Jiang Yiquan seemed to guess his son's thoughts, and took the initiative to explain, "I don't want to control this country, and I don't have that much desire for power, the reason why I control military power is because this country has begun to decay." ”

"Decay? What do you mean? Jiang Sunche was still puzzled.

"You should know the origin of our Bei'an Kingdom."

"I know, there is a record in the history books that the former dynasty Hongguo, the last emperor Ziluan, was mediocre and unreasonable, and the levy was harsh, which caused the people's resentment to boil, and all parts of the country revolted, and finally the five kingdoms were destroyed." Jiang Sunche retold the original words he saw in the history books.

Jiang Yiquan sneered when he heard this, "That's just a story I want the world to see." ”

Without waiting for his son to speak, Jiang Yiquan said again, "Tanuki, you told a story to your father just now, so let your father tell you a story now." ”

Jiang Sunche nodded.

"In the past, there was an emperor in Hongguo who liked literature and hated martial arts, so he made many Confucian high-ranking officials and gave them a lot of privileges, hoping to use Confucianism to govern the world.

But the number of Confucians is far from enough for the needs of the country.

At that time, paper had not yet appeared, and knowledge could only be engraved on bamboo slips, which were not easy to circulate.

This knowledge can only be circulated in a small area, which results in the fact that the people who can learn this knowledge and knowledge are all the people around the Great Confucian, and the emperor has no choice but to select civil officials from the families of these Great Confucians.

The status of military attaches is getting lower and lower, and there are more and more civilian officials. This is nothing, when the world is peaceful, it should have collected swords and ruled the world with culture.

But he should never have selected new civil officials from those Confucian families, of course, the Confucian themselves were of noble character, but not everyone around them was like this.

As these people around them were sealed one after another, these Confucian families became stronger and stronger, becoming famous families, and they also began to marry each other in order to consolidate their power.

They became a collective, and they controlled more and more power, and even in the end, even the state elected officials were just randomly selected from the family.

The power to elect officials has completely fallen into their hands.

When they have power, they are no longer satisfied with what little they have.

They began to deceive their superiors and subordinates, forcibly levy taxes, and withhold money and food for disaster relief.

Stealing the foundation of the country and stealing the life of the people.

But they professed themselves to be noble, and called themselves noblemen.

They divided the various trades into hierarchies, placing themselves above the other classes, and the scholars were the first to be the farmers, the industrialists, and the scholars. ”

Jiang Sun Che already knew what Jiang Yiquan was going to say next, it must be that the scholar clan was slowly developing, and finally penetrated the whole country, officials at all levels had their figures, the imperial power was sidelined, the emperor was hollowed out, and then it was endlessly expanded and expanded.

Isn't this the beginning of the budding scholar system in the Eastern Han Dynasty?

What Jiang Yiquan said next was really the same as Jiang Sun Che guessed.

“…… Many emperors who ascended the throne later made various efforts to save this situation, but they were unsuccessful, and it was not until Ziluan ascended the throne that there was a little turnaround. ”

Jiang Yiquan said with emotion, "That's really an emperor with great talent." It's a pity that after several generations of development and marriage, the scholar clan has completely established a system exclusive to the scholar clan, and the emperor has basically been reduced to a symbolic ritual vessel. ”

"Since the power of the scholars is so great, why don't they kick the emperor down and become the emperor themselves?" Jiang Sun Che asked.

Jiang Yiquan said sarcastically, "Of course, it's because the throne is not enough." The Shi clan is a collective, they take out one alone, they have no ability to resist the imperial power at all, they are strong together.

But this is contradictory.

There is only one throne, and whoever wants the throne among them must break away from this collective.

Without this collective, they would not be able to contend with the imperial power.

Even if there is someone in the noble clan who can fight the imperial power alone and ascend to the throne, then his result will be hollowed out, because the noble clan is a whole, and they don't want an emperor who can control them.

No one wants to be a puppet either.

Therefore, the people in the scholar clan naturally did not go to grab that position, and their power was not necessarily less than that of the emperor. ”

Jiang Sunche nodded, although what his father said was a little twisted, he understood.

Jiang Yiquan continued his story, "The scholars fought against Ziluan together, and even said the words of the family and the country, and the family before the country.

Ziluan exhausted half of his life to finally let the imperial power rise slightly, but his body began to weaken day by day, and he didn't have so much time to fight with the Shi clan anymore, but he was afraid that his descendants would not be angry and let down his hard work.

So he began a radical strategy, using the papermaking technology he had just invented, to promote learning, to build county, county, and state studies, and to broaden the wisdom of the people. Create a nine-grade official law to weaken the power of the scholars. The imperial examination was held to regain the right to elect officials, in a vain attempt to overwhelm the scholars in one fell swoop. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Sun Che was already stunned, he knew that history books were always written by the victors, and he also knew that there would always be moisture in history books, but this moisture was too much, right?

A good emperor who worked hard to govern the country, opened up the wisdom of the people and educated the people, actually ended up in the history books a mediocre and immoral criticism?

Jiang Yiquan fell into his memories, not caring about Jiang Sun Che at all, he continued, "But these measures of his are undoubtedly digging the foundation of the Shi clan. How could the gentry sit idly by? So, the scholars contacted the clansmen in the army in a vain attempt to force the palace.

Ke Ziluan has not been in vain for most of his life, he has already firmly grasped the military power in his hands, and when he encountered the forced palace, he directly sent troops to suppress it.

As long as it can last for 20 years, the crisis of the Nashi clan will be solved. ”

Jiang Yiquan stopped and asked Jiang Sun Che, "How do you feel?" ”

"That Ziluan can really be described as a generation of Ming Jun, and he can be called a meritorious person." Jiang Sunche said seriously.

He really admires His Majesty Ziluan, but he has some regrets, because Hongguo has perished, and now there are only five countries, and the Shi clan still exists, which shows that Ziluan has failed.

"Yes, he is really a Ming Jun, whether he is doing this for the rise of imperial power or really for the people of the world, he is a Ming Jun through the ages. It's a pity that he underestimated the thirst for power of the scholars, and also underestimated the madness of the scholars.

The scholars united, and some of them went to the north to find the barbarians, and reached a cooperation with the barbarians......"

"How dare they cooperate with aliens!?" Jiang Sunche was shocked and said that when his family fights and asks outsiders to help, this is no longer a struggle for power, but self-isolation from his ancestors, and he is ashamed of his ancestors.

"They are accustomed to the scholars and the emperor ruling the world together, this may be Shengmien, fighting Mi Qiu, they have long forgotten who gave them their power."

Although Jiang Yiquan's tone was flat, Jiang Sunche still saw his father's anger.

"Some of them went to the barbarians, and some to the ambitious princes.

There are even some scholars who incarnate civilians to incite uprisings, these civilians usually live under the oppression of the scholars, and they don't understand the general trend of the court at all, so they think that the oppression they are subjected to is the emperor's will, and they don't think much about it at all, and immediately start an uprising.

Ziluan had to send troops out to suppress it, and when there were not many soldiers around him, the barbarians went south and ransacked the Central Plains.

Ziluan knew that he had been defeated, and his efforts for half a life were in vain, with more than a dozen rebel armies in the Central Plains revolting, and barbarian invasions.

He knew that even if he could expel the barbarians, he would not be able to defeat the millions of rebels, and he was already doomed to not be able to solve the danger of the warriors. ”

Jiang Sun Che interjected, "The scholars are not afraid of playing with fire?" Let the barbarians get the Central Plains? ”

"They are not afraid, because they know Ziluan very well and know that he not only wants to recover the imperial power, but also wants to benefit the people.

Therefore, Ziluan will definitely give up on them and concentrate on exterminating the barbarians, even if Ziluan does not fight the barbarians, the millions of rebels will not let the barbarians come to reap the benefits of the fishermen. Jiang Yiquan explained.

Seeing that Jiang Sun Che had no problem, Jiang Yiquan started the story again.

"As they guessed, Ziluan's last words in the court were, 'It was I who caused this kind of thing, which caused the people of my country to suffer from war, and I should apologize with death, but it must be after the barbarians have been expelled.'"

He could tolerate the danger of the nobles taking power, but he could not tolerate the rampant alien race, and he left some soldiers to block the rebels everywhere and delay time for him.

He led a large army to conquer the north and kill the barbarians, and the vitality of the barbarians he killed was greatly damaged, and he has not yet recovered. And he also died of illness in the northern cold grassland in the second year of his personal expedition.

After Ziluan's death, the world fell into chaos, and the various princes began to fight for a full eleven years.

Then, the five countries were established one after another, and they still wanted to fight, but the five countries found that neither could easily destroy the other, and the internal affairs were seriously damaged, so they could only sign an armistice two years ago. ”

"Although Ziluan's plan failed, the things he left behind still exist, such as the Nine Grades Official Law. It's a pity that the imperial examination and the county, county, state, and three schools were not tolerated by the scholars and were abolished. After Jiang Yiquan finished speaking, he sat on his chair and mourned in silence.

After the story was told, it was very wonderful and sad, and Jiang Sunche was silent for a while.

Suddenly, he reacted.

"Dad, you still haven't said why you hold on to the military power, you told me a historical story in the middle of the day." I didn't find you so talkative and storytelling. ’

(Or is it that the author of Death Fight is deliberately in hydrology?) ）