Although the family has been prosperous for thousands of years, there are many reasons why it has been prosperous, such as branching out, mastering the right to speak, and intermarrying for warmth...... These are all visible means on the surface, and hiding strength is also a good choice, only such a big family can establish a hiding place under the nose of the government.

Before the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the family saw that the Sui Dynasty was about to die, and they turned to all kinds of warlords, and contributed money and efforts to take advantage of the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

However, the contradiction between the Li family and the family has been a long time, especially when the court competed for the right to speak, it was subjected to the crazy counterattack of the imperial power, and the Wu Zetian period was even more purged, and the imperial examination system was further liberalized, squeezing the living space of the family, and for a long time, the family almost disappeared in the grass hall.

Before the Tang Dynasty, the seven sects and five surnames did not have an absolute advantage in the imperial court.

The first reason is that the meritorious "Guanlong Military Group" of the Jiantang Dynasty at that time still had a lot of power; The second reason is that the emperor deliberately suppressed; The third reason is that the vigorous implementation of the imperial examination system led to the emergence of many Shu courtiers, and at that time, most of the seven clans and five surnames entered the official with the shadow of the door, and they did not adapt to and did not accept the new way of leaving the imperial examination; The fourth reason is the jealousy of the court ministers from a poor family, such as Xu Jingzong, the prime minister of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, and Li Yifu.

However, after the Anshi Rebellion, the political center of the Tang Dynasty was rebuilt, and the seven sects and five surnames re-emerged with the help of the imperial examination system, such as the Zheng family in Xingyang, who was the prime minister in the Tang Dynasty and was difficult to find, and since the beginning of the Middle Tang Dynasty, more than ten prime ministers and important ministers have appeared in a row, so there is the saying of "Zheng Banchao"; Another example is the Qinghe Cui family, there is the Tang generation, and a total of ten people served as prime ministers in the south ancestral house, Qinghe big house, Qinghe small house, and Qingzhou house.

Before the Anshi Rebellion, there were only two prime ministers from the seven sects and five surnames, and after the incident, when they entered the Middle Tang Dynasty, there were eight prime ministers one after another. The reason for the resurgence of the family is closely related to the mastery of the imperial examination power, and the second is that after adapting to the imperial examination system, the profound family style and intellectual tradition of the family give them a special advantage in the examination. For example, Fan Yang Lu's family, there are Tang generation, especially since the Middle Tang Dynasty, there are more than 100 Jinshi, which is amazing.

Cui Sheng naturally didn't know these things, but the status of the family in the court before the Anshi Rebellion, as long as he was a scholar, he didn't know it.

There is no love for no reason and hate for no reason in this world, and Cui Sheng, who is also a distant relative of the Cui family, knows the situation of the family very well, but sometimes it changes too quickly, and people can't adapt to it at all.

Just like seeing this valley, even in a dream, he can't outline such a harmonious valley, this is no longer a matter of financial resources, this requires great wisdom, Cui Sheng can conclude that the person who built this valley must be a genius.

I can find many very new things in the valley every day, when the financial statements are reviewed three days in advance, the big housekeeper of the valley personally met with the people involved in the statistics, and those words of encouragement will naturally not be less, Cui Sheng can even imitate every word said by the old man Wang Qun, and finally rewarded everyone with a hundred paper notes.

It wasn't copper coins used in the valley, and seeing the colorful paper in his hand made Cui Sheng's perception of money completely subverted, and copper coins were used for thousands of years and were abolished by the valley, which made Cui Sheng have a sense of unreality that he was deceived.

Is there a shortage of copper coins in the valley?

Naturally not! It can be seen in the financial statistics report that there are a large number of copper coins in the valley, as well as a room full of gold and silver, no one can answer the question in Cui Sheng's heart in detail, when he asks such a question, the people around him are very curious, tell Cui Sheng that these banknotes are not good? If you are not at ease, you can exchange them for gold and silver coins and hide them at home to count and play, and such stupid bubbling behavior will not be prohibited in the valley.

Only people who have just come to the valley would ask such a stupid question, Cui Sheng doesn't know what the benefits of doing this are, but the lightweight banknotes are indeed easy to carry, and the copper coins have always been six catties and four taels, and the banknotes have always been as light as a feather, even if they are exchanged for a silver coin, they don't know how many times lighter, this is indeed a good way.

What shocked Cui Sheng was not paper money, after all, paper money is also available in Datang, called flying money, which is usually circulated between the government and some big businessmen, and the amount is huge, and the paper money here is just more exquisitely made.

Cui Sheng saw a lot of magical things in Wang Qun's office, ceramics as thin as cicada wings, colorless and transparent utensils, mirrors that can reflect human figures, and colorful glass, which made Cui Sheng have an urge to rob.

The mentality that had just entered the valley was quietly changing, and Cui Sheng found that such a place was very good, and it was the kingdom of heaven in everyone's heart.

"The road is also, the world is for the public, the selection of talents and abilities, the letter and harmony, so people do not only kiss their relatives, do not only have their sons, so that the old have the end, the strong have use, the young have growth, the widows, the lonely and the sick are all raised; Men have a share, women have a home, the goods are evil and they don't have to hide in themselves, and the evil ones don't have to come out of the body and don't have to be for themselves. ”

I don't know how many years have passed since Confucius put forward the idea of universal harmony, and there is still no sign of it, but here Cui Sheng sees it.

"The old man does not kiss his own kinsman, nor his son his son. So that the old have the end, the strong have use, the young have growth, the widowed, lonely and the sick are all supported. ”

The idea of ordinary people is very simple, birth, old age, sickness and death are only a hundred years, this is happiness, this should be the appearance of a normal country, Cui Sheng saw it in the valley, and deeply realized it, "each performs its own duties, each in its place".

"The Mean" says: "Those who are in the middle are also the great foundation of the world; Those who are harmonious are also the way of the world. To neutralize, heaven is in the right place, and all things are nurtured". Each performs its own duties and assumes its place, that is, it is necessary to do no fault. If you don't do it, you won't be able to do it, and if you don't worry about it, you will pass it, and you will lose it. Only by doing nothing can we perform our duties, settle in our own positions, and achieve neutralization.

Cui Sheng felt disgusted by his behavior for the first time, and from the bottom of his heart, this place should not be destroyed, but he knew that such a place could not last long, and it was a matter of time before he was exterminated by the army of the imperial court, and he was the pusher, how not to make Cui Sheng feel pain.

(End of chapter)