The emperor received the Crown 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 Dong'ahou Mansion, especially after marrying so many women.
In Liu Heng's era, if one word could be used to describe Dong'ahou Mansion, it would be - Qinggui.
This is completely different from the Luo Xin era. After all, although Luo Jing was favored, his official position did not involve important military matters, so it was impossible to deal with him directly.
However, it can be seen from the rush of powerful people from various families to marry off their daughters that Luo Jing's real role lies not in governing the country or leading the army, but in two things.
First, the emperor trusted him. To what extent did this trust go?
Whenever Luo Jing recommends talented people, there is no one who fails, when Luo Jing advises, there is no one who fails to obey, and when Luo Jing wants to protect him, there is no punishment.
This is one of the reasons why many powerful people are willing to marry him off.
There are many reasons for Luo Jing's popularity, but the most important one is naturally his identity as the son of the Luo family.
This situation is a bit like that in real history, when an official reached a high level, his ideal was to marry a woman with the fifth surname.
This trend has not been popular for a long time. When Bangzhou was still there, although the Luo family was special, there were still a large number of nobles with long-standing inheritance.
Luo girls are mainly famous for their good moral character.
After all the old nobles such as the Zhou Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty were destroyed, the ancient spirit buried deep in the blood of Zhu Xia could no longer be hidden.
As the only high-ranking sect in the world, a great noble with a long heritage.
In later generations, even a single rosacea of the Taiyuan Wang family could become a symbol of dignity, and they could even marry the prime minister's daughter.
The miraculous stigmata between Luo's eyebrows naturally overwhelmed everything else, so the fashion of the times was to marry Luo.
In addition to the emperor's trust, Luo Jing himself was the core connection of a huge network of relationships, which made his every word and action very important. Many people naturally came to maintain relationships.
Many powerful families who had never been to Chang'an City in the past came to visit Luo Jing, and some wanted to rejoin the court.
There are more than just joining the court, "Junhou, the children of the clan are not willing to directly join the officialdom. They say that a man is born between heaven and earth. If everything relies on the concealment of the family, wouldn't it be a shame?"
If you can enter the Imperial Academy, learn from the doctors, and recruit people with good qualities, then you can bring glory to your ancestors. "
Upon hearing these words, Luo Jing's pupils immediately shrank, and alarm bells rang in his heart.
He knew why these people would focus on Taixue and the doctors of Confucianism who were far less powerful than them.
Because with Liu Heng's intentional and unintentional maneuvers, many meritorious princes who played little role had to gradually fade out of the Han Dynasty's imperial army system, and even lost their local hereditary positions guarding dangerous passes.
Although the feudal country is still there, he is unwilling to lose his power and return to the country to become a rich man.
Desperate for change, the few Chehou families saw that the emperor had reused those Confucian scholars, and they hoped to transform from military meritorious to Confucian classics families.
In the Dong'ahou Mansion, Luo Jing and Luo Ban were sitting in a quiet room, discussing these military merits and deeds. Both of them had strange looks on their faces, a bit like they were looking at each other.
Luo Jing pondered: "Could it be that these people have seen that in the future world, it is the general trend to reuse these people who are good at Confucian classics?
Although His Majesty has placed great emphasis on Confucian scholars and other scholars in recent years, the status of these meritorious nobles is not low.
A large number of officials are still recommended by them. How can people who are rich all over the world care about a penny on the ground? They are so powerful, why would they target Taixue? "
In terms of governing the country, these people who have read books are really much better than the meritorious princes who dance with guns and sticks.
And a very obvious fact is that the imperial court will not always fight wars, especially since the current emperor has been in charge of the country for many years and has focused on domestic affairs and has not taken the initiative to launch any external development wars.
But every moment we need a large number of officials who can govern the country, strengthen the country and enrich the people.
Luo Ban said in a deep voice: "For the meritorious princes, as long as there is a feudal state, they can fully afford the cost of cultivating the family's children.
Those heroes who are gradually losing power want to take advantage of the east wind to make a comeback.
There are also some families who realize that the wealth that only relies on imperial power can come and go quickly.
Ah Jing, you may not know that you have been in Chang'an for a long time.
Luo Shi is located across Shandong, and many people can see it as soon as they look up.
Many wealthy families in Shandong, since the collapse of the old country, have long begun to study why the Luo family can exist for so long and is still in a prosperous state.
They cannot learn from King Su, but Luo loves reading and research, pays attention to the cleanliness of the family atmosphere, focuses on the cultivation of family children, and unites the entire family. These can be seen.
Many families began to imitate Luo's family, study the classics of sages within the family, and train their children to study.
As long as talents can emerge from generation to generation, wealth will naturally come from generation to generation.
The imperial court began to reuse these students who were familiar with the classics, which made these families even more excited.
Now Gonghou probably realized what he was doing, so he started doing the same thing. "
Luo Jing gently rubbed his temples and said with a headache: "Not only the ordinary Chehou family, but even the Fouhou family and the Liuhou family whose brains grew back after Zhang Buyi's death have begun to do this. .
The meritorious princes already have great advantages in the court. They have rich political resources and hold 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 been prosperous for four generations. Needless to say, this generation is still the number one relative in the Liuhou Mansion. Looking at the current situation, The Hou Hou Mansion is also about to rise again.
When the time comes, this group of people can fight and study and govern the country. Unless the talented people are abandoned, will other poor families be able to turn around? "
This trend was not expected by Luo Jing, but Luo Jing was a little unfounded in this matter.
Why does Ji Zhao lament that the blessing of his ancestors is a magical skill that conquers the heaven and earth?
It is because IQ reverts to the mean, and no family can produce above-level talents from generation to generation. This is the core competitiveness of the Rock family.
Those so-called families generally last no more than a hundred years and then gradually decline.
Then waiting for the next genius family head to ascend to a high position, gain the trust of a certain generation of emperors, and then rise again with the family name.
Over and over again, this is the so-called Millennium Family. It sounds very bluffing, but in fact, the days of true glory are not long.
However, because Luo has successfully walked on this road, he is very aware of the horrors involved.
Luo Ban said speechlessly: "Previously, the family always believed that various schools of thought would be passed down as schools, and even some large schools would learn from the form of academies to establish private schools of their own on a large scale.
These students from the same college will form alliances and then form factional struggles in this way.
Just like now, hundreds of schools are constantly debating scriptures to make their own knowledge superior to other schools, and then seize power.
But I never expected that it might be in the form of a family.
If this group of wealthy and powerful aristocrats still had some power to interpret scriptures, it would be okay in the early stage, but in the later stage, wouldn't they be almost the same as the aristocrats in the Bang and Zhou Dynasties?
After going around and around, why did it come back to bloodline? "
Luo Ban, who had learned the art of staying calm when facing changes from Luo Ling, was unable to remain completely calm in the face of something that might affect the future for hundreds of years.
"Brother, there is no need to be like this. After all, it is still different. In the Central Plains, the Bangzhou era has completely passed and will never appear again.
However, the Han family wanted to return to Chang'an. I have already told your Majesty. Your Majesty was very happy and reused them. Many descendants of the heroes are envious. "
In the past, the Han family retreated bravely when they were at their peak. The royal family very much cherished this friendship.
Now the Han family wants to return to the court, because the influence of General Han Xin has almost dissipated.
The current emperor Liu Heng's attitude towards the Han family is only to express gratitude for Han Xin's great achievements in the past, but he has no fear as a monarch.
As soon as Han returned to the court, he directly entered the relatively aristocratic yamen. As a close minister of the emperor, this was an obvious promotion and important position. Whether he would be promoted to other places in the future or be in charge of the guard, it was possible.
The so-called horse bones are bought for thousands of gold, Liu Heng's favor to the Han family is to show an attitude to all the courtiers, that is, those who have contributed to the Han Dynasty, the royal family will not forget your contribution.
As long as you remain loyal to the royal family, the oath that Emperor Gao made to you back then, "to make the river like a belt, the Taishan to be strong, the country to be eternally peaceful, and to love the Miao descendants" will still be in effect.
A grand ceremony was held in which the princes of various vassals were summoned by the princes of various dynasties to demonstrate the dignity of the emperor. However, before the ceremony began, so many official changes and adjustments took place. In this slightly weird atmosphere, the formal ceremony It finally started.
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"History is an upward spiral!"
"Even if the historical process falls back to a low point, it is by no means a direct destruction. The new low is always higher."
This is the most concise and incisive judgment on the historical process and its development that the author has ever read, and this was most vividly reflected at the turn of the Qin and Han Dynasties.
When the military hero used his sword and iron hoof to crush all the decadence and ugliness of the thousand-year-old nobility, Chen Sheng shouted the deafening slogan "Princes and generals should rather have their kind" in Daze Township. However, the historical process told everyone with iron-clad facts that productivity It is the leader of everything.
What will grow from the corpses of the old aristocrats, the most decadent bloodline, will not be civilian politics, but a new, more progressive aristocracy.
But this is still a great progress. At least the era of blood supremacy is completely over. The new aristocracy no longer has undisputed rights to everything. Morality and law are firmly suppressed on everyone's head, at the cost of imperial power. Expansion, a temporary equilibrium is formed. ——"The Rise and Fall of the Han Dynasty"
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