During the period from Wei Jin to Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was simply a paradise for the family clans. At that time, there were two kinds of people, one was ordinary people, and the other was the scholar family.
People with warrior blood are almost like the aura of the protagonist, and they don't pay attention to anyone. It's a bit like a high caste person over there at some point.
The point is, who do you look down on, and you can't look down on the royal family, right? Don't say, these people really don't take the royal family seriously. Why? Because at the peak of the Warrior Clan, it was once above the imperial power. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Langya Wang clan, the Yingchuan Yu clan, the Chen Junxi clan, the Huan clan and other clans all regarded the emperor of the Sima family as a puppet.
Therefore, when it came to the Tang Dynasty, these warriors perfectly inherited this bad problem, and they looked down on the Li family royal family who claimed to be from the Li clan in Longxi, and they were even unwilling to intermarry with them.
Tang Taizong once complained: "There is a word first, I have no grievances against these clans, but their families have fallen into this way, no one is an official in the DPRK, why are they still dragged one by one like two hundred and fifty or eighty thousand?" The most hateful thing is that there are still many people holding them, how did society develop like this?
First, the warrior clan cherishes the warrior clan and looks down on others.
In the Tang Dynasty, there were 7 main families of cattle compared to cattle:
Qinghe Cui, Boling Cui, Fanyang Lu, Longxi Li, Zhao County, Xingyang Zheng, Taiyuan Wang.
Collectively, they are called the Five Surnames and Seven Wangs, that is, the five surnames, the Seven Counties Wang. Within the family, they often marry each other, and the marriage event has almost become a monopoly situation, and no opportunity is given to outsiders.
Although Li Shimin and his family also claimed to be descendants of the Li clan of Longxi, the Li clan of Longxi did not recognize their legitimacy, why? Because the old Li family and the Xianbei people had mixed blood, they were no longer purebred Longxi Li clans!
This statement is a bit ridiculous, but it is true. Li Yuan's father, Li Xun, married the Xianbei nobleman Dugu Clan as his wife, which gave birth to Li Yuan.
Li Shimin sometimes sighed: Our old Li family, so many excellent sons and daughters, why don't we see people from the five surnames and the Qiwang family come to propose to us?
That is to say, among the five surnames and seven wang families, even the royal family is not their ideal marriage object. Where does this pride come from?
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there is such a small story:
At that time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty general Wang Yu plotted against Liu Yu's dictatorship, and as a result, the matter was revealed, and Wang Yu's entire son was slaughtered by Liu Yu. Fortunately, his 14-year-old grandson Wang Huilong ran to the north alone and defected to Later Qin.
Later, Later Qin was also destroyed by Liu Yu, and Wang Huilong had no choice but to defect to Northern Wei. After arriving in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Cui Hao's younger brother Cui Tian saw at a glance that Wang Huilong was not a child of ordinary people, why? Because he has a typical rosacea of the Taiyuan Wang clan!
After asking, I learned that Wang Huilong was really a descendant of the Taiyuan Wang clan. Cui Tian laughed: It is indeed a natural noble species! Therefore, he immediately married his daughter to Wang Huilong, and also helped Wang Huilong in various ways in his career.
From this matter, we can see that there is an innate sense of intimacy between the warriors and the warriors. As for people outside the circle, they don't look at it at all.
Second, why are the warriors so dragged?
The scholar clan was very dragged, which even Tang Taizong deeply understood. But why are they dragging so much? It's up to you to see how many pounds they have! In the long course of our history, the strength of the warrior clan must not be ignored.
First, the Nine Pins Zhongzheng System provides a hotbed for the growth of the warrior clan.
The Nine Pins Zhongzheng System, which Cao Pi and Chen Qun came up with hiding at home and patting their heads, was mainly to cater to the preferences of the scholars. At that time, the inspection system was abolished by the Han Dynasty, and Cao Cao's meritocracy was not fixed.
Therefore, the inspection system was taken out to modify and modify, change a vest, and continue to introduce, which became the nine-pin Zhongzheng system. Why are the Shi clan so interested in the Nine Pins Zhongzheng System? The reason is simple and good for them.
This is a system of selecting and promoting officials, and the big and middle schools fill in the talent level table, and those who meet the standards can come out to become officials. The big zhongzheng and the small zhongzheng are basically served by people from the scholar clan.
Well, these clans of scholars pulled out all the people in their own families to become officials, basically monopolizing the officialdom of the Wei and Jin dynasties. Therefore, during the Wei and Jin dynasties, the power of the warrior clan was too strong, and the official arena was all their people, what else can you say?
Second, monopolize educational resources.
In fact, I think that compared with the monopoly of officialdom, monopolizing educational resources is a more terrible thing. Why? Because you people have deprived the general public of their educational qualifications, what is the line?
But this is the reality that because officials need a certain amount of knowledge reserves, the children of the scholar family must be well educated. For example, Wang Xizhi and Xie Lingyun can become famous writers and calligraphers without their basic education.
But they are very worried that after others have a certain amount of knowledge reserves, they will come to compete with their families for jobs, which is troublesome. Therefore, during the Wei and Jin dynasties, the authorities were very negative about private education, and even did not want to do it.
Of course, you can go to school, you can enter the official school, you have to have a certain identity foundation and economic foundation, ordinary people's children, then I am really sorry, not qualified to come in!
Besides, can you afford books? How expensive was the paper at that time, and was it not fragrant to buy grain? Therefore, the scholar group looks at its own people, that one is elite, and then looks at other people, all of them are illiterate.
Third, there was a series of celebrities.
It can be said that during the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was the paradise of the scholar group, because they advanced forward, they could make meritorious achievements, retreat backwards, and be able to live in seclusion as rich people. The celebrities who influenced the pattern of the world during this period basically came from the scholar group.
First of all, the two brothers Of the Langya Wang clan, Wang Dun and Wang Dao, one controlled the military affairs of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the other controlled the government affairs of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and almost regarded Sima Rui, the founding emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, as a puppet.
Secondly, Xie An and Xie Xuan of the Xie clan of Chen County won the Battle of Shuishui, crushed The 800,000-strong army of Former Qin, and saved the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Moreover, Huan Wen of the Huan family of the State of Huan, then followed him, using the four emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty as puppets, holding heavy troops, and repeatedly carrying out the Northern Expedition. His son Huan Xuan even established the Huan Chu regime.
In addition, Cui Hao of the Cui clan of Qinghe, the first conspirator of the Northern Wei Taiwu Emperor Tuoba Tao,corpus, several of the schemes were from Cui Hao's hand, which can be called the pillar of the country.
In addition, Wang Gong and Wang Guobao, who were born in the Taiyuan Wang clan, were also high-ranking officials with great power in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The cultural celebrities of the Tang Dynasty, such as Wang Bo, Wang Zhizhuo, Wang Changling, and Wang Wei, all came from the Taiyuan Wang clan.
It can be said that the main figures in this period of history are all from the families of the scholars, so I ask you, why are they not proud? With such many cattle ancestors, it is difficult not to be proud.
III. How did the Tang Dynasty suppress the Shi clan?
The first trick, modify the "Clan Chronicle"
Tang Taizong once asked his subordinates to compile the "Clan History", the purpose of which was very simple, that is, to give the old Li family a proper name and tell the people of the world that their old Li family was a pure descendant of the Han Hao clan.
But Gao Shilian's gang worked too seriously, and they did not appreciate the boss's careful thinking. They carefully classified and screened the world's population and genealogy, and finally evaluated Cui Mingan, a Yellow Gate Attendant from the Boling Cui clan, as a first-class scholar.
Good guy, the Cui family instantly became the most cattle family in the eyes of the world. This made Tang Taizong angry, and the old face immediately shrugged down: This is the good thing you have done?
His men immediately knew what was going on, and immediately reordered the Tianxia Shi clan according to The Request of Prince Tang: the Imperial Li Clan of course ranked first, the Empress Eldest Sun and their family ranked second, and the Cui Clan fell to the third.
Since then, the Tang Emperor has revised the "Clan Chronicle" for 4 consecutive times, and has repeatedly regarded the five surnames and the Qiwang family as the key target. But there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and these ministers under them are still proud of intermarriing with the five surnames and the Qiwang family, which is also no way!
The second trick is to prohibit intermarriage.
This trick is fierce enough, who came up with it? It turned out that during the Tang Dynasty, the prime minister Li Yifu had planned to find an old man with five surnames and seven looks for his son, but the people looked down on Li Yifu's origin and resolutely refused.
Li Yifu was the prime minister of the dynasty, and this paid off? In order to take revenge on the Qiwang family, Li Yifu began to instigate Emperor Gaozong of Tang to order that the gang be forbidden to marry each other.
Tang Gaozong Li Zhi patted his head and said: Yes! Doesn't blocking their marriage prevent them from colluding with each other? Li Yifu, you are really a talent!
Therefore, Emperor Gaozong of Tang ordered that children from seven surnames and ten families could not intermarry with each other. These seven surnames and ten families include:
First, the 6 sons of the Li Bao family in Longxi.
Second, the 4 sons of the Taiyuan Wang Qiong family.
Third, the 3 sons of the Xingyang Zhengwen family.
Fourth, the 4 sons of the Lu Du family of Fanyang, the 6 sons of the Lu Fu family, and the sons of the Lu Pu family.
Fifth, 2 sons of the Cui Zongbo family in Qinghe and 2 sons of the Cui Yuansun family.
Sixth, the 8 sons of the Boling Cui Yi family.
Seventh, the 4 sons of the Li Kai family in Zhao County.
These 7 families have 44 branches, mainly living during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. When they multiplied to the Tang Dynasty, their number was quite large. Intermarriage with each other is basically a common thing.
But now Emperor Gaozong of Tang forbade them to intermarry, and this paid off? In fact, this is counterproductive, why? Originally, these warrior clans had already begun to decline, and when you did this, people actually had a sense of superiority. You see, your family is not forbidden to be a child tiger, right? Our family has special treatment, and the emperor personally ordered that intermarriage is not allowed, how powerful should this be?
The third trick is to focus on the examination of science and technology.
Many emperors of the Tang Dynasty did this, especially during the Wu Zetian period, vigorously promoting the imperial examination and even inventing the martial arts. It is to break the monopoly of the officialdom of the warrior clan.
Only by using the imperial examination to promote the disciples of the Cold Gate one by one can we gradually curb the development of this gang of scholars. It is a pity that the Tang Dynasty's imperial examination was still too small, and only twenty or thirty people were recruited at a time, which could not constitute a substantial blow to the warrior clan.
The fourth move, use force!
Although the five surnames and the Qiwang family have been lonely in the Tang Dynasty, there are still a lot of prime ministers. For example, cui had 29 prime ministers in the Tang Dynasty. Those ordinary officials are even more numerous.
Why? Because people have educational resources in their hands, even if you do the imperial examination, it is also these well-educated scholars who can pass the examination!
Therefore, in the late Tang Dynasty, the family development of the five surnames and seven wangshi clans was still good. After Huang Chao launched the uprising, he wanted these people to work for him, but people felt that this brother was born as a bandit and looked down on him at all. Huang Chao was furious and grabbed the core members of the five surnames and seven hopes into a pot.
This move was really too much of a blow to this gang of warriors. They never expected that Huang Chao would dare to be rude to them! Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, offending the Shi clan, basically want to hold Jiangshan again, it is obvious that Huang Chao does not play cards according to the routine, this is not going to want Jiangshan.
Summary: The Shi Clan Group has tried to curry favor with the old Li family, but unfortunately the end is very tragic.
Not to mention that the Shi clan group has always been very proud, and no one will look down on the royal family for no reason, especially the old Li family, which holds real power. Even if you are a thousand-year-old warrior, you can't ignore it.
Why is the Shi clan reluctant to marry the old Li family? In addition to hating their impure blood, there is actually an important reason, that is, they are afraid!
The original empress of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and the original empress of Li Longji of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang were all from the Taiyuan Wang clan. The Taiyuan Wang clan also wanted to try to marry the royal family, but these two marriages led to quite tragic results.
Empress Gaozong of Tang was framed by Wu Zetian and deposed by Li Zhi. Empress Wang of Tang Xuanzong was also deposed by Li Longji and died that year. Therefore, people are afraid, and you can't save your life as an empress, so it's better to marry an ordinary scholar!
Reference: Old Book of Tang