On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 139 Fan Yanglu Family

Author: He Tiantian from Lotus Picking

Chapter 139 Fan Yanglu Family

Seven years ago, Cui Che fled Guanzhong and went to Yecheng to join Cui Dana.

During this period, I returned to Boling. After obtaining my grandmother's consent, I spent all my family's wealth and recruited three thousand cavalrymen.

Since then, he has never returned to Anping County.

It is said that rich people need to return to their hometown, but Cui Che does not do it to show off, but to connect with the clan members whom he has not seen for a long time.

When Cui Che, surrounded by three thousand cavalry, arrived outside Anping City.

I saw a large number of people at the city gate, and it can be said that people from the third room came out to welcome them.

When Cui Che saw the handsome old men in the front row, he did not dare to neglect them. He immediately got off his horse and greeted everyone.

Many of these people are their elders. No matter how powerful they are, they cannot lose their etiquette.

Everyone lamented that Cui Che has grown up and is no longer the childish child he used to be.

Cui Che introduced his wife and children to the clan members, and everyone hurriedly saluted Yang Lihua.

Yang Lihua saw many of them wearing eyebrows to cover up their ugliness, and couldn't help but worry about her husband and son's eyebrows.

Wang's family in Taiyuan suffers from rosacea, and Cui's from Boling is no different. The disease has been passed down from generation to generation and can cause eyebrow loss.

When Cui Che painted Yang Lihua's eyebrows, he would also laugh and say that it was an ancestral craft.

After wasting a lot of time outside the city gate, it was already dusk when Cui Che took the Bodhisattva slaves to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors.

When they were resting at night, Yang Lihua and Cui Che mentioned the Cui family's serious illness.

Cui Che didn't take it to heart at all.

It is a genetic disease, but not everyone will lose their eyebrows. At least he felt that he would not be affected by it.

The next day, Cui Che visited the other six-fang clan elders one after another.

The Bolingcui family is said to be a whole, but in fact, the seven rooms are not all as close as a family.

Although the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth bedrooms are all descendants of Cui Yi, the secretary-supervisor of Houyan, Cui Yi was already a figure more than two hundred years ago, let alone a blood relationship. Anpingfang further away.

In the past two hundred years, the seven families have worked together to improve the prestige of the clan and county, making the Bolingcui family the first-class family in Shandong.

But there have also been quite a few conflicts between them, and not everyone surnamed Cui is happy to see Cui Che's rise.

It's just that Cui Che's gaining a foothold in the court is indeed of great benefit to the entire clan.

Just like when Cui Che first arrived in Guanzhong, he was taken care of by the second house Cui Xuanyou and others.

Each house is in Anping's hometown. For the purpose of profit distribution, some private disputes are harmless.

But if they go out, they must help each other. If Cui Xuanyou was worried that Cui Che would gain a foothold in the court and make the third family rise, so he suppressed those who came behind, this would be the way to extirpate the clan.

Now that Cui Che has returned to Anping, he always maintains a humble attitude when facing the elders of various clans. He is young and in a high position but does not appear arrogant. This has also won the favor of many people.

He stayed in Anping County for two days. In addition to deepening his relationship with everyone in the third house, he also had contact with many of the other six houses.

It's just that Cui Che didn't recruit any staff within the clan.

Most of the talented people, relying on the Boling Cui family's family background, have already served as local officials, so there is no need for Cui Che to worry about them.

Moreover, Cui Che did not want to give Yang Jian the impression of being nepotistic and giving and receiving privately.

After bidding farewell to everyone, Cui Che left Anping County and took up his post in Jixian County under the escort of three thousand cavalry.

The General Administration Office of Youzhou has jurisdiction over six states and fifty towns. The so-called towns are not the towns of later generations, but the military towns that guard the border.

Of course, the military town here cannot be as large as the six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

On the way to Youzhou, Cui Che had been thinking about his attitude towards Fan Yanglu.

The Fan Yang Lu family and the Boling Cui family belong to the same five surnames and seven clans, and have lived in Zhuo County, Youzhou (Zhuozhou, Hebei).

Shi Tanggang, a native of the Northern Qi Dynasty, designated one of the rooms of the Lu family in Fan Yang as the head of the Jiamen in his "Classification of Shandong Scholars and Officials".

Among them, Cui Che's grandfather Cui Jishu is also mentioned: "The first Cui Ang, the second Cui Jishu, and Qizhou Cui Guang."

The Boling Cui family and the Qinghe Cui family are said to be the most expensive among these three branches.

Cui Ang and Cui Jishu are the second of the three Cui of Boling. Cui Guang comes from the Cui family of Qinghe and once served as the Grand Zhongzheng of Qizhou.

However, Li Gongchao's "Lei Lv" believes that when it comes to family status, Cui Kai is the first, followed by Ji Shu.

The brothers Cui Hongdu and Cui Hongsheng, who are now in high positions, are the descendants of Cui Kai.

In any case, Brother Che's grandfather has firmly established himself as the second child.

Of course, this is all in the past. At least Fan Yanglu, no matter which house he belongs to, can no longer be praised as the head of the clan.

Aristocratic families were accustomed to betting on both sides in troubled times. There were also Lu family officials in the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties. Among them, Lu Guang, Duke of Yan County, single-handedly taught Yuwen Yong, the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and became the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

It's just that after Lu Guang's death, his son Lu Ben played a good hand of cards to pieces.

As early as when Emperor Wu of Zhou was in power, Lu Ben had a keen eye for people and had secretly befriended Yang Jian. After Emperor Xuan of Zhou died, it was Lu Ben who led the troops and intimidated all the officials, allowing Yang Jian to take power calmly.

After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Lu Ben was appointed as a regular attendant on the cavalry, and concurrently served as the prince's concubine on the left, leader of the army on the left, and general on the right. His investment in the early years earned rich returns.

Such a smart man was blinded by the desire for power. Out of dissatisfaction with Gao Jong, Su Wei took power.

Lu Ben then teamed up with Liu Fang, one of the duo, Shangzhu Guoyuanxie, Li Xun, Huazhou governor Zhang Bin and others to plan to depose Gao Jun and Su Wei, and let the five of them jointly take charge of the government.

At the same time, he planned to depose the crown prince and promote Jin Wang Yang Guang to the throne.

After the incident failed, Yang Guang, who was in Jinyang at the time, was so frightened that he often scolded the five people in front of Cui Che, who was in charge of the palace at the time.

Yang Jian investigated the matter deeply, and Liu Fang, Li Xun, and Yuan Xie blamed Lu Bi and Zhang Bin.

The ministers requested that the two men be executed, but Yang Jian, thinking of their past merits, spared them the death penalty and reduced their positions to serve the people.

Soon, Zhang Bin died of depression, but Lu Bi was appointed as the Chief Inspector of the School. However, he was unable to repair the relationship with Yang Jian and was sent to delete the music.

He will never regain his former power.

If there was no one in the court, Yan Rong would not dare to humiliate the children of the Lu family wantonly when he was promoted to the general manager of Youzhou more than ten years later.

Cui Che came from the Boling Cui family, one of the five surnames and seven clans. Of course, it was impossible for him to learn the rude methods of Yan Rong, a Xianbei warrior, and humiliate the descendants of the Fan Yang Lu family as petty officials and soldiers.

How to win over the Fan Yang Lu family is just one of the problems Cui Che needs to face.

The situation in Youzhou is much more complicated than Qingzhou. Yang Jian hopes that Cui Che can carefully handle the relationship with Kumoxi, Khitan and other tribes, so as not to affect the grand strategy of attacking in the south and defending in the north.

But Cui Che was also full of selfish motives and planned to establish his own prestige among these tribes.

As for Goguryeo, it was not adjacent to the territory under the jurisdiction of Youzhou Governor's Office. There was also Wei Yi, the Governor of Yingzhou, between the two sides.

No more today. I was imagining the plot of Youzhou during the day, and I didn’t even have time to finish reading the old book.

(End of chapter)