Dugu Xin's funeral, Li Tai also participated in the whole process. And in the process of the funeral, he also felt more and more the end of an era.

This feeling was not very obvious at the previous Yuwentai funeral, one Yuwentai had the identity of the former head of the overlord, and everyone who attended the ceremony did not have too strong emotions, and the other was that Li Tai had not carried out much reform at that time, and the sense of existence was not as strong as it is now.

Although the interval between the two funerals is only ten days, the changes that have taken place before and after the situation are huge. Dugu Xin himself is very popular, and the specifications of the funeral planned by the imperial court are not inferior to the previous Yuwentai, and the people who participated in the funeral are even better.

Many Shiliu were not relatives and friends who had close contact with the Dugu family, and they were not arranged in the funeral procession, but they all spontaneously followed the back of the procession and walked dozens of miles to follow the funeral.

Li Tai noticed that most of these spontaneous followers were Xianbei warriors, and the reason why they were recognized at a glance was not only because of the natural difference between Xianbei people and Han people in appearance, but also because most of these people's crowns and uniforms were in the style of town soldiers, with hoods tied around their necks, narrow hakama pleats, and wind-proof sand cover-ups, as well as the Xianbei people's signature braided hair.

Tuoba Xianbei used to be called Suotou, so it was contemptuously called Suotou by the Southern Dynasty. Suo refers to the braid, and the braided hair is the decorative custom of Tuoba Xianbei. After Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang during the Taihe period, he vigorously promoted sinicization and changed customs, and many humble customs were abandoned. However, Beizhen served as the town seat around the old Ping City, and many Xianbei customs were preserved, and they re-entered the interior with the southward migration of the townspeople.

When Yu Wentai was alive before, in order to usurp the throne and reconcile the domestic Hu and Han contradictions, he carried out a lot of ritual culture and institutional blending.

However, the purpose of this series of changes was not to completely integrate the Hu and Han, but to eliminate the resistance of the Kansai Han people to him as a foreign ruler, so many of the policies seemed a bit contradictory. The system pursues a six-official system of changing the skin of Zhou Li, but emphasizes the obedience of a clan and gives the surname Hu. The vacillation of the policy is to create the detachment of the Yuwen clan over the Hu and Han groups.

Now that Li Tai is in power, he naturally doesn't need to make any small moves like Yu Wentai, such as the reform of the six official system, which is more famous than real and not very practical, and it is directly ordered to stop. In terms of other etiquette, although there are no explicit regulations, they are no longer as awkward as in the Yuwentai period.

For example, the funerals of Yuwentai and Duguxin, as well as Yuwenyu and Wang Xiong and other dead ministers, are all Han family etiquette, and no longer deliberately arrange any elements of Hu Feng.

Today's funeral rites are all based on the Han rites, of course, the so-called Han rites are actually the result of the blending of Hu and Han rites and customs, after all, since the Yongjia Rebellion, the northern Hu and Han have been mixed for more than 200 years, whether the relationship between each other is hostile or friendly, living together in this land for so long, whether they accept it or not, they will affect each other, and it has already been a situation where you have me and I have you.

It's just that the group of Zhenbing, as a lagging part of the sinicization of the Northern Wei Dynasty, still retains some rituals that have not been assimilated and are still full of regional colors.

Different from the solemnity of the Han rites, the Xianbei rites are somewhat restless and noisy. For example, in the Xianbei funeral, there are many auspicious and evil miscellaneous music, and the song encourages the end, and the main hit is a lively event.

There are also knights galloping back and forth, shouting and singing, it is said that the old year Beizhen is not stable, there are often battles, in order to avoid being attacked and ambushed by hostile forces on the way to the funeral, so the security is not guarded, and over time it has gradually changed into a custom.

When these Xianbei warriors who spontaneously accompanied the funeral had just left Chang'an, they also sang and danced according to the old customs of Beizhen, and the heavy and solemn atmosphere of the entire funeral team was very small. There were also accompanying officials who came in front of him to ask for instructions if they wanted to drive these restless people away, but Li Tai waved his hand to stop them.

First, he also knew that Xianbei people had such rituals for funerals, and these people were not deliberately making trouble, and second, once they started to expel them, it would inevitably cast a layer of discord on the funeral.

As the funeral procession progressed, because of the distinctly different atmospheres from each other, and the equally obvious size of the scale

, Those Xianbei warriors have gradually reined in, no longer deliberately publicize those old customs, and began to learn to walk solemnly like the people in the funeral procession, and the restless atmosphere has also turned heavy, and some of the townspeople who are not young have sung the Xianbei ballads that used to circulate in Beizhen in a desolate tone, singing and singing, and they are already in tears.

It's not just life that dies in this world, but so do other things. Some customs and traditions, such as those may not come to an abrupt end, but when you think about them occasionally, you often find that they have not been seen for a long time.

The latter three countries are a turbulent generation, but also a generation of blending. When Li Tai first came to this world, he had already begun to think about the integration of Hu and Han.

But when he really grew into a powerful person who could grasp the lifeblood of the current situation, he found that at least in the Western Wei regime, this problem was not a problem.

In the upper-class political structure of the Western Wei Dynasty, the identity of the Hu and Han dynasties was not the main reason for the allocation of political resources, and the differences in resource distribution brought about by any of the factors such as region, civil and military, and kinship exceeded the ethnic groups.

In the social ecology of the middle and lower classes, the sense of existence of the Xianbei warriors is getting weaker and weaker, and the Guanzhong soldiers have become the mainstream armed forces. As for the folk townships, no matter whether you are Han or Hu, you have to be content with farming and weaving, and pay rent.

Just like those Xianbei warriors who spontaneously followed Dugu Xin's funeral, as long as they go down the same path, it has become inevitable to be assimilated and integrated.

But if you still want to blindly emphasize this identity and be different, since it is not the same, then the body will be destroyed. Therefore, even if the Hu-Han contradiction was relatively deep and fierce in the Northern Qi regime, after the Jinyang armed forces were destroyed, this contradiction no longer existed.

Leaders such as Yu Wentai, who was born in the Hu ethnic group, or Gao Huan, a leader who represents the armed interests of the Hu nationality to a certain extent, need to win the support of the Han Haoqiang clan, as well as the support of the Han Haoqiang clan on the premise of ensuring the interests of the Xianbei armed group, so the ethnic policy is a focus for them to gain recognition and support.

However, for a leader like Li Tai, who was born in a serious Han clan, the national issue is not a problem, and the problem will be easily solved in the process of strengthening the political power itself. If you have to take this issue out and discuss it in detail, this problem will become a problem.

After Dugu Xin's funeral ended, the participants also came to bid farewell to Tang Gong. Aside from those who came to see Duguxin on his last journey because of Li Tai, Duguxin's own connections are also a huge treasure trove.

Therefore, when Li Tai accepted the farewell of the masses, he also asked his brother-in-law Dugu Luo to be drawn out of the grass house and stood by his side, so that he could have the opportunity to get to know these connections left by his father.

Dugu Luo was imprisoned in Zhongshan by the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi all the year round, and he was unfamiliar with the current situation and personnel, and the people and customs here in the Western Wei Dynasty were even more unfamiliar, and it was of great significance to be able to understand these connections who were familiar with Dugu Xin, and it was also of great significance for him to gain a foothold in Guanzhong.

Li Tai has long since left the stage of relying on his father-in-law's connections to benefit, but these currents need to use their friendship with Duguxin as an opportunity to communicate with Li Tai, hoping to gain appreciation.

"Grief destroys, though the clouds are full of courtesy. However, it is also unfilial to think that family affairs nowadays need to be dealt with by the eldest male in charge, and if you become ill due to courtesy, it is also unfilial piety."

Li Tai looked at Dugu Luo, who was grief and haggard after a funeral, and couldn't help but admonish.

After hearing this, Dugu Luo was busy and said sadly: "Tang Gong's teachings, the servant must remember it. It's just, just thinking that I have been living so far, although I have parents, but I have not been trained in front of the court for a day, in the midst of filial piety, and I am mourning when I see it in my life, which is really ......sad."

Hearing Dugu Luo say this, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh secretly, he was born a prisoner, and after being released, he mourned his father, such a life experience can indeed be called tragic.

He led Dugu Luo to meet everyone, and he also wanted to take the opportunity to inspect the other party and see how Dugu Luo's temperament was by treating people and things.

Although he was under house arrest for many years, Dugu Luo did not lose his education, first lived with his grandfather, grandmother and mother, and also received a certain degree of enlightenment education, until several relatives all passed away. Although his personality is a bit timid and sensitive, he is polite and treats others

The common sense of receiving objects is still understood.

After some observation, Li Tai was quite satisfied with Dugu Luo, and intended to make him Dugu Xin's heir.

In the final analysis, now the Dugu family does not need to be a brave and shrewd family owner, as long as they can keep to themselves, they can enjoy wealth for a long time, and Dugu Luo's cautious character can even be called a virtue to a certain extent. Moreover, his people do not have a complicated social circle in Kansai, which is also conducive to eliminating some disturbances between right and wrong.

However, in view of the fact that Dugu Luo is still relatively unfamiliar with his relatives and friends here in Kansai, rashly taking him as an heir may also cause dissatisfaction among Dugu Shan and other sons, resulting in some family conflicts, so Li Tai did not immediately announce the candidate for Dugu Xin's heir, but arranged for Dugu Luo to live with his brothers for a period of time, and then make an announcement after the official removal.

If Dugu Luo can handle the relationship with his family during this time, it will undoubtedly prove that he is indeed a qualified heir to the family business. If the contradictions continue to develop or even intensify, they can be resolved without exposing the ugly people.