In the next two days, Du Shaoqing lived in the Cui family with peace of mind. Under Cui Hao's leadership, he walked around and truly saw what a thousand-year-old family was. As expected, from the inside out, there were extraordinary features.

Houses and buildings have been passed down for many years, not to mention the antique flavor, in terms of area, the entire Qinghe County belongs to the Cui family, which is only a small aspect. According to Cui Hao's introduction, the five surnames and seven families each control the trade issues of different industries in the Tang Dynasty.

For example, the Wang family in Taiyuan had originally controlled the salt industry of the Tang Dynasty, and the Cui family in Boling and Li family in Zhaojun jointly controlled the iron industry. Although the salt and iron in the Tang Dynasty were under the jurisdiction of the court, the court had insufficient strength at the beginning, so it had to hand it over to these major families to manage and operate on their behalf.

After Li Er took office, the Iron Manufacturing Court also divided some of them to the Changsun family to operate, which was a sign of wanting to slowly get back resources, but this requires time to accumulate.

Last year, Du Shaoqing took out the secret method of salt making. The court acted vigorously and reshuffled the entire salt making industry, causing the originally very precious white salt to become something on the dining table of ordinary people, and the business of the Wang family in Taiyuan was directly destroyed.

But they dared not speak out. The court held the right to be righteous. Whoever dared to stand up and stop the people of the world from eating salt would probably not be incited by others. The people would stand up and resist first.

It is precisely because of this that the Wang family in Taiyuan has already hated Du Shaoqing.

As for the Qinghe Cui family among the five surnames and seven families, the industry occupied by the people is all about people's livelihood, and in fact, it is about doing all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

After hearing this, Du Shaoqing felt deeply moved. If Cui Hao, the anti-bone boy who tried to overthrow his family and wanted to rebuild his glory, would probably be his father-in-law, Emperor Li Er, who could tell him so clearly.

When I buy something from these people, I will make a small fuss when I work with Cheng Yaojin to sell wine, let alone make furniture, etc.

At this time, Du Shaoqing regretted that he had handed over the coal mine so simply. If he could take over the coal mine industry, he would probably be able to compete with these people. Unfortunately, it was too late and the coal mine had already returned to the court.

I think the emperor Li Er must be very happy at that time. He could also see that this was something comparable to salt and iron, but it was really in the hands of the court. This is all thanks to his good son-in-law Du Shaoqing. Because of this, Du Shaoqing is becoming more and more favored.

The five surnames and seven families are so powerful that they all have to make concessions when they unite. Why does Cui Hao have to stand on the opposite side and be a rebellious boy? Du Shaoqing also asked this kid about this question.

Unexpectedly, Cui Hao could see clearly at a young age. There was a ancestral teaching for the five surnames and seven families. He did not hold a military force and did not raise troops to seize power in troubled times. He could make a living by his family through poetry and books forever! Because everyone knows: a hundred-year dynasty, a thousand-year-old family.

It may not be difficult to seize power and become a royal family, but how long will the royal family last? At most, it is as powerful as the Han Dynasty, and it is only four hundred years ago and cannot compare to the thousand-year-old family that has a long history.

This is the cornerstone of the establishment of a noble family, but Cui Hao also saw it. This is also the target of the unstable family. As the old man Cui Yanmu said, the world was made. The throne was not granted by heaven, but whoever has military power should sit on the throne.

Although the aristocratic families do not have their own troops now, they are doing stupid things to squeeze the court and exploit the people. This is like secretly seizing power from the emperor. Sooner or later, it will attract the emperor's grudge. At that time, it will not be able to save him by changing his mistakes and changing his style.

I am afraid that the emperor will be buried in a rage and the army will dispatch it to shatter all the glorious dreams of the aristocratic family. It will be too late to regret it at that time!

Hearing Cui Hao's heart-warming explanation, Du Shaoqing had to sigh that this person's courage and vision were indeed far beyond ordinary people. No wonder the old man of the Cui family favored him because the old man also saw it, but he was powerless, or he did not have the courage and courage of this grandson.

Du Shaoqing thought to himself that if the five surnames and seven families are so strong, if the imperial court kills them all, will it cause paralysis of the entire country? Did Cui Hao worry too much? But after all, they still didn't ask too much. After all, they were thinking right, and the prosperity will lead to decline forever.

In fact, Du Shaoqing didn't learn much history and didn't know what happened later.

It is indeed not easy for the five surnames and seven families to be glorious for many years, but Cui Hao is right. Historical records: these great families did decline in the Tang Dynasty. From the time of Emperor Li Shimin, it was not until the time of the Empress Wu Zetian that the three generations of emperors did this for nearly sixty years, and the five surnames and seven families finally withdrew from the stage.

Of course, this is all a story later, and no one knows that this will be the result in the future.

After visiting the Cui family, Du Shaoqing also discovered that the difference between these big clans and secular people lies in education. Children in large families, regardless of their direct descendants, side branches, etc., must be sent to family schools to study and learn to read, so as to ensure that the next generation of the family starts higher than that of the general public.

You should know that the Tang Dynasty had not yet conducted popular education, because without this capital, without movable type printing and papermaking, books could not be widely spread. People don’t even have books at home, so how can they talk about recognizing words?

Therefore, these families have already run their own schools, which is one step ahead of everyone. They even absorb some foreign talents from around them to learn, so as to determine the status of master and apprenticeship with each other. If these children become officials in the future, they will naturally be in the Cui family's relationship network.

This is also the reason why the five surnames and seven families can occupy more than half of the officials in various courts, and it is also the reason why the Tang Dynasty held the imperial examination and achieved little success.

Before the Tang Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty opened a vocational school to obtain scholars, with the purpose of breaking the blockade of aristocratic families. But now, 90% of the students who came to take the exam were related to these families. The difference between opening a vocational school to obtain scholars was to free up official positions for the people of these families. Emperor Li Er was also secretly worried about this.

In addition to following Cui Hao to visit the Cui family, Du Shaoqing also became a good person and read the books in Cui's library without hesitation. Of course, what he was interested in was nothing else, but the hundreds of books that Old Man Cui said were passed down from the medical school.

In the pre-Qin period, hundreds of schools of thought contend, and doctors were also one of the long-standing inheritances, but later gradually declined. I don’t know whether the inheritance was cut off or hidden in the world, but I didn’t expect that Cui’s family would have collected works from doctors.

Not only that, Du Shaoqing also found the military books they collected for Xue Rengui to read. This is a real gentleman. If he doesn't tell him, he would steal it. How can he be qualified to read a book by his own guard?

After being persuaded and educated by Du Shaoqing, Xue Rengui let go and read the military books. He became addicted to it at this moment. He had too little inheritance from the Xue family, so he had a rare opportunity to study hard. When he saw the military books collected by the Cui family, Xue Rengui realized that fighting was so difficult.

The two of them were studying with relish, and some people in the Cui family were unhappy. How could outsiders be qualified to enter the Cui family’s own library? Not to mention going in to read books, even if they borrowed two volumes, they would have to say a lot of good things to the Cui family.
Chapter completed!