The news from Wancheng really made Liu Xie a little confused. He had already decided to recuperate for a period of time, but this recuperation would also cost a lot of money and food.

If Wancheng can't provide money or food, then my so-called recuperation is just empty talk and a joke.

Where to get money from has now become a question that Liu Xie needs to think about.

"Are we going to attack the noble family?" Liu Xie murmured to himself.

If there is really no other way and Wancheng Hedong cannot raise money and food, Liu Xie's last resort is to shamelessly ask a noble family to borrow money.

Here we have to talk about the problem of the Han family.

The cancer of the Starting Family began to appear in the Zhou Dynasty. After the development of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, although it was restricted for a period of time in the Qin Dynasty, the final result was that the Qin Dynasty was destroyed. It then achieved unprecedented development in the Han Dynasty.

Especially after our Emperor Guangwu shouted "ruling the world with the aristocratic family", the aristocratic family continued to shine in the court of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was not until the Jin Dynasty that the aristocratic family finally reached its peak.

This is not to say that the family is not good.

Everything has two sides. The existence of aristocratic families can be said to have stabilized the court to a certain extent. However, it also restricted the court and weakened its majesty.

The representative example is our classmate Sima Yi, who survived Boss Cao and his son Boss Pi, and then began to rise.

Later it was directly replaced.

I have to say that the Sima family is a representative and a typical example of aristocratic families.

Since Emperor Guangwu relied on the support of his aristocratic family to achieve his success, he also treated the world with special preferential treatment.

The most intuitive ones are that people from aristocratic families are more likely to become officials.

Ordinary people who want to be an official need to be recommended, which is to promote filial piety and integrity. To put it simply, someone needs to recommend you to become an official.

Who can recommend you? Naturally, it is someone who has already become an official.

There are innumerable connections between aristocratic families. For example, the Wang family has a great son. He came of age this year and wanted to be an official, so he went to find someone from the Li family.

And the Li family has a relationship with the Wang family. For example, the Wang and Li families are related by marriage, or they were good friends in the past.

So, the eldest son of the Wang family ran to the Li family, called his uncle and gave some gifts, and the Li family naturally understood.

The next day, people from the Li family went to the higher authorities to recommend him, "Ah, there is a Qilin'er from the Wang family. Such a talent should be an official."

So, wouldn’t it be appropriate for the eldest son of the Wang family to become an official?

In addition, there are many interests between aristocratic families, which will lead to people from the Wang family entering the officialdom. They will receive a lot of care from the beginning and start at a higher level than others. Representatives of the aristocratic families are the Yuan family and the Yang family.

Home.

For aristocratic families, helping you is equivalent to helping yourself tomorrow, so a network of vested interests will be formed between aristocratic families.

This net not only caught the emperor, but also the common people below.

Now that we have talked about the restrictions that aristocratic families have on the emperor, what will the aristocratic families do after the emperor is restricted? That is to make money. Of course, there are also some aristocratic families that are really doing it, so I won’t go into that here.

Due to the influence of aristocratic families, the taxation of the Han Dynasty, especially those after Emperor Guangwu, was aimed at the people of Li, and the aristocratic families were not included in the tax collection scope.

This also led to the family starting to annex land and turning ordinary farmers into tenants to help the family farm.

The aristocratic family annexed the land, hired people to cultivate it, and did not pay for the grain after the harvest. The small money went into the pockets of the aristocratic family, and then the aristocratic family used the money to acquire more land.

Week after cycle, the emperor became poor, the people became poor, and his family became rich.

Therefore, in the era of the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, as long as he was from a noble family, he would have a more comfortable life than the emperor Liu Xie.

Which aristocratic family today is not extremely rich?

Liu Xie is still weak now, and it is impossible to extend his sword to the aristocratic families. Otherwise, it would be fun if these aristocratic families united in a matter of minutes to elect another emperor.

Therefore, if Liu Xie wanted food and grass, he could only borrow it.

Thinking of this, Liu Xie couldn't help but want to flip the table.

Damn it, he is a majestic emperor, but in the end he has to go to a noble family to borrow money. Who would believe what he says?

But this is the fact, which is really frustrating.

But the problem is, even if you want to borrow it, who should you borrow it from?

Currently, within their sphere of influence, the aristocratic families are relatively powerful. One is the Sima family in Hanoi, which is also Sima Yi's family. The other is the Yang family in Hongnong, and the last is the Xun family in Yingchuan.

The Sima family was the first to be crossed out by Liu Xie. There was no way that Liu Xie knew Sima Yi deeply, and he did not want to have anything to do with this person.

When he gets stronger, he will take the lead in attacking the Sima family and kill Sima Yi, the old hidden man.

The second one is the Hongnong Yang family who also has four generations and three sons. To be more precise, it should be the fourth generation of Taiwei. The Yang family's Yang Zhen, his son Yang Bing, and his grandson Yang Ci's great-grandson Yang Biao are all Taiwei.

At this time, Yang Biao happened to be in Luoyang, holding the position of Taiwei, and he was Liu Xie's most loyal minister.

It's just that... the Yang family is really poor now.

He still had to throw the pot over the head of Fatty Dong who had the sky lantern lit.

Then only the Xun family is left.

The Xun family is amazing. It is the family of Xunzi from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and has been passed down for hundreds of years.

He belongs to a top noble family in Yingchuan. He has rich family members.

Moreover, in this generation, the Xun family is full of talents, such as Xun or, Xun Chen, and Xun You. This does not include the talents of the Xun family from the previous generation.

In fact, in addition to the Xun family, Yingchuan also has the Zhong family and the Chen family.

The Zhong family is Zhong Yao's family and a large family in Yingchuan, and the representatives of the Chen family are Chen Ji, Chen Chen and Chen Qun.

Yes, it's the Chen Qun who created the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System, but this guy is currently in Xuchang. The entire Chen family is also a die-hard member of Boss Cao's faction.

Therefore, the Chen family does not need to think about it for the time being.

It needs to be mentioned here that Yingchuan County is very large, including Wancheng and Xuchang.

Although nominally, Liu Xie held the position of Yingchuan Prefect in his hands, in fact, Liu Xie could only control the entire area of ​​Yingchuan, and the rest of the territory was still in the hands of Boss Cao.

This means that Li Qiangwei's Yingchuan Prefect is a half-finished product.

In fact, strictly speaking, the Xun family is also within Boss Cao's sphere of influence. However, the Xun family is a little bit special. After all, they are saints, and Boss Cao treats the Xun family politely.

And the Xun family is famous for forming good relationships. This can be seen from the fact that the Xun family distributes their family members to different princes.

However, Boss Cao later became too powerful and firmly held the Xun family in his hands, which made the Xun family side with him without hesitation.

In addition, it needs to be mentioned that the Xun family can barely be regarded as a royalist faction, and the representative of this is Xun or.

Liu Xie is now thinking whether he can use Xun or as a breakthrough to pull the Xun family onto his warship. In this case, the civil service system within the court can be established in front of him.

Instead of being like now, some half-empty guys are sitting in high positions.

If you bring the Xun family over, you won't have to worry about food and grass. You'll get the best of both worlds.

Just, what to do?

Liu Xie supported his chin with one hand, leaned on the couch, and began to think.
Chapter completed!