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Chapter 761 Hebei Group
After Li Chongjiu, Yu Shinan and Xue Wanshu finished discussing state affairs, they put on their clothes and stood up.

From the court meeting in the morning to Li Chongjiu and Xue Wanshu's plan to attack Li Tang, it was almost noon before they knew it.

Li Chongjiu walked out of the main hall and saw the sun shining on the glazed tiles of Luoyang Palace, looking at a piece of resplendent gold and jade in the distance.There are military guards on all sides of the palace. Li Chongjiu led the guards and rushed to the palace gate, but saw that the officials who had just received the reward were sitting on the verandah and eating on the ground.

This is also a rule that has been passed down all the time. It turns out that the ministers are already hungry three or four hours after the morning court.In order to be sympathetic to the officials, the imperial court specially gave food on the verandah after the early court. This meal is called "corridor food", which is regarded as the working meal of the imperial court officials.

When Li Chongjiu saw him, he walked towards the verandah. The officials of Dazhao on the verandah saw Li Chongjiu coming in person, they all put down their bowls and chopsticks and got up to see him.

Li Chongjiu nodded and said: "All the ministers have worked hard for half a day, so there is no need to be polite, just continue to eat!"

After the officials got the decree, they sat down again immediately. Li Chongjiu remembered the close-to-people style of senior officials in later generations, and immediately said to the officials beside him: "I will also have lunch here!"

After hearing this, the servant said immediately, "No, pass the meal to His Majesty right here."

"No need, just eat the same food as your love friends."

After Li Chongjiu gave the order, the servants did not dare to disobey it, so they did it immediately.Li Chongjiu pointed to Xue Wanshu and Yu Shinan, and asked them to accompany them for dinner.

Not long after, the servant placed some chairs on the verandah and covered the floor with mattresses. After Li Chongjiu sat down, the servant brought Li Chongjiu a bowl of yellow rice porridge with mutton. According to the rules at that time, it was called millet porridge.The millet was steaming hot and fragrant. For the common people at that time, it was very luxurious to be able to eat a bowl of such meat porridge.
This is also Zhao Guo's welfare for officials. Li Chongjiu nodded immediately, picked up the wooden spoon, took a bite of the yellow rice porridge, and felt warm.When the nearby officials saw Li Chongjiu making a move, they also started to eat porridge.

Li Chongjiu said to an official on the left: "If I guessed correctly, you are Master Cui Ren of Boling!"

This official was very young. Hearing Li Chongjiu call out his name, he turned sideways and said: "Your Majesty's insightful eyes, it is this humble minister."
Li Chongjiu said with a smile: "You don't have to, just sit up and talk."

Li Chongjiu gave Cui Renshi a high-ranking official this time, not because of the talents of a nobleman like him, but because of the potential power behind such a person.

There are five surnames and seven surnames among the gentry in the world. At that time, the Cui family of Boling lived in seclusion at the top.The Cui family of Boling has a long history of inheritance. It was a well-known gentry before, and it was even more prominent during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The Minister of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Cui Hong, the White Horse Lord, and Situ Cui Hao were all prominent figures.

Even Li Tang also reused it. Li Yuan originally recruited the Shandong gentry with the call of the Cui clan of Cui Mingan and Boling, and cooperated with Li Shentong, the appeasement ambassador of Shandong Province.

Now the Immortal Master Cui from the Cui Clan of Boling came to vote. According to Li Chongjiu, someone from the Cui Clan of Boling came to vote. Unable to hold back anymore, he was no longer arrogant, and offered an olive branch to Li Chongjiu.

This Cui Renshi is young, and he is an outstanding hero of the Cui family in Boling. Li Chongjiu looked over, and the other party was handsome, especially the beautiful beard under the forehead. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was a plus for a man to have a beautiful beard, plus a touch of aloofness , It is indeed very noble.

It is said that this is also the inheritance of the Cui family. In history, Cui Shi, the grandson of Cui Xianshi, was famous for his diction when he was young. With the identity of the Cui family and his handsome appearance, he successively dealt with the three women of Shangguan Wan'er, Webster, and Princess Taiping. At that time, Zhang Shuo, a famous official, met Cui Shi and said with emotion that although it is difficult to achieve this person's talent and official position in this life, it is not impossible, but by that time I was already an old man. No, how could he be so young.

Li Chongjiu nodded and said: "Boling Cui, I don't know how you call Cui Mingan?"

Cui Mingan served as the servant of the Huang family in Li Tang. Hearing Li Chongjiu's question, Cui Renshi immediately said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, although I have a relationship with Cui Mingan, the relationship is not deep. The Weichen came from Cui's An Dingfang, and Cui Mingan was from the Cui family. Cui's second room."
Li Chongjiu was amazed when he heard this. At that time, the gentry, from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, mostly called houses. People at that time liked to call houses by houses, and gradually replaced the previous family by doors.For example, the Li family in Longxi has thirteen houses, such as Fan Yang's house and Dunqiu house.

But Li Chongjiu knew that although Cui Renshi said so, there was no connection between the two parties, and it was impossible.The Cui family of Boling also represents the attitude of some gentry, that is, hedging their bets.

Li Chongjiu smiled and said: "I am not asking casually, the Cui family in Boling is a famous family in the world, I have always respected it, but I think it is unwise for Cui Min to become an official of Li Yuan. You already know what happened to Lu Chisong."

Cui Renshi said coldly in his heart: "Your Majesty..."

Li Chongjiu waved his hands and said: "As for how to do it, it's up to you, but I have a proposal here. Wen Yanbo, the prime minister of the court, has a son, Wen Ting, who has not yet married a wife. Wen's marriage."

At that time, the Shandong gentry considered themselves lofty and lofty, and thought they were superior to the Guanlong family clan. Intermarriage was a matter of five surnames and seven expectations, especially the Cui family among the Shandong clan. At the beginning, there was a saying that the ugly daughter of the Cui family would not worry about marrying, but the royal princess would worry about marrying .

In Li Chongjiu's eyes, this kind of marriage in which the gentry formed layers of relationships was a marriage by sale.That marriage is used as a bargaining chip to gain political interests.

Well, since the Cui family of Boling has this idea, Li Chongjiu will give them this opportunity. Wen Yanbo is the chancellor of Zhao Guo, and he is the most respected official in Zhao Guo besides Li Chongjiu, and the Cui family of Boling is the most famous among the five surnames and seven Wangs. of.

Li Chongjiu said directly to Master Cui Ren straight to the point: "I know that the clans in Shandong are all crowned families for many generations, but the power in the world changes, and the waves of the Yangtze River push forward the waves before. Inheritance, but this is the opposite of the imperial court's advocacy of officials. I don't force you, and I don't need you to break this rule. I just want to marry the most respected officials in the world with the most famous gentry, so that both parties can get what they need. "

Master Cui Ren hesitated for a moment after hearing this, but seeing Li Chongjiu staring at him, he immediately said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, our Cui family in Boling only intermarries within the five surnames, and does not marry with other surnames, but I think that the Wen family in Taiyuan is also a famous family today, let alone Wen Zaifu is also an important minister in the court, and it is an honor for our Cui family to marry him, so I will write to the elders of the family to report this matter."

Li Chongjiu is still satisfied after hearing this, it seems that Cui Renshi is still very flexible.Now is no longer the era in which reliable membership was used to select officials.There are no low-ranking families at the top and no nobles at the bottom. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the chaos in the world, the cards have been reshuffled.

In the Great Zhao Dynasty Hall, many officials from poor families such as Zhou Zhou and Lin Dangfeng are jumping on the stage, and there are also officials from second- and third-rate families such as the Wen family in Taiyuan, the Gao family in Bohai, and the Zhao family in Zhuojun. First class.

Times are advancing, and the Boling Cui family can't stick to the traditions of the past. Right now, it's a win-win situation. They use the best way of selling marriages to marry with the current court officials to obtain protection.And Li Chongjiu's purpose, of course, is to completely pull the Boling Cui family from Li Tang's tied chariot through marriage, and fully support him.This is just like when Li Chongjiu intervened in Qinghe Cui's Cui Chufei's marriage, it was not aimless.

If it is said that Yu Wentai adopted Su Chuo’s opinion at the beginning, implemented the Guanzhong standard system, and used the land equalization system to eliminate the barrier between Hu and Han, and included the outstanding talents of Hu and Han into this system. The powerful group closed the Longmen valve.

As far as the Sui and Tang dynasties are concerned, under the Guanzhong standard system, the Guanzhong military force accounted for nearly half of the country's military strength, and the demise of the Sui Dynasty was largely due to the fact that Emperor Sui Yang broke away from the Guanzhong standard system.Therefore, if Li Chongjiu wants to seize the world, it is better to fight against the most powerful Guanlong clan behind him than against Li Yuan.

For example, when Wu Zetian came to power later, the Guanlongmen Clan did not support Wu Zetian very much in order to maintain the orthodoxy of Li and Tang.

In order to deal with the Guanlong Clan who opposed her, Wu Zetian successively killed and demoted a large number of Li Tang royal family members and Guanlong Group ministers who refused to attach themselves. Luoyang left the center of Guanlong.

This is a typical method of pulling one faction against another faction, but suppressing killings is not a problem that can be solved by one generation. After Empress Wu Zetian, the Guanlong Group won again, and Li Tang moved the capital back to Guanzhong.After that, the struggle between Niu and Li was also a battle between the new interest groups and the Guanlongmen faction.

And what Li Chongjiu is doing now is to combine the Shandong family clan with a group of courtiers from a poor family of his own to form a new interest group Hebei clan clan to fight against.This is the way of imitating Yu Wentai's fusion of the Hu people and the Han nationality and establishing the Guanlongmen Clan, not the way Wu Zetian used to pull one faction against another.Although this method is more difficult than Wu Zetian's simple and crude method, it will benefit future generations for a long time.

To be honest, what Yu Wentai did was much more difficult than what Li Chongjiu did now, but he managed it, so Li Chongjiu is very confident, not to mention he is still young enough to have a lot of time to do it in the future.

As long as a new interest group is consolidated in the future, the Li family will have at least two or three hundred years of national fortune without any accidents.

Occasionally, Li Chongjiu would think of the idea of ​​modern democracy, but this was not suitable for the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and he traveled to this era and raised his sword without any intention of popularizing this concept.The feudal dynasty is a family with one surname. In short, the history of 24 is the history of struggle of 24 families.Everyone else has done this, so why bother with it.

(End of this chapter)