The background of Liang Zhu is the social environment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. At that time, the political environment was a political ladder class formed by the nine-level Zheng Zhi system. The most popular families may be hereditary senior officials, and the children of small-scale poor people can only be small officials. Liang Shanbo is a poor child. Although he became a county magistrate, his political career has come to an end. The higher-level satrap position was monopolized by the aristocratic family, while both the Zhu Yingtai family and the Ma Wencai family who were about to get married opposed Dan Liang.
The aristocratic family system originated from the filial piety system in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to resist the imperial power, eunuchs and consorts, the big families who master the local economy and culture gradually formed a gate valve through marriage and mutual recommendation of their children to be officials.
These clans monopolized the local knowledge, economy and political status, and even mastered some military forces by recruiting troops, hiding people, building military forts and smuggling. Over the years, these places have gradually become bigger and bigger, interfering with local administration and confronting the central authorities, becoming another force to compete with emperors, eunuchs and consorts.
The gate system began to mature in the Cao Wei period, because Cao Pi accepted the nine-product official system (that is, the nine-product official system) put forward by Chen Qun on behalf of the aristocratic family in order to usurp the Han Dynasty and stand on its own feet, which made the gate system of the aristocratic family formally formed and developed rapidly.
Jiupin Zhengzhi system was born out of the accusation system in Han Dynasty. It turns out that local officials are all selected by talents with both ability and political integrity. Now the central government sends people to select local officials, which is conducive to centralization. However, due to the long-term monopoly of aristocratic families on knowledge, the system has always maintained an absolute advantage in economy and politics. This system soon deteriorated into a situation in which the children of officials are hereditary, the children of aristocratic families are big officials, and the children of ethnic minorities are small officials.
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the production method of Jiupinguan reached its peak! During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the rights of Sima family were strongly challenged by aristocratic families. Noble families cross counties, and small families occupy one side. The emperor became the "leader" of the aristocratic family and completely lost his authority.
In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the status of aristocratic families was gradually replaced by military nobles, but they still enjoyed absolute political and economic status. No matter which dynasty or surname, it is inseparable from the support of the gate valve.
It was not until Emperor Wendi of the Sui Dynasty proposed that the imperial examination system should replace the nine-grade system, and the power status of aristocratic families was challenged and began to decline. However, due to the counterattack of aristocratic families, the Sui Dynasty perished for two generations.
After the war at the end of Sui Dynasty, the aristocratic families were weakened to some extent, which created favorable conditions for the implementation of the imperial examination in Tang Dynasty, and the gate system officially began to decline, but at this time the aristocratic families still had certain influence.
From the outbreak of the war in the late Tang Dynasty to the end of the Five Dynasties, China entered the warlord period from the gate period. After hundreds of years of warlord wars, aristocratic families were eliminated. With the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, the gate valve officially disappeared, and the landlord class in cloth formally entered the stage. The imperial examination system became popular, completely replacing the foundation of the gate valve system-the nine-product official system.