Gate valves.

It is the joint name of the door and the valve reading, referring to the famous family that has been an official for generations, also known as the family, the clothes, the family, the scholar family, the power family, the family, the giant room, etc.

From the beginning of the Han Dynasty, to the Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Northern and Southern Dynasties - the successive ministers, the scholars of the family, the powerful family, and the landlord class controlled the political center, forming a typical gate valve system of "the upper grade has no cold door, and the lower grade has no family".

This system reached its peak in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

From the establishment of this system, it was not until the Sui and Tang dynasties that it was gradually replaced by the imperial examination system based on the personal literacy examination.

In addition, Hanmen is also a gate valve, referring to the declining scholars and clans.

It's not the common people as we know it.

It's just that now, it's in decline.......

But to put it bluntly, the cold door is also a door.

Even if it declines, it is not a flat-headed common man, which can be compared.

As for Ge Shu, a Sinicized alien race, and his family fled here, how can he be the leader of the Huaisi faction?

This has to talk about the origin of the Huaisi faction.

The earliest Huaisi group refers to the Jiangbei forces that followed Sun Ce into Jiangdong during the Three Kingdoms period.

In different periods of development, the Sun-Wu regime focused on the power allocation between the Huaisi group and the local Jiangdong Shi clan, but as the Three Kingdoms had become a strong momentum, it was difficult to break through the Northern Expedition, and the power allocation within the Eastern Wu regime could not but develop in the direction of favoring the Jiangdong Shi clan.

As the backer behind the Huaisi Group, Sun Ce's younger brother Sun Quan did not want to see the Jiangdong Shi clan too big, so he used various opportunities to suppress the rise of the Jiangdong Shi clan.

Although Sun Quan was able to grasp the balance of power between the Huaisi group and the Jiangdong Shi clan by virtue of his authority during his reign, and appease the dissatisfaction of the Jiangdong Shi clan, as the Western Jin Dynasty army moved south to Jiangdong, the Jiangdong Shi clan did not make a resolute resistance, but chose to lie down.

Due to their distance from the center of power, the Huaisi group and the Jiangdong clan gradually weakened into a 'cold gate' until the Western Jin Dynasty perished.

In the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Huaxia Shenzhou entered the stage of division and confrontation between the north and the south.

With the fall of the Hu people in the north, a large number of Shi clan gate lords migrated to the north of the Yangtze River and Huainan with the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and opened up Fujian, Yue, and Ping slang caves, and broke the Ke, by 539 there were a total of one hundred and seven states.

After the fall of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the people of Huaisi experienced four dynasties: Liu Song, Xiao Qi, Xiao Liang, and Southern Chen.

However, none of these nobles of the former Wu land have been able to achieve their former glory.

As the most chaotic and dark era in China, the big hao clan is still precarious, not to mention the small hao clan, in order to survive and for the continuation of the clan.

The original relatives, the descendants of the old Huaisi group, the local scholars of Jiangdong and the clan privately discussed and divided the Huaisi group into three departments, running between the three major forces of Western Wei, Eastern Wei and Southern Chen.

This is not a very clever means in the present day.

It is nothing more than the normal operation that the merchants practiced - never put all their eggs in one basket.

However, in that era when all major families huddled together for warmth.

This strategy can be described as a helpless move in troubled times, but it is also the most effective rule of survival.

At that time, the Western Wei Dynasty, whether military, economic, or demographic, was inferior to the sworn enemy of the Eastern Wei in the north.

As a result, Yuwentai, the actual ruler of the Western Wei Dynasty, accepted these outsiders, and tried his best to ally win them over, and then intermarried the young people with real talents and learned from the Xianbei nobles of the original six towns to improve their status.

A few years later, these Huaisi young people flourished in the Western Wei Dynasty, gradually entered the center of power, and even ranked among the three princes and nine secretaries.

Since then, in the Western Wei Dynasty, no one dares to look down on their force anymore.

Of course, these Huaisi elites did not eat rice at Yuwen's house.

They gradually began to gather, scattered clansmen, and openly fully supported the Yuwen family, giving Yuwentai soldiers, horses, money, food, and talents.

Of course, it is also indispensable to suppress the elder forces in the DPRK, and in the center of the organ, the sons and nephews of the family are installed.

In the face of this foreign force,

Some gate valves choose to compromise and take the initiative to show goodwill.

If there are those who are not satisfied, they will be eradicated and suppressed by the Huaisi Group for various reasons.

As the Huaisi group gradually became stronger, and among the children of the family, there were constantly learned high-ranking officials and military generals with military achievements.

Finally, it became the second gate valve of the Western Wei Dynasty.

Even, there is a faint voice calling the largest family-Longchuan Group

Among them, the boss of the Longchuan Group, the Li family in Longxi, is the strongest and is the first enemy of the Huaisi faction

This Longxi Li clan is not ordinary, as introduced earlier, it is a thousand-year-old sword family, and it is a famous martial arts group.

Longxi Li, Zhaojun Li, Hongnong Yang, Taiyuan Wang, Langya Wang, Chenjun Xie, Qinghe Cui, Xingyang Zheng, Fanyang Lu, Taiyuan Wen.

Among the top ten families in China, the Li family in Longxi ranks first.

In the Qin and Han dynasties, the Li clan shouldered the heavy responsibility of guarding the frontier and resisting the Xiongnu for a long time.

On the other hand, Yuwentai and Huaisi Group:

On one side is the depressed and depressed declining scholars,

One side is a homeless person born in six towns.,A Sinicized Xianbei person with a humble status.。

One is the original force in Jiangdong, but it can't keep the cold gate of Jianghuai.

One was the nominal boss of the Western Wei regime, but he had to balance in front of all forces.

Therefore, there is a resonance between the two parties and they can empathize with each other.

It is in this context that the Huaisi faction and the Yuwen family are getting closer and closer, and the fundamental reason is that they both have a common faction to suppress - Longchuan

In fact, in ancient times, the establishment of all dynasties was inseparable from warlords and chaebols.

And the relationship between a warlord and a chaebol is like that between a husband and wife.

The warlord is the husband, and the chaebol is the wife.

When the husband leads the army to the battle, the soldiers, horses, money, and food he needs must be provided to the power lord where the wife belongs.

On the other hand, the husband's money, grain, land, slaves, etc., should naturally be distributed to his wife's family first.

There is no problem with this balance.

But often the bad thing is that our Huaxia Shenzhou practices monogamy and multiple concubines

Now that the husband has laid a new land.

Then, the original Shi clan gate lords in this new land will naturally provide new concubines (other power gate lords) to support their husbands.

At this time, once the benefits are unevenly distributed, both the wife and the concubine will definitely be dissatisfied with your husband.

If you suppress your wife, the interest group of your wife's family will definitely not do it, and even play conspiracy behind your back, calculate you, kill you, poison you, and find someone from your relatives to replace you.

But if you let the concubine suffer, the concubine will think that you are bullying her, and may betray you immediately, or even borrow your hostile forces to kill you.

Moreover, as your territory grows bigger and bigger, and your concubines (the forces of the various gates) increase, there must be more and more bad things for you.

Even in private, the concubines began to intermarry and marry, and they were tied together to form an alliance of scholars who gave you even more headaches.

At that time, you probably had a wide brain, and I was afraid that it hurt even more.

As a husband, he has to work hard to maintain the family and balance the interests of all parties.

And in case, the husband died suddenly one day.

Then, this mess will be left to the heirs.

If it is handled well, this regime can still be maintained and survived.

Once it is not handled well, I am afraid that this family will be scattered.

It's like the mess of the Governor of Zisai - with 100,000 heavy troops in his hands, he deters all the departments of the grassland, takes charge of the mutual markets in the Western Regions, and monitors the fragrant dumplings of the six towns and five hus.

Whether it is the Longchuan Group, or the Huaisi Group, or even the patriarchs of the Yuwen family, they are all eyeing each other and are determined to win.

On the surface, it seems that it is not the turn of Geshu, a pariahs born from another race, to take charge

Even if he has great military achievements, even if he is powerful in the Western Regions, even if Taizu appreciates him, Emperor Wen cherishes him, and Emperor Wu admires him.

But, so what?

He was a pariah, a foreigner, a ruffian who wasn't even a humble man.

But on the contrary, he, Geshu, did it.

He became the commander of Zisai and the leader of the Huaisi group.

Why?

Just because of him, Geshu Hanyuan, who was born Rouran, was neither completely controlled by the Longchuan group, nor completely used by the Huaisi faction.

It is not only the exceptional promotion of Taizu Yuwentai, but also the intermediary who maintains the Rouran royal family and the Western Wei (Beiyin) Dynasty.

When he was middle-aged, he was torn between Longchuan, Huaisi and Yuwen's family, and they got along.

These three parties, although they are opposed to each other, are inclined to each other. However, only to Geshu, he frequently showed goodwill.

At the same time, he was a general under the command of the generals of the Longchuan faction, but he immediately married the daughter of the Yang family of the Huaisi Group.

He was extremely strict in governing the army, honest and capable, caring for the sergeants, and resuming military exploits.

Tan Xu, a staff member, often said: "Ge Shu, his temperament is diligent and strict and dares to kill, although his relatives break the law, they will not be bent to avoid it." ”

The soldiers and soldiers he killed sometimes did not distinguish between factions and relatives.

But sometimes, it will also cover up and dredge, indulge privately, and both.

He ordered the soldiers under his command to be restrained, not to plunder the people of Zisai, and to behead those who violated the order.

However, in the military discipline he formulated, there was only no article on "those who rob and smuggle property."

Moreover, the guards and cavalry battalions under him are all good at robbing and robbing.

In the battle of Yingshuo that year, he commanded the guards to ride thousands of miles to attack, and the battle was broken, Kejian City, and the battle beheaded Tuoba Chieftain in Youcheng.

After entering the city, tens of thousands of bearded heads were beheaded, and the capital was built in the south of the city.

He also called on the soldiers to loot on a large scale, loading all the gold, silver, copper, iron, cattle, horses, sheep and dogs, Hu people and girls, and handing over a quarter to the national treasury, and a quarter to the mansions of the two factions in Huailong, and a quarter of it was handed over to officials at all levels in Zisai for rewards, and finally a quarter was equally divided by the Zisai soldiers.

And he himself doesn't take a penny, he doesn't take half of it, and women don't want it.

Some people think that he has no small ambitions and no other plans.

Some people think that he is loyal to the sun and the moon, and his ambition is to hang the mountains and rivers.

Of course, some people think that he is a wolf and should have been deposed and killed.

But in any case, he, Geshu, in his official career, was promoted from the cavalry captain to the rank of 'Purple Governor', 'General', 'Northwest Commander-in-Chief', and 'Trilateral Governor'........

Yang Tingfeng commented on his day: "The old handsome, who has been in the world for 30 years, everyone is afraid and respected, it can be seen that he can do it!" ”