Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 650 Please press the stage to preside over justice

After all, Mr. Seventh Cen was a nobleman in the chieftain circle of Guangxi. Although Huang Zhiting was afraid that he would poach her corner, she had no choice but to treat him with courtesy and arranged for him to live in a guest house alone.

Originally, the idea of ​​"should we detain Cen Ling in the Siming Mansion" came to her mind for a moment, but she quickly ruled it out.There are two reasons why she doesn't want to do this:
One is that Sicheng Prefecture is currently in a state of conflict between two tigers. Once Young Master Cen Qi is detained in Siming Mansion, Huang Ma can immediately take over the power of Sicheng Prefecture, but Huang Ma's Huang is not from the Huang family of Siming Mansion. Huang, what good does it do for Siming Mansion if he masters Sicheng Prefecture?
Not to mention that Cen Shaoxun is not dead, even if he is dead, his only son, Cen Yunhan, is in Guilin now. If Huang Ma dares to usurp the power of Sicheng Prefecture, the most likely result is that the imperial court will take this opportunity to send troops to Sicheng Prefecture. Although Chengzhou is strong, since it is a tyrant in power, the other branches of the Cen Clan in West Guangxi will not help.

If Sicheng is defeated, what will happen?At first glance, it seems that the main branch of the Cen family has once again declined. Relatively speaking, the Huang family may be superior to the Cen family.But what's the point?By that time, the imperial court might directly reform the natives in Sicheng Prefecture, and send the directly ruled officials to the core of the chieftains in western Guangxi.

Even if the imperial court decides to be more stable, they can send someone to send Cen Yunhan back to attack his post, and then use the excuse that Cen Yunhan is only four years old and unable to rule Sicheng, and send a senior official Ren Tongzhi to assist him, and actually control Sicheng - if this is done, The imperial court grasped all righteousness, and the surrounding chieftains couldn't even find an excuse to rebel, so they could only eat Coptis chinensis dumb, unable to explain their suffering.

It can be seen that no matter what the imperial court chooses, for the chieftain of Guangxi, the "fall" of Sicheng Prefecture is a big defeat.It's not just that Cen's interests are damaged, but the entire Guangxi chieftain will have to pay for it.

Therefore, although the detainment of Cen Qizi seems to have given the Huang family an opportunity to replace the Cen family and become the number one chieftain family in Guangxi, but behind this bait is the bloody mouth that the court is eyeing.

And the other reason is a little hard to say.Huang Zhiting felt that if she did this, Mr. Zhang might misunderstand her and think she was vicious.

No matter which of these two reasons is more important, anyway, Young Master Cen Qi got the opportunity to "be a guest Siming" and live in another guest courtyard not far from Gao Yushi's residence.

Having arranged for "Mr. Zhang" and Mr. Cen Qi, Huang Zhiting, who has been away from the mansion for half a month, really can't delay any longer. She can only go to meet the native officials at all levels under her, and quickly deal with some of the backlog of government affairs in Siming Mansion. .

As soon as she left, Young Master Cen Qi left his guest courtyard and headed for Gao Yushi's residence.

Young Master Cen Qi is a distinguished guest after all, and Huang Zhiting can't order him not to go out, at most he can't just walk around in the backyard at will, but several guest houses are adjacent to each other, so it's not good for Huang's servants to walk between the guest houses stop.

Young Master Cen Qiran came to visit, Gao Wushi seemed to have expected it, he welcomed him in with a smile, and then ordered Huang Zhiting's servants to wait for him to go out and wait.

Huang Zhiting treated him with great courtesy, and the servants were confused about the situation, so they could only be ordered to leave, leaving the two distinguished guests to chat.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they left, Young Master Cen Qi, who had been meeting with Gao Yushi just now, withdrew his smile, and solemnly lowered his officials to attend the Shangguan ceremony, and said in his mouth: "Guangxi Cheng announced that the governor of Zhili Sicheng Prefecture will be the magistrate. The next official, Cen Ling, has a meeting with the Guangxi patrol censor, and the Taiwan Jin'an!"

Gao Wushi was taken aback for a moment, and subconsciously wanted to cover up: "Young Master Cen Qi..."

"I don't dare to be an official, I have something to do, but please tell me."

The corner of Gao Yushi's mouth twitched, and he thought to himself: "Ci'ao, I've been exposed?"I just said why Cen Ling suddenly came to Siming Mansion in such a good way. At first, I thought it was Lao Tzu's talent that made him really reluctant to be cut off by Huang Zhiting halfway. !

"Well...you get up and talk." Anyway, it has already been exposed, and Cen Ling has paid tribute to worship, so he is obviously sure enough, there is no point in hiding it at this time.

"Thank you for pressing the stage." Young Master Cen Qi stood up and stood aside respectfully, just like ordinary chieftains meeting Guangxi inspectors—provided that the chieftain had no intention of rebelling.

"Judge Cen, when did you know Ben's identity?" In fact, Gao Yushi only found out about Cen Qigong's official position just now, but although the chieftain's official position is the same as the name of the court officials, at most the word "earth" is added in front of it. But it's actually quite different.

The chieftain has his own land, governs his people, governs his soldiers, inherits his position, governs his place, enters his ranks, and accepts his feudal title, and "killing people does not ask for orders, and death does not worry about Ding Ding". But it's too old.

Moreover, the official positions above their heads are not necessarily consistent with their actual control of the land they rule. For example, Cen Ling, a Tuzhou judge, was an administrative assistant to the Zhizhou according to the imperial court system. Patrols, horse herding and other things are ranked according to the seventh grade, but he can run around in Guangxi, and even come to Siming Mansion as a guest.

"Reporting to press the table, the lower officials saw the poems carved on the wall of the table." Mr. Cen Qi replied with cupped hands.

Oh, it turned out that this guy ran and turned back...

Gao Wushi nodded, and stopped asking about this matter, but asked: "You came to Siming Mansion, did you come for this official?"

"Yingtai is wise, I have something to ask you to uphold justice." Young Master Cen Qi said seriously.

This made Gao Wushi a little surprised. You are such a big chieftain, and the court did not wrong you for rebellion. What do you want me to do justice for?

However, in the duties of inspecting the censor, it did not specifically say that the chieftain was not outside the scope of his inspection, so he could not ignore the other party's request for "justice" according to the rules.

So Gao Wushi nodded: "What grievances do you have, just come through the channels, and I will know clearly by myself."

Young Master Cen Qi said: "I want to sue Huang Ma, the local magistrate of this state, for ignoring the imperial system, putting Zhizhou under house arrest, murdering Zhizhou's son, usurping Sicheng, with ulterior motives, and intending to rebel!"

Gao Wu has already learned a lot about the situation of the two tigers fighting in Sicheng Prefecture from Huang Zhiting, but Huang Zhiting only knows that Cen Shaoxun, the local magistrate of Sicheng Prefecture, ignores government affairs and leaves everything to Huang Ma and Cen Ling. I don't know that he was put under house arrest by Huang Ma!
And according to what Cen Ling said just now, this Huang Ma also plotted against Cen Yunhan?No wonder Cen Yunhan was sent to Guilin. It turned out that it was not someone who offered to provide protons, but was sent for asylum.

This is a major event that can shake Guangxi, Gao Yushi did not dare to take it lightly, and focused his eyes: "This is a big matter, please explain it in detail, don't miss one thing, and don't make mistakes."

Cen Ling said he didn't dare, and then reported the ins and outs of the so-called "two tigers fighting" in Sicheng Prefecture to Gao Pragmatism and Gao Xunguan.

According to Cen Ling, the Huangma family only came to prominence when Cen fiercely attacked Sicheng Prefecture in the past, "it is no more expensive than three generations".At that time, Huang Ma's grandfather was just an ordinary Tumu in Sicheng Prefecture. Relying on the power of his family, he controlled the territory of several villages.

When Cen Meng came to attack, Cen Jie thought he was invincible, so he dispatched all the Tumu Zheng near Lingyun City, the state city, to guard Lingyun City together.As mentioned above, this battle went back and forth for several years, and Huang Ma's grandfather was gradually promoted to a more important position because of his combat effectiveness.

However, due to Cen Meng's sweeping back and forth around Lingyun City, many originally powerful clans were seriously injured. Huang Ma's grandfather relied on his military exploits and the trust and rewards of the Cen family to gradually expand his strength. During the Meng Rebellion, Huang Ma's grandfather was already the most powerful Tumu in the vicinity of Lingyun City except for the Cen family.

Passing through Huang Ma's father, and when Huang Ma became a Tumu, this person pretended to be Cen Shaoxun's effective running dog, and responded to Cen Shaoxun's orders and demands, while trying to win over the "Four Men Tumu"—the families in charge of the defense of Lingyun City. The Tumu family has finally secretly completed the basic control of the defense force of Lingyun City.

Cen Shaoxun is fond of fishing and hunting, and often takes a small team of wolf soldiers out of the mountains outside Lingyun City to fish and hunt. Finally, when he returns from hunting, he is ordered by Huang Ma, who has long been plotting to usurp power, to remove the wolves controlled by Cen's family. soldiers, and then placed under house arrest.Cen Ling was young at the time and rarely showed up, so he was ignored by Huang Ma.

At the critical moment, Cen Ling, with the support of his servants and subordinates who are still loyal to the Cen family, picked up Cen Shaoxun's only son, Cen Yunhan, who had just been born, from the mansion, broke through the siege, and rushed to the Cen family wolf who had been transferred by Huang Ma. Among the soldiers, he planned to lead his troops back to Lingyun City.

However, Lingyun City is the core of Sicheng Prefecture's hundreds of years of rule, especially after being repeatedly reinforced during the Cen Meng Rebellion. Although the wolf soldiers were brave, they were not prepared to attack the city at all, and the siege equipment was seriously insufficient. Can Dunbing Lingyun City.

Moreover, Huang Ma has won over the four Tumu, and his strength is not weak. In addition, he controls Cen Shaoxun, and Cen Ling is even more cautious. Can't help anyone.

Cen Ling couldn't get in, and Huang Ma didn't dare to come out to fight the main force of Cen's wolf soldiers, so the two sides were at a stalemate.

In the end, Huang Ma was a guilty conscience, and under the guise of Cen Shaoxun ordered the two parties to shake hands and make peace. At the same time, they secretly sent someone to discuss with Cen Ling. Under the premise of ensuring that Cen Shaoxun would not be assassinated, the two sides maintained peace and jointly controlled Sicheng Prefecture-this joint control, in fact That is, Huang Ma controls Lingyun City and issues orders in the name of Cen Shaoxun, while Cen Ling controls the rest of Sicheng Prefecture. Whether he listens to the orders depends on the result of the game between the two sides.

However, without Lingyun City in hand, Cen Ling was always worried about the safety of his little nephew, Cen Yunhan. In the end, he just gritted his teeth and sent him to Guilin as a "hostage". After all, he still cares about the system and "renowned teachers" when doing things, and his Cen family has given away protons, so the court is not completely shameless and still takes action against the Cen family.

Now that the story of the Cen's family in Sicheng has been told, it's Gao Wushi's turn to express his opinion.

(End of this chapter)