Chapter 361: The looming appearance of the Valuable Family
The emperor received the prince of Lingnan in the palace, while Luo Jing began to deal with the relatives and friends who came to visit. There were many relatives in the Dong'a Marquis's Mansion, especially after he married so many women.
During the reign of Emperor Liu Heng, if one word was used to describe the Dong'e Marquisate, it would be - noble.
This is completely different from the Luo Xinshi era. After all, although Luo Jing is favored, the official position he holds does not involve important military and national affairs, so it is impossible to ask him directly to do things.
However, it can be seen from the fact that various powerful families are vying to marry their daughters that Luo Jing's real role is not in governing the country or leading the army, but in two points.
First, the emperor trusted him. To what extent did he trust him?
Whenever Luo Jing recommended talented people, they all succeeded; whenever Luo Jing advised people, everyone listened to him; whenever Luo Jing wanted to protect people, they all suffered punishment.
This is one of the reasons why many powerful people are willing to marry their daughters to him.
There are many factors that contribute to Luo Jing's popularity, but the most important one is naturally his identity as a son of the Luo family.
This situation is a bit like in real history, when an official reached a very high position, his ideal was to marry a woman from one of the five surnames.
This trend has not been popular for a long time. When Bang Zhou was still in power, although the Luo family was special, it still had a large number of nobles with a long history.
The women of the Luo family are mainly known for their good moral character.
After the old aristocrats of the Zhou and Qin dynasties were all destroyed, the love of antiquity deeply embedded in the blood of the Xia people could no longer be hidden.
As the only noble family in the world, they are a noble family with a long history.
In later generations, a rosacea in the Wang family of Taiyuan could become a symbol of nobility, and one could even use it to marry the prime minister's daughter.
The miraculous holy mark on Luo's forehead naturally overwhelmed everything, so the fashion of the time was to marry someone from the Luo family.
In addition to the emperor's trust, Luo Jing himself is the core link of a huge network of relationships, which makes his every word and action very important. Naturally, many families want to visit him to maintain relationships.
Many powerful families who had never come to Chang'an City in the past came to visit Luo Jing, and some wanted to return to the court.
There is more to it than just entering the court, “Sir, the sons of the clan are unwilling to enter the government directly. They say that a real man is born between heaven and earth. If he relies on the family’s cover-up for everything, isn’t that a shame?
If I could enter the Imperial College, learn from the doctors, and be recruited as a virtuous person, this would bring honor to our ancestors."
Hearing these words, Luo Jing's pupils shrank immediately and alarm bells rang in his heart.
He knew why these people targeted the Imperial Academy and the Doctor of Confucian Classics who were far less powerful than them.
Because of Liu Heng's intentional or unintentional transfers, many meritorious officials who played little role were forced to gradually fade out of the Han Dynasty's imperial guards system, and even the hereditary positions guarding dangerous passes in the local area were lost.
Although the country was still sealed off, he was unwilling to lose his power and return to his hometown to become a rich man.
After trying their best to find a way out, a few Chehou families, seeing that the emperor valued Confucian scholars, hoped to transform themselves from military nobles to Confucian scholars.
In the Dong'a Marquis's mansion, Luo Jing and Luo Ban sat in a quiet room, discussing these military merits and honors. Both of them had strange looks on their faces, and they looked at each other in confusion.
Luo Jing pondered and said, "Could it be that these people have seen the future of the world and believe that it is the general trend to use those who are good at classics?
Although Your Majesty has made use of Confucian scholars and other schools of thought in recent years, the status of the meritorious nobles is not low.
A large number of officials are still recommended by them. How can the wealthy care about a penny on the ground? How can they, who are powerful and influential, set their sights on the Imperial College? "
When it comes to governing a country, these educated people are indeed much better than those meritorious officials who wield guns and sticks.
And it is a very obvious fact that the imperial court will not always be at war, especially since the current emperor has been in power for many years and has focused on domestic affairs and has not taken the initiative to launch any war of expansion.
But we need a large number of officials who can govern the country, strengthen the country and enrich the people at all times.
Luo Ban said in a deep voice: “For the meritorious marquises, as long as they have a fiefdom, they can fully afford the cost of training their family’s children.
Those heroes who were gradually losing power wanted to take advantage of the favorable conditions to make a comeback.
Some families also realized that wealth and status that depended solely on imperial power would come and go quickly.
Ajing, you have been in Chang'an for a long time and you may not understand it yet.
The Luo family stretches across Shandong, and many families can see it just by looking up.
Since the fall of the old country, many powerful families in Shandong have begun to study why the Luo family has been able to exist for so long and still remain prosperous.
They could not learn to be a Su Wang, but they could see that Luo loved reading and research, paid attention to the rectification of family customs, focused on the training of family members, and united the entire family.
Many families began to imitate the Luo family, studying the classics of sages within the family and cultivating their children's reading.
As long as talented people emerge from generation to generation, wealth will naturally continue from generation to generation.
The imperial court began to reuse these students who were well-versed in classics, which made these families even more excited.
Now Gong Hou probably realized it, so he started to do the same thing."
Luo Jing gently rubbed his temples and said with a headache: "Not only the ordinary Chehou family, but even the Yinghou family and the Liuhou family whose brain grew back after Zhang Buzhi's death, have begun to do this.
The meritorious dukes already had great advantages in the court. They had abundant political resources and held the power of recommendation.
Although some have declined, the entire group of founding heroes is still thriving. Since the time of Emperor Gao, it has prospered for four generations. Not to mention this generation, the Liuhou Mansion is still the number one foreign relative. Judging from the current situation, the Yinghou Mansion is also going to rise again.
By then, this group of people will be able to fight, study and govern the country. Unless the virtuous and capable people are abandoned, will other poor families have a chance to turn things around?"
This trend was not anticipated by the Luo family, but Luo Jing was a little too worried about it.
Why did Ji Zhao sigh that the blessing of his ancestors was a divine skill that could take away the fortune of heaven and earth?
It is because IQ will return to the mean, and no family can produce talents above this level from generation to generation. This is the core competitiveness of the Luo family.
The truly glorious period of those so-called families usually does not exceed a hundred years, and then they will gradually decline.
Then wait for the next talented head of the family to ascend to a high position, gain the trust of a certain emperor, and then rise again with the family name.
This cycle repeats itself over and over again; this is what is called a millennial family. It sounds very impressive, but in fact, the truly glorious days do not last long.
However, because Luo had successfully walked this path, he was very aware of the horror of it.
Luo Ban said speechlessly: "Before, the family always believed that the various schools of thought would be passed down in the form of schools, and even some large schools would learn from the form of academies to establish their own private schools on a large scale.
These students from the same college will form alliances and then form factional struggles in this way.
Just like now, the hundreds of schools of thought are constantly debating, making their own knowledge superior to other schools, and then seizing power.
But I never expected that it could be in the form of a family.
If this group of wealthy and powerful nobles also hold some of the power to interpret the scriptures, it would be fine in the early stages, but in the later stages, wouldn't they be almost the same as the nobles during the Bang Zhou period?
After all this twists and turns, how did it end up back at this point in time? "
Luo Ban learned the skill of staying calm from Luo Ling, but faced with something that could affect the future for hundreds of years, he was unable to remain completely calm.
"Brother, there is no need to be like this. After all, things are different. In the Central Plains, the Bang Zhou era is completely over and will never appear again.
However, I have already told His Majesty that the Han family wants to return to Chang'an. His Majesty is very happy and has made use of them. Many descendants of meritorious officials are very envious. "
In the past, the Han family retired at the peak of their career, and the royal family was very grateful for this.
Now the Han family has to return to the court again because the influence of General Han Xin has almost dissipated.
The current emperor Liu Heng's attitude towards the Han family is only to be grateful for Han Xin's great contributions in the past, without any fear as a monarch.
As soon as Han returned to the court, he went straight to a more prestigious government office. As a close minister of the emperor, this was an obvious promotion and reuse. It was possible that he would be sent to another post in the future or be in charge of the imperial guards.
As the saying goes, a horse's bones are worth a thousand gold coins. Liu Heng's favor to Han was to show an attitude to all his subjects, that is, those who have made contributions to the Han Dynasty will not be forgotten by the royal family.
As long as you remain loyal to the imperial family, the oath that Emperor Gao made to you in those days, "to make the river like a belt, Mount Tai like a fierce sword, the country to be forever peaceful, and love to the Miao people" will still be valid.
A grand ceremony was held in which the emperor of the Xia Dynasty summoned the princes of the inner and outer vassal states to demonstrate the dignity of the emperor. However, before the ceremony began, so many changes and adjustments took place in the officialdom. In this slightly weird atmosphere, the formal ceremony finally began.
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“History is an upward spiral!”
“Even if the historical process falls back to a low point, it will never be directly destroyed, and the new low will always be higher.”
This is the most concise and insightful statement on the historical process and its development that I have ever read, and this was vividly demonstrated at the turn of the Qin and Han dynasties.
When military heroes used swords and iron hooves to crush all the corruption and ugliness of the thousand-year-old aristocracy, Chen Sheng shouted the deafening "Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers born of different species" in Daze Township. However, the course of history told everyone with iron-clad facts that productivity is the dominant factor in everything.
What will grow out of the corpse of the most decadent old aristocracy of blood will not be democracy, but a new and more progressive aristocracy.
But this is still a great progress. At least the era of bloodline supremacy has come to an end. The new nobility no longer has undisputed rights to everything. Morality and law firmly suppress everyone. The price is the expansion of imperial power. A temporary balance has been formed. - "The Rise and Fall of the Han Dynasty"
(End of this chapter)
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