During the Wu Zetian period, the eradication of the gate valve force and the flow of talent in the country were of progressive significance to promoting social development. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Li family did have the help of various forces, and they could also kill the four sides, but this could not be attributed only to the alliance between the door valves.
First, the ills of door valve politics
Gate valve politics arose during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when the country's politics and economy were completely monopolized by several large families. People who are not from a family clan are completely excluded from the ruling class. Only those children of the high-ranking and prestigious clans can be reused by the state through the "Nine-Pin Zhongzheng System" and in the form of internal nomination. Because of the lack of supervision, this has opened the door to the advancement of corruption and mediocrity to the temple.
There are three conditions for the evaluation of the "Nine-Pin Zhongzheng System": one looks at the family lineage, the second looks at the character, and the third looks at the talent. However, in fact, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the evaluation only depended on the family lineage. During the Jin Dynasty, the entire court was full of relatives and friends of the gate valve, and the power of the high gate was getting bigger and bigger, directly threatening the imperial power. They were politically and imperially powerful, and economically occupied a large number of mountains and fertile land in the country.
Unfortunately, they do not care about national politics, but only pay attention to personal life, attach importance to "clear talk", and even "talk about mysteries", and talk about some unrealistic things. Because they are all "successive secretaries of state", real aristocrats, do not know the suffering of the people. He is politically closed-minded and has little interest in the world's major events. By appointing them as officials of the state, there is no doubt that the corpse is vegetarian.
By the time of Wu Zetian's reign, the gate valve force had long been proved to be a cancer that was not conducive to the survival and development of the country. Therefore, no matter what purpose Wu Zetian used to eliminate them, it has made a great contribution to the course of Chinese history, and this is the reason why many people applaud them.
Second, the door valve nobles have declined in the Sui Dynasty
The door valve system had in fact declined at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and by the time of the Sui Dynasty, it had little influence. Li Yuan was born into an aristocratic family, but this did not mean that he had pacified the world through the alliance of door valves. If we look at the history of Li Yuan and Li Shimin's founding of the country, we will find that Li Yuan has actually been quelling the peasant uprising, and then constantly recruiting peasant rebels and strengthening his own strength. And Li Shimin has been secretly networking talents for his father, and they have used many forces.
Finally, you can actually take another look at the twenty-four heroes on the Ling yan Pavilion of the Tang Dynasty. Many of them were not of aristocratic origin. The real Mongol clan, when the Sui Dynasty was eleven years old, had already lost their political rights and interests due to the abolition of the "Nine Pins Zhongzheng System". Coupled with the perennial peasant uprising wars, some of the so-called nobles have even fallen to the point where "although their names are in the state, they are not exempt from poverty."
That is to say, these door valve nobles can also get "my ancestors have been wide" to outsiders, but in fact he himself is already very poor. On the contrary, it is Wu Zetian, whose mother is from the Hongnong Yang clan, so she is the real door valve nobleman. At the same time, the real situation is that Wu Zetian did not deliberately eradicate the door valve. The door valve aristocracy fell in the previous dynasty. In order to consolidate his position, Wu Zetian eradicated the power of some famous and prestigious clans, which was an internal contradiction between the landlord class and the old shi clan.
Wu Zetian wanted to ascend to the throne as empress, and Li Zhi went with her to pay bribes to the eldest grandson Wuji, but did not succeed. At that time, the eldest son Wuji concurrently held the positions of Tai Wei and Zhongshu Ling, and the political, economic and military power of the country was all controlled by him. In major state affairs, Li Zhidu had to listen to him. As a result, Li Zhi gradually began to resent his "foreign relative". Therefore, he helped Wu Zetian and used the power of the Shu clan to overthrow the eldest son Wuji and his friends.
epilogue
The existence of door valve forces is not conducive to the progress of the country and society, so everyone feels that they should be eradicated. Li Yuan came to power not by relying on the power of the gate valve, but by relying on many forces, and then relying on his and Li Shimin's superior military and political talents to ascend to the throne. At the same time, when the Tang Dynasty was established, the door valve aristocracy had already declined, and Wu Zetian's attack on Changsun Wuji and others was an internal struggle belonging to the feudal landlord class, and she was not really eradicating the door valve. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty was able to kill the four parties by not relying on the door valve nobles, and there was no question of whether the door valve nobles could still kill the four parties!