Chapter 16: Family Matters (Part II)
The officials who are attached to the Yang family want to compete with others, and the Yang family will inevitably exert their strength from it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The battle for positions in the court and the army has gradually evolved into a wrestling between the families of the gate lords over the years.
Although the Li royal family was extremely worried about this phenomenon and had taken various measures to change it, to no avail.
Since the founding of the country, the strength of the family has been extremely strong, Taizu Li Yunlong has a far-sighted vision, knows the disaster of the family of the door valve, and has also taken some measures at the beginning of the founding of the country, wanting to simplify the Hanmen scholars to fight against the family, but often the promoted Hanmen disciples will immediately be attracted by the Gaomen family, so as to switch to the arms of the family, Taizu Li Yunlong is helpless about this.
Although Taizu is wise and powerful, and his prestige is also extremely high, he can't exert a hot hand on the gate valve family.
In the process of Taizu Li Yunlong seizing the world, the six great families really played an immeasurable role. In the early stage of Taizu's army, Li Yunlong was only one of the many rebel Mengyuan rebels at that time. He didn't have much grain and grass in his hands, nor did he have sharp weapons, and he only had a group of peasant troops with hoes waiting to be fed, not to mention any civil and military generals, and at that time, he only had Yang Guo, the ancestor of the Yang family, to help.
Hundreds of years ago, under the suppression of the Yuan and Mongolian courts, the six great families that had been entrenched in the mainland for nearly a thousand years were dying, and they decided to support the rebel army and destroy the Yuan Dynasty in order for the family to continue to pass on.
After contacting many leaders of the rebel army, including Li Yunlong, the ancestor of the Ye family, Ye Xiaoran, after careful consideration, finally decided to support Taizu, who was still weak at that time and was not favored by the people of the time, and used the power of the six great families for Li Yunlong's use.
They sent many children of the clan to Taizu's tent as officials, provided Taizu with grass, and spent a lot of money to purchase ordnance for Taizu. It was precisely because of their help that Li Yunlong was able to survive the difficult time in the early days of the army, survived tenaciously under the suppression of the Yuan and Mongolian courts, and gradually laid the foundation for dominating the world. If it weren't for the help of the six great families, he would have been defeated long ago, and like many leaders of the rebel army at that time, his rise and death were also sudden.
And as Taizu's power became stronger and stronger, because six or seven out of ten of the civil officials under Taizu's account were provided by the six great families, they also rose and rose, and their tentacles in the world became deeper and deeper. After Taizu dominated the world, they had completely integrated themselves with the court politics and civil economy of the Chu State, and turned into a huge monster.
Before Taizu Dingding, he couldn't do without them. After arriving at Dingding, Taizu realized their danger and wanted to stab them, only to find that they couldn't move.
If they are moved, the court will be paralyzed, and the affairs of the states and counties in the world will not be able to be handled; If they are moved, the businessmen in the world will be gone, the private business will collapse, the people's things will not be able to be sold, and the people's livelihood will have big problems.
And because although the families stretched out their hands very long, under the restraint of Ye Xiaoran, the ancestor of the Ye family, they were very restrained and almost never put their hands into the army, which could not make the emperor their puppet, so that Taizu Li Yunlong could not afford to break the net with them.
In desperation, after the failure of the move to support the poor scholars, Taizu Li Yunlong supported the military warlord aristocratic group headed by the Hongnong Yang family, and they fought with the world's families led by the six major families.
Although this is also to quench thirst, but to adopt a balanced strategy, the two sides fight, the Li family mediates, the gate lords and the family have to curry favor with the emperor, and the power is still in the hands of the emperor, which is more beneficial to the Li family than a single family.
It's just that over the years, the appetite of the Saga gate valve has become bigger and bigger, and it is almost impossible to contain.
Yang Shen naturally knows this, but he is also a beneficiary of this phenomenon, and his innate position has been set early, but he can't say anything.
He looked through the notes on his desk and saw that some of them were black materials sent by officials from colleagues they knew.
For example, the note in his hand said that a certain waiter in charge of the distribution of military salaries in the Ministry of War was too ugly this year, and he was greedy for forty percent of the military salaries issued to the government soldiers.
The national dynasty has been in power for hundreds of years, the contradictions are deep, the national strength is declining, corruption is rampant, the officials eat soldiers' salaries, and the generals drink the blood of soldiers has become extremely serious.
Generally speaking, although the generals of the officials are greedy, they will still give the soldiers below a little way to live.
The military salaries delegated to the officers and soldiers by the imperial court are generally 20% for the upper and lower officials of the military department, and after it is delegated to the state and county, the state and county officials, including the generals, will take 40%, and the remaining 40% will be distributed to the soldiers.
Although this amount of money will make it impossible for the soldiers to even guarantee the food and clothing of their families, at least they will not starve to death.
However, this squire of the military department deducted as much as 20% at once this time, which will make the soldiers completely unable to support their families, and even survival will be a problem, and if they don't get it right, there will be chaos.
Of course, the reason why this squire has the courage to do this is because he uses most of them up and down, so that everyone from the military department to the state and county officials turn a blind eye to what he does, and even cover for him to a certain extent.
Who will have trouble with money in these years?
What, someone will poke things out? Don't be funny, the number of these people is too large, and the forces involved are too wide, even if someone is not afraid of death, and wants to be a diehard loyalist of the Li royal family and expose things to the sun, it is definitely not these people who die.
And the Li family of the royal family will never be ignorant of such things, after all, these things are too widely implicated, and they can't hide it from anyone who cares, just because there are countless family lords standing behind these people, and even the princes of the clan are also involved, even if you are the emperor, there is no way to take them.
As for the big-headed soldiers who have nothing to eat and want to rebel? Hehe, these guys who could only be used for farming in the past, I'm afraid they don't even have the strength to hold a hoe this year, and it is impossible to make big waves.
The dynasty has been corrupted to such an extent, and Yang Shen can't help but sigh.
Of course, as the head of the Yang family, he has no position to hate and despise those officials who corrupted the Chu State, and he doesn't even have the qualifications to be compassionate to others. Because as one of the nine great families in the world, his old Yang family definitely made a great contribution in the process of corruption of the country.
As a traverser, Yang Shen knows very well that with the continuous corruption of the ruling class, the situation of the peasants without food is becoming more and more serious, and Dachu is already in danger, and the change of dynasty is just around the corner.
He traveled to this era, and it was impossible for him to live a peaceful and stable life.