Marriage has always been a means for everyone in the world to consolidate their position, especially the seven families who are known as the five surnames and seven wangs who stand at the top.

As women with five surnames, they are basically born with a loss of freedom: they begin to receive training at an early age, the best scholarly education, the best etiquette, and at the same time accept all kinds of brainwashing. Therefore, most of the women with the five surnames have the same characteristics: knowledgeable and courteous, luxurious and generous, fuqin embroidery, omniscient, and at the same time the pride and loyalty of the family. They have undergone rigorous training, and they can go up to the hall and down to the kitchen; can play the guqin and blow the hole flute; Grinding and writing a good hand, lifting a pen can make a good poem, can be called a model among women, can almost be described as perfect.

But they only have two futures, one is to intermarry with other clans, so as to ensure the purity of their own bloodline, and also to intertwine the roots of the seven great clans, forming a situation of cold lips and teeth. The other is to give strong and potential people with foreign surnames, take them for their own use, and increase their momentum.

But because the vast majority of women with the five surnames are internally digested, only a small number of them are left out for people to choose. It is because everyone in the world is proud of marrying five women with surnames, and is proud of having a lady with almost perfect conduct. Because of this, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the woman of the family was a symbol, a symbol of status. So much so that Xue Yuanchao, the prime minister of the Gaozong Dynasty, was talented and enjoyed all the glory and wealth in his life, but he always felt regretful that he could not marry a girl with five surnames.

In fact, the five surnames and seven wangs, Cui, Lu, Li, Zheng, and Wang, the seven super giants, are beautiful on the surface. Behind the scenes, there are also their own difficulties.

The family flourished in the two Jin Dynasty periods, and the fact is that the scholars and the clans, Cui Lu, Wang Xie, and these gate lords are all the ones who control the imperial court and temples, and even have the situation of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

Sui Dynasty rises. Yang Jian, the wise and martial Emperor Wen of Sui, became jealous of the seven super giants of Cui, Lu, Li, Zheng, and Wang, intending to weaken the momentum of the five surnames and seven hopes. To promote culture and education and create the imperial examination, his original intention was to let the poor people in the world learn knowledge, use the imperial examination system to gain fame, enter the court as an official, and interrupt the monopoly of the super wealthy on the cultural level and small and medium-sized officials.

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The imperfection of the imperial examination system. The promotion of culture and education is also not satisfactory, but it allows the five surnames and seven to obtain more foreign aid in the form of marriage, and the momentum is greater. also directly led the wise and martial Yang Jian to do the biggest stupid thing in his later years. ordered the abolition of schools, and demolished all the Guozijian, Taixue, and state and county schools, and did not allow the people to study.

The Tang Dynasty was newly established, although Li Yuan did not clearly express the meaning of rejecting the five surnames and seven hopes. But there is no doubt that none of the core members of the current Li Tang Dynasty are members of the Five Surnames and Seven Wangs. Li Tang relied on talents from five families. The reuse is not very useful, making the five surnames and seven wangs far less influential than before.

In addition to relying on each other, the seven families also have the heart of competition and secret fighting.

Who doesn't want their family to become the first, the Cui family has dominated the first place for many years, and now it is in a weak period, as long as there are one or two figures in the family who lead the court. It is not impossible for me to advance and retreat, and to make further progress.

Luo Shixin was young. However, his military exploits can be compared with veteran and famous generals such as Li Ji and Li Jing. The future is limitless, and it is a rare talent who can become a strong foreign aid. Using Zheng Liwan to win over Luo Shixin immediately became the key to imperative.

Under the condition of paying a lot, Mrs. Zheng planned to do something to Zheng Liwan, and specially called her to Xingyang, hoping that she could take the Zheng family as the main thing in everything.

At this first meeting, Mrs. Zheng found that Zheng Liwan's every move, in terms of grace and conversation, was not inferior to the ladies they had trained, and they could throw off a few streets compared to their appearance. He has been in the Zheng family for eighty-nine years, and he has never seen a daughter of the Zheng family who can surpass Zheng Liwan in appearance.

Mrs. Zheng has lived for eighty-nine years, has eaten more salt than ordinary people, and has her own unique means of winning people's hearts. It's not self-righteous to oppress people as an old lady, that's the most unskilled and unskilled. He wants to talk to the other party, find the weak point of the other party, and capture it, so that the other party can serve the Zheng family convincingly.

As soon as she came into contact, Mrs. Zheng immediately noticed that Zheng Liwan was better and more witty than all the women he had ever seen, and her actions were completely unexpected.

"The old decay has lived a lot of age, and he sees everything very openly, what is there to be angry about." Mrs. Zheng squinted her eyes and said with a smile, put the tea brewed by Zheng Liwan in front of her nose and sniffed it gently, blew it slowly, and took a sip, which was mellow and evocative. As a good hand who has invaded the tea ceremony for 80 years, it can be seen that Zheng Liwan's tea ceremony skills are remarkable, not how clever he is, but he gives full play to the combination of tea and water, according to common sense, he should have six or seven years of skills, but it is accurate to eighty-six days, and it should not be a lie.

"It's good tea!"

With 80 years of experience in the tea ceremony, it is quite difficult to give this evaluation.

Zheng Liwan smiled lightly: "One night twenty-one days ago, three people sneaked into Zheng's mansion with the intention of assassinating me. She whispered, pulling out the map and portrait from her long sleeves, "I can only say that people who are too good at painting are not suitable for this kind of work." Or as Lao Tzu said, the sky net is magnificent, negligent but not lost. He drew all the hair ornaments I had brought with me three months ago, and during these three months I was confined to my home, and I saw a total of fifty-one people, all of whom had come to the house to look for my father. There are all kinds of people, and these fifty-one have fifteen suspects left after thirty-six old friends. Among the fifteen suspects, except for nine with poor painting skills, only six people were selected, and only one person was selected to draw a detailed layout map of the Zheng Mansion, and his name was Zheng Guichao. The old lady doesn't know what to think? ”

Mrs. Zheng was old and refined, her eyes were fixed when she heard the words, and she had already thought of the problem in an instant, and her expression was heavy.

Zheng Liwan continued: "Zheng Guichao, as one of the six stewards of the Zheng family, has no grievances with me, why should he attack me as a weak woman? I had no contact with him, and the only possible thing was my dad's. He and my father are in charge of finances and the livelihood of the family, so they should cooperate with each other. But what is the purpose of his attack on me? What is he trying to hide? In the past 20 days, I secretly checked the Zheng family's account books and found some interesting things. Many Zheng family talents and Zheng family branches died unexpectedly or disappeared. Shouldn't the old lady be in charge?

Zheng Guichao is in charge of the livelihood of the inner family, and the Zheng family has a thousand-year history, just like a deep-rooted tree in the sky, and then separated countless branches. Some of these branches are mixed with wind and water, and some are not hungry.

Even if the Zheng family is defeated, they will not starve to death, Zheng Guichao is responsible for the livelihood of these people, and every month he will receive a large amount of living expenses from the treasury and give them to the Zheng family who are unable to support themselves, so that they can survive by fleeing. At the same time, if there are men in these Zheng families, the men must be compulsorily admitted to the clan school to learn culture, and all expenses are paid by the Zheng family, which is also under the jurisdiction of Zheng Guichao.

This is also the reason why the family can prosper for a long time, as long as the Zheng family can get the opportunity to learn and receive the best education even if they are poor. They have too many advantages over ordinary people. Among them, those with outstanding academic performance and those who rank among the best can focus on training, and more money and material rewards will be given.

This is the key to maintaining the prosperity of the Zheng family, but the problem arises how many branches of the Zheng family's thousand-year-old history are. In addition to the genealogy in the hands of Mrs. Zheng, only Zheng Guichao knows in detail. How much do you need to receive, and how many of those children are excellent, they are all handled by Zheng Guichao. If finance is in the same stream as Zheng Guichao, he can make a large profit from it every month. Similarly, if the accounting does not cooperate and there is suspicion, the confidence investigation can still find out.

"He thought that he could hide his eyes and ears from the world, but he didn't know that he had exposed his identity early, and his eyes were clear." Zheng Liwan said and took out a list from the sleeve of her left hand and said: "This is the additional benefits I have obtained in a year, and the amount is only high or low." I was threatened with my life because of such a ridiculous thing, and I asked Mrs. Zheng to seek justice for me, a weak woman. ”

Old lady Zheng looked at the amount on the list, and a trace of anger flashed in her eyes, the amount of corruption was beyond his imagination.

"Weak woman?" He didn't raise his eyelids, and said lightly: "You are more powerful than thousands of men, at least in my Zheng family, in the same age, there is no one who compares to you." He didn't suspect that the list in his hand was fake, Zheng Liwan was so powerful that he already disdained to fool people with fake things. Everything is indisputably genuine.

Zheng Liwan smiled indifferently and didn't say anything.

Mrs. Zheng threw the list in her hand into the brazier and said, "What do you want?" ”

"Zheng Guichao and Zheng Yuanbi will be expelled from the Zheng family, and they will not be allowed to return to the door wall within three generations." Zheng Liwan replied without hesitation.

Mrs. Zheng's hand trembled slightly: "It's too ruthless, it's okay to expel Zheng Yuanbi from the Zheng family, Zheng Guichao has been in charge of my Zheng family for nearly ten years, and if you say that you will be expelled from the Zheng family, what does the world think?" ”

Zheng Liwan bowed her head and said: "Naturally, I praised the old lady for her decisive decision, and used thunderous means to get rid of the moths in the clan, which did not reduce the arrogance of the year." also set an example for my Zheng family, let the Zheng family know that the Zheng family's family rules are like regulations, there must be corrections, and mistakes must be punished, so let the chicken who kills chickens and set an example for monkeys, this is no better. Of course, if the old lady is not afraid that the world will say that the Zheng family does not divide rewards and punishments, she can also choose to shield Zheng Guichao. ”

Old lady Zheng picked up the Junshan silver needle in front of her again, swallowed it big, and sighed: "Girl, the old man really needs to lower the fire." (To be continued......)