"The fundamental solution is no longer to kill aristocratic families, but to the official system, and whether the people can easily obtain books and knowledge."

To understand Cao Chong's words, the first thing to do is to understand how the aristocratic family came into being, how he came into being, and then to know how to use how to destroy them.

The reason why Cao Cao mentioned before the family was only a superficial phenomenon.

To know how aristocratic families were born, it is inevitable that they would involve the political background era at that time.

So, how did the aristocratic family form?

This question can be traced back to how powerful people emerged.

The emergence of powerful men in the Han Dynasty was caused by many factors, such as the family of heroes, relatives of foreigners, Confucian families, old nobles, etc.

Based on some of the views of the predecessors: respecting Confucianism has gradually connected the powerful with the learning of Confucianism. The result of learning of Confucianism in the past lives is to become an official in the past lives, so-called understanding of the classics and becoming an official in the past lives. The result of becoming an official in the past lives is the accumulation of wealth (land) and connections (disciples and old officials).

Some wealthy families gradually became less satisfied with their economic prosperity and constantly demanded close relations with political rights. They controlled the selection of villages and served as local officials, and gradually formed a large surname and a clan, and gradually moved from powerful people to aristocratic families to a long evolutionary process.

The aristocratic clans are by no means scum. The reputation of aristocratic families was corrupted during the Jin Dynasty. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were imperial examination systems and cheap papers. More and more talents were among the children of ordinary people. During the Han and Three Kingdoms periods, aristocratic clans were always the main source of talents.

Gaode, a famous scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was one of only a handful of talents provided by the aristocratic races during the Three Kingdoms period.

Massacre of aristocratic races like online writers is to destroy themselves, and Sun Ce is a living example.

The monopoly of culture is just an inevitable stage of social development.

In the primary stage of papermaking, there is no printing technique, most of which are bamboo slips, animal velvet paper, etc., which leads to high cultural costs and only a few wealthy people can learn culture.

It is impossible to find a few illiterate officials to select officials, so they can only find aristocratic family. Therefore, the more cultural the aristocratic family is, the more rights they have, and the more rights they have, the more cultural they have.

If the poor want to gain culture, they can only become vassals or disciples of the gentry and become part of the strength of the gentry.

The inevitability of social development is not controlled by manpower.

This is why the aristocratic family emerged.

If Cao Cao wants to kill the aristocratic family, there will be great risks. He will accidentally add the entire Wei Kingdom and even fail to solve the problem.

Moreover, even if Cao Cao killed all the aristocratic families, in less than a few decades, the now-killed aristocratic families will take root and sprout again.

Killing aristocratic families is not a fundamental solution, but a fundamental solution is what Cao Chong did in Liangzhou.

Popularize knowledge.

When the talents that a country can select are no longer only people from aristocratic families, the power of aristocratic families can be truly eliminated.

This principle was understood by Cao Chong as a time traveler. Although Boss Cao was a hero of this era, he would not understand these principles.

For example, Cao Cao now wants to capture all the aristocratic families.

Of course, Cao Cao didn't understand what Cao Chong said. Fortunately, Cao Cao was also very willing to listen to his opinions. He immediately asked: "What does Cang Shu mean? What is the connection between the official system and the people's ability to obtain knowledge more easily and the elimination of aristocratic families?"

Cao Chong looked at Cao Cao and said slowly.

"If it weren't for the Han system, how could officials be county magistrates in one place for a lifetime? After the county magistrates have been working for a long time, will the county magistrates have power in the local area? And these forces are the prototypes of the aristocratic family."

Cao Cao nodded, he could understand this principle.

"Cang Shu thinks how to restructure it?"

"You can set up the position of prefect and county magistrates, but you must arrange a magistrate around the prefect and county magistrates, and set up a county magistrate to take charge of military power, and change the jurisdiction in three years."

Cao Chong suggested that Cao Cao set up an official system a bit like the official system of the Northern Song Dynasty, but did not adopt the central official system of the Northern Song Dynasty, but adopted the local official system of the Northern Song Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, the magistrate is here to supervise the prefect's actions, while the county magistrate holds military power. In other words, the prefect originally had military power and was the local emperor in a local county. However, if it was followed by Cao Chong's suggestion, the prefect's original power would be divided into two, and the power of these two parts was also subject to the magistrate's sanction.

In this case, the prefect cannot take root in the local counties for a long time, and cannot do illegal things, so the aristocratic families will naturally have no way to take root and sprout.

Cao Chong thought his explanation was clear enough, but Cao Cao frowned slightly and asked, "What is the magistrate?"

Cao Chong was stunned for a moment and immediately said, "The so-called magistrate is to do supervision. He can supervise the prefect and county magistrate and write to the central government directly."

Cao Cao fully understood by Cao Chong's explanation.

This reduces the power of the prefect.

Cao Cao thought about it carefully and found that Cao Chong's method was indeed good.

"If Kurasu's method is followed, the problems of the aristocratic family may be eliminated from the root."

Cao Chong shook his head.

"With this reform of the official system alone, it is impossible to make the aristocratic family disappear. At most, it will make the aristocratic family appear a little slower."

"Why is this?"

Cao Chong smiled and said, "The reason is very simple. Although changing local policies can change the time when aristocratic families are born, in terms of choosing officials, who can the father choose besides choosing people from aristocratic families?"

"I can..."

Cao Cao said these three words and stopped talking. He immediately understood what Cao Chong meant.

"Cang Shu means that even if the power is divided, the aristocratic family will still exist. The key is to open up people's wisdom?"

Cao Chong nodded.

"Only those poor families and those good families can read books and become talents, will aristocratic families truly decline. If the court does not rely on aristocratic families, the aristocratic families will naturally lose their meaning of existence."

Open up people's wisdom?

Cao Cao was silent.

"Does Cang Shu know the consequences of opening up people's wisdom?"

When Cao Cao said this, Cao Chong immediately understood Cao Cao's worries.

Under the ancient Chinese monarchy system, the monarch held all the state power and was the supreme ruler.

The highest level of fooling people lies in making their subjects superstitious about the monarch.

Since it is difficult to become superstitious about mortals, an important goal of the art of fooling the people is to deify the monarch in the minds of the people.

First, the monarch race is alienated.

As early as the era of slavery, rulers took advantage of people's worship and fear of "God" to combine the power of the monarch with the power of the divine.

The monarch in the Shang and Zhou dynasties was called "Son of Heaven", and the monarch called himself "Yu Yiren". This title shows that the monarch is the son of heaven, has the nature of combining man and god, and is the "people superior" who is above all people.

God has supreme absolute authority, and the power of the monarch is granted by God.

As the descendants of God, the representative of God, the incarnation of God on earth, the monarch shares honor and authority with God.

"God" is the God in heaven, and the monarch is the "lower emperor" underground.

The rule of the monarch is the rule of God.

In this way, who dares to despise God's authority? Who can violate God's will?

This lie of theocratic politics is the earliest art of fooling the people in the era of slavery.

Second, the monarch's body is mysterious.

The miraculous transformation of human race puts the monarch in a special position between man and God. However, no matter what kind of "miraculousness" the origin of bloodline is, it cannot change the fact that the monarch is a man and not a God after all.

Therefore, the art of fooling the people was about to come up with new tricks, using various means to cover the monarch with various mysterious colors.

Even if a monarch is a human, his physical appearance is different from that of ordinary people.

Third, the monarch's personality is sacred.

To deify the monarch, one also needs to try his best to beautify the monarch's personality.

Only in this way can the monarch's spiritual inspiration power for his subjects be increased. "The sacred is the king, the wise is the king, and the brave is the elders. This is the way of heaven and the affection of man." In fact, the ancient monarch not only could not possess the above virtues, but also did not need it.

In fact, we pursue these virtues.

All they have to do is just a hypocritical performance. As long as they create the illusion of the sacred and perfect personality of the monarch in the minds of the subjects, they will achieve their goal.

For a monarch, there is actually no need to possess all virtues, "but it is very necessary to appear to possess all these qualities."

"We must be compassionate, uphold faith and righteousness, conform to humanity, be honest and upright, and be pious and believe in God."

Although the monarch "often has to betray his faith, be merciless, be contrary to humanity, and violate God's way" in political practice, he should pay great attention to it, "Don't slip out of his mouth, speak with the above five virtues, and be careful to make those who see and hear the monarch's conversation feel that the monarch is a very compassionate, keep faithful, pay attention to humanity, and be devout and believe in God."

In order to maintain the glorious image of the monarch in the minds of his subjects, no shortcomings or mistakes can be destined to be with the monarch.

Whenever natural disasters come, in order to ease the people's dissatisfaction and resistance, ancient Chinese monarchs sometimes issued "self-crime edicts" and made an understatement of self-examination.

The purpose is very obvious, which is the so-called "crime yourself to win the hearts of others". However, the true and substantial guilt cannot be borne by the monarch, and it is often borne by the subject instead of the monarch.

Therefore, on the stage of political struggle, the role of "scapegoat" appeared.

If Cao Cao had given people wisdom to the people of Wei, what would the consequences be?

The emperor is also a human being. He is not necessarily very clever or wise. It’s just that there are too few capable people in the world, and those who do not conform to the norms of “cultivating oneself, managing the family, governing the country, and pacifying the world” are either in prison or in hell.

The rest of those who can work have undergone unique training from the emperor, so that they only have the emperor in their minds, the country is the emperor, and doing things for the emperor is to contribute to the country.

The common people can only face the loess and the sky, and cannot stand up straight for three meals a day or raise their heads. Just like the current houses and housing prices, one acre and three cents of land, which is enough for generations of them to work. Even so, three generations of poor peasants can still be seen everywhere. In fact, this is not surprising. The country, no, the emperor did not want you to eat enough at all, and you would not be able to eat enough.

What can you do other than that? What can you think?

Now we can learn something through the Internet. If it were ancient times, would you expect the people to know what the emperor looked like?

The emperor is a smart person and a big man who has seen the world. The common people, who worked in the same field for three generations, have not supported the poor, or rather fools, are like donkeys blindfolded and just pulling the mill. They never thought about why they were the life of a donkey. They would not think about it at all. Once they thought about it, it would be bad.
To be continued...