However, although the talent has been recommended, he still needs to make meritorious service to be promoted, and now Cao Cao's generals and ministers, such as Wuzi Liang General, Xun You Chengyu, etc., which one is not meritorious, because of merit?

Although Cao Cao explicitly abolished the military merit system, he only changed the level of his title and the content of the reward, and re-established other title reward systems, and the essence of relying on the military merit system to ascend to the throne has not changed.

In troubled times, talents must make meritorious contributions.

The emergence of paper books and papermaking only promoted the development of society, improved the quality of readers, and increased the number of readers.

This will not touch the interests of the family.

Because the current talent selection system is controlled by the family, which is beneficial to the family.

What if there are more readers? If you want to be an official, you have to go through their hands.

Under this system.

Paper book printing will not only not harm the interests of the family, but will benefit the family.

Because the world's scholars still have to take refuge in the family, get their recommendation, and become their protégé in order to ascend to the throne.

The more protégés and former officials, the stronger the power of the family.

Liu Chan is the pioneer of paper books and printing, and the world's readers are naturally good at thinking about Liu Chan, if Liu Chan controls the quantity and monopolizes it, the world's corporal will naturally defect to Liu Bei.

It is not difficult to win the hearts of the people.

What can really have an impact on the interests of the family is the talent selection system.

Imperial examination system!

The imperial examination system that emerged in the Sui and Tang dynasties was originally intended to eliminate the family.

In fact, the family is not harmful to society and the people.

It is the local tyrants and landlord class who threaten society and oppress the people.

The family of the family, the family of the times is the family.

The power of the family is in the center, and the reason why it is eliminated is not that it is harmful to society and the people.

It's the family, which threatens the imperial power!

For example, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang, Xie, Huan and other families were the most in the world, the imperial power was basically hollowed out, and the world was ruled by the family.

The power of the family in the center was too great and threatened the imperial power. The emperor wanted dictatorship and centralization, so he naturally wanted to eliminate the family.

Therefore, the talent selection system such as the military merit system and the nine-rank Zhongzheng system were replaced by the imperial examination system.

However, the family was wiped out, the local tycoon was powerful, and the landlord and gentry class arose.

If it is a family under the general's meritorious system, it is compared with the landlord class that came into being under the imperial examination system.

It is the latter that is really harmful to the country.

Under the military merit system, meritorious service to the knighthood, the title can be hereditary, acting as an official, and the family is also born, the family is too powerful, so it is easy to produce ministers.

If the emperor is mediocre and incompetent, the family does not need time to develop, and under the military merit system, a generation can produce strong ministers.

For example, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Huan Wen and Xiao Yan were the masters of the top families, Huan Wen controlled the government for more than ten years, and coveted the emperor's throne for a long time. And Xiao Yan came from the top family Lanling Xiao and replaced Liu Song to establish the Southern Liang.

For example, Liu Yu and even Zhuge Liang are strong ministers directly born under the military merit system.

Zhuge Liang is a typical grassroots figure who relied on the military merit system to rise.

Although Zhuge Liang was born in a family, but in Zhuge Liang's generation, he has fallen to the point that he has made a living from farming in Nanyang, and he can only be regarded as worry-free about food and clothing.

But after he took refuge in Liu Bei, he has always been the prime minister, even if it is imperial power, it is within reach. If Zhuge Liang seized the throne, he would be no different from Liu Yu, but fortunately, Zhuge Liang is a loyal minister, but it is undeniable that he rose because of his military merits.

However, although the existence of the family threatens the imperial power, the interests of the family are actually the same as the country.

Because the title and glory of the family are given by the state, and if the country perishes, the rights of the family will be lost.

Although the powerful family will threaten the imperial power, if a foreign enemy comes, the family will work together to defend against the foreign enemy.

Therefore, even if the Western Jin Dynasty perished, the northern families basically went south to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

During the fall of the Shu Han Dynasty, such as Jiang Wei, Zhuge Zhan and his sons, Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei's descendants, and the families who relied on military merits to gain rights, all threw their heads for the country and sacrificed their precious lives.

Most of the capitulation factions in Kanyizhou are powerful and landlord class.

The interests of these people are not linked to the state, and unlike the family, their interests are not in the center, but in the localities.

When the country is destroyed, it is enough to change the master, and their land is still there, and they can still be powerful and prosperous in the place.

The imperial examination system is not as good as imagined.

To put it bluntly, it is a system in which the emperor exchanges interests in order to stabilize the imperial power and eliminate the family in order to win over the landlord class.

The family wants the rights of the central government, while the landlord class wants the rights of the localities.

After the Tang and Song dynasties, there were tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of candidates who participated in the imperial examination, but in three years, there were only 200 people on the gold list.

With such a scarce quota, why are scholars all over the world still so keen on the imperial examination?

Because it doesn't matter if you can't pass the exam, as long as you take the exam, it's enough, although the official career of the gold list title is far away, but they can't be officials, and they can return to their hometowns to protect their economic interests.

After Xiucai returned to his hometown, he became a squire and landlord, concealing tenants, evading taxes, accumulating and annexing land, all of which were done by these powerful landlords and gentry class.

The powerful landlord class is the moth of the state.

Under the military merit system, veterans can return to their hometowns to serve as village officials after they are discharged from the army.

However, under the imperial examination system, the local village officials were controlled by the landlord class, so the local corruption was even more serious.

The emperor destroyed the family and centralized the power of the center, but put local rights to the landlord class, controlled the center, and lost the locality.

As a result, the country is becoming more and more decayed, and it is even more vulnerable to foreign enemies.

Before the imperial examination system, there had never been a country that had been destroyed because of foreigners, and peasant uprisings were rare.

After the imperial examination system, the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties were either destroyed by peasant uprisings or destroyed by foreigners.

Why is this so?

Because under the previous military merit system, even if a soldier could not make meritorious service on the battlefield, he could not be awarded the title of general. But after being discharged from the army, he could also return to his hometown to serve as a village official, so at that time, he could get benefits from being a soldier.

However, after the imperial examination, those who serve as soldiers are soldiers, and there is no benefit to be said of when they retire from the army, and it is even more empty talk to rely on military exploits to make meritorious contributions. For example, Yue Fei in the Song and Song dynasties, Di Qing and other generals who relied on their military exploits to rise to the top ended up very miserable.

There is no interest to motivate the soldiers, and the generals are even more brutally suppressed, how can the combat effectiveness of the army be improved?

The common people were oppressed by the landlord class, and peasant uprisings naturally arose one after another.

When a foreign enemy of a foreign race comes, the interests of the landlord class and the state are not unified, and it is enough to change the master again, how can we go up and down to protect the country?

Under the military merit system, it is to promote the development of science and technology, and China's science and technology has always been leading the world for thousands of years.

But after the imperial examination, Mo said that he was ahead of the world, but in the end he was overtaken by other countries.

Under the military merit system, the country advocated martial arts and conquered, and the territory of the Han Dynasty was always in a state of expansion until the final extinction.

Under the imperial examination system, people's minds were imprisoned and could not be developed, and scholars only knew how to take the examination to protect their interests, and had no enterprising spirit, so the country's territory became smaller and smaller, and as the situation of land annexation became more and more serious, they became poor and weak, and finally gradually annexed by foreign enemies.

Guoheng perishes with weakness, and Duhan perishes with strength, which is the reason.

Although the military merit system and the family lords will threaten the imperial power, they are far inferior to the imperial examination system, and the landlord class is more harmful to the country.

In fact, it is difficult for any kind of system to ensure that the country will continue to endure for eternity, and if you want the country to go for a long time, the root cause is still to look at the ruler and the emperor.

The emperor is wise and powerful, and the country is naturally prosperous, but if the emperor is mediocre, the country will be destroyed for one or two generations.