Chapter 120: The Family
Wen Qingge on the side saw everything in his eyes, he admired Lu Zhidong for ten years like a day, treating people like a spring breeze, staying by his side, there will never be too much cold field.
In terms of talent, Lu Zhidong is actually not a talent.
But he is willing to learn and remember.
The Maison's heritage allows him to have a lot of resources to watch more secrets and information.
It's not something that ordinary families can compare.
It's also a gift to be able to memorize such a vast amount of information about history.
In the past, everyone fought together for the position of the first brother of the gentleman.
In the end, Lu Zhidong won the title of a learned person by virtue of his ability to be a man, coupled with the family's publicity.
Because the Lu Zhidong family is the most powerful family in the Yan Kingdom court today.
The family is full of talents, and the prime minister position has always been occupied by his grandfather.
This gives the Lu family more convenience and room for maneuver.
Although the constraints of the royal family on the family are much smaller, in the name of righteousness, coupled with a good family background, the Lu family finally sits firmly in the position of the first family.
Wen Qingge is also the son-in-law of a first-class family, and Lu Zhidong, Fan Yixiang, and Deng Zixing are the sons-in-law of the four great families and the heirs of the future family.
Because the four of them often play together, their family backgrounds are comparable, and no one dares to mess with them in Yanjing City, and they are known as the four great gentlemen behind them.
As the age gradually increases, the Yan family has the right to speak in public opinion across the country.
People at the bottom don't have to worry at all, because they farm every day to survive.
Without knowledge, there is no thought. Without ideas, there is no basis for participation in decision-making.
It is basically the people who control public opinion who are readers.
There are many levels of readers.
Without a family to rely on, these people are collectively referred to as the poor family, and they are basically in the middle of the family, and the clansmen are scattered.
However, they have some legacies and can have access to books.
Or some wealthy businessmen get rich and send their children to school, which is not even a wealthy family.
There is no land, but no matter how rich you are, you are only a lowly person.
There was no chance of taking the imperial examination at all.
Shinong Industry and Commerce, the old system of the Great Wei, is like this.
In the future, they are basically slaves: such as prostitutes, such as servants, domestic servants, maids, and so on.
These slave people basically have a chance to break away if they meet a good master's family in their lives.
However, even if they are freed from slavery, they can only be attached to the master's family and become vassals.
They have been there to serve the Lord's family for generations.
The so-called family is these main families, which accumulate several generations to form a huge group of influence.
So born in the country of Yan, the reincarnation technique is really a lucky job.
Born in a family, you are basically a human being, born in a vassal family, even if you are unlucky, there is a high probability that you will also serve the main family.
Wen Qingyun's original caravan leader Dong Lin was this kind of person, he was cultivated by the master's family, and he married a wife and had children, just to tie him up.
The Yan Kingdom is a social structure organization with a very obvious hierarchy.
The family will always be a family, just like the Zhang family where Zhang Xishui is located, even if the ancestors are careless, after more than 40 years, they are still among the families.
It is basically difficult for people at the bottom to get ahead, of course, the internal struggle in Yan Kingdom is very fierce, everyone is a family, and they all want to compete for the first place.
The head of the Lu family, the first family, said more effective than the emperor.
They control a huge force and can penetrate deep into the countryside.
The imperial power could not go to the countryside, but the family did.
It can be said that the Yan Kingdom can do without an emperor, but it cannot do without a family.
This has advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that the existence of the family makes the society very stable.
The disadvantage is that the family has too many resources, and once the family's internal fighting is too intense, it may even disregard the safety of the country.
The family is better than the country.
They are all parasites lying on the giant of Yan Guo to suck blood, and at the same time, they also help this giant to drive away hidden dangers.
For example, the threat of the Liang country, such as the soldiers of the barbarian country, such as the invasion of the cannibal tribe in the far north.
The Li family, the royal family of Yan Kingdom, if you peel off the halo of the royal family, they are also part of the family.
It's just that they are naturally not recognized by the family, and they are the state managers that all the families push on the table.
Successive emperors sought to balance the contradictions between their families in order to achieve their political goals.
It was because the Zhang family participated in the rebellion that they were ostracized by other families, and then united with the royal family to suppress it.
Of course, this is on the surface, in fact, every time a new emperor ascends the throne, it is a reshuffle.
The Lu family has been the prime minister of two dynasties in a row, and the process of becoming the first family is indispensable to step on the corpse of the Zhang family.
None of the emperors of Yan is simple, and the history of Yan for more than 100 years, there have been a total of fifteen emperors, but there are more than 30 queens.
Almost every emperor has changed empresses.
Behind this is the bloodshed of the battle between the emperor and the family.
The struggle between the emperor and the family has always been to provoke the struggle between the family, but the struggle should not be too big.
More than 100 years of history have made them understand that if the courtiers don't fight, they don't feel at ease eating, and if the courtiers fight too hard, then it will also endanger the country.
The incident of the Zhang family that year caused many talents to go to other countries.
Every first-class master is very rare, and Zhang Chaoqing is an example.
There is also the current prime minister of Shu, who is a native of Yan.
Shu can rely on a small area surrounded by mountains, and it can still have such influence, which has nothing to do with that prime minister.
Officially, the relationship between the prime minister, too many talented people who couldn't see hope in Yan went to Shu to realize their ambitions.
The Maison's monopoly has been formed.
The imperial examination is more of a symbolic activity.
Within three years, only three people had the possibility of obtaining official ranks.
It is the top three in the imperial examination.
For more than 100 years, only more than 300 children from poor families have the opportunity to go to the center of the imperial court.
The starting point determines the height, and if you don't get an official status, it means that you can only be the head of a county until you die.
It is also subject to the constraints of the Maison.
If you join a family and become a vassal, then you may become an official in a prefecture.
There are so many children in the family, and most of the families have their own schools, and they also sponsor some schools in the field.
It can be said that influence is everywhere, and the place where you study has been deeply marked by a certain family.
If you change the court, it is almost impossible to go further.
Because between the family and the family, there will be no fight because of a small ant.
It's as if the exchange of interests between countries doesn't take into account what you think about a little fart at all.
Each family has a territory, and every year, as long as they are students of Yan Kingdom, they will be surrounded by the family.
Of course, there are exceptions, but unfortunately the end is not very good.
However, the patriotic education of Yanguo is not bad, and there are many talented people who leave Yanguo early and go to other places to develop because of their far-sighted vision.
Some are loyal to the country, and as a result, these people often go to the opposite side of the family and end miserably.