A decree came from Luoyang North Palace.
"The Taiping demon has brought trouble to the country and caused the world to be in turmoil. I feel deeply worried.
Are there any great and virtuous people who have been lost in the countryside because of their involvement with party members?
Are there any heroes who cannot be reused by the imperial court because they were born in a neighboring county?
Are there any brave men and women from the countryside who want to serve the imperial court, but don’t know where to go?
I am now determined to change this. If there are wise men who are capable of civil and military affairs, heroes of border counties, and brave men, they can come to the imperial court to serve as officials, and they can recruit local warriors in counties and counties to wipe out the Taiping Army.
I will reward you according to the size of your merits, and I will never let any pearl be left behind in the ocean. "
Release the shackles of the party and allow scholars to participate in politics freely.
Recruit troops locally and allow wealthy families to freely develop their armed forces.
This decree traveled like the wind to the world along the roads extending in all directions in Luoyang.
Luo Xiao was so close to Luoyang, so he was naturally the first to receive the news.
Even before this decree appeared, Luo Xiao already knew that it would definitely be like this. The Imperial Forbidden Army could not be rebuilt in a short time, so it was destined to rely on local armed forces.
Bang Zhou followed this old path back then, and in the end the princes became powerful.
However, the situation of the Han court was much better than that of the Bangzhou royal family, and the systems between the two sides were completely different.
Even if the powerful armed forces have developed to a certain extent, the imperial court still has the upper hand, both in terms of justice and strength.
As long as the emperor's skills are strong enough, these powerful armed forces are nothing more than making wedding clothes for the royal family.
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By the river, Luo Xiao stood with his hands behind his back.
The previous confrontations with Huangfu Song never made him so solemn. He knew that what he faced this time was the real heroes of the world. The heroes of the entire Han Dynasty were all standing against him.
The man's destiny came to an abrupt end, and Luo Xiao didn't know what level of heroes would appear.
If he were at the level of those heroes in the late Qin Dynasty, even he would have a hard time if he wanted to pacify the world and defeat the heroes.
"Ahem."
The few strands of blood on the white cloth were bright and dazzling, and Luo Xiao's eyes darkened, "It's a pity, I don't know how many heroes I will have the opportunity to see.
Will the Taiping Army be the foundation of your rise? "
Regarding the Taiping Army, Luo Xiao's judgment is that there is a serious lack of talent and it cannot be made up for.
Not to mention those rich and famous families, even the children of poor families, and even the most ordinary businessmen, small landowners, handicraft owners, etc., would not join the Taiping Army.
Once he dies, the Taiping Army, which has lost its spiritual support, will soon become useless, and will even soon turn into thieves like the officers and soldiers.
But Luo Xiao doesn't care about the future. Life in this world doesn't have to be perfect. It's enough to accomplish one big thing.
The same is true for the Taiping Army. As long as they complete one major event and push the decadent Han Dynasty into the abyss of eternal destruction, their names will be remembered by tens of millions of years of history.
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The imperial edict issued by the imperial court quickly spread to the counties and counties. The Taiping Army's uprising was huge, but in fact most of the counties and counties were still under the control of the Han court.
But as more cities lost order, more and more ordinary people joined the Taiping Army.
In the counties where the Taiping Army broke out, most of the powerful families had been destroyed. Not to mention the ordinary powerful landlords, even the top families could not escape.
In addition to Jizhou, the two most populous states, Qingzhou and Yanyu, have the most serious outbreaks. These two areas have been the hardest hit.
The Lu family has been entrenched in Linzi County and Jiaodong Kingdom in Qingzhou for three hundred years. The clan members do not know how many people there are. The target is really too big and it can be said that they have suffered heavy losses.
This is not just about the Qingzhou Taiping Army, but also over a period of three hundred years. There are many branches, gradually spreading out, and there is no strict management like the Luo family. The relationship between the various branches of the Lu family is quite complicated. .
Especially in the Later Han Dynasty, some branch veins were more prosperous than the main vein, which resulted in the relationship between the various veins not being harmonious.
And with the gradual rise of county fame, in addition to Luo's surname, which is the only one in the world.
Debates over who has the first surname often occur.
Especially Linzi Lu and Jimo Lu, Huaiyin Han and Anyang Han, the superiority and inferiority between these two surnames and the four families are discussed from time to time.
Some people say too much and it will hurt the relationship. This is normal behavior.
Forget it when it comes to the Luo family. When it comes to other families, no one wants to be the second child. Just because they are from the same clan, they have to compete for superiority. This is human nature.
Just like the early stage of the war between heroes in real history, all wars revolve around the dispute between the two Yuan Dynasties. Some people often say that if they work together, the Yuan family will have won the championship long ago, but the fact is that it is impossible to join forces.
Whether it is the power of his subordinates or the personal wishes between the two, it is destined that the dispute between the two Yuan Dynasties will not stop.
Except for the Luo family, no other family can change this situation.
Now that the imperial court has relaxed its restrictions and heroes are emerging in Qingzhou, the Lu family cannot fall behind. Once they fall behind, they will not only encounter encirclement and suppression by others, but also be prepared for attacks from their own family.
After receiving the edict from Luoyang, the governors and prefects of various states finally breathed a sigh of relief.
In the past, except for a few Jinling Lieutenants, these prefects were not qualified to recruit more people. They could only recruit heroes in the name of a security team.
Now that the imperial court has given the decree, they can directly recruit these heroes in an upright manner.
As the imperial ban was relaxed, not many scholars went to serve in the imperial court. This was mainly because the world was in chaos and the dangers encountered when traveling increased.
It would be better to stay between states and counties directly and go to serve in the shogunate of the prefect.
The two thousand stone prefects who were usually supervised by the six hundred stone governor were now the masters.
As the highest officer of a county, the prefect had great power. In the Later Han Dynasty, there were not as many Jinling princes as in the early Han Dynasty. With more military power in his hands, the governor was nothing more than a supervisor. These prefects immediately ignored him.
Some of these prefects are themselves heirs of the princes' families, and their families have a family worth of two thousand shi. Although they cannot be prefects in their own county due to the three mutual laws, the effect of being prefects in other counties in the state is almost the same.
They can also exchange political resources with the two thousand stone families in neighboring counties, and even achieve marriages between families.
From this, we can see the difference between the feudal families of the Early Han Dynasty and the Later Han Dynasty.
The feudal families of the early Han Dynasty were special. Even wealthy families with five surnames and seven families would usually choose to marry with princes and kings, or with the Confucian classics families in Chang'an.
But the feudal families of the Later Han Dynasty were different. Except for a few families who supported Emperor Guangwu, no golden orders were given for a hundred years.
This is related to the situation in the late Han Dynasty.
At the end of the First Han Dynasty, due to the rebellion of the princes and kings, the Later Han Dynasty was quite wary of the close clansmen, but the distant clans benefited from this. The feudal kingdoms of the close clansmen were not even as large as those of the county princes. The kingdom that reached one county basically disappeared.
In the Later Han Dynasty, the title of Marquis basically became an honorary title. The imperial court almost never granted the title of County Marquis. It was regarded as a great gift to be granted the title of Township Marquis, not to mention the Marquis of Thousand Households or even the Marquis of Hundred Households.
The importance of an official position exceeds that of a title, but the advantage of having a title is that you can steadily obtain a two thousand stone position.
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In ancient dynasties, exerting power for local areas was always regarded as the beginning of chaos, but in fact it was a reverse effect. Exerting power for local areas was the result of chaos, not the cause. Only when the central court could no longer pass it through itself Empowerment of localities comes only when the situation is resolved.
Because local areas are not the beginning of destruction. During the Western Han Dynasty, several emperors brilliantly solved the problem of excessive power of local princes and ensured the stability of the country. It is incorrect to attribute the decline of the Han Dynasty solely to strengthening local power. .
In subsequent chapters, the author will explain one by one the many factors that led to the decline of the Han Dynasty through the experience of the Taiping Uprising. ——"The Rise and Fall of the Han Dynasty"
Thanks to the leader of Quqing Buyu for the reward.
Put some pressure on yourself and write one more update within three days. The additional updates will be released as two chapters in one. If you update three chapters, they will all be deleted.
The Three Kingdoms chapter will be written slowly. The Eastern Han Dynasty was not written, so there are a lot of things to make up.
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