Chapter 25 Guanlong Group
Shu Han.

Liu Chan, who had already succeeded to the throne, saw this "unique" and could not help but look at Zhuge Liang: "Father, is there no such situation now? Didn't the Han Dynasty also have aristocratic families before, although it did not create four dynasties..."

He remembered that before the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, when the world was still in chaos, there had been several noble families. Even now, there were many aristocratic families in the neighboring Wei Kingdom.

"No, Your Majesty," Zhuge Liang sighed, "Although there are people from aristocratic families, they have not been able to truly lead the establishment and rise and fall of a country." They did try to establish an independent country, but it did not succeed. The Han Dynasty did have military aristocratic groups, but they were not like the Guanlong Group.

Song Dynasty, the first year of Kaibao.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at the sky curtain and heard about the extremely prosperous Guanlong aristocratic group. His eyes showed both a curiosity about history and deep fear.

After the founding of the Song Dynasty, he could not wait to give up his military power. In addition to the fact that the generals of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were undisciplined, killed people without mercy, and acted recklessly, it was also partly due to the Guanlong Group. He was very worried that the Song Dynasty would also have such an aristocratic group entrenched in the center of power, relying on marriage and blood ties to be intertwined with each other, and not under the control of the imperial power and even able to counter the imperial power.

Although the formation of this group was closely related to the military system at that time, and the current system of the Song Dynasty basically eliminated the possibility of such a situation, this did not prevent him from being vigilant about it.

After all, he came from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and the military struggles of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, after all, were inseparable from the Shatuo military group since the end of the Tang Dynasty.

The Guanlong military aristocracy group...that was the glory of an era.

[The Guanlong military aristocracy group, as the name suggests, originated in the Guanlong area, which is the Guanzhong and Longshan areas of Gansu. It is the product of the combination of the military generals of the Six Garrisons of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Xianbei nobles, and the local Han nobles in Guanlong.

Yes, this has a deep connection with the Xianbei nobles.

After the Three Kingdoms period, the Sima family took advantage of the Wei Kingdom and established the Jin Dynasty. Subsequently, political chaos began, ushering in the era of the Two Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties.

The Jin Dynasty was weak, and the Five Barbarians in the north invaded China. Later, the Tuoba clan of the Xianbei people in the north unified the north and established the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Wei State.

Cao Pi, who had just become emperor, suddenly learned the fate of his country, which caught him off guard.

"The Sima family picked the peaches?" He thought to himself, "Doesn't that mean the Sima family usurped the throne?" And now there is only one Sima in the court, Sima Yi. He trusts Sima Yi very much and gives him a lot of power.

But, is this the result?
Moreover, let's not talk about anything else. After usurping our Cao Wei, what about the "Jin Dynasty was weak, and the Five Barbarians in the north were invading China"? Even if our Cao Wei had not established a country and proclaimed itself an emperor, it was not a place where the northern barbarians could come and go as they pleased.

But you inherited Cao Wei's foundation, but ended up causing the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China?
Although the miracle was described lightly and briefly, these four words alone are enough to make people imagine how tragic the situation was at that time. After all, as early as the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there were records of repeated invasions by the Xiongnu, and that was still the Xiongnu, not the word "chaos".

Wu State.

Sun Quan, who also saw the situation, was not very happy either.

Although it was gratifying that Cao Wei had met with great misfortune, he could not be happy when he thought that in the end his own Wu Kingdom was taken over by a peach picker.

He fought in the sword war for several years, but in the end, this is the ending?
He looked at the Laker tribe that eventually unified the north, "The Xianbei, aren't they the Hu people who initially established good relations with Cao Wei?" He thought carefully about the movements of the Xianbei over the years, "The current leader seems to have been annexing other tribes." So, is the power starting to expand now?
[At that time, the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty was set in Pingcheng. In order to defend Pingcheng and resist the attack of the Rouran, six towns were established from west to east: Woye, Huaishuo, Wuchuan, Fuming, Rouxuan and Huaihuang.

The six northern garrisons were the lifeline of the Northern Wei's national defense and enjoyed an important position in the military and political life of the Northern Wei state. Therefore, the officers of the border garrisons became dignitaries of the country and enjoyed higher privileges.

However, with the reform of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the relocation of the capital to Luoyang, the status of the Six Garrisons declined rapidly and finally a rebellion broke out. Although the rebellion was quelled, the turmoil continued.

Later, Heba Yue, who followed Erzhu Tianguang to quell the rebellion, entered Guanlong and accepted the secret order from Emperor Xiaowu of the Northern Wei Dynasty to lead his troops to integrate the military forces in the Guanlong area.

After Heba Yue's death, his former subordinates supported Yuwen Tai as their successor leader, who continued to be based in Guanlong and competed with Gao Huan, the prime minister at the time.

Since then, the Guanlong Group was born. This group of military nobles, with Heba Yue's former subordinates as their base, settled in Guanzhong, and mixed the Hu and Han peoples, combining civil and military skills, and intermarrying with each other.

Tang Dynasty, the ninth year of Wude.

Li Yuan listened to the miracle telling the history of the Guanlong Group and looked down at several important officials in the hall.

The establishment of the Tang Dynasty was inseparable from the Guanlong Group, which promoted four dynasties. However, just as dynasties rise and fall, the Guanlong Group cannot always stand firm. Since Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, attempts have been made to divide and weaken the Guanlong Group, and considerable results have been achieved.

Now in the court of the Tang Dynasty, officials from the Guanlong Group do not occupy the majority, but they check and balance each other with the local clans.

But Guanlong has accumulated a lot of experience after all, and the Li family themselves are from Guanlong...

[At this time, the leaders of the two major forces were also closely related to the Six Garrisons. Yuwen Tai came from Wuchuan, and Gao Huan came from Huaishuo.

Afterwards, under the influence of various forces, the Northern Wei Dynasty split. Yuwen Tai supported Yuan Baoju as emperor and established the Western Wei Dynasty; Gao Huan supported Yuan Shanjian as emperor and established the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

In order to better confront the Eastern Wei, Yuwen Tai established the military system. He organized the soldiers of the Six Garrisons and the Xianbei tribes originally in Guanzhong into six armies, and continued to incorporate the local militia of the Han nobles in Guanlong.

On the basis of the six armies of the Fubing system, Yuwen Tai established a Fubing organizational system consisting of eight pillars of the state, twelve generals, and twenty-four governors.

Among the eight pillars, Yuwen Tai was the leader of the entire army, Yuan Xin was an honorary prince of the royal family, and the remaining six pillars led six armies and held two generals each. The six pillars were Li Hu, Li Bi, Yu Jin, Dugu Xin, Zhao Gui, and Houmo Chen Chong.

Among the Eight Pillars of the State, the Yuwen family of Yuwen Tai was from the royal family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Yuan family of Yuan Xin was from the royal family of the Western Wei Dynasty, the Li family of Li Hu was the later line of Li Yuan and the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, and the Dugu family of Dugu Xin was the royal family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty.

Yang Zhong, one of the twelve generals, was the father of Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian. The Yang family was the royal family of the Sui Dynasty.

Led by the Eight Pillars of State, the Guanlong Group was formed. In its heyday, the royal family and its generals and ministers were almost all from the same system and class.

Of course, just as Yuwen Tai was born in Wuchuan, the generals he appointed were also from Wuchuan. 】

(End of this chapter)