In the next two days, Du Shaoqing settled in Cui's house with peace of mind, and under the leadership of Cui Hao, he walked around and really saw what a thousand-year-old family is, and sure enough, from the inside out, there are its extraordinary.Housing construction is many years of inheritance, antique not to mention, in terms of floor area, the entire Qinghe County is almost Cui's, this is only a small aspect, according to Cui Hao's introduction, five surnames and seven families each control the trade issues of different industries in the entire Tang Dynasty.For example, the Taiyuan Wang clan originally controlled the salt industry of the Tang Dynasty, and the Boling Cui clan and the Zhaojun Li clan jointly controlled the iron industry.After Li Er ascended to the throne, the iron industry court also handed over some to the eldest grandson's family to manage, which can be regarded as a sign of wanting to slowly get back the resources, but this takes time to accumulate.Last year, Du Shaoqing came up with the secret method of salt making, and the imperial court acted vigorously and resolutely, and reshuffled the entire salt industry at once, resulting in the originally very precious white salt becoming a thing on the table of ordinary people, and the business of the Taiyuan Wang family was directly washed down.But they also dare to be angry but dare not speak, the court occupies the name of righteousness, who dares to stand up and stop the people of the world from eating salt, I am afraid that without instigation, the people will stand up and resist first.It is precisely because of this that the Taiyuan Wang family has hated Du Shaoqing.As for the Qinghe Cui family in the five surnames and seven families, the industry occupied is all things for people's livelihood, in fact, it is to do all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation.After hearing this, Du Shaoqing sighed deeply, if it weren't for Cui Hao, the anti-bone boy who tried to overthrow his family and wanted to recast the glory, told him so clearly, I am afraid that the world can say it clearly, and it will be his old father-in-law, Emperor Li Er.If you buy it with these people, it will be a little troublesome to sell wine with Cheng Jin, not to mention making furniture and so on.At this time, Du Shaoqing regretted that he handed over the coal mine so easily, if he could eat the coal mining industry, I am afraid that he would be able to really compete with these people, but unfortunately it was too late, and the coal mine had already returned to the imperial court.Thinking that the emperor Li Er at that time must be very happy, he can also see that this is a thing comparable to salt and iron, but it is really in the hands of the imperial court, which is all due to his good son-in-law Du Shaoqing, and because of this, Du Shaoqing is becoming more and more favored.The five surnames and seven families are so powerful, and the court has to make concessions when they unite, why does Cui Hao want to stand on the opposite side and be an anti-bone boy?
This question Du Shaoqing also asked this kid.Unexpectedly, Cui Hao was young but he saw it very clearly, the five surnames and seven families have one ancestral motto, do not support the army and respect themselves, do not afford to seize power in the troubled times, and the heirloom of poetry and books can be used for eternity!
Because everyone knows: a century-old dynasty, a thousand-year-old family.It may not be difficult to seize power and become a royal family, but how long will the royal family be rich?
At most, a hundred years, as strong as the Han Dynasty, it is only four hundred years before and after, and it is not comparable to the thousand-year-old family.This is the cornerstone of the family's existence, but Cui Hao also saw that this is also the target of the family's instability, as the old man Cui Yanmu said, the world is played, and the throne is not granted by God, but whoever has military power should sit on the throne.Although the family does not support the army and respect itself, but it is doing the stupid thing of squeezing the court and oppressing the people, which is tantamount to seizing power with the emperor in secret, and sooner or later it will attract the emperor's grudge.I'm afraid that the emperor will be angry and ambush millions of corpses, and the army will directly shatter all the glory and dreams of the family, and it will be too late to regret it at that time!
Hearing Cui Hao's heartfelt explanation, Du Shaoqing had to sigh at this person's courage and vision, the strong man broke his wrist, it is indeed far beyond ordinary people, no wonder the old man of the Cui family favored him, because the old man also saw it, but he couldn't do anything, or he didn't have the courage and courage of this grandson.Du Shaoqing wanted to say in his heart, the five surnames and seven families are so strong, if the court kills them all, will it lead to the paralysis of the entire country?
Is Cui Hao too worried?
But after thinking about it, I still didn't ask more, after all, what people thought was right, prosperity must decline and remain unchanged.In fact, Du Shaoqing didn't learn much history, and he didn't know what happened later.It is indeed not easy for the five surnames and seven families to be glorious for many years, but Cui Hao is right, historical records: These great families did decline in the Tang Dynasty, from the time Emperor Li Shimin began to secretly try to disintegrate the confrontation, until the era of the female emperor Wu Zetian, three generations of emperors shared nearly 60 years to do this, and the five surnames and seven families finally withdrew from the stage.Of course, this is all for later, and no one knows what will be the outcome in the future.After visiting the Cui family, Du Shaoqing also found that the difference between these big clans and the secular lies in education, and the children in the big family, regardless of lineage, side branches, etc., must be sent to the family school to read and write, so as to ensure that the starting point of the next generation of the family is higher than that of the ordinary people.You must know that Datang has not yet carried out universal education, because without this capital, without movable type printing and papermaking, books cannot be widely disseminated, and people don't even have books at home, how can they talk about literacy?
Therefore, these families can have their own schools, which is already one step ahead of everyone, and even they also absorb some materials with foreign surnames from the surrounding to study, so as to determine the status of master and apprentice with each other, if these children become officials in the future, it will naturally be the relationship network of the Cui family.This is also the reason why the five surnames and seven families can occupy more than half of the officials in the imperial court, and it is also the reason why the Tang Dynasty has had little effect.The purpose of the Datang study of the former Sui Kaike is to break the blockade of the family, but now it is good, ninety percent of the students who come to the exam are related to these families, and the opening of the branch is different to make room for the official positions of these families?
For this reason, Emperor Li Er was also secretly worried.In addition to following Cui Hao to visit Cui's house, Du Shaoqing was really good, and looked at the book unceremoniously in Cui's library, of course, he was not interested in anything else, it was the hundreds of books inherited from the doctor that the old man Cui said.In the pre-Qin period, hundreds of schools of thought contended, and the doctor was also a long-standing family, but then gradually declined, I don't know whether it was broken or hidden in the world, I didn't expect that Cui's still had a collection of doctors from the works.Not only that, Du Shaoqing also found the battle array they collected by the way to show Xue Rengui, this is a real upright gentleman, if you take it without telling it, it is stealing, yourself?
After being persuaded by Du Shaoqing to educate him, Xue Rengui put down and insisted on reading the military book, and he became addicted to it, his Xue family inheritance was too little, and it was rare to have the opportunity to study hard, and when he saw the military book collected by the Cui family, Xue Rengui knew that it was so difficult to fight.These two people are immersed in studying with relish, and some people in the Cui family are not happy, how can outsiders be qualified to enter the Cui family's own library?
Not to mention going in to read books, even if you borrow two volumes, you have to stoop down and say many good things to the Cui family.The library is the lifeblood of the family's inheritance, so soon many people went to find Mr.
Cui Yanmu and made trouble.