Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

Guo Ye said: "I believe what you said! But there is one thing, I still want to ask clearly!"

"Ask. As long as I, Cui Liuquan, know, I will tell you! This is not a one-off deal. If you have a good product in the future, just sell it to me, Cui Liuquan! The price is absolutely fair!"

"What I'm asking is about this price. What did you just say, 500 taels to buy a beautiful woman, forgive me for my ignorance, even Chang'an City doesn't have this price? Don't tell me, you sold so many beautiful women for your own use! "

"Of course I didn't use it for myself!"

"Then who are you selling to? Why do I feel that you will lose money if you sell to anyone! If you don't make any profit, it's too late. If you don't make this matter clear, I won't dare to sell it to you!"

"Why do you care so much? Let's hand over people and money with one hand, clean and neat, innocent and innocent! I think Yuan Nanjian was not as verbose as you back then!"

Guo Ye shook his head again and again, and said: "He is him, I am me, that is different! He is a high-ranking official in Goguryeo, I am not afraid that you will not keep your promise! But I am just a businessman, and I have nothing else to rely on except for a little more money. , if you give me black and white, where can I reason?"

"Oh, it makes sense for you to say that. It seems that if I don't explain clearly the whereabouts of these beauties, you can't agree to this deal! Well, let me tell you, don't think you can sell these beauties for 100 taels at most! Even if you sell it as a Silla maid, it's only 200 taels. But in my Boling Cui family, you can sell it for 2000 taels, or even 2 taels!"

"Two... ten thousand? Captain Cui, what you said is too..."

"You don't believe me, do you? Do you know who I am, the Boling Cui family?"

Guo Ye smiled wryly and said: "To be offensive, I have only heard of the Qinghe Cui family, but I have never heard of the Boling Cui family!"

"The Qinghe Cui family? How can the Qinghe Cui family be compared with my Boling Cui family? One thousand years ago, the Qinghe Cui family was okay, but in the past hundred years, the Qinghe Cui family has been willing to degenerate, and is far inferior to my Boling Cui family. Choi's gone!"

Nani?

One of the Eight Great Aristocratic Families, the Qinghe Cui family that Guo Ye used his old nose to suppress, is not in the eyes of the Boling Cui family?

How is this going?

Seeing Guo Ye's suspicious eyes, Cui Liuquan snorted, and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't believe me, San Niangzi, you always believe me, right? I don't believe you if you cheated me of [-] guan from the Boling Cui family, and you two have nothing to do with it. Third lady, tell him, is the Qinghe Cui clan more powerful, or our Boling Cui clan is more noble?"

Li Wanniang sneered, and said: "It's not an ordinary thing! According to me, although the Cui family of Qinghe is willing to degenerate, but they can't face it, and it is clear that they are greedy for glory. You Boling Cui family, but do Even a bitch has to set up a memorial archway, on the surface it looks sanctimonious, but in fact it is no different from the Qinghe Cui family!"

"I said San Niangzi, this is your fault! Although you are all bitches, there is a big difference between whether there is an archway or not! Besides, you are also from the Li family in Longxi, and you scolded our Boling Cui family." , but even your Longxi Li family scolded you!"

"Our Longxi Li family is not as brazen as your Boling Cui family!"

"It's nothing more than fifty steps laughing at a hundred steps!"

Guo Ye was confused and said, "What are you talking about? Why can't I understand!"

Li Wanniang sighed, and said: "Mr. Guo, don't worry, listen to Wanniang tell you in detail. This has to start with the nobles of the Tang Dynasty..."

Chapter 1415 Great Tang Gentlemen (2)

"Great Tang gentry?" Guo Ye pondered for a while, and said: "Excuse my ignorance, Guo has only heard that there are eight great families in the Great Tang, but he has never heard of the Great Tang gentry!"

Cui Liuquan snorted coldly, and said: "That's because you Goguryeo people have short-sightedness. You only know which aristocratic families are powerful and powerful and admire which ones. But I don't know, only my five noble families are the real well-dressed families, famous families!"

Guo Ye secretly slandered, as the Duke of Pingyang in Datang, I have never heard of your so-called five great aristocratic families. Is it because Guo Ye is short-sighted?

Could it be that Cui Liuquan's Silla maidservant business has been in business for a long time, and he has also acquired the bad habit of bragging in the great power of the universe?

Even though he thought so, on the surface Guo Ye still put on an expression of reverence, saying: "It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. Guo is really knowledgeable! May I ask which of these five great families are they?"

Li Wanniang said: "The five great families are the Cui family of Boling, the Lu family of Fanyang, the Zheng family of Xingyang, the Wang family of Taiyuan, and our Longxi Li family!"

When Guo Ye heard about Fan Yang Lu, he remembered that Lu Chengqing, who had been kind to him and was later executed by His Majesty Li Er, seemed to be from Fan Yang, and said, "Fan Yang Lu? Dare I ask, is the late Minister of Rites Lu Chengqing A member of the Fan Yang Lu family?"

Cui Liuquan said: "Lu Chengqing is a member of Fan Yang's Lu family! I can't tell, you are a Goguryeo businessman, and you are quite familiar with the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty! It's a pity that you don't read enough, otherwise how could you not know about our five great noble families? Let me tell you, it is not only high position and power that can be admired by others, but our five great gentry clans are also respected by the world! And even worse than that!"

Guo Ye asked puzzledly: "Could it be that your five great noble families are far superior to the eight great noble families in terms of money?"

Li Wanniang sneered and said: "Although the five great noble families have a lot of money, they are far behind when compared with the eight great noble families."

"Then I don't understand. The five noble families are not as powerful as the eight great families, and they are not as good as the eight great families in terms of money. How can they be compared with the eight great families, and even..." Guo Ye suddenly remained silent at this point. Already obvious!

Cui Liuquan interjected: "Even claiming to be far superior to the Eight Great Aristocratic Families? Of course there is a reason for this. First, we and the five great gentry families came from noble families. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, we were already prominent families!"

Guo Ye shook his head and said: "Although the eight great families were not well-known in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were many high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the Northern and Southern Dynasties! In the current dynasty, they are even more prestigious, accounting for one-third of the power in the court! It seems that the five noble families have no advantage over the eight great families."

"You only know one thing and don't know the other! Although the eight great families are also descendants of high-ranking officials, they are descendants of military officials. But my five great families are descendants of civil servants. What do military officers know? It's just about fighting and defending, just a warrior. What is there to respect? Civil servants are knowledgeable, well-educated, and elegant. Do you think the world should value military officials or civilian officials?"

Guo Ye heard it funny, and said: "You are a military officer yourself, but you speak well of civil servants, isn't it a bit..."

"Hey! I'm just a good military officer! I'm not because I'm brave enough to kill generals and capture the flag; nor is it because I'm well versed in the art of war and have thousands of tricks in my belly. It's Because I am a member of the Cui clan, the clan gave me such an errand! You can tell who I am by looking at my attire. We serve as an official mainly for the convenience of the clan’s business, not for the convenience of the clan. Second Li is loyal!"

Guo Ye scratched his head and said, "Because of the difference in civil and martial arts between the eight great families and the five great noble families, you think that the five great noble families are far superior to the eight great noble families. Is this too far-fetched?"

Li Wanniang said: "Some things are hard to say, but you are from Goguryeo, so it's okay to tell you! In fact, the biggest difference between the five noble families and the eight great families is the distinction between Hua and Yi! The five families are all pure-blooded Han people. And the Eight Great Aristocratic Families often intermarry with Hulu, and the blood has long been impure! Therefore, the world values ​​the Five Great Noble Clans and despise the Eight Great Aristocratic Families!"

Cui Liuquan added: "For example, the Qinghe Cui family was originally a gentry family like our Boling Cui family! Later, they married those Guanlong nobles for the sake of prosperity and wealth. The Tang gentry can only be counted as one of the eight great families!"

Guo Ye asked again: "Forgive me, what is the basis for your five noble families to say that you are all pure-blooded Han Chinese? Even if there is a family tree to check, does the married woman in the family also have a family tree to check? Even so, the woman's life experience cannot be faked? There are too many loopholes in it, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the public!"

"Hehe, how can our five noble families not think of things that you, a businessman, can think of? The solution to this problem is very simple! That is, the men of our five noble families will only marry the daughters of the five great clans! In this way, the bloodline can be preserved naturally. pure!"

After listening to them talk for so long, Guo Ye finally understood what the five great noble families were.This is a group of dilapidated households whose ancestors were rich, huddling together to keep warm!The Tang Dynasty version of Ah Q!

But then again, the people of Datang really like them!

In this era, if you are a Han Chinese, you just want to stand taller than others!

Countless Hu people want to cling to the ancestors of the Han people!Even if he is blond and blue-eyed, and speaks an authentic Europa accent, it can still be said that his ancestors are pure-blooded Han Chinese, who had no choice but to live in a foreign land, married a foreign woman, and passed down from generation to generation, and became like this!Although the appearance has changed, our hearts remain the same. We are born as Han people and die as Han ghosts!

Later, because too many mermaids were confused, it was difficult to tell whether a person was a purebred Han Chinese!Absolutely pure-bred Han Chinese like the five great gentry really have the qualifications to be self-confident!

Guo Ye coughed and said: "Guo has been taught! However, you two have said so much, just to clarify what are the five great noble families! But you haven't explained clearly why these Goguryeo beauties came to Boling Cui In the hands of Shi, it will be worth a hundred times?"

Li Wanniang said: "The slave family is the daughter of the Li family in Longxi. What do you think of the slave family's wealth?"

"You... don't dare to say too much, I guess there are hundreds of thousands of guan! But what does this have to do with those Goguryeo beauties?"

Li Wanniang said: "You also know that today's five major gentry families have no money, no power, and no power. The five major gentry families have a large population, how do they maintain their lives?"

"This... I would like to ask Mrs. Li to clarify my confusion!"

"It is through buying and selling marriages!"

"Buying and selling marriage?"

"Yes, to be precise, it is a dowry gift!"

"You can maintain a family's life just by collecting dowries? Isn't this kind of statement too much?"

"It's not too much at all! My Li Wanniang is called the third lady, which means that my family has been married three times! But you have to think about it. Although my family is pretty, after all, it is already a broken body and an old man. After thinking about it a bit, why can they still marry into the family of a wealthy businessman as the main wife? They didn’t fancy the identity of the slave family, but the daughter of the Li family in Longyou!”

"But I heard from you that the first man you married only taught you the skill of making cakes, and did not leave you any inheritance! What kind of dowry can such a poor man give the Longxi Li family?"