Li Chongjiu and Yu Shinan and Xue Wanshu discussed the national event and stood up in a dress.

From the morning commemoration meeting to Li Chongjiu and Xue Wanshu's plan to formulate a strategy for Li Tang, it was almost noon before he knew it.

Li Chongjiu walked out of the hall and saw the sun shining on the glazed tiles of Luoyang Palace. From a distance, he looked magnificent. There were guards on all sides of the palace. Li Chongjiu led his guards and walked towards the palace gate, but he saw the officials who had just received the rewards sitting on the corridor and eating on the ground.

This is also a rule that has been passed down. It turns out that after every morning court, the ministers were already hungry. In order to sympathize with the officials, the court specially gave food on the corridor after the morning court. This meal is called "Garden Food", which is considered a working meal for the court officials.

When Li Chongjiu saw him, he walked towards the corridor. When the official Zhao on the corridor saw that Li Chongjiu came in person, he put down his bowls and chopsticks and hurriedly got up to see him.

Li Chongjiu nodded and said, "It's been half a day since all the officials, so there's no need to be too polite, keep eating!"

After the officials received the order, they sat down again. Li Chongjiu remembered some of the people-friendly styles of senior officials in later generations, and said to the officials beside him: "I'll have lunch here too!"

After hearing this, the eunuch said, "I hope you can give your majesty a meal here."

"No need, just eat the same thing as your dear friends."

After Li Chongjiu gave the order, the eunuchs did not dare to disobey and made a decision immediately. Li Chongjiu pointed at Xue Wanshu and Yu Shinan and asked them to accompany them to have a meal together.

Soon the eunuch placed a few pieces on the corridor and spread the floor with a mattress. After Li Chongjiu sat on it, the eunuch brought Li Chongjiu a bowl of yellow rice porridge with mutton. According to the rules at that time, it was called millet croaker. The millet croaker was steaming and the fragrance was savory. For the common people at that time, it was very luxurious to be able to eat a bowl of such meat porridge.

This is also the welfare of Zhao State to the officials. Li Chongjiu nodded immediately, picked up a wooden spoon, scooped yellow rice porridge and took a bite, feeling warm. When nearby officials saw Li Chongjiu doing something, they also started eating the porridge.

Li Chongjiu said to an official next to his left hand: "If I guess correctly, you are Master Cui Ren, Boling!"

The official was very young. When Li Chongjiu called out his name, he immediately turned to his side and said, "Your Majesty's wise eyes are the weak minister."

Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "No need to sit up and talk."

Li Chongjiu gave Cui Ren a high-ranking official this time, not because the children of aristocratic families like him are very talented, but because of the potential power represented by such a person.

The five surnames and seven hopes of the gentry in the world. At that time, the Cui family of Boling was secluded. The Cui family of Boling was inherited from the origin and was a famous gentry before. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they were even more prominent, including the Minister of Personnel of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Cui Hong, Duke of White Horse, and Cui Hao, and Cui Hao, were all prominent figures.

Even Li Tang was highly valued. Li Yuan used Cui Min's call for Cui's family, and cooperated with Shandong Province's ambassador Li Shentong to recruit Shandong gentry.

Now, Cui Xianshi of the Boling Cui clan came to join. As far as Li Chongjiu knew, there was someone inside the Boling Cui clan. After seeing Cui Jun from Qinghe, Su was appointed as Zhao, he was used by Li Chongjiu. Therefore, the Boling Cui clan, who was as famous as him, could no longer hold back and no longer be noble. He took the initiative to throw an olive branch to Li Chongjiu.

This Cui Renshi is young and is an outstanding hero of the Boling Cui family. Li Chongjiu looked over and said that the other party was handsome, especially the beautiful beard under his forehead. It was very important for men to have beautiful beards in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. With his faint aloofness, he really had a high-class style.

It is said that this is also the inheritance of the Cui family. In history, Cui Shi, the grandson of Cui Xianshi, was famous for his writing and writing. With the identity of the Cui family and his handsome appearance, he successively dealt with the three women, Shangguan Wan'er, Wei'er, and Princess Taiping. He ascended the throne in his thirties. At that time, the famous minister Zhang Shuo met Cui Shi and sighed that although it was difficult to achieve this person's talent and official position in this life, it was not without a chance. But by that time I was already old, so I was not as young as him.

Li Chongjiu nodded and said, "Boling Cui, I wonder what you call Cui Min?"

Cui Mingan served as the Huangmen Minister in Li Tang. When Li Chongjiu asked this, Cui Renshi said immediately: "Report to Your Majesty, although Wei Me and Cui Mingan have a connection, they have neither deep relationships. Wei Me comes from the Anding House of Cui's family, while Cui Mingan is the second house of Cui's family."

When Li Chongjiu heard this, he suddenly realized that most of the gentry members had called houses from the Southern and Northern Dynasties. People at that time liked to call houses by houses, and gradually replaced the previous group of people by family. For example, there were thirteen houses in the Li family in Longxi, such as Fanyang Fang, Dunqiu Fang, etc.

However, Li Chongjiu knew that although Cui Renshi said that, there was no connection between the two sides, and it was impossible. The Choi family in Boling also represented the attitude of some of the current gentry, which was to place bets on both sides.

Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "I am not asking casually. The Cui family in Boling is a famous family in the world. I have always respected it. However, I think Cui Min is unwise to serve as an official in Li Yuan. You already know what Lu Chisong ends up."

Master Cui Ren said in his heart: "Your Majesty..."

Li Chongjiu waved his hand and said, "As for what you mean, but I have a suggestion here. The prime minister Wen Yanbo of the dynasty has a son Wen Ting who has not married yet. I intend to be this matchmaker and let the Cui family of Boling and the Wen family of Taiyuan."

At that time, the Shandong gentry claimed to be noble and believed that they were superior to the Guanlong family. Intermarriage was bound to be five surnames and seven hopes. Especially the Cui family among the Shandong family, there was a saying that the Cui family had no worries about marrying the ugly daughter of the Cui family, but the royal princess was worried about marrying.

In Li Chongji's eyes, this marriage method in which the gentry formed layers of relationships was to sell marriage. The marriage was used as a bargaining chip to gain political benefits.

So since the Boling Cui family had this idea, Li Chongjiu gave them this opportunity. Wen Yanbo was the prime minister of Zhao State and the most respected person in Zhao State except Li Chongjiu, while the Boling Cui family was the most famous among the five surnames and seven hopes.

Li Chongjiu said directly to Cui Renshi: "I know that Shandong clans are all crowned families for generations, but the power of the world has changed, and the Yangtze River has pushed the previous waves. You have already lost the crown. You use the method of honoring the surname to maintain your own inheritance, but this is the opposite of the court's praise of officials. I will not force you, and you do not need to break this rule. You just need to marry the most respected officials in the world and the most famous gentry to make each side take what you need."

Cui Renhe hesitated for a moment, but when he saw Li Chongjiu staring at him, he immediately said: "Report to your Majesty, our Boling Cui family is only intermarried within the five surnames and does not have to be with other surnames. However, I think that the Wen family in Taiyuan is also a famous family today, and Prime Minister Wen is an important official of the current dynasty. Marrying with him is the honor of our Cui family. I will write to the elders in my family to report this matter."

Li Chongjiu was still satisfied after hearing this. It seemed that Master Cui Ren was still very flexible. It was no longer the past, and he was reliable as the era of selecting officials. There were no poor families at the top and no nobles at the bottom. Taking advantage of the opportunity of chaos in the world, he had been reshuffled.

In the Great Zhao Dynasty, many officials from poor families such as Zhou Zhou and Lin Dangfeng were leaping onto the stage, and there were officials from second and third-rate families like the Wen family in Taiyuan, Gao family in Bohai, and Zhao family in Zhuo County, who entered the first rank of the dynasty.

The times are moving forward, and the Cui family of Boling cannot stick to the tradition of the past. Now this is a win-win situation. They marry the officials of the current dynasty through the best way of selling marriages. Li Chongjiu's purpose is of course to completely pull the Cui family of Boling from the chariot tied by Li Tang through marriage and fully support themselves. This is just like Li Chongjiu's involvement in the marriage of Cui Chufei in Qinghe, and not aimlessly.

If Yu Wen Tai adopted Su Chuo's opinion, implemented the Guanzhong system, and used the equal-field system to eliminate the barriers between Hu and Han, and included both outstanding talents of the Hu and Han clans into this system, giving birth to the Guanlong clan, the most powerful group throughout the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Just in the Sui and Tang dynasties, under the Guanzhong system, Guanzhong's troops occupied nearly half of the country's troops. The big reason for the demise of the Sui Dynasty was that Emperor Yang of Sui had escaped from the Guanzhong system. Therefore, Li Chongjiu wanted to seize the world, rather than fighting against Li Yuan, it was better to fight against the most powerful Guanlong clan behind him.

For example, Wu Zetian came to power later, and the Guanlong clans were very dissatisfied with Wu Zetian in order to maintain the orthodox Li Tang.

In order to deal with the Guanlong clans who opposed her, Wu Zetian successively killed and demoted a large number of Li Tang royal families and ministers of the Guanlong group who refused to support her. At the same time, she vigorously promoted people from lower-level or who had defected to the Wu group to important positions, and then moved the capital to Luoyang and left the Guanlong center.

This is a typical method of pulling one faction to fight one faction, but suppressing and killing is not a problem that can be solved by generation after generation. Empress Wu Zetian, Guanlong Group won again, and Li Tang moved Kyoto back to Guanzhong. Later, the Niu and Li party struggle was also a battle between the new interest groups and the Guanlong family.

What Li Chongjiu is doing now is to combine the Shandong clans with his own poor family and form a new interest group, Hebei clans to fight against each other. This is the way to imitate Yuwen Tai to merge the Hu and Han clans and establish the Guanlong clans. It is not a way to pull one faction and fight one faction like Wu Zetian. Although this method is more difficult than Wu Zetian's simple and rough means, it is beneficial to the longevity of future generations.

To be honest, Yuwen Tai did things at the beginning much more difficult than Li Chongjiu now, but he did it, so Li Chongjiu was very confident, not to mention that he was still young enough to have plenty of time to do it in the future.

As long as a new interest group is consolidated in the future, the Li family will have at least two or three hundred years of national destiny.
Chapter completed!