More than half an hour ago, in a private room of the Grand Hyatt Restaurant.

There were five young men with luxurious clothes and extraordinary appearances, and the nobility and elegance of that body were obviously not something that could be cultivated by a small family.

The five of them sat opposite each other, but they didn't deliberately maintain the priority of their seats, and among them, the young man named Xuan Ji from before was saying:

"Li Zexuan first flattened the price of books, and then launched the "Tang Dictionary", this kind of behavior is tantamount to digging the foundation of our Shandong Shi clan, I believe that all the brothers who do it again can see this."

"Xuanji is right, since the establishment of Li Tang, the Shandong Shi clan has been repeatedly suppressed, and it has long ceased to be glorious, and now this Li County man's moves, we have to pay attention to it, he is shaking the prestige of our family in Shilin~!"

A slightly older man sitting next to Xuan Ji took over and said.

"Heh~! A small dictionary, how can it shake the foundation of our Shandong Shi clan~? Cui Xuanji, Cui Shen, Qinghe Cui's and Boling's Cui's people were so timid~? ”

Hearing the two of them speak, the heroic young man sitting outside sneered dissatisfiedly.

It turns out that the people sitting in this room today are all outstanding representatives of the generation of five surnames and seven wangs, Cui Xuanji of the Cui family of Qinghe, Cui Shen of the Cui family of Boling, Zheng Huaijie of the Zheng family of Xingyang, Lu Chengqing of the Lu family of Fanyang, Li Jingxuan of the Li family of Zhaojun, and the five surnames of Qiwang have now come to five families, and the Li family of Longxi and the Wang family of Taiyuan have not come.

To be elected as the representative of each family, of course, these people have their own merits, and now they may not be famous, that is because the two generations of emperors, Li Yuan and Li Er, have tried their best to suppress the Shandong scholars, and in a few years, many of them will rise to prominence in the court.

For example, Lu Chengqing, he worshiped the prime minister during the Gaozong period, Cui Shen, although this person did not do much in the officialdom, but he later gave birth to a very powerful son Cui Xuanwei, who also served as the prime minister during the Gaozong period, and launched a coup d'état in order to support the crown prince Li Xian to ascend the throne during the Wuzhou period, so he was named the king of the county, and the other two also have their own creations.

"Zheng Huaijie~! Today is different from the past, the family's predicament, you and I have seen it, and the emperor's ambition is also obvious, at this time, you are still in the eyes of the master, do you have to wait for the day when we are reduced to an ordinary family, will you wake up~? ”

Cui Xuanji said with a bad face.

"Heh~! You're really worried~! The Cui family is also a wealthy family that has lasted for thousands of years, even if the current emperor intends to weaken the family, can he really make your Cui family up and down~? Now it is true that our major families have been suppressed, but I think it is just the founding of the Tang Dynasty in order to improve the status of the Guanlong clan, at this moment we only need to hibernate, and when the prince takes the throne, we will definitely have more opportunities~! ”

Zheng Huaijie retorted a little disappreciatively.

I have to say that although this product is a little arrogant, it still has a good grasp of the overall situation.

The hereditary politics or aristocratic politics in Chinese history sprouted in the Eastern Han Dynasty and died in the last years of the Tang Dynasty.

As a result, some people believe from the feeling that the politics of the world, from the Eastern Han Dynasty, through the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, with the disappearance of the two major privileges of the economic "Zhantianyin Customization System" and the political "Jiupin Zhongzheng System", it has gradually weakened and disappeared, and there has been no rebound during the period.

In fact, this is a huge misunderstanding. Because, judging from historical facts, in China's hereditary political era, there were two most glorious stages, one was the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the other was the Tang Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, especially in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the politics of the scholars not only did not dim; On the contrary, it is once again strangely brilliant.

In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, the Shandong scholars were indeed greatly suppressed, first, the "Guanlong Military Group", which was the merit of the Tang Dynasty at that time, still had great power; the second is the emperor's deliberate suppression; Third, in the vigorously promoted imperial examination system, many Shu courtiers appeared, and the "five surnames" were not suitable for this way of making officials at that time; The fourth is the jealousy of the court ministers from a poor family.

But later, after Wu Zetian took power, on the one hand, he suppressed the old ministers among the Guanlong nobles and cleared the political resistance; On the other hand, they began to reuse the Shandong scholars, like Li Jingxuan, who came from the ancestor of the Li family in Zhao County, who entered the center of power after the appreciation of the Empress Wu at this time.

After the "Anshi Rebellion", the political center of the Tang Dynasty was rebuilt, and the pressure of the authorities on the scholars was no longer as ruthless as in the Li Yuan and Li II periods, and the "five surnames" also re-emerged with the help of the imperial examination system, and the momentum was fierce.

For example, the Zheng family in Xingyang, it was difficult to find a figure for the prime minister in the Tang Dynasty, and since the beginning of the Middle Tang Dynasty, more than a dozen prime ministers and important ministers have appeared in a row, so there is a saying of "Zheng Banchao";

Another example is the Qinghe Cui family, there is the Tang generation, its branch of the South Ancestral House, Qinghe Big House, Qinghe Small House, Qingzhou House a total of ten people as prime ministers, "Anshi Rebellion" before, there are only two prime ministers, after the incident into the Tang Dynasty, there are eight people as prime ministers.

The reason for the resurgence of the Shandong scholars is of course the change in the attitude of those in power, and the other is that after adapting to the imperial examination system, the profound family style and intellectual tradition of the Gaomen clan have given them a special advantage in the imperial examination.

For example, Fan Yang Lu's family, there are more than 100 people in the Tang generation, especially since the Middle Tang Dynasty. That's a staggering amount. You must know that during the Tang Dynasty, the Jinshi examination in the imperial examination was the most difficult, and the number of admitted students was small.

Therefore, if the family wants to develop, it has to wait for the opportunity.

Li Jingxuan nodded and said: "Xuanji, although Huaijie's words are offensive, they are not unreasonable, we should be patient at the moment, instead of taking the initiative to cause trouble~!" ”

Lu Chengqing frowned and said: "Jing Xuan's words are wrong, since Li Zexuan appeared in Chang'an, the speed of his rise is jaw-dropping, everything Qingguan does seems to be deliberately against us, and the most taboo thing is that he wants to build Yanhuang Academy and develop engineering, which is really a big disapproval in the world~!"

Qing suspects that he should be a tool specially arranged by His Majesty the Emperor to suppress our major families~! At this time, the situation is tantamount to boiling a frog in warm water for us, if we don't act early, sooner or later our foundation will be eaten away~! If the Cui family wants to deal with Li Zexuan, our Lu family is willing to contribute~! ”

Cui Xuanji said with a smile: "Brother Chengqing is really far-sighted and understands righteousness~!" ”

After that, he turned to Zheng Huaijie and Li Jingxuan and said, "Brother Zheng, Brother Li, I can't wait~!" If Li Zexuan is allowed to act so recklessly, the situation of our families will be even more worrying~! Please also consider carefully~! ”

Cui Shen said on the side: "Huaijie, Jingxuan, I believe that with the eyes of the two of you, it is impossible not to see Li Zexuan's threat, please focus on the overall situation~!" ”

Now that the situation is that three of the five families have formed a united front, Li Jingxuan's face showed hesitation, and after a while, he got up and said: "That is the case, then I, the Li family of Zhaojun, am also willing to contribute, but the matter is big, Jingxuan still has to discuss with his father~!" ”

"It should be so, it should be so~!"

Cui Xuanji showed a hint of joy, nodded and smiled.

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(End of chapter)