Datang: Dad, I really didn't want to rebel!

Chapter 175 The Meeting of the Aristocratic Family

Chapter 237 The Meeting of the Aristocratic Family

The behavior of selling teammates must be shameful, but...it works.

Although the Boling Cui family and the Qinghe Cui family were slightly insulted, they preserved their strength so that they would not suffer heavy losses.

Like other aristocratic families, every day they delay, they will suffer a lot of losses, as well as the abuse of the people.

If reputation, money, and status are all damaged at the same time, the loss is immeasurable.

Under the huge loss and pressure, those aristocratic families felt that the Cui family was not authentic.

You agreed to live and die together, but you backed down at the critical moment?

You don't need to think about it to know that if the aristocratic families cannot deal with the imperial court, they will definitely unite to deal with the Cui family!
Bingzhou, Jinyang County.

There is a Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Bingzhou, leading Bingzhou, Shouyang County, Yu County, Leping County, Shiai County, Yangqu County, Taigu County, Qi County, Jinyang County and other places. The Dudu Mansion is located in Jinyang County.

In addition to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Jinyang County, there is another behemoth.

That is Taiyuan Wang!
Taiyuan Wang has two branches, one in Jinyang County, Bingzhou, and the other in Qixian County, Bingzhou. Although the two branches are not in the same place, they share a genealogy, which can be regarded as the same.

Today's Wang's mansion has gathered many people.

Among them, there is one person in the main seat, about 40 years old, with a refined temperament. He is the speaker of the Wang family in Jinyang County, Wang Fuzuo.

Wang Fuzuo used to be the magistrate of Shangcai County, and then resigned and returned to Bingzhou in order to provoke the Wang family.

He also has a younger brother named Wang Fu, um... that is, the father of the great poet Wang Bo.

The Wang family is different from other families. They squeezed their heads to squeeze into the officialdom. Most of the Wang's thoughts are basically engaged in literature.

For example, Wang Ji can be said to be a clear stream in the literary world of the Tang Dynasty.

In recent years, the writing style of the Tang Dynasty has been all flamboyant, among which the "Shangguan Style" of Shangguanyi is the most praised.

However, Wang Ji couldn't understand such a style of writing, calling it "too vulgar and too colorful", ungrounded, without any self-cultivation, and mere formality.

The entire Tang Dynasty's literary style is in this style, but Wang Ji's words are undoubtedly against the entire Datang literary world.

However, Wang Ji, just like Xiaoqiang who can't be beaten to death, became more and more courageous as he suffered more setbacks, and he blazed his own path on the way to being beaten.

The poems he wrote are very fresh and simple. Among them, there is a sentence "Looking at Donggao at dusk, and leaning on him and wanting to rely on it" which leads the style of writing in the Tang Dynasty.

How good is this poem... It has been successfully selected as a must-memorize ancient poem for primary and secondary school students, and it also appears in junior high school textbooks.

In addition to Wang Ji, there were Wang Bo, Wang Wei, Wang Jin, Wang Zhihuan, Wang Changling, etc., and then there were people like Wang Anshi, who also belonged to the Wang clan.

Later in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Yangming, who founded Lu Wang Xinxue, and Wang Shizhen, who wrote "Jin Ping Mei", were also members of the Wang clan in Taiyuan.

Although the development of later generations, Wang's focus has gradually shifted to the political arena, but the literary genes in his bones have not changed.

This meeting was dominated by Taiyuan Wang.

Because the Wang family occupies an important position in the literary world, and the content of the meeting is related to the literary world.

In addition to the Wang family of Taiyuan, there are also the Zheng family of Xingyang and the Lu family of Fanyang.

In addition, there are four surnames of Liushi in Hedong, Yuan in Henan and Wujun.

There are nine people in total, although the number is not many, but the name of each of them is very loud, and ordinary people will be shocked if they hear it.

The five surnames and Qiwang, except for the Boling Cui family and Qinghe Cui family who have decided not to do anything, and the two Li surnames, all gathered here.

In addition, there are the four surnames of Wujun, the most representative of the Jiangnan Chinese, and other big families.

After a long silence, Wang Fuzuo said, "I think you all know why you are here this time?"

Lu Chengli, the person in charge of the Fanyang Lu family, raised his eyebrows and said, "Naturally, this time the great families have joined forces to drive up prices, and the world's public opinion has already been one-sided. If this continues, I'm afraid there will be big problems."

"The Boling Cui family and the Qinghe Cui family have withdrawn. In addition, Jingzhao Du's, Jingzhao Wei's and Cheng's have all begun to encircle our shops in Chang'an."

After a pause, Lu Chengli continued: "Especially Cheng Yaojin, this old man has no sense of measure in his work. If the acquisition fails, he smashes it. Dozens of shops in Chang'an have suffered."

Zheng Zhao of the Zheng family in Xingyang said, "These shops are nothing more than a drop in the bucket for aristocratic families, not to mention the money and filth, which will be gone when they are gone, but this movable type printing technique..."

He looked at a few people, "To be honest, this is the most terrible thing. In the past, all scholars in the world came from rich families, but since Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, officials from poor families gradually became popular. counterbalance."

"That's all, but how many scholars will be born by a movable type printing technique, and these scholars are not yet under our control. This is the most terrible thing. If this continues, it will not take many years. in the world."

Lu Chengli frowned and said: "To be honest, this method won't work. A few days ago, my brother sent a letter telling us that we must not continue like this, otherwise we will definitely die if we do too many unrighteous actions."

"Then what should I do?"

Zheng Zhao stared, "If things go on like this, we're all screwed, so we might as well fight it out!"

Wang Fuzuo said: "After we raised prices, we did recover a lot of losses. At least the scholars from various gentry clans did not leave, right?"

"This method is not a long-term solution. When the price of books drops completely and everyone has books to read, the existence of the gentry will become dispensable." Said the representative of the Hedong Liu family.

"master!"

At this moment, the butler's voice suddenly sounded, directly interrupting the conversation of everyone.

Wang Fuzuo frowned, and said with displeasure: "Why are you arguing, don't you see that we are talking about important things?"

Facing Wang Fuzuo's gloomy gaze, the housekeeper's scalp tingled and said, "Master, it's about the paper mill."

"Paper mill?" Wang Fuzuo's face softened, "Hehe, is the paper mill sold out? It's expected, as long as the paper from the aristocratic family can still be sold, the literati will have to accept our love that day!"

"That's right, haha. In the past, the paper mill was monopolized only by our aristocratic family. Now even if they build a paper mill temporarily, they will definitely not have as much influence as our paper mill."

Zheng Zhao laughed and said: "If you can't control books, the same goes for monopolizing paper. No matter how powerful the imperial court is, it can't produce paper to supply the entire Tang Dynasty."

"Besides the imperial court, if anyone dares to open a new paper mill, we will buy it directly. Over time, we will be able to become an absolute hegemon in the paper industry."

"Indeed!" Wang Fuzuo looked at him appreciatively, "Brother Zheng is really smart."

Among the several big families, the Zheng family has the most shops, and Zheng Zhao is the richest one among them.

Although aristocratic families are not obsessed with worldly things such as money, they will not reject it, because every aristocratic family will have a shop. Otherwise, how to maintain the operation of a big family?
This is the contradiction in people's hearts. On the one hand, the aristocratic family portrays itself as a noble and honest image that does not bow down to five buckets of rice, but on the other hand, it opens many shops and does various businesses.

Of course, he would definitely not do business by himself, but let the housekeepers come forward, so as to maintain his noble image of treating money as dung.

(End of this chapter)