The five surnames are very proud and reluctant.

Lao Cui asked Li Xiao to buy printing technology, and Li Xiao would sell it. He also thought that Li Xiao was too cheap, so he offered a good price, but no matter what price he offered, Li Xiao replied in three words, I don't sell.

Everyone knows that the household department has money, but Li Xiao doesn't plan to make this money from the household department.

In these years, the wealthy families have some sharp weapons in their hands. For example, the field, and Wang Fangyi is the son of the Wang family in Taiyuan, when his mother and son were expelled from the house, they relied on the family ink-making technology brought out, and they still mixed well outside.

Ink-making, pen-making, and paper-making are all very valuable technologies, and most of them are monopolized in the hands of those families. Li Xiao suddenly came up with a printing technique, although Lao Cui didn't know the specific technology, but he also knew the value of this technology.

It's a pity that no matter how he bids, Li Xiao doesn't sell it at all.

Even if he came up with Qinghe Cui's name, but people just wouldn't step on him. Generally speaking, the names of the five surnames and seven sects are still good, and they can always have a few faces. However, when he encountered a stunned young man like Li Xiao, he couldn't help it.

Besides, after the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, the imperial court targeted the scholars, in fact, the five surnames and seven sects seemed to be quite beautiful in terms of performance, but it was long gone. After all, if you don't have much say in the court, how can you be as beautiful as the Wei and Jin dynasties in the past.

The clan chronicle that Taizong made back then, but he pressed the faces of the five surnames and seven sects on the ground and rubbed them a few times.

However, although it is not as good as it was back then, they are also five surnames and seven sects.

The court is not as good as in the past, but the prestige of a hundred years is still there.

When Cui returned home, his wife asked him why he was depressed.

Cui Zhiyi said, "My fifth surname is really unwilling to let Yitian Shehan bully me today." ”

"Which Tianshe Han'er dares to bully her husband, but her husband is a dignified member of the household department." Cui Zhiyi's wife, Wang, is also from five surnames and seven sects, and is the daughter of the Taiyuan Wang branch.

Although the Cui Zhiyi family is only a branch of the Qinghe Cui family, and they moved to Xuzhou in the early years, they are also a branch of Qinghe Cui after all.

His family moved to Yanling, Xuzhou in his early years, and he is also a eunuch for generations.

His grandfather, Cui Shu, was the Si Nongqing of the Tang Dynasty, and his father Cui Yizhen was the assassin of Shaanzhou.

In Cui Zhiyi's generation, there are six brothers, Zhijiu, Zhifang, Zhirang, Zhiwen, and Zhixun, all of whom are talents. Although it is not as good as saying that the three brothers of Master Zhang, the commander of the Hundred Cavalry Division, are all three products, and they are halberds in front of the door. But the six brothers of the Wen family are all officials.

Cui Zhiyi, Cui Zhiwen, and Cui Zhijian have all served as assassins.

Such a family heritage is extremely powerful, with both the shade of the door and the imperial examination.

also married five surnames and seven sects.

But with such a Cui family background, Cui Zhiyi talked to Li Xiao about buying printing and he still refused. At first, he only planned to buy it in the name of the household department to facilitate the printing of bonds, but later Li Xiao refused.

He decided to buy it in the name of the Cui family, so that he could offer a higher price.

But no matter the price is opened to a thousand, Li Xiao refuses to sell.

This is very excessive, a thousand times plus the name of the Cui family, Li Xiao actually refused, this is not an insult to his Xuzhou Cui family, or even an insult to Qinghe Cui.

Although Cui Dunli, the prime minister of the court, said that he was in the second room of Boling Cui, he couldn't write two Cui characters in one stroke, and he had to look at the face of the Buddha without looking at the monk's face.

"Is this printing great?" Wang asked.

Cui Zhiyi had seen the grain bonds of Lanxi Township that the emperor gave him, and the printing was very exquisite. The point is that such bonds, one hundred wen, and the emperor had ten thousand, and it is said that Li Xiao printed these bonds in only a short time.

It is precisely because of this that the emperor deliberately handed over the matter of bond printing to the Li family.

Cui Zhiyi was a thorn in the local history, he knew that he got up with Yiwei, and then became a thousand cows, and finally took the Jinshi exam, and then put the place as a county Cheng, which can be said to be a door shade into the office, and finally transferred to the imperial examination.

But in the end, Cui Zhiyi did a good job in the local area, the county Cheng, the county order, the state army, the state Sima, until the state assassination, and finally transferred back to the court.

His insight is still very strong, and he can basically deduce the efficiency of Li Xiao's printing technique.

This will be a new technology that will revolutionize books, just as important as the advent of papermaking to replace bamboo slips.

"If you can get your hands on printing, it will be very helpful to my Xuzhou Cui family."

Wang thought for a while, "There is a way for the concubine, since Li Xiao refuses to sell it for a thousand yuan, it is estimated that it is not a matter of money." It's better to marry him! ”

People say that the Kwantung clan is the most bigamy, and they attach more importance to marriage, and the more famous the clan, the more unwilling they are to marry with ordinary people easily. There are seven families with five surnames, and often only marry with seven families with five surnames.

Even if the Li family sits in the world, and even the Li family claims to be the Guanlong Li family, but the five surnames and seven families actually don't recognize this royal family who calls themselves Longxi Li.

Beat Gaozu to sit in the world until now, the emperor of the three dynasties for decades, but the number of royal marriages to five surnames is limited, and the daughter of the Zheng family in Xingyang was married as the crown princess. Later, when he became the emperor, he only married his son Li Zhi, the king of Jin, to the daughter of the Taiyuan Wang.

The princess married by the royal family has more princesses with five surnames than with seven sects, which can be seen from the ambivalence of the royal family to crack down on the five surnames on the one hand, but on the other hand, they want to marry them, not to mention, many prime ministers at the beginning of the founding of the country, such as Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling, are vying to marry with the five surnames, even if they have to pay a huge amount of money to accompany the family.

Marriage, this is also the most important thing for the five surnames and seven sects, many of the five surnames and seven clans are down, that is, they rely on marrying with those powerful and noble relatives, not only to collect a lot of money, but also to climb the power.

Although Cui Zhiyi disdains to do such a thing, the name of the Cui family is indeed very popular.

"Li Xiao is just a little viscount, the fifth grade is correct, how can my Cui daughter marry into that small portal? Besides, Li Xiao already has a wife, and it is impossible for my Cui daughter to be a concubine! ”

Five women with surnames can only be wives and not concubines, unless they are concubines for the emperor.

Li Xiao's little viscount, what is it.

Wang smiled and comforted her husband and said, "Don't worry, husband, my Cui family's concubine naturally can't be a concubine for Li Xiao." However, you can choose a slave and a maid to marry. ”

Cui's famous family is naturally a big family with many wives and concubines. Even because of the remarriage of the five surnames and seven clans, only the five surnames can marry each other, resulting in the five surnames and seven clans often marrying late. But people like them, even if they marry late, can't be single all the time.

In such a family, when a man is fifteen or sixteen years old, he will generally arrange for Yahuan to give them a general staff. Even when they become adults, they will take concubines first, not only concubines, but even girls in the house.

The concubine is born as a concubine, and the maid is born, so it is not even a concubine. People like the Cui family look down on the children born to slaves and maids, and in the family, their status is actually that of slaves and maids.

Although it sounds shocking, it is true in this day and age, good and cheap do not marry. The mother is more precious than the son, but the identity of the son also depends on the mother.

If the mother is a wife, then the son is a concubine. If the mother is a concubine, then the son is a concubine, and if the mother is a slave and a maid, then they are just slaves and maids.

Cui Zhiyi frowned, he is also forty years old now, his wife is the daughter of the Wang family of Hedong, and he has a lot of concubines, some of them are accepted before marrying a wife, and some are accepted when they are foreign officials.

In addition to his wives and concubines, he also has some used maids, and naturally he also has children born to them.

The concubine of the Cui family is also noble, and it is impossible to marry someone else as a concubine casually. But if it is said that the Cui family's maid was given to Li Xiao as a concubine, it is still in the past.

"It's just that this Li Xiao is extremely favored, and the villain is fortunate to enter, if he is allowed to be a concubine by his maidservant, I am afraid that he may not be happy."

Wang said, "Even if it is a maid daughter, it is also my Cui family's maid daughter, Cui Langjun's maid daughter, he Li Xiao is a rootless and bottomless Tian Shehan nouveau riche, and now he has the opportunity to marry my Cui family, it is too late to be happy, how can he be qualified to pick and choose?" Even if he allowed his maidservant daughter to be a concubine, he would have to accompany the family, so he would let him take one million to accompany the family, and then give us the printing technology to the Cui family. ”

Accompanying the family wealth, this is a rule unique to the five surnames and seven sects, due to the change of dynasty, some of the Gaomen scholars who were originally in a dominant position fell into the middle of the road and became poor. Due to the pressure of the times, they had to "relieve their dignity" and obtain huge sums of money by intermarrying wealthy families from "poor families". There is a proper noun called "accompanying the door wealth", to put it bluntly, that is, if the Shu people want to marry the Gaomen family, they need to pay "economic compensation" to the Gaomen for the disparity in their status and status, which was very popular at that time.

Shandong's Gaomen family "self-respected", thinking that their family's family is noble, for those who want to intermarry with them are not as high as their high marriage partners, they ask to give their family more "companion wealth" before they are willing to intermarry, "marriage is more responsible for wealth" - even if the important ministers of the court at that time such as Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling were keen to intermarry with the Gaomen family in order to give their family a long face - there is no large amount of money to marry, the Gaomen family resolutely does not intermarry with the Hanmen Shu family, even if the family is full of older leftover men and women.

This unhealthy atmosphere once made Taizong Li Shimin very annoyed, and even issued a special edict, "It is still set that the number of women married in the world will receive wealth, and they will not have to be accompanied by money." "The emperor can stipulate in the form of a state document that you cannot overcharge money for marriage, which shows the extent of the atmosphere at that time.

But even the emperor's golden words are actually difficult to influence civil marriages, and the effect of banning family wealth is not ideal.

The imperial court was not allowed to openly accept high money from the family, but the high-ranking families quietly married. On the other hand, those who do not have the right family do not have the right family and refuse to marry, resulting in their children getting older and becoming older men and women, but they are also unwilling to marry for them.

Especially if he refuses to marry a woman easily, there are many old girls in the Kanto family with five surnames and seven families who can't get married.