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A new sky screen appears.

First, a classic clip from an old TV series about the Three Kingdoms was played.

This is the classic scene that the audience is familiar with - My sword is not at all disadvantageous!

Dong Zhuo in the picture intends to establish his authority by deposing and enthroning emperors.

As a result, Yuan Shao drew his sword and angrily attacked him in public.

And Tianmu, after playing the clip, began to narrate:
[My sword is not bad either! ]

[I believe many of you were stunned by this scene of Yuan Benchu ​​in the TV series Romance of the Three Kingdoms.]

[The moment when Yuan Shao drew his sword and angrily attacked Dong Zhuo was not only a manifestation of his personal courage. 】

[It is also the basis for the Yuan family's century-long glory. ]

[When all the civil and military officials in the court were silent under the tyranny of Dong Zhuo, how could this young noble from the Yuan family of Runan have the courage to face the powerful official? ]

[The answer is just one word: three dukes in four generations.]

[So how great is Yuan Shao's "four generations of three officials"? 】

【In the bureaucratic system of the Eastern Han Dynasty. 】

【The “Three Dukes” refer to the Grand Commandant, the Minister of Civil Affairs, and the Minister of Works. 】

【Not only the highest administrative chief, but also the ultimate symbol of the status of the nobles. 】

【The Yuan family, starting from Yuan Shao’s great-grandfather Yuan An, has held the position of the Three Dukes for four consecutive generations, creating the most prominent political family in the Eastern Han Dynasty.】

[Yuan An's rise can be regarded as a model of the official selection system in the Eastern Han Dynasty. ]

[This poor boy who entered the government as an official for his filial piety and integrity, by virtue of his achievements in providing relief to disaster victims while serving as the governor of Chu County, had become a "strict and fair official" when he was appointed as the governor of Henan in the 13th year of Yongping.]

[The appointment of the Grand Commandant in the eighth year of Jianchu marked the beginning of the Yuan family's century-long glorious journey. ]

[His son Yuan Chang took over as Sikong in the third year of Yuanchu.]

[Yuan Tang, his grandson, even completed the "Three Dukes Grand Slam" during the reign of Emperor Huan of Han.]

[He successively served as Sikong, Situ, and Taiwei, becoming the only official in the Eastern Han Dynasty to hold all three important posts.]

【Yuan Tang not only made good use of the cultural capital of his Confucian family, but also wove a network covering the entire aristocratic class through marriage strategies.】

[Interestingly, Yuan Shao's courtesy name was Benchu. I wonder if this courtesy name has anything to do with the reign title "Benchu" when Yuan Tang was the Minister of Works.]

[His sons Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei served as Minister of Works and Minister of Education respectively during the reign of Emperor Ling of Han.]

【The students and former officials of Yuan family are spread all over the nine provinces. 】

[According to the Book of the Later Han, there were more than 3,000 direct disciples of the Yuan family alone, and 40% of the county governors and provincial governors were former officials of the Yuan family.]

Qin Dynasty.

When Ying Zheng saw this, he immediately saw the problem.

"One Yuan family, his students and former officials are all over the world."

"If there are big families like this, there are several of them all over the country."

"So, in the end, did the world of the later Han Dynasty belong to the emperor?"

"Or does it belong to those big families?"

“No wonder the Three Kingdoms era followed the fall of the Han Dynasty.”

"Such a huge hidden danger is here, and the court just ignores it?"

"The imperial power will certainly be greatly weakened and restricted."

"hehe."

Ying Zheng saw the problem, but the problem happened in another dynasty, so Ying Zheng was naturally not in a hurry.

But continue watching the show.

Then Ying Zheng also said: "From this point of view, it is not surprising that Yuan Shao in later generations dared to draw his sword against the powerful minister Dong Zhuo."

……

The sky continues.

[Especially during the Party and Faction Persecution in the first year of Jianning, the Yuan family showed amazing political resilience.]

[When the Qingliu leaders Chen Fan and Li Ying were killed one after another, Yuan Wei, who was then the prime minister, cleverly maneuvered to preserve the family foundation while secretly protecting the party members and their disciples.]

[This strategy emphasizes both self-preservation and building power.]

【This not only saved Yuan Shikai from serious damage during the two Party Imprisonment Disasters, but also expanded his influence among the literati.】

【Everyone thinks that the Yuan family is a big brother who is trustworthy and worth following. 】

[The Yuan Feng brothers made friends with many talented people in the world. Whether they were officials in the court or talented people among the people, they all had close ties with the Yuan family.]

【In the Han Dynasty at that time, the influence of the Yuan family was everywhere. 】

【Yuan Feng is the father of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. 】

[However, Yuan Shao was a bastard, and his mother was just a maidservant of Yuan Feng.]

[This made Yuan Shao's status in the family far inferior to that of Yuan Shu, the legitimate son, in his early years.]

[Yuan Shu often showed contempt for Yuan Shao, and this created a rift between the brothers.]

[However, Yuan Feng later adopted Yuan Shao to Yuan Cheng, and Yuan Shao became Yuan Cheng's stepson, thus improving his status.]

[His status in the Yuan family is no less than that of Yuan Shu. ]

[In the chaotic times of the late Han Dynasty when many heroes were vying for supremacy, Yuan Shao, relying on his own abilities and the prestige of his family, even had more appeal than Yuan Shu.]

[Of course, there is also a saying that Yuan Cheng is Yuan Shao's biological father. ] [Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were only brothers. ]

[But no matter what, it cannot change the important position of the Yuan family in the historical stage of the late Han Dynasty. ]

[At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the country was in chaos, and various princes rose up one after another. ]

[The Yuan family's reputation of "three officials from four generations" played a huge role.]

【His students and former officials are all over the world. 】

[The brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu quickly formed their own team with the influence of their family. ]

[Yuan Shao occupied Hebei and, relying on Hebei's superior geographical location and strong economic strength, formed an army of hundreds of thousands. ]

【Become one of the most powerful princes in the north. 】

【Yuan Shu captured Huainan, commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, and dominated the area. 】

[If the two brothers unite, one in the south and one in the north, and add their disciples and former officials from all over the world to support them.]

[No one in the world can rival the Yuan family. ]

[However, the conflict between the two Yuan brothers could never be reconciled.]

[Yuan Shu looked down on Yuan Shao's status as a concubine's son.]

[Yuan Shao was also unwilling to be inferior to Yuan Shu. ]

[In that era when they needed to unite their forces to fight against foreign enemies, they fought on their own, and Cao Cao eventually seized the opportunity and defeated them one by one.]

[The once glorious Yuan family gradually declined in the tide of history. ]

After the video ended, comments started to discuss.

"Oh my god, the Yuan family is so powerful?"

《A noble family does not need teammates! Yuan Shen, start!》

"My arrows are not bad either! Release them! Release them!"

"After you learn about the four generations of three officials, you will find that Dong Zhuo is a man of courage."

"What are you bragging about? At that time, the three dukes of the Eastern Han Dynasty were already mascots."

"The three ministers who are not in charge of the Shangshu affairs have no decision-making power."

"It's not scary to have three generations of officials, what's scary is that your students and former officials are all over the world."

"If the two Yuans united, the world would belong to the Yuan family."

"Dong Zhuo was desperate. He thought that if he controlled the emperor, he could control the world. However, the truth was that the Eastern Han Dynasty was controlled by aristocratic families. "

"Dong Zhuo himself was a former official of Yuan's clan."

"The Grand Master is greedy. He dares to overturn the table without such strong strength and popularity."

"But Dong Zhuo at least killed all the Yuan family members in the capital, so it was not a loss."

"Yuan Shao, including the Yuan family, is the culprit for the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty!"

"Warm reminder, this Yuan Shao is played by Zhou Gongjin."

"Yang Xiu's family is even more powerful, the Hongnong Yang family."

"In terms of ancestors, it seems that among the major princes during the Three Kingdoms period, the Sun family was the most miserable..."

"Don't ask, if you ask, it's Gai~ the descendant of Sun Wu."

"So, my family has also had three generations of workers: railway worker, electrician, and auto mechanic."

"I suddenly discovered that the Eastern Han system had a self-repair mechanism: the three dukes were mascots, they had no military power, but they had great political prestige. If the nobles wanted to go further and become generals, they could only send their daughters to be relatives. But once they became relatives, their daughters became members of the Liu family, and at most they would be power-hungry, but they would never support you in rebelling against the Liu family."

"But it also further led to the Eastern Han kindergarten..."

The ancient people watched the entire video and were also discussing it.

Early Han Dynasty.

Liu Bang was lying on the straw mat with his legs crossed.

"This boy from the Yuan family was quite courageous when he drew his sword."

“It’s really handsome.”

"But after all, he is just a guy who relies on his ancestors' tablets to keep up appearances."

"When you were the head of the guard post in Pei County, you had to bow and scrape when you saw the county governor. How could you be like them, who have been noble for four generations?"

"But what happened later? I was able to wield the three-foot sword to slay the White Snake Uprising, relying on Fan Kuai's arms as a butcher and Xiao He's brain as an accountant."

"How can it be like Yuan Shao pretending to be a hero by holding a list of his 'disciples and former officials'?"

"That Dong Zhuo who killed so many people would be afraid of the signboard of "four generations of three officials".

"But no matter how bright the sign is, it can't stop the idiots inside!"

And in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang just snorted coldly:
"Three dukes in four generations? Ha, they are nothing but parasites sucking blood from the people!"

"What a disciple or old official, what a century-old family, this kind of rubbish, relying on the influence of his ancestors to bully others, and finally being punished by Cao Cao, it's what he deserves!"

"And Tianmu also said that the Yuan family was half responsible for the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty."

“That may be a bit of an exaggeration.”

"But it is obvious that the Han Dynasty was destroyed by the aristocratic families!" (End of this chapter)