Yun Shao's words are clear. On the surface, you are here to go to my uncle's banquet, but in fact you have to talk about the matter between you and me.

The next day, Cui Kuan set up a "family dinner" in the house and invited Gao Yue to come.

Previously, Gao Yue came to Zhongcheng's central hall when he was in the investment banking paper. When he visited at dusk that day, both the officials and the servants could recognize the "Weizhou Senior Senior Senior" who had just passed the exam. The group enthusiastically introduced Gao Yue to the central hall with candles, only saying that the Duke was holding a banquet in the central hall to entertain the groom.

Gao Yue came to the hall and found that Cui Kuan's family was indeed luxurious and elegant, even better than Fufeng Prince Ma Lin. The corridors were full of beautiful women dressed in beautiful clothes, and some even stopped and laughed at Gao Yue whispering - they were all concubines bought by Cui Kuan at home. The tram was full of famous flowers, covered with silk, and shining brightly at night.

In the bright central hall, a master guest mat has been set up, with gold and silver screens on all sides of the entrance, and a bright gauze curtain is covered in the corridor, and surrounded by many candlesticks, shining like daytime.

Cui Kuan and his wife sat upright in the host's seat. When they saw Gao Yue coming in, the chief minister hurriedly stood up enthusiastically to greet him. Although Lu was a little alienated, he also followed the etiquette.

After the guests of the host greeted each other, the banquet began.

Although Gao Yue had not seen Cui Yunshao's people, he certainly knew that Yunshao was staying in the corridor behind the gauze curtain or behind the screen, staring at him!

Then the concubines of Cui Kuan's family entered one after another, singing, dancing and music to help them enjoy the wine.

Cui Kuan asked about the election of the Ministry of Personnel, and Gao Yue had to answer one by one. Soon, a faint coughing sound came from behind the screen, as if it was Yun Shao's.

As a result, Cui Kuan quickly turned to the topic as soon as he heard this. He touched his beard and asked Gao Yue's family situation politely. After Gao Yue gave a "true" reply, Cui Kuan began to make a long speech, which was actually reading the so-called "Secret":

"In the past, Emperor Yao divided the Jiuzhou in the world, and now it is 85 counties, combining 398 surnames. Among them, Qinghe Cui, Boling Cui, Longxi Li, Zhaojun Li, Fanyang Lu, Taiyuan King, Xingyang Zheng is the most famous, and there are five surnames and seven Wangs. In addition, there are Jingzhao Wei, Langya King, Hedong Pei, Hongnong Yang, Bohai Gao, Jingzhao Du, Pengcheng Liu and other thirteen families, forty-four sons. The marriage family cannot be separated from this circle. Our family has the status of the family but not the official rank. Although you have not started your family, you can still have plum blossoms."

In fact, there is a lot of information hidden in Cui Kuan's words.

The Cui family house in Weizhou is considered a branch of Boling Cui. It belongs to the old aristocratic clan in Shandong. Gao Yue, the aristocratic clan of the Tang Dynasty, also knows something. He has always regarded himself as a family. Not only does he look down on ordinary cold clans, but even the aristocratic clans in Guanzhong are also despised. Why? They all think that the aristocratic clans in Guanzhong are the rise of the Emperors of Sui and Tang Dynasties. Where is there any real etiquette and law to speak of, it is all fake!

So in general, Shandong clans like the Cui family definitely look down on the cold tribes with mixed surnames. For example, there was a Hezhou governor named Jimao who wanted to marry the eldest daughter of Nangong County Magistrate Cui Jing for his son. Cui Jing initially thought that my daughter was a dignified daughter of five surnames, so how could she marry the boy of Ji family, but she had no choice but to agree. On the day of the marriage, Cui Jing's wife hugged her eldest daughter and cried loudly, saying, "You must not have a surname Ji in my house!" The eldest daughter also lay on her own bed and refused to get on the float. In the end, when the stalemate was in trouble, Cui Jing's youngest daughter was sensible and wise. "My father's life and death are in the hands of others. Not to mention marrying the Ji family, she would go even if she went to his house as a slave. What family is still here to care about? Sister refused to go, then I will go." After that, the youngest daughter boarded the float and married to the Ji family.

But the most powerful family in Shandong is not that they look down on miscellaneous surnames, but that they even look down on the great clans of Jingzhao, Guanzhong: Cui Cheng, who was born in a small house in Qinghe, was only a mere Yangzhou official. The prime minister of Jingzhao, Du Shenquan, wrote a letter to Cui Cheng, hoping to ask for a daughter of Cui Cheng for his son. Cui Cheng publicly said, "If a son-in-law named Du in Qinghe has a son-in-law in his family, it will be a shame." In the end, Du Shenquan was under too much pressure, so Cui Cheng hurriedly found a niece to marry his son to make excuses.

Under such understanding, the Emperor Li family of the Tang Dynasty could not avoid this discrimination chain. Let's not talk about it before. Just say that the middle and late Tang Dynasty Emperor Xianzong accepted the suggestion of Prime Minister Li Jifu (Li Deyu's father) and hoped to marry all the princesses, princesses, and county lords to the family of the aristocratic family. As a result, the edict was issued, and only the Du family of Jingzhao barely responded (Du Ku), and all the other surnames were deaf and dumb. Emperor Wenzong wanted to marry the daughter of the Zheng family in Xingyang for the prince, but the Zheng family immediately refused. Wenzong was so angry that he was so aggrieved and publicly complained, "I just wanted to find a famous family in Shandong to make a family. Why don't you care about me? My family is the emperor for two hundred years!" There is no way, the Shandong aristocratic family is so arrogant.

Of course, from the standpoint of the aristocratic race, they are not completely sticking to outdated family traditions. For example, they are unwilling to marry a royal princess to consider it. The Tang Dynasty law stipulates that when the princess dies, the princess will have to mourn the princess for three years, which is not in line with normal etiquette. In addition, the infamous style of the Tang Dynasty princess is obvious to all, which is also unbearable by the old aristocratic races, so it is reasonable to discriminate against the Li family.

Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, the aristocratic clans still had strong vitality. The surnames were still divided into Shandong County, Guanzhong County, Northern Lu, and Jiangnan Qiao and Wu. The marriage and funerals were clearly divided. As for the clear discrimination chain, the Shandong-Guanzhong-Royal Li Family (Emperor of the Tang Dynasty: mmp).

"The daughters of Cui's family, Qingchenghua, are all rich in the family, and what the Chief Zhongcheng said is very true!" After hearing this, Gao Yue hurriedly bowed.

But in fact, Gao Yue knew in his heart that the times were developing, and these aristocratic races have made many changes in order to survive themselves. The most typical of them is that men from the clan began to take the imperial examination for the Jinshi, and in addition, they began to marry women from the clan to Jinshi, and put a new weight of "Jinshi origin" among family and official ranks.

To Gao Yue's answer, Cui Zhongcheng nodded, then brought out a long reading and began to talk about the family relationship between the Gao family of Bohai and the Cui family of Boling. The final conclusion was naturally "can be compatible with each other". Cui Kuan counted: The Gao family of Bohai once married the Cui family of Qinghe once, the Lu family of Fanyang four times, the Li family of Longxi four times, and the Wei family of Jingzhao four times (Gao Yue admired that these things really have the intention to summarize and collect these things).

Cui Kuan also said that the Gao family in Bohai also had two marriages with the Zheng family in Xingyang.
Chapter completed!