Chapter 64: Divide and Conquer
In the gathering hall of Woniu Mountain, it is very lively at the moment. On the three rows of chairs on the left sat the people of the Yang family in Shiqian, and the little toast of the Yang family sat at the top, an eight-year-old girl, wiping her tears and looking afraid. There were several clan elders around her, bending down and whispering to her, and I didn't know if they were coaxing her not to cry, or if they were teaching her face-to-face, telling her how to lower her voice when she saw Ye Xiaotian for a while.
The people of the Zhang family sat opposite, looking blank. Sitting in the first place is Zhang Xiaoquan, that is, the Zhang Yishu who accepted Dai Tongzhi's benefits and killed Pu Jie's at the gate of the government in the name of avenging his brother.
The Zhang family had a bad year, Zhang Duo and Zhang Yutong died one after another, and now Zhang Yi and Zhang Yuhan have become prisoners of Woniu Mountain.
Seeing him sitting there with a blank face, I don't know if he really wanted to save his father and cousin, or if he wished they were in a different place. If that's the case, the Zhang family is certainly in decline, but for him, it is a great thing.
It is said that after Cao Ruiyu was captured, the people of the Cao family have fought for the position of Tusi. Cao Jiarui also has two brothers, Cao Ruifeng and Cao Ruixue, but the two have invariably given up the opportunity to get the position of toast.
It is a great temptation to become a toast, but since there is a Ye Xiaotian in Guizhou, it seems that toast has become a high-risk profession, and the Cao family has planted three toasts in a row, and they really don't want to take this risk.
But the two brothers of Fengxue are not interested in toast, but the younger generation is not, the four brothers of the Cao family's three rooms, the four brothers in the east, west, north and south, and the four brothers in the spring, summer, autumn and winter of the four rooms are extremely enthusiastic about the position of the toast, the third and fourth rooms are fighting, and the brothers in the third and fourth rooms are also fighting, and now I don't know that the east wind overwhelms the west wind. Or spring drove out winter.
The people of the exhibition family stood in the middle of the hall, in fact, there were still many seats in the hall, they could sit down and wait. But Zhan Ning'er doesn't sit, and the others naturally don't sit down.
Zhan Ning'er was very excited at the moment, she hadn't seen Ye Xiaotian for a long time. These days, she is not miserable in her heart. She wanted to pour out her grief to Ye Xiaotian, threw herself into his arms, and accepted his comfort.
In fact, the Zhan family can't talk about restraining Ning Er at all, although the death of the uncle has had a great impact on her, but from the fact that she fought with Zhanlong, and then sneered at the behavior of the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law, it can be seen that the family can't restrain her at all.
The only reason she is subject to the Zhan family is her biological mother. Her mother is different from Ning'er, who has been deviant since she was a child, she is a real lady, in her heart. The interests of the family have always taken precedence over personal demands.
Zhan Ning'er advocates freedom by nature, but because of her love for her mother, she has to wronged herself, and she wants to tell her men all this suffering. But...... When a figure flashed out from behind the screen, Ning'er, who had just been happy in her heart, was disappointed, it was not Ye Xiaotian who she had been thinking about for a long time, but Master Li.
As soon as Li Daxiang appeared, the people of the Yang family and the Zhang family hula surrounded him. Mu Ran's is not Mu Ran. The sad ones are not sad anymore, and they are all full of nervousness. He asked nonchalantly, "Mr. Li, what did Master Ye say?" ”
"Mr. Li, when will Lord Ye meet us?"
"Mr. Li, our Zhang family came first, please arrange for us to meet Master Ye first."
"Everyone! Everybody! Please be still! ”
Li Daxiang shook his fan and swept lightly towards everyone. He said in a tone of voice: "Our Lord Servant is very busy, and we have no time to meet you. If you have anything, just tell me, Li will say that we know with our officials, and if there is anything that needs to be discussed, I will inform you again. ”
The people present were toasts, earthen houses, and chiefs. This situation is like a large number of people from the secretary of the municipal party committee, the mayor, and the county magistrate who went to a small mountain village, but the village chief put on a show and did not show up, and sent a village accountant to tell them: "Our village chief is too busy to see you, so tell me something." ”
The problem is that in the face of such a posing score, everyone has no temper at all, and the little toast of the Yang family was so anxious that he pulled his uncle's sleeve, and her uncle nodded to Li Daxiang and said: "Mr. Li, the dog is confused, bewitched by traitors, and is the enemy of Lord Ye, and now he deserves to be a prisoner." Our Shiqian Yang family is willing to look forward to everything from now on, only Lord Ye will look forward, I only hope that Lord Ye can raise his noble hand, spare the dog's life, and give our Yang family a way to live. ”
Zhang Xiaoquan also said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Li, my father and cousin were bewitched by adulterers and became enemies of Lord Ye, and they ended up like this, they deserved it. However, Lord Ye has a lot, and I hope to be able to raise my noble hand, as long as I can release my father and cousin, we will agree to whatever conditions we want. This time, our Zhang family brought a pair of white jade horses, a jade watermelon, and a pair of mutton fat jade bottles......"
"Seduced by an adulterer? One by one, you all say that you are bewitched by the adulterer, who is the adulterer, huh? Tell me, 'Who is the adulterer?' As soon as Li Daxiang put the fan away, he pointed at the noses of several people in front of him.
Uncle Yang and Zhang Xiaoquan looked at Zhan Ning'er in unison, Zhan Ning'er stared angrily, and shouted: "What do you see me doing, am I a traitor?" ”
Zhang Xiaoquan smiled and said, "Don't misunderstand, girl, it's naturally not you that we're talking about." But ......"
Uncle Yang said: "However, Zhanlong Zhan Tusi is not a girl. Our Yang family migrated, who took it in? The Zhang family left Tongren, who instigated it? ”
Zhan's second sister-in-law shouted angrily: "You wolf-hearted things, when you were like a lost dog, you begged my Zhan family bitterly, and now you want to put all the sins on my Zhan family?" ”
Uncle Yang and Zhang Xiaoquan turned to Li Qiuchi with a brush, and said grovelly: "Mr. Li, you saw ......"
Zhan's second sister-in-law suddenly became angry.
Li Dazhuang snorted coldly and said, "Li is not interested in listening to these dogs biting dogs. Zhang Xiaoquan ......"
Zhang Xiaoquan hurriedly stepped forward and looked at Li Daxiang with a smile on his face, his eyes were blank, like a pug waiting for his owner to throw out a bone.
Li Dazhuang said slowly: "With the strength of our adults, it is not too much to be the prefect of Tongren, right?" But our lord has always left the throne of the prefect of Tongren to the Zhang family, and the benevolence and righteousness are exhausted, right? How did the Zhang family treat us adults? Hehe. I don't need to say more, you understand. ”
Zhang Xiaoquan was covered in cold sweat, and said continuously: "Yes, yes, this matter is indeed what our Zhang family did wrong, we ......"
Li Qiuchi interrupted him and said, "It's not more than three things, and then we adults continue to back down." That's impossible. Therefore, this time, the position of the prefect of the Zhang family must be relinquished. ”
Zhang Xiaoquan's face was full of bitterness, and he said abruptly: "Mr. Li......"
Li Qiuchi said categorically: "This matter is not negotiable!" If you want us to rest in Woniuling, you must agree to this! ”
When Zhang Xiaoquan heard the sentence "You must agree", his heart suddenly moved, and he asked tentatively: "...... father and cousin?"
Li Qiuchi said: "Our adults have already written to the governor to impeach Zhang Yi and Zhang Yuhan." These two men were exempt from capital crimes. can no longer be the head of the Zhang family. What our lord means is that you will succeed you as the lord of the Zhang clan, and at the same time, our lord will appoint you as the governor of Tongren Mansion. I wonder what you think? ”
Li Dazhuo's approach was to recall the exiled Zhangjia group back to Tongren and allow him to raise him with a fictitious title of acquaintance, so as to prevent the Zhang family from continuing to be used by others. thus imperceptibly obliterating the influence of the Zhang family on Tongren.
A Zhang family who is in exile and always speaks out to stir up trouble, and a person who accepts reality. The Zhang family, who wish to serve the Ye clan as the main one, played a completely different role in destroying the foundation of the Zhang clan.
Zhang Xiaoquan said in fear: "This ...... This ...... Zhang can't be the master. Besides, with a father and cousin, where is it Zhang's turn to be the master of the house, Zhang is just a concubine......"
Li Daxiang glanced at him coldly and said, "As long as you agree to our conditions." We will naturally fully support you. If you have the support of the Ye family and the Yu family, who would dare to knock you off the position of the head of the Zhang family? ”
Zhang Xiaoquan was overjoyed when he heard this. What kind of character is this benevolent brother? Dai Tongzhi spent more than 1,000 taels of silver, and he dared to kill Pu Jie, killing a witness who could ask the real murderer of the eldest brother, and his father was so angry that he fainted alive.
Now there is such an opportunity. Zhang Xiaoquan was afraid that he would lose such an opportunity if he made a gesture again, and he didn't care about the ugly appearance at the moment, so he hurriedly said: "Okay, as long as there is the support of Lord Ye, Zhang Xiaoquan is willing to be a lackey under the door, do his best, and die!" ”
These words are a bit numb, but at that time, there was a strong concept of superiority and inferiority, and such a statement was actually not as unbearable as later generations imagined. Qi Dashuai, who guards Jidong and is famous all over the world, also called himself "a lackey under the door" when he wrote to Zhang Juzheng. ”
Once, with a flick of his fingers, the Zhang family could run Ye Xiaotian to death like an ant, and the Zhang family, a side branch of the soil house, dared to lead the local soldiers to besiege the Tuiguan Yamen and try to kill Ye Xiaotian, but now, the head of the Zhang family wants to call himself a "lackey under the door" to Ye Xiaotian.
Li Daxiang smiled and said, "Okay! Zhang Tusi, this way, please. ”
Zhang Xiaoquan was led to the small study next to him, and two official documents had already been spread out on the table, Zhang Xiaoquan picked up one and looked at it, but it was a confession to the governor of Guizhou that Zhang Guy and Cao Yang intended to kill Ye Xiaotian, and the second was to ask the court for guilt, and asked to be degraded to Tongzhi, and recommended Yu Junting as the prefect and Dai Chonghua as the prisoner of the state.
When Zhang Xiaoquan saw this, a cold sweat suddenly came down. As long as he signed these two official documents, he would never want to see his father and cousin, and many people in the family would inevitably regard him as a traitor. But...... But......
This concubine, who had absolutely no hope of getting involved in the throne of the head of the Zhang family, thought of Li Dazhuo's promise. If he is not the head of the family, even if the Zhang family dominates the entire Guizhou, what does it have to do with him? If he can become the head of the family, even if he becomes Ye Xiaotian's lackey, with the rich background of the Zhang family, he can still be at ease. Rather be the head of the chicken than the queen of the cow, where to go, do you need to think too much?
After only hesitating and struggling for less than a cup of tea, Zhang Xiaoquan gritted his toothpick and wrote. The proponents of Tongren, who have been inherited for 500 years, have completely given up their former power and glory from this moment on. From this moment on, Ye Xiaotian's integration of Tongren can be regarded as a successful end.
Tongren has since become Ye Xiaotian's back garden.
: Sincerely ask for commuter passes, recommended tickets!. (To be continued......)