Chapter 576: Murder with a Soft Knife

The Zheng family of Xingyang can be traced back to the Zheng State of King Xuan of Zhou.

Of course, today's Xingyang Zheng family, which has five surnames and seven families, has actually started from Zheng Hun, Zheng Tai and others in the same line as Zheng at that time in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and gradually developed into a high-ranking family.

The Zheng family of Xingyang is still a famous family of scholars for hundreds of years.

The peak of the Zheng family in Xingyang was still in the Northern Wei Dynasty, when the Zheng family had several prime ministers, and even had a grand occasion when six brothers were all important ministers in the court.

And Zheng can also be very proud in this dynasty, it is entirely because of Zheng Yi.

Zheng Yi is the son of Guan Xiaomu, the secretary of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, who was once a classmate of Yang Jian, and later became the internal history of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

At that time, after the death of Emperor Xuan of Zhou Yu Wenyun, it was he and Liu Fang who made Yang Jian an assistant to the government, so that Yang Jian became the prime minister and later represented Zhou.

However, Zheng Yi was dismissed from office in his later years because of corruption, and the emperor remembered his old feelings and did not kill him, and after a few years, he re-appointed him as Taichangqing and asked him to be in charge of formulating music.

After Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, because Zheng Yi was the founding father of Zuo Ming, so the special edict changed Zheng Yi to the Duke of Xin Guo, and let his son Zheng Yuanxuan take the title, which is a great honor, Yang Guang changed the title system, how many people's titles are either reduced or directly gone, and he can still pass on the title of Duke of the country to his son after his death.

He has four sons, the eldest son is now the general of Zuo Wuhou, the Taishou of Wencheng. The second son Zheng Yuanshou is Hongluqing, and his nephew Zheng Shanguo is Dali Siqing.

Zheng Guanyin's grandfather Zheng Chen is Zheng Yi's younger brother, and his father Zheng Jibo is Yingchuan Taishou, because of his belief in Buddhism, so he named Zheng Guanyin.

In the Daye Dynasty, there is a family with the title of duke, which is definitely still very influential, not to mention that the Zheng family is still one of the five surnames, in the Daye Dynasty, the Kwantung clan has been recovering and rising, not as weak and declining as the Northern Zhou and Sui dynasties.

Du Ruhui reminded Luo Cheng.

"Zheng sent his daughter in public, and wrote to you that he wanted to send his daughter to you as a concubine, which seems to be an apology to you on the surface, after all, the Zheng family was at fault first, and you are now the emperor's favorite minister, so I don't grudge with you, and resolve it with you. But it's not that simple! ”

Fang Xuanling also nodded.

If it's really that simple, why do you need to send people directly like this?

Why don't the Zheng family apologize to Luo Cheng first, and then propose marriage to Luo Cheng. But now it was sent directly to the door like this, and Luo Cheng was not given time to prepare at all, not to mention, he deliberately did it in public.

"The Zheng family is showing weakness, pretending to be pitiful, and winning everyone's sympathy, which is deliberate. Today's episode will soon spread throughout Luoyang and even the world, and then the trend of public opinion will no longer be how the Zheng family bullied you back then, and how she was insulted, but that you Luo Cheng is now unforgiving, forcing the Zheng family to give you a famous concubine, and at that time, countless scholars in the world will hate you because of this, and even stand on the opposite side of you. ”

After all, this is a thing.

It's not just the Zheng family that is ashamed.

but all the nobles.

The Shi clan has a good face, and now the Zheng family, the leader of the Shi clan, is so persecuted by Luo Cheng as a martial artist, they will also have the same hatred.

If you don't know it, the emperor will be very unhappy with Luo Cheng, thinking that it is too domineering.

"These so-called famous clans really like to play with this kind of twisting and turning things, and the soft knife kills people without seeing blood!" Luo Cheng said with a smile.

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui smiled helplessly, they are also famous scholars. Jingzhao Wei's family, but a first-class scholar family, although the Qi County Fang clan is almost there, it is also a high-ranking scholar family.

"Shicheng, you have to be careful, now the Zheng family has twenty or thirty officials in the court, two of them are Jiuqing, three are Taishou, and the rest of the officials also have one or twenty people, you have to be careful."

"Yes, there is also a Zheng nobleman in the palace, who is Zheng Guanyin's aunt in terms of seniority."

Luo Cheng laughed.

"Originally, that incident almost ended here. But since the Zheng family wants to play, I'm not afraid of them, didn't he send someone over and say that I can dispose of it? ”

He snorted coldly, Okay, I'm brought in, but I won't let her be a concubine, and I won't let her be a slave, I'll let her be a name and no place in this mansion! ”

Fang Xuanling shook his head helplessly.

Luo Cheng is really in trouble with the Zheng family.

A daughter from a famous family, when she arrives at the Duke of Chu, if she is a concubine, although she is a little wronged, it is not special to have the daughters of Li Yuan and Cui Junsu in front of her, but now Luo Cheng wants to let the daughter of the Zheng family stay in this Duke of Chu Mansion without a name, which is surprising.

"Don't they want to pretend to be pitiful and sympathetic, then I have to cooperate with one or two."

"Shicheng, don't be the enemy of the giant room." Du Ruhui reminded Luo Cheng that although the Zheng family does not have top ministers in the court now, their strength is not weak, especially their five surnames know the most about marriage, this marriage is full of government and opposition, and it has great influence.

Even the emperor's pillow has the women of their family.

"It's okay, I'm a big deal to be a lonely minister."

Fang Xuanling suddenly understood Luo Cheng's thoughts, and the Zheng family created momentum, pretending to be pitiful and sympathetic, and wanted to use this to pull the entire scholar clan to isolate Luo Cheng, and even make the world think that Luo Cheng was so arrogant and domineering.

But Luo Cheng, taking advantage of the trend, has to just go up with the Zheng family and other scholars, and the purpose is to let the emperor see that he doesn't pull and pull with the scholars.

To the emperor, what is Luo Cheng?

is a favorite minister, and he is also the most capable general, but if this can fight general, he will make the emperor jealous of alliances and marriages everywhere.

But now that Luo Cheng has accepted the daughter of the Zheng family, but he does not give the name, and he has a falling out with the Zheng family, the emperor is afraid that he will not think that Luo Cheng is domineering, and he will only sleep peacefully at night.

Different angles consider the problem in different directions.

Luo Cheng smiled and said to the teacher Zhang Xutuo, "The Zheng family is the head snake of Xingyang, and the teacher is now in Henan to pacify the envoy and govern Xingyang, and it is estimated that they will trouble the teacher in the future, but they will implicate the teacher." ”

Zhang Xutuo laughed.

"Although the Zheng family is the head snake of Xingyang, but now I am the pacification envoy of Henan, it is too late for them to convince me, how dare they come to trouble me? Now the world is not peaceful, there are bandits everywhere, if they really dare to play with me, then I will not be polite to them. ”

This time, many officials were also adjusted.

Zhang Xutuo was meritorious in suppressing bandits and quelling chaos in Henan, so he directly sat in the position of Henan's pacification envoy this time, and Fan Zigai was also awarded an important position in the eastern capital because of the many thieves who killed in the rebellion.

Luo Cheng's other teacher, Li Jing, was awarded the post of Hebei pacification envoy, and his old friend Xue Shixiong was awarded the post of Fan Yang Yin, Fan Yang was the original Zhuo County, this time it was upgraded to a mansion and renamed Fan Yang.

Come to protect the child and grant the governor of Donglai and the Taishou.

Fang Xuanling awarded Xincheng County Taishou, and Du Ruhui awarded Liaoxi County Taishou.

Luo Cheng is now the envoy of the Jiedu of Andong Province and the Taishou of Liaodong, his deputy envoy of the Jiedu is Duan Da, the pacification envoy is Feng Deyi, and the observation envoy is Li Baiyao.

The history of the governor of the Jiedu envoy is Hou Mo Chen Yi, Sima is Wei Zheng, and the record is still Wang Ziming.

This team is dominated by old brothers, but it is still mixed with a lot of sand.