The banquet is just a demonstration of the strength of Huitong Money House.

The Grand Tutor's Mansion came, and Tanhua Lang Li Kui appeared, and the invited person was not the heads of various families. Most of them were the same identity as Qiu Mingren, who helped manage property for the big family. It was enough for them to see the Grand Tutor's second son-in-law and Li Kui appeared.

There is no need to toast, and even Qiu Mingren dares to let Li Kui drink.

Everyone knows that this man has a bad wine taste, and is afraid that the banquet will eventually turn into an apology banquet.

The next day, Li Kui was forced to Huang Tingjian's home by Su Guo and Fan Chong.

Also accompanying Gao Qiu, Li Yun and others, and Ma Yuxin joined a small group, indicating that his heart must participate, but because there is something happening temporarily in Lu Guogong's Mansion, the instructions will arrive later.

When several people entered Huang Tingjian's yard, Su Guo lowered his head and did not dare to look at this master. Huang Tingjian and Su Shi were both teachers and friends. They were of the same age and neither of them cared about the title of master or apprentice. When Huang Tingjian saw Su Guo, he greeted enthusiastically: "Shudian, you guys come here to sit."

During this period, the old servant brought the wine glass and placed the wooden chopsticks. Several people sat on the table. Hearing Huang Tingjian said, "I don't care when I go back and write to you. Family matters are a major family matter, so I can't be careless. I'm not angry with my brother, nor have any good intentions. I must not hurt the friendship between the two families."

"Master, your boss is drinking in the morning and you dare to say that you have nothing to worry about?" Li Yun owed.

Fortunately, Huang Tingjian was well-educated and did not get angry, but also said a secret: "The teacher asked for marriage to be a real person, but he was rejected. In terms of marriage, both parties are in love with each other. Isn't it normal to refuse?"

Su Shi had only been an official for more than ten years, and Su Xun and Mrs. Cheng died of illness one after another during this period. Su Shi and Su Che were mourning for six years in Meishan. During these six years, they did not become officials. Su Shi's official position was naturally not very high, and the Sima Guang family was extremely prominent. Although Sima Guang and Su Shi were friends, the Sima Guang family was a descendant of the royal family of the Jin Dynasty, and there were high officials throughout the dynasties, so they were not a family that the Su family could reach.

In the end, Su Shi was covered in dust. Especially Su Shi's face was too ugly when he was begging for nothing. Fortunately, although Sima Guang rejected Su Shi, the two families did not get into evil.

Even Li Kui could hear the sour taste of this.

It seems that the Master is hiding something in his mind.

Huang Tingjian sighed and said to Fan Chong: "Chief Yuan, since you are here, let me tell you about the family background for Li Kui. They probably don't know the importance of it."

Speaking of family background, although scholars and officials do not say it, they will be considered in marriage when proposing marriage, and even become the most important consideration for the success of marriage.

Many families even use family background as the most important basis for marriage.

This is also why my cousin and her cousin were playing with her when she was a child, and she became an official and a wife when she grew up. After all, the previous generation had the same family status, and the possibility of marriage for the next generation increased greatly.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as Ma Yu.

The reason why the Wen family catches the son-in-law under the list is more because the development of the family's children is not satisfactory. Even one generation is worse than the other. If the aristocratic family feels a sense of crisis, they will choose to catch the son-in-law under the list. Of course, Ma Yu, who has the title of top scorer, is not considered a high-level victory, but a win-win situation. Ma Yu obtained the political resources of Wen Yanbo who has been in the court for 60 or 70 years, and the Wen family also has the people who can carry the banner in the fourth generation.

Although Su Shi was unruly and extremely unrestrained when he was young, he was still thinking hard about the major issues related to family background.

Su Shi cannot be blamed.

Su Shi's father Su Xun was just thinking hard. If we traced it back, the root cause would still be his grandfather.

Speaking of which, the Su family in Meishan started with Su Shi's second uncle, and Su Shi's second uncle passed away at that time. This gave Su Shi's grandfather Su Xu great hope, because it was a very promising landlord who could not be exempted in the Song Dynasty. Unfortunately, his second uncle died of illness not long after, and he was not very good at being an official, so he did not even get the court's grace.

This was embarrassing. It seemed that the Su family was about to rise, but they were exhausted by urinating.

This has to be said that Su Shi's grandfather had vision and relied on his second son's brief peak moment to make two relatives for the Su family.

The Cheng family in Meishan, and the Wen family in Zizhou.

Mrs. Cheng is the biological mother of Su Shi and Su Zhe. In order to get married, Su Xun married her daughter to the Cheng family's children. However, the tragedy was a tragedy. Su Baniang, who had married, was very unfortunate and died of illness a few years later. It was said that she was still neglected and abused by the Cheng family.

This is impossible. The reason is related to Su Shi's father Su Xun. The Su family did not even dare to prosper at that time. Old Su failed to pass the Jinshi, and he spent countless ancestral property to take the exam, and the dowry prepared for his daughter was slightly thinner. This is probably also the reason why Su Baniang was not good. The reason for Su Baniang's misfortune was mostly due to these two types of misfortune. If the dowry was sufficient, her treatment in her husband's family would not be so bad. Of course, if Su Shi had passed the Jinshi for a few years early, the Cheng family would not have dared to do so too much.

It was not until Su Shi and Su Zhe brothers both passed the high school in Jiayou that Su family rose from their hometown.

After the rise, the Su family and the Cheng family broke off contact, and Su Che and the Wen family still had a marriage.

When Su Shi and Su Zhe began to make their mark in the court, they were attracted by Fan Zhen, the head of the Sichuan rich family. Fan Zhen really liked Su Shi, but Fan Zhen was older and a peer of Ouyang Xiu. Fan Zhen was older and had a prominent position in the court. Su Shi and Fan Zhen were like a friend of his age. Su Shi was promising at that time, and they entrusted Fan Zhen to help sell the property. This was also Fan Chong's uncle. Later, Su Shi returned to Beijing and lived in the Fan family without a place. Later, the second generation of the Su family began to marry the Fan family.

It can be seen how difficult it is for the Su family to marry from a new local force step by step to a second-rate civil servant family that can be regarded as a member of the Song Dynasty.

The Huang Tingjian family's family is a little worse than the Su family, and Su Shi has recommended Huang Tingjian, so the relationship between the two becomes very subtle.

Of course, Huang Tingjian also lost this kindness.

At the beginning, Su Shi was trapped in Wutai and imprisoned, but he couldn't stand it anymore. The reformist faction meant that he would be lenient when he said "agatherers". Su Shi had no choice but to write a "agatherers" with a list of more than 30 people. Among these names, the names of Huang Tingjian and his uncle Li Chang were the names.

Don’t think that Su Shi would randomly slander. If Huang Tingjian really disagrees, Su Shi would be slandering, which would be a crime.

It can be seen that before this list came out, everyone on the list had nodded in agreement.

But even so, Huang Tingjian finally lost face.

Fan Chong, Su Guo, Gao Qiu, who had been idle for this period of time, and Li Yun and others, sat at Huang Tingjian's home, talking about these so-called families.

Basically, it was Fan Chong who said that Su Guo agreed, and the audience became Li Kui.

"I always think you are deliberately targeting me?" Li Kui heard it for a while and then realized that his family was even worse than Huang Tingjian's family. Master Huang Tingjian also had an uncle who passed the Jinshi, and he became the Chief Censor of the Censor a few years ago. This official position is already considered an important official in the court.

His uncle...

It seems that pig slaughtering. Pig slaughter in other places may be able to make a big fuss. But Yishui is poor! Not many people can eat meat, and butchers can't make money.

His father is a blacksmith.

It’s all because of the problem of eating. Haha, at least others are still landlords?

If he really wants to talk about family background, he may not be worthy of Liu Qingyan in his life. After all, the Liu family has changed their ranks and become the Grand Tutor's Mansion of the current dynasty.

Fan Chong smiled and said, "You were a little lingering before, but now you don't have to worry about the identity of Tanhualang. However, some aristocratic families are not something you can do. For example, the Wang family of Daming Mansion, the Zeng family of Jiangxi, the Lü family of Lantian, the Lü family of Shouzhou, the Zhang family of Pucheng, and the Chao family of Jizhou... These are the top aristocratic families in the Song Dynasty. Ma Yu is lucky. He can marry the Wen clan, and his Ma family's family can be greatly improved."

Li Kui said angrily: "Why don't you say that your grandfather's Laiyang Lu family is interesting?"

Fan Chong said a little embarrassedly: "Aren't you afraid that you will say I'm boasting again?"

"I have to be strong in my own way. I think the family is unreliable. Are all the children of aristocratic families coming out of talents?" Li Kui said unconvincedly.

As Li Kui's clan brother, Li Kui was despised, but Li Yun was despised. Li Yun, who was resentful, said: "That's right, our Li family ancestors were the chief general of the Shence Army and the royal family of the Tang Dynasty."

Faced with Li Yunqiang's approach to seeking relatives, Fan Chong looked disdainful: "Which monarch is your ancestor? From which royal mansion? Whose emperor can trace back to the Tang Dynasty?"

Li Yun was stunned. His family genealogy seemed to be fabricated, not all of them were fake. The main reason was that the founding ancestor was fake. Moreover, he had not remembered the name of the ancestor. This was embarrassing.

"Oh, by the way, why haven't Ma Boren come yet?" In order to ease the embarrassment, Su Guo, who is sensitive, even felt that Huang Tingjian's old servant looked at him without being as kind as before.

In the seat, except for Fan Chong and Su Guo who can be called princes, that is, the sons of dukes and marquis, the others are all from civilians. Fan Chong talks about class, family, and invisible families. The Song Dynasty treated civil officials with preferential treatment, not only in terms of treatment, but also in terms of titles. For example, the second-rank civil officials would be awarded the title of the founding county Duke. The first-rank civil officials would be awarded the title of the founding county Duke. From top to bottom to fifth-rank civil officials, as long as they have made merits, they might be awarded the title of the founding county Duke.

As for the smallest official, the court will not grant it.

Su Che's title happened to be a Marquis.

If Su Shi replaced Su Guo's proposal to marry a marriage, the Sima family would not only not be rejected, but would be happily welcomed into the door and discuss what day to get married.

Family background is so realistic. At the same time, it also makes people helpless.

This is very important for Li Kui, who has just left his civilian status.

When aristocratic families marry, they can only obtain families with the same family status, or new Jinshi with both talent and knowledge and great prospects. Today, Li Kui can already marry some families that are not prominent, but his father-in-law is a young lady from a Jinshi. He even operates better and can marry a more prominent family girl.

But if Li Kui had improved his identity, he would have been greedy for his clan members and asked for marriage to a family that could not be worthy of the Li family, he would definitely be in a mess. The most likely person was Li Yun. Before that, Fan Chong and Li Yun studied together and went to the provincial examination together, and did not feel arrogant.

But Li Yun felt that since he decided to participate in the martial arts ceremony, Fan Chong's attitude towards him has changed.

Fan Chong clearly gave Li Kui a good intention to teach him the importance of family status. At the same time, he also told him that the rules of family status are very dead and don’t try to break them easily.

Of course, he also targeted Li Yun.

When Li Yun was not preparing for the imperial examination, he felt that Li Yun's marriage would cause great trouble to Li Kui in the future. Especially Li Kui has a bad temper. If he reacts fiercely, it would be better to inform him in advance.

At this moment, Gao Qiu, who was sitting with him, became inexplicably nervous. He felt that he had developed before.

As a military family whose parents died since childhood and had no choice but to succeed, he had already been to the emperor. Seeing that the high-ranking officials waved to him with a generous salary, and there was also a not-too-small house in the city. With Andao's wonderful skills rejuvenated, he had the confidence that his illness seemed to be cured.

That's right.

Gao Qiu no longer looked down on the young lady from an ordinary family. He wanted to find a young lady from an official family so that his old Gao family would change the family. However, after Fan Chong's introduction, Gao Qiu felt a chill in his heart, but he was very unwilling to accept it. He said weakly on the side: "Everyone, I want it..."

Halfway through speaking, Gao Qiu blushed.

Fan Chongke is both a very smart family. He can see what thoughts had happened to Gao Qiu. Feng Qingyun asked indifferently: "You don't want to find a wife from an official family, right?"

Gao Qiu shook embarrassedly: "Isn't this possible?"

"Okay, okay, find an official family of less than the fifth rank, and you're almost done." Fan Chong looked like he was pointing his fingers in the country, and he was very worthy of beating, but Gao Qiu just took this trick. He nodded seriously and said, "Chief Yuan, do you think this matter can be done?"

"It's possible to do it, but don't expect us. You have to look for it from the general's door." Fan Chong looked at Gao Qiu meaningfully. He could guess Gao Qiu's thoughts. This guy was not honest. He was originally a military family, but now he has become a lucky minister around the emperor and is still a military general. If such a person asks for relatives, his betrothal gifts will be thrown out of the door! He will be embarrassed at that time.

Gao Qiu, you don’t know anything about it?

But Gao Qiu disagrees! He followed Su Shi and practiced writing for many years. He dared not say that he was a talented man, right? But he was also a literati? Why was he stabbed into the ranks of rough generals in one fell swoop?

Can the young lady of a military general be as good as the young lady of a civil official’s family?

Gao Qiu stared at Fan Chong with some reluctance and plucked up the courage: "Is it impossible to marry a young lady from the magistrate family? Yuan Chang, please don't say it first. Listen to me. Although I am a poor commander now, Gao is not a person who satisfies self-pride. Maybe in a few years, Gao will be the commander of the horse stance? Gao doesn't want to join the wealthy family, as long as the young lady from the magistrate family is very satisfied."

Gao Qiu's life changed from entering the land of the capital again.

Before leaving Beijing, he was a gangster.

When he returned to the capital, he was a scholar.

Although he took the opportunity to get a quota for the martial arts examination, he also started with the literary examination!

If the competition for the literary test in Kaifeng Prefecture was too fierce, Gao Qiu would not have made such a bad decision. But unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the general, he turned from white to black. It would be fine if Su Che didn't like him. Now even Fan Chong thinks that his toad wants to eat swan meat, which is too shocking, right?

Before entering the capital, or even after living in the capital for two or three months, Gao Qiu did not feel that he was destined to be an official. It was not until Li Kui entered the capital that his life showed signs of rising. Even so, Gao Qiu's life goal was not great. At least for Fan Chong and others, being a commander of the horse stance was just a commander of 10,000 people, but not the commander of the palace. The former is a fifth-rank general and the latter is a second-rank general, which is not the same as that.

This sudden wealth made him a little fluttering. He no longer looked down on the little jade family that could make him drool at once. He also wanted to raise the family of Lao Gao's family, and getting married was undoubtedly the best way.

Fan Chong listened to Gao Qiu's wish and had a toothache. The young lady from the magistrate's family, who was the magistrate of the Song Dynasty, wasn't he a Jinshi from the second place?

Do you think the magistrate would look down on military generals?

However, there are exceptions, such as when Gao Qiu's status is high enough, he may be able to make an exception. Fan Chong pondered: "It's not impossible. As long as you become the Grand Marshal, it is not a problem to marry a young lady from the magistrate."

Gao Qiu's face turned red and white, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, Gao must become this Grand Marshal in this life!"
Chapter completed!