The number one hot spot in Jidu right now is naturally Xu Hao's marriage. Many families are envious, jealous and hateful of the Cui family.
The second hot spot is Niu Gui's retirement and the appointment of a new prime minister. Even in terms of durability, this hot spot is even stronger, and the people of Jidu have been discussing it for more than half a year.
After all, it is the appointment of the Prime Minister of a country, especially the Prime Minister of Daqian, who has a high and powerful position. In recent years, he has been in power and has almost ignored the affairs of the court. The entire court is presided over by Niu Gui. Under such circumstances, the prestige of Niu Gui, the Prime Minister, is even greater. Yes, it is true that one person is inferior to ten thousand people.
Cui Yan is very concerned about this matter, because now all the Cui family's power is supported by Niu Gui. Niu Gui's retirement will be the biggest blow to the Cui family.
The noble families in Hebei were the first to be attacked by Xu Wei, and the Cui family, which was the largest family in Hebei, was the hardest hit. The powerful Cui family at that time was directly torn into pieces and scattered by Xu Wei's attack. All over the world, the Cui family now has branches in Izumo Country, branches in Nanzhong, branches in Nanhai, and even branches in Tianzhu.
The Cui family who stayed in Daqian was even more of a side branch. However, because of the unexpected support of Niu Gui, their side branch surpassed the main line and became the new clan of the Cui family. This even gained support from branches of the Cui family in other regions. Identification means that there is such a relationship, and the Cui family in Daqian contacted the Cui family forces in other places to form a powerful business network.
Relying on this business network and the rapidly expanding industrial scale of Daqian, the Cui family's wealth has increased rapidly in recent years. In terms of wealth alone, the wealth accumulated by the Cui family in the past ten years has exceeded the accumulation of the Cui family in the past century. , if the political influence of the Cui family had not been restored, he could have said that the Cui family had been revived by him.
But Cui Yan clearly understands that the growth of a family cannot be based solely on wealth. The current strength of the Cui family is far inferior to that of the Han Dynasty.
Now the Cui family in Daqian is a vine attached to Niu Gui. The Niu Gui tree is about to fall. How can these vines survive? Fortunately, the vines have found Xu Hao, a more powerful sapling, otherwise Cui Yan would still want to think about it at this time. Find a new supporter,
Niu Gui said: "Father-in-law, I have been the prime minister for more than ten years. I am the longest-serving prime minister in Daqian. This time is enough. Among all the dynasties, prime ministers with such powerful power and long tenure as my son-in-law are also There are only a few of them. If my son-in-law continues to stay, I'm afraid many of my old brothers will have objections. It might not be a bad thing to retreat now."
"And I stepped down, which does not mean that I have no influence. The government asked me to take over the parliament and become the speaker. At the same time, I was asked to formalize the parliament and expand the size of the state assembly, county assembly, and county assembly. In the future, local governments will have these local assemblies. Supervise them to govern. From this aspect, the rights of the son-in-law have not been reduced much!"
Cui Yan felt relieved after hearing this. Although the Speaker's power is not as good as that of the Prime Minister, it does not mean that he has completely stepped down. There is no need to worry about people leaving.
As for the Cui family, Niu Gui and Xu Hao are related to each other, so they may not be able to become relatives of the Qian Dynasty. This does not need to be much different from the power of the noble family. For the current Cui family, they only need time to recuperate and wait for the new arrival. When a generation of children grows up, the power of the Cui family will soon be restored.
The next day!
Niu Gui brought Cui Yan and others to Xu Wei's home, and their parents discussed the engagement of Xu Hao and Cui Ying.
Xu Wei was the first to speak: "The two juniors have fallen in love with each other, and the elders on both sides do not object to the marriage, so the marriage has been settled. We elders mainly have to solve the worries of the juniors. Now Jidu no longer pays attention to multiple generations living under the same roof. The younger generation also likes to close the door and live their own lives. This is what I think. We will buy them a house in Jidu, and you will be given a set of furniture for daily use. They form a small family and live by themselves.
This is also the life style of the people in this era. Great changes have taken place. The working-class people in the city have left their families and come to the city to live in a single-family house. This is already somewhat of a later generation. What city life is like.
In order to break up the clans in the countryside, the imperial court used land equalization methods to disperse all the big clans. The former big families were completely fragmented under the guidance of the Daqian policy.
This small family model is most beneficial to the Daqian court, so the Daqian court is also promoting this model intentionally or unintentionally.
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At the same time, Daqian was in the transition from the agricultural period to the industrial period. The older generation was still in the agricultural society and somewhat resisted the industrial society, but now the younger generation embraces industrial life. There is a generation gap between them and the older generation. They are also unwilling to accept the experience and teachings of the older generation, so they prefer to buy their own houses and live by themselves, and this change is especially obvious in Jidu.
Because in Jidu, even one person can support his family by working alone, and a double-income family can live very well. In this case, everyone no longer needs the protection of a family to live. The economy and environment support them to live independently. Young people Naturally, people don’t want to have too many uncles, aunts, father-in-law and mothers-in-law on their heads.
Of course, Xu Wei asked his son to go out and buy a house, but this was a habit brought by his later generations, who must have a new house if they want to get married!
How dare Cui Yan refuse Xu Wei's proposal? Xu Wei is a big devil to them. Even though they are now in-laws, they are still trembling in front of Xu Wei. After hearing Xu Wei's proposal, he immediately said: "As long as you agree to be in power." Well, our family has no objection!"
But he thought for a while and said: "Our Cui family has real estate in Ji, a mansion in Taohua Manor, and a courtyard in Jiujin. Time is tight now, how about letting them move in first?"
Zhang Ning immediately said: "We still have to sell the house!" However, she thought it was too late to sell the house now, so she said, "How much does this house cost? Let's sell it!"
Although Xu Wei's power to govern was greater than that of most emperors, his eternal wealth was far less than that of the emperors of the past dynasties. The emperors of the Han Dynasty had Shaofu as their own small treasury, but Xu Wei did not.
Of course, Xu Wei has a lot of wealth. When it came to rewarding meritorious officials, Xu Wei was ranked first. Every year, the court gave Xu Wei a commission of 3 million yuan for meritorious officials. Zhang Ning also had a commission of 550,000 yuan for meritorious officials every year. And they With almost no money spent, the money accumulated would amount to tens of millions. It would be enough to buy a house, even a 9-in-4 courtyard.
However, Xu Hao was dissatisfied and said: "My child has saved some money over the years, and he can pay for the house by himself!"
Of course, he also knew that Jiujin Siheyuan was not something he could afford now, so he added: "I'm going to the New World soon. It's a waste to buy a house now. I'd better wait until my children come back to buy the house!"