Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 185
Putting aside all the powerful things, Kong Ming noticed the second appearance of the term:
"Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms... Presumably it was the chaotic period between the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty?"

Pang Tong confirmed: "It was previously said that Boling Cui was severely damaged in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms after the prosperity of the late Tang Dynasty. This should refer to the troubled times of the replacement of dynasties."

"The meaning of the Ten Kingdoms is easy to understand. The Five Dynasties should be said to be the replacement of the Five Dynasties like the Jin Dynasty and the Wei Dynasty."

Kong Ming imagined it:
"Then Jiaozhou will claim to be the Jiedu Envoy of the Tang Dynasty to crusade against the Song Dynasty. From this point of view, it seems that we can make such a guess."

"After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the five dynasties in the Central Plains successively changed, and in places where roads were difficult to access, such as Liaodong Lingnan Jiaozhou and even the middle of Shu, the giant Tang Jiedu envoy supported the army to establish itself as a country."

Pang Tong nodded. He didn't know much at the moment, so he could only guess based on this:
"The light screen said that Ma Chao and Lu Bu were 'adapted versions'... and that martial arts became a common practice in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?"

"Dozens of fierce generals like Lu Bu are fighting here and there, is this the end of the military chaos?"

"Good guy!" Zhang Fei sighed:
"How many adoptive fathers will die?"

……

"Smart military exploits?" Li Shimin savored the word.

Various thoughts swirled in his mind, and Li Shimin asked directly:
"Could it be that Tang Fei used force to destroy the country?"

"No, that's not right." Li Shimin shook his head directly. He still remembered the deeds of the Guiyi Army clearly, and he couldn't even take Hexi back in the late Tang Dynasty.

The righteous man Zhang Yichao begged the Hexi Jiedu envoy but failed, and the entire Guiyi army Jiedu envoy was ordered to guard against Tang's unscrupulous descendants that night. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like destroying the country by force, on the contrary, it is very routine. Weakness destroys the country.

"Or that the country in troubled times all inherited the Tang system?" Changsun Wuji carefully speculated:
"Just like the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, my Tang Dynasty also referred to the former Sui Dynasty. The people who established the country in troubled times naturally respect everyone."

This statement is reasonable. Li Shimin couldn't help but nod. His martial arts skills have been praised by later generations. It is not normal for the rebel army to admire him 200 years later!

But thinking about a group of rebels using his own banner, Li Shimin's expression was a bit subtle, and he didn't know whether he should be happy or not.

[The powerful-celebrity-official version of the gameplay developed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a key part of it is the investigation system, and thus the celebrity was born.

The promotion of filial piety and integrity that we are familiar with now is just one of the inspection and promotion systems.

In the Western Han Dynasty, there were four elements: Xiaolian, Xiucai, Chalian, Guanglu, Xianliangfangzheng, etc.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ming Jing and Ming Fa were added in accordance with the style of study.

Xiu Cai was later changed to Mao Cai to avoid Liu Xiu's taboo, and changed to Sui Ju in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The probation system is a big problem, because it is a bottom-up system for selecting talents, which is essentially a kind of power transfer by the central government.

After the tyrants understood this set of gameplay, they borrowed the style of study of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and they came into being such things as celebrities.

The essence of celebrities is to compete with the court for the right to guide public opinion. Once you master this, you can influence the inspection and promotion, and thus influence and control the right to recommend and select personnel.

Also because of the special thing of celebrities, the literati in the Eastern Han Dynasty had the habit of "raising names".

To put it bluntly, it is a group of people who stick together to advertise each other. I say you are a good leader in the world, and you call me a talented person, and then go out to promote each other. Everyone becomes famous for each other. After being promoted to an official position, the privileges and land will follow. come.

There were many such small groups in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

For example, Xu Shao, who appeared in Romance and became well-known to everyone, is a celebrity, and once a month, there will be a monthly review, saying that this one is a hero, and that one is a good talent.

As famous as Xu Shao is the famous scholar Guo Tai. This man is very clever and has a special label for his promotion as "Yingyan".

In addition to fighting alone, there are group battles. For example, Dou Wu, Liu Shu, and Chen Fan are collectively known as the "Three Monarchs", each of whom is the "Imperial Clan".

All of the above are considered to be relatively high-ranking. If the rest of them want to have the right to speak, they simply recruit more people and put special labels on themselves.

For example, the Bajun, or Bajun, refers to eight talented people. The more famous among them is Liu Biao who rode into Jingzhou alone.

For example, Ba Gu said that these eight people can guide the world in terms of virtue; for example, Ba Ji said that these eight people have virtuous virtues as teachers.

For example, Ba Chu said that these eight people are all people who are generous and generous.

In short, there are so many things to do that you can’t keep your eyes peeled. In the current film and television industry, when it comes to awards and other awards, we have to call them ancestors.

Later, Cao Pi lamented that these celebrities "are as private as they are, and as famous as Hengxiang."

The imperial court not only lost the administrative power at the grassroots level, but even lost the right to speak in public opinion, which led to the loss of the right to appoint and remove personnel. Therefore, the Eastern Han Dynasty can only say that the death is not wronged at all.

But even if the tyrants rely on celebrities to monopolize the right to speak, it is still possible that the fat water will flow to outsiders.

Because in the final analysis, the inspection and examination system is more inclined to the poor and the head of Guizhou. To give the simplest example, the powerful and powerful all have thousands of child servants, so why should children be filial?
Therefore, the final weapon of the powerful families was brought out together, and that was the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System.

This system is not used to replace the probation system, it is a talent evaluation system, and it can be regarded as a supplement to the probation system according to family background.

In essence, it is to bring back the rights that celebrities have snatched from the past to the central government. It can be regarded as a means of centralizing power, and it is also one of the reasons why Cao Pi decided to pass it.

And the aristocratic families also think that this system is very good, there is no middleman to make the difference, and in the step of Dingxiangpin, those who are not from the aristocratic family can be easily designated as the next third rank, completely eliminating their chance of turning over.

This is also the reason why the stories of filial piety that we saw in Jinshu before are so outrageous. The humble scholars who have been completely eliminated from official careers are close to madness, so they can only fabricate such stories that are becoming more and more outrageous, hoping to break the heavy burden. The ninth grade door.

The ultimate decay of the procuratorial system only vividly illustrates that the class that occupies a favorable position in the operation of society will use various means to ensure that its monopoly position can be hereditary.And in order to ensure this kind of monopoly, they even did not hesitate to destroy and erode the original selection system, and even if it would cause the stagnation or regression of social progress, they still did not hesitate.

Because of this, the decadent examination system withdrew from the stage of history, and the examination method that was born in the examination system gradually shed its light and influenced China for thousands of years. 】

"The hearts of these scholars are so dark!"

Zhang Fei shook his head and sighed, unaware of the subtle gaze cast from the hall.

"If I were here in Jin, wouldn't I be able to kill pigs for generations?"

"I don't think so." Pang Tong said angrily:
"With Yide's temper, he would be captured and demoted to a wealthy family within two days of selling meat."

Zhang Fei was not angry, he laughed and said:

"That being the case, after the Central Plains are leveled, I will dig a good grave for them."

"When you go to Taishan Mansion, please don't say that Grandpa Zhang treated them badly."

Pang Tong gave Zhang Fei a thumbs up, then sighed:

"Before reading the record of filial piety in the Jin Dynasty, I felt absurd, but now that I know its situation, I feel a lot of sadness aftertaste."

"Who said no?" Kong Ming sighed leisurely:
"I have the knowledge of the heavens, the latitudes and the earth in my chest, and I have a good strategy to stabilize the country and the country in my belly. However, if my birth is designated as the lower third grade, there is no room for half of it to be used."

"And the disciples of the aristocratic family, even if they are full of food and do nothing all day long, they can still be ranked as ministers."

Zhang Song also interjected: "I envy that Gong Sunhong only took ten years to become a prime minister. Such a thing, the scholars of the Jin Dynasty are afraid that their hearts will bleed when they read it."

Everyone silently nodded in agreement.

"This summary... is thought-provoking." Kong Ming carefully read the last exclamation of the light curtain silently, only feeling that it was not just about the probation system.

In Chaotang Township, on the frontiers of the Central Plains, as long as the position is divided into ranks and ranks, where else is it not?I am afraid that the same is true of the Great Qin Kingdom in the distance.

That being the case, can the examination method be used in all aspects?Literary examination?Martial arts examination?Agricultural examination?

For a while, Kong Ming thought of various methods of imperial examination, and finally turned into a sigh:
"This exam is the real meritocracy."

After having this idea, Kong Ming almost couldn't wait to try it himself.

Liu Bei looked at Kong Ming's expression and smiled without the need for Kong Ming to hold his hand.
"If the military master has an idea, just let it go and do it! The talent of Crouching Dragon, who is not convinced?"

Everyone laughed in the hall for a while, yes, it has been passed down through the ages, who is not convinced?

But Zhang Fei remembered another thing:

"Commander, are you and Commander Pang's Fengchu names also the so-called adopted names?"

Kong Ming and Pang Tong looked at each other, shook their heads and smiled, and Pang Tong explained:
"If you want to raise a name, then it should be me who praises Kong Ming as a crouching dragon, and Kong Ming praises me as a phoenix."

"Just like the Ba Gu Ba Gu Ba Ji who flaunted each other, who took this title, who knows such a celebrity?"

"As for the talent of Kong Ming...how does the title of Crouching Dragon compare to him?"

Pang Tong commented lightly: "It is worthy of the name, what is raising a name?"

Kong Ming patted Pang Tong on the shoulder and laughed:
"If I say that Fengchu is worthy of the name at this time, it seems to be flaunting each other, and there is suspicion of raising a name, so I will not say it."

Pang Tong was immediately furious:
"Village Zhuge!"

After some squabbling, Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Young stared at the last two sentences to study.

"Since Guangmu said this, does he think that the entire society of the Jin Dynasty was stagnant or regressive?" Pang Tong wondered:
“Whether it’s progress or regression, what are the specific criteria for judging it?”

"If we were in the era we live in..." Kong Ming raised his head and thought hard for a long time. The round water wheel and the long list of hydraulic tools brought out by the water power mill flashed in his mind.

As well as the grain production of future generations speculated from the creation of heavenly objects, as well as the continuous improvement of sugar and iron smelting.

He even remembered the talk about the development of productivity when we talked about currency before, so he guessed:

"The most important thing should be productivity?"

Pang Tong remembered the rise and fall of the procuratorate system, and after the Jin Dynasty, the humble scholars frantically made up filial names.

Reading it is fun, thinking about it is sad, so he also sighed and said:

"There should be a clear and clean inspection system."

Then the two looked at each other and sighed together:
"A long way to go!"

　Hug the old irons.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)