Tonight's Yingchuan song, who knows the sages. "Historical Records of Qin Shi Huang Benji" contains:

"In the seventeenth year, Nei Shi Teng attacked Han, got Han Wang'an, took all his land, took his land as a county, and ordered Yingchuan.

This is the origin of Yingchuan County, named after Yingshui, and governed in Yangzhai. Yingchuan, which has always been a large county in history, has been the most populous and prosperous place outside Beijing for a long time since its establishment, so it has become the birthplace of many Chinese surnames in later generations. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the state became a first-class administrative region, among which the Yuzhou Thorn History Department was the governor. It has jurisdiction over two counties of Yingchuan County and Runan County, and four countries of Liangguo, Peiguo, Chen and Lu, with ninety-seven counties. Wu Yong and his entourage came to the boundary of Yingchuan County, only to learn how many people there are in the world. As mentioned earlier, December is a very busy month for the people of the time. Among the scholars, it is not only necessary to grave the ancestral shrine, the teacher, the nine clans, friends and friends, but also to worship the righteousness of prudence and never betray it. It is also necessary to invite clan relatives, marriages, and guest travelers, and talk about good harmony and etiquette, so as to be gracious. Riding on the wide Qinchi Road, Wu Yong lifted the curtain and looked out. From time to time, on both sides of the road, a team of scholars jumped into the eyes, some of them walked side by side, and some were sitting on ox carts and talking, of course, in addition, there were carriages passing by Wu Yong from time to time, and the arguments coming from inside must be noble scholars. Liu Yun and Liu Lan sat in the same car with Wu Yong, and the two of them pointed to the passing scholars from time to time and laughed in a low voice. After Wu Yong's enlightenment for these days, the two sisters finally came out of the shadow of the death of their parents.

"Sister, look at the way they shake their heads, it's so funny!" Liu Yun glared at her and reprimanded: "Don't be rude!" Although these scholars behave strangely, they all have the heart to study hard, how can they joke. Liu Lan attached it to her ear and laughed in a low voice: "Then how are they compared to their brother-in-law?" ”

"Let you talk nonsense!" Liu Yun glanced at Wu Yong with a blushing face, and then reached out to scratch Liu Lan's armpits.

"Haha, I won't say it." The two women were fighting in the car, attracting frequent attention from passers-by. Wu Yong turned a blind eye to the spring light in front of him, and he was thinking about the records of Yingchuan County in later generations.

There are several counties in the Eastern Han Dynasty that have a very special status. The first is Henan Yin, where Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is located, needless to say.

The second is Jing Zhaoyin, which is where Chang'an, the old capital of the Western Han Dynasty, is located. The so-called kyo means very large, and Zhao means a large number.

The name Jingzhao shows the grandeur and scale of a large capital. Jingzhao was described in the Han Dynasty as a hub, meaning under the wheel of the Son of Heaven.

It is too close to the sky, all kinds of contradictions are intricate, and interpersonal relationships are intertwined. The third is Nanyang County, which is the hometown and starting place of the founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the son of the plane, Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, and the descendants of many founding fathers of the Eastern Han Dynasty are in Nanyang.

The fourth is Yingchuan County, geographically, Yingchuan County is close to Luoyang, is the most important passage to the south of Luoyang, out of Xuanyuan Pass, one of the eight passes of Luoyang, is Yingchuan.

More importantly, Yingchuan is a place where the world's talents gather in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. As for the reason why Yingchuan County can suddenly be so powerful, in Wu Yong's view, there are many reasons alternately, and in addition to this, no other state and county in the world can have such a talent boom, even if it is a talent pool in the late Han Dynasty such as Xuzhou and Yizhou, in some political aspects, it is not as good as Yingchuan's political talents.

One reason is that the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and since the Han Dynasty, it has attached great importance to the law. Former Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty

"Outer Confucianism and internal law", Emperor Xuan believed

"The Han family has its own system, and it is complicated by the overlord", no

Since entering the dynasty, although the Confucian doctrine has spread more and more widely, the status of the law is still very important.

In particular, Yingchuan this place, in the Spring and Autumn Period, belonged to Zheng, and then Zheng was destroyed by Korea, and became the capital and main sphere of influence of South Korea, from Zheng Guo's sub-production of the casting of criminal books and legislative systems, to Shen Buxian's change of law in Korea, and then to Han Fei's collection of legalist ideas at the end of the Warring States Period, as well as the early Han Dynasty's county people Jia Shan, Chao Cuo, Han Anguo, etc., strongly advocated the criminal name spell, which gradually formed in Yingchuan

The social atmosphere of "Gao Shieun, good grammar", among which Yang Zhai Guo and Changshe Zhong are the leaders.

Second, since the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in Runan County, next to Yingchuan County, the original Western Chu scholar style began to gradually change, evolving into a dissolute and uninhibited scholar atmosphere, and then this atmosphere moved closer to the adjacent Yingchuan County, resulting in the political atmosphere of Yingchuan County becoming more radical and criminal in the radical and courageous atmosphere of the original Legalist scholarship, so that the local scholars in Yingchuan were more advocating politics, and their own political colors became stronger and stronger.

Third, it is the party force that the Eastern Han Dynasty has been unable to bypass, it can be said that the original starting point of the party force in the Han Dynasty is Yingchuan County.

And it is precisely because of the existence of the party's power that Yingchuan County has determined its own unique side in the entire Eastern Han Dynasty and even the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, so that during the Wei and Jin dynasties, Yingchuan County and even Yuzhou scholars had incomparable fame and power in the whole world.

The reason why this is the case is that Yingchuan celebrities are intertwined with each other, and the situation of marriage and secular friends is particularly close, which is incomparable with other counties.

It can be said that all the wang clans in the county, there are in-laws between each other, when the party people piled up in the court, there were many officials of the Yingchuan scholars, which is also the reason why the party was opened, the Yingchuan scholars suffered the most damage, and hated the Han family the most, the fundamental reason is that there are many forbidden people in their families, and they can not be officials in this life, they can meet each other.

Fourth, since Emperor Shun in the Eastern Han Dynasty, eunuchs were empowered, imperial power politics could not operate normally, and ethnic minorities and internal uprisings continued, and the sinister political situation made scholars no longer concentrate on academics and devote themselves to political careers.

In a sentence of later generations, once anything is involved in politics, it will change its taste, and this is the case in Yingchuan County of the Eastern Han Dynasty, where they really grasp the power of the court, especially after the leader of the party is Li Ying, the behavior of forming a party for personal gain is common.

Of course, for these clans, ordinary corruption and bribery are obviously not their goal, their family is not all wealthy families, what they really want is the political rights that the imperial power has been protecting, so there will be a dispute between the inner and outer dynasties.

Fifth, since Emperor Shun, the scholars have been running and shouting,

"Stir up fame, ask each other questions, taste the ministers, and govern at your discretion", trying to turn the tide of the tide, shovel the eunuchs, and clean the monarch's side.

However, time and time again, they who only grasped the words of the court were suppressed by the army under the imperial power, and after countless suppressions, the strict political situation made them more urgent to marry to ensure the growth of their court power, which further intensified the faction between the Yingchuan scholars and a certain degree of detachment and xenophobia.

Sixth, since the Eastern Han Dynasty, local power has been constantly unbalanced under the influence of the powerful clan.

However, the central scholars formed a party membership, and through their own political rights, they constantly influenced the appointment and dismissal of local officials, resulting in the local celebrity clans being able to manipulate local politics by monopolizing the position of governors and county guards because of their special family background.

On the one hand, it further promoted the formation of factions among the local clans in Yingchuan, and also greatly weakened the control ability of the central government of the Han Dynasty over Yingchuan.

Of course, this point is not only unique to Yingchuan, but also the entire Han at this moment.

Seventh, under the severe political situation after the eunuch dictatorship, it is a godsend for the Ru Ying celebrities who lack the elegance and are keen on politics.

Compared with Runan County, Yingchuan County has many famous people among the party, and finally won the title of party leader, which further aggravates the in-law party between the scholars and heroes of Yingchuan County.

Thinking of this, Wu Yong was also a little curious about the scholars of Yingchuan County. He left Luoyang this time, nominally to study the world, but in fact he lost confidence in the Son of Heaven, and the coming of troubled times was unstoppable after all.

He plans to take the opportunity of the study tour to see if there are any suitable allies. This time, he passed by Yingchuan County, and when he saw that the literary style here was so vigorous, he suddenly had some more thoughts in his heart.

Just when Wu Yong was stunned, Liu Lan suddenly pointed to the crowd in the distance and exclaimed, "Ah, sister, why do you see so many people over there?" Wu Yong came back to his senses, glanced in the direction she was pointing, and immediately smiled: "It should be the gentry's family who is electing the field." Liu Lan pouted and asked, "How do you know that it's so far away?" Don't you see that we haven't seen the world and deceive us! Wu Yong smiled bitterly and said: "You look at their clothes, they look like ordinary people, and now it's freezing outside, who wants to blow the cold wind for no reason." As he spoke, he explained, "If you look at their hands, most of them are holding farm tools, and now is not the time to plow. And at this time of year, it is the time for the gentry to choose the next year's appointee. ”

"Really?" Liu Lan was suspicious, their sisters had been living in the Bohai Palace, and they knew almost nothing about the lives of the low-level people outside.

Wu Yong smiled: "I can still lie to you." Otherwise, let's stop and watch for a while, and it will be clear. He wasn't lying, every year in December, his own Luoyang Huangzhuang would hold such a ceremony.

At that time, the representatives of each family were very nervous, for fear that they would not be elected. Once they are abandoned by the lord's family, they are almost cut off from life.

Therefore, Wu Yong will not change the person who is in charge of the field at will. December, for the people, is a major event related to the livelihood of the next year.

The people who had land began to repair their farm tools and maintain their ploughing cattle, waiting for the spring of the next year to start farming.

And the people who have no land are anxiously waiting for the lord's house to choose the man to be the one who will be the land for the coming year. If they are not selected, they will face the pressure to survive.

The group soon came to the front of the crowd, and Wu Yong asked Yan Zhan to stop the carriage. Liu Lan and her sister Liu Yun looked at it for a while, and found that it was indeed the main family who was choosing the person to be the farmer in the coming year.

Looking at those who were selected, they smiled one by one, and suddenly felt bored. They wanted to watch Wu Yong make a fool of themselves, but they didn't expect to be right by Wu Yong again.

"Let's go, let's take advantage of the darkness to rush to Yingyin County." Liu Lan said with some interest.

Just when Wu Yong was about to say yes, he suddenly saw a crowd over there causing a stir. Immediately, I saw a swarthy middle-aged man, kneeling in front of a man in brocade clothes, and begged bitterly: "Steward Chen, I beg you, our family can't lose the status of the farmer in the coming year, my wife has just given birth, and there are elderly parents to support at home, so we can't live without fields." As long as you agree, I will work hard to farm in the coming year. I saw the man in brocade sneering: "Your parents and wife, what does it matter to me?" This year, your family has paid the least amount of grain, and according to the agreement, you will not be elected to the field in the coming year. ”