The wealthy family during the Han and Wei dynasties, in fact, should be called a "scholarly family" more accurately, and must have the following three elements:

First, the ancestors are not guilty (those who have been criminalized by the eunuch group are not included), and there are high-ranking officials and eunuchs, and it is best to have more than 2,000 stones, and they have never left the inner circle of the imperial court for a long time.

Second, to teach children with scriptures, it is best to have one or two famous Confucian masters in the academic world.

Third, the clan was prosperous, supplemented by marriage, and used the first element to occupy a large amount of land, becoming a large landowner who ranked at least in a county.

Screening with these three conditions, it is definitely not possible to rank the family, because it is 2,000 stones, and it is only two generations to Xun, but if this upward momentum is maintained, the fourth generation of the family (the grandson of Xun) has not left the court, and there is hope to squeeze into the ranks of the scholarly family.

Xiahou's family is not ranked, even if it is counted from Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan, there have been two generations of high-ranking officials, but most of them are martial arts, there are few scribes, and there are no achievements in scripture. If the original historical trajectory is followed first, but the Sima family did not usurp Wei, then after Xiahou Xuan, the Xiahou family may have a chance to become a family.

Pulling back to say, if the Han Dynasty did not die, the power of the family would grow steadily, and eventually form a powerful class that could compete with the monarchy, but the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty led to a series of military nobles ascending to the throne (such as the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan), which interrupted or at least delayed this process to a certain extent. It wasn't until Chen Qun built the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, and then the Sima clan of the Hanoi clan took power, that Sima "Bada" radiated the relationship between marriage and relatives to almost all the scholarly families of similar size, weaving a huge network of relationships, which made the expansion of the family's power suddenly accelerated. After Yongjia crossed to the south, Wu and Hui wealthy families also joined this class, so the imperial power was a fart. Only the Saga is the largest.

Therefore, when Cao Wei's military merits and aristocratic power were in full swing, Shi Xun chose to reach out to support the Shu clan and strangle the family, and the entry point was very good - in the past few decades, or in the next few decades, there will be no more such opportunities.

Ever since Shixun revealed his fundamental political philosophy to his son Shifu. Shifu began to collect and organize the information of the family, and at this point it was basically completed, so it was presented to Shixun. Shi Xun took the paper and took a closer look, there were a total of twenty-one wealthy families in the Central Plains - as for Shuzhong and Liangzhou, there was no worldly power, which could be ignored.

Originally, the first-class family in the late Han Dynasty was the Yuan family of Runan, but with the fall of the Yuan family's secession regime, this family has been scattered, and there is no need to worry - the family is not static. For example, in the early Tang Dynasty, the so-called "five surnames and seven hopes", among which the Li family in Longxi did not even have a shadow now, and before Yongjia Nandu, Wuhui's Xie and Shen clans had never entered the eyes of the Central Plains clan.

Under the Cao Wei regime, there were three families of the ruling family Niu Er, namely the Yingchuan Xun clan, the Chen clan, and the Hongnong Yang clan. However, with the death of Xun Yu and Xun You's uncle and nephew, and with the demotion of Yang Biao Zhishi and Yang Xiu, the status of Xun and Yang has declined. Chan is in the driver's seat. It's a pity that the Chen family is not popular, and there is only one Chen Qun who can handle it.

In the previous struggle between the kings for the succession. With Chen Qun as the leader and as a link, many families gathered around Cao Pi. It is listed on paper, mainly including Xun and Hedong Pei, Zhaojun Li, Boling Cui, Xingyang Zheng, Chenjun Yuan and He, and so on.

The current patriarch of the Xun family is Xun Yu's brother Xun Chen, who was originally a strategist of the Yuan family and later returned to Cao Cao. Not long ago, I sent a tribute. The younger generation of officials who served as officials above 1,000 stones included Xun Yun, the son of Xun Yu, and Xun Ji, the son of Xun Yu, Xun Shi and Xun Shi. However, according to Shi Fu's investigation, Xun Chen's cousin Xun Di was once inclined to Cao Zhi, the king of Juancheng, and was not compatible with Cao Pi.

The Li family of Zhaojun came from Li Ying, a famous minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his parent Li Dingjian was a waiter in the Ministry of Works. The Boling Cui clan mainly has two branches: Cui Yan and Cui Lin. Cui Yan has been swept out of the house, and Cui Lin is the imperial history. Yuan Yaoqing, the patriarch of the Yuan family in Chen County, saw that he was the secretary of the Yu Department, and Cao Pi used his younger brother Yuan Ba, Yuan Min and son Yuan Kan to serve as the county commanders and governors of Henan and Hongnong counties this time, undoubtedly to win over the Yuan family and cultivate cronies. There is also the He family of Chen County, and the patriarch He Yu is the new Jizhou assassin history.

In favor of Cao Pi, there are also Hedong Pei clans, the main characters are Pei Mao and his sons Pei Qian, Pei Hui, in addition, Pei Mao also has a son Pei Jun, a young man who entered Shu and is now said to be an official under Liu Bei...... However, Hedong is one of Xun's basic plates, Pei Qian and Pei Hui also have a good relationship with him, and if they fight, they may not help each other. In the same way, there is also the Zheng family of Xingyang, Zheng Hun and Zheng Wengong once served as the county guard of Xihe when he was the assassin of Shi Shuozhou, and he was barely a former official.

The tendency is to be family, there are Hanoi Sima clan, Taiyuan Wang clan (Wang Ling is from Xunmen guest), Lang Xie Wang clan (Wang Xiong is the wife's uncle), Fan Yang Lu clan (Lu Yujian is a guest in the Xun Mansion) and so on.

And so on, there is no need to mention, in short, after statistics, among the twenty-one largest scripture families, Cao Pi pinched fifty percent through Chen Qun, Shi Xun held two percent, and thirty percent were unknown. Of course, first-class families also radiate to more second- and third-rate families through marriages and other relationships - such as the Taishan Goat clan - but Xun also has more opportunities to squeeze into the second- and third-rate cold families available.

After reading this table, Shi Xun couldn't help but smile, and asked Shi Fu: "Do you want to be the enemy of the prince?" Shi Fu hurriedly replied: "No, my son just wants to scratch Chen Changwen's way." "Why should I have trouble with the prince? I'm afraid that the prince will use Chen Qun to invoke more clans who don't agree with us to join the government, and then control the court. Dad, although you and Chen Changwen are the so-called "gentleman's dispute", you can't watch him stuff into various departments through the prince, but you stand by and watch unmoved.

- How many people did he arrange? You just want to arrange a Zhongda to come, but the result is no.

Shi Xun pondered for a long time, and suddenly opened his mouth and asked a question that seemed to be impossible to hit with eight poles: "What do you think, the country, the family and the country?" ”

Shi Fu smiled slightly, bowed down and said: "The princes establish a country, and the scholars establish a family, what is the difference?" ”

In ancient texts, in fact, there is no complete sense of "country", "I Ching" cloud: "It is to be safe and the country can be protected." In fact, there should be a "ton" between countries and countries, which represent two different concepts. In the Zhou Dynasty, the feudal princes, the princes' industry was the "country", the princes ordered the scholars, and the scholars' industries were the "family", and after the Qin and Han dynasties, the feudal system gradually declined, and the national talent and the family were integrated into one, resulting in a new concept of "country".

So is Xun asking is a reply, do you think it should be the country, the family, and the country in front of the family, or should it be the home, the country, and the home in front of the country? What is more important in your mind? It is a deliberate confusion of concepts and a move out of the ancient saying, which means that the country is the home, the home is the country, and there is only a small and large difference, and there is no difference between the important and the important.

Shi Xun shook his head: "If the scholars love their families, how can the country exist?" He replied-for-tat: "If the country cannot protect each family, what good is it?" ”

Yes Xun asked: "Can you make the country survive by loving your family, and the country will prosper if you save your country?" He replied: "I can't, but Daddy." "According to the theory you revealed to me before, as long as you recruit more allies and twist them into a whole, so that each family can get enough room for growth, then naturally the family will prosper and the country will prosper, and there will be no situation where the family and the country are completely opposed.

It was Xun Wan'er who smiled: "You have it." The so-called "breaking the family for the country" is, after all, the next policy, and it is a choice that has been forced to a desperate place and has no choice to make. Although the people who can make this choice are martyrs, they really don't have the determination to go that far-if they can sit and watch the prosperity of their families, unless they have masochistic tendencies, or are bent on selling their fame, who is willing to abandon one of them.

So the index and middle fingers of his right hand tapped lightly on the armrest of the seat, and he said for a long time: "Chen Changwen can be the same." ”

The Cao Wei government, which was built according to Xun's painstaking design structure, can be said to be the most authoritative and powerful government since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the power of the inner court was greatly restricted, and the monarch's power could no longer compete with the entire bureaucratic system in terms of system - of course, the system is the system, and the reality is the reality, and it is impossible to suppress Cao Cao with the big government model. However, Cao Cao agreed to this system, and the key problem was that although the government's authority was increased, the power of the government alone was greatly reduced.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the prime minister, the great Sima, and the imperial historian were the three dukes, and Cao Wei was also a group system, but the number was expanded to six; What's more, in the old days, the three princes could all establish a government and control government organs through their self-appointed subordinates - for example, the prime minister's office set up the post of prime minister to directly intervene in the supervision power that should be held by the imperial historian - but Cao Wei's six ministers did not have this authority, and all they could use were officials of serious government agencies. Later, the government returned to the inner court, and the generals and others recorded many Shangshu affairs, which were actually arbitrary in the form of one person or one institution. Cao Wei has few such drawbacks.

To put it bluntly, when the power of the prime minister and the weight of the government are weighed, the emperor will be relieved; The authority of the specific ministers or departments is light, and the ministers and departments restrain each other, and the emperor can rest assured.

However, outside of the prime ministers, there is only one department, one or two chiefs, who have great power, and can almost override the power of the ministers, that is, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Officials, and the Servants. For the vast majority of bureaucrats, the promulgation and implementation of government decrees and whether the state can do a good job have little impact on them, and how the officials evaluate and arrange themselves is of the utmost importance. In a word, holding the power of personnel is equivalent to pinching the seven inches of the giant snake of the bureaucratic system.

Therefore, it is really unfavorable for Shixun to continue to let Chen Qun stay in the important position of the secretary of the ministry - especially since Cao Pi has been made the crown prince and Chen Qun's backer is more stable - it is better to promote him in the open, secretly seize his power, and let Chen Qun be the prime minister.

It's just that Cao Pi will never be able to make decisions about such an important personnel change, and before Cao Cao returns from his western expedition, he can only make some preparations in advance, but it is impossible to achieve specific results. So Shi Xun just said it so casually, and he had to discuss it with Shi Fu and his son, and take his time...... (To be continued.) )