Regarding what Xun Ji said, Ran Min had to admit that it was the truth.

The establishment of a dynasty often brings a group of new scholars, and the largest scholars in the late Eastern Han Dynasty are the Nanyang scholars and Hebei scholars, the reason for which is that the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu - Liu Xiu's starting point is in Nanyang and Hebei, and most of the Yuntai 28 generals under his command are also from Nanyang and Hebei.

As the saying goes, if a person attains the Tao, the chicken and dog ascend to heaven.

And the existence of a scholar clan is likely to span two dynasties or even multiple dynasties, Hebei Cui clan is one of the largest scholar clans in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and its representative Cui Yan chose Yuan Shao between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, but after the battle of Guandu, he followed Boss Cao and was still a great scholar clan, even if he still occupied a place in the scholar clan in the Jin Dynasty.

Moreover, the founder of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Sima family, was itself a second-rate scholar.

Before the Sui Dynasty, the election system was mainly a probationary system, and when Emperor Cao Pi of Wei ascended the throne, he introduced the nine-product Zhongzheng system, and no matter which system, there was only one purpose - to ensure the interests of the scholars.

The so-called probation system is that the local governor recommends the people who are approved by him, so these people who are recognized by him may be ordinary people? No, most of them will be the descendants of famous families.

And if the probationary system still gives the children of the poor family a chance, then the Jiupin Zhongzheng system will completely pinch this chance to death. The Jiupin Zhongzheng system itself is a policy introduced by Cao Pi in order to win over the Shi family.

It is probably to divide people into nine grades according to their family background, and the high-grade people will be given important responsibilities.

In the long run, the so-called government is that the emperor and the representatives of the scholars discuss how to consolidate their positions and increase their interests, and the right to speak in the court is controlled by the scholars.

For example, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and even the entire Southern Dynasty were almost controlled by the four major families and other big families, and the emperor at this time was more equivalent to the alliance leader who was elected by them to replace his own rights and interests.

Then, with the further stability of the ruling class, a pattern of no poor people in the upper grades and no scholars in the lower grades has been formally formed!

Ran Min pondered for a long time, looked at Qin Mu, who had been silent, and said, "Qin Mu, what do you think about this?" ”

Qin Mu said lightly: "Your Majesty, the minister is from a cold family, and Lord Xun Ji is from the Yingchuan clan. If you want to talk about the fundamental understanding of the scholar clan, or discuss how to deal with the scholar clan, Lord Xun Ji should have more ideas and opinions. ”

Hearing this, Xun Ji hurriedly said, "What did Lord Qin say?" We are all courtiers who are loyal to Your Majesty and give advice to Your Majesty, where is there any priority and priority? Moreover, Lord Qin is far-sighted and full of wisdom, Xun Ji is deeply impressed, and please tell me your opinion. ”

Qin Mu and Xun Ji can be said to be Ran Min's right-hand men, whether it is marching and fighting, or governing the country, Ran Min generally relies on these two people to make suggestions, so there is no priority at all.

It's just that Qin Mu and Xun Ji, one is from a poor family, and the other is from a scholar family, and the struggle between the children of the Han family or the children of the scholar clan in the government and the opposition generally revolves around these two people.

Although Ran Min wanted to suppress the power of the Shi clan and make them dare not act rashly, he was not arrogant enough to completely wipe out the Shi clan!

Not to mention anything else, he Ran Min can be said to be the largest scholar family in the world.

It is an irrevocable fact that the clan gate lords cannot be eliminated, because when a new dynasty is established, its followers will become new scholars.

Qin Mu sighed and said, "Your Majesty, in fact, the minister thinks that what Lord Xun Ji said is right. As the ruling class, the gentry controlled most of the country's resources. Reading is an extremely scarce resource in all dynasties, and the children of the poor go out to do farm work early, so for those poor people who don't know a single word, what those who read is right, it is right, so they must be loyal to the king, they must follow three virtues and four virtues, and they must listen to the words of their parents and officials. ”

For only in this way can their rule be secure, and their rule will be long! Moreover, among the scholars, the status of the family is different, and the research can be different. ”

"The Sima family is a student of historiography, so they are just a second-rate scholar. The study of scriptures can only be studied by first-class scholars! is like Xun Yu's Yingchuan Shi clan and Cui Yan's Hebei Shi clan. ”

Hearing Qin Mu's in-depth analysis of the power of the scholar clan, Ran Min nodded sympathetically and said, "Not bad." I actually know that, too! Why do the scholars have more talents, while the children of the poor families have fewer talents? It's not that the scholars are all gifted and intelligent, people with strange bones, and people with extraordinary talents, but they have received a good education since they were young and have a better living environment. ”

"And the children of the poor family, because of their own conditions, have no way to study, and there is no way to change their fate through studying. Therefore, I have built government schools all over the country to enlighten the children of poor families, and those who are more intelligent from poor families can also get scholarships and enter higher institutions. ”

Qin Mu smiled faintly and said, "Your Majesty's intention to do this is very obvious, that is, to support the children of the Han Sect to fight against the children of the Shi Clan. ”

"Exactly."

"Your Majesty, then, should know that land annexation is an inevitable consequence of history. It is inevitable that one day, the children of the poor family will get ahead through their own efforts and become officials with noble status and prominent status, and they will become a new scholar. And the rise of the new noble clan requires more resources, so they tend to be more greedy to steal the country's land and let their protégés spread all over the world! ”

Qin Mu sighed deeply and said, "Your Majesty, although the minister doesn't want to admit it, I have to say that whether it is the new scholar clan or the old scholar clan, it is so greedy, and the new scholar clan is even more greedy than the old scholar clan!" Thousands of years later, the Great Wei perished, and a new dynasty took its place, and it was these emerging scholars who would damage the Great Wei's own national strength at that time. ”

"......" Ran Min fell silent for a while, speechless.

Qin Mu said again: "Your Majesty should know about the Runan Yuan Clan, right?" ”

"Is it the Yuan clan of the fourth world and the third duke?"

"Not bad." Qin Mu bowed slightly: "The Runan Yuan clan was the top wealthy family among the many scholar clans in Yingchuan during the Eastern Han Dynasty. Since Yuan Liang, to his grandson Yuan Anguan to Sikong and Situ, Anzi Yuan Chang and Yuan Jing are all Sikong, Jingzi Yuan Tang is Sikong and Taiwei, Tangzi Yuan Feng is also Sikong, and his younger brother Yuan Kui is also Sangong and Taifu. There are as many as five people who occupy the position of three princes in the fourth world, so they are called 'four generations and three princes'. ”

"At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were one in the south and one in the north, and they gathered a large number of scholars, and they obtained countless money, grain, and horses, and the war in the whole world seemed to revolve around the two of them. Yuan Shao almost unified the north, and he was a popular candidate to become the lord of the world at that time, and even the invincible Cao Mengde was once reduced to Yuan Shao's vassal. One can imagine how powerful the Yuan family is. ”

Regarding the affairs of the Runan Yuan family, Ran Min still knows quite a bit.

After all, as the king of a country, most of the people who govern the place for him are these scholars, so don't you know how they can do it?

Runan Yuan, the fourth and third dukes, protégés and former officials all over the world. With such innate advantages and such good resources, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu failed to unify the country, end the turbulent times in the late Eastern Han Dynasty since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and establish a new dynasty.

In Ran Min's opinion, these two brothers are really worse than the other.

Of course, their opponents are very tough, and if they were Ran Min and put him in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, they didn't know if they could compete with Cao Mengde and Liu Bei.

It is worth mentioning that the Yuan family is a descendant of Yu Shun.

At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou posthumously crowned the descendants of the sages, and the descendants of the Yu family were named in Chen (now Huaiyang, Henan), and established the Chen State. After the death of Fu Man, he was nicknamed Chen Hugong. His eleventh grandson has a name called Zhu Gong, the word Boyuan.

Bo Yuan's grandson Tao Tu, with the ancestral word Yuan's life.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Yuan family was hereditary Chen Guoshangqing. At that time, Yuan and Yuan were universal, so Yuan Tao Tu was also written as "Yuan Tao Tu". At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, the descendants of the Yuan clan removed the "car" side of the word "Yuan", and Yong took Yuan as the clan.

In the long process of historical evolution, due to wars, official transfers and other reasons, although the Runan Yuan clan has derived many branches and developed widely at home and abroad, the Runan Yuan clan, which originated in Yuan An, has always been the most prosperous one.

Yuan Feng's sister-in-law, Yuan Shu, became a general, and then took the jade seal and established himself as the emperor.

From the perspective of blood, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are half-brothers. From the patriarchal point of view, the two are subordinate brothers.

Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were both heroes of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Because the two had led the Kwantung princes to crusade against the powerful minister Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo killed more than 20 people from Yuan Kui and Yuan Ji (Yuan Shu's brother) in Luoyang.

Later, Yuan Shu was attacked and killed by various heroes because he established himself as emperor, and his son Yuan Yao defected to the Eastern Wu forces. Yuan Shao wanted to fight with Cao Cao for the world, but died of illness shortly after the defeat in the Battle of Guandu, and his sons Yuan Tan, Yuan Shang, and Yuan Xi fought for the throne, and were finally destroyed by Cao Cao one after another.

In Ran Min's impression, the most memorable thing for the Runan Yuan family is naturally the story of Yuan Anwoxue, which is a well-known story in later generations and known to women and children.

It is said that when Yuan An was not an official, he lived in Luoyang and was very famous.

One winter, Luoyang ordered to visit him in the snow. The snow in his yard was very deep, trapping Yuan An in the snow, and Luoyang ordered his entourage to sweep a way before entering Yuan An's house.

Yuan Anzheng was so cold that he curled up on the bed shivering.

Luoyang Ling asked: Why don't you ask your relatives for help?

Yuan An said: Everyone has not had a good life, how can I disturb others on a snowy day?

Luoyang Ling admired his virtue and praised him as filial piety.

The Runan Yuan clan made a fortune from this.

And what Qin Mu said happened to be about this Yuan An's deeds.

Qin Mu said slowly: "Your Majesty should know about Yuan An, right?" Yuan An inherited his family education since he was a child and studied "Meng Shi Yi". At the beginning, he was appointed as the Gongcao of Ruyang County, and later he was promoted to the magistrate of Yinping County and the commander of Chengcheng County. He is extremely strict and can make the officials and the people fearful. ”

"During the reign of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, he was repeatedly relocated to Chu County Taishou and Henan Yin, with strict political titles and fair prison breaks. For more than ten years in Gyeonggi, the Beijing division was solemn and famous. Yuan An later served as a servant, a secretary, and a situ. During the Han and Emperor periods, the Empress Dowager Dou was in power, her relatives Dou Xian's brothers were in power, and the people's grievances were boiling. ”

In the debate on whether to attack the Northern Xiongnu, Yuan An and Sikong Ren Kui strongly advocated Huairou and opposed the laborers traveling far and wide. For this problem, he went to court more than ten times without a crown! After Yuan An died of illness, his descendants (Runan Yuan's family) prospered, and the Hongnong Yang family became the 'fourth and third dukes' of the Eastern Han Dynasty. ”

It can be seen that Yuan An was only from a small scholar clan, but because of his official residence in the three dukes, future generations were blessed, so he became a top scholar clan at that time. Obviously, the children of the poor family can also have such achievements. And thousands of years ago, who knew what the Runan Yuan clan was like? ”