Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Putting aside all the powerful things, Kong Ming noticed the second appearance of this term:

The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms... I guess it was the period of chaos 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 his prosperity in the late Tang Dynasty. This should refer to the troubled times of dynasty change.

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, five dynasties in the Central Plains region changed continuously. For example, in areas such as Jiaozhou, Lingnan, Liaodong, and even Shuzhong, in areas with difficult roads, the Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty supported the army and established their own country.

Pang Tong nodded. He didn’t know much at the moment, so he could only guess based on this:

Then the light curtain said that Ma Chao and Lu Bu were 'adapted to the version'... that martial arts became commonplace in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?

Dozens of fierce generals like Lu Bu are killing each other. Is this the end of the chaos?

Good guy! Zhang Fei sighed:

How many adoptive fathers will die?

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Military hero? 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. Even Hexi could not be taken back in the late Tang Dynasty.

The righteous man Zhang Yichao asked for help from the Hexi Jiedushi Envoy but was not able to do so. The whole Guiyi Army Jiedushi Envoy asked the unworthy descendants of the late Tang Dynasty to be on guard against this. No matter how you look at it, it does not look like destroying the country with force. On the contrary, it is very routine. Weak and destroy the country.

Or did all the countries in troubled times inherit the Tang system? Changsun Wuji carefully speculated:

Just like the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, our Tang Dynasty also referred to the Sui Dynasty. Those who established the country in troubled times naturally respected 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 two hundred 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-officialdom version of the game was developed in the Eastern Han Dynasty. A very key part of it is the inspection and examination 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 academic style.

Xiucai was later changed to Maocai to avoid the taboo of Liu Xiu, and was changed to Suiju in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The inspection and promotion system is very problematic because it is a bottom-up system for recommending talents. In essence, it is a transfer of power from the central government.

After the powerful people understood this method of playing, they took advantage of the Eastern Han Dynasty's academic style to create such a thing 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.

Because of such special things as celebrities, the literati of the Eastern Han Dynasty had the habit of raising their reputations.

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 the novel and was well-known to everyone, was a celebrity. There was a monthly review every month, saying that this person was a hero and that person was praised as 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 this kind of individual fighting, there are also group fighting. For example, the three famous figures Dou Wu, Liu Shu, and Chen Fan are collectively called the Three Monarchs, and each of them is the ancestor of a generation.

The above are considered to be relatively high-ranking people. If the remaining people want to have the right to speak, they can simply recruit more people and give themselves a special label.

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 are virtuous and can serve as role models.

For example, the Eight Chefs said that these eight people are all generous and generous people.

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 have their positions in private families and their names in alleys.

The imperial court not only lost its administrative power at the grassroots level, but also lost its right to speak public opinion, resulting in the loss of personnel appointment and removal rights. Therefore, the Eastern Han Dynasty can only say that its death was not unjust at all.

But even if the powerful rely on celebrities to monopolize the right to speak, they may still let the fat 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 ninth-grade Zhongzheng system.

This system is not used to replace the imperial examination. It is a talent evaluation system based on family background and rank. It can be regarded as an auxiliary to the imperial examination system.

Essentially, it was to return the rights that celebrities had snatched away to the central government. It was a centralization method and one of the reasons why Cao Pi approved it.

The aristocratic families also feel that this system is very good. There are no middlemen to make profit from the price difference. In the step of determining the hometown grade, people outside the aristocratic family can easily be assigned to the lower third grade, completely eliminating the chance for them to stand up.

This is also the reason why the filial piety stories we saw in Jin books were so outrageous. Scholars from poor families who were completely cut off from official career were close to going crazy and could only make up more and more outrageous stories in the hope that they could lift the heavy burden. The ninth grade door.

The final decay of the imperial examination 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.

In order to ensure this monopoly, they even go to the extent of destroying and eroding the original selection system, even if it causes stagnation or regression of social progress.

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, completely unaware of the subtle glances from the hall.

If I were here in Jin, wouldn't I have to kill pigs for generations to come?

I don't think so. Pang Tong said angrily:

With a temper like Yide's, he would have been kidnapped and demoted as a private slave of a wealthy family within two days of selling meat.

Zhang Fei was not angry at all, he laughed and said:

In this case, after the Central Plains is 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, and then sighed:

I thought it was ridiculous when I read the records of filial piety in the Jin Dynasty, but now that I know their situation, I feel quite sad when I think about it.

Who says it's not? Kong Ming sighed:

You have the knowledge of heaven and earth in your chest, and you have good strategies to stabilize the country in your belly. However, if your origin is determined to be of the lower third grade, there will be no place for you to put it into practice.

And the disciples of that aristocratic family, I think even if they are full and have nothing to do all day long, they can still be ranked as high officials.

Zhang Song also interjected: We envy Gongsun Hong's rise from white to prime minister in only ten years. Scholars of the Jin Dynasty would bleed in their hearts when they read such a thing.

Everyone silently nodded in agreement.

This summary... is thought-provoking. Kong Ming read Guangmu's last sigh carefully and silently, feeling that it was not just about the inspection system.

In Chaotang Township, on the frontier of the Central Plains, as long as status is divided into hierarchies, where can this not be the case? I'm afraid the same is true for the distant country of Qin.

That being the case, can the examination method be used in all aspects? Liberal Arts 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 advisor has an idea, just go ahead and do it! Who can be dissatisfied with Wolong's talent?

Everyone in the hall laughed for a moment, yes, it has been passed down through the ages, who can be dissatisfied?

But Zhang Fei remembered something else:

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 I want to raise my name, it should be me praising Kong Ming as Wolong, and Kong Ming praising me as Fengxiao.

Just like the eight caretakers, eight chefs and eight warriors who advertised to each other, with this title, who knows such a famous person?

As for Kong Ming's talent...what does the title of Wolong have to do with him?

Pang Tong commented lightly: It is worthy of the name. What does it mean to raise a name?

Kong Ming patted Pang Tong on the shoulder and laughed:

If I say that Feng Chu is worthy of the name at this time, it will be like showing off to each other and raising the reputation, so I won't say it anymore.

Pang Tong was immediately furious:

Zhuge Villager!

After some fighting, Wolong and Phoenix were staring at the last two sentences and studying them.

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 later generations inferred from the creation of heaven, 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 thought of the rise and fall of the imperial examination system and the craziness of those poor men who made up filial names after the Jin Dynasty.

It was fun to read, but sad to think about, so he sighed and said:

There should be a system of clean and honest inspections.

Then the two looked at each other and sighed together:

“There’s a long way to go!”

The veterans hugged their fists.