After Li Chongjiu, Yu Shinan and Xue Wanshu discussed national affairs, they stood up in their clothes.

From the morning meeting to Li Chongjiu and Xue Wanshu formulating a plan for Li Tang's strategy, it was almost noon.

Li Chongjiu walked out of the main hall and saw that the sun was shining on the glazed tiles of Luoyang Palace, and he saw a golden splendor in the distance. There are guards on all sides of the palace, and Li Chongjiu with his guards walked towards the palace gate, but he saw that next to the corridor next to the main hall, the officials who had just received the reward were sitting on the corridor and eating on the ground.

This is also a rule that has been handed down, and it turns out that every time the minister is in the morning, it is already three or four hours, and he is already hungry. In order to sympathize with the officials, the imperial court deliberately gave food on the corridor after the end of the early dynasty, and this meal was called "Langxia food", which was regarded as the working meal of the court officials.

Li Chongjiu saw that he was walking to the corridor now, and the officials of Dazhao on the corridor saw Li Chongjiu coming in person, so they all put down the dishes and chopsticks and hurriedly got up to see.

Li Chongjiu nodded and said: "All the ministers have worked hard for a long time, don't be polite, continue to eat!" ”

After the officials got the order, they sat down again, Li Chongjiu remembered the pro-people style of some high-ranking officials in later generations, and said to the officials on the side: "I will also have lunch here!" ”

The chamberlain listened and said, "No, I'll pass food to His Majesty here." ”

"No need, just eat the same as you Aiqing."

After Li Chongjiu gave the order, the attendants did not dare to disobey it, and they did it immediately. Li Chongjiu pointed at Xue Wanshu and Yu Shinan, and asked the two of them to accompany them to the meal.

Soon the chamberlain placed a few pieces on the porch and spread the floor with mattresses. After Li Chongjiu sat down, the chamberlain served Li Chongjiu a bowl. Yellow rice porridge with mutton was called millet according to the rules of the time. It's steaming hot. The fragrance is fragrant, and for the common people at that time, it was very luxurious to be able to eat a bowl of such meat porridge.

This is also Zhao Guo's welfare to officials, Li Chongjiu nodded at the moment, picked up the wooden spoon at the moment, scooped up the yellow rice porridge and ate it, and suddenly felt warm. When nearby officials saw Li Chongjiu doing it, they also followed to eat porridge.

Li Chongjiu said to an official next to his left: "Ruo Zhen is not mistaken. You're Master Boling Choiren! ”

This official was very young, and when he heard Li Chongjiu call out his name, he immediately bowed sideways and said, "Your Majesty, it is Weichen." ”

Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "You don't have to be like this, sit up and talk." ”

Li Chongjiu gave Cui Renshi a high-ranking official Houlu this time, not because of the talent of a high-ranking disciple of the scholar clan like him, but because of the potential power represented behind such a person.

The five surnames of the Shi clan in the world were seven wangs, and the Boling Cui clan was in seclusion at that time. The Boling Cui clan has a long history and was a famous scholar family before. By the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was even more prominent in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the official department of Shangshu, the White Horse Gong Cui Hong, and Situ Cui Hao were all prominent figures.

Even Li Tang is also reused, and Li Yuan originally used Cui Min to do Boling Cui's call order. Cooperate with Shandong Province to pacify the ambassador Li Shentong and recruit the Shandong Shi clan.

Now the Cui Immortal Master of the Boling Cui clan has come to vote, and as far as Li Chongjiu knows, there are people within the Boling Cui clan. After seeing Cui Jun Sushi Zhao of the Qinghe Cui family, he was reused by Li Chongjiu. Therefore, the Boling Cui clan, who is as famous as it, can't hold it anymore and is no longer high. He took the initiative to throw an olive branch to Li Chongjiu.

This Cui Renshi is young, he is an outstanding hero of the Boling Cui clan, Li Chongjiu looked at the past, the other party looked dignified, especially the beautiful hair under the forehead, in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was a great plus for a man to have a beautiful beard, plus a faint Qinggao, he was indeed very high-minded.

It is said that this is also the inheritance of the Cui family, in the history of Cui Xianshi's grandson Cui Xiang, less than famous for his literary words, with the identity of the Cui family, handsome appearance, has been around Shangguan Wan'er, Wei's, Princess Taiping between the three women, in their thirties, the position of the extremely human minister, at that time the famous minister Zhang said to see Cui Xiang, and said with emotion that although it is difficult to achieve this person's talent and official position in this life, but it is not without opportunity, but by then I am already a handful of age, where is he so young.

Li Chongjiu nodded and said, "Boling Cui Clan, I don't know what you call Cui Min Gan?" ”

Cui Mingan served as a waiter in the Yellow Gate in Li Tang, and when he heard Li Chongjiu ask, Cui Renshi immediately said: "Back to Your Majesty, Weichen and Cui Mingan, although they have a relationship, they are not deeply related, Weichen is from the Cui family's stable house, and Cui Mingan is the second room of the Cui family." ”

Li Chongjiu listened to it suddenly, at that time, the scholar clan, from the Northern and Southern Dynasties, was the majority of people who called the house, and the people at that time liked to call the house the clan, and gradually replaced the previous clan. For example, the Li family in Longxi has thirteen rooms, such as Fanyang room, Dunqiu room, etc.

However, Li Chongjiu knew that although Cui Renshi said so, there was no connection between the two sides at all, and it was impossible. The Boling Cui family also represents the attitude of Xiàn in some of the scholars, that is, betting on both sides.

Li Chongjiu said with a smile: "I don't just ask, the Boling Cui family is a famous family in the world, and I have always respected it, but Cui Min is out of Li Yuan, and I don't think it's wise." For example, you already know what happened to Lu Chisong. ”

Cui Renshi said with a chill in his heart: "Your Majesty xià ......"

Li Chongjiu waved his hand and said: "As for how to do it, it is your meaning, but I have a mention here, when the court Zaifu Wen Yanbo has a son Wen Ting, who has not yet married a wife, I intend to be this matchmaker, so that the Boling Cui clan and the Taiyuan Wen clan will marry." ”

At that time, the Shandong Shi clan pretended to be high, and they thought that they were above the Guanlong Gate Valve, and the internal intermarriage was indispensable for the five surnames and seven hopes, especially the Cui family in the Shandong Gate Valve, and there was a saying that the ugly girl of the Cui family was not worried about marrying, and the royal princess was worried about marrying.

And this kind of marriage method of the scholar clan forming a layered relationship seems to Li Chongjiu to be a marriage sale. That marriage is used as a bargaining chip to win political interests.

So since the Boling Cui clan has this idea, Li Chongjiu will give them this opportunity, Wen Yanbo is the Zaifu of Zhao Guo, and he is the most respected person in Zhao Guo except for Li Chongjiu, and the Boling Cui clan is the most famous of the five surnames and seven wangs.

Li Chongjiu said directly to Cui Renshi: "I know that the Shandong Gate Valve is the home of the crown for many generations, but the power of the world has changed, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and you have long been the crown of the side, you use the way of worshipping the surname to maintain your own inheritance, but this is the opposite of the imperial court's admiration of officials, I do not force you, I don't need you to break this rule, but I just want to marry the most respected officials in the world and the most famous scholars, so that both sides can take what they need." ”

Cui Renshi hesitated for a moment when he heard this, but when he saw Li Chongjiu staring at him, he immediately said: "Back to Your Majesty, our Boling Cui family only intermarries within the five surnames, not with foreign surnames, but Weichen thinks that the Wen family in Taiyuan is also a famous family today, not to mention that Wen Zaifu is an important minister of the dynasty, and it is the honor of our Cui family to marry him, so I will write to the elders of the family to inform him of this matter." ”

Li Chongjiu was still satisfied with what he heard, and it seemed that Cui Renshi was still very flexible. It is no longer the time of the past, when reliable books were used to elect officials. There is no cold door in the upper grade, and there is no scholar in the lower grade, taking the opportunity of the chaos in the world, it is already a reshuffle.

In the Great Zhao Dynasty, many officials from poor families such as Zhou Zhou and Lin Dangfeng are jumping onto the stage, and there are also second- and third-rate officials such as Taiyuan Wen's, Bohai Gao's, and Zhuojun Zhao's who have entered the current dynasty.

The times are advancing, and the Bolingcui clan cannot hold on to the traditions of the past, but now it is a win-win situation, and they are guaranteed to marry with the members of the dynasty through the way they are best at selling marriages. And Li Chongjiu's purpose, of course, is to completely pull out the Boling Cui clan from the chariot tied to Li Tang by way of marriage, and fully support himself. This is just like Li Chongjiu's interference in the marriage of Cui Chufei of the Cui family in Qinghe, it is not without purpose.

If it is said that Yuwentai adopted Su Sui's opinion at the beginning, implemented the Guanzhong standard system, eliminated the estrangement between Hu and Han by means of the Juntian system, and incorporated the outstanding talents of the Hu and Han clans into this system, giving birth to the Guanlongmen valve, the most powerful group throughout the Sui and Tang dynasties of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

It's just that in the Sui and Tang dynasties, under the Guanzhong standard, the Guanzhong military force accounted for nearly half of the country's military strength, and the fall of the Sui Dynasty was largely due to the fact that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty broke away from the Guanzhong standard. Therefore, if Li Chongjiu wants to seize the world, it is not so much to fight against Li Yuan, but to fight against the most powerful Guanlongmen valve behind him.

Later, when Wu Zetian came to power, the Guanlongmen valve did not support Wu Zetian very much in order to maintain Li Tang's orthodoxy.

In order to deal with the Guanlong gate lords who opposed her, Wu Zetian successively killed and deposed a large number of Li Tang royal families and ministers of the Guanlong group who refused to be attached to her, and at the same time vigorously promoted people from lower ranks or defected to the Wu group to important positions, and then moved the capital to Luoyang and left the Guanlong center.

This is a typical method of pulling one faction to fight another, but suppressing and killing is not a problem that can be solved in one generation, after Wu Zetian, the Guanlong group won again, and Li Tang moved Kyoto back to Guanzhong. After that, the Niu Li party struggle was also a battle between the new interest groups and the Guanlongmen valve.

What Li Chongjiu is doing now is to combine the Shandong Gate Valve with a group of courtiers from a poor family to form a new interest group Hebei Gate Valve to confront it. This is the way to follow Yuwentai to integrate the Hu people and the Han people and establish the Guanlongmen valve, not a means to pull a faction and fight a faction like Wu Zetian. Although this method is more difficult than Wu Zetian's simple and crude methods, it is conducive to the longevity of future generations.

To be honest, it was much more difficult for Yuwentai to do things at the beginning than Li Chongjiu now, but he did it, so Li Chongjiu is very confident, not to mention that he is still young enough to have a lot of time to do it in the future.

As long as a new interest group is consolidated in the future, then there will be no accident in the Li family, and there will be at least two or three hundred years of national fortune.

Occasionally, Li Chongjiu would think of the idea of modern democracy, but this was not suitable for the Sui and Tang dynasties, and he traveled to this era and drew his sword, without the slightest idea of popularizing this concept. The feudal dynasty is a family with one surname, and the twenty-four histories are simply the history of the struggle of the twenty-four families. Everyone else has done this, so why should I be fooled around. (To be continued......)