"Let's go, go back to the house to talk, it's quite cold outside." Li Chao had practiced for a long time and had sweated a little. After sitting here and chatting for a while, he became a little cold. Hanjing is still not as good as Lingnan. When he set out from Jiaozhou, he just needs to wear two pieces. When he arrived in Hanjing, he now has to wear a leather robe or cotton jacket.

Ma Zhou wore a cotton jacket today. The cotton robe was worn with cotton in it, which looked a bit bloated, but it was indeed very warm. Compared with the silk tights in the clothes in the past, I don’t know how much warmer it would be. Now many nobles have put down their furs and bought cotton jackets to wear.

Compared to fur, cotton jackets are quite expensive now, but they are still much cheaper. Besides, they are really warm.

When he returned to the house, Li Chao asked Ma Zhou to sit and have a tea first, and went to take a shower and change his clothes.

"The clan plot you compiled last time should not be named as the Li family in Bashang?" Li Chao sat down with a smile.

Ma Zhou was a little embarrassed. The Li family on Bashang is indeed prosperous now, and Li Chao’s name is well known to everyone in the world, but they did not compile Li Chao into it before. Because the clan is sorted by the gentry, the Li family is not considered a gentry. Old Tie Gun, that is an old mansion soldier. Li Chao, a abandoned baby novice monk who was taken in by the old monk.

Li Chao smiled and picked up a tangerine and peeled it.

"Try it, the tangerines in Guangfeng, Jiangxi, which are very sweet. There are no such delicious oranges in the north. The tangerines in Huainan are tangerines in Huainan and the tangerines in Huainan. If you want to talk about oranges, the best one is from Jiangxi. There are oranges in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, which are also very delicious. The lychees, bolos, mangoes, and coconuts in Lingnan are also delicious."

Ma Zhou also picked up a golden orange and peeled it.

"We did not have the Li family included before," he admitted.

Li Chao smiled and said, "If I guess well, such as my adopted father, the prince's family of Qi, and many founding ministers such as Lao Cheng, I'm afraid they are not included in the list, right?"

Ma Zhou nodded.

The clans were originally based on the county’s view. Which one could enter it was not a century-old gentry, a county’s view, or even a thousand-year-old family like Cui Zheng. Even the royal family could only be listed in the fifth.

Many of today's nobles, those military upstarts who are from Shandong heroes, are mostly small landlords or even farmers, so they are not qualified to be included.

Li Chao slowly tore up the white meridians on the orange petals.

"Isn't that right? Most of the princes and nobles in the court were thrown off the list by you, and the royal family ranked fifth. On the contrary, Cui Zheng and you were at the forefront. How could your Majesty accept it?"

The Li family is now in the world, and who is above the court?

It was Li Chao's group of upstarts in military meritorious deeds. Most of these people were not gentry, nor were they aristocratic families. Although Cui Gan also became the minister of the court, their status in the court was actually not high.

When the Tang Dynasty first achieved the world, there were mainly four regional groups, each with its own preferences.

The Guandong gentry was Shang Maria, the Jiangzuo gentry was Shang Guanqian, and the Guanzhong gentry was Shang Qianqian, and the Northern gentry was Shang noble relative.

From the Western Wei, Northern Zhou and Sui Dynasty, the Guanlong nobles were quite powerful, but the Sui Dynasty began to disintegrate, and by the Tang Dynasty it was far inferior to the past. After experiencing the Hanjing Rebellion, it can be said that the Guanlong group had been destroyed into the bottom of the mud. The Guanlong nobles started with force. Now, the military has been detained and civil and military separation have been separated, and the military generals are greatly restricted. In addition, the Guanlong old lords stood in the wrong team, so they naturally couldn't stand it.

The gentry in Jiangzuo and Daibei had already declined at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

Although the Eastern Aristocrats were greatly hit during the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi era, after the Sui Dynasty unified the world, the Sui Dynasty restored the Han and Wei ritual systems, and the Guandong Aristocrats quickly became richer with their thousand-year-old foundation.

Even with their long-standing marriage strategy, the Kanto gentry quickly got up again by marrying the Xunqi Group.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, genealogy was a very important thing, which was the basis for selecting officials. The division of sects depends on the situation of being officials in previous dynasties. It is listed as a clan and is a family of all the crowned families for generations.

If Li Shimin wants to compile his clan, should he follow the old path of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties?

Emperor Wen of Sui made the imperial examination system to break this set of things. From the birth of the imperial examination to the implementation of the new imperial examination today, it can be said that the court has always implemented a new system of talent selection and officials selection, and to break the monopoly of the aristocratic families.

"I hope Saburo will give me some advice."

Li Chao was not stingy either, "No need to talk about the past few generations, just take the level of the official title today."

"Only the current official title is the level?" Ma Zhou was shocked.

Not only was Li Chao not included in the previous version of the clan, but Ma Zhou also did not include it.

Because although he is the prime minister, he is not even from a small landlord, and is a real people.

"Is this OK?"

"Of course, I said just now. You should first understand why Your Majesty wants to compile the clan and know your Majesty's purpose, so that's easy to deal with. Is Your Majesty going to beat Cui Zheng and others? Of course not, nor is it to respect those thousands of years and a hundred years of families. The fundamental purpose of cultivating this clan is to reorder the social class of the Tang Dynasty today, which is to stabilize the order."

The emperor wanted to build a gentry system of the Tang Dynasty. In other words, these gentry began to count from the Tang Dynasty, such as Ma Zhou, in the past, were just poor children and common people. But now he is the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, the second official of the Secretariat, the title or the actual duke of the country, and the top title with fiefs. Such Ma Zhou can of course be included in the gentry of the Tang Dynasty, and even rank high.

For example, Li Chao is even more amazing. The only prince among the different ministers of the Tang Dynasty was of great merit, and he was also the Grand Tutor. He was also an emperor's in-laws. Therefore, even if he was not from a noble family before, among the gentry of the Tang Dynasty, the Li family in Bashang was still far ahead.

Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong, Cheng Yaojin, Luo Shixin, Li Ji, Shan Xiongxin, Niu Jinda and other top ministers in the court today were not gentry in the past, but from now on, they will all become new gentry in the Tang Dynasty and will rank high.

This is the original intention of Li Shimin to truly cultivate the clan.

Ma Zhou and the others couldn't even understand this, and they still cultivated a clan, and listed Cui Gan as the first-class, so that the emperor could make trouble?

The emperor did this with deep meaning, and was to consolidate the rule of the Tang Empire. For the emperor, Li Chaocheng, who fought with him, Yaojin, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others were his own people. What are Cui Lu, Zheng, and King Li?

Ma Zhou received Li Chao's advice, thanked him and rushed back.

Li Chao sat in the living room and frowned.

He did not expect that the clan was still being compiled, but it was a few years earlier than in history.

Historically, Li Shimin's clan ethnography was of course intended to suppress the Kanto gentry, but he did not completely suppress the gentry. He wanted to establish a new family and a feudal system.

Historically, Li Shimin later became the governor of the clan and his clan was introduced in a complementary manner.

Now Li Shimin has developed a clan, so Li Chao can tell at a glance what Li Shimin is thinking. He wants to build a new aristocratic system of the Tang Dynasty and establish a brand new aristocratic system of the Tang Dynasty. The purpose of this system is of course to comprehensively seize power by the new aristocratic family.

The new aristocracy replaced the old aristocracy, which was beneficial to the court, and the new aristocracy was their own people.

For Li Chao, this clan is also beneficial to him and the Li family and the relatives. The benefits are still great, which greatly enhances their status. It can be said that after the Han and Beijing Rebellion, the emperor urgently needed to strengthen his rule and gain more supporters.

The Han and Beijing Rebellion eventually split the Tang Dynasty. Although Li Shimin eventually suppressed the rebellion with force and purged many opponents by force, this was also a very dangerous thing.

He couldn't let this happen again.

The ministers who accompanied him to fight the country stood up, and at the same time left a place for the old gentry such as Cui Zheng. Although their status was reduced, they still had a place.

Especially now that the implementation of the new imperial examinations has a great impact on the old gentry. In the past, the old gentry had a direct monopoly, but now they have to compete with the children of poor landlords. Although the gentry has more resources and has an advantage, they still have to compete with the mud-legged ones after all.

In this regard, it can also be seen that Li Shimin was also a bit conservative. In other words, he was relatively steady. Yang Guang took too much reform steps back then, but he ended up tying up and ruining the country.

After Li Shimin experienced the Hanjing Rebellion, he did not dare to completely ignore the old aristocratic families.

On the one hand, we implemented the new imperial examination system, but on the other hand, we asked people to compile clans to establish the ranking of the aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin's strategy is to replace the old gentry with the new gentry instead of suppressing the gentry in an all-round way. I have to say that Li Shimin is getting more and more powerful.

Li Shimin, who is thirty years old, is getting closer and closer to his thirty years old, is getting more and more experienced.

This is a compromise, but also an offensive defense.

Ma Zhou left the Li family and went straight back to the imperial city's Zhongshu. As soon as he entered, he asked someone to bring in four senior officials, Gao Shilian, Cen Wenben, Wei Ting and Linghu Defen, who were majoring in clan anatomy together.

"Someone please take a look at this."

Ma Zhou handed a piece of paper to four people, which was a new direction for editing of the clan journal he had written in a car on the way.

"The royal family is the first, followed by honors and relatives, and I am the order of titles and official positions in the court."

This is basically the tone that Li Chao set for Ma Zhou.

The surname is no longer the main focus, but the title is the main focus. Even the honorary relatives rank second, which means that those nobles who were not from common people who were previously a commoner and landlords will also enter the clan and even be ranked in front of the old gentry such as Cui Zheng.

"Royal No. 1, so who is this second?"

Gao Shilian frowned and asked, Ma Zhou's proposal was like a thunder strike.

Clans are divided into surnames and family, with one ranking of surnames and one ranking of family.

The surname Li must be ranked first, so the first family must be the royal family. So who is the second surname and who is the second family?

Ma Zhoudao, "Of course, the first surname is the royal family, the Li family. The second surname should be the Hou clan, so it should be the Changsun clan. As for family ranking, the royal family is also the first family, and the second family should be the Hou clan, so I think we should also choose the Changsun clan of Luoyang."

Cen Wenben said on the side, "If this is the standard ranking, then I think the family ranks third, and it should be the Li family on the Bashang. Li Wenyuan is the only prince of the opposite sex, and he is the imperial magistrate, and his royal marriage. His children are engaged to the prince, and his son is still a princess."

Gao Shilian said, "If you follow the standard proposed by Ma Xiang, the Li family on the Bashang list will be third in the family list, and second in the surname Li."

"However, if you don't respect your surname but become an official, can this standard be in line with Your Majesty's wishes?"
Chapter completed!