Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

As the saying goes, an old family is like a treasure. Li Xin didn't know many things, but Wang Gui, who had served the old prince for many years and then Li Xin, knew it well. After listening to his explanation, Li Xin finally remembered four characters: five surnames and seven wangs.

In history, perhaps influenced by the nine-rank Zhongzheng system in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the concept of family status in the Tang Dynasty was extremely heavy, and the aristocratic families had extremely high prestige and status in society. Only scholars from these aristocratic families are more likely to enter the court and become officials, and they are also called "gentry families". Among the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, most of the officials came from these aristocratic families. It is conceivable what a powerful force this is, and even Li Shimin feels a headache.

Among these aristocratic families, five are the most distinguished, namely the Li family of Longxi, the Li family of Zhaojun, the Cui family of Boling, the Cui family of Qinghe, the Lu family of Fanyang, the Zheng family of Xingyang, and the Wang family of Taiyuan. Among them, the Li family and the Cui family each have two counties. So it is called five surnames and seven hopes. In fact, the current royal Li family is the so-called Longxi Li family.

Except for the Li family in Longxi, most other families have businesses in Chang'an, and many famous restaurants are actually run by them secretly. If Li Xin's Erguotou hindered their way of making money, then the most likely thing they could do was to take advantage of it and find ways to turn Li Xin's property into their own.

At that time, Li Xin's status as king of Chu alone will not be enough to deter these families, and he is not good at bothering Li Shimin because of these trivial matters of merchants. In the end, there is a high probability that he will only suffer from this dumb loss himself. Wang Gui's worries are not unreasonable.

Li Xin thought for a while, and said: "It's actually not difficult, as long as you recruit the Qin family, the Cheng family, and the Chen family, you can simply make this business bigger, so that these jealous guys don't dare to move around. Even if you earn less A little money is fine, saving worry and effort is the most important thing." He only planned to use the knowledge in his mind from the later generations to make some money and spend it casually, of course it would be best to try his best to be a hands-off shopkeeper.

When Wang Gui heard this, he nodded and said, "This old slave also means the same thing."

The Qin family is the family of Duke Yi Qin Qiong, the Cheng family is the family of Duke Su Cheng Yaojin, and the Chen family is naturally the family of Chen Yin, Li Xin's future in-law. They are all the new generation of Guanlong nobles who were enshrined because they followed the Li family of Longxi to conquer the world. Although it is still difficult to compete with the four families of Cui Lu and King Zheng in terms of strength, in terms of the influence in Chang'an area alone, they are Almost on par.

If these three families can be brought together to cooperate, no matter how jealous other families are, they will not dare to use any drastic means, otherwise they will be against the entire Guanlong Group, and the head of the Guanlong Group is His Majesty Li Er. After all, the entire Guanlong nobles were created by him.

Li Xin is well aware of how much business opportunities and profits such a wine that has never appeared in the world will bring. In addition, he has a good relationship with the Qin family and the Cheng family, and the two of them will never refuse the invitation to cooperate. As for the Chen family, the figure of Chen Youlan who claimed to be Chen Zijin appeared in Li Xin's mind, and he immediately nodded subconsciously: After all, he is his father-in-law, so he can't treat him badly.

He said to Wang Gui: "I will discuss the matter of cooperating with other families by myself. You should first find out if there are any ready-made wineries to buy. As long as the price is right, it doesn't matter to buy one or two more. After all, the Qin family, the Cheng family, the Chen family, etc. If everyone wants to join, we can't be too petty."

Wang Gui nodded and said, "I'll send someone to do it immediately."

Li Xin waved his hand, and Wang Gui left. He turned around and went into the kitchen again, divided the remaining wine in the pot into several bottles, and sent people to send three of the bottles to the three houses respectively. He believed that after drinking, they would definitely become interested in this business.

Sure enough, the next morning after a few bottles of wine were sent out, Cheng Chumo broke into the gate of Prince Chu's mansion in a hurry, directly into Li Xin's bedroom, and pulled Li Xin, who was still asleep, out of bed like a bird's egg. He took it out of the bed.

Li Xin opened his eyes in a daze, and saw a dark face, which was obviously tanned after many military careers. In addition, the huge bulbous nose and bushy eyebrows in the center of this face, He recognized the other party at a glance, rolled his eyes and said, "What are you doing, it's so early in the morning."

When Li Xuandao was still alive in the early years, he had a very good relationship with generals such as Cheng Yaojin, Qin Qiong, and Niu Jinda. After all, they were friends who had fought wars together. After that, the deep friendship between the elders naturally continued to the next generation. It can be said that when Li Xin was running around naked, he met Qin Huaiyu, Cheng Chumo and other bad friends.

It was precisely because of the deep friendship that Cheng Chumo was able to kill Li Xin's bedroom directly from the gate without anyone stopping him. If it were someone else, he would have been stopped outside the palace to beat the board. Of course, the same is true for Li Xin going to the Cheng family or the Qin family, he must be able to go all the way without hindrance.

Seeing that Li Xin was still sleepy, Cheng Chumo said with red eyes, "Are you still in the mood for sleep?"

"Ah? It's early in the morning, what else can I do if I don't sleep?" Li Xin said speechlessly.

Cheng Chumo said angrily: "What kind of wine did you send to my house yesterday? Where did you buy it? Is there any more? Damn, I didn't drink a sip after it was delivered to my house. My father took it away without giving me a sip." I'll keep it! Where did your wine come from? It smells so good that I haven't slept all night!"

Hearing this, Li Xin understood Cheng Chumo's reason for coming, and showed a wry expression: Hehe, this Uncle Cheng's habit of being a robber in the early years really hasn't changed at all, even his own son can still rob. Cheng Chumo is also a drinker. Seeing that he missed a kind of fine wine that he had never drunk before, and he didn't even taste the taste, he scratched his head and scratched his head anxiously. He waited until dawn and came to find Li Xin, the culprit, to settle the score.

"Isn't it just a sip of wine, can you have some success!" Although Li Xin also drank, he was not as addicted to alcohol as the Cheng family father and son, and it was even more unexpected that the crude Erguotou he made casually could drive Cheng Chumo crazy into this.

Of course he couldn't understand Cheng Chumo's way of being snatched away from the wine as soon as he smelled it, and then kicked his own ass after drinking it to the point where he wanted to get some more wine like this and drink it back A fucking mood.

When the bad guest came to the door, Li Xin couldn't sleep anymore, so he had to call his servants to wait on him. He talked to Cheng Chumo casually while washing, which was very natural. However, Cheng Chumo obviously didn't have the patience to waste time here, and kept urging Li Xin to hurry up.

After Li Xin washed his face hastily, he took Cheng Chumo to the kitchen without even changing his clothes, took a bottle of wine and threw it into the guy's arms.

The prince, who was wearing pajamas early in the morning and brought his friends into the kitchen, may be the only one like Li Xin who has searched the entire Tang Dynasty.