Cui Shenghui and Wang Qingyun were entertaining several young people from their families.
"I didn't expect that the family would send eldest brother here. With eldest brother here, we will definitely win tomorrow's competition." Cui Shenghui complimented.
There is no way, although his status in the Cui family is not low, but compared with Cui Xu, it is still far behind.
Cui Xu is one of the candidates for the next generation head of the Cui family.
Cui Xu smiled warmly and said, "The family values the formula of Shenxian Zui very much and cannot tolerate any mistakes, so they sent me here."
Qi Wang, the fifth surname, attaches great importance to the formula of Shenxian Zui. They have carefully calculated that the profit of Shenxian Zui is very large. Even if six families share it, it can make them even stronger.
This time, I finally had the chance to obtain the formula for the Immortal Drunk. In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, I unanimously sent all the chief candidates who were being trained in the family to Chang'an.
"Brother Cui, since we are here, the recipe for the Immortal Drunk must be ours." Wang Shuo said with a smile.
"Haha, Brother Wang is right. How can a businessman's son be our opponent?" Zheng Qi agreed.
They are all successors that the family has spent a lot of effort to cultivate. Even if they do not become the head of the family in the future, they will have great power, which is not comparable to Cui Shenghui and Wang Qingyun.
They didn't take Lin Xuan seriously at all.
Likewise, Lin Xuan didn't take them seriously. We'll have to wait and see who wins and who loses.
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Today is the day that Lin Xuan and the family have an appointment for a competition. Cheng Chumo and the others arrived at the Lin family early and they agreed to go there together.
The day after Lin Xuan returned from winter hunting, the family sent someone to inform Lin Xuan of the competition location.
The venue chosen by the family for the competition was a house owned by the Cui family in Chang'an.
The Cui family just sent a housekeeper to greet Lin Xuan and others at the door.
"The aristocratic family is so bullying, they even sent a butler to greet us." Cheng Chumo was furious.
Lin Xuan smiled, was this a show of force?
"I'm about to lose 600,000 yuan, so it's normal to be emotional." Lin Xuan said nonchalantly.
"Haha, Lin Xuan, you are right." Cheng Chumo and others laughed.
The Cui family's housekeeper sneered in his heart: "Just laugh, you won't be able to laugh anymore if you lose."
Lin Xuan and the others entered Cui's house under the leadership of the housekeeper.
This time the competition was in the garden of the Cui family. After all, this house was the face of the Cui family in Chang'an. It covered an area of dozens of acres and the garden was very large.
When Lin Xuan arrived, he saw many people already there.
In addition to Wang Qingyun and others, there are also some people in charge of aristocratic families in Chang'an.
"Lin Xuan, you are finally here. I thought you didn't dare to come!" Wang Qingyun mocked.
Among the aristocratic families, he and Lin Xuan had the deepest hatred.
Lin Xuan sneered and said, "Are you ready with your money?"
"You win first and then talk." Wang Qingyun said disdainfully.
Lin Xuan shrugged, "I'm afraid you won't have any money to pay if you lose."
Just when Wang Qingyun was about to say something, Wang Shuo next to him stepped forward, looked at Lin Xuan and said, "Are you Lin Xuan?"
"Who are you?" Lin Xuan frowned.
Wang Shuo said proudly: "I am Wang Shuo, the candidate for the head of the royal family."
"Never heard of it!" Lin Xuan said lightly.
"You..." Wang Shuo pointed at Lin Xuan angrily.
He was the candidate for the patriarch of the Wang family. He felt that he was nobler than those dragons and grandsons, but Lin Xuan actually said he had never heard of him.
"Why, you still want to fight?" Cheng Chumo shouted.
Of course Wang Shuo knew Cheng Chumo's identity and knew that he really dared to take action.
"I hope you won't lose too miserably. I like drinking the Immortal Drunk very much." Wang Shuo dropped these words and left directly.
He was a little afraid that if Cheng Chumo really took action, he would be humiliated.
Even if Cheng Chumo beat him, it would be impossible for the family to fall out with the Cheng family because of this matter.
As the person in charge of the Cui family in Chang'an, Cui Hao is in the Cui family's territory today. He is entertaining the heads of other families and some famous scholars they invited.
They are going to let these great scholars act as referees. These great scholars are very prestigious among the scholars. Although they will not obviously help them, they will definitely be biased.
At this moment, the housekeeper hurried over, leaned into Cui Hao's ear and said, "Master, your Majesty is here."
Cui Hao suddenly thought, Li Shimin must have come to support Lin Xuan, and Li Shimin would not be able to use so many methods.
"Everyone, your Majesty is here. Let's go to greet him." Cui Hao said loudly.
No matter how big the conflict between the aristocratic family and the royal family is, at least they have to live with it in order to save face. They will definitely welcome Li Shimin when he comes.
A group of people hurriedly came to the door to greet Li Shimin.
Lin Xuan took a look and said, "Hey guys, did Lao Li bring all the officials here?"
On the civil servant side were Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling, and on the general side were Li Jing, Qin Qiong, Li Ji, Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gong...
Lin Xuan also saw Li Chengqian and Li Tai.
"Welcome Your Majesty." Everyone saluted.
Li Shimin smiled and said: "Without courtesy, I heard that there is a grand meeting here today, so I came here to see it. Cui Aiqing won't be surprised."
Cui Hao cursed secretly, "You're already here, how can I still drive you away?"
But he said: "It's my honor to have your Majesty come. Your Majesty, please!"
With Li Shimin in front and everyone behind, they arrived at Cui's garden.
After everyone was seated, Cui Hao said: "The uncle from Jingyang County and us have agreed to compete in the Six Arts of Gentlemen, a total of six categories. In order to prevent both sides from insisting on their own opinions, we need a few more referees. I don't know who is willing."
They had made arrangements a long time ago, but they said this deliberately in order not to give anyone a clue.
"I wonder if I can be the referee."
As soon as Cui Hao's voice fell, four people came out and said.
Cui Hao looked ugly, and the person who came out was not arranged by him at all.
The four people who came out were none other than Kong Yingda, Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang, and Wang Xiaotong.
Although the people he was looking for were all famous scholars, they were still far behind these people.
Ordinarily, given their status, they would not come forward so actively. It seems that everything was arranged by Li Shimin.
Cui Hao couldn't refuse, so he forced a smile and said: "It turns out that they are all literary greats, of course they can afford it."
"Who are these people?" Lin Xuan asked Cheng Chumo in a low voice.
Cheng Chumo told Lin Xuan the identities of several people.
Is there another one named Wang?
"Is the person named Wang from the Wang family?" Lin Xuan asked.
Don't blame him for thinking this way, isn't there a saying that all kings in the world come from Taiyuan?
Qin Huaidao explained: "Master Wang has nothing to do with the Wang family in Taiyuan. He is Tongzhilang Taishi Cheng. Although his official position is not high, he is very famous in arithmetic. He is a great arithmetic master of his generation!"
Lin Xuan felt relieved now, otherwise having a member of the Wang family as the referee would definitely favor the aristocratic family.
"Okay, now that the matter has been decided, let me ask everyone present to witness that if the gentleman's six arts first defeat the four arts, he will be the winner! What objections do you have?" Yu Shinan stood up and said.
It is said that Kong Yingda, as the 31st grandson of Confucius, has the highest reputation, so he should be the one to host it.
But Kong Yingda didn't like to host these, so he had to let Yu Shinan host it.