Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 771 Four Forces
On January 1th of the fifth year of Yonghui, there were more than [-] students who arrived in Chang'an from all over the Tang Dynasty. This should be the largest number of scientific research students since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. Students account for the majority.

Under Li You's care, these poor students don't have to worry about food, drink, and housing. After arriving in Chang'an, they will be taken to the building that Li You specially built for the poor students.

There are all kinds of books in it, which can satisfy the viewing of poor students. Here, you can wait until the imperial examination starts without any worries, and you can really study with peace of mind.

Unlike before, when students from poor families came to Chang'an, they didn't care about studying at all. Instead, they had to participate in various literary conferences endlessly, just to invest in bank papers, or to gain a reputation.

Only after gaining fame can one's imperial examination path be smoother.

In fact, this has led the imperial examinations to go astray, and now Li You has finally corrected this wrong path, which will make the Tang Dynasty's imperial examinations more regular. Of course, what will happen to the Tang Dynasty's imperial examinations in the future? Li You didn't know.

We all know that Wu Zetian also proposed the system of ambiguous names. Of course, the system of ambiguous names proposed by Wu Zetian is more selfish, because she is a woman who is the emperor, and there are many criticisms, so she has to seek "one of my own", and the behavior of the family is not conducive She's looking for supporters!
In this regard, Wu Zetian implemented a small measure, that is, the system of anonymous names.

This ambiguity system can make it difficult for the aristocratic family to judge the candidates through the test papers, so they can't take sides!Before that, if poor families want to get good grades, they can only rely on three things: (1) the integrity of the examiners, (2) luck, (3) the grades are too amazing and the strength is too strong!But after Wu Zetian implemented the method of obfuscating names, the children of the poor family can compete fairly with the aristocratic family from now on!
Obviously, this method made the aristocratic family miserable, because they could not monopolize the officialdom.Without the protection of official positions, it is difficult to maintain the prosperity and wealth of the family.On the contrary, the poor family can use this to "jump the dragon's gate", so this trick makes the poor family happy!
But in the end, this system of vague names was still lost. It was used very well during Wu Zetian's time, but after Wu Zetian left, the aristocratic clans like Datang flourished again in the middle and late Tang Dynasty through the imperial examinations by virtue of their family background.

Especially in the mid-to-late Tang Dynasty when aristocratic families re-emerged, the black-box operation was amazing. Even before the imperial examinations started, the examiners had already listed the rankings of the candidates.

There was even a big struggle between the Niu and Li factions between the children of the aristocratic family and the children of the Han clan, which showed the rise of the power of the aristocratic family.

Later, an uprising leader named Huang Chao appeared. Although Huang Chao was full of talent, his background as a private salt dealer did not catch the examiner's eyes at all. He gave up the imperial examination and joined the great cause of rebellion.

However, the injustice of the imperial examination made Huang Chao feel bitter, and it also made him hate the aristocratic families who manipulated the imperial examination.Therefore, when the peasant rebel army led by Huang Chao moved to the north and south, they slaughtered the children of these aristocratic families without going anywhere.
Especially after Huang Chao conquered the two capitals of Luoyang and Chang'an, he carried out a large-scale massacre of the bureaucratic family groups of the Tang Dynasty. Cui, Lu and other aristocratic families who were favored by the five surnames and seven surnames were directly wiped out by Huang Chao's army.

Because after the mid-Tang Dynasty, most of the elite children of these aristocratic families gradually moved to the vicinity of the two capitals to facilitate communication and become officials.But this gathering also brought them disaster.

The poem goes: Huaxuan's embroidered hubs are all sold out, and there are not half of the rich families in the first class.The inner treasury was burned to splendor ashes, and the Tianjie was trampled to the bone.

The elite children of the aristocratic families were slaughtered, and even if some survived, they would not be the same as before. As a result, the aristocratic families that once monopolized the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty eventually fell apart.

Compared with the limited reforms that Wu Zetian needed to use the power of the family to consolidate his rule.Huang Chao's uprising is a riot of the lower classes!
The purpose of their uprising was to overthrow these elders who were oppressing them. Therefore, not only would they not win over these aristocratic families, but they would regard them as the main targets of their blows.

For Huang Chao, this is a confrontation between two classes, so naturally it will not be tender, it will bleed!Compared with the reform, the riots of the lower classes undoubtedly dealt a more thorough blow to the aristocratic clan.

Therefore, the Huang Chao uprising completely destroyed the power of the aristocratic family.Then the chaotic times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms came, and the wars that lasted for more than a hundred years wiped out the last trace of the spirit of the family.

So far, since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the aristocratic families who have been prosperous since the Eastern Han Dynasty finally went to perish together with the destruction of the Tang Dynasty, and were annihilated in the long river of history.!

Li You doesn't have the courage of Huang Chao, he can't kill the whole family, he is only using his own means to influence the future generations, and the stage of Li You's influence is not Li You's consideration.

Li You can only think about the present. He wants the students from the poor families of the Tang Dynasty to be promoted step by step through the imperial examination. He wants to create a class of gentry in this era, so that the class of gentry can be used to restrain those nobles class.

Li You's wish is good, but whether it can be realized or not, to be honest, it is still unknown.

In the five-year imperial examination in Yonghui, there were 76 Jinshi from poor families, and 23 were descendants of aristocratic families, and these 23 were also capable for being descendants of aristocratic families.

As a result of the palace examination, both the No. [-] scholar and Tanhua were from a poor family, and the second place was a child from a noble family. In fact, Li You also knew that the talent and learning of that child from a noble family was not weaker than that from a poor family. The son of a poor family was promoted to the number one scholar.

After this subject was over, Li Zhi had more than 100 disciples of the Son of Heaven. At this moment, Li Zhi's power rose. At this time, there were four forces in the court.

The first force is the veteran party headed by Changsun Wuji and Chu Suiliang.

The second force is the Queen's Party headed by Wu Zhaoyi.

The third force is Emperor Li Zhi's Emperor's disciple party.

The fourth force is Li You's former Guogong Party.

All of a sudden, there were many new factions, you must know that this is not a good thing, there are so many new parties in one court, it is not a good thing for the officials of Datang, it will make the officials of Datang Feel embarrassed.

So too much influence is not a good thing.

Then Li You did something that surprised everyone. At that time, Li You directly resigned all his positions in the court. Tang Jian, Yu Chigong, and Cheng Yaojin also resigned from their positions in the court one after another.

The Guogong Party of the previous dynasty ended, and all the former members became Li Zhi's disciple party of the Son of Heaven. Since then, Datang has started a tripartite confrontation!

(End of this chapter)