After hearing Xue Yuanchao's words, Li Shimin wanted to issue an order on the spot and agreed to Xue Yuanchao's request.

However, he still held back, just because Changsun Wuji had just married the Lu family of Fanyang. If he supported the strict criticism of the Lu family of Fanyang, it would be easy to cause disputes within the court.

Seeing that Li Shimin didn't speak, Changsun Wuji laughed in his heart, but he didn't say anything.

He doesn't speak, it doesn't mean no one speaks.

Cui Dunli, the Minister of Rites, walked out. Although Cui Dunli moved to Xianyang from his grandfather's generation, Cui Yi, the former Yan Boling whom Xue Yuanchao impeached, was their ancestor three hundred years ago.

So Choi Dunli couldn't stand up and speak.

"I told Your Majesty that the marriage ceremony of scholars and common people is different, and it has always been the case since ancient times. Therefore, the gentry rarely intermarries with ordinary people, in order to perform their own rituals and not to be confused.

For example, Chen, the young tutor of the Prince of Liang of the Southern Dynasty, asked Zeng Shen to play Wang Yuan of the Donghai Wang family, and married his daughter to Fuyang Man family, saying: Although Yuan is a mediocre person, his ancestors are actually in China... He has been demoted to the high family, and even though he has done it, he has contemptuous ancestors and humiliated his relatives, so it is so.

What it means is that scholars and common people do not intermarry.

Although the families of Hebei Province have passed down from generation to generation and their descendants are not worthy of their descendants, they all know that they abide by poetry and etiquette and do not humiliate their ancestors.

The rituals of scholars and common people, how can they say that they corrupt the trend?”

Cui Dunli said very restrainedly and did not involve anything else. It just shows that our aristocrats and commoners do not intermarry at all, and no matter how we do it, it will not affect commoners.

He also quoted the words of the Liang Dynasty Chen Yue impeaching Wang Yuan from Donghai, saying that although Wang Yuan had a bad character, he had a noble family and that marrying the Fuyang Man family was a humiliation of his ancestors.

In order to avoid humiliating our ancestors, we do not marry the common people at all. We do not marry the common people and perform different rituals. How can we bring bad habits?

However, these words inevitably reminded some people of some unpleasant experiences, such as those who had failed to propose marriage to the Gaomen. After hearing Cui Dunli's defense, he felt as if he had been insulted.

Of course, Cui Dunli couldn't think of these things at this time, because Cheng Mingzhen, the Minister of Revenue, came out.

Cheng Mingzhen walked to the middle of the hall, bowed the upper hand solemnly, and then said in a deep voice: "I heard from Your Majesty, what Mr. Cui said is a bad thing. As the saying goes, the superiors have something to like, the subordinates must be very good. The gentry of Hebei Province has a very high reputation, and most of their actions are imitated by the people. It is an indisputable fact that the superiors and the people cannot argue.

What's more, this time, the Hebei Road suddenly encountered drought, and hundreds of thousands of people had no grain accumulation, all relying on the court to provide relief.

If His Highness the Crown Prince had not been forced to reclaim and grow grain in Guanzhong in the past two years, His Highness the King of Wu would have gone to the territorial territory to collect tributes, and the imperial treasury was slightly rich, he would have been able to revitalize the people at this time.

The Hebei prefectures are probably full of war, and the old events in the late Sui Dynasty will be played again.

The people have no savings, what is the reason?

One is that the families of the gentry in Hebei Province are extremely extravagant and want to knock bones and marrow on the people. The other is that the people also follow their extravagantness, do not store family property or cultivate land, so that the weather is slightly worse, and they become hungry people.

This shows that the extravagant marriages of the gentry in Hebei Province are already the source of disaster that endangers the whole country.

The Holy Emperor must be on guard!"

As soon as this statement came out, the court was in an uproar. Both Li Shimin and civil and military officials knew that there were hundreds of thousands of people who had no food to eat, and the world would be in chaos.

The company commander Sun Wuji couldn't hold back anymore and walked out to salute Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty, the gentry of Hebei Province has a luxurious marriage, but it is a private matter after all, it is difficult for the court to interfere with it.

Of course, what Secretary Cheng said must be guarded against. I think it is the right thing to do in Hebei Daxingtai and set a reasonable number of rents for rent from Youzhou Daxingtai, so that the people will not be exploited by the gentry.

This is a way to deal with Changsun Wuji had long thought of: to turn the blame on Youzhou Grand Tour.

Some of the people in the hall immediately understood Changsun Wuji's cleverness. The unanimous view of the civil and military officials in the court was that Li Chengqian had no choice but to take advantage of the gentry in Youzhou, so he ordered the princelings in Chang'an City to launch an impeachment.

Now Changsun Wuji kicks the ball to Youzhou Grand Tour again, and lets Li Chengqian do something more difficult to reduce the rent. Isn’t it embarrassing for others?

Sure enough, as soon as Changsun Wuji finished speaking, he saw Liu Shi coming out with a calm face.

"These words of Changsun Guojiu are not bad. The court should take charge of matters that can affect the country and the people. Mr. Cui just said that Chen Yue of the Southern Dynasty once wrote a memorial to play the King of Donghai. It can be seen that the marriage of aristocratic families has always been related to the world, so how can the court ignore it?"

Cui Dunli was so angry that he gritted his teeth when he heard Liu Shin attacking his son with his spear, but he didn't say anything else.

Because he knew that no matter what the debate in the court today, it would not change the fate of the gentry families in Hebei Province. After all, Li Chengqian is now in Youzhou, and with the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, he could deal with those gentry families.

Liu Shi’s ultimate goal should be Changsun Wuji, and it has nothing to do with him.

Sure enough, Changsun Wuji looked at Liu Shi and smiled faintly, "Mr. Liu said this, "Mr. Liu said in a thousand-character text, "Happiness is different from noble and humble, and etiquette is different from noble and inferior." The intermarriage among the gentry can only distinguish between scholars and common people. Just like a royal wedding, which time does not cost more than ordinary people? Did it also ruin the Tang Dynasty's atmosphere?"

As soon as Changsun Wuji said this, Li Shimin's expression changed.

These issues cannot be argued at all in feudal society, because feudal etiquette stipulates what class people should bear and what kind of treatment should enjoy.

There is a difference between scholars and commoners in feudal society. It is your fault that ordinary people force their studies to learn from the gentry and waste. Otherwise, you learn from the emperor and write an edict to kill someone, and then take someone to kill them, and tell the government that this is learning from the emperor, then your crime is definitely more serious than that of ordinary murder.

If Li Chengqian had been here, he would have said that the geniuses of Hebei Province were just proud of their identities and had no contribution in the Tang Dynasty. They were the same as ordinary people.

However, it is obvious that no one in the Tai Chi Hall would think so at this time.

Liu Shi and the princelings were all in an extremely unfavorable situation. If they continued to argue, they would involve imperial power. Li Shimin would not let them go now.

If there is no argument, it is equivalent to a great dynasty meeting to set the titles of the gentry of Hebei Province, which will directly increase resistance to Li Chengqian's future governance in Hebei Province.

"Your Majesty..." Liu Shi opened his mouth, but couldn't say it.

Li Shimin's face was gloomy. He also saw Liu Shishi's predicament, but he had to maintain the imperial power. Li Shimin now only felt that Li Chengqian was useless, Liu Shishi and others were useless and did not come up with a way to deal with the Taoist priests in Hebei.

"snort!"

Li Shimin waited for a while to meet with the great court and no one stood up again. Knowing that Li Chengqian's people had no way to deal with it, he had to summarize their argument.

At this time, Changsun Wuji looked calm and looked unpredictable and profound, while Liu Shi and others' hearts were all in their throats, but they were powerless.

"Report—"

"Youzhou Grand Tour Station sent an urgent memorial of 800 miles."
Chapter completed!