In the romance, when the princes of the Eighteenth Route fought against Dong Zhuo, Hua Xiong defeated Sun Jian and challenged the Kwantung heroes. Yuan Shao made Yu Shi and Pan Feng fight, and both of them were defeated by Hua Xiong's bravery, and they were killed without fighting.

Guan Yu couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to face Huaxiong, Yuan Shao asked him about his origin, and when he learned that he was Liu Bei's horse archer, Yuan Shu shouted angrily: "You bully my princes and have no generals? Measure an archer, dare to talk nonsense, and fight with me! ”

When Guan Yu returned from the battle, Zhang Fei said: "My brother beheaded Hua Xiong, why don't you kill Shangguan and capture Dong Zhuo alive at this time?" Yuan Shu reprimanded angrily: "My minister is still humble, and he has ordered his subordinates to be a county commander, and he dares to show off his power here?" All with the kick out of the tent! Cao Cao said: "The meritorious person is rewarded, what is the price?" Yuan Shu said: "Since the public only attaches importance to one county order, I should retire!" ”

Although this paragraph is a story made up by Luo Guanzhong, he clearly expressed the ideas and ideas of Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

Yuan Shu attaches great importance to his background, he is also a cultivated person, but his cultivation is only for people with status, status and background, and he does not regard people with ordinary backgrounds as human beings at all. Yuan Shao is a little better than Yuan Shu, when he gave Liu Bei a seat, he said, "I don't respect your official position, but respect your background", after all, he is a concubine, and his background is not as good as Yuan Shu.

And Cao Cao is the least concerned about the background of these people, as can be seen from the words in his recruitment order, "But seek their talents, not their virtues, I can get them and use them". At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "show talents, don't know books; Filial piety and honesty, the father does not live", the inspection system is completely called the weapon of the family to control the officialdom, and most of the people selected are crowned with a "virtuous" title, Cao Cao is keenly aware of this, and only then did he give two orders to seek merit.

If Tian Fan was patiently listening to the gossip of Old Immortal Peng just now, then at this moment, he was really convinced, people have lived for seventy or eighty years after all, they have not lived in vain, and they don't have this knowledge, and even the people he met don't have such knowledge. Anyway, Hui'er won't disappear again, so let's listen to what Old Fairy Peng says first!

I only heard Peng Lao Immortal continue: "Because of the relationship of cultivation, after relatives and eunuchs take power, they often do things without rules, selling official positions, embezzling and accepting bribes, and they do such bad things. But the emperor doesn't care, the officials who sell the official beard are always better than the officials recommended by the family, at least they are more trustworthy. Corruption and bribery...... Hehe, this is the most ridiculous excuse, the children of the family are not corrupt? Corruption has always been the only dirty label that can be put on the losers of the political struggle, because their real mistakes cannot be told to the world. The emperor never cared if an official was corrupt or not, and it didn't matter what he did as long as he didn't do anything that jeopardized his rule. It's ridiculous that those ignorant people, the corruption that they shouldn't care about the most, has become the crime they care about the most! Once a person is accused of corruption, then in the hearts of the people, his reputation is ruined. In fact, how many of my Han officialdom are not greedy or corrupt? Even if they are not corrupt or corrupt, they use the power in their hands to open the door for the family to make profits, is this less harmful than corruption? ”

Old Immortal Peng let out a sigh of relief and said, "Don't talk about this, let's continue to talk about the emperor." ”

After a slight pause, he took a sip of tea and said: "Emperor Guangwu believed that the eunuchs and relatives had a beginning, so for more than a hundred years after my Han Dynasty, no matter which emperor, he was doing such things. It's a pity, eunuchs and relatives have no cultivation after all, they have no bottom line in doing things, when they gain power, they forget that their power is actually an extension of imperial power, and they don't know that it is safe to do things under the banner of the emperor, and it is best to hide in the shadow of the emperor and make a fortune secretly, they always think that they are the biggest in the world. Moreover, there were also many contradictions between eunuchs and relatives. So, this is where the problem arises.

"During the period of Emperor Liu Zhao, the Dou family, a relative of the Dou family, was in power, and the emperor and the eunuchs destroyed the Dou family. The relatives were defeated, but from then on, the eunuch dictatorship began again. Emperor Liu Long ascended the throne as the emperor, he was only more than 100 days old, what difference could there be? Isn't it the relatives and eunuchs who supported it in order to take power? After that, eunuchs and relatives alternated power. During the reign of Emperor An, the Empress Dowager Deng's family was in power, and the eunuchs Cai Lun and Zheng Zhong were attached to the Deng family. After the death of the Deng family, Emperor An was in power, but the eunuch group headed by Emperor An's nurse Wang and Li Run and Jiang Jing of Zhonghuangmen were still in power, and they falsely accused the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Deng of wanting to rebel and set up the king of the plains as the emperor. Emperor An was already dissatisfied with the Deng family, so he pushed the boat down the river to exterminate the Deng family.

"The Deng clan is said to be the mildest outlier among the relatives, and their death made the civil official clique unbearable, so the contradiction between the bureaucracy, that is, the clan clique and the eunuch clique, was further deepened, but that struggle ended in a great defeat for the bureaucracy. After that, Emperor An's empress Yan colluded with the eunuch Panfeng and others to kill the prince's nurse Wang and others, and advocated the abolition of the crown prince Liu Bao, although the minister objected, but Liu Bao was still deposed.

"After the death of Emperor An, the Yan family established Emperor Liu Yi as the emperor, and the Yan family controlled the government. It's a pity that the infant emperor Liu Yi died only two hundred days after he ascended the throne, saying that he died of illness, but in fact...... After his death, the eunuchs Wang Kang, Sun Cheng and other nineteen people launched a palace coup d'état, drove out the Empress Dowager Yan, and established the eleven-year-old Liu Baoyong as the emperor, and changed the name to Yongjian.

After his death, Empress Liang became the queen mother, and the crown prince Liu Bing was appointed as the emperor, which was for Emperor Chong. Emperor Chong was young, the Liang family was in power, and the general Liang Ji was flying and domineering, and his power was monstrous. Emperor Chong reigned for only one year, and the only son of Liu Hong, the king of the Liang family, was only eight years old Liu Zhang, who entered the unification of the dynasty and was the emperor of quality. Emperor Zhen was dissatisfied with Liang Ji's dominance, and said a word about the general, so he was poisoned by Liang Ji.

After that, the Empress Dowager Liang and her brother General Liang Ji made a policy to welcome Liu Zhi as the emperor, who was fifteen years old and was Emperor Huan. In the second year of Yanxi, Emperor Huan was dissatisfied with the dictatorship of the Liang family, and conspired with the eunuch Shan Chao and others to destroy the Liang family, and the power began to fall into the hands of the eunuchs. Since then, the relatives are no longer the opponents of the eunuchs, and the period when the eunuchs are in power has finally come. The eunuchs and their relatives had conflicts with each other, but they were both dependent on the emperor, and they had a common enemy, that is, the clan group. When the eunuchs completely defeated their relatives, the contradictions between them and the clan group became even more acute.

"In the ninth year, the officials of the DPRK and the central government, the Tai students and their relatives united to oppose the eunuchs in power, and Emperor Huan relied on the eunuchs to deal with the clan, how could he abandon his martial arts? Therefore, he used this as an excuse to arrest more than 200 people including Li Ying, and imprisoned them for life, which was known as the "disaster of the party" in history. Liu Zhi admired Buddhism and Taoism all his life, and indulged in women. Trust the eunuchs, inspect the non-human, and the people of the time ridiculed it as "showing talents, not knowing books; Filial piety and honesty, the father does not live". This was the first rebellion of the party, and the first large-scale confrontation between the clan group and the eunuchs. In fact, Emperor Huan was also dissatisfied with the clan's occupation of all the benefits of the world.

"After Emperor Huan died, he was the Spirit Emperor. Emperor Ling's time created the second party rebellion, in fact, for the same reason. The world said that the second emperor Huan Ling's reuse of eunuchs led to the decline of the Han dynasty, in fact, if it weren't for the clans who didn't take the emperor seriously, how could the emperor be an important eunuch? In their opinion, the eunuch is their domestic slave, even if he sells his official beard, even if he accepts bribes, it is not his own throne that is harmed, at least the world is still theirs. However, the clan group doesn't take the emperor seriously at all, where they control, the emperor can't intervene at all, they control public opinion, control the selection channel for officials, control most of the wealth in the world, and even say that the world is not in the place they control, it doesn't exist at all! This world is fundamentally clan, and the emperor is a fart when he speaks? In this case, if you are the emperor, can you stand it? ”

Seeing that Tian Fan seemed to be about to speak, he said: "Look at a person's conduct, you don't listen to what they say, you have to see what they do." For the clan, you have to see what they do! Although I live in seclusion in Mount Tai, it doesn't mean that I don't know anything, I know the popular saying in the world now, saying that the two emperors of Huan Ling are mediocre, worship eunuchs, imprison scholars, and say that the chaos in the world is caused by eunuchs. Hehe, now that there is a big mess today, in my estimation, the Han Dynasty is almost exhausted, no matter who rules the world, he will inevitably repair the history books. Don't look at the history books of this period of time have not been written, and the old man doesn't know who will write it, but I'm sure that this history will be written as you heard it! The emperor is bad, the eunuchs are bad, only the clans are worried about the world, and only they are good. Hehe, poor descendants, they are affected by the history books, and they can't sort out the truth of this time at all......"

Tian Fan had long heard the analysis of Zheng Xuan, Guo Jia and others on the current era, and agreed with the words of Peng Lao Immortal, but he didn't think that the history books could not be believed. He thought for a moment and said, "Master, the people who write history books are all honest people, right?" They shouldn't be able to write nonsense, right? ”

Old Fairy Peng smiled and said, "You can say such a thing, at least it's not like everyone, and the old man is quite pleased." However, let me ask you, who are the people who write the history books? ”

Tian Fan said: "He must be a well-educated person, and he must be very knowledgeable." ”

Old Immortal Peng nodded and said, "Not bad!" So let me ask you, how many of them have this kind of knowledge? Very little, right? Even if they do, do you think they are qualified to write history books? Therefore, most of the people who can write history books are from families. You said that people who write history books are honest people, let's not care whether they are upright or not, even if they are all upright. However, if they are upright, will the history books they write be fair?

"If it's a person, it will have thoughts, and if there are thoughts, it will be manifested when doing things, and you expect these people from the clan to write bad things about the clan, do you think it's possible? As we have just said, the thoughts formed by a person in childhood are difficult to change in adulthood, and will subtly affect him when he does things. A child of a family, the various education he received when he was a child told him that everything the family did was right, and everything the family did said that it was for the sake of the world, and it was wrong for others to endanger the family, what do you think will happen to him when he grows up? Do you expect him to grow up and realize that many of the things the family did were wrong? Yes, he is very upright, but at most he does not appreciate what is in doubt, and does not write about what he thinks is impossible! The mainstream statement, the statement that the people he comes into contact with are all right, do you think he will not write it?

"'Raise talents, don't know books; Filial piety and honesty, the father does not live', it is said that the eunuchs made it, but the power of the eunuchs is concentrated in the center, and the officials in the court are all from local families, and the local areas are also controlled by them.

"How do you think those who show off talent and show filial piety are all investigated? Isn't it the eunuchs and the family through the exchange of interests? You have no money and no power, do you think the eunuchs will promote you? Hanmen, hey, what if you have talent? If you want to find a eunuch to bribe, you have no money, and if you want to become an official through inspection, you have no way! How is it possible to get ahead? If you can't get ahead, the history book you write is called wild history! Is there a comparison between the influence of wild history and the official history? ”

Glancing at Tian Fan, Old Immortal Peng continued: "Clans and clans are inherently united, although they are also full of internal contradictions, but when it comes to dealing with others, they are united. Your origin is not a clan, I have investigated the ancestors of your Tian family, and I can only trace your father, and there is no clue above your father. So, you are inherently opposed to the clan, and now, do you still think you have what it takes to protect Hui'er? You must know that in the Yellow Turban Uprising, Zhang Jiao offended the most ruthlessly, it was these clans, I don't know how many clans were destroyed because of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and I don't know how many suffered heavy losses, he is the enemy of the clans in the world. I guess you know how terrible the clan is, and now, do you still think you can protect Hui'er? Do you still have the guts to protect her? ”