In fact, in addition to money, there is also an important issue of face. Those gentry families think that their reputation is high, so they intermarry with low-famous families think it is a very face-saving thing.

Of course, it is actually easier to get married in a family like the Cui family in Xuzhou. The Cui family in Fangzhou not only has a high reputation, but also has a better family in the new dynasty. As the saying goes, the better the conditions, the easier it is to find a partner.

What is really difficult is that those families are not very high-profile, or are just branches of famous families, and they are branches that have long been weak. They have nothing left except fame, so they privately ask for money to accompany their families, which is actually selling their daughters.

The Cui family does not exist to sell their daughters, so there is no need to.

But if a maid from the Cui family gave birth to Li Xiao as his concubine, Wang thought this was an opportunity to raise the Li family in Lanxi. After all, the Li family in Lanxi used to be just a small country landlord.

Where did you get fame? But if you marry the Cui family, even if you only want to give birth to a daughter, it will benefit the Li family.

What if the Li family gained the wealth of their Cui family, and gave a thousand coins of money and gave them another printing technology?

"The servants of our Cui family are not something that ordinary people can take as concubines." Wang's wife looks superior to the five-subject women.

A maid gave birth to a daughter cannot be considered a marriage, it can only be considered a transaction.

"Is there a suitable one at home?" Cui Zhiti asked.

Cui Zhiti has never been concerned about those servants who were born after a moment of fun. Even in his heart, these are not his daughters at all.

"Yes, there is a 28-year-old, just right, and that servant is pretty good-looking."

There are many slaves and servants in the Cui family, but when they get older, they will be sold by Wang. They are sold to merchants as concubines, and each of them is named Cui, and each of them can be sold for a large amount of money.

When she was born and grew up, she lived a life like a cow and horse in the Cui Mansion for more than ten years. Once she found a suitable family and sold it at a good price, Wang would get two new clothes for the girl, dress up her new clothes, and then send it out.

After discussing, the couple thought it was a support for Li Xiao.

The next day, Wang arranged a manager to inform Li's mansion in Shengyefang.

It was not a discussion at all, but a notification. In Wang's opinion, Li Xiao had no reason to refuse. He should be very excited when he heard the news. This was a great opportunity to climb Cui's family.

Shengyefang, Lantian County Maidi.

The one who received the visitor from Cui's house was Wan Niang, and Mr. Qian explained the other party's identity to her.

A woman in a silk skirt, the inner manager of the Cui family, came to the Li family's house and faced the hostess of the Li family, but she was still a bit arrogant and arrogant and crazy.

Perhaps she thought that Zhao Wan, the county lord, was just a nouveau riche's wife and a country woman.

Zhao Wan is very polite to this woman who claims to be the manager of the inner courtyard of the Cui family in Xuzhou. The Cui family in Xuzhou is indeed quite famous.

"I wonder what happened to this manager?"

"There is a good thing." The woman spoke without hesitation, chatting a lot, and saying the matter seemed to be a reward to the Li family.

However, this woman was also cunning and vicious, and did not tell her the identity of the girl as a maid, but only said that she was the daughter of Cui Duzhi of the Ministry of Revenue, not the wife.

Wanniang thought she wanted to be a illegitimate daughter.

"Cui Duzhi intends to grant his daughter a concubine to my Sanlang?" Wanniang was very happy to hear the news. Her husband is now a title and his status is no better than before, but the Li family is poor, especially without any basic assistance.

She has been looking for a concubine for her husband during this period, but it is not easy to find a suitable concubine.

It’s just that I’m young and have good cares, so I have to be more beautiful. It’s not enough to have these alone. At least I have to have some status. Wanniang feels that the daughter of an ordinary family is a concubine.

Later, I asked someone to find a few good girls from the official family. Although they are not said to be legitimate, they are young, healthy and beautiful, and are well-educated and polite. They are very good. She has seen them personally.

Unfortunately, every time I talk to my husband, Li Xiao always finds reasons to deny it in the end.

Wanniang felt that it was not good enough to find it.

When the Cui family’s internal manager talked about it today, she thought it was quite good.

The Cui family in Xuzhou is a branch of the Cui family in Qinghe, and it is a famous family of Shandong gentry with five surnames and seven sects. Even the emperor wanted to marry a family. People at that time said that marrying a wife should marry a daughter of the five surnames.

Even if this little girl from Cui is just a concubine, it doesn't matter. If she is a legitimate child, Sanlang will not be able to marry anyone else.

Wanniang asked the woman what her Cui family had to ask.

The woman looked like this, and she had known for a long time that you must be competing with our Cui family.

At this moment, she piled up all the conditions, and paid millions of dollars for the family, not including other expenses, and even the dowry of the woman getting married, she asked the Li family to pay for it.

In addition, she also proposed that the Li family teach the printing technology to the Cui family.

Wan Niang listened carefully.

The conditions were very harsh. It would cost at least one million or even two million to take this lady Cui as a concubine. This was a lot of money. Her husband had just raised 3,000 guan from his family to subscribe to the court's bonds. The most prosperous medicinal wine business in the family has now stopped and has lost many investments.

But Wan Niang thought about it and decided to agree. There were not many women from the five surnames who were willing to marry Sanlang as their concubine.

Although more than one million is a lot of money, I still think of a way to get it all.

As for teaching printing to the Cui family, Wanniang thought it would not be a big deal.

She didn't understand. What the woman said just now was to leave it to the Cui family instead of teaching it to the Cui family.

At the gate.

Li Xiao just arrived home on a horse and just came back from the Ministry of Revenue. He officially handed over the three thousand guan of money to the Ministry of Revenue. He got the order issued by the Ministry of Revenue. The official bonds had to be printed by the Li family before they were delivered to everyone.

As for the fields and slaves mortgaged by the imperial court, they were only a note for the time being. For details, they had to wait until the order was sent to Xue Rengui, the navy of the Eastern Expedition of Baekje, and asked them to measure the fields, make a booklet and pass them back to Beijing before making divisions.

As soon as he entered the mansion, Li Xiao saw a carriage parked at the door.

“Are there any guests?”

"I'm a man from the Cui family's mansion in Xuzhou. He said he had told me about something good. Now the mistress is in the flower hall."

Xuzhou Cui family? Lao Cui, the official branch secretary of the Ministry of Revenue Department?

Li Xiao was a little surprised. Lao Cui was crazy about buying printing techniques and sent someone to chase him here, right?

He was a little unhappy. He couldn't sell printing techniques. Lao Cui still wanted to buy them forcibly, but could he do it?

He walked towards the flower hall, but as soon as he arrived at the door, he heard a woman's arrogance, "Whether this matter is achieved or not, your Li family is willing, then you can show some sincerity now. One thousand guan of money can be given later, but I have to bring the printing prescription back to Cui's house to report it now."

Then Wanniang's voice came, "About printing, we have to wait until Saburo comes back, why don't you wait?"

"I don't have so much time to delay here..."

Li Xiao was furious when he heard this. Where did the old guy come from? He was so arrogant.

He quickly stepped into the flower hall with a dark face, his eyes swept over coldly, and saw an old woman in the hall who was rude to Wanniang.

"Who are you?" Li Xiao asked?

The woman was shocked when she saw Li Xiao’s dark face, but then she coughed again and put on her posture of a wealthy family in the five surnames.

"So it's because Li Langjun is back. It just so happened that you just said you were not in the mansion."

Li Xiao felt even more unhappy when she saw that she didn't even have the basic politeness to get up and salute.

"Who are you?"

The words are colder and the tone is heavier.

The woman didn't dare to take it anymore and stood up and owed Li Xiao, "The servant is the servant in charge of the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Revenue, and comes to tell Mrs. Zhao on the order of my mistress."

Li Xiao snorted.

"You said you are a slave in Mr. Cui's mansion? Not Mr. Cui's mother?"

"I dare not talk nonsense." The old woman said hurriedly.

"Since you are not the mother of Cui Yuanwai, but just a slave in Cui's mansion, who can teach you the rules? How dare you sit in my mansion and talk to my wife like this? You are just a lowly slave, and the county magistrate in front of you is the county magistrate who is granted by Your Majesty! Could it be that Cui Yuanwai teaches the slave like this? Your Cui family is so unruly?"

After a while, the woman's expression changed drastically.

His eyes turned, but under Li Xiao's anger, he did not dare to be crazy anymore, and he quickly pretended to apologize.

"Judge Li misunderstood. I'm here to report a happy news, it's such a great thing."

At this time, Wanniang quickly stood up and grabbed her husband, saying that husband, don’t misunderstand, this person is really here to repay good things. She also said that Cui Yuanwai and his wife intended to grant the concubine daughter to Sanlang as a concubine, and that they would make a family of friendship, etc.

Li Xiao snorted coldly.

"Madam, don't you want to be sold by someone else and count the money. What I heard at the door just now is not like this. What are the two families connected? What's the matter with the one thousand guan accompanying the family? And what's the matter with the printing technology of my Li family?"

The woman was so upset that she had to say it honestly.

But Li Xiao would not believe it.

"Cui Yuanwai's daughter?"

“It is indeed.”

"Impossible, is it really a concubine?"

Now the woman dared not hide it anymore, so she had to say that it was born to a maid and a concubine.

"Maids and concubines? Haha, it turns out that after a long time, you are going to be a concubine for me by a slave in the Cui family. You also want one million yuan to accompany me and the printing technology of my Li family?"

A maid or a concubine, to put it nicely, is a concubine, but who doesn’t know that maid or a concubine is a maid. Naturally, the daughter of a maid or a maid is also a maid.

The Cui family gave birth to a maid and a daughter to others as concubines, and had to accompany the family to wealth. Perhaps ordinary merchants or ordinary officials were willing to accept this kind of thing, after all, they could use this to reach the Cui family.

But would Li Xiao care about a Xuzhou Cui?

If Qinghe Cui and Boling Cui dare to treat him like this, he will turn against him.

Even a slave dared to ask him for a thousand guan of money and printing techniques. He was so smart and calculating, and he had all plotted against him.

"I'll give Cui Zhiti a face. I'll pretend that something hasn't happened today. Get out, hurry up and get out." Li Xiao pointed at the gate and shouted at the slut.
Chapter completed!