Liu Xie, who had been peeking at the screen, naturally saw the scene of Ji Ling's death.

For Liu Xie, a serious patient with collecting addiction, Ji Ling's death made him somewhat sad.

Ji Ling can be said to be the most loyal and brave man throughout the Three Kingdoms era.

However, he met Yuan Shu, the legitimate son of the Yuan family who was not good at anything.

Ji Ling's death can be said to be due to an unknown owner, or it can be said that he died under the rule of a noble family.

If the aristocratic family does not control the promotion channels for the lower-level personnel, then loyal and brave people like Ji Ling should be used by the court.

It is precisely because aristocratic families control the promotion channels of lower-level personnel that those capable lower-level personnel can only rely on aristocratic families.

Thus, they enter a vicious cycle in which the stronger the aristocratic family becomes, the less likely they are to find a way out for those at the bottom, so they can only seek refuge in the aristocratic family, and then the aristocratic family becomes stronger again.

In the Han Dynasty, how powerful were the powerful families?

To sum it up in one sentence, it has affected the rule of the imperial power, and this situation of aristocratic families ruling the world reached its peak in the Jin Dynasty.

Therefore, if Liu Xie wants to reunify the Han Dynasty, he will not be able to overcome the obstacle of aristocratic families.

What is more uncomfortable now is that Liu Xie still has to rely on the strength of the aristocratic family.

For example, Zhong Yao of the Zhong clan in Yingchuan has been sent to Yongzhou to serve as governor.

For example, Liu Xie of the Xun family in Yingchuan also sent people to contact them, hoping to buy food and grass and recruit talents from them.

For example, the Yang family in Yongzhou and the Wang family in Hongnong.

It can be said that without knowing it, Liu Xie already had the loyalty of a large number of aristocratic families.

If Liu Xie proposed to rectify the aristocratic family at this time, then these people from the aristocratic family would be the thunder buried around Liu Xie.

It can be said that it is extremely difficult to deal with the aristocratic family's control over the court. If you are not careful, you will overturn the situation.

There is more than one prince in history who neglected aristocratic families.

The one who is further away is Wang Mang, who is known as the time traveler. The one who is closer is Fatty Dong.

Liu Xie was not sure whether Wang Mang was a time traveler, but he knew very well that Brother Mang's series of reform measures were overturned because they affected the interests of the aristocratic families.

Not to mention Fatty Dong, who treated the aristocratic family as a plaything, only to be stabbed in the back by someone from the aristocratic family.

So, in this era, you have to be careful when playing with aristocratic families.

When you don't interfere with their interests, they are loyal and patriotic. If you interfere with their cake, they are the vanguard of the rebellion.

Liu Xie couldn't help but rub his forehead when he thought of this.

"Host, are you worried about the noble family?" At this time, the system suddenly asked.

"Yes, the influence of the aristocratic family is too great. It has already affected the rule of the imperial power." Liu Xie murmured.

"If that's the case, then why doesn't the host want to weaken the influence of the family?"

"You said it so easily. It's not like you don't know how much influence the family has." Liu Xie was really speechless when he saw the system speak so easily.

"It's just because it's big that it needs to be weakened. Host, do you know what is the fundamental reason why aristocratic families can expand their influence?"

"The fundamental reason for expanding influence? Isn't it because the aristocratic family controls the promotion of the lower-class families." Liu Xie heard the system's words and immediately answered directly.

"Since the host already knows, why not start from this aspect?" the system reminded.

"Where to start?" Liu Xie murmured. Then Liu Xie suddenly thought that the power of the promoted products of the aristocratic family seemed to be eliminated because of this method.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the aristocratic families had become powerful families due to the blessings of the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

These clans were in charge of collecting taxes in a place, and had their own retainers, retainers, and even armies. Each one of them became a country in its own right.

But in the end, during the period of Empress Wu, that is, during the period of Wu Zetian, it came to an abrupt end. As if overnight, the family members disappeared.

It has to be said that Wu Zetian did few good things and many wrong things in her life. And this elimination of the influence of the clan is Wu Zetian's greatest achievement in her life.

When Liu Xie thought of this, he was thinking about whether he could learn from Wu Zetian and organize the imperial examination.

If the imperial examination system is introduced, Liu Xie will need to solve several problems first.

First, there is the issue of books.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Confucian books were all in the hands of aristocratic families for their children to study. There were almost no such things as books in the market.

Second, the books of this era were all written on bamboo slips.

A bamboo slip weighs at least one or two kilograms, but can only contain two to three hundred words.

If you want to write a masterpiece of 10,000 words, you really need to use a horse-drawn carriage to pull it.

Therefore, dear readers, don’t be frightened by the idiom "learn to be rich in five cars". Maybe a person who has learned to be rich in five cars may not read as many words as the book written by Mr. Ma Zi.

Therefore, if you want to popularize the imperial examination, you must first solve the problem of paper.

Although Caihou paper is now available, the quality of this paper is not good and the output is too low to be able to shoulder such an important task.

If you want to make paper that can be printed, you must first develop paper that can be written on.

The third point is the printing of books. There is no later printing technology in the Three Kingdoms era.

Nowadays, handwriting is still popular. This kind of handwriting is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also prone to errors. Moreover, the fonts are different and it is easy for people to read them wrongly.

Therefore, if we want to popularize education and implement imperial examinations, we must first solve these three things.

Are these three things difficult? Not difficult, but not easy to solve either.

After all, you are taking food from the mouths of aristocratic families. It's strange that they can give you such a good look.

Maybe, these aristocratic families will seek refuge with other princes.

Liu Xie is considering whether he should implement this national policy.

I can't stand the system on the side anymore.

"Host, this system has discovered that it was wrong. With your IQ, giving you a score of 82 is just flattering you."

"Think about it carefully, even if the aristocratic family rebels, so what? You have endless players in your hands. If anyone dares to object, you can just push them over!"

"And if you really do this, host, have you ever thought about the other people's thoughts?"

"Can't they see that you, host, are thinking about them? Won't they help you?"

"Think about it for yourself, in the current Three Kingdoms era, in terms of population base, are there more people from wealthy families, or from wealthy families?"

"And, host, why don't you think that people from some wealthy families will not support you?"

"Finally, where did the original things you were thinking about come from, the development of paper, the development of printing technology, what do you think these are?"

"Have you forgotten that you still have the support of the Dragon Kingdom?"

When Liu Xie heard the scolding from the system, he really came to his senses.

It doesn't matter what the aristocratic family thinks of him, as long as he can grasp the hearts and minds of common people and poor families, that's enough.

There are no originals, no paper, and no printing technology. Aren’t there players?

Ordinary players won't, and neither will those players with official backgrounds?

Just take out a set from the museum and study it, wouldn’t it be enough?
Chapter completed!