Wentang

Chapter 539 Cultural Nobles and Military Nobles

Shandong refers to the vast area to the east of Xiaoshan Mountain. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the aristocratic families of the Central Plains migrated to this area to settle down.

Most of these aristocratic families are the families of princes and ministers passed down from the Qin and Han Dynasties, and they are called the Shandong gentry.Among them, the five surnames and Qiwang are the most honorable.

And because most of them have profound knowledge inheritance, they are also called the Shandong cultural family.

The Guanlong military aristocracy refers to the aristocratic group whose native place was in the Guanzhong and Longshan areas and started as a military.

They were formed later. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, six military towns were set up around the city in order to protect the first Pingcheng. This is the embryonic form of the Guanlong military aristocracy.

In the period of Emperor Xiaowu, in order to fight against Gao Huan, he further integrated the military forces in the Guanlong area and formed a powerful military group.

This group of military aristocrats settled in Guanzhong, mixed with Hu and Han, combined civil and military forces, and intermarried with each other, gradually forming the Guanlong military aristocratic group.

The Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, and Tang dynasties were all established by the military aristocrats of Guanlong.Therefore, the Guanlong military aristocratic group is also part of the family.

But the Shandong cultural gentry and the Guanlong military aristocratic group were at odds from the very beginning.

The cultural gentry in Shandong are proud of their blood and culture and claim to be orthodox in the Central Plains. They despise the Guanlong Military Group, which started with military blood and mixed blood.

Of course, given the general environment at the time, they did have the capital to be proud.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, dynasties changed frequently, and it was rare for them to exist for decades. The real emperor took turns to change his family next year.

But the aristocratic family is different. They have continued the glory of the family relying on blood and profound family knowledge.No matter who becomes the emperor, he will eventually rely on the children of the family to become officials and govern the world.

It can be said that he is an emperor with a family of iron and steel.

Moreover, the survivability of the aristocratic family is also particularly strong. Even if the family is destroyed, as long as two or three people escape, they can rise again with their knowledge.

Unlike those military aristocrats who rose by military power, they relied on power to continue the glory of the family. If the family is destroyed, it is really destroyed.

Even once no one in the family reaches a high position at a certain period, the family will be in a slump and it is difficult to have a chance to rise.

This is not to belittle them, in fact it is.

The Guanlong Group was wiped out by an imperial edict from Emperor Zetian, while the Shandong gentry remained active until the end of the Tang Dynasty.Zhu Wen launched a mass extinction, and all those who came out of the five surnames and seven surnames were all arrested and sunk in the Yellow River. Only then did their glory end.

It was not until the Song Dynasty academy system and the imperial examination monopolized the way to become an official that the cultural gentry completely disappeared.

Therefore, the wealth accumulated by power is not as long-lasting as the glory brought by culture.It can be said that the Shandong cultural gentry looked down on the Guanlong Group from the bottom of their hearts.

In their view, the Guanlong Group is a group of nouveau riche, barbaric, rude, etc., and their blood is not pure...

Coupled with the fact that the Tang Dynasty has been bullied by the Turks, and the Xuanwumen Incident took place... it gave them a reason to despise them.

The Guanlong military aristocratic group's attitude towards the cultural gentry in Shandong is more complicated, with some displeasure and envy.

What's annoying is that our fists are harder than yours, and we take turns to control the power of the world. What else do you have besides the glory of your ancestors?
Uh... yes, you have produced a lot of scholars, and governing the world depends on you.But don't you want to kneel down and kowtow to the labor and management to work for us?What's there to be proud of.

If you have the ability, you can build a dynasty by yourself.

On the other hand, they envied the inheritance represented by the Shandong gentry and the culture they mastered.They want to marry with the five surnames and Qiwang to increase the dignity of their blood.

So there is a saying that when you marry a wife, you should marry a woman with five surnames.

Generally speaking, the Shandong cultural gentry and the Guanlong military aristocracy did not like each other.

Li Tang relied on the Guanlong military aristocrats, and most of the core officials in the court were from Guanlong military aristocrats, which is why Li Shimin dared to suppress the Shandong cultural family.

This time Yueshan is also planning to use the Guanlong military aristocratic group to deal with the ancient school headed by the Shandong gentry.

After listening to Yue Shan's analysis, Wang Ji was dumbfounded. He never thought that the major forces could be divided in this way.

This is not because he is ignorant. The two concepts of Shandong cultural gentry and Guanlong military aristocratic group were only formed in later generations. Although they already exist in fact, no one has proposed such calligraphy.

Yueshan can be regarded as the first.

But with Wang Ji's wisdom, he could naturally understand Yue Shan's meaning just by mentioning it a little bit, and he also thought of how to use it.

At this time, Yue Shan finally came up with his own method.

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Looking at the thick stack of letters in front of him, which contained about forty or fifty letters, Wang Ji asked suspiciously: "You really can make the Guanlong Group jump out to fight against the Shandong gentry?"

Yue Shan finished writing the last stroke, checked and found no problems, folded the letter and put it in an envelope, then said: "Why do the Shandong nobles look down on the Guanlong nobles? Or what do the Guanlong nobles lack compared to the Shandong nobles?"

"The background. The Shandong gentry has inherited thousands of years and has a profound background. Naturally, they look down on the Guanlong Group." Wang Ji replied.

Yue Shan shook his head and said, "It's not accurate. What the Guanlong Group has less than the Shandong gentry is the knowledge passed down from their families."

"Each family of the Shandong gentry holds one or several schools of knowledge inheritance, and they hold the right to interpret the classics. The books used by scholars for their studies and the annotations of these books all come from the aristocratic family."

"Six out of ten outstanding scholars in the world are from them, or they can get in touch with them. Who is the person who governs the world? It is the scholars. Knowledge is the capital of the aristocratic family."

"The Guanlong Group started from the military, and it lacks a lot of knowledge. Although they are working hard to learn knowledge, the knowledge of the world is in the hands of the Shandong gentry. No matter how hard they work, what they learn is the leftovers left by others."

"And now the new learning gives them a chance to bypass the Shandong gentry and learn real knowledge, which can make up for the family's shortcomings and challenge the Shandong gentry."

"If you were a military aristocrat in Guanlong, what would you do?"

Wang Ji replied without hesitation: "Try every means to win over the new school, and label the Guanlong Group as the main force of the new school."

"So do you think Guanlong Group will reject my plan?" Yue Shan asked rhetorically.

"No." Wang Ji shook his head first, and then said worriedly: "But the Guanlong military group is very powerful, do you guarantee that they are all willing to join us? And you recruit more than 40 personal disciples at a time, what will happen in the future teach?"

"It is not necessary for everyone to join in, as long as the few core companies are willing to join. Besides, the saint is the leader of the Guanlong Group. If he greets him, the possibility of success is very high." Yue Shan said confidently:
"As for the disciples, you don't have to worry about them. Confucius' 72 registered disciples can teach 3000 people. Just 50 people is not a problem."

"Then what do you teach them? I'm afraid they won't agree to teach them the same knowledge." Wang Ji said again.

"You don't have to worry about this. I know more than what you know. It's not a problem to separate out a dozen or twenty subjects. Let the Guanlong nobles discuss which one to learn. "

(End of this chapter)