"I heard that Lao Wu next door was sick last year, and he spent all the money for treatment, and almost starved to death. Later, he was also a steward of the Cui family in Beizhou, and sent some money to let him tide over the difficulties. Now he's finally survived, it's so dangerous! "Yes! The Cui family is really good, there are many such things, and many people are grateful to the Cui family. It was the Cui family that allowed us to survive at a critical time. "The Cui family is benevolent and righteous, there are many of them who are officials, so they must all be good officials." "Yes! The Cui family is all ......"

The discussions of these people were all heard by Chen Fei and Li Wanrou Li Liqing, Chen Fei's face was expressionless, but Li Lizhen's face was flushed, obviously angry.

"How can these people say good things about the Cui family? Don't they know that these scholars of the Cui family have given their father a lot of anger? Li Lizhi pouted and said.

Chen Fei fell into deep thought, these scholars have one face in the face of the king, but they have another face in the face of ordinary people. Of course, Chen Fei was also thinking about the reason for the formation of the scholar clan. There is no class in this world that is formed without a cause, and it must all have its own factors of formation. Why the Shi clan was able to form, there must be a reason for this, and Chen Fei has been analyzing the reasons for this.

"Brother Chen Fei, these ordinary people are grateful to the Cui family, because the Cui family sent charcoal in the snow when they were in danger, so they are so grateful to the Cui family. So this kind of kindness is very difficult to solve. What's more, the Cui family doesn't need to scavenge wealth from ordinary people, they just need to rent their own land to the people to plant, and they can collect rent to make a living. However, they were able to give some help to the people at critical times, so that they had a very high status in the hearts of the people. Li Wanrou said.

But Li Lizhi snorted: "It's just fake benevolence and false righteousness!" These people have been deceived by petty profits, in fact, the Cui family has cut off their future of advancement, and they don't know it yet. If it weren't for these scholars, then they might all have the opportunity to study, and maybe they all have the opportunity to become officials. But if it weren't for these nobles, why would they be farmers all their lives? And the Cui family took out some things from time to time. Even if it is a hypocrisy of benevolence and righteousness to buy the hearts of the people. ”

"But ordinary people like this!" Chen Fei said with a sigh.

Chen Fei didn't know that these were the Cui family's fake benevolence and false righteousness to buy the hearts of the people, but what about this? Ordinary people are concerned about how to survive, and they can survive with a food that they can't eat enough to starve, and what development prospects are not what they want at all.

Once people don't have enough to eat, they will naturally not think about any development prospects, and only when they have a worry-free life will they have the idea of thinking about development prospects. It's like if a person doesn't have any extra income and doesn't have any job, then even if it's a street sweeper, he has to go. At this time, the people will not care about any development and future matters. They just care about being able to survive. As for what becomes an official and what can change the class, that is also after becoming rich.

When Chen Fei was in Shuo County, he had already understood that because of productivity, the people could not achieve the point of worry-free food and clothing, so they naturally had their first priority to eat well. Later, Chen Fei improved their lives, so that they would have the opportunity to send their children to school, and then hope that they could become officials and change their class.

"Could it be that the nobles are because of the lack of productivity? Caused? Chen Fei suddenly had an idea.

Chen Fei suddenly realized that the Shi clan might be a characteristic of an era of insufficient productivity. Because of the lack of productivity, we cannot support too many unproductive readers. However, while productivity is insufficient. But there are still a group of people who can read. If these scholars can enter the officialdom and enter the country's management, then the first thing they think of is definitely not how to benefit the people. They want to pass on their privileges.

Because of the lack of productivity, it is not possible to support too many readers. The scholar has become a scarce profession. And only with culture can they become officials, and those who are officials in order to maintain the special status of their families and future generations. The first thing they want is to develop their descendants into the same profession as themselves - readers.

And because the so-called scholars are not productive, the limited food in the world can only feed a constant number of scholars. If you have a place, someone else will have a place less. From a macro point of view, these scholars are actually a limited number of people, and they need the peasant class to support them, so the number is scarce. In addition, with culture, you can become an official, so many people want to have this opportunity to learn. But those who have the opportunity to read first, they must be private, this is the common nature of human beings.

They must have given priority to their descendants to grasp the privilege of studying, and then they became officials from generation to generation, and then they worked hard to develop and become scholars. In the end, the class of scholars became more and more rigid, unable to form a flowing state, and were all solidified in the personnel of a certain family. These scholars of the same family were connected to each other, and they became scholars. This scholar clan is actually caused by the clan concept and the so-called lack of productivity, which has caused the inability to support too many scholars who are not engaged in production.

"In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, it was not so much because of the imperial examination system that the scholars were the basic officialdom, but because of the increase in productivity, which caused the class of scholars to become larger and larger. Muttered.

The more Chen Fei thought about it, the more he felt that this was correct, because relying on the imperial examination alone could not make the family give up their official positions, and gradually clean up the family from the officialdom. And judging from the later history, the process of the decline of those great families is precisely the process of continuous improvement of productivity. In the hundreds of years of the Tang Dynasty, the productive forces were in the era of extensive cultivation and intensive cultivation. At the same time, food production continues to increase, allowing more people to learn culture away from production, thus expanding the ranks of the reading craze. In the end, these poor scholars have succeeded in accounting for the vast majority of the proportion, and those scholars formed by cultural monopoly no longer have an advantage. He was gradually squeezed out of officialdom and lost his privileges.

In fact, in the final analysis, the formation of these noble clans was caused by the lack of productivity. If we want to truly eradicate the scholars, we must improve productivity, and only when the grain output increases, will more people be able to leave production to study, and only then can we form poor scholars.

"I see!" Chen Fei thought helplessly. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)