Chapter 563 Expansion Pack: The Rise of the Aristocratic Family

In fact, the update of the station is closely related to the cancellation of the super trading platform.

In the wilderness, even if you want to start trade between territories. Limited by the size of the territory, the journey is long and difficult. It takes half a month, a month, or even longer to run a business route.

And this is obviously extremely detrimental to promoting trade.

It is precisely because of this that Gaia endowed the post station with the function of entrusted transportation. In this way, as long as the merchant pays a little transportation fee, the goods can be transported to the place quickly through the carriage of twenty times the speed.

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

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

[5] Cancel the outer barrier of the royal city and completely border the wilderness.

Before that, there was a natural barrier around the royal city, forming a geographical isolation from the territory in the wilderness. This update is to cancel this barrier.

In this way, the royal city is no longer a special existence, but just a huge neutral 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 station system between cities will be fully connected.

Of course, among them, Gaia has a deeper intention.

From now on, the Nine Kings City will gradually extend its tentacles into the depths of the wilderness, affecting the pattern of the wilderness either explicitly or secretly.

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

Although there are only five updates this time, they will have an extremely profound impact on the wilderness.

After seeing it, Ouyang Shuo couldn't help but sigh.

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

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That afternoon, 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 piece [Rise of the Family]. For details, please log on to the official website to check."

Aristocratic family, that is, a big family with a big 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 Xin.

After Wang Mang ascended the throne, in order to ease the class conflicts, he reformed the old system. However, due to the increased burden on the people 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 Uprising Army, finally relied on the support of powerful landlords to defeat the other uprising armies and established the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Powerful landlords are generally big families with generations of ministers, they own private manors, and they also have a large number of tribes. In order to win over them, Liu Xiu appointed them in large numbers, gave them high officials and titles, and formed sons and daughters with powerful landlords, who gradually became the ruling pillar of the Eastern Han court.

These powerful landlords can be regarded as the predecessors of the aristocratic families.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, officials were selected through the examination and examination system, which was gradually monopolized by aristocratic families and became a tool for them to win over scholars and form cliques for personal gain.

Scholars were not only loyal to the emperor, but also loyal to the old master, gradually forming a double monarchy standard, which laid the cultural and ideological foundation for the warlord separatism in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Most of the independent warlords at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty were from aristocratic families.

Yuan Shao, a warlord in Hebei, was even more "a family of four generations and three princes, with many old officials". Therefore, it can be said that the warlord separatist regime in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the three kingdoms stand together were the inevitable result of the continuous expansion of the power of the aristocratic family.

Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty and was supported by the power of the aristocratic family. In order to repay the aristocratic family, he established the nine-rank official selection system, and the right to select officials was concentrated in the hands of the aristocratic family.

In the late Cao Wei Dynasty, the struggle for power between the royal family and the aristocratic families was unprecedentedly fierce.

Later, the aristocratic family headed by Sima Yi launched a coup and seized the supreme ruling power of Cao Wei. Sima Yi's grandson, Sima Yan, usurped Wei and built the Western Jin Dynasty, and he also received the full support of the power of the aristocratic family.

After the destruction of Shu and Wu in the Western Jin Dynasty, the power of the aristocratic families further developed, forming a situation where there were no poor families in the upper class and no noble families in the lower class.

After the establishment of the state in the Western Jin Dynasty, in view of the weakening power of the Cao Wei clan, the clan was enfeoffed arbitrarily and ordered to guard various places to defend the country, and further colluded with the noble families in the territory.

Emperor Wu of Jin mistakenly chose the mentally handicapped prince Jin Huidi to succeed him, and the kings coveted him. In order to seize the throne, they fought fiercely, which performed the tragedy of "Eight Kings Rebellion" in which the Sima family killed each other.

After the Eight Kings Rebellion, Sima Yue and Langya Wang, who won the final victory, gradually took control of the real power of the court. Later, Sima Yue died of illness, and Wang Yan was defeated and killed.

The Wang clan of Langya took the lead in crossing to the east, and then colluded with Sima Rui, the king of Langya. Wang Dao used various means to unite the aristocratic families in the south. When the Western Jin Dynasty was completely destroyed, 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 surrender to Wang Dun.

Looking at the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the government has always been in the hands of the Wang family of Langya, the Huan family of Qiaoguo, the Xie family of Chenjun, and the Yu family of Yingchuan. Most of the emperors are like puppets.

Although Liu Yu, who usurped the Eastern Jin Dynasty and established the Song Dynasty, came from a poor family, he spared no effort to support the aristocratic family. This can be seen from the origins of the four ministers he ordered to assist the government.

During the Southern Dynasties, aristocratic families were still the mainstay of the ruling class.

The Wuhu and Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern Dynasties, which stood side by side with the Southern Dynasties, both ruled the Central Plains with nomadic peoples, but they both respected the interests of the aristocratic families and their privileges, and appointed them in large numbers.

At that time, the Lu family of Fanyang, the Li family of Longxi, the Yang family of Hongnong, the Suo family of Dunhuang, the Li family of Zhaojun, the Cui family of Qinghe and other aristocratic families in the north at that time had a long and prosperous status in various countries.

Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty reformed and fully Sinicized, restoring the family system since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the power of the northern aristocratic families expanded again.

Yu Wentai, a power official in the Western Wei Dynasty, combined the north, especially Guanzhong, with the noble family and the Xianbei family to form the noble family group-Guanlong Jungui Group.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the emperors of the two dynasties were all from Guanlong Jungui, but in order to win over the common landlords, the imperial examination system was established to select officials. However, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the imperial examination system played a very limited role as an official selection system, and the aristocratic families still monopolized the government.

At the end of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Yang family of Hongnong, the Li family of Longxi, the Wei family of Jingzhao, the Du family of Jingzhao, the Pei family of Puzhou and other aristocratic families came out in large numbers, but there were very few prime ministers from poor families.

Huang Chao, a poor family, rose up against the Tang Dynasty in anger because of repeated failures. After occupying Chang'an, he severely attacked the power of the aristocratic family.