Chapter 586: The Dilemma and Way Out of the Great Family
The inheritance of the family for hundreds of years, reached a peak in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and the Jiupin Zhongzheng system allowed these families to control the channel of the upper society, although the Jin Dynasty later perished, but also experienced the disaster of the five chaos, but the family is still prosperous, regardless of the change of dynasties, they can always stand above the court.
Originally, in the original history, the Tang Dynasty was the last peak of the family, although the imperial examination gave some civilian students a chance to enter the court, but the number of people admitted each time was not large, coupled with the imperfection of the imperial examination system, so most of the students who were admitted were still people from the family, and the vast majority of the prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty were also born in the family. It wasn't until the Huangchao Rebellion at the end of the Tang Dynasty that many of the clans were slaughtered, which made these families finally go to extinction.
However, the emergence of Li Su has accelerated the decline process of the family, especially after the failure of the family headed by the five surnames and Qiwang to suppress industry and commerce, the finances of the family have been greatly affected, among which the Taiyuan five clans were the weakest, and there is the relationship between Wang An and Wang Guo's father and son, so the Wang family was the first to take refuge in Li Su, and many of the children of the Wang family went to sea by boat and arrived in Taiwan to work in government agencies.
In addition, there is a Lu family similar to the Wang family, when the Lu family was choked by Li Su financial lifeline, had to bow to Li Su, and later Li Su gave them a chance, so that the Lu family found a new financial fulcrum in Taiwan, and now the Lu family has become a giant in the sugar industry in Taiwan, in addition to a large fleet, and also has a certain right to speak in the maritime trade industry.
Finally, it is worth mentioning the Qinghe Cui clan and the Lanling Xiao clan. Among them, Cui Yu and Cui Mengxue are from the Qinghe Cui clan, and their father is still the previous patriarch, so Cui Yu's branch also has considerable appeal within the Qinghe Cui clan. And with the financial impact of several major families. Cui Yu went to Taiwan to develop, and his career became bigger and bigger. Under his call, a considerable part of the clansmen of the Qinghe Cui clan moved to Taiwan. This also greatly reduced the power of the Qinghe Cui clan, and it was even a little reluctant to rank among the five surnames and seven hopes.
As for the Lanling Xiao family, although it is not among the five surnames and seven wangs, it is also a famous wang clan in the south of the Tang Dynasty, and it has considerable prestige among the southern wang clans. In addition, Xiao Wenxin, the daughter of the clan, is the princess of Li Su, so the Lanling Xiao clan also supports Li Su the most thoroughly, and has sent many children of the clan into Taiwan from the beginning, plus Lu Hong, Lu Qing, Zhou Long and others, so the Lanling Xiao clan has a great influence in the Qi Palace. Only the Taiyuan Wang clan, where Wang An is located, can be compared to them.
The great help of the Lanling Xiao clan also brought another result to Li Su, that is, the support of the southern family for him, when he moved the southern fugitives to fill Taiwan and other places, he got a lot of support from these southern families, otherwise it would not have gone so smoothly. Moreover, these families also sent many children of the clan into the administrative and military institutions of Taiwan and other countries, and it is precisely because of this that Li Su is in the process of expansion. So you don't have to worry about not having enough officials in your hands.
Of course, the arrival of these children of the family gave Li Su great convenience, but it also made Li Su a little vigilant. After all, he didn't want the family to grow up again under his hands.
But if you think about it carefully, in fact, this worry is not superfluous at all, because the reason why the family is a family. The main reason is that they have the right to education in their hands, and they have a large collection of books in their families. And this was undoubtedly a great treasure of the pen before the invention of printing. And this also leads to the fact that those children of ordinary people cannot enjoy equal education like the children of the family.
However, now with the development of the economy, as well as the improvement of printing and papermaking, books have become more and more popular, and the right to education in the hands of the family is slowly being lost, especially Li Su established the Institute of Education in Taiwan, unified the education of the whole country, and even the content of education is no longer based on Confucianism, all of which makes the cohesion of the family greatly reduced, and even when the children who have received the new education grow up, the family may really be in name.
In contrast, the life of the big families in Datang is not easy, because they are also facing the situation of losing the right to education, and what's worse is that there are more and more civilian scholars in Datang, and the competition faced by the children of the family is becoming more and more fierce, plus Datang is not like the newly built Taiwan, the number of officials needed every year is not very large, which also makes it more and more difficult for the children of the family to enter the court.
As the saying goes, poverty leads to change, and the Tang Dynasty is not easy to enter, so there are many children of families, and even unambitious civilian students choose to go to sea, generally they like to go to Taiwan, after all, it is close to the Tang Dynasty, and secondly, Li Su's reputation and ability have also been recognized by most people.
Cui Jing and Li Bing and others also have the same idea, although they are the core disciples of the family, but Li Shimin has been deliberately suppressing the family in recent years, so even if they enter the court, it is difficult to get promoted, and several people are people who would rather be the head of the chicken than the tail of the phoenix, so they also resolutely chose to go to sea, but because they had some festivals with Li Su back then, as soon as they discussed, they just played in Taiwan and other places, and then came to Tianzhu thousands of miles away.
Li Zhen and Li Yun didn't know the purpose of Cui Jing and the others coming to Tianzhu in advance, but after Wang Xuance's enthusiastic introduction, coupled with the looks of Cui Jing and the others, they immediately understood what was going on, and they were overjoyed at the moment, after all, they were too short of people here.
And when Li Su saw the purpose of Cui Jing and the others, he was also very happy for Li Zhen and Li Yun, and immediately set up a banquet in Wang Xuance's mansion, and then took Li Su as the main body, taking turns to ask Cui Jing and others about the policy of governance.
Cui Jing and the others also knew that this was Li Su and the three of them considering their talents, so they all cheered up and dealt with it carefully. Speaking of which, they have been presiding over the issuance of Confucian newspapers all these years, and they still have a vision of governance, and in addition, before they came, they visited and learned about Taiwan's governance policies, which broadened their horizons. However, it may still be because they are too young, and they have no experience in governance, so some ideas inevitably seem a little unrealistic, and Li Su pointed out their shortcomings one by one, which also made Cui Jing and the others sincerely grateful to Li Su.
When the banquet was over, the three Li Su brothers said goodbye, but Li Yun specially told Wang Xuance to let him take Cui Jing and others to the temple tomorrow, and they would talk in detail at that time, and if Cui Jing and others had any requirements, they could also put it forward at that time. This made Cui Jing and the others very happy.
"Sixth brother, Cui Jing's talents are good, how do you think we should arrange them?" On the way back, Li Yun asked Li Yun impatiently. Today, Cui Jing and a few people came to join them, so it means that more people may take the initiative to work for them in the future, which naturally makes Li Yun, who has always been troubled by the shortage of manpower, very excited.
"How else can it be arranged? Of course, it's going to be reused, didn't you just beat down a lot of places, and promoted Cui Jing and several people out of the ordinary, and even directly let them do the level of assassination, you all know the allusions of buying horse bones, not to mention that these people are not horse bones, but really good horses, what is missing is just a field for them to play! Li said with a smile.
Cui Jing and a few people suddenly came to Li Zhen and Li Yun here, the background is not so simple, the identities of these people, they all have a huge family, although the influence of the five surnames and seven hopes has declined greatly, but the population of the clan has not decreased, so if Cui Jing and the others are reused here by Li Zhen and Li Yun, they will definitely attract the families behind them, and then with the support of these families, in a short time, Li Zhen and Li Yun should not worry about the officials.
However, Li Zhen said with some worry after hearing this: "Sixth brother, Cui Jing and these people need to be important, but after all, they don't have any experience in governance, and the territory we just laid is not very stable, what if these people cause chaos because of their lack of experience?" ”
But when Li Su heard this, he laughed and said: "Eighth brother, how can anyone in this world be born to do things, and everything needs to be learned, plus the strength in your hands is strong, even if Cui Jing and they really make any mess, it is estimated that it will not affect the overall situation, and compared with the benefits they can bring you, it is still very cost-effective to take a little risk of accidents." ”
Li Zhen's words finally persuaded Li Zhen, and as for Li Yun, he wished that the family behind Cui Jing and the others would send someone to Tianzhu now, so that he could reduce the burden on his body.
Early the next morning, Wang Xuance took Cui Jing and a few people to the temple, and then got Li Zhen and Li Yun officially received them, and then the two asked Cui Jing and several people about their wishes, Li Yun was very generous to promote Cui Jing, Cui Huang, and Zheng Xiao to officials, among which Cui Jing and Cui Huang were willing to go out to do the newly divided state assassin history, and Zheng Xiao was willing to stay in the court and assist Li Yun with Wang Xuance.
It's just that Cui Jing and Cui Huang were still a little uneasy about the important task of assassinating the history as soon as they arrived in Tianzhu, so they repeatedly excused themselves, but at Li Yun's insistence, they could only choose to agree in the end.
As for Li Bing, who graduated from the Chang'an Military Academy, he was asked by Li Zhen to go over, after all, there is a lack of talent in his army, and now when he meets such a person who can write and martial arts, he will naturally not let it go.
The matter of arranging Cui Jing and the others was the internal affairs of Li Zhen and Li Yun, and Li Yu did not participate, but was led by a guide arranged by Li Yun to visit the remaining areas of Chola City, especially the living conditions of those Vaishyas and Shudras, which were the focus of his observation.
However, just after Li Su had just finished visiting Chora City, there was an extremely influential thing happening in Beitianzhu! (To be continued......)