"Your Highness, Duke...please go here..."

Cen Xi bowed slightly, very respectfully, and took Ang Lee and Xue Chongxun through the courtyard, and then walked into the main hall of the Lu family.

At this time, the Lu family hall was full of people. However, what made Ang Lee slightly dissatisfied was that a young man in white had already sat on the guest of the Lu family.

You should know that the ancients paid great attention to the seating arrangement. There are strict regulations on which seat the host sits and which seat the guest sits. If you sit in random places, you will be distracted by the host. The following is the suspicion of being the best.

Let’s talk about the most famous Hongmen Banquet.

Xiang Yu, Xiang Bo sat facing east, the most respectable (Xiang Bo was Xiang Yu's uncle, Xiang Yu could not let his uncle sit in a position lower than his); Fan Zeng sat facing south, second only to Xiang's uncle and nephew; Xiang Yu asked Liu Bang to sit north, but was humble to Fan Zeng, and did not regard him as a guest who matched his status; Zhang Liang's position facing west was the most humble among the people present, and he could not be called a seat and a servant, which means that it was similar to today's servants.

The reason why Sima Qian did not hesitate to write about everyone's seat rankings is to highlight the pride of Xiang Yu's contempt for Liu Bang and regard himself as a venerable person through Xiang Yu's arrangement of seat rankings.

At this time, it should be the guest of honor of Ang Lee and Xue Chongxun who were sitting there. This is also the psychological blow to Ang Lee and Xue Chongxun by the Lu family.

Fortunately, Ang Lee and Xue Chongxun didn't say anything, Cen Xi had already frowned and said, "Senior Lu... The guest who was sitting at the host came, why was there a guest sitting at the top?

Is it just like this that the Lu family is ignorant of the general idea?”

"Hmph..." With a sneer, the young man in the Lu family didn't say anything, and the white-clothed man sneered slightly: "In the Xia Lanling Xiao family... Xiao Qingchang..."

After saying that, Xiao Qingchang looked at Cen Xi slightly and said, "I don't know if my Lanling Xiao family is qualified to sit in this host seat..."

Lanling Xiao family... One of the top aristocratic families, Lanling Xiao family was originally a inferior gentry from the north. They started their military achievements during the Liu Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties. Later, the family members established two dynasties, Southern Qi and Southern Liang, and since then they became the highest gentry of the Southern Dynasties.

During the Tang Dynasty, there were ten prime ministers (1 prime minister of the emperor's uncle and 9 prime ministers of the Qi Liangfang. Among them, 8 prime ministers of the Qi Liangfang came from the Zhaoming Prince Xiao Tongyi Group), and it was not until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms that the families in the world declined.

Liu Fang, a native of the Tang Dynasty, listed it as one of the "Four Great Overseas Chinese Hopes" of the Southern Dynasty. Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi praised the Xiao family of Lanling: "Famous virtues are close to each other, and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. The prosperity of aristocratic families has never been seen in ancient times."

An old minister of Xiaoliang and a famous poet of Northern Zhou, Yu Xinyu said that he was "the faction is vast and the branches are like woods." The great writer Su Dongpo also praised him, "I want to be a sign of my clothes and clothes, and I will succeed the eight Xiaos after success."

The two royal grandsons have very high status, but the Xiao family in Lanling is not inferior. If you really choose, it will be really hard to choose.

"Haha..." The elder of the Lu family who was sitting in the main seat laughed out loud. The elder of the Lu family was Uncle Lu Huiyun and his father's third uncle, and is now the oldest elder of the Lu family.

His name is Lu Hui... Why did this Lu Hui object so much to the marriage between Xue Chongxun and Ang Lee? It's very simple. He was stimulated when he was young. Lu Hui was once full of energy and wanted to get a place in Li Shimin's court and be an official who serves the country and the people.

Unfortunately, Lu Hui is really bad luck.

During the Zhenguan period, Emperor Taizong of Tang ordered the compilation of "Clan Chronicles". The editors first draft ranked the Boling Cui family among the "Shandong Aristocrats". Emperor Dazong of Tang was furious when he heard this and thought that my Li family was in power, but he was behind the Cui family!

So the editors were ordered to re-rank, and finally ranked Li and his relative Changsun in the top two, and Cui was changed to third place. Although the "Clan Chronicle" was changed to make Emperor Taizong of Tang a little more peaceful, this ranking did not have a substantial effect in the court and the people.

Not only that, Emperor Taizong of Tang was quite confused about the arrogance of aristocratic families. Just imagine that the noble family was as noble as the royal family, and the reputation of the Li family among the people was still not as good as that of the aristocratic families such as Cui, Lu, and Zheng. Since these clans wanted to maintain their pure bloodline, they only arrogantly engaged in intermarriage between the five surnames, and were ashamed of intermarriage with other than the five surnames.

Since the Northern Wei Dynasty, intermarriage among aristocratic families has long formed traditions, such as: Qinghe Cui family married the Li family in Longxi and Lu family in Fanyang for generations; Zhaojun Li family married the Cui family in Boling for generations; Fanyang Lu family married the Zheng family in Xingyang and Li family in Longxi for generations. By the Zhenguan period, this trend became more and more serious. Not only did the famous families despise the surnames, but they even took the imperial power seriously.

You said Li Shimin was angry or not, but he was Tian Khan, but you were still playing with his own little Jiujiu in your family. How could this be?

So Li Shimin also fought back strongly at that time. At that time, the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty was not very perfect, so... they all rely on recommendations to appoint officials from the court.

It is also because of recommendation that the distance between aristocratic families and ordinary people has widened.

Lu Hui is from the Lu family of Fanyang, so he is from Guanlong Group... that is, one of the five surnames and seven hopes. However, because the five surnames and seven hopes offended Li Shimin, Li Shimin directly returned all the people recommended by Guanlong Group for a period of time.

Li Shimin's confidence comes from the fact that in addition to Guanlong Group, Li Shimin also has strong strength in his hands.

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, he sang a diagonal show with Guanlong Group and was the newly born Shandong Group.

Shandong has many heroes and righteous men, which is recognized worldwide. This is the case, whether it is the area east of the Taihang Mountains or today's Shandong Province. The predecessor of the Shandong Group was the "Literature Museum". In the fourth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, Qin King Li Shimin established it, and set up the purpose of issuing scholars from all over the world, recruiting talents, and peace in the world. "Zizhi Tongjian·Tang Ji" specifically records the members in detail.

There are 18 bachelors in the Literature Museum, the most famous are Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling, Yu Shinan, etc., and there are quite a few heroes from Lingyan Pavilion.

According to historical records, Li Shimin's main forces in unifying the world and governing the world, except for Li Jing, Yu Shinan, Yu Wenshi, Su Shichang and Su Xu, the rest were all from Shandong Group, such as Qin Shubao, Yuchi Jingde, Zhang Gongjin, Zhang Liang, Li Jie, Fang Xuanling, etc., which supported the Shandong Group to compete with the Guanlong Group that once controlled the Sui Dynasty.

With the support of Shandong Group, Li Shimin didn't care about Guanlong Group... In this way, Lu Hui's life was directly extinguished by Li Shimin.

Later, Li Shimin successfully implemented and popularized the imperial examination system. Based on the Shandong group's great power, he got rid of the influence of Guanlong nobles who were deeply accomplices and unwilling to be an imperial examination, hoping to monopolize the way to become an official, so that poor scholars and generals could have a place to stand out.

Wu Zetian inherited Li Shimin's path and better popularized the imperial examination system, which directly made Lu Hui no longer have the dream of becoming an official and benefiting the country. Therefore, Lu Hui was very resistant to the royal family.

This time, Lu Hui spent a lot of money to prevent Xue Chongxun from marrying his grandnieces.
Chapter completed!