The area controlled by the new dynasty is only the land of the five counties, and most of the five counties are secretly controlled by the major families, so the economy in this book is dominated by the clan system, that is, the ant people are attached to the small family, and the small family is attached to the big family, and one or several united big family forces control the economy, politics, and military of a government or a county.

In this book, there are two types of armies: battalion army and guard army. The battalion system adopts a recruitment system, and the sergeants are all semi-professional, so the combat power is stronger, but the huge amount of military salary required can only be supplied by the big family, so the battalion army in a place is often controlled by only one family, and this family can expand its power more with the help of the battalion army controlled, so it can become a hegemon. The guard system adopts a conscription system, and the source of soldiers comes from the people controlled by various families, so the guards in a place are often controlled by various families. In addition, the furniture of each world has a small number of private soldiers and clan soldiers.

In this book, you can mostly see that the land of a province often has 30,000 to 50,000 guards, according to the above calculations, it is conceivable that under the control of the family clan, all places are rich in military wealth. The amount of surplus grain in the hands of households in the harvest year has plummeted, but the price has not risen; The number of disaster years has increased sharply, and prices have soared. Therefore, an ordinary person can still be hungry in a good year, half hungry in a disaster year, or starve to death; If it is two consecutive disaster years, it will be eaten by the child.

It is only in the places where trade is convenient (such as Yongyang, Wanling and the city of the four capitals, etc.), that the exploitation of the people attached to them by the rich family is slightly reduced, and the family that occupies these places is stronger (the power of Wanling can withstand the invasion of the power of Qingzhou and a county).

In the battalion army guard system, most of the military positions at all levels are held by the children of the family, and it is difficult for ordinary people to become ordinary military positions, let alone important generals. The family also relied on this to maintain its status and power. Xu Xing said: "With the help of the power of the family to win the world, the world will return to the family, which is not beneficial to the people." "It is to see through the mystery, and the new dynasty is also caused by this reason. Because no matter what, the army is firmly controlled by the family, and the role of the inner court is more to balance the contradictions between the major families.

The family was divided and divided, and the chances of a successful peasant uprising were almost zero. Just like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and many examples of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The strict family name controlled by the family is unmatched by a centralized imperial court.

The source of the Puzi pirates. Before the old dynasty was invaded by the Hulan Tutu people, the inner court was also prosperous, and there were other mainland countries outside of Middle Earth, and overseas trade was prosperous. However, due to many reasons, such as Tutu's invasion of Middle-earth, overseas trade was banned, and the smuggling involved in various families flourished, especially pirates.

The new dynasty overthrew the old dynasty, the power of the family was reshuffled, and those who did not want to join the new dynasty and had strong smuggling forces took the road of pirates.

Hypothesis of the origin of the family lineage:

During the Zhaowu period of the old dynasty, the inner court assimilated foreign races, so that the nine most powerful ethnic groups in the world outside the Han nationality, such as Miao, Yi, Qian, Shi, Qiang, Rong, Di, Ba, and Tutu, changed their surnames and returned to the Han Dynasty. The royal family of the Nine Clans changed their surnames under the threat of strong force in the inner court. The surnames of the nine clans that disappeared during the Zhaowu period are collectively referred to as the nine surnames of Zhaowu, namely: Liu Guan, Jimo, Gongcheng, Guanqiu, Gonghui, Nanrong, Dongli, Donggong, Daxi, Chu Shi and other nine surnames. At that time, celebrities objected to Huaqiu's forced conversion of surnames, saying: "If you don't follow the previous system and customs, you won't last long." Xiang Huaqiu's remarks caused controversy among the people. Yuan Shi, the ruling official in the early years of Zhaowu, opposed this statement, believing that Xiang Huaqiu disturbed the people's hearts and was not conducive to the implementation of the decree, and should be strictly prohibited. Therefore, he suggested that, except for the official collection of books and the history books of the inner court, all poetry, calligraphy, art, work, hundred languages and historical books should be burned, except for the books on medicine and agriculture, which should not be burned and handed over to the inner court; It is forbidden to run private schools, etc. Emperor Zhaowu accepted Yuanshi's suggestion and ordered the book to be burned. Later, the Hanlin Bureau was ordered to rearrange the official collection of books and the history books of the inner court and distribute them to various places. This is the "Zhaowu Burning Ceremony" incident, which lasted for 38 years.

In the following 600 years, the nine surnames of different races continued to rise up to resist, and the power of the inner court was frustrated again and again. In particular, the impact of the "Three Hus" in the north brought the old dynasty to the brink of collapse, and the weak imperial power could only rely on the support of the powerful ministers and scholars. Naturally, it is inevitable that "the king and the horse share the world". In return for politics, the rulers of the old dynasty always promulgated measures favorable to them, which created the political preconditions for the further development of this class in the future. Through the political rewards of the rulers, the clan lords continue to extend their power in all directions through these privileges. When rulers take appropriate precautions, they can always use their existing advantages to turn inhibition into greater power. It swelled into the trinity of the scholar family, the bureaucratic family and the Haoqiang family.

Among them, the system of tuntian promoted the great development of the scholars. Emperor Yuan of the old dynasty accepted the suggestion of the then Dazai official Gong Liangyu that "the public family has no reserve for years, and the people have no will to settle down", and implemented the tuntian system. Recruit fielders to specialize in farming to control large amounts of land and labor. However, at that time, many homeless people returned to their hometowns and were incorporated into the tribe by the local powerful landlords. "Those who return have no way to work on their own, and the generals will compete for each other, thinking that they are a trilogy." Fuyi can't recruit Haoqiang, through Tuntian, the scholars Haoqiang annexed a large number of land, zhan has labor.

After the tuntian could not be maintained, the old dynasty adopted the system of occupying the field, teaching the field and the household survey, and implemented the household survey according to the principle of "quality and Yitong". At the same time, it also implements the occupation of land and shade relatives according to official products. The system of shady tenants legitimized the zhan of land and labor by the powerful clans.

The hereditary military leadership system that was implemented afterwards allowed the generals to regard the soldiers as their own private subordinates, and the brothers passed on from father to son, and the brothers died from brother to brother, which was also the main source of the military strength of the family.

The central government was in decline, and the wealthy families had many family soldiers, which was the foundation of the guard system; In contrast, the soldiers and scholars owned by the Inner Dynasty were the basis of the battalion system. The existence of the battalion guard military system has maintained the coexistence of the inner court and the family of "the Son of Heaven is hanging the arch and the gate valve is in power".

At the beginning of the new dynasty, it still failed to change the coexistence of the family and the inner court, and adopted the battalion guard system. In the twelfth year of the new dynasty, the Hulan people invaded the south again, and the camp system of the thirteen towns in the five northern counties was severely damaged, and the strength of the inner court was greatly damaged. The families of other counties took the opportunity to expand their private soldiers and guards, and seized the military power of the battalion army in the county. In less than a decade, the southern counties were de facto self-reliant, and the internal dynasty was powerless to restrain them.

Because the guards are often jointly controlled by several large clans, only the powerful who have seized control of the camp army in the county can become a hegemon.

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