This Yun Shao's words can be regarded as clear, on the surface, you are here to attend my uncle's banquet, but in fact, you have to talk about the matter between you and me.

The next day, Cui Kuan set up a "confidant family banquet" in the mansion and invited Gao Yue to come.

Previously, Gao Yue had come to the middle hall of Zhongcheng's house when he was in the investment bank, and when he visited at dusk that day, the officials and servants could recognize the "Weizhou High School San" who had just reached the first place, and the group held candles and enthusiastically introduced Gao Yue to the middle hall, only saying that the prince was holding a banquet in the middle hall to entertain the groom.

Gao Yue ascended the hall and found that Cui Kuan's family was really luxurious, and it was as good as Ma Xuan, the king of Fufeng County, and the corridors were full of beautiful women in splendid clothes, and some even stopped deliberately, looking at Gao Yue and whispering - this is all Cui Kuan's concubines at home. And the hook bar is bloomed with all kinds of famous flowers, which are covered with satin, and they are also dazzling at night.

In the bright central hall, the banquet of the guest of honor has already been set up, the entrances on all sides are furnished with gold and silver screens, the cloister is covered with bright gauze curtains, and many candlesticks surround it, the light is as bright as day.

Cui Kuan and his wife sat in the master's seat, and when they saw Gao Yue coming in, Zhongcheng hurriedly got up to greet him warmly.

After the guests of honor have bowed to each other, the feast begins.

Although Gao Yue hadn't seen Cui Yunshao's people, of course he knew that Yun Shao was staying in the corridor behind the curtain, or behind the screen, staring at him!

Then the concubines of Cui Kuan's family came in one after another, singing and dancing to help the wine.

Cui Kuan asked some questions about the selection of officials, and Gao Yue had to answer them one by one. Soon, there was a faint coughing sound from behind the screen, as if it was Yun Shao's.

As a result, when Cui Kuan heard this, he hurriedly turned to the topic, he touched his beard, and asked Gao Yue's family very politely, and after Gao Yue replied "truthfully", Cui Kuan began to speak at length, in fact, he was reading the so-called valve:

"In the past, Emperor Yao divided Kyushu in the world, and now it is eighty-five counties, with three hundred and ninety-eight surnames. Among them, Qinghe Cui, Boling Cui, Longxi Li, Zhaojun Li, Fan Yang Lu, Taiyuan Wang, Xingyang Zheng are the most authored, it is five surnames and seven wangs, and there are Jing Zhaowei, Langya Wang, Hedong Pei, Hongnong Yang, Bohai Gao, Jing Zhaodu, Pengcheng Liu and other thirteen families and forty-four sons, marriage valve reading can not leave this circle, our marriage, Shangmen is not yet official, Gao Langjun Although you have not yet started, but you can still be Mei is fine. ”

In fact, there is a lot of information implied in Cui Kuan's words.

Weizhou Cui's house is a branch of Boling Cui, belonging to the old family of Shandong, the family of the Tang Dynasty, Gao Yue also has some understanding, has always been proud of the gate valve, not only look down on the general Han family, even the family of Guanzhong Jingzhao also look down on it, why? They all think that the clan of Jingzhao in this pass is climbing the rise of the Sui and Tang Emperors, and where there is any real etiquette to speak of, they are all fake!

So in general, a Shandong family like the Cui family must look down on the Han clan with miscellaneous surnames, for example, there is a Hezhou assassin named Ji Mao, who wants to marry the eldest daughter of Cui Jing in Nangong County for his son, Cui Jing thought at first that my daughter was a dignified woman with five surnames, how could she marry the Ji family's boy, but she had no choice but to have a handle in Ji Mao's hands, so she could only reluctantly agree, and on the day of the wedding, Cui Jing's wife hugged her eldest daughter and cried, howling "There must not be a surname Ji in my door!" And the eldest daughter also lay on her own bed, refusing to get on the float, and when the final stalemate continued, it was Cui Jing's youngest daughter who was sensible and reasonable, "Father's life and death are in the hands of others, let alone marrying the Ji family, even if you go to his house as a slave, what are you worried about here?" If my sister refuses to go, then I'll go. After saying that, the youngest daughter boarded the float and married to the Ji family.

But the best thing about the Shandong family is not that they look down on miscellaneous surnames, but that they even look down on the big clan of Jingzhao in Guanzhong: Cui Cheng, who was born in a small house in Qinghe, is also a court official in Yangzhou, and when the prime minister of the dynasty, Jingzhao Du Xianquan, wrote to Cui Cheng, hoping to ask for a daughter of Cui Cheng for his son, Cui Cheng publicly said, "If the Qinghe Cui family has a son-in-law surnamed Du in the house, it will be a loss of death." In the end, Du Xianquan's pressure was too great, and Cui Cheng hurriedly found a niece to marry his son and prevaricate.

Under this cognition, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the Li family, could not avoid this chain of discrimination, let's not talk about it before, let's just say that in the middle and late Tang Dynasty - Emperor Xianzong accepted the suggestion of Prime Minister Li Jifu (Li Deyu's father), hoping to marry the princess, the county lord, and the county lord to the family of the family, but the edict was issued, only the Jingzhao Du family reluctantly responded (Du Yi), and the other surnames all pretended to be deaf and dumb; Emperor Wenzong wanted to marry the daughter of the Zheng family in Xingyang for the crown prince, but the Zheng family immediately refused, so angry that Wenzong was so aggrieved that he couldn't do it, and publicly complained, "I just want to find a Shandong Wang clan to marry, why don't you all want to deal with me?" My family is a 200-year-old son of heaven! "There's no way, the Shandong family is so arrogant.

Of course, from the standpoint of the clan, they are not completely clinging to outdated family customs, for example, the reluctance to marry the royal princess also has a practical political purpose to consider: the law of the Tang Dynasty stipulates that when the princess dies, the concubine must mourn the princess for three years, which is not in line with normal etiquette at all; In addition, the notorious style of the princess of the Tang Dynasty is also obvious to all, which is also unbearable for the old-fashioned family, so it is reasonable to discriminate against the Li family.

Therefore, there is the Tang generation, the family still has a strong vitality, and the surnames are still divided into Shandong County surname, Guanzhong County surname, Daibei surname, as well as the overseas Chinese surname and Wu surname in the south of the Yangtze River, and the marriage and funeral are clearly distinguished. As for the clear chain of discrimination, Shandong-Guanzhong-the imperial Li family (Tang Dynasty Emperor: MMP) is clearer.

"The daughters of the Cui family, the Qingcheng Chinese clan, the doors are all mao, and what Zhongcheng said is very true!" After listening, Gao Yue hurriedly spoke.

But in fact, Gao Yue is clear in his heart, the times are developing, and this group of clans has also made a lot of changes in line with the trend for their own survival - the most typical of which is that the men of the own clan began to take the Jinshi examination, and the other is to start marrying the women of the own clan to the Jinshi, and put a new weight of "Jinshi origin" between the family and the official products.

To Gao Yue's answer, Cui Zhongcheng bowed his head, and then called out a long valve reading, and began to talk about the doors of the Bohai Gao family and the Boling Cui family, and the final conclusion was naturally "can be married to each other", Cui Kuan counted: Bohai Gao's family, once married the Qinghe Cui family, married the Fanyang Lu family four times, married the Longxi Li family four times, and married the Jingzhao Wei family four times (Gao Yue admires, these things this group of clans really have the heart to summarize and collect).

Cui Kuan also said that the Bohai Gao family also had two marriages with the Xingyang Zheng family.

As a result, behind the screen, Yun Shao's angry cough was heard.