Marriage has always been a means for everyone in the world to consolidate their position, especially the seven families who are known as the five surnames and seven wangs who stand at the top. As women with five surnames, they are basically born with a loss of freedom: they begin to receive training at an early age, the best scholarly education, the best etiquette, and at the same time accept all kinds of brainwashing. Therefore, most of the women with the five surnames have the same characteristics: knowledgeable and courteous, luxurious and generous, fuqin embroidery, omniscient, and at the same time the pride and loyalty of the family. They have received rigorous training, and they can go up to the hall and down to the kitchen; can play the guqin and blow the hole flute; Grinding and writing a good hand, lifting a pen can make a good poem, can be called a model among women, can almost be described as perfect.

But they only have two futures, one is to intermarry with other clans, so as to ensure the purity of their own bloodline, and also to intertwine the roots of the seven great clans, forming a situation of cold lips and teeth. The other is to give strong and potential people with foreign surnames, take them for their own use, and increase their momentum.

But because the vast majority of women with the five surnames are internally digested, only a small number of them are left out for people to choose. It is because everyone in the world is proud of marrying five women with surnames, and is proud of having a lady with almost perfect conduct. Because of this, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the woman of the family was a symbol, a symbol of status. So much so that Xue Yuanchao, the prime minister of the Gaozong Dynasty, was talented and enjoyed all the glory and wealth in his life, but he always felt regretful that he could not marry a girl with five surnames.

In fact, the five surnames and seven wangs, Cui, Lu, Li, Zheng, and Wang, the seven super giants, are beautiful on the surface. Behind the scenes, there are also their own difficulties.

The family flourished in the two Jin Dynasty periods, and the fact is that the scholars and the clans, Cui Lu and Wang Xie, these gate lords are all about the existence of the imperial court temples, and even have the situation of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

Sui Dynasty rises. Yang Jian, the wise and martial Emperor Wen of Sui, became jealous of the seven super giants of Cui, Lu, Li, Zheng, and Wang, intending to weaken the momentum of the five surnames and seven hopes. To promote culture and education and create the imperial examination, his original intention was to let the poor people in the world learn knowledge, use the imperial examination system to gain fame, enter the court as an official, and interrupt the monopoly of the super wealthy on the cultural level and small and medium-sized officials.

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There are very few talents from poor families, and the imperial examination system has allowed the five surnames and seven hopes to obtain many crucial positions; The promotion of culture and education is also not satisfactory, but it allows the five surnames and seven to obtain more foreign aid in the form of marriage, and the momentum is greater. also directly led to Yang Jian doing the biggest stupid thing in his later years. ordered the abolition of schools, and demolished all the Guozijian, Taixue, and state and county schools, and did not allow the people to study.

The Tang Dynasty was newly established, although Li Yuan did not clearly express the meaning of rejecting the five surnames and seven hopes. But there is no doubt that none of the core members of the current Li Tang Dynasty are members of the Five Surnames and Seven Wangs. Li Tang relied on talents from five families. The reuse is not very useful, making the five surnames and seven wangs far less politically influential than before.

In addition to relying on each other, the seven families also have the heart of competition and secret fighting. Who doesn't want their family to become the first, the Cui family has dominated the first place for many years, and now it is in a weak period, as long as there are one or two figures in the family who lead the court. It is not impossible for me to advance and retreat, and to make further progress.

Zheng Renji is insignificant in the Zheng family, he is a marginal figure in the margins, and he is not even qualified to worship his ancestors. But his daughter Zheng Liwan actually had a marriage contract with Luo Tong, a dazzling star.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, martial arts and generals abounded, but there were very few people who only entered the picture as literati. Li Tang has been in power for six years, and along the way, the prime ministers are Li Shimin, Pei Lian, Liu Wenjing, Xiao Yu, Dou Wei, Dou Kang, Chen Shuda, Yang Gongren, Feng Deyi, Pei Ju, Li Yuanji, Yu Wenshi and, except for Chen Shuda, who entered the prime minister as a literati, everyone else has military exploits. Among them, Xiao Yu, Feng Deyi, Yu Wenshi and these people also specially asked Li Yuan to send Li Shimin to gild them on the battlefield. If they don't gild and get some military exploits, they won't even be the prime minister.

It can be seen that the martial atmosphere of the early Tang Dynasty, and the status of military generals is really above that of civil servants.

And Luo Tong all the Luo family although only flourished in Luo Shixin, but Luo Tong martial arts has made remarkable achievements, without anyone's support, at the age of seventeen in the high position of General Zuo Wuwei, the achievements in literature and Taoism are extraordinary, he not only has books, poems, piano, songs, literature "five unique holy hands" name, he is both civil and military, talented, at a young age has the achievements of Huo Quai, in addition to the son-in-law and apprentice of today's saint, if you get the support of the Shi clan connections, the future is limitless, Maybe he can become the youngest and earliest person in the Tang Dynasty to enter the picture with military exploits. There was a great turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and their clans were also greatly impacted. So far, there has not been a single one on the throne. But there is this possibility in Luo Tong. Who is not interested in such a potential talent, who does not want to use the way of marriage to tie it to their own chariot and become a powerful foreign aid!

Because of this, the scholars paid attention to Rotondo.

Until he made ink history paper, changed the printing technique, and created an ink book with great profits, good quality and low price, and digging the roots of the Shi clan, the Shi clan couldn't sit still, and they were all inquiring about Luo Tong's marriage.

This is impossible to have a wife, Princess Yaochi of Xiangxiong Kingdom occupies a flat wife, but since ancient times, there has been a rule of three wives and four concubines, and there is also a position of equal wife! Although it is not as good as the wife in terms of status after all, although the flat wife is also a wife! Which daughter grabs this position means that the promising Luo Tong is a powerful foreign aid!

Because of this, when Mrs. Luo first asked the Cui family to say goodbye, the Cui family, who saw Luo Tong's potential, was a little disgusted that Zheng Liwan's background was too weak, if it wasn't for the Luo family's mother and son. She can't wait to find a daughter of the Cui family in the Cui family in Qinghe and give it to him.

After checking the family, they found that Luo Tong didn't even have the location of his wife! The last one was snatched away by Zheng Renji, a marginal figure in the side branch of the Xingyang Zheng family.

But the side branch is also a child of the Zheng family after all, and the five surnames are fighting in secret, but Mingli is an ally of the same spirit after all, so he has no choice but to give up this promising Luo Tong.

When I arrived at the Zheng family in Xingyang, those descendants were above the top, in addition to disliking Zheng Liwan, who was on the edge of the side branch, was not strong enough to represent the Zheng family, and was also worried that "not well educated" Zheng Liwan was not capable, the city government was not enough, the scheming was not deep, and the appearance was not good...... couldn't get Luo Tong's favor and couldn't win Luo Tong for the Zheng family, so he sent a messenger to visit, hoping that Zheng Renji could take the Zheng family as the main thing in everything, let Zheng Liwan "abdicate and make way for leisure", or form a concubine with the daughter of the line, and fight against Changle of the royal family and Yaochi of the Xiangxiong family.

The lobbyists of the Zheng family in Xingyang don't think that Zheng Liwan, who was born in Yeluzi, is comparable to the ladies they trained, and they read out the "will" without even seeing Zheng Liwan's face! never thought that the whole conversation process made Zheng Liwan listen.

It turned out that when Zheng Liwan heard that someone from Xingyang was coming, she had a problem with her intuition: first of all, when she grew so big, she had never entered the "pass" of the Zheng family in Xingyang, and in her memory, Zheng Renji had never had it; Secondly, no one in Xingyang has ever had contact with their father and daughter; Third, the timing of the appearance of the envoy happened to be not long after the introduction of ink history paper, ink books, and libraries; Fourth, the impact of ink history paper and ink book on the scholars, and the technology of ink history paper is in the hands of Luo Tong.

With the above four reasons, Zheng Liwan immediately guessed that Xingyang came to Luo Tong's papermaking skills, she knew the Shi clan, and knew that the Shi clan was high and clean and upright, but secretly they were hiding dirt and criticizing it, and they did everything they could.

In order to achieve the end, unscrupulous means, this is the kind of person who is talking about.

Their serious utilitarianism and selfishness do everything.