Chastity Layman

Zuixianlou.

In the lobby, Fan Yang Lu's family is the host, meeting friends through poetry. The rest of the five surnames and seven sects naturally also came to join in.

The seven families of the five surnames have been married for generations, and they are in-laws. One is prosperous and the other is harmed. The majestic five surnames and seven families, in the imperial examination presided over by Qin Lang, can be said to have lost a lot and lost all their face.

This time Lu Shi was willing to stand out, and everyone naturally rushed to respond.

Especially Qinghe Cui and Boling Cui have the longest and closest marriage with the Lu family, and Cui Lu's relationship is also the best.

upstairs.

Qin Lang, Cheng Qian, and Li Tai stood leaning against the railing, looking at the full house below, but they only had a bit of disdain, and Cheng Chumo, a group of honorable children next to him, seemed to be disdainful, but actually had a bit of envy.

This gentry romance must have nothing to do with them.

"These are the five surnames and seven families!" Cheng Qian looked at the gentlemen of the Eguan Bo belt below, and there was a bit of envy in his tone.

"Well, it's them." Li Tai replied.

Qin Lang saw that the royal children were still envious of others, but he was helpless. Since the Sui Dynasty abolished the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, the soil of the system of the top-rank Wuhan family has actually disappeared, and the Sui Dynasty inherited the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The Guanlong Group is the core, so the Shandong gentry is actually in a state of decline.

So far, the situation is not much better.

Historically, the Tang Dynasty was the prosperous period of the gentry clan, but the real prosperity of the gentry clan in the Tang Dynasty was actually after the early Tang Dynasty. The decline of the Guanlong nobles, coupled with the national unification of Taiping and the Yanwu Xiuwen, made the status of civil servants continue to rise. With the full-scale rise of the imperial examination system, after the imperial examination became the right way for the country, the elites of the gentry quickly entered the imperial examination competition based on their family background.

They changed their repulsive attitude towards the imperial examinations in the early Tang Dynasty, and finally occupied an absolute advantage in the imperial examinations. In this way, they completed the desperate counterattack against the Guanlong Group's control of the imperial court in the early days of the country. die down.

Therefore, standing in this era, as the prince and crown prince Chengqian and the others, there is really no reason to overly pursue the Shandong gentry.

"His Royal Highness, I will test you. You know these five surnames and seven families, so do you know that there are forty-four people with five surnames?"

The little fat man said excitedly, "I know, of course I know that the forty-four families of the five surnames actually refer to the forty-four families in the five surnames. They are the six sons of Li Bao of Longxi in the Northern Wei Dynasty and the king of Taiyuan The four sons of Qiong, the third son of Zhengwen in Xingyang, the fourth son of Lu Dushi in Fanyang, the sixth son of Lu Fu, the fifth son of Lu Pu, the second son of Cui Zongbo in Qinghe, the second son of Cui Yuansun, and the former Yan Boling Cui Yi The eighth sons, the fourth sons of Li Kai from Zhao County in the Western Jin Dynasty, are called Shiwang forty-four people."

These forty-four people are the forty-four patriarchs of Shiwang's families, and finally formed seven families with five surnames.

Therefore, the five surnames and seven families up to now actually refer to the descendant families of forty-four celebrities with five surnames. These forty-four people can actually be classified into ten families, so they are also called five surnames and ten families.

Among the forty-four families, the Lu family owns fifteen.

"Your Highness knows that the five surnames flourished most in the Northern Wei Dynasty. One of the reasons for their prosperity was their marriage with the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Northern Wei Dynasty was originally a Xianbei tribe. After they entered the northern part of the Central Plains, they wanted to integrate the Hu and Han in order to maintain their long-term rule. , So at the suggestion of Emperor Wei, the eight surnames of Xianbei and the four surnames of Han people were married together, and later the four surnames of Han people were added into five surnames."

"There are many generals who favor princesses, and princes also marry descendants."

"At the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the five surnames relied on their deep participation as representatives of the Han nationality in the court of the Northern Wei Dynasty, so that they finally jumped to become the first-class clans in the North. Their political power and economic strength also competed with other northern noble families. open."

"but!"

Qin Lang emphasized the word but.

"The Six Towns Uprising shook the foundation of the Northern Wei Dynasty, followed by the division of the East and the West, and the rise of Zhou Qi. Among them, the economic and political status of the five surnames and the seven clans began to decline like other gentry clans."

"By the time the Sui Dynasty reunified the world, what was left of them was actually their profound family background, long cultural tradition, and lofty social prestige, as well as their powerful clan power and broad social foundation. Long-term The war has kept them far away from the center of power, and they can only look at them with self-possession and arrogance. In the Sui Dynasty, the five surnames did not recover to the strength of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Now in my Tang Dynasty, they are actually just dead bones in the tomb. Yu Lie."

"Nowadays, the five surnames and seven clans are no better than Pei Xueliu, Yang Weidu, and Xiao Wangxie. They can only rely on their families to learn the integrity of etiquette and law, despise the filthiness of other clans, and rely on their clan prestige to become more and more powerful. The emphasis is on intermarriage within the five surnames, so as to be unconventional and look down on other clans."

"Your Majesty once told the ministers that despite the decline of the world, he will no longer be crowned!"

After Qin Lang said so much, he wanted to tell them not to contradict the emperor's attitude. Even the emperor looks down on these people, so don't make fun of them.

Take a stand!

The foundation of the elites is still politics. Once they are expelled from the political core, other dazzling halos will not last long. The Five Surnames and Seven Wangs were able to really get rid of other families back then because of their political pride and political status that allowed them to surpass other noble families.

The five surnames and Qiwang have been expelled from the political core for several generations.

Later, after the early Tang Dynasty, they rose again, and even became more powerful. It was also because they relied on their advantages in the imperial examinations, successively high-ranking officials and prime ministers, and once again occupied the upper political class. .

To put it bluntly, the five surnames and the seven families are not strong today. It is their ancestors who are famous, but now they are all down and out, relying on the shadow of their ancestors to dawdle.

The strongest in the court is the Guanlong Group. They established four dynasties in the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties. And after them, the military upstarts of this dynasty, that is, the powerful landlords in Shandong, actually had a much higher status than these Shandong gentry, just saying that the upstarts got rich.

"The Keshi clan is romantic..."

Before Li Tai could finish his words, Qin Lang refuted him, "Fuck you, they really want to be romantic, then it's the Wei and Jin era again, how can there be a good life for me and your highness? So you must Recognize the enemy and ourselves, and make no mistake."

Cheng Qian was thoughtful.

"What does the teacher imply, the five surnames and seven families are enemies?"

"It can be used at this stage, but it will never be one of our own."

The nine-year-old Cheng Qian firmly believed in Qin Lang's words.

At this time downstairs.

The so-called seven families with five surnames, or forty-four families, gathered later and chatted with each other.

They have been married through the ages, resulting in intricate relationships among the families. They are all relatives, and it is difficult to discuss the relationship of seniority.

However, everyone has the same attitude. Today, the Lu family will lead the way, and the other families will follow closely. They must let their own talents come to power, so that the people of Chang'an, especially those military leaders and nobles who came from local tyrants and landlords, will know, what? It is called a thousand-year background, a noble family.

"Mr. Lu."

At this time, the shopkeeper of Zuixianlou brought a few people over to greet him.

"The shop will report today's banquet menu, and Mr. Lu can confirm it after hearing it?"

"Report!"

"Listen, all guests, today's banquet menu includes steamed lamb, steamed bear's paw, steamed deer tail, roasted duck, roasted chicken, roasted goose, braised pig, braised duck, sauced chicken, bacon, pine flower belly, and dried meat , sausage, assorted su pan, smoked chicken with white belly, steamed eight-treasure pig, duck stuffed with glutinous rice, canned pheasant, canned quail, stewed assorted pieces, stewed goose, pheasant, rabbit breast, vegetable python, silver Fish, steamed Hash ant, braised duck shreds, braised duck waist, braised duck strips, clear mixed duck shreds, yellow heart tube..."

The young guy didn't look very good, he was tall and thin, but when he opened his mouth, it was as if he had oiled it in a long line and couldn't stop.

"There are one hundred and ninety-six items of cold meat and hot food, one hundred and twenty-four items of snacks and tea, and three hundred and twenty items of delicacies!"

The shopkeeper smiled and handed over a list, on which was the banquet menu and the total cost of drinks and so on.

"The total is 10,879 guan and 520 guan. If Chenghui wipes out a zero, it will be 10,800 guan. Let's see, Mr. Lu, do you want to settle the bill first?"

Lu Chengzong originally heard the names of the dishes reported by the staff, and felt that there were so many dishes, which was quite honorable. But now when I heard the fee, I became angry.

"Is it true that I have never been to a restaurant? Ordinary restaurants cost only a few thousand dollars. If the dishes are richer, it will be at most 10,000 to 20,000 dollars. Even if there are more people and more food today, a hundred guan is enough. Your family This meal costs more than 10,000 yuan, more than tens of millions of dollars, are you blackmailing people?"

"Lu Gong, how can you say such a thing? I have detailed bills. When ordering, you said that you don't need to choose, just order a recipe and ask for everything. You also said that you should use the best ingredients today. , use the best wine, also have silk and bamboo music classes, kabuki and dancers, and clear the venue, we are all following your request."

"Don't think it's expensive, just the seafood on it, do you know how expensive it is?"

"If I have never eaten seafood, how can it be so expensive? This abalone is in Youzhou, and the biggest and freshest one is only one!"

"That's in Youzhou. Youzhou is close to the sea, and Chang'an is three thousand miles away from the sea. We need to transport fresh abalones to Chang'an, and we need to use eight hundred miles to expedite it. We travel day and night, and change every twenty miles. People trade horses, so this half-headed abalone can indeed be bought in Youzhou all the time, but in our Zuixianlou, it starts with ten thousand dollars!"

"What we eat is this fresh food, and what we eat is this one-in-a-million meal. No other place has it. If you think it's too expensive, don't come to our Zuixianlou and speak such big words!"

The shopkeeper's mouth was stronger than the buddy's, and he directly turned Lu Chengzong's face black with anger.

"Abalone starts with 10,000 yuan? You are a black shop, be careful we smash it!" Someone shouted.

The shopkeeper was not afraid at all, "Ours is clearly marked with a price, and it is written on the menu, but Lu Gong still ordered one, and now he thinks it is too expensive. Is this interesting? It is said that we are a black shop and extort people." ? Still want to smash the store?"

"When we don't dare?"

"I advise you to weigh it first and think twice before acting. Our owner, Yi Guogong, is also in the shop, and he is drinking tea upstairs with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the King of Shu!"

Lu Chengzong's intestines are regretful, why didn't he pay attention to the price tag before?

"Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Scholar Qin are here, then Lu should go to see him!"

The shopkeeper shook his head in an indifferent way, "Please follow me!"