The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

There is another layer of packaging in the box, and the whole box is divided into three small boxes, each box contains one tael of special tea.

In other words, one gift box contains three taels of tea.

It is not just not much, it is rare.

At this moment, everyone looked into the box of special tea and could better understand the saying "scarcity makes things valuable".

Few, really too few.

"Dear guests, this is the inside of the special tea gift box." Zhang Deyuan said: "As for the tea inside, I will not show it to you. You have all seen the tea you tasted just now and the tea leaves brewed in the cup. I assure everyone here that what you see is what you get for the special tea in this box today."

"The starting price of the special tea gift box is 388 guan. If you are interested, please raise your hand."

For those present, 388 guan is nothing.

People in the hall began to raise their hands.

And some people were watching.

After all, three taels of tea, three hundred and eighty-eight strings of cash, this price, this quantity...

Good things are good things...

Someone hesitated and raised the sign in his hand.

"Okay, next, start bidding."

"No. 35, Wei family, five hundred strings of cash."

Zhang Deyuan glanced over there and repeated.

"Okay, Wei family bid five hundred strings of cash, is there anyone higher?"

"Jingzhao Du family, five hundred and eighty-eight strings of cash!"

Upstairs, Li Shimin listened to the report of his men, and he looked at Du Ruhui.

"Mr. Du, your family is also involved in this excitement." Li Shimin smiled.

"If it's more than five hundred strings of cash, this price, let alone my family, anyone who enters this teahouse today can afford the price of more than five hundred strings of cash."

Li Shimin smiled and nodded.

Indeed.

More than five hundred strings of cash, nearly six hundred strings of cash, not much.

The people from the Wei and Du families sitting in the hall took the initiative to make a move, but these two families also had heavyweights sitting in the private rooms on the second floor.

Including Du Ruhui, the Du family has people on every floor...

Li Fu also knew the offer below.

"The Du family, is it the Du family where Du Ruhui is?" Li Fu asked.

Li Yuan nodded.

"Well, the Wei and Du families in the south of the city are five feet away from the sky. Although the Du family is not among the Eight Great Families of Guanlong, the continuation of its clan should not be underestimated." Li Yuan explained to Li Fu.

Li Fu had always thought that if Du Ruhui was a diehard supporter of Li Shimin, perhaps he would not have so much to do with the aristocratic families that the Tang Dynasty wanted to crack down on.

But in fact, Du Ruhui's background was also terrifyingly high.

"If we trace back the Du family, their lineage can be traced back to Du Zhou, the Imperial Censor of the Western Han Dynasty. Their family served in many dynasties and produced many famous people." Li Yuan said with a smile: "Du Zhou and Du Yannian of the Western Han Dynasty, Du Du of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was a great calligrapher, and his original works are still hidden in the palace today, Du Ji, a famous official of Cao Wei, and Du Ji and Du Fan, famous generals of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

The Book of Wei says that the old family traditions of Wei and Du are not lost."

Li Yuan stroked his beard and said.

"The Wei and Du families are famous for their deep roots in Chang'an."

"Beside my second brother, Fang Mou, Du Duan, and Du Ruhui come from such a powerful family. Then, is the Fang family where Fang Xuanling is from also very powerful?" Li Fu asked.

"The Qinghe Fang family is even more remarkable if you trace it back." Li Yuan said: "The family is from the Taotang family, which originated from the Ji surname. They are descendants of Yao and take the name of the country as their surname."

"Let me tell you this. If you really trace back, everyone sitting here today has a famous ancestor, which has continued to this day and will even continue in the future." Li Yuan said: "They have a deep foundation, and have been officials for generations. Their foundation is beyond the imagination of ordinary people."

"At the beginning, although our Li family was also a family of meritorious officials, it was still somewhat lacking in foundation compared to other aristocratic families." Li Yuan said.

So after ascending the throne, he rewarded those old ministers from aristocratic families in order to win over the aristocratic families. When the Tang Dynasty was still unstable, it was very important to continue to gain the support of the aristocratic families.

Li Yuan himself knew that as one of the Eight Great Families of Guanlong, their Li family was the representative elected by this entire interest group.

There is no thousand-year dynasty, but there are thousand-year aristocratic families.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Eight Pillars of Guanlong were somewhat weakened, otherwise they would not have supported Yang Xuangan so hard to overthrow the Sui Dynasty.

However, Yang Xuangan was not from a Guanlong noble family, otherwise he would have taken Guanlong directly and used Guanlong as his base.......

As for the Li family, Li Yuan was just a sacrificial official at that time......

Li Yuan had always been controlled by Yang GuangSuspicion, just because Li Yuan is a member of the Li family.

"Peach and plum sons get the world, the queen goes around Yangzhou, winding in the garden, don't talk nonsense, who said it?"

This was a folk song at the time, and it was also a prophecy known to everyone from high officials to ordinary people.

At that time, many people interpreted this folk song. At that time, there was a quack who told Yang Guang that the Li family should be the emperor, so he persuaded Yang Guang to kill all the people with the surname Li in the world.

But Yang Guang didn't listen at the time, but just guarded against people with the surname Li, until the "Li Hun" incident happened, which led to Yang Guang's large-scale killing of people with the surname Li, and the Li clan in Guanzhong was brutally killed.

At that time, Li Yuan was already staying in Taiyuan, controlling part of the army in Longyou. Since he knew the prophecy, he began to hide his light and bide his time. He indulged in wine all day long, accepted bribes, indulged in women, and looked like he had no ambitions.

Plus there was Pei Ji, who had a good relationship with him.

People like Pei Ji could get along well with Yang Guang.

Who can blame him for being so sweet-mouthed?

Plus Li Yuan was still a relative of the Yang family, so Yang Guang couldn't do anything, so he was spared...

The Li family had originally retained its strength among the Eight Pillars, but after Yang Guang's killing... Tsk.

After listening to Li Yuan's talk about the relationships between the noble families, Li Fu's head was buzzing.

The relationships between the noble families were also complicated. When I watched the Three Kingdoms before, I thought it was very clever to play power games, but now I heard Li Yuan talk about so many things that happened during the period from the pre-Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, including the cooperation and hostility between the noble families, Li Fu realized.

I chose to stay in Jingyang from the beginning, and even if I became a prince, I would not go to the court. What a correct choice.

My own knowledge is limited to the accumulation of thousands of years of ancestors, but my brain is still the same brain. It doesn't mean that if I read enough books, I will have more ideas, and my brain will be smarter than those people who come from profound aristocratic families.