1187. Revision of the Ethnography and Publication of Surnames

Li Shimin rubbed the wrench in his hand, looked at the desk with his eyes, his face was expressionless, and he didn't know what he was thinking, listening to the ministers you said word by word, and he was also thinking in his heart, as long as he did not endanger the people and the society, everything that was unfavorable to the family, Li Shimin raised his hands in favor, and it was of course good to weaken the reputation of the family, but it depended on how it was implemented.

After the ministers spoke, Li Shimin found that Fang Xuanling, who was in the first row, bowed his head and was silent from beginning to end, Fang Xuanling was not casually talking, Fang Xuanling was famous all over the world, Fang Xuanling didn't say a word, Li Shimin was also very curious.

Immediately asked, "What do you think of Xuan Ling?" ”

Hearing Li Shimin's question, Li Pojun and other ministers all looked at Fang Xuanling, wanting to hear what the first strategist of the dynasty thought.

Fang Xuanling smiled when he heard Li Shimin's question, his eyes flashed with the wisdom of seeing through everything, although he did not have Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng's feather fan in his hand, he had his own demeanor.

Facing Li Shimin's gaze, Fang Xuanling said straightly: "Your Majesty, now the family is big, all ethnic groups are in harmony with each other, with marriage as a bridge, interests as the road, the scholar is good and boastful, marrying more daughters to dowry, choosing the family, crooked winds are rising, it is good to say that it is good to marry Qin and Jin, and what is not good is to sell marriage, this is a disadvantage, and it needs to be eliminated urgently, otherwise the family is getting bigger and bigger, and the people under the rule only know the family, not the court, and the harm is endless, the severity is inappropriate, and it must be reformed."

What Fang Xuanling said was a common cognition, and the big guys knew it, and they all nodded in agreement, Li Shimin nodded and said, "What does Xuanling mean?" ”

"Revise the ethnography and publish the surname".

Fang Xuanling knew that Li Shimin had this question, and said with a calm smile.

Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he sat up straight, "Tell me carefully."

Li Pojun was also stunned when he heard this, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he published his surname ...... "Clan Chronicles"!

This is the "Clan Chronicles" revised during the Zhenguan period, thinking of this, Li Pojun couldn't help but glance at the old man with white hair, that was Gao Shilian in the court, and Gao Shilian presided over the compilation of the "Clan Chronicles" in history, but Gao Shilian was negligent for a while, and after several years of revision, the Cui family was listed as the first class, and the royal Li family was still behind, Li Shimin was furious and asked him to rebuild.

Now Fang Xuanling's proposal of "revising the clan chronicles and publishing the surname" should be the famous "clan chronicles" in history. The revision of the Chronicles of the Clans was of positive significance, which greatly weakened the family and suppressed its prestige.

The appearance of the "Clan Chronicles" suppressed the old scholars such as Shandong and Jiangzuo, and enabled some of the Shu landlords who were officials to obtain the status of the scholars, fully achieving the purpose of supporting the Shu landlords, suppressing the gate lord clan, strengthening the yellow power, and consolidating the rule, and also laid the foundation for the "Surname Record" promulgated by Wu Zetian decades later to completely negate the traditional gate valve system.

In the attention of the ministers, Fang Xuanling said calmly: "For hundreds of years, the Shi clan in the world has been mainly distributed in four places, and each has its own Shang: the Shandong Shi clan is still married, the Jiangzuo Shi clan is still a figure, the Guan Zhong Shi clan is still crowned, and the Daibei Shi clan is still a noble relative. Up to now, Guanlong, Daibei Jiangzuo is not as good as before, only Wang, Lu, Zheng and other Shandong scholars, advocating marriage, intertwined, deep-rooted ......".

Speaking of this, Fang Xuanling also shook his head and smiled, which seemed to be a little surprised, because he himself was married to Fan Yang Lu's family, not only him, Cheng Yanjin and Qinghe Cui's marriage, Wei Zheng and Pei's marriage, and so on.

"The Shandong scholars rely on marriage and have an outstanding position, and now they can stop taking today's officials and lords from a few generations ago, and their merits are thin to make a grade, and re-divide the family to achieve the effect of denying the family as His Royal Highness said. Fang Xuanling said with burning eyes.

Hearing Fang Xuanling's words, everyone sighed, what a ruthless strategy, this is to use the knife of the scholar clan and make him have nothing to say.

And in this way, even if those old families have complaints, they are bound to have the full support of the emerging Shu clan, and those emerging Shu clans who have been promoted by Li Shimin must have raised their hands in agreement, and secretly stepped on the big brother who stood on their heads in the past, this is a veritable conspiracy, and the family can only break their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs when they suffer.

After listening to this, Li Shimin quickly understood what Fang Xuanling meant, and was immediately overjoyed.

The case shouted: "That's right, the Shandong Shi clan has been declining for generations, has no merit for a long time, has no crown at all, only relies on marriage to get wealth, relies on women to gain power, I really don't know why the world is important?" ”

When the ministers heard this, they bowed their heads one after another, they were all important ministers trusted by Li Shimin, otherwise Li Shimin would never have said these words to them so explicitly.

Li Shimin's words made them really embarrassed, because seven or eight out of ten of their important ministers were related to the Shandong scholars, and they were all related to each other, and it was precisely because of them who were important ministers that the Shandong scholars had this outstanding status today.

Li Pojun also stared at these people with sparkling eyes, Li Pojun admired Fang Xuanling's spirit of serving the country very much, his father-in-law was the patriarch of the Lu family, but Fang Xuanling was not selfish at all, he didn't think about his father-in-law's family at all, and he dedicated himself to this plan for the country's society, so Li Pojun couldn't help but admire it.

Obviously, Li Shimin also thought of this, and looked at Fang Xuanling's eyes full of relief, worthy of being an old partner, worthy of being my arm, and my confidant.

"Your Majesty can decree that since the Wei and Jin dynasties, the world has been in turmoil for a hundred years, and many of the genealogical classics have been damaged and lost, in order to inherit the genealogical tradition since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, compile the "Clan Chronicles", revise the Clan Chronicles, and publish the surname", Fang Xuanling twisted his beard slightly and said lightly.

Li Pojun also answered on the side: "On the bright side, the score is actually not considered in the past, the past does not count, around your past glory, do not count, only from the present, in order to change the level of the family for hundreds of years, updating, focusing on the promotion of the emerging Shu clan, in this way, there is no unique family in the world."

Hearing Li Pojun's blunt words, all the ministers also nodded one after another, and each agreed, since the emperor and the crown prince were all blunt in front of them, if they avoided talking about it again, it would be a fool, anyway, there was no harm to them, but revising the "Shangguan" principle of the "Clan Chronicles" would benefit their family.

Looking at the reaction of the ministers, Li Pojun also praised it from the bottom of his heart, this plan is really beautiful, it is simply a soft knife, the court did not deny the existence of the door valve, but the surname Shang became Shang Guan, but it only focused on supporting the emerging Shu clan and reconciling the gap between the gate valves, so as to achieve a general balance, eliminate the existence of a large family, and did not intensify the contradiction, this soft knife kills people is really fatal.