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Chapter 251 Dispute between East and West
Seeing that the quarrels among the ministers continued, Li Chongjiu decided to adjourn the meeting temporarily.In the evening Li Chongjiu decided to go to Wen Yanbo's residence to discuss with him.

When he arrived at the mansion, Li Chongjiu didn't want to be informed by the concierge, and went straight into the mansion. He saw Wen Yanbo drinking alone on the stone table in the courtyard of the mansion, with a worried look on his face.When Li Chongjiu saw it, he said, "Wen Sima, drink a good wine alone, why don't you call me?"

When Wen Yanbo saw Li Chongjiu, he immediately said: "I heard that there are so many envoys, how can I find an envoy in a lowly position."

After finishing speaking, Wen Yanbo ordered the servant to bring another small cup. If it is about drinking, a refined scholar like Wen Yanbo would always have a small cup, and he would serve a little green plum drink.As for Wang Mahan, the barbarians took it directly, or exchanged it for a Shanghai bowl of beef drink, with different backgrounds and different tastes.

Li Chongjiu and Wen Yanbo raised their glasses to each other and slowly opened up the conversation.

After drinking a glass of wine, Wen Yanbo sighed and said: "Your Majesty, when I was young, I accompanied my father to the Wang's house in Taiyuan, and visited a county magistrate's mansion. At that time, the King of Han did not rebel. The Taiyuan Wang family is still far inferior. At that time I was in the sect, and the members of the Yuan Wang family were all dignified and arrogant. At that time, I secretly said that in the future, I must become famous and change the status of my Wen family."

Wen Yanbo paused here, and said: "Later, I was admitted to the Jinshi Department, selected by the late emperor, and became an official in Xijing. Maybe it was because I was older and had more experience. At that time, the feeling of resentment in my heart was much less. Your Majesty, as the saying goes, people do not worry about being few, but about being uneven. The four great gentry clans hold high positions, and the descendants don't need to work hard to succeed their fathers and ancestors and occupy high positions."

"Even I am not jealous, not to mention the murder of a poor family, Er Zhurong has done it once before, but so what. Afterwards, he will be infamous and he will be tabooed by the world."

Li Chongjiu understood that what Wen Yanbo was talking about was the change in Heyin.Li Chongjiu immediately asked: "What does Wen Sima think I should do?"

Wen Yanbo said sternly: "The gentry has existed for hundreds of years since Cao Wei. Its strength lies not only in the government and the opposition, but also in the locality. If a large clan has no officials in the court and is not designated, then at most it can only be called Because the local is powerful. Among the anti-family, there are some people who are high-ranking officials in the imperial court, but there is no one from the same clan in the imperial court to respond, and the local area has no influence, so the position will not last long."

Li Chongjiu nodded. To become a gentry, first of all, someone is good at being an official in the court; secondly, economically owning a farm, and occupying a large number of land and population, both are indispensable.For example, Li Chongjiu is a good example. He suddenly made Yang Guang a marquis, but there was no one behind him to support him, so he was brushed off immediately.

The local power of the gentry is also related to the imperial court. From the central to the local, the rule has only reached the county level, and the officials of a county, except the county magistrate himself, are all from the local area, and other officials are local tyrants or gentry. Central levy.In fact, it is called Zhengpi, and there is not much room for choice, and it is okay to change to an ordinary county in this situation, but if the county magistrate is an official in a place with a strong clan like the Lu family, he basically obeys orders.

Wen Yanbo said: "The ancestors of the Zhou and Sui dynasties, Yu Wentai, and the first emperors were all Guanlong gentry. All the Guanlong gentry were of Xianbei or Hu descent, and they were born in the town. Most of them were generals from Wuchuan Town among the six towns. And Yu Wentai, the first emperor, and even Li Yuan, the ancestors of these three were all town generals from Wuchuan Town.

"The Shandong gentry, headed by Cui, Lu, Wang, and Zheng, are all descendants of the orthodox Han family. Gao Huan of Qi State also has a genealogy. It has already got rid of the customs of the Han people, so the emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Shandong gentry can be regarded as authentic Han people. After the split of the Great Wei, it evolved into a dispute between Zhou and Qi. It is not so much the battle between Yuwentai and Gao Huan, but the Guanlong gentry Competing with the Shandong gentry."

Hearing what Wen Yanbo said, Li Chongjiu thought to himself that there are so many inside stories about Wei Zhengba.At that time, the people of the Southern Dynasties favored one side, even if they were unable to compete for the world, so the dispute between the Kanto and the West was the struggle for the world.All emperors and generals came from this.

Wen Yanbo said: "After Zhou destroyed Qi, the Guanlong gentry overwhelmed the Shandong gentry. After the founding of the Sui Dynasty, the first emperor was born in the Guanlong gentry, and suppressed the Shandong gentry while suppressing the Shandong gentry. To check and balance the Guanlong nobles behind."

"Thus, the country was basically stable during the first emperor's reign, but when the emperor ascended the throne, he moved the capital from Xijing to Dongdu. , for example, the current empress is the daughter of Emperor Liang, who was born in the Xiao family of Lanling."

Li Chongjiu was shocked when he heard the words, and suddenly said: "Didn't the emperor offend the two noble families of Shandong and Guanlong at the same time, and grandma doesn't love uncle or uncle."

Wen Yanbo sighed and said: "Your Majesty made it clear that the gentry in the Southern Dynasties only knew how to make love, so how could they hold on? Now that the world is in chaos, the Son of Heaven would rather take refuge in Jiangdu than return to the Eastern Capital and Xijing. , the distrust of the two major noble families in Shandong."

Hearing Wen Yanbo's analysis, Li Chongjiu had a refreshing feeling about the situation in the world at the moment. They all said that it was a foolish move for Yang Guang to temporarily avoid Jiangdu, but if he was not in his position, he would not seek his own government. How could outsiders understand that Yang Guang was in a dangerous situation at this time.

Back to the present, the Fan Yang Lu family that I have to deal with right now.During the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the power of the gentry in Shandong was not as strong as it was in the Northern Qi Dynasty, but the centipedes were dead but not stiff.The Lu family, who is dead but not stiff, is actually the uncrowned king who controls the local resources of Zhuo County.From the Northern Wei Dynasty to the end of the Sui Dynasty, more than 500 years ago, the Lu family has already been deeply rooted in Beyouzhou.Zhuo County now has [-] households, while Li Chongjiu now has three counties of Shanggu, Liaodong, and Liaoxi, plus Huaihuang and Yuyi. , adding up is less than the population of one county in Zhuojun.

Li Chongjiu immediately asked: "Who is the head of Fan Yang Lu's family right now?"
Wen Yanbo said: "I am Lu Chisong, the son of Lu Sidao, who is now the Commander of Hedong. I heard that he and Li Yuan are acquainted with each other. At present, Lu Ziqian, Lu Chisong's younger brother, is in charge of the important affairs in the hometown of Zhuojun County!"

Li Chongjiu nodded, thinking that one of the two brothers is an official in the court, and the other is the patriarch in the local area, echoing internally and externally.

Li Chongjiu asked: "Does Wen Sima know Lu Ziqian?"

Wen Yanbo thought for a while and said: "Beizhi and Lu Ziqian are strangers, but Lu Chengqing, the son of Lu Chisong, did compose a few poems to sing in harmony at the wedding ceremony, and they talked very happily."

Li Chongjiu nodded when he heard this, and said: "That's good, so let's take a quick trip to Zhuojun, and I want to see Fanyang Lu's family."

(End of this chapter)