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Chapter 1614 Meeting with the Aristocratic Family (Part 1)

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    On October 5th, Huang Mingyuan left Xindu City early in the morning and took his guards to greet him outside the west gate.  The three major families in Hebei sent people to Xindu to meet Huang Mingyuan, and the one who came today was Cui Shuzhong of the Boling Cui family, Huang Mingyuan's great uncle.

    In order to show respect for the Cui family and to ease the previous conflict with the Cui family over the Lu family matter, Huang Mingyuan came to greet them in person.  However, in order to avoid other misunderstandings among others, they thought that Huang Mingyuan was really afraid of the Cui family, so Huang Mingyuan did not bring any officials and only came to see him as a junior.

    Cui Shuzhong was also an old strategist. When he saw that Huang Mingyuan was dressed in regular clothes and that all the guards were wearing servant clothes and no armor, he understood what Huang Mingyuan meant.

    Public is public, private is private.  He is willing to admit that the Cui family is his maternal uncle's family and respects the Cui family on weekdays, but it is impossible for him to make any retreat for this reason.

    At this time, Cui Shuzhong had to blame his second brother. Why did he have to force his eldest brother's disciples so hard that they almost established a separate school.  After all, there was another layer between him and Huang Mingyuan. Otherwise, if the eldest brother and the disciples came today, they would be in a different situation.

    However, Cui Shuzhong's treatment is already very high. At least Huang Mingyuan went out to greet them in person. When Li Shaotong of Zhaojun Li's family and Cui Junchuo of Qinghe Cui family arrived, Huang Mingyuan didn't show up at all.

    There are many big families in Hebei, and many of them are centuries-old or thousand-year-old families. The Cui and Li families are almost the pinnacle of China's big families. For others, even the emperor of a country may not be able to gather them together.  But Huang Mingyuan was different. He had a knife in his hand, courage in his heart, and support behind him. No matter how powerful the three major families were, they would not dare to touch his edge.

    This is also a rare time point in the development of history. Sooner or later, Huang Mingyuan's ability to intimidate wealthy families would not be so strong.

    The big families in Hebei are headed by the Boling Cui family, the Qinghe Cui family, the Zhaojun Li family, and the Bohai Gao family, and also include the Qinghe Zhang family, Qinghe Fang family, Gaoyang Xu family, etc., arranged in a pyramid structure.  Basically, the higher you go, the more stable your family's status becomes. Even after ups and downs, it remains strong.  As for the middle and lower classes, their influence has been greatly weakened. In this turbulent social environment, a very small number of people have taken off, while most of them have been lost in the long river of history.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? by aristocratic families, is to control resources, from population, land, fertility to education, culture, and publicity. Through the monopoly of invisible and tangible resources, they stand at the top of the social class.

    ??At least for now, the culture of this nation relies on the existence of aristocratic families.

    Of course Huang Mingyuan can annihilate all the aristocratic families one by one, but the time and means required are almost unimaginable, which is basically equivalent to the annihilation of this nation.

    Therefore, since the other party cannot be eliminated, the relationship between Huang Mingyuan and the aristocratic family has to be eased.

    After welcoming Cui Shuzhong, the uncle invited Huang Mingyuan to ride in a carriage with him.  Huang Mingyuan did not refuse. He knew that the other party wanted to test his attitude.

    Cui Shuzhong's carriage is simple yet solemn. Although it is not very luxurious, it is extremely solemn and one does not feel grandiose when in it.

    I have to admit that neither my second uncle nor my third uncle are ordinary people.

    The Cui family of Boling and the Cui family of Qinghe came from the same place. They were both descendants of Cui Zhu, the treacherous minister of Qi State.  Cui Zhu caused chaos in the country, and his two sons fled north. The Cui family of Qinghe became the eldest, and the Cui family of Boling became the second.  Until the Northern Wei Dynasty, the family status of the Boling Cui family was lower than that of the four surnames represented by the Qinghe Cui family. However, by the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou dynasties, they were fully promoted to first-class noble families.  Especially the second house of Boling is the most prominent. The second house of Boling basically rose in the hands of his great-grandfather Cui You.

    Even more than ten years later in history, the second house of Boling ranked first in the "Clan Chronicle" and became the "Crown of the Gentlemen".

    Of course, Cui doesn¡¯t have that status yet.  Huang Mingyuan of the Fanyang Lu family will be destroyed at will. Although Huang Mingyuan cannot exterminate the Bolingcui family because of his in-law relationship, it is still possible to use his brother's lineage to change the Bolingcui family.

    Huang Mingyuan and Cui Shuzhong were sitting in the carriage, both of them silent.  It's true that Cui Shuzhong doesn't know how to treat his grandson.

    Cui Shuzhong was silent for a long time, and finally said: "What does Mingyuan think of the aristocratic family?"

    Huang Mingyuan thought for a while and said: "The example of the common people."

    When Cui Shuzhong heard this, he didn¡¯t know how to answer it.  Should the example of the common people be directed towards the government or the common people?  Are you speaking for the government or the common people?

    Accompanying Cui Shuzhong this time was Cui Zhongfang's eldest son Cui Mintao. Seeing the chaos in the world, he had resigned and returned home.

    After listening to Huang Mingyuan¡¯s words, he couldn¡¯t hold back his anger, so he asked: ¡°I¡¯m self-observation and self-defense.¡±?Since arriving in Hebei, everything he has done has been to suppress the wealthy families, and the people he has used have even excluded the children of the wealthy families.  Is Duke Wei ready to completely abandon the wealthy family?  "

    When Cui Shuzhong heard this, he quickly looked at Huang Mingyuan's face, fearing that he would anger Huang Mingyuan.  My nephew is already fifty, and he is also a big father, but his temper is still so out of touch, and he has not even learned three points of his brother's skills.

    But Huang Mingyuan said: "What my second uncle (the second family member) said is really wrong. Since I came to Hebei, the purpose of what I did was to alleviate local conflicts and restore local people's livelihood. I never targeted a certain family or family.  The thoughts of a certain person. Of course, no one person or family has the strength to be worthy of my special targeting.

    As for the people I want to use, it¡¯s not that I don¡¯t want to use children from aristocratic families, it¡¯s that children from aristocratic families don¡¯t want to be used by me.  Second uncle, you see, the Bolingcui family is still my uncle's family, and there are not many people who defect to me. I can only use people from the common people.  "

    Huang Mingyuan said it very lightly, but it was very serious.

    The aristocratic family is not on the same level as him.  Similarly, Huang Mingyuan will bow to the wealthy family only if they bow to Huang Mingyuan first. Even if Huang Mingyuan throws an olive branch to them, he will not give in first because of this.

    Cui Shuzhong was very worried that his visit would be in vain.

    He still remembers his brother's comment about his grandson before his death: "Straight on the outside and crooked on the inside, broad on the outside and strict on the inside; he seems to be kingly, but in fact he is domineering. He will either dominate the world or die and destroy his family." His brother was right.

    At this time, Cui Shuzhong was thinking carefully about how to impress Huang Mingyuan, at least without causing a break between the two parties.

    Every time in troubled times, it is an era of competing with each other.  The Northern Qi Dynasty supported by the Guandong family was defeated by the Northern Zhou Dynasty supported by the Guanlong family, so they were suppressed by the Guanlong family.

    At this time, the wind and clouds were surging, and all the heroes were vying for the throne.  The Guanlong family has soldiers and people, and seems to have countless choices.  As for their Guandong family, apart from Huang Mingyuan, there seems to be no one else.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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