Changsun Wuji personally sent Li Yuanai to the outside of the Taiwei Mansion and bowed to say goodbye.

Li Yuanai said, "The Grand Marshal stops, and it will be a disaster for the younger generation if you send me off!"

He regarded himself as a junior, and said that, he rode his horse away.

Changsun Wuji paused for a moment, watched Li Yuanai leave, turned around and walked into the Taiwei Mansion, and plunged into the study. It was not until dinner that Changsun Wen came to invite him for dinner before walking out of the study.

Changsun Wuji has twelve sons, all of whom are adults.

With the achievements of the Changsun family, it is no problem to protect their descendants.

Except for Changsun Wen, the twelve sons all left the palace to establish their own offices, and the lowest official position was more than half of the level of the Zuo Qianniu Guard, the county magistrate and the governor.

Changsun Wen has a very low status in the temple. He is a senior official. The reason why he did not establish his own family was to take care of the elderly Changsun Wuji and specially stayed to serve.

Generally speaking, Changsun Wuji had dinner alone, and the other dean Sun Wen had his own wife and children to accompany him, and called Changsun Wuji just filial.

However, Changsun Wuji rarely called Changsun Wen and said, "Stay behind to have a meal with your father."

Changsun Wen asked the sending people to inform his wife and children without hesitation, and told them not to wait for him.

The father and son were eating at a separate table, and the atmosphere was a bit dull.

It was not until he had finished eating that Changsun Wuji said, "Wulang, you ask the five surnames to come to Beijing to discuss important matters in the name of your father. You will not wait until you are not a clan or above."

Changsun Wen's face changed instantly.

There are two main reasons why aristocratic families have been prosperous for many years. One of them is lush and the top aristocratic families have been precipitated for more than seven or eight hundred years.

In addition, the master has an absolutely authoritative system.

No matter how many brilliant achievements you have achieved in the division of the family, you need absolute respect and obedience to the master.

The top wealthy families are like a small dynasty. The master family has been passed down from generation to generation and supports the master family.

The family of the gentry is simply called Zong, and the so-called Zong son is the legitimate son who inherits the great sect.

My father was going to personally meet with the people with the highest and most powerful status among the five aristocratic families. If this matter spreads, the whole of Chang'an would be in peace.

Changsun Wuji was old and had little appetite. After a while, he was full. After sorting out the oily food residue on his beard, he said: "Changsun came to his father to be extremely prosperous, and he would decline. He would not change forever. He was a father who had been against the will of heaven, but found that there was an endless abyss ahead. Fortunately, he stopped in time and had not reached the realm of thousands of disasters. He had never looked down on the King of Wu, and today he knew that he had underestimated him. Fortunately, he was a friend but not an enemy, so he should not forget his father's instructions. If my Changsun family was in danger in the future, he could ask him for help. Compared to the sage, he was more trustworthy."

As he said that, he left the kitchen hall with a shaking head.

However, Changsun Wen did not ask the reason, and ended the banquet with a delicacy that was like a chewing wax gang.

The five noble families dare not ignore Changsun Wuji's invitation.

They didn't even make a decision together and chose to enter Beijing at the same time.

For them, now is a very time.

Li Zhi's attitude of promoting poor families and suppressing gentry is becoming increasingly obvious.

Especially the political storm that last time the abolition of Queen Wang and deposed Liu Shi, the political parties they formed around Liu Shi were almost uprooted.

Compared to Li Shimin's gentle exclusion, Li Zhi is a more obvious suppression here.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, aristocratic families could override the imperial power, but after that, aristocratic families only had influence but no real power.

Even the so-called Guanlong military group is the same.

The most boastful Guanlong military group is the strong, mostly for Yang Guang to clean up Yang Guang, saying that Yang Guang caused chaos in the world to get rid of the control of the aristocratic family. Guanlong military group is really that strong, and there is the turbulent at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Where are the others except the Li family?

Which of these powerful men, Du Fuwei, Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong, Lin Shihong, Liu Wuzhou, and Xue Ju, belong to Guanlong Group?

Li Mi, the only descendant of the Eight Pillar Kingdom, relied on the Guanlong Group, but the Wagang Peasant Army founded by Zhai Rang.

But the military group does not hold military power. What else can be said to be influential?

Even Li Yuan's rise was because he was the highest military commander in Taiyuan, who was left behind in Taiyuan. In the process of suppressing peasant uprisings, he recruited surrenders and rebels, and continuously expanded his strength to have the power to rebel.

It is undeniable that the identity of the Li family brought considerable convenience to Li Yuan's unification of the world, but his true strength was still achieved little by little.

The power of the gentry lies in its influence, and apart from these, it is not enough to compete with the imperial power.

The reason why the aristocrats became special existences is that they are indispensable to governing the country and maintaining local stability. The talent base they control is the existence most needed by the court.

But if we really want to say that aristocratic families can surpass the imperial power, it is nonsense.

Like Wu Zetian, she completely ignored the influence and development, ignored local peace, and started killing, and the aristocratic families had no room for fight back.

This is already the fish on the knife board. Facing Changsun Wuji's call, there is no reason to refuse.

Compared with Li Zhi and Li Yuanai's political attitude, the recent situation of the Guanlong nobles controlled by Changsun Wuji has also become panicked by Chu Suiliang's demotion, which seems to indicate the decline of the Guanlong nobles. They are both grasshoppers on the same rope.

At this moment, there is no way to care about the hatreds of the past. It is just right to help each other and warm each other.

Changsun Wuji looked at the representatives of the seven people in the hall. They may not have a reputation for focusing on family internal affairs, but they are definitely the most powerful figure among the five surnames and seven hopes.

"You are all people who can take charge of the matter, and I don't care. I hope you can use your relationship to call on your clan members to participate in the imperial examination for the next year."

Changsun Wuji looked at the seven people in the hall with a solemn look.

The faces of the seven people in the hall all changed suddenly.

The imperial examination is the existence they fear the most.

The main reason why the gentry was able to be superior was that Chen Qun proposed the Nine-rank Zhongzheng system at the end of the Han Dynasty, and the aristocratic clans completely controlled the power to select officials, forming a situation where "there are no poor families at the top and no nobles at the bottom".

The gentry dreamed that they would return to the Nine-level Zhongzheng period and regain their core strength.

The birth of the imperial examination was the opposite of them, which was the existence they most feared and resisted.

"Changsun Taiwei, why is this?"

Cui Wei, the son of the Cui family, looked at Changsun Wuji with some vigilance.

Changsun Wuji shook his head and said, "No, I have had enough of your stupidity." He suddenly raised his voice and said, "Resist the imperial examination and reject the imperial examination. What are you five surnames and seven hopes? Have this qualification? Will the imperial examination not promote the imperial examination because of your resistance and rejection? The imperial examination is the future direction and the general trend. In the face of the general trend, what can you, including me? It's just a mantis arm to be a chariot. Since you can't control it, why not consider it with another idea?"

"Your clan school has the best gentlemen, and your library has a thousand years of cultural heritage. Your descendants have studied the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood and received the best education. The starting point of your descendants is even some poor families and the end point of the people. Isn't it the imperial examination, what are you afraid of? What are you resisting?"

"Are you all the poor children who have risen by the imperial examinations in the temple now? The result of not participating in the imperial examinations!!!"

"If the imperial examinations are all your tribe members, will the imperial examinations still exist?"
Chapter completed!