Gao Shilian waited for a long time in the side hall.

He had expected to be summoned soon, but the wait was more than an hour. Seeing that it's time for lunch, the emperor hasn't finished his summons with Mowgli.

A eunuch came in with a food box.

"Gao Langzhong, Your Majesty has not finished the summoning with the eldest grandson Mansion Yin, and specially ordered a certain person to come to deliver the meal, please have lunch here first, and His Majesty will summon Gao Langzhong later."

The lunch box was opened, and the waiter took out four dishes and one soup.

The dishes are simple and very exquisite, the amount of each dish is not much, two meat and two vegetables and a soup are added, and the aroma is puffing. I sat here for more than an hour, and although there was a fire roasting, I was indeed hungry.

The officials of Daqin all have working meals.

Everyone went to work in the yamen after eating in the morning, and ate at the yamen at noon, and the meal money was paid by the yamen. After a short break after eating, I will continue to work, and then go home from work at dusk.

Under normal circumstances, officials do not live in the yamen.

Of course, if there are single officials, the yamen will also arrange dormitories for them, some will arrange rooms directly in the backyard of the yamen, and some will rent them separately.

The prime ministers go down to the court every day, and in the morning they are also on duty in the provincial government hall under the door of the palace to deal with official business, their daily lunch, is the emperor let the imperial kitchen cook, specially given to eat under the corridor of the political hall, the grade specifications are much higher, there are eight dishes, and very delicate and rich.

This is the special treatment that only the prime ministers can enjoy, sometimes the courtiers are called into the palace to play, if the emperor has a special order, you can also go to the political hall to dine, but generally not more than three important ministers, is embarrassed to go, generally will not refuse.

Of course, like Gao Shilian now, the emperor asked him to send him a copy.

For many officials, they are actually more willing to eat and deliver meals, after all, if the rank is low, it is a very stressful thing to eat with the prime ministers.

Roasted deer tail, stir-fried beef, then scrambled eggs with leeks, then a stir-fried wead, and then a seaweed soup, Gao Shilian was very satisfied.

Deer tail beef is a good thing, and ordinary people can't eat it. Even officials don't have access to beef at all times.

After eating and sitting for a while, a waiter finally came to summon him.

"Is it right that the eldest grandson's mansion Yin has finished playing?"

Gao Shilian asked the waiter who led the way.

The young chamberlain only nodded, and did not mean to talk to him. Seeing this, Gao Shilian didn't dare to ask again, for fear of committing the crime of colluding with internal officials and spying on the ban.

When I saw the emperor, I found that the emperor was still eating, and while eating, he was still watching the music.

"Gao Shilian of the Ministry of Rites and Rites greets my emperor!"

Luo Cheng raised his head, "I've kept you waiting, sit down." ”

The chamberlain brought a futon, and Gao Shilian knelt on it with only socks.

"I'm looking at the clan chronicles you compiled, a hundred volumes, in such a short period of time, you have compiled a hundred volumes of clan chronicles, very attentive."

Luo Cheng first praised Gao Shilian for their hard work, but then the conversation changed.

"But I saw that there were two hundred and ninety-three surnames and one thousand six hundred and fifty-one families included in the clan chronicles, but Cui Mingan in the second room of the Boling Cui clan was the first class, I was a little surprised, very surprised. Thinking about the Shandong Shi clan, headed by five surnames and seven families, it was indeed crowned for a while in the Northern Dynasty, but now the generation is declining, and there is no crown, and it is rich by marriage, I don't understand why Qing and others are unique? ”

Gao Shilian was greatly surprised when he heard the emperor's words.

He was ordered to repair the clan chronicles, with his own understanding, of course, to revise the spectrum order for the noble gate lords, after all, since the Wei and Jin dynasties, the rise of the door system, especially after the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, scholars into the office, the country to take the scholars, that is based on the door. Therefore, the scholar family is the most important in the genealogy, but each family has developed for a long time, and it is inevitable that the genealogy is huge, so there are often many people who pretend to be families and so on.

After receiving this task, Gao Shilian and others found several of the most famous genealogists in the world, and these most authoritative people sorted out the genealogies of the major scholars and counties, and then ranked them.

In the end, the first place in the list of the Great Qin Dynasty scholars was the Boling Cui clan. The Boling Cui clan was one of five families with seven surnames, and after the weakening of Qinghe Cui and Xingyang Zheng, his family gradually became the leader of the Shandong Shi clan.

But who knows, the emperor is now very dissatisfied with this ranking.

Because that's not his intention at all.

What does the emperor do in the Chronicles of the Clan? What are you doing with this leaderboard?

Is it to give the arrogant warriors a stinky foot?

Of course not, he is the emperor, he has created a new dynasty, how can he praise the stinky feet of those old scholar clan gate lords? I think back then, when the emperor was just a small official in Shandong, he dared to be tough on the Zheng family in Xingyang, and now that they are all emperors, do you still need to hold their stinky feet?

What good will it do to the Great Qin Emperor and the Great Qin Dynasty by praising their stinky feet?

The purpose of the emperor's cultivation of the clan chronicles is still stability.

Stabilize what? Of course, it is necessary to stabilize a new group of nobles and nobles, so as to completely suppress the old nobles and let these new nobles who have made the achievements of founding the country stand up.

Cui Mingan of the Boling Cui clan is just a squire, and he has no important merits in the founding of Great Qin, he is ranked first, so where are the founding heroes of Great Qin, and even, where is the Luo family of Emperor Great Qin?

The emperor's face became more and more unsightly, and his tone became heavier and heavier.

He directly threw the clan chronicle that Gao Shilian and the others desperately drove out into the hall, "Reflect on it." ”

Gao Silian didn't expect to work hard for so long, not only did he not get any commendation, but he made the emperor so unhappy.

"Please also make it clear to Your Majesty!"

He originally thought that the cultivation of the clan chronicles was to sort out the order of the gate valves of the major scholar clans, so he naturally ranked those gate valves with a long history in front, but now the emperor is obviously dissatisfied with this direction.

"There is no need to talk about a few generations ago, stop taking the rank of today's officials."

The emperor finally bluntly told Gao Shilian that the original purpose of his clan chronicles was not to erect a monument for the old scholars, but to set the status of the meritorious family of the Great Qin Dynasty.

At this time, the scholars were mainly four regional groups, and each had its own fashion.

For example, the Shandong Shi clan is still married, the Jiangzuo Shi clan is still a figure, the Guan Zhong Shi clan is still crowned, and the Daibei Shi clan is still a noble relative.

It can be said that the Guanlong group actually began to disintegrate after entering the Sui Dynasty, and under the efforts of the two generations of the Yang family, the father and son were no longer as strong as they were in the Western Wei and Northern Zhou dynasties.

Yang Guang was also too eager to attack the Guanlong nobles, resulting in almost the same death as the Guanlong nobles.

And Jiang Zuo and the Daibei Shi clan, by the time the Great Qin was founded, it was almost in decline.

Only the Shandong Shi clan represented by the five surnames and seven gates headed by Cui Lu, Zheng and Li Wang, although the power was weakened by the destruction of the country by the Northern Qi Dynasty and the successive blows of the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it was still deeply rooted, and at this time, it still had a certain amount of power.

Especially because the Shandong scholars like to engage in marriage, Qinghe Cui Xingyang Zheng Du married Luo Cheng early, so they were on the right side in the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and they still maintain their social status.

Even the prime ministers such as Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng also vied to marry these Shandong scholars.

This situation made the emperor very unhappy.

Because the strength of the scholar clan will inevitably affect the authority of the royal family.

These scholars, in particular, have a great grasp of academics and even have great economic power in the local area, and if they are not controlled, they can influence public opinion, and even affect the future selection of officials in the imperial court, and threaten the foundation of the rule.

This is not allowed.

Gao Shilian was specially selected to take the lead in repairing this clan chronicle, firstly, because he was a relative of the emperor, the uncle of the eldest grandson, and belonged to a relative, and secondly, Gao Shilian was born in the Northern Qi royal family, and he did not belong to the Shandong Shi clan.

"When the Great Qin opened the national dynasty, the clan genealogy should be re-established, and the basis for its ranking should be the meritorious service established by the imperial court. Therefore, this first class is naturally the Great Qin Royal Luo! ”

The Great Qin Royal Luo clan, a family that has only been in the family for three generations, cannot be called a clan at all, but now the emperor has made it clear that the Royal Luo clan will be listed in the first class and the first surname in the world.

"Minister, take the order!"