An 6, the mansion of Duke of Zhu Guo, Yuwen Wenzheng wrote a letter in which the other party mentioned something, that is, a scholar named Fang Yanqian from Shandong brought his nearly eight-year-old son Fang Qiao to Xiyang to discuss knowledge with his old friend Liu Zhuo.

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Fang Yanqian, a child of the Fang family in Qinghe, is a member of the Shandong gentry. Of course, the Shandong mentioned here is not the Shandong province of later generations. Now it refers to a geographical term east of the Taihang Mountains.

The reason why Yang Ji specifically mentioned his son Fang Qiao was because the boy would have a preface in the future: Xuanling, which is Fang Xuanling, one of the twenty-four heroes in Lingyan Pavilion, a famous prime minister in the early Tang Dynasty in history.

Fang Qiao's name is Xuanling, and he used his name to be in the world. The so-called Fang Shu Duan. After the establishment of the Li Tang Dynasty, Fang Xuanling was one of the important counselors of King Li Shimin of Qin and was a virtuous prime minister of a generation.

Such a historical celebrity is still a child now. After following his father to Xiyang for a temporary residence, should he take the opportunity to win over and train him since childhood and let Fang Xuanling help him in the future?

This is impossible.

It’s not that Yuwen Wen is cold or that he is arrogant or that he is unrealistic. The reason is very simple. He has no ability to let Fang Yanqian use it for his own purposes, so it is impossible to keep Fang Xuanling behind.

Not to mention that he is limited by his current status, even his father Yuwen Liang cannot keep Fang Yanqian. Even Prime Minister Yuchi Jiong wants Fang Yanqian to use it for himself is troublesome.

Is Fang Yanqian disdainful of being an official? No, he does not want to work together.

This issue is both complex and simple. In short, it is a contradiction between the Shandong forces and the Guanlong forces. This contradiction has been spread across the Sui and Tang Dynasties in history, causing countless bloody storms.

The Shandong forces could be called the Shandong gentry group at this time. By the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there was another member called Shandong Heroes, who were Shandong Heroes.

The Guanlong force is the Guanlong aristocratic group mentioned in later generations. The contradiction between the two is very deep, and it is more difficult to resolve it in the short term than climbing to the sky.

The Shandong gentry was a concept fixed after the Wei and Jin Dynasties, especially after Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty reformed the clan surname. It refers to the aristocratic families in a wide range east of the Taihang Mountains, mainly including the five surnames of Li, Cui, Lu, Zheng and Wang.

They are all aristocratic families that have lasted for hundreds of years. They have passed down from classics to claim to be scholarly families, common people, and even more vulgar warriors, especially the Guanlong aristocratic group that has emerged in recent decades.

What is the Guanlong noble group?

During the rebellion of the six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty, countless military strongmen emerged in the bloody storm. One of them was named Yuwen Tai. He led Wuchuan soldiers into Guanzhong and combined with Guanlong Haoyou to establish the Western Wei and Northern Zhou dynasties. It was the Guanlong noble group with military capabilities as the cornerstone.

Their identities were worth mentioning in Shandong's gentry, and they started their business by fighting and killing, which made Shandong's gentry even more because the warriors meant disaster to them.

Everything has to be traced back to the time when the Northern Wei Dynasty moved its capital to Luoyang. Emperor Xiaowen's sinicization reform and integration with the Central Plains gentry was one of the serious consequences of the status of the border army declined sharply.

The six border towns in the northern part of the Wei State resisted the Ruru (Roran) army on the grasslands for the court. After the reform, the upward passage of soldiers guarding the border was cut off.

Who broke it? The Shandong gentry, according to the nine-rank Zhongzheng system of the Wei and Jin dynasties, were born with noble geniuses, and the nobles of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and their children could easily become high-ranking officials.

Those soldiers in border towns who were guarding in bitter and cold areas could have been able to advance to the capital to become high-ranking officials, but their share was occupied. From then on, they could only drink the northwest wind in the six towns.

The more conflicts accumulate, the more rebellions break out, destroying the foundation of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The imperial army suppressed everywhere, and military strongmen continued to emerge. Erzhu Rong, a powerful minister who started his military merits, attacked the royal family and officials and ministers, which was the Heyin Incident.

Most of the Northern Wei royal family was slaughtered, and the children of Shandong gentry who were officials in the court suffered heavy casualties, which was since then the fear of warriors was engraved.

Later, the East and West Wei confronted each other, and the Eastern Wei was the powerful minister Gao Huan had the final say. His starting lineup was the soldiers of Beizhen, and the rebels or official troops during the rebellion of the Six Towns. These nobles had no good feelings for the Shandong gentry. The contradictions and struggles between the two sides ran through the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi.

The frequent internal struggles, coupled with the emperor's stupidity, directly led to the destruction of the Northern Qi Dynasty, which was stronger than that of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, by the other side.

When Zhou State destroyed Qi State, the Shandong gentry believed that it had ushered in a chance to make a comeback. When Emperor Zhou Yuwen Yong arrived in Yecheng, the Shandong scholars who had been suppressed by Gao Qi for many years were excited and gathered in Yecheng to serve the hero who was about to unify the world.

Yuwen Yong made a very high attitude and issued an edict saying: Zou Lu gentry, You and the knights, can be called, and are also suitable for the title of the list.

However, Shandong scholars hired by the State of Zhou are often surrendered to officials. As Shandong scholars recruited by Emperor Zhou, they have the experience of eighteen people as representatives:

Yang Xiu served as the governor of Hezhou, Yuan Yuxiu served as the doctor of Tokyo Sizong, Yuan Xiubo served as the doctor of Zaishi, Cui Dashi served as the minister of Xiaoyuzheng, Yuan Wenzong served as the minister of Sichengxia, and Li Xiaozhen served as the minister of at least the minister of Xiaxia.

Yan Zhi was promoted to the position of the Censorate, Xin Deyuan was promoted to the position of Xuanna, Wang Shao was idle, and 6, Kaiming was promoted to the position of Xuanna, and Lu Sidao reported his illness and returned home. Xue Daoheng was appointed as the second-order censor, and later he also reported to the position of illness and returned home.

There are also Li Zuqin, Sima's youngest son Li Ruo6 and Gao Xinggong, and all of them are not important positions. The only exception is Li Delin, but in short, the scholars in Shandong did not attach importance to the Zhou court.

These people were all talented and knowledgeable among the Shandong gentry at that time, and were full of joy in serving Zhou. As a result, they were all idle officials. Yuwen Yong actually did not intend to reuse them.

In other words, it is intentional suppression.

Why suppress it? Because the basic structure of Zhou State is Guanzhong and Guanlong nobles, what are the matter with you Shandong scholars?

What made them even more unbearable was that there was no distinction between "clear and turbid" in the selection of officials in the Zhou State. As a natural noble species, they were appointed as lowly turbid officials, which made them lose their politeness.

Getting used to the benefits of the nine-rank Zhongzheng system of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Shandong gentry believed that "there is a difference between the scholars and the common people". Now that the Zhou State confuses them with the common people, it is simply unreasonable, so it is better not to be an official in Zhou this time.

Except for Cui Daqiu who later followed Yuchi Jiong and Li Delin and later followed Yang Jian, many people resigned from their posts and returned home. Among these people, Fang Yanqian was the one who was the one who resigned.

Even Emperor Wu of Zhou, Yuwen Yong, could not let Fang Yanqian serve, and Prime Minister Yuchi Jiong failed to let him come out to be an official again. What kind of ability does Yuwen Wen have to let Fang Yanqian serve?

Fang Yanqian is a microcosm of countless Shandong scholars. They miss the style of the Wei and Jin dynasties, miss the glorious days of the low-ranking genius, and look down on the vulgar and arbitrary households in Guanlong who fought and killed.

They are family-born knowledge of classics and are confident that they can help the emperors govern the world with full knowledge, so they hope that "the pure one will be clear, and the turbid one will be turbid", and hope that the scholars and common people will be different, and hope that they can be treated with superiority.

Are these people’s ideas wrong? That’s right, because this is the political situation in this era, which is the so-called aristocratic politics. Even if Li Tang held the imperial examination, he could not change much.

The struggle between Shandong forces and Guanlong forces lasted until the Wu Zetian period, while the aristocratic politics died with the Tang Dynasty. Today, Yuwen Wen does not have the ability to reverse the general trend at all.

His father Yu Wen Liang is now trying his best to gather the original basic foundation of Zhou State, that is, the Guanlong powerful people who once turned to Yang Jian, and among the scholars from Shandong, they must have determined that the Yu Wen Liang group is centered on the Guanlong power.

With the example of Yuwen Yong back then, how many Shandong scholars were willing to come and defect to him?

Yuwen Wen is also a member of Yuwen Liang's group. Even if the children of the Shandong gentry occasionally come to join us, it would be a delusion to let people of Fang Yanqian stay and become officials.

It is extremely difficult for the big ones to be an official and to train the small ones to serve him. Unless they hold the power of the court and force the other party to be an official like Cao ** Sima Yi, they force the other party to be an official, otherwise they don’t have to think about it.

After putting away the letter paper, Yuwen Wen sighed. As the saying goes, "There is no way to do things for each other, and he cannot agree with the Nine-rank Zhongzheng system, so now there is no way to let those who have a deep plot in the gentry serve.
Chapter completed!