Liu Bian's harem was actually not empty. When Dong Zhuo first rebelled, Liu Bian had a concubine in his harem.
It's just that in the past few years, there have been no heirs, so Wang Yun thought of providing the emperor with some maids, so that if they flew up the branches, they could also give the emperor some pillow wind.
But what he didn't expect was that Lin Mu had never thought about this at all.
As for Diao Chan, Lin Mu never thought of accepting it. Wang Yun was the representative of the aristocratic family.
Although it seems not as good as before, the Langxie Wang family where it is located is also a famous family.
He offered Diao Chan just to show mercy to Lin Mu.
If Lin Mu accepted it, he would accept the surrender of those aristocratic families, but how could he accept it?
If these aristocratic families are allowed to monopolize like this, the situation will come early when there will be no poor families in the upper class and no aristocratic families in the lower class.
Even if a commodity is monopolized, others will have to pay a higher price if they want to enjoy it, let alone state officials?
These aristocratic families monopolize the rising channels, and the harm involved is extremely huge.
Even if these aristocratic families compromise with Lin Mu now and open up channels for advancement, what will happen in the future?
A family is not one person, it is formed by a group of people.
When it is just one person, this person will do things that go against his or her class due to various emotional concerns.
But when a group of people form a group, the influence they can receive drops sharply and they do what is most beneficial to this class.
Individuals are sentimental, but entire classes are ruthless.
Just like those aristocratic families, do they want to be loyal ministers?
think!
When they knew what Lin Mu was going to do, they had to think about it even if they wanted to be loyal ministers again.
When the time comes, they will hand over their family interests and everyone will become a small family.
What if other aristocratic families don’t pay?
What if the emperor dies?
At that time, they will be no different from common people, while other families are still aristocratic families, and they will never have a chance to turn over, and will completely become common people after one or two generations.
Don’t think that this kind of thing is rare, this time is not the future.
In an era when back ulcers and colds can kill people, many reforms only lead to the death of people and the restoration of political power.
What's more, at this time in the late Han Dynasty, and the emperor was still an emperor on horseback, the chance of death was really too high, so how could they dare to gamble?
What's more, the reason why the court is acting like this now is because of Lin Mu, and the emperor from all over the world is also opposed to Lin Mu.
If Lin Mu died, they would be rebellious rebels one moment, and they would be cheering for the big man the next.
As long as the new emperor is willing to protect them, they will be the most loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty.
But it would be embarrassing if it infringed on their interests.
Confucius said: If the ruler regards his ministers as his hands and feet, then his ministers will regard him as his belly and heart.
Lin Mu didn't say much, he just waved his hand and signaled Wang Yun to step back.
Seeing that Lin Mu did not agree, Wang Yun could only resigned and left with some disappointment.
What surprised Lin Mu was why Wang Yun suddenly came to show his kindness at this time.
Just after Wang Yun left, Mingong came to the study and handed a letter to Lin Mu.
After Lin Mu opened it, he nodded and then understood why Wang Yun came.
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Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
This is how the first scientific examination began, and a large number of people entered the special examination room.
I only stayed here for one day, and since it was my first exam, I didn’t take it too comprehensively.
It's just three strategies and one article to count together.
After passing the exam, the person in the exam room will cover the candidate’s name with a sticker.
The examiner does not know who owns these papers at all, and can also prevent some cheating.
Various test questions are first roughly selected by the examiner, and outstanding articles are passed to the next level.
These judges were composed of officials from the imperial court.
Among them, Zhu Jun, Liu Bei and others will judge the papers. After judging these papers, they will also randomly check the papers that have been selected.
In case there is a judge who deliberately selects a talented person because he does not like it.
After five days, the selected test paper will be handed to the emperor for personal inspection.
After checking the test papers, post the names of the selected people.
In this first scientific examination, the imperial court selected more than 300 people. It is worth mentioning that several of these names were very familiar to Lin Mu.
Hundreds of officials in the main hall congratulated these new officials. This was an honor specially arranged by Lin Mu for these people.
The people who stand at the top of these teams are extremely popular, and you can tell they are from aristocratic families just by looking at them.
This person is none other than Xun You, whose courtesy name is Gongda and who belongs to the Xun family of the Yingchuan family.
He is also Xun Yu's nephew, and can be said to be a full-fledged child of an aristocratic family.
The reason why Lin Mu chose Xun You was because Xun You was also very resourceful. In Cao Cao's evaluation, Xun You was second only to Xun Yu. You must know that Xun Yu was known as the most talented person among kings.
But now Xun You came to Beijing alone, which shows that Xun You did not come with the Xun family's sincerity, but was just a diversified investment by the Xun family.
Nowadays, there are only a few powerful people in the world. Although the imperial court occupies three states, it is really nothing in terms of strength.
Among these three states, one is Liangzhou, which is remote and impoverished, one is Sili, which has suffered similar disasters, and the other is Yongzhou, which has been looted in turn.
It seems like a large territory, but in fact the total population does not exceed 1.5 million.
In the early days of the Later Han Dynasty (157), the population originally numbered more than 56 million. However, since the first year of Zhongping (184), first the Yellow Turban Rebellion and then the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, coupled with successive years of famine and war, the population has now been reduced to only More than 23 million.
In less than thirty years, the population dropped by more than half.
Although Luoyang, Chang'an and other places did not encounter any large-scale Yellow Turban Rebellion, they did suffer from a lot of military disasters.
The only reason these people are left now is because Lin Mu took them from those aristocratic families.
Therefore, although the imperial court seemed to have a large territory, it was basically useless.
But the imperial court only has one condition that other aristocratic families do not have, and that is orthodoxy.
Although other princes could rebel against the imperial court in the name of Qingjun, they could not directly rebel against the Han Dynasty.
They could only kill the traitors around the emperor and become prime minister or something. Even so, he was still a loyal minister.
This may be a great threat to other emperors, but it is nothing to Lin Mu.
If they are willing to come to Beijing, Lin Mu doesn't mind giving each of them a prime minister.
Although these aristocratic families were not optimistic about the imperial court, they still found someone from the family to come to the imperial court and diversify their investments. He was really a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.
The other one was someone Lin Mu didn't expect at all.
This person is Xu Shu.
