Qi Xuansu doesn't like aristocratic families, but he has to compromise.

The Yao family is half destroyed. If they want to fight against the Li family, they have to win over the Zhang family. If they offend both the Zhang family and the Li family, they will not be able to sit firmly in the position of the Grand Master and may not even be able to save their lives. This is the biggest reality.

However, the Taoist family system has not yet collapsed to the point during the Daqi period.

The aristocratic system that continued from the late Dapei to the Daqi period was essentially a chasm between people of different classes. In the true sense, there is no noble son in the poor family, and the children of the aristocratic family can become officials without any ability assessment. The so-called five surnames and seven hopes can make the prime minister proud of marrying five surnames and women.

The Taoist sect is far from this level. No matter what origin, the necessary processes must not be missing. With the same ability, the children of aristocratic families will of course go faster and further, which is the convenience of the families. But if the children of aristocratic families are really useless, they cannot be promoted.

As for marrying the "five-ranking women" of the Taoist sect, that is, Zhang, Li, Yao, and Qin, this is indeed an honor. Qi Xuansu married the "five-ranking women" Zhang Yuelu, and he did borrow his strength from it. However, whether it is the head of the Five Dynasties or other senior Taoist sects from poor families, he has no need to marry. It is a good thing to marry, and it is just that if you can't.

During the Daqi period, the main way for a clan to monopolize power was to monopolize education. By raising the cost and threshold of education, outstanding talents had to become vassals of the clan.

But the Taoist Sect did not monopolize education, and still opened a door of convenience for poor families and ordinary people. The Wanxiang Taoist Sect has truly achieved the right teachings and no distinction. Even an orphan like Qi Xuansu can enter the Wanxiang Taoist Sect for education. After learning, even if he did not meet Qi Niang and did not have the opportunity to come later, with his own efforts, it would be no problem to be treated as a fourth-grade Taoist priest in his old age.

There are only two requirements for the Vientiane Dao Palace, one is loyal to the Taoist sect, which involves the political censorship system, and the other is that there must be one talent and hard work. If you don’t have talent and don’t want to work hard, you will not blame others for not giving them opportunities.

Qi Xuansu promoted people from the Wanxiang Dao Palace to cultivate their own team and expand their basic foundation, but objectively played a role in suppressing the aristocratic family.

However, most of these people are in the middle and lower levels now, and the higher levels are still controlled by the aristocratic families.

As for what Cihang Zhenren thought, it is actually not complicated.

It was precisely based on the interests of the family that she made this decision.

It is good to take charge of Ziweitang, but as mentioned earlier, when there is no big master, Ziweitang does have great autonomy, but with big masters, Ziweitang often implements the will of the big masters. You can't deny the people who want to use the big masters, and you can't push up the people who don't want to use the big masters, so you can only do some work in the positions between the two.

Another thing is that after all, the true person of Cihang is injustice. There is no precedent for Pingzhang to take charge of the Nine Halls. The true person of Cihang takes charge of Ziwei Hall is only temporary and will definitely need to be adjusted in the future.

How much power the wife of the Grand Master can have depends not only on the basic foundation of the Grand Master’s wife, but also on the Grand Master himself. The Grand Master is willing to delegate power, but the Grand Master’s wife is in power and the government and the Grand Master’s wife is in power. The Grand Master’s wife is not willing to delegate power. The Grand Master’s wife is like a vase.

Of course Qi Xuansu was willing to delegate power to Zhang Yuelu, but Qi Xuansu might not be willing to delegate power to his mother-in-law, which would make the position of the Grandma Cihang Zhenren awkward. However, it would not be a sideline. It was mostly to give full play to the role of passing on and help Zhang Yuelu from the side. If it were someone else, Cihang Zhenren would definitely not want it, but Zhang Yuelu was the successor of his own robe, so he had to assist him.

So in the eyes of Cihang, instead of holding on to power and expiration, it is better to take the initiative and make a deal in advance, exchange Ziweitang for Jiangnan Dao Mansion, transfer Su Yuanzai back to Jiangnan Dao Mansion, and defend the basic structure of the Su family and Cihang lineage, which also fulfilled Zhang Kucheng, who had always wanted to go further, and each took the needs.

Su Yuanzai himself is the real person in the Dadao Mansion. The transfer to the Jiangnan Dao Mansion is an adjustment rather than an promotion, and even the public announcement is saved.

This move has one advantage, that is, the people in Jiangnan defended Jiangnan. Similar to the Liao people in those days, they would definitely be attentive and work hard. Now, as the front line of confrontation between the north and the south, the Jiangnan Daofu really needs to boost morale.

The problem is that Jiangnan is a good place, with more defense and insufficient external offense.

Or in other words, Jiangnan has no motivation to enter the northern expedition, and is more willing to look forward to one acre of three parts of land in a comfortable nest, and no matter how much it is, you will have nothing to ask for. After all, you have to be moved to see the flower world in the bitter and cold land, and you want to take it for yourself and put it into practice. On the other hand, when the flower world sees the bitter and cold land, you will only dislike it and have no such motivation.

Otherwise, it would be said that retreating to the southeast is relatively peaceful. Without such good material conditions, there would be no ideological basis for being relatively peaceful.

There are many examples in history, such as Xiaoyaojin’s eight million or more than one hundred thousand, etc.

There is also the problem of local power.

The central government cannot mobilize enough manpower and material resources, and must maintain its overall strength, either exert force externally or suppress rebellion internally. The only way is to delegate power, so that local powerful factions can grow bigger, and then rely on win-win means and the powerful inertia of the past, so that these local powerful factions will maintain a certain fear of the central government when the central government is still stable, and the two sides will cooperate.

But this kind of behavior is too terrible. If a poor operation leads to failure of checks and balances, it will lead to chaos in the world.

Now that it is in chaos, Qi Xuansu has truly experienced the dilemma of the Xuanzong of the Great Qi. He will either die of thirst or drink poison to quench his thirst.

The defeat of the Great Qi was not due to Xuanzong and Suzong, but to the Empress Mingkong.

During the period when Mingkong was in power, the system of the government troops began to collapse, so during the empress period, foreign wars failed one after another, resulting in the continuous shrinking of the territory of the Great Qi.

This was already very serious before Xuanzong took office: southern Xinjiang was basically lost, and only the northern Xinjiang was still struggling to maintain it. Although the empress spent a lot of effort to recover the four towns of Anxi in southern Xinjiang, the more serious failure was in the Liaodong region. Mingkong basically lost the entire northeast. Not only did the Goguryeo, which was taken down by two generations of Taizong and Gaozong, were completely lost, but even the western Liaoning Corridor was also lost, and the east of Yuguan changed ownership.

Such a great defeat was almost a disaster for the destruction of the country during the Great Wei period. It was only because the capital of the Great Qi was located in Xijing and was far away, so it seemed less serious.

By the time of Zhongzong, it was even more collapsed, and the Northwest Front had already surpassed Liangzhou.

After Xuanzong took office, he was essentially a papermaker who cleaned up the mess for the empress. The system of the government troops collapsed, so he used the recruitment system, which was to let the governors recruit "tooth soldiers" on their own. In this way, at least on the surface, the martial virtues of the Great Qi were restored, and Xuanzong regained the western Liao area, rebuilt the Andong Protectorate, defeated the Tuhuoxian in the northwest direction, and pushed the front back.

For a time, Xuanzong seemed to have wiped out the root of disaster left by the empress, recreated the Daqi and recreated the glory of Taizong. However, the problem with the recruitment system is that delegating power is to drink poison to quench thirst, and there are major hidden dangers.

As a result, local powerful factions became separatist and continued to grow, which eventually led to the chaos in Xuanzong's later years. Many people say that this chaos was caused by Xuanzong's stupidity in his later years, which was just a manifestation. Even if Xuanzong was not stupid, he would still be in chaos when he died.

In fact, the seeds were planted as early as the empress, but the fruit finally matured and landed in the later years of Xuanzong.

Half of the infamous Emperor Xuanzong’s infamy was to help Mingkong. Mingkong essentially eats the grain of Mao, but no matter what else to eat after eating the grain of Mao.

Mingkong is not only of the meaning of becoming an emperor as a woman, but the rest is insignificant. Thanks to the identity of a woman, and the Taoist sect advocates equality and embellishes him, it has made some fans in later generations who advocate his achievements. If he were a man, he would probably not be just a little better than calling the emperor.

Since ancient times, I have not been afraid of robbing the ranks and power. Emperor Taizong killed his brother and imprisoned his father, but he still praised the people. I am afraid of robbing the ranks and power and losing land and losing civil unrest, so I will be infamous for thousands of years.

Taking history as a lesson, the seven generations of great masters used King Ping to move east to overturn the case. Qi Xuansu also wanted to learn from Xuanzong to avoid the Taoist sect falling into the problem of separatist rule in the vassal states in order to quell the rebellion.

As for Zhang Kucheng, of course he was promoted, and he was promoted. He jumped over the Sixth Hall and became the leader of the Nine Halls. However, considering that Zhang Kucheng is about the same age as the Third Crown Lord and is even more a candidate for the Tianshi Master, Cihang has been promoted to Zhang Dashi. It is reasonable for him to be the Chief Secretary of the School of the Zhizhi.

Since the Tianshi and Cihang Zhenren agreed, Qi Xuansu had to agree in order to take into account the overall situation. This undoubtedly confirms a sentence: when taking into account the overall situation, it is most likely that he will not be in the overall situation, even the master sect is no exception.

However, there will be a need to wait until Qi Xuansu comes into seclusion in specific implementation of this personnel change.

For Qi Xuansu, the "Four Sentences of Hengqu" are not difficult to learn. When it reaches this level, it is not said that one method is understood and all methods are understood, but it is not far away. Not to mention that Qi Xuansu has already had the foundation of "Haoranqi" and has achieved twice the result with half the effort.

As for why Xuansheng did not leave the "Four Sentences of Hengqu" directly, because Xuansheng could not rely on this to drive the "Su King", the "Four Sentences of Hengqu" are the shortcuts summarized by the great masters of later generations.

Regardless of whether it can be done or not, anyway, shouting slogans can leverage power. This is the mouth of Confucianism, which is similar to the great aspirations made by Buddhism.

It's nothing difficult to just shout slogans but not implement them.

It is nothing more than: the heaven and earth establish the mind, the people establish their destiny, the past saints have their unique knowledge, and peace for all ages.

However, as soon as Qi Xuansu practiced the second sentence, someone called Guan.

Because this is just an ordinary retreat, not a death sentence, you can be disturbed. If an emergency happens, people outside can forcibly notify Qi Xuansu who is in retreat and ask him to leave the retreat immediately. This is called a retreat.

Of course, under normal circumstances, the master will arrange things before retreating and indicate who will take charge of the matter when he is not here. No one will disturb the master simply because of some trivial matters.

Qi Xuansu designated Zhang Yuelu during this retreat.
Chapter completed!