Chapter 39 Chapter Ninety-Ninth: The History of the Inheritance Hall

Yan Jiu sat down on the side of the couch, pondered for a while, then Fang Xuxu said: Brother, I don't know much.Although my father said many things to me back then, I was still young at that time, and I didn't mention some things that involved interests.Later, when my father sent you and me away in a hurry, there was even less time to tell me. Speaking of this inheritance hall, it has a history of at least one or two hundred years.Jisitang is not a Jianghu gang, but a unified name for some people in the seven sects and five surnames of the Tang Dynasty.The seven sects and five surnames of the Tang Dynasty are Cui of Qinghe, Cui of Boling, Lu of Fanyang, Zheng of Xingyang, Li of Longxi, Li of Zhaojun, and Wang of Taiyuan.They were the most prestigious noble families in the Tang Dynasty, and the seven most powerful clans.There was a Qinghe Cui family who disliked the fact that the Tang royal family had barbarian blood and refused to marry a Datang princess; Xue Yuanchao, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, felt that it was the greatest regret in his life that he could not marry a daughter from a family with seven clans and five surnames as his wife. From these things, You can know how great the power and influence of these clans are

Lu Yiyi listened with bated breath, and Yan Jiu said again: But these clans were extremely prosperous in Tang Dynasty, and the crisis of their survival was also buried at the beginning of the founding of Tang Dynasty.One-third of the founding ministers who were enshrined in Lingyan Pavilion in the Tang Dynasty were of Huns, Xianbei, and Turkic ethnicity. Tang Taizong himself not only had Hu ancestry, but also used Turkic troops at the beginning of the founding of the country. Therefore, after the founding of the country, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty naturally abandoned the national policy of focusing on Chinese orthodoxy, followed by the barbarians and barbarians, and emphasized the integration of Hua and Barbarians.

The Yi people have their own political system, military power, and culture different from the Han people, but they are so indulged and not suppressed, and hidden dangers are gradually buried.At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty had strong soldiers and horses, and his generals were like clouds. He also took advantage of the Turkic civil strife and years of natural disasters to destroy the Eastern Turks and split the Western Turks. His military power shocked the world. The Hu people naturally surrendered to him, but these What the Hu people obeyed to Datang was only a name, and their strength was not restrained at all, on the contrary they grew stronger day by day.

In the last years of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the power of the founding soldiers gradually faded. At that time, the Tubo Zanpu Songtsen Gampo’s power increased greatly after annexing the Qiangs, so he raised 200,000 troops and forced him to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty.Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty thought that marrying a woman could be worth a hundred thousand soldiers, so he gave up using force, agreed to the marriage, and brought various skills such as medicine, construction, craftsmanship, farming and mulberry to show his friendship. Unexpectedly, as a result, Tubo became more prosperous and powerful, but its ambitions grew even worse. Princess Wencheng was still alive, and the friendship with relatives still existed, so Tubo invaded Tang again. fall.Tubo gained sweetness, and since then they have invaded the frontiers year after year, successively occupying the four towns of Kucha, Yanqi, Khotan, and Shule in Tang Anxi, and controlling the entire Western Region.

During the time of Wu Zetian, Wang Xiaojie, the general manager of the Wuwei Army, defeated Tubo and finally regained the four towns of Anxi.However, during Tang Zhongzong’s reign, Datang continued to adopt the kinship policy at the request of Tubo, married Princess Jincheng to Tubo Zanpu, and foolishly gave Tubo the land of nine bends in Hexi, euphemistically calling it the Tang Dynasty of Princess Jincheng. The place of bathing.The soil in the land of Jiuqu is fertile. After Tubo got the land of Jiuqu, it became even more powerful. Since then, its strength has greatly increased. Hexi, Longyou, and even the entire Anxi Protectorate were under their control.

After the An Lushan Rebellion, the Tang army was repeatedly defeated and had to borrow troops from the Uyghurs. The Uyghurs agreed to send troops, but the conditions they agreed with Datang were to recover the two capitals, return the land to Tang, and let the Uyghurs take gold and silk for three days. , Datang Emperor actually agreed. After the Uighurs entered the Central Plains, they robbed property and raped women everywhere, and their harm was even more severe than that of the Anshi rebels.At that time, there was a magistrate who was a member of the seven clans and five surnames. In his anger, he put a Uyghur chief murderer who set fire to many refugees fleeing the war in the Buddhist temple and put him in prison. In the county prison, the jailer was cut and wounded, and the prisoner was robbed and escaped.The so-called subject country was so arrogant that Datang was helpless.

That’s not to mention, after the Uyghurs left, Datang would continue to give them rewards to caress them, and at the same time, they were forced to buy many sick and old Uyghur horses at high prices. Strongly, even the emperor of the Tang Dynasty had Hu people's blood, which made them feel contemptuous, not to mention that the foreign race was so rampant? Seeing that under the so-called national policy of integration of Hua and Barbarians, the power of the Hu people is growing day by day, and the population of the Hu people is expanding rapidly, some wise people with the surname Gao feel very disturbed.They are worried that if they continue to indulge in this way, there will be another tragedy of Wu Huan Hua.

Non-my family, its heart must be different.Rong Di's ambition is not the same as that of Hua!This is a sentence in "On Migration of Soldiers" written by Jiang Tong from Jin Dynasty. Less than ten years after he wrote this political commentary, the tragedy of Wuhu chaos occurred, and the Huaxia people were almost slaughtered.These people with seven clans and five surnames think that they belong to the tribe of Yi and Di, and they should not confide in them!The Tang Dynasty trusted and indulged the barbarians too much, and even some Jiedu envoys who gathered all the military and government powers as if they were a country within a country all appointed Hu people.Moreover, those who harm China must be the Yi and Di tribes, so they are extremely worried.

You have to know that in the past, when the world changed and the court changed, it was mostly a dispute within the Huaxia clan.The seven clans and five surnames are the orthodoxy of China, so no matter who becomes the emperor, the interests of these noble families will not suffer too much loss.However, once the foreign clans messed up the Central Plains, these big families would be the first to suffer. Maybe the huge family that had been passed down for hundreds of years would disappear, so they thought that they should respond as soon as possible. But these wise people are only a minority after all, among them there are very few old elders who can influence the family's decisions, and it is difficult to use the power of the family.Those rich and powerful families all complained, but the imperial court was glamorous and weak, but they were helpless.Those far-sighted people think that the crisis is getting closer, but they can't persuade those high-ranking Patriarchs to turn from light to darkness and hide their power.At this time, one of them with great ingenuity came up with another idea, thinking of using the financial and human resources they could personally control to separate from the seven sects and five surnames in the open and hide them among the people. When the surname is fatally hit, they can continue the blood for the seven clans and five surnames.

Yan Jiu said proudly: "This wise man is my middle-aged man with the Lu surname, and also the ancestor of the Lu surname in your lineage."Don't underestimate that they only rely on personal strength. If the strength of the seven clans and five surnames is concentrated, it is enough to establish a country and destroy a country. Even a country dares to underestimate the power. In the end, as they expected, the Great Tang flourished for only three generations, and then chaos continued. , Liu Zhan's rebellion, feudal separatism, crony disputes, Ganlu Incident, Li Xilie's rebellion, Wu Jiyuan's rebellion, the capital fell three times, the emperor moved four times, and everyone changed their sons to eat each other. A series of chaos caused the Tang Dynasty to decline day by day, and Hu Fengyue The scrape is getting stronger.

The territory of the Tang Dynasty was taken from the Great Sui Dynasty, but from the founding of the country to the subjugation of the country, even when the country was at its most prosperous, it never recovered the territory and prosperity of the Sui Dynasty. go.Eastern Liaodong was occupied by Sumo Mohe people, western Liaoning was occupied by Khitan people, Anxi and Beiting Duhufu were divided up by Tubo, Uyghur, and big cannibals; Hexi and western Sichuan were occupied by Tubo, and the north of Chang'an, Xiazhou, and Qingzhou were occupied by Tang Ting Gong handed it over to the party members. Both Tubo and Uyghur captured Chang'an, and even the small Nanzhao Kingdom wiped out more than 100,000 Tang troops and occupied Chengdu twice.Up to now, almost all the lands raising horses since the Qin and Han Dynasties have been lost to foreigners. When Huang Chao rebelled, the Tang Dynasty was powerless to put down the rebellion, so he borrowed troops from the Shatuo people to lure wolves into the house. Shatuo was in chaos in the Central Plains. A country was established in ten years, and a king was established in three years. , everything was broken, everything was wiped out, the powerful clan fell apart, and it was no longer the glory of the day.However, the successor hall established by my ancestors of the Lu family and other far-sighted people of various clans and surnames did not receive much impact because it was hidden among the people because it was surrounded by the three religions and nine streams, and the five surnames were the core.When the power of the court held by the seven clans and five surnames disappeared, Jisitang had great power among the people, extremely huge power.They have huge wealth, perfect intelligence network, criss-cross contacts and even powerful force. The purpose of the initial establishment of the Jisitang was to continue the succession of the seven clans and five surnames. Before the unification of the Central Plains and the stability of the world, dormant among the people and preserve their strength, without disclosing their true identities.but Yan Jiu's eyes flickered slightly, and said: But since the establishment of Jisitang, they have cut off the relationship with the seven clans and five surnames, completely hidden among the people, and developed a separate force outside of the seven clans and five surnames.For more than two hundred years, for more than two hundred years, they have no connection with the seven clans and five surnames at all. The purpose of succession and survival has been indifferent by many descendants of the seven clans and five surnames. The development of this inheritance hall has some similarities with the later Qinghong gang. In fact, many organizations and religions will gradually lose their original direction during the development process.It is indeed a bit difficult for the descendants of the descendants hundreds of years later to unswervingly continue to walk the path they designated for the purpose that the ancestors wanted to achieve hundreds of years ago.Because people's hearts are changing. Yan Jiu's gaze became treacherous: Among the seven clans and five surnames of that generation, the most powerful and ambitious one wondered if it was necessary for him to fight for the sake of restoring the prestige and surnames of several hundreds of years ago. Continue to bear it, wasting the painstaking efforts created by several generations of my father and grandparents?In this chaotic world, if he concentrates the power of the entire Jisitang, can't he fight a big world by himself?To survive a bloodline, is there a better way than becoming the emperor of a country? Yan Jiu continued: But not all the patriarchs of the seven clans and five surnames agree with him. Some of them still want to inherit the legacy of their ancestors and continue to hide among the people; Those who want to continue their huge power with a new identity; those who want to support an emperor, while they themselves continue to hide behind the scenes, and want to participate in the struggle for the world, are the only ones with great talents and general plans. Yan Jiu paused for a while, the corners of his mouth twitched a few times, and then said: But relying on the strength of his lineage alone, the chances of success are naturally slim.So he wanted to gather the power of the entire inheritance hall.However, the seven sects and five surnames are in charge of their own affairs. If we want to integrate the power of the entire inheritance hall, we have to think of a clever way to wipe out all the principals of the seven sects and five surnames. When Lu Yisheng heard this, he asked in a deep voice: This talented family head who wants to be the emperor is our father?