Gao Hanwen paused deliberately. Seeing that Hu Zongxian didn't say anything, he continued.
"In fact, Emperor Tianzuo was not entirely to blame. His father, Daozong of the Liao Dynasty, was the key to laying the root of the disaster in the last forty-sixth year. Although the Liao Dynasty fell to Emperor Tianzuo, it actually died to Emperor Daozong. "Yeah"
"What did this Dao Zong Emperor do again?" Cheng Xueyan couldn't help but praise him.
"In the story, Emperor Daozong only favored one person in the harem, and did not want to pass on the throne to his eldest son. He disagreed with the civil servants and remained in a stalemate. He did not go to court or see officials for 20 years. He was angry with officials. When there is a vacancy of officials, they are never filled. On the surface, there are fewer officials, and an official has to work hard to do more work. In fact, the power and prestige of the Liao court have been basically ruined in these two decades. They were seized by local powerful people.
Emperor Tianzuo was in trouble with the officials, who also used the power of inspection by the Ministry of War to refuse promotion of generals. Emperor Tianzuo was also obsessed with saving military expenditures and saving official salaries. This naturally led to the collapse of the last military honor guard of the imperial court.
On the one hand, the hereditary monopoly of imperial examinations was mentioned above. The main bureaucrats attacked the generals directly under the imperial court. On the one hand, they won the hearts of the people and recruited a large number of forces. Therefore, even if the Liao Dynasty was destroyed by the Jin people, the powerful tribes of the Jin people could easily organize a large army to attack the Northern Song Dynasty.
Power will not become a vacuum just because the court gives up. If the court does not control it, there will naturally be people willing to seize it."
"That's not right, Daliao is a bureaucracy, and the Wanyan clan has major vassals. The king also has soldiers and generals, why doesn’t the vassal king Qinwang appear in Master Gao’s story?" Xu Wei further asked with ill intentions.
“This is about Empress Dowager Xiao’s royal family reform. In order to strengthen the weak branches and maintain the authority of the central government, in the story, Empress Dowager Xiao first repeatedly weakened the vassal king and stripped the vassal king of his power to command the army. In terms of power and the power to govern the people, the vassal kings could only borrow court officials in various cities to collect land taxes. The vassal kings did not leave the city. After several generations, most of the vassal kings did not know what it was like outside the city and could only live freely in the city. She is clamoring for taxes every day."
"That's not all. In order to get rid of the constraints of the Wanyan family, Empress Dowager Xiao also banned the imperial examinations from participating in politics and business. Therefore, the Wanyan family was passed down to the ninth generation of Emperor Tianzuo. , the vassal king only knew how to enjoy himself, and the royal family below, who had already left Wufu and could not enter Yudie, had to go to the city to beg for food and cause trouble and beg for food."
"In the last years of Emperor Tianzuo, there was still a vassal king who was besieging the city for the first time by the Jin army. When he was in Beijing, he volunteered to lead troops to serve the king, but was imprisoned in the imperial mausoleum by Emperor Tian Zuo on the grounds that he went to Beijing without purpose and raised private soldiers."
"So in the end, all the vassal kings in Daliao became capital. Watching the fall of Emperor Tianzuo, vassal kings from all over the country were confiscated and exterminated by the Jin Dynasty, Northern Song Dynasty and even refugees. The originally hopeless royal family at the bottom was willing to join the Jin Dynasty, Northern Song Dynasty, and even Xixia to seek advancement, and even led troops to invade the imperial city. Therefore, when the Wanyan clan did not want Daliao to continue to exist, once Daliao was destroyed, except for one old general who moved to the Western Regions to establish Western Liao, they were all wiped out in one fell swoop.History is long."
After Gao Hanwen finished speaking, the entire elegant room could almost hear a pin drop.
"Uncle, uncle, this is just a script conceived by my wife. Everyone thinks it is suitable. Don't say anything nonsense, don't listen to it." Everyone remained silent, making Gao Hanwen a little uneasy.
"Why is it inappropriate, I think it is very suitable, haha. Having your wife as my wife is a blessing to the Ming Dynasty." Xu Wei, who had no intention of continuing to engage in politics anyway, was the first to speak.
"The article makes sense, but in this way, your words are praised in front of me. Empress Dowager Xiao reformed, and later the Liao Dynasty died because of Empress Dowager Xiao. What was the significance of the reform?" Hu Zongxian still did not make a conclusion, but continued to ask following Xu Wei's words.
"Uncle Master, there is a saying, If you prosper by this, you will perish by this. The effect of any reform is conditional and time-limited. Without conditions, there is no point in trying to make progress beyond the time limit. Nothing is done once and for all. At this point, two of my students discussed path dependence through deduction and induction respectively. "Gao Hanwen also took the opportunity to promote his two students.
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