Chapter 569

Actually, from the moment Xun Yi served as the Administrator of Yingchuan, a dangerous signal against the Yuan family was released.

In the "Three Mutual Laws."

Besides Governor and Inspector.

Top leaders at the "city level" like Administrator also could not be held by local people.

And besides Xun Yi.

Everyone else in the Yingchuan Xun family had Yuzhou household registration without exception.

In other words, only Xun Yi, this bug-like character, could become the Administrator of Yingchuan, and even Governor of Yuzhou.

Damn it, could the Yuan family not panic?

Moreover, Xun Yi's status as Administrator of Yingchuan was personally appointed by Emperor Ling of Han, Liu Hong, who had just ascended the throne!

This... what exactly did Liu Hong want to do?

Further strengthen the power of the Xun family and weaken the status of the Yuan family as local emperors in Yuzhou?

Whether Liu Hong was a muddled emperor is not discussed here.

But Liu Hong was definitely not a fool!

As a Han emperor with normal intelligence, how could Liu Hong not realize the powerful threat the aristocratic group posed to him?

Especially the Yuan family.

Damn it, they were almost about to completely trample the authority of the Han dynasty under their feet!

The status of the Yuan family head, Yuan Kui, was even Liu Hong's imperial teacher.

In other words, don't look at Liu Hong as the emperor.

If he offended Yuan Kui, he wouldn't have any good fruit to eat either.

The relationship between the two can be compared to Zhang Juzheng and the Wanli Emperor.

Of course, Yuan Kui is not Zhang Juzheng.

He neither has Zhang Juzheng's talent nor Zhang Juzheng's reforms.

Deep in his heart, what he wanted to complete was the ultimate goal of the Yuan family: to replace the Liu Han imperial family!

And Emperor Ling of Han, Liu Hong, was not the Wanli Emperor, Zhu Yijun.

Some of the things he did looked even more "absurd" than Zhu Yijun.

For example, calling the head of the Ten Eunuchs, Zhang Rang, "Father," and calling the second of the Ten Eunuchs, "Zhao Zhong," "Mother."

This kind of behavior, if put in history books, is a proper "ruler without the Way"!

But why did Liu Hong hold the Ten Eunuchs so high?

What was he aiming for by valuing the Ten Eunuchs so much?

This matter has the same effect as the relationship between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party in later generations.

History books write that the Donglin Party were all upright gentlemen.

And then?

When the Manchus invaded, the Donglin Party had the most people who surrendered.

There was someone called "Qian Qianyi" who also left behind the enduring meme "the water is too cold."

Of course, this is not to say that the Eunuch Party was good.

The Eunuch Party was also bad, but the point of being bad was different from the Donglin Party.

At least after Wei Zhongxian died, the so-called Eunuch Party in the late Ming period was already dead in name.

But tracing back to the late Han period.

It can be clearly discovered.

Isn't the relationship between the Ten Eunuchs led by Zhang Rang and the aristocratic group led by Yuan Kui also one of mutual fighting?

In order to weaken the power of the aristocratic families, the Ten Eunuchs tried every means to fabricate charges.

Therefore, things like the "Disasters of Partisan Prohibitions" happened.

But the aristocratic group had such a huge foundation and strength that they naturally could withstand the tossing of the Ten Eunuchs.

Gradually, Liu Hong also discovered that something was wrong.

Although the Ten Eunuchs were doing well.

But if he only wanted to rely on the Ten Eunuchs to kill the aristocratic group, it was also an unrealistic thing.

Therefore.

He thought of two new methods.

The first is buying and selling official titles.

Hey, when watching the Romance before, did you think Liu Hong was a real fool?

Even thinking of such a stupid trick as buying and selling official titles, isn't that seeking his own destruction?

But in reality?

Please, in the late Han period, being an official was not the imperial examination system, but the recruitment system!

What is the recruitment system?

It's the predecessor of the Nine-Rank System, damn it!

Of course, the recruitment system is not as stupid as the Nine-Rank System.

After all, in the officialdom, the aristocratic families had not yet been able to achieve complete monopoly.

Probably... the degree of monopoly was around 85%.

And by the Wei and Jin periods, the birth of the Nine-Rank System directly allowed the aristocratic group to monopolize the officialdom 100%.

So, what was Liu Hong's buying and selling of official titles for?

Yes, his purpose had two points.

The first, naturally, is to make money!

Landlord families also have less grain, and the emperor also lacks money.

Don't look at Liu Hong as the Son of Heaven of the Han dynasty; when he should have no money, he also has no money.

The second is to make the officialdom completely fall into chaos!

Come, don't you aristocratic families want to promote family descendants and former officials to monopolize the officialdom?

Okay! I am now commercializing official positions.

As long as you have money, you can come and buy this official position.

In this way, some wealthy merchants who originally did not have much social status took the opportunity to buy official positions and walked into the officialdom.

The aristocratic family members were all stunned!

The officialdom that should have belonged to our aristocratic group, why did you, Liu Hong, bring in so many outsiders by doing this?

Of course, buying and selling official titles was only one of Liu Hong's means.

Another means was to promote He Jin to become General-in-Chief!

As everyone knows, He Jin was just a butcher.