Gentlemen
If you want to talk about the attitude of the Li and Tang royal family towards the gentry, it must be a love-hate relationship. He loves his family's profound knowledge and can produce talents for governing the country; he hates his group to become a country within a country, which can be called a cancer of the Tang Dynasty.
Whether you love it or hate it, you can't do it for a while. Until Li Zhi ascended the throne, he first wiped out the top forces in Guanlong represented by Changsun Wuji and his gang. In the process, he and the gentry were in collusion. But turning his head, Li Zhi pulled up his pants and refused to recognize anyone, and began to suppress the gentry.
In sweeping up the forces in Guanlong, Li Zhi used violent means to win directly. But when facing the gentry, he couldn't use such methods.
Some people say that the gentry dared to shout at the prince, but they were still dissatisfied with copying and beheading?
Thinking too much!
The strength of the Guanlongmen faction is that they hold the army in their hands, not what.
The strength of the gentry lies in their intertwined influence. Headed by the top family, countless families are attached to them, and they have had a profound impact on the Tang Dynasty in terms of officialdom, shopping malls, agriculture, population, etc.
Can the emperor bear it?
cannot!
So Emperor Li Tang's attitude towards the gentry was love-hate, but he would not use violent means to deal with them, the reason is that it would affect the whole body.
Some people said why Huang Chao dared to destroy them!
Because Huang Chao didn't care about any turbulence, the Tang Dynasty at that time was already too turbulent and could no longer be turbulent, and it had become a mess, so it didn't matter.
Conclude with a paragraph at the end.
During Tang Wenzong's time, the emperor wanted to marry the gentry but was rejected, and he couldn't help expressing his emotion: the folks practiced marriage, regardless of the official status, but went to the elite. My family's 200-year-old emperor doesn't care about Cui and Luye?
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