Chapter 300

Establishing a "Wang Jin" belonging to the aristocrats, not a "Sima Jin".

It can be seen from this.

For aristocrats in troubled times, splitting bets is a quite common way of survival.

Family interests are greater than everything.

Right now.

Dong Zhuo has unified the western border of the Han territory.

A part of the Guandong aristocrats has subtly changed their original hostile attitude toward him and turned to seek cooperation.

After all.

Judging from the current situation.

The Guandong feudal lords led by Yuan Shao have a feeling of "mud that cannot support the wall".

Possessing the Guandong aristocratic group as a wet nurse behind them, they still couldn't do anything to Dong Zhuo.

Under such circumstances,

A part of the Guandong aristocratic group turned to want to set their sights on Dong Zhuo.

Gao Lan's act of slacking off and surrendering was precisely a manifestation of the Hejian Gao family splitting their bets.

Besides Gao Lan, the Gao family also had other clansmen serving as officials under Yuan Shao.

Even if Gao Lan defected to the Dong Zhuo camp, could Yuan Shao really take a knife to the Gao family in a fit of rage?

Once Yuan Shao had this idea.

The Ju family, Wang family, Shen family, Han family, and other local aristocratic big clans of Jizhou would definitely take action immediately to stop Yuan Shao!

Because to some extent.

Gao Lan defecting to the Dong Zhuo camp could also be considered a kind of "experimental method" for the Jizhou aristocratic big clans.

If Gao Lan could be reused, then for these aristocratic big clans, it would be considered an extra way out.

As the saying goes.

Flowing water dynasties, iron-clad aristocrats.

Dong Zhuo, in the eyes of these aristocratic big clans, was originally like Sun Jian, Gongsun Zan, Ding Yuan, and others, all belonging to the rude and unreasonable "soldier ruffians".

But now.

Even if everyone didn't want to admit it, the fact they had to be forced to admit was that the Dong Zhuo power had completely taken shape.

At least at the current stage.

Looking at the world.

No one could shake it!

The Guandong aristocratic group had to change their original views.

Turning to hope to reach cooperation with the Dong Zhuo power to some extent.

It's just that...

How could things be as beautiful as they imagined?

Gu Yi, as a transmigrator, could never forget the tragedy of the "Five Barbarians' Chaos"!

"Sima Jin", this dynasty exclusive to aristocrats, was full of nonsense and suffocation from inside to outside!

To fundamentally avoid the tragedy of the Five Barbarians' Chaos, it was not a one-time solution to kill the Sima family.

To put it bluntly, the Sima family was just a spokesperson for the world's aristocrats.

Even without Sima Jin, there would still be Wang Jin, Xun Jin, Chen Jin, Zhong Jin, and other similar aristocratic dynasties appearing.

The "Nine-Rank Official System" in history officially declared the monopoly of aristocratic big clans over the officialdom.

Just imagine.

You don't have to do anything every day, and you can just lie flat and enjoy the best treatment, so why continue to work hard?

Therefore, the "Nine-Rank Official System" is also known as the "Lie Flat Promotion System".

Monopolizing all upward channels, the aristocratic big clans could sleep soundly.

In the late Three Kingdoms period, perhaps the aristocratic big clans still possessed many excellent talents.

However.

After Western Jin replaced the Three Kingdoms.

Accompanied by the withering of this batch of talents.

The talents within the aristocratic big clans became worse from generation to generation.

They became pigs similar to modern "experts".

"Why not eat minced meat", was Emperor Hui of Jin Sima Zhong the only one?

Below him, that group of pigs from the aristocratic big clans were also this kind of "why not eat minced meat" people!

Plus the "War of the Eight Princes" chaotic maneuver by the Sima family.

It further accelerated the decay within Western Jin.

Finally, it led to the Five Barbarians' Chaos.

Right now.

The Dong Zhuo power was not like the Guandong feudal lords, firmly tied to the aristocratic big clans.

Gu Yi could accept aristocrats, but he would never let aristocrats exist in the same form as before.

Commoners, plebeian clans, powerful clans, and aristocrats were all important components of the world.

But there was no doubt.

Commoners were the foundation.

It was just that.

Because of various reasons, the wisdom of the commoner class had not been fully enlightened.

Leading to aristocrats becoming the top of the food chain, monopolizing it.

What Gu Yi wanted to do was to let commoners also have upward channels.

Let the nonsensical aristocratic dynasties disappear completely!

Only in this way could this nation stand at the top of the world and not suffer the various hardships of the original history.

After dealing with the captives.

Gu Yi led the army back to Luoyang.

Meanwhile.

Zhang Liao also brought the generals who had made great contributions by staying behind at Hulao Pass back to Luoyang from the direction of Hulao Pass.

Old Dong's own younger brother, the mascot Grand Minister of Agriculture Dong Min, had already handed over all the power of Luoyang to Gu Yi.

Although the Guandong coalition had been defeated,

But Lu Bu and Zhao Yun and others who were attacking Bingzhou had not returned yet.

Gu Yi did not intend to return directly to Chang'an.

Instead, he intended to take this opportunity to completely incorporate Hedong into the territory!

Hedong was located at the junction of Chang'an, Luoyang, and Bingzhou.

A year ago, Hua Xiong had once followed Old Dong's order to lead the army to launch a suppression against the Bai Bo bandits entrenched in Hedong.

However, because the Bai Bo bandits were numerous and powerful.

Hua Xiong, after achieving certain results, failed to completely eliminate the Bai Bo bandits.

And now.

The Bai Bo bandits had gradually gathered under the command of Yang Feng and Han Xian.

The life and death of Yang Feng and Han Xian were not important.

But there was a general under Yang Feng who was good at "cutting off military supplies", and Gu Yi intended to recruit him.

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