There is a large manor in the north of Jiyi City with a ancestral hall as the core and not below the towns. This manor is the place where the Xu family, the largest clan of Jidi, is located. The territory of the Xu family and the surrounding villages are all under the Xu family. This place is named Xu and is Xujiaao.

The most famous person in Xujiaao is Xu Liang, the owner of the manor. He is also the head of the Xu family and the head of the clan of the entire Jidi land except for the largest clan of the Ji family.

This person is a celebrity in Jidi.

It is said that during the period when Jiyi Doctor was in power, even Jiyi Doctor had to sell him three points of face. Moreover, this is by no means a joke, but a rumor is a fact that has happened.

However, as a doctor in the same field, Ji Yi, the lord of Ji Di, is the heaven of this land, so why should I give Xu Liang face?

If you say this seriously, it will be long.

Most of the countries in this world are still in the feudal system similar to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. However, after the feudal era on earth ended with the Qin State, the great families and powerful families in the Han Dynasty, who had extremely powerful imperial power, were all forces that could compete with the imperial power. In the end, the emperors of both Han Dynasty were doing both useful and fighting.

But no matter how much the suppression was, the gentry and powerful still stubbornly depended on the rule of imperial power and became increasingly powerful and gradually had the power to completely suppress imperial power.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang seized power and established a new state. Although the world was revived by Guangwu, Wang Mang was actually destroyed by the gentry.

Guangwu relied on the power of the gentry to gain the country, but he saw the power of the gentry, and spent his whole life and even entrusted his descendants to suppress the powerful.

The problem is that when the emperor suppresses the powerful, he must relied on the powerful and the children of the powerful family.

How can I suppress this situation?

With the wheel of history rolling, the power of the gentry became stronger and stronger at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The politics of the world was completely the politics of the gentry and aristocratic families.

Later, we entered the Three Kingdoms era that people were extremely familiar with. In the Three Kingdoms era, almost any famous person was named. The famous scholars were from the great masters of the gentry, poor families, ordinary people, and ordinary people who had no background had no future in this era. On this basis, Chen Qun even created the ninth-rank Zhongzheng system of the gentry, and the politics of the aristocratic family pushed to the peak of the top grade without poor families and low grade without nobles.

Absolute power often means absolute corruption.

When a country is no longer circulated and isolates gradually become a pool of stagnant water, the country is almost done.

The wars of the Three Kingdoms for nearly a hundred years have greatly weakened the power of the Han people. The power of the Hu people in the north has gradually overwhelmed the Han people. The Jin family is in the hands of the emperor who could hear the people starving to death during the famine and the emperor who talked endlessly every day, without caring about the secular world, eating five stones all day long and drunken and dreaming. However, the country is still fighting in the country, and the Hu people can take advantage of the opportunity. Therefore, the Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed, and the gentry fled wildly, establishing a frenzy in the south and still called it "flying south in clothes and hats". However, the Han people in the north have fallen into a situation where they regard as Hu people as two-legged sheep than slaves, but China has entered the darkest era of the Five Barbarians in history.

If it weren't for the hero Ran Min who killed Hu Ling later, the Han people in the north would have been completely eaten up by the Hu people, what were the gentry after the southward transition? The answer was to escape reality, live in a drunken life and die in a dream, be idle, continue to talk, practice immortality with a mouth, eat five stones and fantasize about becoming a Buddha.

Hundreds of years later, Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian unified the world.

After Emperor Wen of Sui, Emperor Yang of Sui, ascended the throne, he took advantage of the tyrants and powerful gentry, and created an imperial examination system that had been passed down for thousands of years in order to strengthen centralization, which greatly shaking the foundation of the gentry. However, he acted too quickly and took action to the country, but the gentry counterattacked and destroyed the country.

This shows the power of the gentry at that time.

These gentry who inherited the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were clamoring for a thousand-year-old empire but had a thousand-year-old family.

After Li Tang obtained the country, he learned the lessons and made compromises to the gentry and finally carried out the imperial examination system. The aristocratic family politics began to decline here, but the power of the aristocratic family should not be underestimated. It was not until the Huang Chao Rebellion at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Rebellion again gave the aristocratic family a heavy blow. When the Zhao Song established the complete implementation of the imperial examination, the aristocratic politics that had lasted for nearly a thousand years since the Han Dynasty finally came to an end.

But the aristocratic family politics have really come to an end?

After the Song Dynasty, there were no more powerful families that could surpass imperial power before, but the gentry did not decline. In the era when imperial power did not go to the countryside, the gentry forces with clans as the bond still had a vast living ground.

They changed their appearance and integrated into the imperial examination system in keeping with the times. They mastered more resources and power than ordinary people. They were relatively able to cultivate more outstanding talents and sent them to the court to serve as the new scholar-officials and their spokespersons.

The real demise of the gentry was a matter of the industrialization era thousands of years later.

The above are the veins and powers of the gentry on earth.

In this era of this world, the power of local clans was far from reaching the peak of the Jin Dynasty, but it was already a powerful force.

Under the feudal system, the emperor was granted the title of monarch, the king was granted the title of the doctor, the doctor was granted the title of literati, and the warrior to rule the world.

In this structure, where does the sage who informs the branch of the trunk come from?

Of course, it is mostly cultivated for the monarch's family, doctor's family, and local clans that have been scattered from their families. Otherwise, ordinary people would not know a single word, and would not have any knowledge in their lifetime, and would not have any secret skills to practice, how could they be literati or warrior?

Even if some martial soldiers from various civil servants have luck in becoming samurai in their long-term battles and training, they will also be absorbed by the gentry system and become the founders of a new family. Their descendants can get the experience of becoming samurai and becoming samurai.

In other words, the literati and warriors from the gentry and the scholars of the Han Dynasty, and the literati of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties are essentially no different. They are all important forces that the superiors must rely on to rule. The superiors can kill one or two, but cannot kill them all. Think about why the literati in the late Ming Dynasty were righteous but at critical moments, and their scalp was itchy, and they did not reject surrendering to the Qing Dynasty? The reason is that no matter who ruled, they had to rely on them.

For those with strong local clan power like the Xu family, doctors of course have to give them three points of thin air.

On this day, as the end of the year approaches, the Xu family, the first family in Jidi, is full of guests. All the guests are the backbone forces of other clans in Jidi. They secretly gathered together because of the incident under Jixi City the day before yesterday.

This is impossible, they can't do it unless they gather.

When Wang Yue entered Ji land, they thought Wang Yue was no different from the Ji Yi doctor who had entered Ji land from Cai State.

A new doctor comes, and his family is strong. If the strong ones are strong, they will cooperate with him, and if the weak ones are superior to the hijacking.

But they never expected that Wang Yue was different from any monarch in the world.

The new order of the Kingdom of Snake Yu is to raise their roots.

Dissatisfaction with Wang Yue and Ji Di's governance had already been in their hearts.

Ji Xi’s trouble is just a fuse.

At the head of the Xu family's main hall, Xu Liang, the head of the Xu family, glanced at the participants from various places in Jidi below. Thinking of the power of their representatives behind them, he said coldly: "Everyone, since Mr. Shi Yu thinks that we are weak and can be bullied, this time we will unite to give him some color."

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