at all, and finally broke out.

Originally, in the Later Han Dynasty, relatives and imperial power fought with each other, but quietly developed and grew, and formed a party, repeatedly used proverbial words to provoke the imperial power and fight for power, which led to Liu Zhi seeing that the party was powerful, opening the party, and finally suppressing the united party members in the first confrontation. I'm afraid that this is something that Liu Xiu could never have imagined, he used culture and ideas to balance the powerful of the world, but as a result, he cultivated a more united and reliable organization.

However, this can't be blamed on Liu Xiu, after all, advocating Confucianism to promote integrity is actually just an attempt. Liu Xiu is not a traverser, thinking of so many political tricks, his starting point and strategy are good, the reason why such a thing happened is only because Liu Xiu only paid attention to controlling individual thoughts, but did not pay attention to controlling the overall public opinion of the people in society.

The so-called three people become tigers, which completely explains the importance of public opinion, and some of the party's unscrupulous people control public opinion, and use public opinion to unite a large number of people who are unsatisfactory in their careers, and it is not difficult to imagine the inner nature of this group and the original intention of forming a party.

And their inner essence is naturally to become officials and ensure their respective careers, and the original intention of forming a party is, of course, to reach the top of political power, but at that point, it will undoubtedly compete with the imperial power, and any wise emperor will not let a political party that he cannot control rise to the top, because that may mean that he will be hollowed out and become the puppet of this group of party members who are officials in the court.

Therefore, Liu Zhi opened the party system, and compared with Liu Zhi and Liu Hong, who have always implemented the party system, the emperors before the Later Han Dynasty undoubtedly did not have so much strength in the balance of the powerful and powerful of the world.

And it is said that the party is also a check and balance on the increasingly large and powerful world, naturally there is a reason, think about it, after the party is opened, who is the most fierce and the worst loss of the world?

After all, if you can establish a powerful party group, you will definitely not be able to do it without a certain family background...... The background of these party leaders will find that there are not many of them who are really from poor families.

This is also an important reason for Liu Zhi to check and balance the party, after all, among the high-level party members, it is the powerful group of the clan that has an absolute numerical advantage, and even if there are many poor families in the party group, but in the era when the fate of the Later Han Dynasty was decided, most of the poor families will undoubtedly choose to lean towards the powerful of the clan in the end for themselves and their descendants, and turn themselves into the powerful of the clan.

The background of the party's leadership is such that the various policies proposed by the party to the imperial court can be said to be the one who will be given preferential treatment in the end, and it is naturally the power of the world.

In other words, Liu Zhi's checks and balances on the party members are actually just checks and balances the growing family power, but the innate deception of the party members in public opinion, as well as those celebrities among the party members who are truly virtuous, honest and honest for the people, and do not have too many political demands, have become the façade of most people who only act for politics.

From these points, Fu Quan felt that the party members of the Eastern Han Dynasty were actually no different from the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty in terms of change of position. After all, most of the famous Donglin Party members, before their rise, were actually from poor families. It's just that once they rise to power, their political demands and personal interests are definitely not the political demands and personal interests of people at the bottom of the poor.

When more and more landlords took the initiative to dedicate the land to their names, they suddenly became big landlords from the humble family, naturally, except for a few people who could insist on themselves, most of them changed their positions, and they also became landlords, and at the same time became the protectors of the landlord class, and the imperial power and the people, the two highest and lowest levels of society, competed for power and profit, and protected the interests of the middle-class landlords.

Whether it is the party members of the Eastern Han Dynasty or the Donglin party in the late Ming Dynasty, there is nothing unreasonable about fighting against the imperial power and changing their positions in this way, and there is only one reason, that is, interests.

As for the effect of Emperor Liu Zhi of the Han Dynasty to open the party, it is naturally obvious, his life reused the poor family and the little-known small clan, suppressed Yuan Yang and other people who basically came out of the door valve in one lifetime, so that Yuan Yang and others have the surname for the rest of their lives, and there is no clansman from the top family, and he ascended to the position of the third prince in his office, which is evident.

And Yuan Yang and others have surnames, and they can't grasp the high-level power, so naturally there will be no forces that threaten the imperial power, on the contrary, once the clan controls the high-level power one after another, it is not difficult to ensure that they will not have the imperial power that peeks into the peak of power.

Therefore, I have to admire Emperor Huan of Han's methods, which is really commendable, and when it comes to Liu Hong, who has little knowledge and is not as good as Liu Zhi, he is lacking in heat after all.

In fact, Liu Hong's ascension to the throne is also a model, and since he came to power, he has always followed the ruling plan of Emperor Huan of Han, but the intensity is greater and more intense. In addition, he ascended the throne at a young age, and unlike Liu Zhi, who took the throne only after knowing the suffering of the world, his self-righteousness and sharing pleasures in some policies certainly aroused the public opinion rebellion of the party members to use the emperor to covet pleasures, leading to the people's lack of livelihood.

In the end, when it came to the Taiping Road rebellion, in the face of the situation that the powerful people of the world represented by the party might unite with the traitors, Liu Hong compromised, ordered the party to be restricted, and appointed many party members from big clans as high-ranking officials, although the situation of the court was stabilized for a while, but it also laid the root of the situation of the future imperial power in the court.

Now, if Fuquan wants to vigorously promote the Hanmen, he naturally uses this model, of course, he must learn the lessons of Liu Zhi and Liu Hong, and he must not excessively anger these party groups that cannot be ignored. Otherwise, God knows whether these party members, who were temporarily suppressed by Fuquan, will endure for decades, like forcing Liu Hong to lift the party's shackles, and then play some big messes that they don't know how, so as to seize power.

Fu Quan's idea is also very simple, select those poor scholars who have no chance to become party members, because these people are fellow party members, they will definitely be able to maintain a harmonious relationship with the party members, and at the same time, they can also ensure that Fu Quan can promote them politically in large numbers, and not let the party members who are mainly powerful people resent.

This is Emperor Han Huan's method of dealing with the powerful party of the world, however, what Fu Quan has to do is not these, he is ready to wait for him to accumulate strength to sweep away the Black Mountain thieves, Southern Xiongnu, Tuge, Wuhuan and other forces that are still stable in the north, and there is no opposition force that can be used in the country, so he will gradually cancel the filial piety and honesty recommendation system in the Han Dynasty, and then use the form of examination to take scholars, instead of the disadvantages of the filial piety and honesty recommendation system, so as to slowly weaken them.

Examination selection of talents, without human intervention, is undoubtedly the fairest, although in the early stage, the absolute resources of the family will occupy a great advantage, but in the long run, with the number of people in the cold door, see the hope of rising, it is obvious that the final victory is definitely them.

Of course, Fuquan will not learn from the imperial examination of the Song and Ming dynasties, and the rise of the Hanmen has become a high-ranking official, enjoying all kinds of inhuman benefits, and finally the powerful and powerful clans have disappeared, and the big landlord class has appeared instead, and the central court can't even find out the most basic household registration, so won't the gains outweigh the losses?

As for the specific arrangement, it will have to be revised later, and Fu Quan's means of weakening the party and the powerful of the clan are not limited to this hand, and the use of examinations to take scholars is only the first hand of his pry into the foundation of the powerful and powerful of the world, and the foundation of the rise of the powerful and powerful of the world is naturally the filial piety and honesty recommendation system.

Now, what Fu Quan has to do is to arrange a lot of officials to represent the interests of the Han family in the court and in the localities, so that once he wants to use the examination to replace the filial piety and honesty recommendation system that has always been used in the Han Dynasty, there will be a group of absolutely loyal political forces to support him.

It's not that Fu Quan doesn't believe in the scribes under his command who have always been loyal to him, these people now have a lot of official positions in the central part of the court, but most of them are from the world, that is, Fuquan himself is also from the world, once he moves the cake of the world's heroes and strong, it is conceivable how many people will oppose him?

Therefore, Fu Quan had to prepare early and promote Hanmen, in addition to weakening the party, why wasn't he preparing for betrayal in the future?