Chapter 548: Meet, alliance!

More than half an hour ago, in an elegant room of Junyue Restaurant.
There were five young boys with luxurious clothes and extraordinary appearances sitting inside. The extravagance and elegance of that suit were obviously not cultivated by the poor family.
The five people sat facing each other, but did not deliberately maintain the priority of the seat. Among them, the young man named Xuan Ji was saying:
"Li Zexuan first made the price of the book equal, and then launched the "Datang Dictionary". Such behavior is tantamount to digging the foundation of our Shandong gentry. I believe that all of you who do it again will see this."
"Xuan Ji is right. Since the founding of Li Tang, the Shandong gentry has been suppressed many times and has long lost its glory in the past. We have to pay attention to the actions of this man in Li County. He is shaking our family The prestige of Shilin~!"
A slightly older man sitting next to Xuan Ji took the conversation and said.
"Heh~! How can a small dictionary shake the foundation of our Shandong gentry~? Cui Xuanji, Cui Shen, and the Qinghe Cui family and Boring Cui family have never been so timid~?"
Hearing these two people talking, the heroic youth sitting on the outside sneered dissatisfiedly.
It turns out that the people sitting in this room today are all outstanding representatives of the generation of five surnames and seven hopes, such as Cui Xuanji from Qinghe Cui, Cui Shen from Boring Cui, Zheng Huaijie from Xingyang Zheng, Chengqing from Fanyang Lu, Chengqing from Zhao Junli Li Jingxuan, five surnames and Qiwang have now come to five families, and neither the Li family in Longxi nor the Wang family in Taiyuan have come.
Can be elected as the representatives of each family. Of course, these people have their own unique advantages. Now they may not be well-known. That is because the two emperors of Li Yuan and Li Er tried their best to suppress the Shandong gentry. After a few years, many of them will emerge in the court.
For example, Lu Chengqing, who worshipped the prime minister during the Gaozong period, Cui Shen, although this person did not do much in the officialdom, he later gave birth to a very powerful son Cui Xuanwei, who also served as the prime minister during the Gaozong period. In the Wu Zhou period, in order to support the crown prince Li Xian ascended the throne, he launched a coup, so he was named the king of the county.
"Zheng Huaijie~! Today is different. The plight of the family is obvious to all, and the emperor’s ambitions are also obvious. At this time, you are still looking good at it. Do you have to wait for us to become ordinary families in the future? Will you wake up~?"
Cui Xuanji's expression was not very pretty.
"Heh~! You can really worry about the world~! The Cui family is also a wealthy family that has stretched for thousands of years. Even if the current emperor intends to weaken the family, how can you really make your Cui family up and down~? Now our several big families are suppressed It's true, but I think it was just the purpose of the founding of the early Tang Dynasty to improve the status of the Guanlong gentry. At this moment, we only need to hibernate. When the prince is in power, we will definitely have more opportunities~!"
Zheng Huaijie retorted somewhat disapprovingly.
I have to say that although this product is a bit arrogant, it still has a good grasp of the overall situation.
Aristocratic politics or aristocratic politics in Chinese history sprouted in the Eastern Han Dynasty and died at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, some people think from the feeling that: from the Eastern Han Dynasty, through the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, with the disappearance of the two major privileges of the economic "occupation of the land and the customer system" and the political "Nine-grade Zhongzheng system" , And showed a gradual weakening and disappearing situation, during which there was no rebound.
In fact, this is a great misunderstanding. Because, in terms of historical facts, in the era of Chinese aristocratic politics, there are two most glorious stages, one is the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the other is the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, especially in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the gentry politics not only did not dim; on the contrary, it became strangely brilliant again.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Shandong gentry was indeed greatly suppressed. First, the "Guanlong Military Group", the feat of building the Tang Dynasty at that time, still had great power; second, the emperor's intentional suppression; third, vigorously promoting In the imperial examination system of China, many courtiers of the generals appeared, and the "five surnames" were not suitable for this way of officialdom at the time; the fourth is the jealousy of court officials who came from a poor family.
But after Wu Zetian came to power, on the one hand, he suppressed the veterans of the Guanlong aristocracy and eliminated political resistance; on the other hand, he began to reuse the Shandong nobles, like Li Jingxuan from the Li family of Zhaojun. Into the power center.
After the "Anshi Rebellion", the political center of the Tang dynasty was rebuilt. The pressure on the gentry by those in power was no longer as severe as that of Li Yuan and Li Er.
For example, the Zheng family of Xingyang was difficult to find a prime minister in the prime of the Tang Dynasty. Since the middle of the Tang Dynasty, more than a dozen prime ministers and important ministers have appeared in succession, so there is a saying that "Zheng Banchao";
Another example is the Qinghe Cui family. There was the Tang Dynasty. Ten people in its branch Nanzufang, Qinghe Dafang, Qinghe Xiaofang, and Qingzhou Fang served as prime ministers. Before the "Anshi Rebellion," there were only two prime ministers. After the incident, they entered China. In Tang, eight people were prime ministers.
The reason for the re-emergence of the Shandong gentry is of course the change in the attitude of those in power. Another thing is that after adapting to the imperial examination system, the profound family traditions and intellectual traditions of the high-level clans gave them a special advantage in the imperial examination. .
For example, Fan Yang Lu's family has more than one hundred scholars in the Tang Dynasty, especially since the Middle Tang Dynasty. This number is amazing. You should know that in the Tang Dynasty, the Jinshi exam in the imperial examination was the most difficult, and the number of admissions was small. Lu's can achieve this result~EbookFREE.me~ by virtue of family tradition and knowledge.
Therefore, if the family wants to develop, they have to wait for the opportunity.
Li Jingxuan nodded and said, "Xuan Ji, although Huaijie's words are offensive, they are not unreasonable. At the moment, we should bear with it, rather than take the initiative to cause trouble~!"
Lu Chengqing frowned and said: "Jing Xuan's words are not enough. Since Li Zexuan appeared in Chang'an, the speed of his rise is jaw-dropping. What Qing Guanzhi does is like deliberately doing it right with us. I heard that he was going to build Yanhuang Academy and develop engineering, which is really ridiculous in the world~!
Qing suspected that he should be a tool specially arranged by His Majesty to suppress our great families~! At this time, the situation for us is no different from boiling frogs in warm water. If we do not act sooner, sooner or later our foundation will be wiped out~! If the Cui family wants to deal with Li Zexuan, our Lu family is willing to help~! "
Cui Xuanji smiled and said, "Brother Chengqing is really far-sighted and understanding of righteousness~!"
After that, he turned to Zheng Huaijie and Li Jingxuan and said, "Brother Zheng, Brother Li, time is not waiting~! If Li Zexuan is allowed to continue to behave like this, the situation of our families will be even more worrying~! Please consider carefully~ !"
Cui Shen helped and said, "Huaijie and Jingxuan, I believe that with the eyes of the two of you, it is impossible to fail to see Li Zexuan's threat. Please also focus on the overall situation~!"
In the current situation, three of the five companies have already formed a united front. Li Jingxuan appeared hesitant. After a while, he stood up and said, "If this is the case, then I, Zhao Jun Li, would also be willing to contribute a bit, but I will The matter is big, Jing Xuan still has to discuss with his father Haoshi~!"
"It should be so, it should be so~!"
Cui Xuanji showed a trace of joy, nodded and laughed repeatedly.
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(End of this chapter)