Li Chao was a little surprised now.

"Be my concubine, don't you like my son to marry me?"

"How old is your son? I don't want to wait that long. I'll marry you first. Of course, I might have to kiss you in the future and then marry your son." At this point, Cui Yingying's tone was a little sour.

Li Chao's current status and family status, there are really many people who want to marry the Li family. Many people want to promise their daughter to Li Chao's son, and of course, many people want to give it to Li Chao as their concubine directly.

Many families are even willing to use their legitimate daughter to serve as a concubine for Li Chao.

The Lu family of Fanyang had this plan. They planned to give a legitimate daughter to Li Chao as their concubine, and even said that they were willing to choose four young tribes from the family as dowry.

Buy one get four get one.

"I asked someone to inquire about the daughter of the Lu family in Fanyang. She is a good person and has good looks and moral character. She is indeed the legitimate daughter, the daughter of the original wife of the Fanyang clan leader. Later, the original wife died of illness. Although the Fan clan leader gave birth to many children after marriage, this daughter is also born in the legitimate wife."

Speaking of this Fan girl, Cui Yingmeng is a little sympathetic. After all, their life experiences are very similar. They are both born into legitimate children and are born to their original wife after death. Later, their father married again and gave birth to many children. The status at home is not very high, so it is quite pitiful.

However, Li Chao was not interested in this.

There are several wives and concubines in the family, and there is also a princess lover outside, and a couple with a young queen, Lushui, who is not the kind of person who is particularly fond of the new and old.

Although he is still young, he is quite old and focuses more on emotions.

Li Chao didn't like this kind of concubine who took a concubine entirely for political marriage.

"You really refuse? This is a one-and-four-sanctuary. I have also inquired about the four of them, and they are all very good. One of them is the daughter of Lu Zheng, the leader of the Lu clan in Liaoxi, who is also a legitimate descendant. The Lu clan of Fanyang is also a wealthy family in the five surnames. He is willing to take the legitimate daughter as a concubine for you and accompany the four legitimate daughters. This is extremely rare."

Cui Yingying said with a smile.

"I really hope I accept it?" Li Chao reached out and pinched Cui Yingying's waist, "Where do I need to pursue these five surnames and seven families now?"

The five surnames and seven families have great influence, but they are not the strongest among the top wealthy families in the Tang Dynasty. Not to mention the old Guanlong clans, the military upstarts or the gentry in Jiangnan, there are more top wealthy families. The five surnames and seven families have experienced the blow at the end of the Sui Dynasty and now have great influence among the people, but their influence in the court is actually very weak.

During the Tang Dynasty in history, the five surnames and seven families had risen and fallen. It was indeed a few more times in the Tang Dynasty, but not now. At most, they are as famous as those old scholars of the people, but they are not powerful in the court.

The one who truly held power was the new Zhenguan priests like Bashang Li. Even the old Guanlong clans at that time had more say than the Guandong gentry.

The Kanto family has a good reputation and a good family reputation. In addition, the academic they have mastered before makes these thousand-year-old famous families look down on those nouveau riche, but although the nouveau riche has no foundation, they have power and wealth.

In fact, the printing technology invented by Li Chao, the improved papermaking technology, the newspapers and magazines organized by dictionaries, as well as the Daxin School of the imperial court, have continuously weakened the academic monopoly of the Kanto gentry.

If they cannot monopolize academics, they will greatly weaken their control over public opinion, and their influence among the people is actually declining.

"I don't think there is a need to reject the Lu family. After all, they are so proactive. If you refuse, it will be too shameful. After all, that is a thousand-year-old family."

"What's wrong with the thousand-year-old family? I don't have to look at their face in Bashang Li family." Li Chao said with a smile. With Li Chao's full efforts now, the Tang Dynasty is now engaged in a feudal system for heroes. Although this feudal system is not the real feudal type, it is also very powerful.

In the future, only the heroes who were granted the feudal title were the real nobles, and only these feudal nobles who could have family emblems could truly support a top-level aristocratic family.

The families that cannot be enfeoffed will sooner or later be eliminated no matter how awesome they were before.

Li Chao has such confidence.

Although those territories now look very remote and desolate, there will be a big difference between having a territory and not having one. With a territory, the nobles will have the opportunity to rise and grow. As long as they can defend the territory, the stronger they will be. Because there is more room for development and less influence from the central court.

In the future, the Tang Dynasty's control over the Central Plains will be stronger, and it will control and attack the land annexation, slave control, etc., but it will be a scruple for the nobles on all sides, because they are the barriers to the Tang Dynasty.

"I'd better accept it, I don't object. We don't need to lose face from the Lu family. Taking the people of the Lu family will also be beneficial to our Bashang Li family. If you want to enter the door and have more children, our family will be more prosperous." Cui Yingying said. When she said this, she was not angry or anything, but said calmly.

"Don't worry, I'm not talking angry. Even if the woman from Lu comes in, she doesn't shake my status. I'm the one we consider."

"Husband, you can accept the Lu girl."

Speaking of later, Cui Yingying in turn persuaded Li Chao.

This made Li Chao feel a little amused.

"I still think you are at home."

"Hmph, I don't know you guys yet. On the surface, I think it's too much, but I still like it in my heart, right? You, don't let it go. I'll tell Mrs. Lu tomorrow that I agree to this matter, choose an auspicious day and get things done."

night.

Li Chao still rested in Thirteen Niang's room.

A small separation is better than a newlywed.

The couple was like dry fire, and Li Chao discovered that Cui Yingying had become very fierce. Perhaps because of the fact that she had given birth to five children, she became more mature, and this aspect was completely developed.

Li Chao was very fierce two times, and then the third time was a little difficult. The fourth time, it was Thirteen Niang who took the initiative. When Cui Yingying wanted to do it again, Li Chao had to raise his hand to surrender.

"I'm tired from the boat and the body is a little tired, so why don't you go next time."

Cui Yingying looked at the sluggish Li Chao and smiled softly, "I'm dead, let's spare you this time."

Li Chao breathed a sigh of relief and quickly got up to take a shower.

After taking a shower, Cui Yingying checked and found that Li Chao really had no power to fight again, so she let him go and got up to wash up.

Thirty years old, like a wolf, forty years old, like a tiger, and fifty years old, can sit on the ground to absorb soil. Thirteenth ladies are less than thirty years old, and they are already so fierce that Li Chao feels that it is a bit difficult to hand over public food.

In the next few days, Li Chao would take a vacation at home, and he was not in a hurry to go to the Secretariat.

Drink tea and read books at home every day.

However, for several days, in the evening, although Li Chao took turns to rest in several concubines, he hung up a high-level battle-free sign, which made Zheng Wanyan, Du Shiniang, Hong Shi and Hu Ji and others feel depressed.

Li Chao firmly controls himself and does not indulge in desire.

No matter how strong a man is, he can't stand it if he indulges in lust. He looks at the sword of the bone. Look at the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan. Less than three years after his abdication, he gave birth to a bunch of children, and then he was so old that he was not decent. Li Yuan, who was also a general, had become a thin old man.

Li Yuan had nothing to do, so he could only have children. Li Chao wanted to live for another fifty or sixty years, and his days would be long in the future.

But after that day, Cui Yingying really went to talk to the Lu family about marriage.

It is impossible to imagine that a wife takes a concubine for her husband in later generations, but it is normal in this era. Taking a concubine must be approved by the wife, and most of the wives are even handled by the wife.

Things were very pleasant to talk about.

The Lu family in Fanyang is a thousand-year-old family, but they are not as good as Cui Zheng and others. Under the current new policy of Zhenguan, their status is getting lower and lower, and they are becoming more and more marginalized by the court. In the past, they were academic monopoly, while holding a large amount of land in their hands and possessing many hidden slaves. But now these foundations are cut by the court.

Cui in Qinghe, Zheng in Xingyang, King of Taiyuan, Li in Zhaojun and others all got married to Li Bashang, and of course the Lu family in Fanyang could not sit still. They did not want to be completely marginalized by the court. They married Li Chao, the most popular minister of the current world, and married to Li Chao, the most luxurious Bashang family, which has become an excellent choice.

The Lu family of Fanyang was still willing to do so. They took out a legitimate daughter and four legitimate daughters from the branch, and sent out five women to be concubines for Li Chao in one breath.

The purpose is to be able to come from behind, form a relationship with Li Chao and the Li family, and be able to take on Li Chao's sailing boat.

A few days later, Cui Yingying came back from Lu's mansion in Xiangyang and told Li Chao, "The matter is settled, so I will choose to go on the sixth day of the September 2018. Lu's family brought people to the door, and our family also held a lively banquet and invited all the guests, and this matter was done."

Li Chao put down the book in his hand. This was a hardcover, woodblock printing, and line-bound printed by the printing workshop.

There are sixteen historical books, from Records of the Historian to Southern History, Northern History, and Zizhi Tongjian. Nine of them were compiled by Li Chao, including Jin, Liang, Chen, Northern Qi, Zhou, Sui, as well as Southern History, Northern History and Zizhi Tongjian.

From the pre-Qin period to the Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the official historians of each dynasty have compiled Qi.

These sixteen books are considered official official history, especially the two books, Records of the Grand Historian and Zizhi Tongjian, which are officially called must-read for learning history.

Although only Li Chao wrote the nine books of Tang Xiu, only Zizhi Tongjian was compiled by Li Chao, and the other eight books were only editors of him, after all, he was the editor-in-chief of these books.

Therefore, Li Chao's reputation in the academic and historical circles is now further.

Li Ji Publishing House has made every effort to produce a set of hardcover editions. The sixteen historical books printed are all very exquisite. Once this set of historical books was published, they were immediately loved by countless scholars. It can be said that the paper sold in Luoyang is expensive.

The court even directly called this set of historical books official history, known as the Sixteen Histories. Officially designated history books, must-read history books for Imperial College and officials in various prefectures and counties.
Chapter completed!