This week, Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang are still learning about law and criminal investigation step by step, so they don't need to worry about Xunze.
Liu Xiu and Wang Mang are in more trouble.
After Liu Xiu ascended the throne, the conflicts between the old and new nobles and preventing the aristocratic family from counterattack became problems that the two of them had to solve.
"I think it's normal for conflicts between the two factions.
After all, many modern countries also have internal partisan struggles.
As long as Liu Xiu and I don't fight each other, then the people below may not be incompatible."
Wang Mang spoke first after thinking for a while.
"But isn't the history after this change very clear?
In order to kill each other, the two factions even wanted to re-elect leaders.
Although you finally killed your son out of righteousness, but my eldest brother gave me Usurped the throne."
Liu Xiu somewhat disagreed with Wang Mang's words.
“Don’t just look at things at face value.”
Wang Mang motioned Liu Xiu to look at him: "There are two main reasons why it ended up like this.
First, the two of us did not realize the seriousness of the matter at the time and allowed the situation to develop, which eventually caused the matter to get out of control.
If at the beginning the struggle between the two factions is consciously controlled within the scope of normal political struggle.
There was absolutely no way things would develop like this.
Secondly, I believe that the struggle between the old and new aristocrats, in addition to the desire for power, is also inseparable from the instigation of aristocratic families.
Therefore, the focus of what we have to do this time is still how to suppress or even completely disintegrate the family. " "If the cultural monopoly is not broken, the aristocratic families will not be wiped out."
Xunze interrupted at this time and said, "Although you have opened the imperial examination, the number of civilian literati is still too small.
The imperial examination is more like preparing for the common disciples who are not valued in the aristocratic families.
Although these common disciples are not valued within the family, they are still members of the aristocratic family.
Therefore, it is impossible to eliminate the aristocratic family for a while. " "Teacher, do you still remember the united front you taught me?"
Wang Mang looked at Xunze and said.
"If you need to deal with a powerful enemy, then you need to unite all the forces that can be combined.
The aristocratic family is the powerful enemy that Liu Xiu and I need to face."
"I taught you this method before, hoping that you would win over one faction and suppress the other.
But judging from the actual results, it is not ideal.
Because although this method will eliminate the old aristocratic families, it will also lead to the emergence of new aristocratic families. ” “So, we got the wrong group of people to unite with from the very beginning.”
Wang Mang smiled, "We should not unite with some aristocratic families.
Because no matter how willing these aristocratic families are to kill other aristocratic families, they are essentially no different from other aristocratic families."
"Then what other forces can unite?"
"Confucianism" Wang Mang said, "Ever since Han Wu only respected Confucianism and deposed hundreds of schools of thought, Confucianism has represented Chinese culture to a certain extent.
As long as you master Confucianism, you have mastered Chinese culture."
"But aren't the people behind Confucianism just aristocratic families?"
At this time, Xunze understood what Wang Mang meant.
But Liu Xiu was still confused.
"If you want to support Confucianism, you must support people who understand Confucian culture.
And people who understand Confucian culture are people from aristocratic families, aren't they?"
"No."
He asked Xunze to answer Liu Xiu for Wang Mang.
"People from aristocratic families are Confucians, but Confucians are not from aristocratic families."
Ask Xunze to turn on the computer and bring up historical data for Liu Xiu to see.
"Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, why have the aristocratic families gradually declined, and their influence has been reduced to negligibility.
On the one hand, it is because there are more educated people in the world.
On the other hand, these newly born Confucians are no longer united by families, but by schools.
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Although family bloodline is reliable, it is too limited.
Teachers, students, fellow villagers, and a series of relationships that were born with the emergence of the imperial examination system gradually replaced the aristocratic families and became the first choice for Confucian scholars to unite with each other.
In other words, these new era literati who emerged under the imperial examination system no longer need to run a large family with great local power to obtain power.
They can achieve the same effect by relying on their own network of relationships. " "Bureaucracy."
Liu Xiu finally understood what Xunze and Wang Mang were talking about.
The reason why the family's power is huge is that they monopolize local governance power.
But once the bureaucracy is formed, officials no longer need to rely on the power of local aristocratic families to serve in the local area.
Instead, they can obtain help and govern the local area through the network of relationships they formed during their studies.
At that time, the aristocratic family will disintegrate into countless scholarly families.
Although they would still get involved in local power, for the imperial court, these families were too small, and even if they were united, they would not cause much harm, and they were much easier to manage than the big families.
Of course, under the imperfect system of ancient times, this kind of bureaucracy will gradually erode the foundation of the country.
But as long as we don't make the mistakes of the Ming Dynasty, this erosion can be controlled.
"But during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were so many literati that they had the conditions to unite with each other and get rid of family control.
We Han people don't have so many active children from poor families."
Liu Xiu asked his biggest question.
"It's very simple."
Wang Mang snapped his fingers and said, "We can open a school.
I have already thought about it.
Once you enter Chang'an and the rebel forces are wiped out, we will re-establish Jixia Academy and then hire talented people from all over the country to teach in Jixia Academy.
In this way, under the good atmosphere of the academy and the living environment that is easy to produce emotions, a large number of Confucian disciples will spontaneously form schools and help each other.
Once these people discover that they don't need to rely on their family to get the power and money they want.
Then they will immediately abandon the backward family style of survival.
Backed by the Academy, a more open rights group will be established based on the relationship between teachers, students, and classmates. " "Just right."
After hearing Wang Mang's words, Liu Xiu clapped her hands happily and shouted, "I learned papermaking technology and movable type printing technology from my teacher.
We can use these two technologies to quickly expand the scale of the academy."
"We will definitely succeed this time."
Wang Mang suddenly heard that Liu Xiu had learned papermaking technology and movable type printing behind his back, and was a little dazed at first.
But I quickly figured out the joints.
At this moment, he put aside all his prejudices against Liu Xiu, held Liu Xiu's hand tightly and said, "We will succeed."
Note: Jixia Academy was an academic holy place founded by King Qi Wei during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
It once accommodated almost all schools of thought at that time.
Moreover, all literati and scholars who came to Jixia Academy, regardless of their academic affiliations, ideological viewpoints, political leanings, nationality, age, seniority, etc., could freely express their academic opinions, thus making Jixia Academy a popular place for all kinds of scholars at that time.
A center where schools of thought gather
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