Everyone knows that there were so-called three religions in ancient China, that is, The Confucian Tao. Shih Tzu originated in Northern Tianzhu and is now Buddhism in India. Tao originated from the Taoist school in the Spring and Autumn Period and eventually developed into Taoism. Confucianism, likewise, is a Confucian school that originated in the late Spring and Autumn period. Among them, Taoism is a native religion, Buddhism belongs to foreign religions, and Confucianism is the dominant family under the national policy of deposing hundreds of schools of Confucianism, dominating the situation for thousands of years.
In ancient times, especially in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, when a hundred schools of thought were contending, the sons and hundreds of families that stood out lost the stage that could be played with the collapse of the Six Kingdoms, and the strong unification pattern of the Qin and Han Dynasties since then laid the foundation for only one voice and one proposition to be used as the cornerstone of the country.
In this context, the Fa family on which the Qin Dynasty started became the pillar of the Qin Dynasty, and the early Han Dynasty paid attention to the strategy of doing nothing to imitate the huang lao's technique, after a hundred years of savings, the reality of the government treasury being solid and the people rich was that it was full of lustful thoughts, the improvement of productivity, and the surge of wealth that made the Han Dynasty produce more surplus labor, and these people had more time to learn various knowledge.
Although at that time, the Hundred Sons and Hundred Families no longer had the favorable soil of the Warring States period, and many of them had long since declined, so what they could rely on was nothing more than the trust of those in power. Before those in power can support them, there are more roads to be paved themselves. At this time, the ideas of each family laid their own development pattern, and in the Warring States period, the personal preferences of each monarch would provide different soils, but the world was fixed on one statue, and only one academic proposition was needed to avoid chaos.
Under this premise, the Confucians took full advantage of their innate superiority, and because they had always been committed to promoting their own academic ideas, in the Qin and Han dynasties, in the face of the different hobbies of the kings, they changed direction and turned to the common people or the more affluent commoners to sell scholarship in exchange for income or recognition. Such a proposition did not attract the suppression of the imperial power, so there was no class, the disciples of Confucianism expanded rapidly, and even various tribes flourished, such as Mencius, Xunzi, Spring and Autumn, Guliang, Ram, etc. all blossomed everywhere. On the contrary, others such as the Mo family were not recognized because of lynching, the Fa family went into a low point with the collapse of the Qin Dynasty, the existence of chivalry and the struggle for power by the government were suppressed, the stability of the warrior family was useless, and the Taoist family temporarily became a pillar industry. However, the idea of being quiet and indisputable is doomed not to expand its influence.
It was against this background that the disciples of Confucian Confucius and Meng, under the idea of having no class, rapidly expanded their base and lobbied around to lobby the princes and local governors of the time. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it had spread throughout the country. However, the situation at that time was not very friendly to them. Until the ascension of Emperor Wudi of Han to the throne, the god of fate finally gave them a chance to flip, and Emperor Wudi of Han created a fairer system of inspection, that is, to make the system more fair, or popular, and also began to plant the seeds of the later warrior clan.
The elected Dong Zhongshu responded to the proposition of Cheng Xiangwei, and Emperor Wu of Han adopted this opinion, one was to increase the power of the central government, and the other was to agree with the Confucian doctrine that he could serve the emperor more efficiently. Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty further reduced the power of the princely states through the Tuien Order, and at this point, the empire was completely unified. Neither the princes nor the academic minds could compete with the Chang'an court.
After Confucian students finished their studies, in order to prove themselves, they sought to make meritorious achievements, and urgently needed a series of policies that were beneficial to the readers, and these people ran around, lobbying the princes and kings everywhere, and finally lobbying forces to enter Chang'an, forcing the rulers to change the national policy, and the policy was constantly tilted towards Confucianism. Emperor Wu of Han's edict gave the Confucians a stage to play, so more people tended to Confucian scholarship, and in the process, Kong Meng was gradually saintized, and their ideas became an obstacle that the princes of the world could not disobey.
After that, whoever enters the Central Plains must vigorously promote the way of the saints in a serious way, and in turn, the disciples who have received the way of the saints will actively return to the kings of the world who have played the stage for them, and do their best to maintain their ruling order for them.
This model slowly developed into a situation in which the Son of Heaven dominated the temple and Confucianism dominated the society. The monarch and the Confucians formed a solid alliance of interests. The weakness of this alliance is that the kings change every three to five, and the interests of Confucianism are perfectly inherited. This, in turn, makes the monarchy invisibly bound.
The long-term rule of the two Han Dynasties and 400, a single small peasant society, did not need too many doctrines to make the inspection and examination system deeply rooted, and by the end of the Han Dynasty, hundreds of years of inspection and examination system led to the emergence of a huge group of scholars, who were in-laws and formed alliances of interests, even if the imperial power could not shake these interest groups, the peak of the power of the scholar group was the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and they were tied to the scholar clan from the beginning. Eventually, it evolved into a situation in which the king and the horse shared the world. The entire Jin Dynasty was entirely dressed as a warrior. Such a reality had to make the imperial power rethink the choice of its own helper to govern the country.
However, the embarrassing thing is that the helpers can change a group of people, but their doctrine cannot be changed to another one, because hundreds of years of precipitation have long made the Confucian family dominant, and all the sons and hundreds of families have become very obscure, and the Confucian doctrine is also needed to stabilize people's hearts during the Taiping dynasty. Compared with the chaotic world, The Confucian doctrine is more conducive to the Taiping world, which makes the imperial power love and hate for Confucianism intertwined, and the cutting is constant and chaotic.