Chapter 087: Cen Ling's Visit
Cen Qigongzi suddenly came to Siming Mansion, this news not only made Gao pragmatic inexplicable, but also made Huang Zhiting confused.
At that time, she had said that she would invite Cen Qigongzi to come to Siming Mansion as a guest, but it was not so much an invitation as a provocation, because in Huang Zhiting's opinion, Cen Qigongzi had a headache just to deal with the troubles inside his Sicheng, how could he have any leisure to come to Siming Mansion?
Although as an outsider, Huang Zhiting does not know what the current situation of power structure in Sicheng is, but the inside of the Cen family in Sicheng is not monolithic, which she is completely sure of.
You must know that although the housework in her Siming Mansion is also very messy, no matter how messy it is, Huang Chengzu took the initiative to ignore things, and he did not run out to interfere with Huang Zhiting. As for Huang Yinglei's younger brother, although he was dissatisfied with his sister's "usurpation of power", he was not supported by the major local officials in the government because he had made mistakes before, so on the whole, the Huang family's decree was still smooth, and the power was still intact.
However, the situation in Sicheng Prefecture is much more complicated.
The main home of the Cen family was Si'en Mansion at the beginning, because Cen Jun, the prefect of Si'en Mansion in the past, was evil, the imperial court mobilized a large army to break Si'en, changed Si'en Mansion to the stream, and set up the Liuguan Prefect's Mansion. Later, Tianzhou Cen Meng rose, and then forcibly obtained the status of the head of the Cen family, but Cen Meng because of the false revenge of the past, there were signs of unification of the Cen family, and the imperial court once again mobilized a large army to exterminate Cen Meng, and this time the Tianzhou Cen family also declined. [No Wind Note: See Chapter 073 of this volume where unity is strength]
Sicheng Prefecture was Cen Jun's accomplice at the beginning, and was later attacked by Cen Meng with all his might, and even the head of the family Cen Jian died in this chaos, but in the end, Sicheng Prefecture still carried it until the imperial court shot Cen Meng to death.
However, is the position of the Sicheng Cen clan as stable as Mount Tai? No, not at all.
At this time, the Cen family was in chaos: although there were a bunch of bosses in the Cen family's toast, the three strongest ones were Si'en Mansion, Tianzhou Mansion and Sicheng Prefecture.
After this turmoil, Si'en Mansion was reassigned to the Liuguan Prefect, but due to the instability of the rule, the imperial court had to "relocate" the Tusi Zhao family to serve as the Tongzhi of Si'en Mansion, and the eight inspection divisions under Si'en Mansion were still the old department of the Cen family, and the Zhao family spent decades of work and tried every possible way, but only got three inspection divisions.
So now Si'en Mansion is actually divided into three forces:
The Zhao family mastered the Fucheng, as well as the three soil inspection divisions of Nama, Xinglong, and Guling, with a strength of about 4,000 troops in peacetime, occupying the central area of Si'en Mansion;
Although the people of the Liuguan prefect sent by the imperial court are in the city, the territory that can be relied on is in the southern Wuyuan County, which is still assigned to Sien from Nanning Prefecture, although it is a large county, but there is only one Wuyuan to guard the thousand households, and it is a great number of people;
The five soil inspection divisions in the north are still occupied by the old Cen clan, and they are currently nominally obeying the orders of the Cen clan lord in Sicheng Prefecture, but in reality, no one knows, and they don't know about themselves, so it may be more appropriate to count them as their own affairs.
This is actually an important reason why the Zhao family would rather give up the old land of Longzhou, which was "surrounded" by the Huang family's forces, and also take the Bazhai area, because the Bazhai area is just east of the central part of Si'en Mansion, close to the Gu Lingtu Inspection Division controlled by the Zhao family. Once the land of Bazhai is taken and the operation is successful, there will be more than ten or twenty years, and the Zhao family will have the strength to subdue the five Cen Clan's old land inspection divisions in the north, and then the Sien Mansion will be basically unified.
The situation of Tianzhou Mansion is a little simpler, since it was broken by the imperial court, and after the change of land and return to the stream and the situation could not be stabilized, Wang Shouren adopted a compromise method, abolished the change of land and returned to the stream, and still "razed the country", but dismembered part of Tianzhou, and then reduced from the government to the state. Later, Mrs. Washi "forgave her husband's sins" and led the army to participate in the anti-Japanese war and made great contributions, and the situation in Tianzhou stabilized. However, due to the losses in all aspects, it has not slowed down until now, decades have passed.
And what about Sicheng State? He is the head of the Cen family, and he has a lot of troubles. First of all, there is a problem with the name, after all, the "level" of Sicheng Prefecture is only a "state", and the Cen family still has a Tu Prefect - the Tu Prefect of Zhen'an Mansion is Cen Shi's.
Fortunately, although Zhen'an Mansion is known as a mansion, its strength is not as strong as that of Sicheng Prefecture, and successive generations of family heads are all unambitious and passable, which did not lead to further civil strife in the Cen family.
In addition to the name, there is also a big problem in Sicheng Prefecture, that is, one power is divided into two parts: the current head of the family, Cen Shaoxun, inexplicably gave up power and went to live the hermit life he longed for, resulting in two people in power in Sicheng now, one is Cen Shaoxun's confidant Huang Ma, and the other is Cen Ling Cen's seventh son who visited Siming Mansion today.
There are many rumors about Cen Shaoxun's approach, but none of the rumors have been proven to be true, the only thing everyone is sure of is that one of Huang Ma and Cen Ling must be a "chaotic minister and thief", because Cen Shaoxun's only son Cen Yunhan, who was only four years old, was actually sent to Guilin to "study".
Guilin is the governance of Guangxi Province and the core of the imperial court's rule in Guangxi. Cen Shaoxun's only son was sent to Guilin, what is the difference between that and sending protons?
This is the normal operation of a toast family!
Therefore, this series of "divine operations" in Sicheng Prefecture has made people in all walks of life in Guangxi fluctuate, and they don't know what is going on in their family, and the only happier one is probably the imperial court - no matter what the hell you are doing, anyway, you took the initiative to send protons, so I don't have to say, we must laugh at it.
In such a chaotic and strange situation, Cen Qigongzi did not stay in Sicheng Prefecture to fight for power with Huang Ma, but came to Siming Mansion, which was naturally even more inexplicable. If it weren't for Huang Zhiting having met Cen Qigongzi several times and could see that he was not a fool, I was afraid that he would think that this guy had failed in the struggle for power and came to Siming Mansion to seek refuge.
However, when Huang Zhiting and Gao Shishi rushed to the main hall to meet Cen Qigongzi, they only took a glance and knew that this guy would definitely not fail to fight for power or anything, because he was still the appearance of a handsome and chic and handsome son at the moment, with white clothes and snow, the gold-painted black bone fan in his hand was gently shaking, and there was an inexplicable smile on his face.
"Miss Huang, Zhang Gongzi, although it is only a few days away, I really miss it in the next, but fortunately, I suddenly remembered that I had an appointment with Miss Huang in the next, and I just took the opportunity to come and disturb it, hehe......"
Cen Qigongzi smiled when he said this, but Huang Zhiting became nervous for some reason, and hurriedly glanced at Gao Pragmatic, seeing that although Gao Pragmatic was smiling, he seemed to be a little thoughtful, and couldn't help but hurriedly said: "Seventh Prince, come if you want to come, don't beat me under the guise of it." Then the words changed sharply: "What do you think about the seventh prince here?" ”
Gao Pragmatic and Cen Ling were stunned when they said this, and Gao Pragmatic said: The seventh son of Cen is also the son of the Cen family, one of the people in power in Sicheng Prefecture, why did Miss Huang suddenly treat him so unpretentiously?
Cen Qigongzi secretly said in his heart: Huang Zhiting, this girl took the wrong medicine? I didn't fight with her about the ownership of Bazhai Land before, and I didn't pursue her this time for abducting this high inspector in the white dragon fish suit to come to Siming Mansion, why did she have such an attitude towards me? Don't...... She also guessed Gao Pragmatic's identity, for fear that I would come to get close to Gao Pragmatic and stir up the follow-up arrangements for Bazhai for her?
This is a bit troublesome, although the matter of Bazhai is not insignificant, but what is it compared to the matter I want to ask Gao Xun to help? If because of the Bazhai incident, I can't get close to Gao Xun, and I can't get his trust and help, when will the trouble in Sicheng Prefecture be solved?
No, I must find ways to get close to him, and I have to avoid Huang Zhiting.