From the late Northern Zhou Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty, the country gradually returned to unification, but the concept of mutual hostility between Shandong, Guanlong, and Jiangnan was not eliminated with the end of the unification war.

The political and social contradictions of various regional groups mainly revolve around the issue of the scholars, so the policy of the scholars has become an important means of adjusting the political order.

Therefore, the main goal of the Tang regime in formulating the policy of the scholars was to resolve the tension between the central power and the local power groups, while taking into account the social basis of the political power and the effectiveness of the bureaucratic system.

However, the local gentry have long been deeply rooted in their respective fields, and because of their strong political and military strength and long-standing contradictions with other gentry clans, they have become a potential separatist factor and seriously threaten the position of the central power.

The most effective way is to restrict the development of local powerful forces, maintain local political and social order, and then disintegrate the clan and township foundation of the family.

Otherwise, the rapid expansion of local powerful forces would be the greatest challenge to the regime, and when the regime was in crisis due to natural and man-made disasters, it would be the greatest hidden danger of the Tang Dynasty.

Although in the early days of the Tang Dynasty, the seven surnames and eleven families of the gate valve clan were married, which was the embodiment of their high social status, but with the later Tang Gaozong gradually banned it, the landlords of the old gate valve clan did not strengthen the lintel and come back to life, but the real background of these forces is still very terrible.

In particular, the Shandong Gate Lords paid more attention to clan prestige, genealogy and marriage, and even disdained to intermarry with the Li Tang royal family, daring to show such an empty arrogance, it would be impossible without a huge local power base.

Because of this, if any of the seven surnamed eleven families has the intention of conforming to a family relationship with the Linhuai County Palace, it will inevitably attract the royal family surnamed Li to urge them to do so, and that is the biggest threat to the two of them.

Thinking about this almost for a moment made Li Zhijiang break out in a cold sweat, and wanted to lend Li Yi, the first heir of the three generations, which is the only thing I can do at present.

No matter which party interferes in the marriage of the county lord of Qingqi, there is no doubt that the king of Linhuai will be the most important person to hold the line, and at the same time, he is in the important position of government affairs, and the possibility of being strong against him is extremely low, after all, there are also a group of new rising generations of the Li Tang royal family behind him who rely on each other.

The Guanlong Group, that is, the royal family surnamed Li, has always uncompromisingly implemented a non-gate-valve policy, and does not recognize the wedding standards of the Shandong scholars; The Shandong Shi clan also did not accept the unorthodox eight-pillar state system of the Guanlong group, but flaunted the high-ranking officials, Confucian virtues, and marriage relationships of their predecessors.

The purpose of this is to rearrange the genealogy of the scholars, so as to resolve the political conflicts between the regional groups, focus on the historical and political reality, and institutionally recognize the genealogy of the scholars and the political order, so as to restore political order.

It seems that Li Zhi still needs to go to Shandong as soon as possible, and use the huge influence of his own business to first win over the stakeholders among the scholars there in advance, so that he can effectively defend himself when the danger really comes.

Of course, all this was based on the full development of his career, which was probably half a year later.

"Li Yi doesn't know if he has no time, it is said that there will be an exam next month, and he is currently in the closed training stage of the whole battalion!" For his younger brother, the county lord of Qingqi has always been called by a big name, but Li Yi is a good sister who is very intimate, and occasionally she is a little petite, which is very incommensurate with his huge body.

"It doesn't matter, Brother Hongzhi has a very high status in the Boy Scouts, and he is quite important even before the coming-of-age ceremony, I heard that he is an overlord in it, and he should have the privilege of free access." Mo Jun said with a smile.

His words are not lies, when Li Yi passed the age of eighteen and was the implementation of the rank of General Huaihua under the third grade, it was far higher than the current Boy Scout commander.

In the future, if he remembers his resentment, the targeted person will have no future at all, no one will question it, and it is normal for him to be detached from the Boy Scouts.

"Try to ask him to come over, I have a lot of things to do with him." In front of outsiders, Li Zhi couldn't show too much, "We will have a period of quite busy days, and I'm afraid that once we get busy, some things will be delayed." ”

As smart as the county lord of Qingqi, she naturally heard the key, so she turned to Cui'er, who was standing beside her: "Remember to remind me of this when you go back, so as to save the big thing of Brother Zhengwen!" ”

The subordinates did not have the right to sit in the Mi's Medicinal Residence, after all, unlike other shops with mixed personnel, the diners here were all people of status, and they were not as sympathetic to the subordinates as the county lord of Qingqi.

Because Mo Jun also came in company with others, and he was really afraid of the intimacy deliberately shown by the county lord of Qingqi, he found an excuse to leave not long after.

also knew that Li Zhi felt inconvenient about the speaking environment here, so she also accelerated the speed of dining.

The next place to go is the famous Xiao family wonton, which is actually famous for dumplings, glutinous rice balls, wine-stuffed balls, noodles and the like, but they are collectively called soup cakes.

Boiled soup, pasta for cakes, soup cakes and pancakes, steamed cakes opposite, refers to a variety of noodles boiled out of water, can also be called soup prison pills, the word prison pills have been quite expressive to express the wonton, dumplings, meat dumplings, sesame rice balls and so on chubby image.

Later generations of wontons were separated from dumplings, in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, the stalls selling soup cakes were mostly concentrated around the Hu cake stalls, that is, the swinger brother of the family at that time, he also broke two Hu cakes, mixed in the soup cakes and devoured them, before he caged his hands, crossed Chang'an Street, and went to Pingkangfang at the other end to find a good woman tryst, which was also one of the great pleasures of the wandering teenagers back then.

The only difference from ordinary people is that they have to order dried tea fried beef strips and red peppers in addition to their soup cakes, each of which is comparable to a bowl of soup cakes.

The Xiao family wontons they came to were really opened by relatives of the Xiao family, and the related soup and pills were of course not bad for the authentic ones in Chang'an City.

The traditional smoked tea shrimp is made of boiled tea, but Li Zhi prefers to use dried tea leaves directly into the wok, so that the fried tea leaves have a special dry taste, which is very good.

Later generations of Biluochun, Longjing, Tieguanyin and other famous teas have not yet been developed, now most of them are steamed Wang Qingtuan cake tea, a small amount is loose tea, among which the Qujiang flakes are the most prestigious famous tea in the Tang Dynasty.

The smoked tea shrimp here is mainly seasoned with genuine Qujiang flakes, which shows that this Xiaojia wonton has been implementing the principle of quality first for Xiaojia wontons.

Today, there is another dish of squid wrapped rice, the squid is tied with a toothpick, stuffed with cooked rice mixed with crushed sausage corn, etc., put it in a pot and fry it first, then add water and cook for half an hour, wait for the soup to dry up and then take it out of the pot, and then pour the soup with oyster sauce again.

The key is that the soup is also made with tea leaves, cut into pieces and placed on a plate, which is quite similar to the Japanese sushi of later generations, but the taste is much better.

Taking advantage of the fact that a group of subordinates were also gobbling up at one table in the private room, at the other table of the two of them, Li Zhi carefully confided his previous thoughts to the county lord of Qingqi.

She was smiling and listening at first, but as his worries widened, her expression finally became solemn.

"It's also strange that in addition to coming to you on weekdays, I have always lived in my own small yard, and my friends in the city have repeatedly invited me to go out to contact the outside world, but I have refused because I am not interested! Now I realize that there are so many hidden dangers in our affairs? Am we both taking things too simply? ”

"Know how I came up with this association?" Li Zhi was not in a hurry to give his own answer, but waited patiently for her reaction.

"Is it Mo Jun? It must be his attitude that caused your speculation! After a long time, the county lord of Qingqi suddenly said urgently.

"Yes, it's because of his attitude! And now you've also spotted his evasion after he brought up the ambiguity between us several times? ”

"Yes, I don't know Mo Junqi too well, and I have met a few times, mostly in Ci'en Temple, Huaqing Pond in Lishan, or Zhongnan Mountain in the south of the city. And every time it's him with Brother Junliang and others. But that's it, for the sake of Brother Junliang's face, what else can't he say? ”

"Don't blame him for this, he must think that there is a big gap between his identity and you, or he doesn't know you well! Look at it, Brother Junliang is very likely to come back to me the day after tomorrow, if it is confirmed that it is Mo Jun's message, then Mo Jun will be worthy of our relationship in the future! ”

"Is it that serious? I mean all the doubts in your heart? ”

"Originally, I wasn't sure, but since you also noticed Mo Jun's abnormality, it means that this matter is really extraordinary! I only wonder why outsiders know about the great danger in marrying me, and why didn't Uncle Yang mention it yesterday? ”

"You can't even suspect Uncle Yang, my brother and I look like him!"

"I'm not worried that he's suspicious of us, but why doesn't the old man say a word of caution? Is he afraid that the slightest confiding will cause us to be psychologically unbearable? Or is it for fear that others will listen to it and be prepared for it? ”

"You mean ...... people here?"

"Steward Zhang and Master Liu!" In the brief thought of the Qingqi County Lord, the two of them shouted almost at the same time, and they couldn't help but look at each other and smile.

It's just that there are a little more indescribable in this smile, if there is really a person in the Li family's compound, not only will it have a great impact on the family affairs of the two of them, but also if there is an intention to murder Li, it is already an unpardonable crime of human extinction, after all, no matter which one of Zhang and Liu is a veteran of the Li family for decades.