Chapter 448: Luo's Path
What kind of social structure is the most stable?
No one knows the answer to this question.
But practice has proved that the olive-shaped social structure is much more stable than the pyramid-shaped social structure. The end of a dynasty is usually an extreme pyramid-shaped structure, and the ultimate destruction is brewing in it, which will then destroy everything, overthrow everything, and exterminate everything.
Start all over again, over and over again.
Everyone in the room was slowly flipping through the documents in their hands. Some had smiles on their faces, some frowned tightly, some looked worried, and some had murderous intent in their eyes, as if they were about to draw their swords and kill someone in the next moment.
"On the surface, scholars look up to their families, but in reality, they start to stick together and become family-oriented."
An old man said in a deep voice with a hint of worry: "These families are breaking through the academic barriers set by their families and gaining secondary rights to interpret scriptures.
In the past, when my elder brother Gongzi Jing was in the reign of Emperor Wen, he had already discovered some vague signs of this matter. During the reign of Emperor Xiaowu, military meritorious officials flourished. These people were not prominent on the surface, but in fact, they had already grown very strong. "
There was silence in the room.
During the Bang Zhou Dynasty, there was a saying that there was a stone of talent in the world, and the Luo family academy alone occupied eight buckets of it. The world's talented people came from the Luo family, and this was absolutely true.
But when the Han Dynasty came and the world was unified, Luo Ling knew that this would not work. So when the Han Dynasty wanted to build the Imperial Academy, Luo Ling actively supported the establishment of the Imperial Academy, because the world needed such an academy that gathered talented people. It was also to sell the political theories that Luo Ling needed, such as the resurgence of Mencius.
But in this world, either the east wind prevails over the west wind, or the west wind prevails over the east wind. The establishment of the Taixue Palace will definitely affect the status of the Luo's Academy.
But the influence before was limited. After all, the Luo Academy was the place to attain enlightenment and become a saint, while the Taixue Academy was more like a place to gild one's liarship for becoming an official.
However, the Confucian classics and the family merged together, and gradually formed an academic family similar to the Luo family. This was a development direction that the Luo family had not thought of before.
This trend was first discovered by Luo Jing during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen. Over the years, the Luo family has not been able to find a solution.
Because you can't stop parents from passing knowledge to their children, the Luo family themselves are spreading clan knowledge among the clan, otherwise there wouldn't be so many talented people emerging.
The gradual closure of Zhaocheng made this tendency more obvious.
In order to change this situation, the Luo Academy in Zhaocheng must be reopened, directly defeating the official Imperial College of the court, re-attracting students from all over the world, and turning the Imperial College into a pure place to brush up political status.
“But these Confucian families are supporters of the family, they treat the family with respect, and they are also beneficial to the world. The people of these Confucian families are talented, and they are superior to those marquises in governing the country.
Moreover, most of these people are admired by the world because of their outstanding talents and noble character. Although we know that these things will be lost sooner or later, we cannot kill our base now because of something that may happen in the future. There is no such reason in this world. "
Any emerging class, when it first appears, is full of vitality and justice, at least relative to the justice of the old world. The same is true for the Confucian classics families. Most of their rise is caused by a person who is extremely talented in Confucian classics, who becomes a famous scholar in a short period of time, impresses countless scholars, and then, after a series of propaganda that reflects his moral character, he accepts disciples, becomes an official, and passes on his legacy.
This way of rising through hard study and ensuring good moral character is at least much better than the nobility who rely solely on bloodline to become prominent.
It is a habit for the Confucian scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought to respect the Luo family, and it is impossible for the Luo family to attack those who support them.
Luo Sheng frowned upon hearing this and said, "But the Confucian family that came from a powerful background fell too quickly!"
The origins of Confucian families are very diverse. Some were directly established by the great men of the Hundred Schools of Thought, and the majority were Confucianists who focused on family traditions. For example, the Kong family of Confucius who ruled in Qi, the Meng family of Mencius, the descendants of Xunzi who ruled in Yingchuan County, and the marquises and princes who had lost their countries on the edge of the country. As their fiefdoms became fewer and fewer, and they could not find opportunities to make achievements, they transformed themselves.
But the largest number and the ones with the biggest problems are the local tyrants. This group of people is a great harm in the eyes of the Luo family. The speed at which the tyrants fall into depravity is far beyond imagination.
"The powerful are the most hostile to the family, and at the same time they are the most powerful class. Most importantly, they are impossible to eliminate. Whether the family should get involved in a war with the powerful and continue to consume them requires the collective decision of the family."
As soon as Luo Sheng said this, everyone in the room began to think. It is not a big deal to be strong simply. The key is that the powerful are like leeks. After you cut one crop, there will be another crop.
As long as there is rule, the emergence of powerful people is inevitable. Don't say that this situation can be avoided by saying that the country's administrative capacity is sufficient or that imperial power can be extended to the countryside.
Innocent!
Anyone who has learned about organizational construction and operation would not think so. The top rulers are not mentally retarded. Given the emperor's greed for power, how could he possibly give up power below the county and township levels?
Every emperor is always thinking about increasing his own power. The reason he doesn't do so is because he can't do it and can't manage it. There is no power vacuum, so powerful people emerge.
As soon as a powerful person appears, he will instinctively begin to devour the people around him and start to strengthen himself. In the process of strengthening himself, as the saying goes, a horse cannot grow fat without night grass, and a man cannot become rich without unexpected wealth. The growth of any family is not clean.
Even if the Luo family grew stronger, from a higher level perspective, it was the blood and tears of countless slaves. There is nothing worth hiding.
Strengthening oneself is to resist risks.
Who brings the risk?
The emperor, political enemies, other local tyrants, and rebellious people.
In this world, there is also the Luo family.
The Luo family rose along with the rise of the Xia people. More than a thousand years ago, they took advantage of the distinction between Xia and Yi and completed their thorough accumulation. Over countless years, they completely sheathed their fangs and became a role model of morality.
However, these newly established families did not have such blessings, especially most of the powerful ones. Without foreign races to exploit, they could only exploit the people of the Han Dynasty if they wanted to rise, but this was something the Luo family would not allow.
Even during the extremely backward era of Zhou Dynasty, the Luo family never exploited the Zhou people!
This is the confidence that the Luo family has in facing everything calmly. It is normal for the Luo family to become a thorn in the eyes and a thorn in the flesh after cutting off someone's financial resources and killing their parents.
Everything will eventually fall on the powerful. The small powerful now will become the big powerful in the future. The marquises, princes, and emperors are all powerful.
Everyone in the room thought of this, and strange expressions appeared on everyone's face.
“No compromise!”
A girl from the Luo family spoke softly. She had a very gentle face and looked to be about thirty years old, but her figure was still slim. Every move she made was full of intellectual beauty, and her words sounded firm.
“No compromise!”
Another Luo clan member said in a deep voice, "Insects are insects, and the family has nothing to fear."
Luo Wuji was lying on the bed, and asked with a smile: "You are now a powerful person, and you may become a marquis, a king, or even an emperor in the future. Are you unwilling to compromise?"
As Luo Wuji spoke, everyone seemed to see a tyrant in power, but the powerful people in the world supported him, and countless people lived in blood and tears.
"No!"
Everyone looked at Luo Wuji and said in unison.
"Won't the world understand us? At the end of upholding justice, we are lonely, hateful, confused, and without regrets?"
A cold breath blew past, and everyone seemed to see the misunderstanding of everyone in the world. They didn't understand why Luo did this, and it must be very lonely.
“No regrets!”
The voices of the crowd became louder.
"The tribe will die."
Luo Wuzhi did not say that the direct descendants would die, but rather mentioned ordinary members of the clan.
Everyone was silent now, and the Luo family girl whispered again: "The Su King will grant them eternal life. If not, I will die."
"good!"
Luo Wuji clapped his hands and laughed, and the atmosphere in the room became lively.
"Great and Most High King Su, are you proud of the choice of your descendants?"
Luo Wuji looked at the void above the sky and couldn't help but think.
Then a long and melodious voice was heard, and Ji Zhao's voice resounded in everyone's mind. This was the first time that he appeared in the minds of all the direct descendants of the family.
"Go ahead, do what you want to do."
Everyone in the room knelt down, and everyone was shaking with excitement.
In the void heaven, Ji Zhao looked at his descendants and couldn't help but admire them again. He was such a mortal, but he had such a group of descendants. Sometimes, looking at the pure souls and noble character of these people, he felt that he was really unworthy of standing at the end of the family.
This is not a difference in strength, but a difference in thinking.
Probably what Ji Zhao could do was to study how to gain more luck points and how to get more props. It was too difficult for his descendants to survive in that filthy world, and as their ancestor, he had to protect these children well.
The more the world develops, the greater the restrictions of this world will be. This is not deliberately targeting the Luo family, but because the Luo family has its own unique laws, they are the only ones affected.
Ji Zhao understood that unless he became a god and replaced the will of heaven with his own heart, he would not be able to change this trend. However, there are ways to survive under limitations.
Ji Zhao has decided to choose a time to extract the purple energy of destiny from the heavenly artifact, the Book of Heaven, in the hope of creating a few more useful artifacts for the family.
After all, today's Earth-level artifacts are too auxiliary, and each of them consumes a lot of luck points, which is not good.
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The Republic written by Plato is a magnificent masterpiece. In the past countless years, this book was considered a fantasy. But until the emergence of the Eastern Empire, countless years of history have proved that philosopher kings can indeed establish an ideal country. This is the world's luck. ——"Global History·Ancient Chinese Civilization·Preface"
(End of this chapter)
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