As the edict was issued, all the powerful families in the world took action.
In the Later Han Dynasty, or in any period, classes always existed.
The level of power between families always exists, and different families have dignitaries in different periods.
In the Later Han Dynasty, except for the Luo family in Zhaocheng.
In the Central Plains, when it comes to the top wealthy and aristocratic families, they are naturally led by the seven families with five surnames that have been inherited for three hundred years.
These five surnames and seven families established the imperial business for the second time, and received too many benefits, and they spent three hundred years in glory.
But even among these seven families, there are differences in their strengths and weaknesses.
Among them, the Lu family in Jimo and the Han family in Anyang were the strongest. In the Later Han Dynasty, they also served as high-ranking officials at the level of Sangong and Jiuqing.
The Zhang family has been a descendant of Huang Laodao since their ancestor Zhang Liang. In an era when Confucianism was the mainstream, its influence was naturally weaker.
However, the Zhang family founded Taoism, which was different from other families.
The Yinghou Luo family was still very prominent during the first two generations of emperors of the Later Han Dynasty, but since relatives and eunuchs began to control each other's affairs, they could not stand the chaos in the court, so they gradually became less prominent.
But the sudden birth of Luochuan proved that the reputation of the Yinghou Luo family still existed.
The Xiao family of Lanling had a typical ideological problem. They fought separately with their relatives, families and eunuchs, and naturally the result was heavy losses.
If it weren't for the help of the in-laws, the main line might have been killed.
However, it still caused a shortage of talents in the clan, so it continued to decline.
The autistic Lanling Xiao family sought spiritual sustenance in religion.
The Han family in Huaiyin is similar to the Xiao family in Lanling. They are entrenched in the local area and rarely enter the court. The Wuxun family has no outstanding talents and is about to become a two thousand stone family.
The reputation of these seven families with five surnames is indeed high, but in fact, except for the Jimo Lu family and the Anyang Han family, they were all typical local super wealthy families before Yinghou Luochuan came out and gained huge fame.
The key lies in the word place.
This can be regarded as a super enhanced version of the Five Surnames and Qiwang of the Tang Dynasty.
The Five Surnames and Seven Hopes of the Tang Dynasty were purely exaggerated, not to mention the hundreds of years of false history. Even if they were true, they were only superficially famous and admired by the world.
In fact, the power was small and pitiful. She was manipulated at will by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Her legitimate daughter and queen were killed. She didn't even dare to say a word. She was eager to get married to the prince. This was exactly how the Li and Tang royal family dealt with Guan Longxungui. piece.
At least these five families, Luo Luhan, Zhang Xiao, really have real power, have fiefdoms, and have subjects, and they don't just rely on their mouths to brag.
But since it is named after a local wealthy family, it naturally has a central wealthy family as its counterpart.
The most powerful wealthy families in the Han Dynasty were the Confucian classics families who had served as the Three Dukes for generations and controlled the Taicao family.
These Confucianism families learned from the practices of the Luo family in Zhaocheng and combined Confucianism knowledge, political resources, and land to form the ultimate Confucianism family, the Confucianism clan.
Power comes from the bottom up.
Power has nothing to do with the three generations.
Power has nothing to do with being famous all over the world.
Power is only related to whether you can give benefits to your subordinates.
If you can't bring benefits to your subordinates, let alone the fourth generation and three princes, even the tenth generation and three princes are useless. This is why the Yinghou Luo family is not as prominent as other families. They are still too principled.
The Confucian classics sect held senior officials such as Sangong and Jiuqing, which created a huge network of relationships and in-laws, creating a monopoly.
And this monopoly seems to be difficult to break at present, because those talented scholars from poor families have been absorbed into this kind of marriage network and relationship network.
A disciple from a poor family once loudly rebuked this situation: "If all the poor families in the world are like this, when will I, a scholar from a poor family, be able to turn around?"
Then a child from a wealthy family replied: "A child from a poor family, who lived in poverty for thirteen years, married a noble daughter, stayed in office for eight years, was promoted to two thousand dan, and the family became equally prominent. Doesn't this count as a turnaround?
I come from a wealthy family, but up to now I am just a jobber. If I could choose, I would like to be a poor man. "
This conversation had a great impact. Scholars from poor families all over the world always felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't say it out.
This story was even included in Luo's "The Story of the Later Han Dynasty" and was published all over the country.
Luo Shi does not comment on this situation because the emergence of this kind of in-law network is even unstoppable.
If you randomly pick someone out of the world, the same position will be given to your own person or to an outsider.
This is human nature, what can Luo say?
Until now, the most nepotistic person in the entire world is Luo.
Since the Zhou Dynasty, when the ancestor King Su was enfeoffed, the surname Ji has occupied the vast majority of the country.
The difference is that the Luo family can guarantee the abilities and moral character of its own people, while other families cannot.
The strength of the Jingxue family comes from this. If it can bring benefits to the people below, naturally a large number of people will defect to it. The same is true for the emperor. If you give benefits to your relatives, your relatives will do things, and if you give benefits to the eunuchs, the eunuchs will obey.
During the Zhou Dynasty, the ministers of the princes were called foreign ministers to the emperor, and they should be loyal to the princes between the princes and the emperor.
If a prince wanted to rebel and his ministers reported it to the emperor, this was considered disloyal.
Under the dual monarchy, under the concept that the prefect is equal to the king, the benefits brought by such recommendation and conquest are extremely amazing.
If all the prefects and magistrates in the world are disciples and former officials, then there will be a question mark over who is the emperor.
Although it is impossible for any family to achieve this level, it is still possible to have disciples and former officials everywhere in the world.
Although this relationship is not as stable as during the Bangzhou period, after all, there is no legal support, but sometimes social concepts are a greater binding force.
Only those who are born extraordinary will break the rules and trample these rules under their feet.
Such people will either become famous and achieve great things, or they will be crazy and be completely crushed into ashes by the wheels of history.
This kind of Confucian classics family is called "Luoyang rich family" by the world, because although it has a county title, its main scope of activities is in Luoyang, and the direct family line also operates in Luoyang.
After all, Luoyang was the safest place in the Han Dynasty. Living among the counties, if someone encountered a major event like the Taiping Uprising, he would probably be killed directly in the fields.
But in Luoyang, there won't be a lunatic who would dare to kill all the wealthy families.
Jimo Lu family and Anyang Han family are among the wealthy families in Luoyang, but only a few people from these two families stay in Luoyang, and the other five families are not among them at all.
Luoyang's wealthy families were also implicated in the party's imprisonment. During that period, it can be said that they suffered a huge blow.
After the party's control was loosened, these Luoyang wealthy families couldn't wait to do some big things in Luoyang.
The matter of party imprisonment must never happen again!
It's cool to skip the Eastern Han Dynasty, but there are a lot of things missing, fo
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