After a long discussion, Yuwen Wen felt dry mouth. Wang Xu returned to his residence with a thick book "Teaching Outline (Draft)" and thought about it carefully. He sat on the sandbag and drank tea to moisten his throat.

Tea is ordinary tea, which is better than boiled water. While drinking tea, Yu Wenwen was thinking about his plan while listening to the noise outside.

He was trapped in Xuanhu, like a man squatting in the corner with his head in his arms, and he could only wait for someone to come to save him. He couldn't go anywhere now, so he could only take time to think about other things, and the thing that made him think the most was to be the emperor.

Of course, with the current situation and Yuwen Wen's own strength, this is a daydream. If you do too much daydream, it is not good for your mental health, but it doesn't matter if you do it occasionally.

A person who doesn't even have a girlfriend will not prevent him from often fantasizing about how to spend money and play beauty after becoming a billionaire. In this era, the most exciting thing is to become the emperor at the top of the power chain.

People should have dreams, otherwise there is no difference from salted fish. Yuwen Wen has dreams, but strictly speaking, it should be ambition.

He is a person who cannot get rid of the low-level interests, so he has ambitions. So if he really sits on the throne, can he "never go early in the morning from now on?"

No, if you really sit in that position, you will also have lingering worries, and two of them are big problems that every emperor must face.

First, when I am alive, I must firmly grasp the power. No one can threaten the imperial power, and no one can do it, even if I am close relatives.

Secondly, when I am about to die, my country will be passed on to my son, and my son must be firmly in the country.

These two issues are issues that the emperor had to consider. If the country was replaced with family property, the principle was the same. No one would hand over his own family property. As long as he had a son, he would try every means to let his son inherit it.

The emperor is a power animal and cannot be without power. If you have a breath, you must firmly grasp the power. Once you become a puppet, you will have a few years of life.

To manage the family business, one head of the family is enough, and to manage a country, even if the emperor himself is energetic, he cannot handle national affairs alone, so he must decentralize power.

Once the power is divided, there will be danger of someone or force group becoming bigger. In order to avoid this situation, the emperor must have a confidant as a hawk and keep an eye on all forces at all times.

The emperor's confidant may not be loyal to the prince, nor can he be loyal. Therefore, when the emperor becomes the late emperor and the prince becomes the emperor, if he wants to firmly sit in the territory left by the late emperor, he must have his own basic foundation and use his own confidant to check and balance the forces of all parties.

If the prince's basic strength is strong, the emperor will be worried if he is too strong. If the prince's strength is too weak, the emperor will still be worried if he is not at ease. The emperor must hold power when he is alive, and if he dies, the prince must be firmly in power.

These two issues must be faced by emperors of all dynasties, so in the struggle for power, we must find ways to check and balance and not let any party dominate.

How to check and balance the forces in the DPRK? The method is very direct, that is, to pull one faction to fight another, or to put it simply, it is necessary to let all forces fight infight to maintain balance of power.

If everyone checks and balances each other, the emperor can arbitrate and the fisherman will benefit.

Emperors of all dynasties made their own arrangements based on this principle. Yuwen Wen knew one of the more famous precedents, that is, the story of Emperor Wu of Jin Sima Yan.

Sima Yan forced the Emperor of Wei to abdicate, establish the State of Jin, send troops to destroy the Eastern Wu, unify the world, and then sing and dancing to peace, swords and guns into the warehouse, and horses were released to the Nanshan Mountain.

Sima Yan, who unified the world, had a reputation at the highest point. He took a sheep cart in the palace every day to "follow the flow" to greet the concubines. He should be as casual as possible, but he still faced a threat, that is, his mother's brother, Sima You, King of Qi.

Sima You has a high reputation both inside and outside the court and the country, while Sima Yan is in poor health. The prince is Sima Zhong, who "why not eat meat minced", and this "suspected idiot", so many ministers hope to "become brother to end up with brothers".

I have worked hard to manage the country, but I don’t pass it on to my younger brother?

Sima Yan would never let this happen. It was a bit difficult for him to suppress Sima You. He knew that his son would be helpless in the future, so he tried his best to resolve the crisis.

Sima You married Jia Bao, the daughter of the powerful Jia Chong, as his wife, so Sima Yan married Jia Chong's other daughter to his son Sima Zhong as the crown princess, that is, the ugly Jia Nanfeng.

Jia Chong was the confidant of Sima Yan's father Sima Zhao, and the direct mastermind of killing Emperor Cao Mao of Wei. At this time, he was the first-class powerful man in Jin State. Sima Yan used this method to prevent Jia Chong from turning to his younger brother Sima You.

As for the Jia Chong family of Jia, the fool Sima Zhong is much more controllable than the smart Sima You. It goes without saying who Jia will support to sit on the imperial seat in the future.

Through marriage with Jia Chong, Sima Yan cut off Sima You's greatest help, and then forced the sick Sima You to leave the country of Beijing, causing him to suffer from extreme depression and vomiting of blood and die of death.

For Emperor Sima Yan, the biggest threat was gone, so he could have a good sleep, but his health was getting worse and worse. The problem that followed was to ensure that his son Sima Zhong could sit firmly on the imperial throne after he succeeded to the throne.

The Sima family seized the power of the Cao family. The biggest lesson was that Cao Wei overly weakened the royal family. So Sima Yan took measures to strengthen the strength of the royal family and give the vassal kings who were in charge of various places the military power so that they could conquer high-ranking families, distinguished surnames and wealthy families in various places, and could still serve the king if there was something wrong in the capital.

Then he wanted his relatives to help the future crown prince Sima Zhong, and the royal kings in other places could restrain the relatives and balance each other.

In this situation of power checks and balances, there are two families of foreign relatives, one is Jia, the Crown Princess’s family, and the other is Yang, the Empress Sima Yan’s family. Sima Yan’s idea is that Jia and Yang, who are both foreign relatives, check and balance each other.

Jia Chong left Sima Yan first, while Sima Yan's father-in-law and father-in-law Yang Jun were alive. On that day, Yang Jun would assist in the administration, so that Jia Nanfeng, who became the queen, could not control the "suspected idiot" emperor Sima Zhong.

The royal kings outside each had military power and would also have a constraint on each other. Therefore, after Sima Yan completed this careful arrangement, he finally "dead" with confidence.

Then, his layout quickly collapsed.

Yang Jun, who was assisting in the administration, tried to monopolize the power, but was killed by Jia Nanfeng and his royal family jointly launched a coup. Jia Nanfeng then controlled his idiot husband Sima Zhong and did whatever he wanted, but was killed by King Sima Lun, who was the king of Zhao who was behind.

The relatives of the foreigners are finished. Whoever controls the idiotic emperor will become the emperor. The kings of the royal family have raised troops one after another, which is for the rebellion of the Eight Kings. The plan that Sima Yan has worked hard for his son during his lifetime is a joke.

Sima Yan's choice was only one of the choices made by many emperors since the Han Dynasty, and all of them looked unreliable.

Relying on eunuchs, royal families, queens, foreign relatives, nobles, and aristocrats, history, countless emperors made choices from the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but these choices were not reliable.

Relying on eunuchs, there are ten regular attendants at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there are disciples of the Emperor after the Middle Tang Dynasty; relying on the Empress, Wu Zetian will not talk about it, and Jia Nanfeng from the Western Jin Dynasty is a good example.

Relying on the relatives of the outside world, there was Yang Jian; relying on the royal family, the royal family was too strong, there was the Eight Kings Rebellion of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the royal family was too weak, Cao Wei had something to say, and the Northern Zhou Dynasty in history also had something to say.

Relying on the nobles, the nobles united together to change the leader’s elder brother?

During the Zhou and Sui Dynasty, the powerful and powerful Guanlong abandoned Boss Yuwen without hesitation. Similarly, abandoned Boss Yang and shouted long live in front of Duke Li Yuan of Tang.

A nobleman is too unconventional, so why not rely on a noble family?

The "King and Horses of the World" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty sounds so romantic!

This is nonsense. If you were the emperor, would you share the world with others?

Not to mention the rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty and the chaos in Yongjia were like that, and the noble families could not escape the relationship. The politics of the clan was also one of the reasons why the Southern Dynasty became increasingly weak.

So Yu Wen Wen, who daydreams from time to time, would imagine what he should do if he was in that position?

It is easy to deal with. Learn from the Zhao official family and share the world with the scholars and officials. That is to say, use the imperial examination civil servants to replace the civil servants from the aristocratic families in the civil servant group.

The Song Dynasty used civil servants to control martial arts too much, which led to a series of problems. In addition, the imperial examination was indeed a powerful tool to deal with family politics, but it was not easy to use them well.

The imperial examination began in the Sui and Tang Dynasties in history. The era in which Yuwen Wen lived happened to be the "start", but in fact the decline of aristocratic politics was not directly caused by the imperial examination.

The imperial examination was implemented in the Tang Dynasty, but the noble families did not decline because of this. In the Tang Dynasty, the ministers at the top of the Taiwan Aiduary came from aristocratic families, with many high families. There were several reasons. One was the noble families, and the noble families quickly adapted to the imperial examination.

The imperial examination is to select talents in the examination. The imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty divided into regular subjects and systematic subjects. Regular subjects are exams held in installments every year, and systematic subjects are exams held temporarily by the emperor.

There are more than 50 kinds of scholars, including scholars, Ming Jing, Jinshi, Junshi, etc. The scholars had high requirements in the early Tang Dynasty, but later they gradually abolished. The Ming Jing and Jinshi gradually became the main subjects of the regular subjects in the Tang Dynasty.

These two subjects are extremely difficult and have high requirements for knowledge. This is difficult for aristocratic families and talented men in high schools, but for people in the cold race, it is a natural disaster.

For the Lu family of Fanyang, one of the five surnames and seven hopes, when the imperial examination was first implemented, the Lu family was a little uncomfortable, but since the middle Tang Dynasty, the children of the Lu family became "Jinshi professional examination households."

The Jinshi exam in the Tang Dynasty was very difficult, and it was difficult to get the first place. Therefore, there was a saying that "the thirty-year-old Ming Sutra and the fifty-year-old Jinshi" was circulated at that time, but this could not help the children of the Lu family in Fanyang.

The high-ranking family is the most educated class in this era. It is simply a delusion to use exams to stump them. However, as the difficulty of the imperial examination increases, the scholars of the cold-stricken clan with poor education are stumped.

In the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examinations could not break the political status of the noble families. The scholars of the cold clan who were lucky enough to win the title were struggling in the officialdom and had to rely on the powerful and become the lackeys of the other party.

To participate in the imperial examination, you need to get recommendations from the powerful and powerful. Many scholars from the cold have become lackeys of the powerful and powerful before taking the exam.

The imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty could not change the current situation of family politics. The person who changed this situation was that Huang Chao, who failed the imperial examinations. He angrily wrote "The Unsubscribed Jovies" at the Chang'an City Gate, was Zhu Wen who killed people like a man and threw the imperial court officials into the Yellow River at Baimayi.

The war disasters in the late Tang Dynasty and the separatist vassal states slaughtered all the noble families. From then on, the vitality was greatly damaged. The noble family that lasted for hundreds of years was completely cut off.

In short, if you want to disintegrate family politics, the implementation of a massacre is cleaner and neater than the implementation of the imperial examination, "it takes effect quickly and will not recur."

But the consequence of doing so is that the mastermind who carried out the massacre became a poor person who "drives the king" and made wedding dresses for others.

Zhu Wen massacred court officials in Baimayi. Many ministers from high-ranking families were thrown into the Yellow River, which was known in history as the "Baimayi disaster". The Liang Kingdom, which Zhu Wen later established, died shortly after his death.

The same scene also happened during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, that is, the "Heyin Incident" after the "Six Towns Rebellion" broke out in the Yuan and Wei dynasties. Erzhu Rong, a warlord who started his business by quelling the rebellion, massacred young emperors, royal family and officials and ministers on the southern bank of the Yellow River (Heyin) outside Luoyang (Heyin).

This massacre killed all the Han family and the great families who were in power in the Yuan and Wei dynasties. Erzhu Rong's majesty made the world tremble, and the consequences were also unbearable for Erzhu's family.

Because of this massacre, the Han Han tyrants in Hebei and the Shandong family were determined to surrender Gao Huan, who was ambitious in six towns.

After this force gathered, it seemed to be weaker than the Erzhu family's power, but the final result was that Erzhu family was defeated by Gao Huan and almost killed.

Killing cannot solve the problem unless the murderer can kill all opponents in the world, but this is impossible, so you have to boil the frog in warm water.

Yuwen Wen felt that family politics was a cancer and must be eliminated, but the massacre would inevitably be backfired. He worked hard and was "driven for the king", so why bother?

So you have to work hard to figure out a way to boil a frog in warm water.

After a debate just now, Wang Jun’s doubts were correct. The high-ranking families received the highest level of education and wanted to rely on exams to restrict the other party’s children from entering the government. This is a dream. However, the open implementation of the examination selection system will be disgusted by the high-ranking families and will not attract the elite talents of these families to join.

It doesn't matter if these elites don't come to join him, but if they join his opponent, it will be so-called.

Who is Yuwen Wen's opponent? I don't know, but one thing is certain, that those who stand in his way are all enemies.

Therefore, before the strength reaches a certain level, we must uphold the light and upbring the Tao. If the high-ranking families have absolute advantages in education, then he will poach the enemy first. The method is to use "professional education institutions" to cultivate a large group of "examination-oriented education professional examination households" in a relatively short period of time.

Such behavior is led by the "folk education institutions" study club. People may think that this behavior is extremely philanthropic. It is a way to make money by the big boss of the study club, Xiyang Wang, who is crazy about money and slaps his head, rather than a hoe to poach people.

The implementation of "educational innovation" by private groups can bypass the government and the intrigues within the court. Yuwen Wen does not even need to rely on the resources of King Qi to promote this "educational innovation" by himself.

If his own power has a good momentum, perhaps when he is full of wings, the "educational innovation" that has expanded unknowingly has cultivated a group of "exam-type talents" who are not inferior to those of the aristocratic families. Then he will take action when the time comes.

The premise is that he can survive until then and he will really have the chance to win the championship.

A loud "boom" outside the bunker woke Yuwen Wen's daydream. The thunder exploded not far away, causing some sand to fall from the roof. Yuwen Wen patted his pocket and put away the kettle.
Chapter completed!