C797 Destiny! (1/2)

And think about Sui Tang, what was the biggest power in the country at that time? They were simply just clansmen and warlords. The clansmen were developed by the Han nationality since the Three Kingdoms period. After two dynasties, the Southern and Northern dynasties finally grew to be able to control the economy and culture of the entire country.

Standing side by side with the Feudal Lords was the Military groups Guan Long that originated from the Northern Wei, the so-called Twelve Generals of the Eight Pillars Country.

The most famous of the eight military clans was Yuwen Clan, which was also known as Yuwen Culture, Yuwen Scholar and that clan. The Dugu Family was Yang Jian's father-in-law, and Li Yuan's mother was the daughter of the Dugu Family.

Of course, the most famous one was naturally the Li Clan from Taiyuan, the ruler of the Tang Dynasty. Everyone in China knew about this.

Feudal lords and warlords were two political forces during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but any intelligent emperor should have understood that to win over these two large corporations, their own rivers and mountains would be more stable.

However, the Sui Dynasty produced a Emperor. This Emperor, who was extremely talented but also had the impatience to fight against Qin Shi Huang, chose another way to rule the country. He wanted to centralize power, and he wanted to seize power from the hands of the Feudal Lords and the warlords.

In the heart of the Emperor, he did not have the insidious thoughts of using the foreign forces to weaken the warlord's strength. Opening the Imperial Examinations was merely tearing a hole in the civil service which was controlled by the gatekeeper.

An emperor who simultaneously offended two political groups at that time, the destruction of the Sui Dynasty was actually inevitable.

Li Yuan and Li Shimin were smart. They knew that time was the ruler's best weapon, so they had to slowly seize power, bit by bit, even letting their son and grandson come.

If the ruler of a country could not be cut with a soft knife, then sooner or later he would become a fish under a knife!

Xiao Letian patted his bulging belly, leaned on the back of the armchair and stretched, ”The sun shines so bright and comfortable! Those creepy scholars, they spent their lives studying and researching these kinds of things … Their research is too deep, deep to the point where they are unable to extricate themselves, deep to the point that they think that this is the law of nature! ”

”You bunch of scholars have been active throughout the dynasties. What you can't do is to move about before the transfer of power. You can use your own knowledge to secretly absorb a bit of power and become the brain of the major forces!”

”He's really powerful. After thousands of years of moving around, you really have formed a powerful civil service group. Since Song, you have controlled most of the time in China …”

”All of you are obstinately of the belief that the destiny of the dynasty is the so-called 'who shall rule the world with'! ”In your eyes, the establishment of a dynasty is but an alliance between several large faction groups …”

”Ai …” ”The common people are sheep, the officials are sheep, and a small group of elites are dividing up the country's resources. In your eyes, sheep are but one kind of resources!”

Xiao Letian's eyes became colder and colder, ”You guys have always wanted to continue with the game of transferring authority, the country's power is in your hands today, and tomorrow's in his hands. A change of dynasty is just a gamble that you won't be able to continue playing, someone has overturned the table …”

”You will never know that just when you stubbornly refused to change, the world outside has opened up a path that is completely different from yours. They have even grasped a formidable strength that you cannot comprehend!”

”And the sheep, the people you think they are, the pariahs, the scarecrows... Do you think you can fool them, squeeze them, and use them as a resource for animals for all eternity? ”But you're wrong. In this era of floating hearts, billions of docile sheep have already begun to awaken …”