The banquet is just a demonstration of the strength of Huitong Bank.

Someone from Taishi's Mansion came, Tanhualang Li Kui appeared, and the person who was invited was not the head of each family. Most of them are in the same capacity as Qiu Mingren, and they help manage the property of the big family. As long as they saw Master Tai's second son-in-law and Li Kui appearing, it was enough.

There was no need for a toast, and even Qiu Mingren didn't dare to let Li Kui drink.

I all know that this master's wine is very bad, and I am afraid that the wine banquet will eventually become a banquet of atonement.

The next day, Li Kui was dragged by Su Guo and Fan Chong to Huang Tingjian's house.

accompanied by Gao Yu, Li Yun and others, Ma Yuxin joined the small group, indicating that he must participate, but due to the temporary affairs of the Luguo Mansion, the explanation will arrive later.

When a few people entered Huang Tingjian's courtyard, Su Guo lowered his head, not daring to look at this master. Huang Tingjian and Su Shi are also teachers and friends, they are also of the same age, and neither side cares too much about the status of master and apprentice. When Huang Tingjian saw Su Guo, he greeted warmly: "Uncle, a few of you come and sit." ”

During this period, the old servant brought wine glasses and wooden chopsticks, and several people sat on the table, listening to Huang Tingjian say: "Go back and write to tell your father, I don't care, the matter of the family is a family matter, and you can't be hasty." The brother is not angry, and he has no good heart, so he must not hurt the friendship between the two families. ”

"Uncle Master, your boss drinks in the morning, and you dare to say that you have nothing to worry about?" Li Yunzui owed.

Thanks to Huang Tingjian's good cultivation, he didn't get angry, but he also said a secret: "At the beginning, the teacher begged for a kiss and was rejected, and the matter of marriage, you and I are willing to do it, isn't it very common to refuse?" ”

Su Shi had only been an official for more than ten years, and Su Xun and Mrs. Cheng died of illness one after another, Su Shi and Su Zhe kept filial piety in Meishan for six years. In the past six years, they have not been officials. Su Shi's official position is naturally not large, and the Sima Guang family is exceptionally prominent. Don't look at Sima Guang and Su Shi as friends, but the Sima Guang family is a descendant of the royal family of the Jin Dynasty, plus there have been high-ranking officials in all dynasties, so it is not a family that the Su family can climb high at all.

In the end, Su Shi was disgraced. Especially Su Shi's face was too ugly, but fortunately, although Sima Guang rejected Su Shi, the two families did not fight each other.

Even Li Kui heard the sour taste of this.

It seems that the master has something hidden in his heart.

Huang Tingjian sighed and said to Fan Chong: "Yuan Chang, since you are here, let's give Li Kui a few stories about the family, they probably don't know the importance of it." ”

Speaking of the family, although the scholars do not say it, they will be considered in the marriage when courting, and even become the most important consideration for the success of the marriage.

Even, many families will take the family as the most important basis for marriage.

This is also why when I was a child, my cousin and cousin were playmates together, and when they grew up, they became officials and ladies. After all, if the previous generation is equal, the possibility of the next generation marrying is greatly increased.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as Ma Yu.

The reason why the Wen family caught a son-in-law on the list is more because the development of the family's children is not satisfactory. Even if one generation is not as good as the next, the family has a sense of crisis, so they will choose to catch their son-in-law under the list. Of course, Ma Yu, who has the title of champion, marries the little lady of the Wen family, which is not considered a high climb, but a win-win situation. Ma Yu obtained the political resources of Wen Yanbo, who had been operating in the court for sixty or seventy years, and the Wen family also had a figure who could carry the banner in the fourth generation.

Su Shi didn't look at the bohemian and uninhibited when he was young, and his personality was extremely out-of-the-box, but when it was really related to the family's major affairs, he was still brainless.

Su Shi can't be blamed.

Su Shi's father, Su Xun, is brainless. If you go back to it, the root is still in his grandfather.

Speaking of which, the Meishan Su family made a fortune from Su Shi's second uncle, and Su Shi's second uncle was a jinshi that year. This gave Su Shi's grandfather Su Xu great hope, because being a landlord who could not be tax-exempt in the Great Song Dynasty was a very unpromising business. It's a pity that his second uncle died of illness not long after, and he was not a big official, and he didn't even get the favor of the imperial court.

This is embarrassing, it seems that the Su family is about to rise, but it is nourished by a bubble of urine.

This has to say that Su Shi's grandfather has vision, and relying on the brief peak moment of his second child, he married two relatives to the Su family.

Meishan Cheng's, and Zizhou Wen's.

Mrs. Cheng is the biological mother of Su Shi and Su Zhe, and Su Xun married her daughter to the Cheng family in order to be close to each other, but the result was tragic, Su Banniang, who married in the past, was very unlucky, and died of illness within a few years, I heard that she was still snubbed and abused by the Cheng family.

This is something that can't be helped, the reason is related to Su Shi's father Su Xun, and the Su family didn't even dare to do it at that time. Lao Su didn't get into the Jinshi, and because he spent countless ancestral assets to catch the exam, the dowry for his daughter was a little thin. I'm afraid this is also the reason why Su Banniang can't do it. The reasons for Su Banniang's misfortune mostly stem from these two kinds. If the dowry was sufficient, her treatment in her husband's family would not be so bad. Of course, if Su Shi had been a senior high school for a few years, the Cheng family would not have dared to do so much.

It wasn't until Su Shi and Su Zhe brothers were both high school scholars in the second year of Jiayou that the Su family rose from their hometown.

After the rise, the Su family and the Cheng family broke off contact, and Su Zhe and the Wen family still had a marriage.

And when Su Shi and Su Zhe began to emerge in the court, they were favored by Fan Zhen, the head of a wealthy family in Sichuan. Fan Zhen really likes Su Shi, but Fan Zhen is older and is Ouyang Xiu's peer. Fan Zhen is old and has a prominent position in the court, and the relationship between Su Shi and Fan Zhen is like a year-old friend. Su Shi was a loser back then, and he entrusted Fan Zhen to help sell his property. This is also Fan Chong's uncle and grandfather. Later, Su Shi returned to Beijing and lived in Fan's house without a place to live. After that, the second generation of the Su family began to marry the Fan family.

It can be seen how difficult it is for the Su family to marry step by step, from the new local forces, to the second-rate civil servants who can be regarded as the Great Song Dynasty.

And Huang Tingjian's family is a little worse than the Su family, and Su Shi has the grace to recommend Huang Tingjian, and the relationship between the two sides has become very delicate.

Of course, this kindness Huang Tingjian also returned.

At the beginning, Su Shi was trapped in Wutai and imprisoned, and in the end he couldn't bear it, and the meaning of the reformers was to let him say 'the same party' and get down lightly. Su Shi had no choice but to write a list of more than 30 people's 'comrades', among these names, there were the names of Huang Tingjian and his uncle Li Chang.

Don't think that Su Shi will climb indiscriminately, if Huang Tingjian does not agree, Su Shi will slander and add crime to crime.

It can be seen that before this list came out, the people on the list had already nodded in agreement.

But even so, Huang Tingjian finally lost face.

Fan Chong, Su Guo, and Gao Yu, who had nothing to do during this time, plus Li Yun and others, sat in Huang Tingjian's house, talking about these so-called doors.

Basically, Fan Chong was talking, Su Guo agreed, and the audience completely became Li Kui.

"I always think you're saying these things on purpose against me?" Li Kui listened to it for a while, and then he heard that his family was worse than Huang Tingjian's family, and the master Huang Tingjian also had an uncle who was a middle jinshi, and he also made it to the imperial history a few years ago. This official position is already regarded as an important minister in the court.

His uncle......

It's like killing pigs. Pig slaughterers in other places may be able to mix with oily faces. But Yishui is poor! Not many of the people could eat meat, and the butchers could not make any money.

His father was a blacksmith.

It's all bitter that even eating is a problem haha, at least what about others or landlords?

If you really want to talk about the family, he is afraid that he will not be worthy of Liu Qingqian in this life. After all, the old Liu family has changed its door and has become the Taishi Mansion of the current dynasty.

Fan Chong said with a smile: "You were a little suspenseful before, but now you don't have to worry about the identity of Tanhualang." However, there are some families that you can't climb. For example, the Daimyofu Wang, Jiangxi Zeng, Lantian Lu, Shouju Lu, Puseong Zhang, Jeju Chao...... These are the top families of the Great Song Dynasty. Ma Yu is lucky to be able to marry the Wen clan, and his Ma family's family can be raised a lot. ”

Li Kui said angrily: "Why don't you talk about your grandfather's Laiyang Lu family, is it interesting?" ”

Fan Chong was a little embarrassed and said, "Isn't this afraid that you will say that I am boasting again?" ”

"Iron also needs to be hard, I think the door is unreliable. Are all the children of the family talented? Li Kui was unconvinced.

As Li Kui's brother, Li Kui was despised, and it was he Li Yun who was despised. Li Yun, who was not angry, opened his mouth and said: "That's right, our Li family ancestor is the chief general of the Shence Army and the Tang Dynasty. ”

Faced with Li Yunqiang's practice of climbing relatives, Fan Chong was disdainful: "Which prince is your ancestor?" From that palace? Which emperor of the Tang Dynasty can be traced? ”

Li Yun was stunned, his family tree seemed to be made up, and not all of them were fake, mainly because the ancestor of the mountain was fake. And he hasn't remembered the ancestor's name. That's embarrassing.

"Hey, by the way, why hasn't Ma Boren come yet?" In order to alleviate the embarrassment, Su Guo, who had a sensitive personality, even felt that Huang Tingjian's old servant was not as kind as before when he looked at him.

Except for Fan Chong and Su Guo, who can be called sons, that is, the sons of the princes, the others are all from civilian backgrounds. Fan Chong is talking about class, court, and invisible families. The Great Song Dynasty gave preferential treatment to civil officials, not only in terms of treatment, but also in terms of titles. For example, the second-rank Wenchen will be awarded the title of Duke of the founding county. The Wenchen of the first product will be awarded the Duke of State. From top to bottom, up to the civil officials of the fifth grade, as long as they have merit, they may be given the title of the founding son.

As for how small the official is, the court will not grant it.

Su Zhe's title happens to be a marquis.

If Su Shi replaces Su Guo's marriage to the Sima family now, not only will he not be rejected, but he will be happily welcomed into the door and discuss when to get married.

Mendi, that's how realistic it is. At the same time, it is also helpless.

These words are very important for grassroots people like Li Kui, who have just left their civilian status.

The marriage of a family can only take a family with a comparable family, or a new science and technology scholar with both talent and learning, and a very promising career. Today's Li Kui has been able to marry some families that are not prominent, but his father-in-law is a young lady from Jinshi. Even if it works better, it can marry a more prominent female brother of the family.

But if Li Kui has improved because of his status, he even has to look forward to Shu with his clansmen, and he will definitely be disgraced if he asks for marriage from a family that cannot afford the Li family. This person is most likely Li Yun. Before that, Fan Chong and Li Yun studied together and went down to participate in the provincial exam together, and they didn't feel high.

But Li Yun felt that since he decided to participate in martial arts, Fan Chong's attitude towards him had changed.

Fan Chong obviously taught Li Kui the importance of the family, and at the same time told him that the rules of the door are very dead, and he should not easily try to break them.

Of course, he also targeted Li Yun.

When Li Yun did not prepare for the imperial examination, he felt that Li Yun's marriage would bring great trouble to Li Kui in the future. Especially Li Kui's temper is very bad, in case of a violent reaction at that time, it is better to inform in advance.

At this moment, Gao Yu, who was sitting with him, was also inexplicably nervous, he felt that he was developed before.

As a child of a military family whose parents died when he was a child and had no choice but to succeed, he has already mixed with the emperor. Seeing the high-ranking official Houlu beckoning to him, and there is a mansion in the city that is not too small. Coupled with Antao's wonderful hand rejuvenation, he has a kind of confidence that his illness seems to be cured.

That's right.

Gao Yu no longer looks down on the little lady of ordinary people, he wants to find himself a little lady of the official eunuch family, so that his old Gao family can change the court. Listening to Fan Chong's introduction, Gao Yu felt a chill in his heart, but he was very unwilling, and said weakly on the side: "Everyone, I want to ...... below."

Halfway through speaking, Gao Yu blushed.

Fan Chongke is a very smart child of a family, and at a glance, he understood what thoughts Gao Yu had in his heart, and asked lightly: "You don't want to find a lady from an official family, do you?" ”

Gao Yu squirmed embarrassedly: "Isn't this okay?" ”

"Okay, yes, find an official eunuch below the fifth grade, and you're almost there." Fan Chong looked like he was pointing at the country, and he was very unbeaten, but Gao Yu just ate this set. nodded seriously and said, "Yuan Chang, do you think this thing can be done too?" ”

"It can be done, but don't expect us, you have to look for it from the gate." Fan Chong looked at Gao Yu meaningfully, he could guess Gao Yu's thoughts, this guy was not honest. Not to mention that he was originally from a military family, but now he has become a fortunate minister next to the emperor, or a military general, such a person will be thrown out of the door if he asks for a kiss to the Wenchen family! When the time comes, it will be a big loss of face.

Gao Yu, you don't have any numbers in your heart?

But Gao Yu doesn't agree! He followed Su Shi and danced for many years, so he didn't dare to say that he was a talent, right? But it's also a literati, right? Why was he stabbed into the ranks of the generals?

The little lady of the military general, can she compare to the little lady of the courtier's family?

Gao Yu stared at Fan Chong a little unwillingly, and plucked up the courage to say: "Isn't it possible to marry a young lady from the Zhizhou family?" Don't say it yet, listen to me, although I am now a commander who does not enter the stream. But Gao is not one of those who is satisfied with pride, maybe a few years later, Gao will already be the commander of Ma Budu? Gao doesn't want to cling to a wealthy family, as long as the little lady of the Zhizhou family is very satisfied. ”

Gao Yu's life has changed since he stepped into the capital again.

Before leaving Beijing, he was a gangster.

Back in the capital, he was a scholar.

Although the Kaifeng Prefecture took the test, he won the quota for martial arts. But he also started the exam from the literary exam!

If it weren't for the fierce competition in Kaifeng Mansion's literary examination, Gao Yu would not have made such a decision. But unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the gate, it turned from white to black. Su Zhe didn't wait to see him, but now even Fan Chong thinks that he wants to eat swan meat, which is too shocking, right?

Before entering Beijing, even after living in the capital for two or three months, Gao Yu still didn't feel that he had the life to be an official. It wasn't until Li Kui entered Beijing that his life showed signs of swaying. Even so, Gao Yu's life goal is not big. At least for Fan Chong and others, being a commander of 10,000 horses is just a commander, not a commander in front of the palace. The former is a fifth-grade general, and the latter is a second-rank general, which is not the same at all.

This sudden wealth made him a little fluttery, and he couldn't look down on the little jasper who could make him drool at a glance before. He also wants to raise the door of the old Gao family, and getting married is undoubtedly the best way.

Fan Chong listened to Gao Yu's wish, and his toothache hurt. The little lady of the Zhizhou family, the Zhizhou of the Great Song Dynasty is not from the second list of Jinshi?

Do you think Zhizhou will look up to military generals?

However, there are exceptions, for example, when Gao Yu's status is high enough, he may be able to make an exception. Fan Chong groaned: "It's not impossible, as long as you become a captain, it is not a problem to marry a young lady from the Zhizhou family." ”

Gao Yu's face was red and white, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, Gao has to be this captain in this life!" ”