In fact, the update of the courier station was closely related to the cancellation of the super trading platform.
In the wilderness, even if one wanted to start trading between territories. Limited by the size of the territory, the long journey, and many difficulties. A trip on the trade route would take half a month, a month, or even longer.
And this was obviously extremely disadvantageous to promoting trade.
Because of this, Gaia gave the courier station the function of commissioned transportation. In this way, merchants only needed to pay a small transportation fee and could quickly transport goods through a carriage that was twenty times the speed.
In fact, this was a weakened version of the transportation array for goods.
Of course, for the wilderness, this was a super enhanced version of the official escort agency.
[5] Remove the outer barrier of the royal city, completely bordering the wilderness.
Before this, there was a natural barrier outside the royal city, forming a geographical isolation from the territories in the wilderness. This update was to remove this barrier.
In this way, the royal city was no longer a special existence, but a giant neutral city.
At the same time, the territories in the wilderness, especially the territories near the royal city, would become extremely convenient to trade with the royal city. The courier station system between the cities would be fully connected.
Of course, Gaia had a deeper meaning behind this.
From now on, the Nine Great Royal Cities would gradually extend their tentacles into the depths of the wilderness, either openly or secretly, affecting the situation in the wilderness.
For the lords, there were a few more opponents to worry about and evaluate.
Although there were only five updates, they would have an extremely profound impact on the wilderness.
Ouyang Shuo sighed after reading it.
Gaia's three years were destined to be another year of change.
In the afternoon of the same day, another system announcement sounded.
"World Announcement: On the second anniversary of Earth's operation, the game will release the second expansion pack [Rise of the Noble Families]. For the specific content, please visit the official website."
Noble families were large families with large surnames that had been around for generations.
At the end of the Western Han dynasty, Wang Mang seized power and changed the name of the country to Xin.
After Wang Mang ascended the throne, in order to ease class conflicts, he changed the ancient system to reform. However, because the reform increased the burden of the people, coupled with natural disasters, large-scale peasant uprisings broke out everywhere.
Liu Xiu, a distant branch of the Western Han royal family who joined the Greenwood Rebellion, finally relied on the support of the powerful landlords to defeat the other rebels and establish the Eastern Han dynasty.
Powerful landlords were usually large clans with generations of ministers. They owned private manors and had a large number of troops. In order to win them over, Liu Xiu appointed a large number of them and gave them high positions and rich titles. He also married the rich landlords, who gradually became the pillars of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
These powerful landlords could be seen as the predecessors of the aristocratic families.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, officials were selected through the imperial examination system. Later on, the imperial examination system was gradually monopolized by the aristocratic families. It became a tool for them to win over scholars and form cliques for personal gain.
The scholars were not only loyal to the emperor, but also to their former masters. Gradually, they formed the standard of a dual monarch. This laid the cultural and ideological foundation for the warlords in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Most of the independent warlords at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty were from aristocratic families.
Hebei's warlord, Yuan Shao's family, had "four generations, three dukes, and many old officials." Therefore, it could be said that the warlords and the establishment of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty were the inevitable result of the continuous expansion of the power of the aristocratic families.
Cao Pi's usurpation of the Han dynasty was supported by the aristocratic families. In order to repay the aristocratic families, he established a nine-rank official selection system. The power to select officials was concentrated in the hands of the aristocratic families.
In the later years of Cao Wei, the struggle for power between the royal family and the aristocratic families was unprecedentedly fierce.
Later on, the aristocratic families led by Sima Yi launched a coup and seized the supreme power of Cao Wei. Sima Yi's grandson, Sima Yan, seized the Western Jin Dynasty of Wei and was also supported by the aristocratic families.
After the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Shu and Wu Kingdom, the aristocratic families developed further, forming a situation where there were no poor families in the upper rank and no gentry families in the lower rank.
After the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, the imperial family of Cao Wei was weak, so they wantonly enfeoffed the members of the imperial family and ordered them to guard the country. The kings and the aristocratic families in the country further colluded.
Emperor Wu of Jin mistakenly chose the mentally retarded Emperor Hui of Jin to succeed the throne. The princes coveted the throne and in order to seize the throne, they fought each other. The tragedy of the Sima family killing each other was the 'Eight Princes Rebellion'.
After the Eight Kings Rebellion, Sima Yue and the aristocratic family, the Langya Wang Family, gradually gained real power in the court. Later, Sima Yue died of illness and Wang Yanbing was defeated and killed.
The Langya Wang Family was the first to go east and colluded with King Sima Rui. Director Wang 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 and established the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
After the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima Rui relied on Director Wang politically and Wang Dun militarily, forming a situation where the king and the horse ruled the world. Later, Sima Rui wanted to weaken the power of the Langya Wang Family, but Director Wang rebelled and the court was defeated. They were forced to yield to Wang Dun. The aristocratic families' arbitrary control of the court had become an irreversible trend.
Looking at the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the court had always been in the hands of the Langya Wang Family, the Qiao Kingdom's Huan Family, the Chen County's Xie Family, and the Yingchuan Yu Family. Most of the emperors were 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 in supporting the aristocratic families. This could be seen from the background of the four ministers he appointed to assist him.
During the Southern Dynasty, the aristocratic families were still the mainstay of the ruling class.
The Five Barbarians, Sixteen Kingdoms, and Northern Dynasty, which stood side by side with the Southern Dynasty, came to the Central Plains as nomads. However, they respected the interests and privileges of the aristocratic families and employed them in large numbers.
At that time, the aristocratic families in the north, such as the Lu Family of Fanyang, the Li Family of Longxi, the Yang Family of Hongnong, the Suo Family of Dunhuang, the Li Family of Zhao County, and the Cui Family of Qinghe, flourished in their countries for a long time.
Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty carried out a reform that was completely Han, restoring the aristocratic family system from the Wei Jin Dynasty. The aristocratic families in the north expanded again.
The powerful minister of the Western Wei Dynasty, Yuwen Tai, used the prefectural military system as a link to unite the aristocratic families and Xianbei families in the north, especially in Guanzhong, forming a group of aristocratic families — the Guanlong Military Group.
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the emperors of both dynasties were from the Guanlong Military Group. However, in order to win over the commoners and landlords, they established the imperial examination system to select officials. However, the imperial examination system in the Sui and Tang Dynasties played a very limited role as an official selection system. The aristocratic families still monopolized the court.
Finally, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Hongnong Yang Family, the Longxi Li Family, the Jingzhao Wei Family, the Jingzhao Du Family, the Puzhou Pei Family, and other aristocratic families produced ministers and generals. However, there were very few Prime Ministers who came from a poor family.
Huang Chao, who came from a poor family, failed many times and angrily rebelled against the Tang Dynasty. After occupying Chang 'an, he wantonly attacked the power of the aristocratic families. The aristocratic families that had influenced China for nine hundred years were unable to recover from this setback and basically withdrew from the stage of history.
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