No matter at any time, the first priority for the children of these aristocratic families is always the interests of their families, not the interests of the court or the world. These aristocratic families do produce talents. After all, the people and things that the children of these aristocratic families have been exposed to since childhood, as well as the education they have received, are far beyond what those common people can compare with. Even if this family is just a business family.
The Fan family's business is so big, how can the talents and real abilities of the children they have cultivated be comparable to those of other families? Not to mention others, just the two people in front of me, compared with Fan Jian, Jia Quan is equally accurate in seeing problems, but due to the influence of his family environment since childhood, his vision is still lacking.
Once both of them truly enter official careers, Fan Jian is destined to go further than Jia Quan. This is not because Jia Quan is not as capable as Fan Jian, but as the saying goes, the higher you stand, the farther you see. Different levels of innate exposure to people and things have created a gap in perspective on issues. And this gap cannot be made up by hard work alone.
However, both in terms of vision and ability, Fan Jian was superior to Jia Quan, but Fan Jian still could not escape the scope of the Fan family. Once his own requirements conflict with the interests of the Fan family. Even if the conflict is not direct, he immediately falls into hesitation. Although he later expressed his stance to fight for it, this moment of hesitation already said a lot.
Fortunately, I fancy Fan Jian, a rare talent, but I may not really fancy too much about the Fan family. I don't even want to think that the Fan family will take the opportunity to enter too many forces in the DPRK. Fan Jian is a rare talent, and he himself doesn't have much ambition. But his family may not be the same as him. I don't want to hold up the second Guilin County Prince's Mansion.
Although I am not opposed to hiding wealth among the people, I am not opposed to the existence of big businessmen with large amounts of wealth. But he opposed the kind of businessmen who gained wealth with the support of the imperial court. Especially the kind of wealth that the Guilin County Prince's Mansion only accumulated by living alone for more than a hundred years. Once the imperial court took back the privileges that should not have been given to them, the family became ambitious.
Although in Guangshou Hall that day, Guilin County Prince and his son behaved very meekly. But Huang Qiong did not believe that the father and son would really be willing to hand over the Guilin County Prince's Palace to live alone for a hundred years. The superficial obedience, even some reverence, does not represent the true thoughts of the father and son. In private, Zhi may be making some plans.
A Guilin County Prince's Mansion has already appeared. If a Fan family appears again, the court will become a big joke. Only when the people are rich can the country be strong, and this is the right way. In private, everyone is extremely rich relying on the support of the state. But the country has reached a point where it cannot make ends meet, so the court cannot survive at all.
Therefore, Huang Qiong was wary of, and even disgusted with, those aristocratic families, whether they were official families, merchant families, or even noble families. Even though these families represent the elites of this era, they have already captured most of the talents of this era. But Huang Qiong still doesn't like these aristocratic families, including the Fan family where Fan Jian belongs.
It's just that for Huang Qiong, these aristocratic families are repulsive, but it is inevitable to use this. Without those noble families who control actual military affairs, at least Daqi's military affairs would probably be in chaos. The Great Qi Dynasty relied on military force to build the country, and those noble families controlled most of the sources of military attachés in this era without military academies.
If all the noble families among the generals are excluded from the army, I am afraid that the army will be short of most of the military attachés. Without those officials and aristocratic families, it would be difficult to get the support of scholars. Although Da Qi prioritizes the selection of scholars through the imperial examination, it has always treated everyone equally. But life in a poor family is difficult, so how can one afford to buy books or hire teachers?
Those famous academies, don’t they have high fees? Famous teacher, isn't that Shu Xiu ridiculously tall? Without good teachers to teach and explain, it would be very difficult for this scholar to pass three major exams in a row and finally pass the Jinshi. This is just like Huang Qiong's previous life. In the competition for admission to prestigious schools, most of those who had the upper hand were big cities with rich educational resources and a large number of private and public schools.
As for those small and medium-sized cities, the teacher structure continues to decline. Including the departure of high-quality students, the number of students admitted to prestigious schools is decreasing almost every year. Even after a few years, no one has been able to enter such a first-class prestigious university where Qingbei has resumed diplomatic relations. It is difficult for a poor family to produce a noble son. This sentence does not only represent the present.
Not to mention anything else, there are many school teachers in big cities who have graduated from prestigious schools, and there are also many foreign teachers hired for foreign language courses. How many teachers in schools in small and medium-sized cities, especially third- and fourth-tier cities, have graduated from prestigious universities? Because of low income, a large number of existing excellent teachers have been poached, not to mention foreign teachers.
It lasted almost five thousand years. Except for the special era in Huang Qiong's previous life, which he himself had never experienced, it is applicable to both China and foreign countries. The children of common people cannot afford to study with famous teachers because they cannot afford the high tuition fees. Therefore, their academic performance is not even close to that of the children of officials who receive guidance from famous teachers.
Except for the decades when this dynasty was founded and before a real aristocratic family was formed, the average number of civilian children who passed the imperial examinations in each imperial examination was only 30% of the new imperial examinations. Most of the remaining 70% were children of officials and gentry families, and at the last level were landowners. There were almost very few children of real common people.
Even though the imperial court repeatedly found ways to impose restrictions in order to ensure that civilian children could enter official careers. Not only did he inaugurate the system of sealing, concubine registration, and locking the courtyard for the first time, but he also established that except for descendants of serious treason, descendants of prostitutes, and three generations of slaves who had signed a contract of prostitution, they were not allowed to take the imperial examination. Scholars were always selected without asking about family background. It even stipulated the strictest avoidance system since the imperial examination in the Sui Dynasty.
It was also stipulated that the Imperial College should not admit more than 30% of the children of aristocratic families each year, and the remaining places were all open to the children of common people. There is also a strict limit on the number of cute officials. Each official can have no more than two disciples, and no more cute officials can exceed the fourth grade. It was also mandatory that both father and son should serve as officials in the court. Before the father becomes an official, the son's official position cannot exceed the fourth rank.
Although these measures completely changed the examination system of the former Tang Dynasty, the actual situation in which the imperial examination was based on family background and the selection of scholars was based on family status. It prevented the family members from taking shortcuts, but it still couldn't completely change the situation. How many lucky people are there like Yu Mingyuan and Jian Yong in this world? This is not to say that the court does not want to find ways, but it is really a problem of the gap in education levels.
Even in order to ensure that the children of common people enter the officialdom, the emperors of this dynasty have made many efforts. In order to deliberately avoid suspicion during the imperial examination of Emperor Gaozong, all the children of second-rank officials in the imperial court were deposed among the successful candidates. During the Lizong Dynasty, because of the poor performance of civilian children in the imperial examinations, three examiners were replaced in one go, and the examiners of the seven-way examination were dismissed.
He even killed an unlucky guy who was presiding over the Zhejiang Road imperial examination, but it still ended in vain. It’s not that the examiners deliberately cheated, but this is the gap between the actual education levels. Those aristocratic families who spend a lot of money to hire famous teachers to teach students, can the quality of the students they teach be the same as those who only have a reputation as a scholar, or even have no reputation as a scholar?
Without those merchant families, the world's commodities would not flow. How can those small merchants and hawkers who have probably never left the county town in their entire lives actually circulate the goods? Wouldn't it be foolish to expect them to sell large quantities of silk and porcelain to Nanyang? They neither have the ability nor the financial resources.
The rise of the aristocratic family system in the Eastern Han Dynasty, although it has experienced the Five Husties and the turmoil of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, has long since been wiped out. The Guanlong Group, which once occupied a dominant position in the Sui and Tang Dynasties and forced even the talented Tang Taizong to bow his head, was eventually destroyed with the collapse of the former Tang Dynasty. But with the birth of every new dynasty, some new aristocratic families will be born.
Whether it is the founding nobles or the new official system, new aristocratic families have been formed. The so-called poor families in the Southern and Northern Dynasties did not really refer to ordinary people. The so-called poor families are just low-class families that do not belong to the gentry. This does not mean that they are not aristocratic family. How many of the real people who have trouble even eating would consider studying?
Hating those aristocratic families does not mean that Huang Qiong hates rich people or aristocratic families. At least in this era, when the country is still unable to provide a universal compulsory education system, most of the people who can really afford to study are the children of aristocratic families. If the aristocratic family really left, this court would really not be able to play with it.
The imperial examination is just like the college entrance examination in the previous life. It only provides a relatively fair platform for competition for those truly poor children, but it cannot really change the situation of the government. But if all the children of aristocratic families are really expelled from the officialdom, I am afraid that the court will be at least half empty. So it's not that Huang Qiong doesn't understand this.
But he hates the government being controlled by aristocratic families, because once the interests of the imperial court conflict with the aristocratic families they come from. These officials who are descendants of aristocratic families will first stand on the side of their own family without thinking too much about the gains and losses of the court. Regardless of any changes, the interests of these aristocratic families are often the first to be touched.
Most of the court officials came from these aristocratic families, so it was difficult not to cause large-scale resistance. This is also the main reason why most of the reforms that broke the tradition in the past dynasties ended in failure, or the people were destroyed and the government was extinguished. Most of the so-called ancestral family laws are just excuses made by these people to ensure their vested interests.
Just thinking about the Fan family, Huang Qiong suddenly thought of Fan Jian's sister-in-law, who was both beautiful and charming, but also had a heroic and lively look in her eyes, which was completely different from the style of the women around him. Compared with the other girls around him, Fan Jian's sister-in-law has the vision of Duan Jin and Lin Hanyan, as well as Wu Ziyu's intelligence and accurate perspective on issues.
In terms of appearance and figure, she is not inferior to any woman around her. Not only is the fullness of the front no less than that of Duan Jin, the silver basin-like part on the back is even more charming. It can be said that the way he walks is extremely attractive, even if he is not as attractive as the other girls around him.
Moreover, his martial arts skills are second only to Duan Jin. If he can keep him by his side, not only will he become his right-hand man, but what else? Thinking of this, Huang Qiong, who was somewhat distracted at this time, was startled by such a dirty thought that suddenly appeared in his mind. He shook his head hastily, trying to shake the figure out of his mind.
I need support from others, so why am I still thinking about my sister-in-law, the young lady of the Fan family? Is that something I can care about, or should I care about? When did I become so ridiculous and fall in love with other people's wives? If his mother found out, he would be severely punished. If Fan Jian knew about it, how would he treat himself?
