Ji Tang

Chapter 143 "Clan History"

"Your Majesty, Ji Song, pays homage to your Majesty. May your Majesty live forever!"

"uh-huh!"

"His Majesty."

"Don't you see that I'm busy and don't have any rules? Is this how Li Gang taught you?"

Ji Song thought to himself: If you weren't the emperor, I would have beaten you up long ago. Are you still here with you?

"Why don't you speak? Are you scolding me in your heart?"

"Uh! How dare I, sir! Didn't you ask me not to disturb you?" Ji Song said aggrievedly.

"Humph!"

Obviously dissatisfied with Ji Song's statement, he snorted and went about his business, completely ignoring that Ji Song was still bent over!

After waiting for a while, when he saw that there was still no intention to get up, Ji Song gritted his teeth, which was enough to relieve the pain in his already sore waist.

Seeing that the emperor wasn't paying attention, he stretched his neck to see what he was doing.

Li Shimin looked at the memorial in his hand, and a surge of anger rushed to his forehead.

It turned out that this memorial was about the Cui family of Qinghe rejecting his wish to accept his legitimate daughter as his concubine.Not to mention the aggrieved feeling in my heart when I thought that I, the majestic emperor, had been rejected by my ministers.

Some time ago, Gao Shilian was ordered to compile a "Clan Chronicle".The royal family was actually listed as the third class. How could he accept this?
"What are you looking at?"

Hearing Li Shimin's conspiratorial voice, Ji Song quickly retracted and said: "I see that Your Majesty seems to be undecided about something. I wonder if I can help Your Majesty?"

Ji Song still had a strong desire to survive. Looking at Li Shimin's appearance, he might be in trouble, so he quickly changed the subject.

"Oh? Are you telling the truth?" Li Shimin said thoughtfully.

"More real than real gold!"

"Well, well, take a look. If you can't think of a way, just stay in the palace with me. Anyway, the queen likes you."

Hearing this, Ji Song immediately felt a chill in his crotch, and quickly shook his head and said, "I will do my best."

After saying that, he took the memorial over, but when he saw the three words "Clan Chronicle", Ji Song broke into cold sweat.

At this time, Li Shimin was taking the tea brought by Chen Shou and drinking it leisurely, completely ignoring Ji Song's embarrassment.

Is it so easy to be my minister?I'll test the waters with you today and see if I beat you up later. Will Old Man Li come to beg me?Thinking of Li Gang's pleading in front of him, he couldn't help but laugh.

"Your Majesty, I have some ideas, please correct me!"

"puff!"

A mouthful of tea was sprayed directly on Chen Shou's face. Li Shimin ignored Chen Shou's resentful eyes and said to Ji Song: "Are you telling the truth? If you dare to lie to me, it will be the crime of deceiving the emperor!"

Ji Song did not answer, but slowly told the origin of the clan. These Li clans were one of the original clans. Of course Li Shimin knew that Ji Song just wanted to elicit the following words!The wealthy and powerful families have been the real power in the central region since the Wei and Jin Dynasties.Although the chaos in the Southern and Northern Dynasties had a certain impact on the family status, it was still a powerful political force after entering the Tang Dynasty.

The world's wealthy families have five surnames and seven hopes, namely the Wang family in Taiyuan, the Lu family in Fanyang, the Cui family in Boling, the Cui family in Qinghe, the Li family in Longxi, the Li family in Zhaojun, and the Zheng family in Xingyang.The Li Tang royal family is a lineage of the Li family in Longxi, so we can exclude it for now.

Some time ago, Li Shimin ordered Gao Shilian to compile a nationally famous genealogy of aristocratic families.

The compilation was done by some officials close to Li Shimin. In order to make the genealogy ranking as objective and fair as possible, none of the officials involved in the compilation came from aristocratic families.

However, when the editor-in-chief Gao Shilian presented the completed "Clan Chronicle" to him, Li Shimin became furious on the spot.

It turned out that the compilation officials actually ranked the Boling Cui family first; the Qinghe Cui family, Fanyang Lu family, Xingyang Zheng family, and Taiyuan Wang family ranked second; and the Li royal family ranked third.

Li Shimin immediately requested re-codification, and explicitly required that the status of the listed families be linked to the official positions held by their members in the court.

Moreover, Li Shimin ignored the Wang family in Taiyuan and the Li family in Longxi - Longxi did not belong to Shandong.Needless to say, the Li family in Longxi, Li Tang Longxing was in Taiyuan, and the Wang family in Taiyuan was a hero of Conglong.

The reason why Li Shimin wanted to create such a ranking of aristocratic families was not out of boredom, but because he had an important political purpose, which was to try to lower the status of the aristocratic families headed by the "Four Surnames" and elevate the status of the Li royal family and its supporters.

However, the reputation of the four surnames in this world does not seem to have been much damaged.

The most famous ministers of the Tang Dynasty, such as Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Li Ji, etc., were all proud of the marriage between their children and the children of the "four surnames" families.

At this time, Li Shimin had no choice. His most loyal ministers were all proud of taking a daughter with the fifth surname. It was obvious that they did not support him. His wish to marry the Cui family's legitimate daughter in Qinghe also failed, which greatly affected his self-confidence. Big blow.

"Your Majesty, I don't think we need to follow their rules! You see, those aristocratic families are proud of their ancestors' achievements. We can completely avoid it and use our own rules!" Ji Song whispered road.

"My own rules?" Li Shimin seemed to be deep in thought, right!Why should I rank them according to the achievements of their ancestors?
Ji Song's words seemed to have opened up his horizons, bringing him out of the circle to consider issues from a broader perspective.

"Come, have a talk with me, Chen Shou, bring a chair to Hao Jiehou, you are not very eye-catching."

Ji Song twitched the corner of his mouth, what is this?Arrogant at first and respectful later?
Of course, he couldn't say this. He still wanted to live a few more years.

"No matter how many generations ago, only today's official talents are used as the ranking. Among the major wealthy families, whoever is more powerful in the court now will be at the forefront. On the contrary, he will stand aside. What do you think, Your Majesty?" Ji Song said with a strange expression.

Could Ji Song not be weird?This is Li Shimin's own masterpiece in history. He plagiarized it in front of the person involved. Isn't there something wrong with it?
But he quickly shook this thought out of his mind. What are you afraid of?Now he is his own. Who makes Li Shimin think about fixing himself all day long and plagiarize his ideas to deal with the difficulties from him? Ji Song feels no burden at all.

"No matter how many generations ago, only those with official status today are used as the level? Okay, hahaha! You boy, you really have a way. This time you pass the test."

Hearing this, Li Shimin was overjoyed and patted Ji Song's shoulder repeatedly. With such strength, Ji Song thought that there was no reason to punish himself, so he used this method to retaliate?
However, Li Shimin may be disappointed.Looking at Ji Song, who had no expression on his face, Li Shimin then thought that this kid's martial arts skills were pretty good, and it was probably similar to tickling him.

He slyly took away his red palm and said, "Oh, by the way, what do you want from me today?"

Ji Song looked at Li Shimin speechlessly, how could anyone be like you?It doesn't matter that you gave me an official position and didn't tell me where the official office was.

"Didn't your Majesty consecrate this to Sinong Temple? Just ask where this office is located?"

"Hey, look at my memory. Sinong Temple is newly separated and does not have a resident yet."

"His Majesty."

　Too sleepy, sleep!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)