If officials who rely on the Yang family want to compete with others, the Yang family must also make efforts.
The struggle for positions in the court and the army has gradually evolved into a struggle between powerful families over the years.
Although the Li royal family was extremely worried about this phenomenon and had taken various measures to change it, all to no avail.
Since the founding of the Kingdom of Chu, the strength of the aristocratic families has been extremely strong.
Taizu Li Yunlong was far-sighted and knew the disasters of the aristocratic families.
At the beginning of the founding of the country, he also took some measures to recruit the poor men to fight against the aristocratic families, but he was often attacked.
The promoted children from poor families will immediately be attracted by the rich families and switch to the arms of the aristocratic families.
Taizu Li Yunlong had nothing to do about it.
Although Taizu was wise and powerful and had a high prestige, he could not do anything to the powerful families.
In the process of Taizu Li Yunlong's conquest of the world, the six aristocratic families really played an immeasurable role.
In the early days of Taizu's rebellion, Li Yunlong was just one of the many rebel armies of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty that resisted.
He didn't have much food or sharp weapons in his hands.
He only had a group of peasant soldiers holding hoes and waiting for food, not to mention any civil servants and generals.
At that time, he only had Yang Guo, the ancestor of the Yang family, to help him.
Hundreds of years ago, under the suppression of the Yuan and Meng Dynasties, the six aristocratic families that had been on the mainland for nearly a thousand years were dying.
In order to continue their family inheritance, they decided to support the rebels and overthrow the Yuan Dynasty.
After Ye Xiaoran, the ancestor of the Ye family, came into contact with many rebel leaders, including Li Yunlong, and after careful consideration, he finally decided to support Taizu, who was still weak at the time and was not favored by people at the time, and used the power of the six major families for Li Yunlong.
They sent many of their clan members to serve as officials under Taizu's tent, provided Taizu with mother grass, and spent a lot of money to purchase military equipment for Taizu. , it was precisely because of their help that Li Yunlong was able to survive the difficult time in the early days of the rebellion, survive the annihilation of the Yuan and Meng courts, and gradually laid the foundation for domination of the world.
Without the help of the six aristocratic families, he would have been defeated long ago.
Like many leaders of the rebel army at that time, his rise and fall were sudden.
And as Taizu's power became stronger and stronger, because sixty-seven out of ten civil servants under Taizu's tent were provided by the six aristocratic families, they also grew stronger and their tentacles in the world became deeper and deeper.
After Taizu unified the world, they had completely integrated themselves with the Chu State's political affairs and civilian economy, turning into a huge monster.
Before Taizu Dingding, he could not do without them.
After Dingding, Taizu realized the danger they were in and wanted to attack them, only to find that they could not move.
If they are touched, the court will be paralyzed, and the affairs of all states and counties in the world will not be able to be handled; if they are touched, all the merchants in the world will disappear, private commerce will collapse, people's things will not be sold, and people's livelihood will have big problems.
And because although the aristocratic families stretched their hands very far, under the constraints of Ye Xiaoran, the ancestor of the Ye family, they were very restrained and almost never stretched their hands into the army.
This could not make the emperor their puppet, which made Tai Ancestor Li Yunlong couldn't bear the thought of fighting them to the death.
In desperation, after the attempt to support poor scholars failed, Taizu Li Yunlong established a military aristocratic group of warlords headed by the Hongnong Yang family, and they competed with the world's aristocratic families headed by the six aristocratic families.
Although this is also drinking poison to quench thirst, a balanced strategy is adopted.
The two sides fight, and the Li family mediates.
The nobles and family members have to please the emperor.
The power is still in the hands of the emperor.
It is always more beneficial to the Li family than a single family.
It’s just that over the years, the appetites of the family members have grown bigger and bigger, and they are still almost unstoppable.
Yang Shen is naturally aware of this, but he is also a beneficiary of this phenomenon.
His innate position has been determined long ago, but he can't say anything.
He looked through the notes on the desk and found that some of them were dirty materials sent by officials about some of their colleagues they knew.
For example, the note in his hand said that a certain minister in charge of military pay at the Ministry of War had a very ugly look this year and had squandered as much as 40% of the military pay to the soldiers.
The country's dynasty has been vigorous for hundreds of years, but it has suffered from deep conflicts, declining national power, and widespread corruption.
The phenomenon of officials receiving soldiers' pay and generals drinking soldiers' blood has become extremely serious.
But generally speaking, although the officials and generals are greedy, they will still give the soldiers below a little way to survive.
Officials at the Ministry of War would generally get 20% of the military pay devolved to officers and soldiers by the imperial court.
After it was decentralized to prefectures and counties, state and county officials, including generals, would get 40%, and the remaining 40% would be distributed to the soldiers.
Although this small amount of money will mean that the soldiers cannot even guarantee food and clothing for their families, at least they will not starve to death.
However, the minister of the Ministry of War deducted as much as 20% this time, which will make it impossible for the soldiers to support their families, and even survive will be a problem, and may cause trouble.
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Of course, the reason why the minister had the courage to do this was because he took most of them and managed them, so that everyone from the Minister of War to the state and county officials turned a blind eye to what he was doing, even to a certain extent.
The meeting will provide cover for him.
These days, who can't live with money?
What, don’t be ridiculous if someone will expose the matter.
The number of these people is too large and the influence involved is too wide.
Even if someone is not afraid of death and wants to be a die-hard loyalist of the Li royal family and expose the matter to the light, the person who died will definitely not be These people.
And the Li family of the royal family will never be ignorant of such matters.
After all, these matters are too involved and cannot be hidden from interested people.
This is just because there are countless noble families standing behind these people, and even the princes of the clan are often involved. , even if you are an emperor, there is nothing you can do against them.
As for those big-headed soldiers who have no food to eat and want to rebel, these guys who used to be used to farm fields may not even have the strength to hold a hoe this year, and it is impossible to make big waves.
Yang Shen couldn't help but lament that the country had become so corrupt.
Of course, as the head of the Yang family, he was in no position to hate and despise the officials who corrupted the Chu State, and he did not even have the qualifications to be compassionate towards others.
Because as one of the nine major families in the world, his old Yang family definitely played a big role in the corruption of the country.
As a time traveler, Yang Shen knew very well that with the continuous corruption of the ruling class, the situation of farmers having no food became more and more serious.
Dachu was already in danger, and a change of dynasty was imminent.
When he traveled to this era, it was impossible for him to live a peaceful and carefree life
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