Chapter 562: Expansion: Rise of the Family

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In the wilderness, between territories, even if you want to trade. Limited by the size of the territory, the distance is long, and it is also difficult. A trade route is half a month, a month, or even longer.

Obviously, this is extremely detrimental to the promotion of trade.

It is in this way that Gaia has given the post station the function of consignment transportation. In this way, the merchant could quickly transport the goods to the place by means of a horse-drawn cart twenty times the speed for a small transportation fee.

In fact, this is a weakened version of the cargo teleportation array.

Of course, for the wilderness, this is another super-enhanced version of the official dart game.

[5] The outer barrier of the royal city was removed, and the wilderness was completely bordered.

Prior to this, there was a natural barrier on the periphery of the royal city, forming a geographical isolation from the territory in the wilderness. In this update, this barrier is removed.

In this way, the royal city is no longer a special existence, but just a neutral giant city.

At the same time, it will be extremely convenient for territories in the wilderness, especially those close to the royal city, to trade with the royal city. The post station system between the cities will be fully docked.

Of course, Gaia has a deeper meaning in this.

From now on, the Nine Kings will gradually extend their tentacles to the depths of the wilderness, either openly or secretly, affecting the pattern of the wilderness.

For the lord, there are a few more opponents who need headaches and assessments.

This update, although there are only five of them, will have an extremely profound impact on the wilderness.

Ouyang Shuo also sighed after watching it.

The three years of Gaia are destined to be another year of change.

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In the afternoon of the same day, another system announcement sounded.

"World Announcement: On the occasion of the second anniversary of the operation of "Earth Online", the game will release the second expansion pack [Rise of the Family], for specific content, please log on to the official website to view."

The family is a big family with a large surname that has been passed down from generation to generation.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang, a foreign relative, seized power and changed the name of the country to a new one.

After Wang Mang ascended the throne, in order to alleviate class contradictions, Tuogu reformed the system, but due to the increased burden on the people due to the restructuring and natural disasters, large-scale peasant uprisings broke out in various places.

Liu Xiu, a distant branch of the Western Han royal family who participated in the Green Forest Rebellion, finally relied on the support of powerful landlords to defeat other rebel armies and establish the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Powerful landlords were generally large families of generations of ministers, who owned private estates and also owned a large number of tribes. In order to encircle them, Liu Xiu appointed a large number of them, gave them high-ranking officials and knights, and formed a family with powerful landlords, who gradually became the ruling pillars of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

These powerful landlords can be regarded as the predecessors of the family.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the probationary system was used to elect officials, and the probationary system was gradually monopolized by the big families, and became a tool for them to entrap scholars and form parties for personal gain.

The scholars were no longer only loyal to the emperor, but also loyal to the old master, and gradually formed a double monarchical standard, which laid a cultural and ideological foundation for the warlord division in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Most of the warlords who were self-reliant in the late Eastern Han Dynasty were from big families.

Hebei warlord Yuan Shao is a family of "four generations and three dukes, and many old officials". Therefore, it can be said that the warlord division and the establishment of the Three Kingdoms in the late Eastern Han Dynasty were the inevitable result of the continuous expansion of the power of the family.

Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty and was supported by the power of the family. In order to repay the family, he created the system of electing officials in the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, and the right to elect officials was concentrated in the hands of the family.

In the later period of the Cao Wei Dynasty, the struggle for power between the royal family and the family was unprecedentedly fierce.

Later, the family led by Sima Yi staged a coup d'état and seized the supreme ruling power of Cao Wei. Sima Yi's grandson, Sima Yan, usurped Wei and built the Western Jin Dynasty, and was also strongly supported by the power of the family.

After the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Shu and Wu, the power of the family further developed, forming a situation where there was no cold family in the upper grade and no scholar clan in the lower grade.

After the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, in view of the weakness of the Cao Wei clan, it was wantonly divided into feudal clans, so that they guarded various places to defend Sheji, and the feudal king further colluded with the clans in the territory.

Emperor Wu of Jin mistakenly chose the mentally handicapped prince Emperor Hui of Jin to succeed to the throne, and the kings coveted it, and fought in order to seize the throne, deducing the tragedy of the Sima family's fratricidal "Rebellion of the Eight Kings".

After the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, Sima Yue, who won the final victory, and the Langya Wang clan, a large family, gradually grasped the real power of the imperial court. Later, Sima Yue fell ill and died, and Wang Yan was defeated and killed.

The Langya Wang clan took the lead in crossing eastward, and colluded with Sima Rui, the king of Langya. Wang Dao united the great families in the south through various means, and in the case of the complete destruction of the Western Jin Dynasty, he supported Sima Rui in Jiankang to establish the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

After the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima Rui relied on Wang Dao politically and Wang Dun militarily, forming a situation of "the king and the horse share the world". Later, Sima Rui wanted to weaken the power of the Langya Wang clan, but Wang Dao rebelled, the court was defeated, and he was forced to submit to Wang Dun, and the arbitrary government of the family has become an irreversible trend.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the government has always been in the hands of the Langya Wang family, the Qian Guohuan family, the Chenjun Xie family, and the Yingchuan Yu family, and most of the emperors are like puppets.

Liu Yu, who usurped the Eastern Jin Dynasty and established the Song Dynasty, although he was born in a poor family, he spared no effort to support the family. This can be seen from the origins of the four ministers he left behind.

During the Southern Dynasties, the clans remained the mainstay of the ruling class.

The Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern Dynasties, which stood side by side with the Southern Dynasties, all entered the Central Plains as nomadic peoples, but they all respected the interests of the great families and their privileges, and appointed them in large numbers.

At that time, the status of the northern clans such as Fanyang Lu, Longxi Li, Hongnong Yang, Dunhuang Suo, Zhaojun Li, Qinghe Cui and other clans was prosperous in various countries.

Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty reformed, completely sinicized, and restored the gate valve system since the Wei and Jin dynasties, and the power of the northern clans swelled again.

Yuwentai, a powerful minister of the Western Wei Dynasty, combined the north, especially Guanzhong, the family family and the Xianbei family with the military system as a link, to form the family group - Guanlong Jungui Group.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the emperors of the two dynasties were both from the Guanlong military nobles, but in order to win over the Shu landlords, the imperial examination system was established to select officials. However, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the imperial examination system played a very limited role as an official election system, and the big families still monopolized the government and government.

At the end of the Sui and Tang dynasties, Hongnong Yang's, Longxi Li's, Jingzhao Wei's, Jingzhaodu's, Puzhou's Pei's and other big families would emerge one after another, and there were very few prime ministers from poor families.

Hanmen Huangchao was angry and rebelled against the Tang Dynasty because of repeated attempts, and then occupied Chang'an, and vigorously attacked the power of the family, which had influenced China for 900 years, and the power of the family has since collapsed and basically withdrawn from the historical stage.