Xiao Rui stared into Cui Shouzhen's eyes teasingly and asked word for word: "Is your love really engaged to that young master of the Wang family?"
you……
"Master Cui, think about your answer clearly. I want to listen to the truth! The people in Chang'an call me Xiao Rui, Yaizi must retaliate, and the people in the grasslands outside the Great Wall call me the Murderer with Murderous Hands. Countless people have died at my hands, but what I hate the most is that he talks too much. Lying liar!”
fraud? What's the meaning? Is it possible that you still dare to attack me? Cui Shouzhen looked at Xiao Rui in disbelief.
"Don't worry, you are Cheng Qian's benefactor, and I, Xiao Rui, will not retaliate for kindness."
Pooh! Don't you know how to repay kindness with hatred? If you come to embarrass me and bring the prince to marry my daughter, you are repaying kindness with enmity.
"The Wang family of Taiyuan? Even the five surnames and Qiwang are indeed powerful, but so what? The family has a big business and a big concern. Killing a few of them at random is just like playing. They can't do anything to me, Xiao Rui. .”
puff……
Don't be stingy, this is special hob meat!
Thinking of Xiao Rui's bad reputation in Chang'an, Cui Shouzhen was afraid and could only tell the truth: "Let General Li come back. My daughter has never entered into a marriage contract with anyone."
"Oh...so, the rumors in the city?" Xiao Rui made a long sound.
Cui Shouzhen rolled his sleeves and said, "That's a family matter of my Cui family. I don't have to worry about it, Lord Marquis."
Xiao Rui smiled and said to Li Chengqian: "Chengqian, please go out first, and I will have a good talk with the Cui family leader."
Li Chengqian knew that he was about to get down to business, so he walked out in a hurry. He wanted to hide outside the door and eavesdrop, but he couldn't hear anything, so he had to wait anxiously and wander around the yard absentmindedly from time to time.
Xiao Rui swaggered and sat down in the living room. Cui Shouzhen was very troubled by this rogue guest. He couldn't get rid of it. He kept bothering me all day long. How could he provoke this evil star?
"Come, take a look at this thing. Do you recognize the handwriting on it?"
Xiao Rui handed the note over, and Cui Shouzhen took it and cursed angrily, "Ning'er, this damn girl, will really cause trouble for me!"
trouble?
"Haha, Master Cui, your daughter is much more innocent than you. If I hadn't received this, I would have almost been fooled by you."
"It's not so much trouble as it is fate. The meeting of the two of them was fate."
Cui Shouzhen rolled his eyes and said, "Marriage matters, parents' orders, matchmaker's words, what kind of fate? The Cui family doesn't talk about this."
"But I, Xiao Rui, will tell you this." Xiao Rui said domineeringly.
Cui Shouzhen said seductively: "Master Hou wants to interfere in my Cui family's family affairs?"
Xiao Rui said calmly: "Isn't it obvious enough? The purpose of bringing Cheng Qian to marry your daughter is very clear. I won't leave until I get her."
you……
"As a father, I don't agree. Is it possible that you can still steal people from the Cui family in Qinghe?"
Xiao Rui pointed to the crumpled note and threw it on the ground, "If it was to rob someone, why should I hand the note to you? I would have taken the person away according to the address a long time ago. I respect your family as Cheng Qian's benefactors , so I am trying to reason with you."
Reasonable? Hey, from beginning to end, you never spoke the truth once.
Cui Shouzhen had a sneer on his face.
"What nonsense are parents ordering matchmakers to say? I, Xiao Rui, don't believe that. None of the three wives I married were matchmakers. Since Chengqian and your wife are in love, they should be together. The royal family and you If the Cui family of Qinghe gets married, will they be able to climb the family ladder?"
Cui Shouzhen cupped his hands and sneered: "I'm sorry, the Cui family in Qinghe has a low lintel and cannot reach the level of the royal family."
Xiao Rui stood up slowly, his face fell, and he said seriously: "Master Cui, I come here with sincerity, and you are so disrespectful?"
"Invite your daughter out, and let's ask her face to face if she is willing to marry Cheng Qian. If she says no, we will turn around and leave. If she says yes, then things will work out for both families, and everyone will be happy, right? "
Seeing that Xiao Rui was serious, Cui Shouzhen did not dare to push too hard. He could only sigh and said truthfully: "Why do you have to force me so hard? The fifth surname and the seventh look cannot marry the royal family. You don't know this rule."
"Bullshit rules, to put it bluntly, you look down on the current royal family and think they have the blood of barbarians." Xiao Rui pointed it out without hesitation.
From the Li Tang lineage, Li Yuan's mother, whose surname was Dugu, was a famous general in the Northern Zhou Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties and a member of the Xianbei tribe. So Li Yuan is half of Xianbei blood. By the time Li Shimin arrived, he was one-quarter of the Hu people. Then Li Chengqian is one-eighth of Hu descent.
The reason why the Five Surnames and Qiwang focus on marriage is that alliances are one aspect, and bloodline theory also plays a large role. They claim to be pure Han people with pure and noble blood.
During the Western Jin Dynasty, the internal fighting of the Eight Kings Rebellion occurred, which seriously damaged the vitality, causing the northern barbarians to take the opportunity to go south to invade the Central Plains, which was known as the Five Husties Rebellion in history. Because of the devastation caused by the Wu Huan Dynasty, the country's population dropped sharply from 30 million in the late Han Dynasty to 3 million. The idiom "ten houses and nine empty houses" appeared at that time. Not only did the Hu people massacre the Han people, they were even more ruthless than in those early days. They burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of evil, killing the men, humiliating the women, and cooking them directly for food after use... The allusion of the two-legged sheep also comes from this era. This period of history is so dark that no history books dare to write about it.
If it hadn't been for Ran Min, the King of Wu Dao, who held high the banner of righteousness, issued an order to kill Hu, and called on the Han people in the world to rebel, the Han people might have been killed or even exterminated.
It is precisely because of this period of humiliation and darkness that the Han people have gained the status of pure blood. Perhaps the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes pride themselves on it, but the people of the world still recognize this.
Cui Shouzhen was silent for a moment, then motioned Xiao Rui to sit down and said. The two of them took their seats respectively. Cui Shouzhen also told the truth, "Master Marquis, the issue of blood is nothing. The royal family can sit firmly in the country. Who can say that they are not noble?"
"Today I will open the sky and make it clear to the Marquis. It is an agreement that the five surnames and Qi Wang will not marry into the royal family. For the sake of unity and balance between the five surnames and Qi Wang, I believe the Marquis should understand."
Xiao Rui took a leisurely sip of tea. Of course he understood, but that didn't mean he had nothing to say, "Really? There are no exceptions? Prince Jiancheng married Zheng Guanyin, the niece of the former patriarch of the Zheng family in Xingyang."
Cui Shouzhen's expression became even more bitter. He hesitated again and again, and gritted his teeth and said, "It is true. But it was the result of the joint discussion between the five surnames and the seven kings."
oh? This is strange. When the Zheng family marries a daughter, seven families with five surnames must discuss it together? As a jointly elected marriage bargaining chip? Then why choose Zheng? Others have no objections?
Seeing that Xiao Rui insisted on getting to the bottom of things, Cui Shouzhen sighed and said: "This is happening now and then. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, when there was chaos and smoke and dust everywhere, the five surnames and Qiwang were always watching and making bets. Finally, after observation, they decided to bet in support of the Li and Tang clan in Taiyuan."
"The marriage is only a small part. Through the marriage, we also supported most of the money and food behind the scenes. The bargaining chip is not only that Li Tang dominates the world, but also that the next emperor must be the prince Jiancheng."
puff……
Shocking big melon! Xiao Rui swears that I really don’t know about this and have never heard of it. Did I hear some incredible secret? If you know too much, will you be silenced?
