What kind of social structure was the most stable?
No one knew the answer to that question.
But practice had proven that an olive-shaped social structure was far more stable than a pyramid-shaped one. The final years of a dynasty usually took on an extreme pyramid shape, within which utter destruction brewed, before destroying everything, toppling everything, annihilating everything.
Then everything began anew, repeating the cycle.
Everyone in the room slowly leafed through the documents in their hands. Some smiled, some frowned deeply, some looked rather worried, and others had murder blazing in their eyes, as though they would draw their blades and kill at any moment.
"On the surface, the scholars hold our clan in the highest esteem, but in reality, they've begun banding together into clans."
An old man spoke gravely, a trace of worry in his voice. "These clans are breaking through the scholarly barriers our clan established and acquiring secondary scriptural interpretation authority.
"Back in Emperor Wen's reign, my elder brother, Young Master Jing, noticed faint signs of this. Under Emperor Xiaowu, the Meritorious Military Nobles flourished. These people kept a low profile, but in reality, they had already grown very powerful."
Silence filled the room.
During the Zhou State, there had been a saying: if the talent of All Under Heaven filled ten measures, the Luo Clan Academy alone held eight. The finest talents of All Under Heaven came from the Luo Clan-there was not a shred of exaggeration in that.
But when All Under Heaven was unified under the Great Han, Luo Ling knew this could not continue. Thus, when the Great Han wanted to establish the Supreme Academy, the Luo Clan actively supported its founding, because All Under Heaven needed an academy that gathered outstanding talent. It was also a means of peddling