Chastity Layman

After all, Qin Xun has already been driven to Songzhou by Qin Lang, and Qin Jun is now a popular fried chicken. The 36-year-old Wu'an County King and servant, even if Qin Xiaozhong is only 20 years old, he also attacked Qin Jun before. The Duke of Wei State is on the head.

Who is high and who is low, of course it is clear at a glance.

It can only be said that even if Cui Dunli is a son of five surnames, even if he is a prime minister, even if Qin Xun is his nephew, even if the two families have been married for three generations, Cui Dunli still hopes to marry Qin Lang in the end.

"Cui Dunli just hoped that I could take care of the Boling Cui family and their second house in the future. Cui Xiuye, An Ye, Cui Chushi and other children and grandchildren hope that I can arrange a good place for them."

Qin Xiaozhong understood in seconds.

"This is a deal. The second house of the Boling Cui family, the five-named family is still the prime minister's family. I am really flattered that the great-granddaughter of the first line is willing to marry me, the son of a maidservant."

"Cui Dunli is quite pragmatic. At the beginning, he was willing to shamelessly marry his daughter-in-law to his nephew as a concubine, but now there is nothing he can't do. What's more, you are not an ordinary bastard."

Xiaozhong smiled.

At that time, Cui Dunli actually wanted to marry his daughter-in-law to Qin Lang as a concubine, but Qin Lang didn't like it, so he later married his nephew Qin Xun as a concubine. This person is indeed more pragmatic.

During the Zhenguan and Kaiyuan dynasties, regardless of the five surnames and the seven surnames, or the six surnames of Guanlong, they were not less suppressed. Fanyang, the Lu family, the Qinghe Cui family, the Xingyang Zheng family, the Taiyuan Wang family, the Zhaojun Li family, and even the Longxi Li family had several branches. Being cut off is also a traumatic injury.

Especially right now, King Wei Xiaozheng is being purged in a new round following the palace change.

The Cui family in Boling has a great career. I think back in the Northern Dynasties, they were brutally raped several times. The worst time, the Cui family almost died. Later, Cui Yi, who was the secretary and supervisor of Qianyan, had eight sons, divided into six rooms, and later escaped from the second room Guanzhong defected to Yuwen's family, and when the Guanlong Group ruled the world, the Cui family of Boling would gain the most power with this second house.

Cui's other five households, and now there are still three households are not bad. Among them, Cui Fengju, the eldest household of Cui, is Cui Dunli's cousin of the same clan. Wei Xuanzhen of Mega-Wechsler is also the father of the abolished Empress Webster.

The palace change that just passed was called the Kaiyuan change. Wei Xiao had already been identified as a rebellion who murdered the emperor. Naturally, the Cui family of Boling was also implicated. It's also a big house, but after all, I can't write two Cui families in one stroke.

Cui Dunli is getting old, and he has to think about future generations. He has to find a way to keep the second wife from being implicated, and he also wants to reduce the implication for the eldest wife, and even more wants to find a good official position for his sons and grandchildren.

But to get it, you have to give first.

Wealthy families pay more attention to the exchange of interests.

It is too normal for Cui Dunli to propose marriage.

"Is Grandpa willing?"

"It's not that I marry a wife. It doesn't matter if I want to or not. The key is whether you want to or not."

Xiaozhong laughed.

"I, a concubine, have no right to refuse such a good thing. As long as Miss Cui is a normal woman, I am willing."

After all, the five-named family is still the daughter of the prostitute and the great-granddaughter of the prime minister, so why should she refuse? Moreover, both Qin and Cui have been married for three generations, and the Qin and Cui families have been politically allied for many years, so maintaining the relationship between the Qin and Cui families is also very important.

There are still three stakes for a fence.

"Okay, since you are willing, then this matter is settled, and you can't go back on your word. I will take you to visit Cui's house later and make this matter finalized."

After letting Xiaozhong leave, Qin Lang picked up a book from the table.

This is also the clan annals that he, Gao Shilian, Xu Jingzong, Linghu Defen and others were in charge of compiling in Zhenguanzhong, and the ranking of the major clans in the Tang Dynasty was published on it.

At first, Gao Shilian decided that Cui Mingan, the servant of Huangmen Cui's second house in Boling, was the first class. He didn't understand Li Shimin's original intention of compiling the clan annals, so he was not approved. After several revisions, Li Shimin was not satisfied. In the end, Qin Lang had to tell Gao Shilian the direction. In the end, it was not based on the prestige of the county in the past, but in the order of advocating official titles. The Li family of the royal family ranked first, followed by the queen's grandson, Dou, and Dugu. Then there is the prime minister's family, those poor families or even slaves, as long as they are of the fifth rank or above, they can be included in the clan annals.

But the Boling Cui family, a top-notch family, can only be placed in the third place.

Qin Lang dug out the clan records at this time, mainly to look at the family situation of the Boling Cui family. The Boling Cui family is a well-established family. The most important thing is that they not only have one family in the clan records, but several families in one surname.

After the entire clan annals was revised, there were 293 surnames, which were entered into 1,651 families.

The Boling Cui family included six families, which are now the Boling Cui family's six houses, and the second house is still very prosperous today.

In the Wude dynasty, the representative of the second house was Cui Mingan, who had been the servant of the Huangmen in the Wude dynasty, but since the Zhenguan dynasty, the leader of the second house was Cui Dunli.

Looking through the clan annals, it is recorded in detail that Cui Dunli is the ninth generation of the second house of the Cui family in Boling, Cui Mingan is the eighth generation, Cui Mingan is the grandson of Cui Xuanyou, Duke of Jijun, Cui Zhongfang is his father, and Cui Zhongfang is Cui Dunli grandfather.

However, Cui Minqian was the highest servant of the Huangmen, falsely named the Duke of Boling County, and Zhenguan died in his later years, and he was never able to enter the political affairs hall to pay homage to the prime minister.

Cui Dunli's sons are of mediocre talents, and usually like to hang out with Qin Xun, but his two younger brothers are not bad, one is his half brother Cui Yuqing, a son of a famous family, who is actually capable of both literary and military skills, and even abandons his pen to join the army , Li has military exploits at the border. There is also a cousin, Cui Chengfu, who is also good at riding, archery, brushwork, and poetry. The two brothers are also about the same age as Qin Lang.

After flipping through it for a while, Qin Lang also found that in the edition of the clan annals revised during the Zhenguan period, a small half of the 1,650 families on it had disappeared.

For example, the eldest grandson family, which was listed as the first-class descendant at the beginning, was implicated following the ruin of eldest grandson Wuji, and died a lot.

There are also many meritorious nobles or noble families, all of which are similar.

It has only been more than thirty years, and after two dynasties, such a big change has already taken place.

Clan chronicles can now be reworked.

Such a thought came to Qin Lang's mind.

Firstly, this clan annals is no longer suitable for the current situation, and secondly, the role of clan annals is political in nature. Now that the new emperor ascends the throne, it means that the new political structure, nobles and rich families will also be re-ranked.

If the name matches the reality, this will not lead to chaos, and it will also help to strengthen and stabilize the new fundamental structure of power and interests.

If the clan annals are revised again, then if the standards of Emperor Zhenguan are still followed, the Li family of the royal family is of course still the first rank, but the second rank is the ranking of the later clan and the prime minister's family.

Qin Lang naturally had to be the first in the second class. After all, the Qin family had a queen mother and then a queen, not to mention that Qin Lang was a prime minister, his son was also a prime minister, and even Qin Lang's father, Qin Qiong, was a prime minister.

Cui Dunli is old, and he has not lived for more than two years.

Qin Lang picked up the pen, first wrote the name of Cui Xiuye, the eldest son of Cui Dunli, and after thinking about it, he wrote the official position of Prince Tongshi Sheren after the name.

This is the official of the East Palace, compared with the Zhongshu Provincial Zhongshu Tongshi Sheren, with eight members, and the seventh rank is in charge of disseminating the prince's orders. They have no real power, but if they are gold-plated as the sons and daughters of Xun Qi, it is indeed a good job. Location.

Then write Cui Shouye's name, and after considering the meeting, write the official position of Xiaoshulang of Hongwenguan. He is a ninth-rank official.

If they really arranged for the Cui family brothers to be the judges of the Dali Temple and the heads of the six ministries, they might not be able to do well.

Cui Yuqing, a doctor of Fangsi, is from the fifth rank. Cui Chengfu, a soldier of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Guangzhou, Cao participated in the military and envoy of the Zhenhai Navy.

Qin Lang stopped writing, wrote down the names of more than a dozen Cui family children on the paper, followed by the official positions, checked it again, and finally drew a circle on the two names of Cui Yuqing and Cui Chengfu.

This is a person worthy of cultivation in the future Boling Cui's second house.

Qin Lang picked up the clan chronicle and flipped through it again. After a long time, he closed it and threw it aside.

Early the next morning, after Qin Lang washed up, he ate breakfast at home before going out.

Although the emperor sent someone to invite him early in the morning, Qin Lang was not in a hurry.

It's only the second day of the Lunar New Year, and the streets should be full of joy, but the news of the failure of the Western Regions is everywhere in the neighborhood, and even the major newspapers in Beijing and China have already typeset and printed their numbers overnight, and sell them everywhere in the morning.

Qin Lang sat in the carriage, "Xiaozhong, you will go to Duke Xia's mansion yourself in a while."

"OK."

Guo Xiaoke is also from Wagang. Although he has a closer relationship with Li Ji, they are all from the same line after all. In the Western Regions, in terms of personal relationship with the Qin family, it can't compare to Cheng Niu's family, but still the same sentence, everyone came from Wagang, so it's a matter of right and wrong, and we still advance and retreat together.

Guo Xiaoke's sudden death in the Western Regions was not only a loss for the Tang Dynasty, but also a great loss for the military upstarts.

Whether in public or private, Qin Lang would send someone to mourn and comfort him.

Send the eldest grandson first, and he will go there himself later.

Qin Lang entered the palace and came to the Xuanzheng Hall, all the ministers had already arrived.

The young emperor was wearing a round-neck gown and a black headband, pacing around the hall with his hands behind his back, very worried.

"Father Shang, news of the defeat in the Western Regions, Guo Xiaoke died in battle, the entire army of 3,000 Tang soldiers were wiped out, Dawan Army Town was besieged, and the entire Western Regions were in chaos. What should we do?"

Seeing Qin Lang entering the palace, the emperor rushed to greet him.

"Saint, please stay calm."

The emperor didn't sleep well last night. Qin Lang said that he should be calm when it comes to major events, but Li Zhao is young after all, and such a big event happened just after he took the throne, how could he be calm again.

"Western Turkic rebellion, Dashi took advantage of the fire to loot, Tucharo and Zhaowu's nine surnames are also reversed, how could this happen?"

The emperor was puzzled, how could the situation collapse as soon as Datang had managed the Western Regions for so many years.