After listening to Yuan Shao's explanation, Liu Xin couldn't help but nodded, the disaster of the party in the past few years can be said to have subverted the entire Luoyang officialdom, in addition to those members of the top families, some other members of the medium-sized families could not escape, either arrested, or forced to resign, as for those officials from ordinary backgrounds, they became victims of the disaster of the party, and most of them were executed. Pen % fun % pavilion www.biquge.info.

All in all, the power of the family has been greatly affected by this disaster of the party, which can be described as a great loss of vitality.

Of course, because of the dissatisfaction with the political situation and the darkness of the future, many officials who were not greatly affected chose to retire from the officialdom, so after the disaster of the party was over, a large number of positions were vacated in the Luoyang officialdom, from the seventh-grade sesame official to the first-grade official.

Grass-roots officials are very good to supplement, as long as they have the right background and a certain ability, they can take office, and if they are really well-born, they can also hold high-grade official positions at that time.

As for the high-level official positions, it is natural to invite some highly respected and well-known scribes, or the patriarchs of top families, to hold them, and the gap in high-level official positions is not large, so the gap is quickly filled.

At this time, the problem comes, there is a big gap in the middle-level official positions in Luoyang City, after all, many middle-level officials have been arrested in the disaster of the party, although such middle-level officials have only suffered some prisons, not like grass-roots officials who are slaughtered, and after the disaster of the party, these middle-level officials have basically been released.

At that time, it was impossible for these middle-level officials who were released to be directly reinstated, because this was a slap in the face of the eunuch forces, so most of these middle-level officials were idle at home, waiting for the limelight to pass.

However, the country cannot be left without a monarch for a day, and in the same way, these middle-level official posts cannot remain vacant, let alone a large number of vacancies, so how to appoint these middle-level officials has become a problem that must be solved after the disaster of the party.

First of all, the main culprit of the disaster of the party - the eunuch forces, after the eunuch forces dealt a serious blow to the power of the family, they naturally wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and support those officials who were loyal to them to the top positions.

But as mentioned earlier, Luoyang officialdom has basically been controlled by the family forces, even if the members of the local family forces want to enter the Luoyang officialdom, it is even more difficult, and there needs to be a suitable "stepping stone".

Originally, the power of the family was greatly damaged because of the sudden attack of the eunuch forces on the party, and the two sides completely became enemies of life and death, and the forces of the family were eager to directly send killers to completely eradicate the ten permanent servants.

But the ten permanent attendants are not stupid, although the ten permanent attendants rely on the grace of Emperor Han Ling and dare to oppose the power of the family, and they usually accumulate countless wealth.

But if the ten permanent servants really want to fight bayonets with their strength, I am afraid that the ten permanent servants are not as good as a small family, because each family has at least a hundred years of heritage, and in this hundred years of time, the family has accumulated a lot of wealth and connections, and has their own hole cards and back hands.

The power of eunuchs seems to be infinite, and they can act recklessly under the grace of emperors of all generations, but everyone knows that this is just a whim, because eunuchs have no descendants, so they cannot be inherited, so most of the favored eunuchs are living a life of "having wine today and getting drunk today", and hurry up to enjoy life while they are still favored.

Of course, although most eunuchs choose to become eunuchs because they are desperate and their families are broken, after all, eunuchs are not humane, and they will be looked down upon.

However, there are also some eunuchs who still have families, just like Bi Lan, who is unpopular for various reasons, and there are not a few who choose to become eunuchs in order to revive the family that is in the middle of the family, after all, these eunuchs with good backgrounds can be promoted faster than other eunuchs because of their own cultural level and ability, and eunuchs are also easier to promote than ordinary officials, and they can help their families when the time comes.

And like Zhao Zhong Zhang Rang, a eunuch from an ordinary background, relying on a slippery beard to shoot a horse, and it took decades to finally mix with the eunuchs who served in the middle of the house, they will also try to support their families, although they themselves are unlikely to have descendants, but their brothers and sisters will always have descendants, so like Zhao Zhong treats his nephew as his own, this is a very common situation, Zhang Rang also has a very loving nephew, but the cautious Zhang Rang did not take care of his nephew with as much fanfare as Zhao Zhong, Instead, he secretly sent his henchmen to send a lot of gold and silver to his nephew, and instructed his nephew not to tell the relationship between the two.

Because Zhang Rang knows one thing very well, without the grace of Emperor Han Ling, he is nothing, and the growth of the eunuch power will definitely affect the interests of other forces, so the eunuch power will definitely make enemies with other forces!

And because of their natural limitations, the eunuch power after the emperor who favored them drove to the west, they naturally "passed away", after all, the new emperor also had the eunuchs they favored, and the eunuchs of the older generation naturally had to abdicate with peace of mind.

For example, if the power of the family is a forest formed by towering trees, although each is competing for nutrients in the land and the survival of the fittest, only occasionally a thunderbolt will come down and kill one or two big trees, or other trees will absorb the nutrients, resulting in one or two big trees withering.

Then the eunuch power is like a rice field, after experiencing most of the development of life, it finally entered the maturity period, but it was quickly harvested, and there was no chance of continuing to survive.

Therefore, the power of the tree-like family can survive and multiply for a long time; And the rice fields like the eunuch forces can only grow one stubble and cut one stubble, and there is no possibility of continuing to survive, let alone reproduce.

Therefore, in the Chinese dynasties, there have been many famous eunuchs, of course, most of them are as notorious as the ten permanent servants, although they are often the emperor boss and the second in labor and management during their lifetimes, and dare to test their skills with the power of the family.

But after the death of these eunuchs, they are extremely miserable, they are opened and killed, and there is no place to bury them, as for the families of these eunuchs, there are eggs under the nest, and it is often these eunuchs who have pit a family power, and this enmity is recorded on the families of these eunuchs, as for the words that are not as good as the family, hehe, who will really care.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything, like Cao Cao's grandfather Cao Teng, who was friendly with the family when he was a eunuch, and did not do anything angry and resentful, and successfully "whitewashed".

Therefore, Zhang Rang, who knew that the eunuch power could only be glorious for a while, did not expose his family too much, and provided all kinds of help and money to his family through secret channels, especially the nephew that Zhang Rang loved, who had been "recommended" for filial piety, Zhang Rang was looking for a way to arrange his nephew to be a county magistrate or a county magistrate.

Therefore, Zhang Rang despised Zhao Zhong's attitude towards his family, not only blatantly supporting his nephew Zhao Lin, but also sending a lot of money to his family, this is not an obvious reminder to those family forces, my family is these people.

When Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty drove the crane to the west, or if Zhang Rang Zhao Zhong himself died, then the family forces would definitely take revenge on their families, and even if they were big families who had no conflicts, they would not mind falling into the ground, because most of the eunuchs like Zhang Rang Zhao Zhong had accumulated a lot of wealth, and they could easily and happily get a windfall by attacking them.

Therefore, it is foreseeable that now under the protection of Zhao Zhong, Zhao Lin, who is flying overbearing, will wait until Zhao Zhong loses power in the future, what will happen to Zhao Lin.

Therefore, "the second generation of eunuchs died", this is a truth.

Back to the point, a while after the disaster of the party, Zhang made Zhao Zhong and these ten permanent servants seem to have won a great victory, and the scenery is incomparable, but in fact, they are all scared to death, after all, they have provoked so many families at one time, and they really want to provoke these families, and send all kinds of killer assassins to deal with themselves, and they will definitely die when the time comes.

Therefore, although Zhang Rang Zhao Zhong and other ten permanent attendants all have mansions in Luoyang, and they usually have time to go out of the palace to rest, but during the time of the disaster of the party, Zhang Rang Zhao Zhong and other ten permanent attendants chose to stay in the palace very tacitly, and never took half a step out of the palace gate.

After all, assassinating the Ten Permanent Servants in the palace and assassinating the Ten Permanent Servants outside the palace are two completely different concepts.

Assassinating the Ten Standing Servants outside the palace, that can be interpreted as a personal vendetta, it is easy to find someone to "carry the blame", Emperor Han Ling will at most express his regret and condolences, and he will not care too much, even if the other Ten Standing Servants know that it is the hand of the family, there is no way to avenge the dead Ten Standing Servants.

However, if the ten permanent servants are assassinated in the palace, then the whole nature will be different, because the ten permanent servants can steal this matter and define this matter as "intending to assassinate Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty", which is a big crime of the Nine Clans, even if the top families of the Han Dynasty such as the Yuan family or the Hongnong Yang family commit this kind of thing, they will not be able to escape the disaster of extermination.

After all, the higher you stand, the worse you fall, and the top Han families like the Yuan family or the Hongnong Yang family, if they dare to "attempt to assassinate Emperor Han Ling" like this, it has already been equated with "intent to seek the usurpation of the throne", even if the emperor is incompetent, he will not allow his courtiers to dare to covet his position.

As for other families, although they have some contact with the Yuan family or the Hongnong Yang family, and even are in-laws, on the surface, they are respectful to the Yuan family or the Hongnong Yang family, and they are willing to advance and retreat with the Yuan family or the Hongnong Yang family to live and die together, but in fact, as long as the Yuan family or the Hongnong Yang family really encounters any catastrophe, these families will immediately draw a clear relationship with the Yuan family or the Hongnong Yang family; And if the Yuan family or the Hongnong Yang family encounters a catastrophe, then these families are eager to fall into the well, and retreat behind their backs, so that the Yuan family or the Hongnong Yang family will fall into a situation from which they will never recover, so that they can benefit from it and even replace the position of the Yuan family or the Hongnong Yang family!

If you want to describe the distribution of power of eunuch power, it is basically an undulating wavy line or even a point, because most of the eunuch power is a hall of words, and the eunuchs who are led by the eunuch with the highest rank have absolute right to speak and decide; And a large number of eunuch leaders like the Ten Standing Servants have the same grade, but Emperor Han Ling's degree of favor to the Ten Standing Servants cannot be the same, so this is a wavy line, but Emperor Han Ling may change the degree of favor at any time for some reasons, so this wavy line is undulating and changing at any time.

As for the distribution of the power of the family, it is an out-and-out pyramid form, according to the ability and heritage of each family, the status of these families in the family power is strictly divided, and even in the secret there has been a hierarchy similar to "Shinong Industry and Commerce", as for the Tang Dynasty, it is the official compilation of a book dividing the family level (I forgot the specific title, you can check it if you are interested), and as a result, this official book has raised the status of the Li family of today's royal family, and was resisted by the five surnames and seven sects, and as a result, the five surnames and seven sects united and compiled a book, arranging the royal Li family under the five surnames and seven sects, which can make Li Shimin angry is not light, after all, as a royal family, the Li family ranking is actually below the five surnames and seven sects, and Li Shimin is helpless about this, because in the early days of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the family led by the five surnames and seven sects was too powerful, and it was difficult for Li Shimin to marry a "girl with five surnames" (then again, Li Shimin was quite aggrieved at first).

And today's Yuan family or Hongnong Yang family is the existence on the tip of the pyramid, and the pyramid form is a stable triangle, so there are so many families that can be accommodated at each level, so if the low-level families want to be on the top, even if the strength is enough, they have to wait until there is a vacancy in the position of the previous level before they have the opportunity to go further.

Therefore, it is not uncommon for the internal disharmony of the family forces, and it can even be said that the dark tide is surging, stabbing in the back, or several family families uniting to "hunt" another family family.

And the position of the Yuan family or the Hongnong Yang family, although it is high in the family power, but the pretenders do not know the geometry, so the head of the Yuan family or the Hongnong Yang family has always been very cautious, for fear of leaving some flaws, and those pretenders seized the opportunity to unite to "eat everything" themselves, after all, the disappearance of every family represents a huge "cake" in front of them, who would not be moved?

Therefore, when the ten permanent servants hid in the palace and could not come out, the family family also gave up the assassination plan of the ten permanent attendants, and turned to study how to fill the vacancy of middle-level officials in Luoyang officialdom.

As for the ten permanent attendants who tried in vain to put their subordinates on the throne, they were naturally intimidated by the family forces.

PS: Let's do it tomorrow.