Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 576 Killing with a Soft Knife

The Zheng family of Xingyang can be traced back to the state of Zheng, which was entrusted by King Xuan of Zhou.

Of course, the current Xingyang Zheng family with five surnames and seven families actually developed into a prominent family starting from Zheng Hun, Zheng Tai and others who were in the same line as Zheng at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The Zheng family in Xingyang has been a famous noble family for hundreds of years.

The most prosperous time of the Zheng family in Xingyang was during the Northern Wei Dynasty. At that time, the Zheng family had several prime ministers, and there was even a grand occasion where six brothers were all important officials in the court.

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

Zheng Yi was the son of Guan Xiaomu, the official secretary of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. He used to be a classmate with Yang Jian, and later he became the internal historian of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

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

However, Zheng Yi was removed from office in his later years because of corruption. The emperor missed his old love and did not kill him. After a few years, he was re-appointed as Taichangqing and asked him to be in charge of making music.

After Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, because Zheng Yi was the founding father of Zuoming, the special edict changed Zheng Yi to the Duke of Shen, and let his son Zheng Yuanxuan inherit the title. This is a great honor. Yang Guang changed the title system, how many people His title was either downgraded or lost directly. After his death, he can still pass on the title of duke of his son.

Of his four sons, the eldest son is now General Zuo Wuhou and the prefect of Wencheng.The second son, Zheng Yuanshou, is the Minister of Honglu, and his nephew, Zheng Shanguo, is the Minister of Dali Temple.

Zheng Guanyin's grandfather, Zheng Chen, was Zheng Yi's younger brother. His father, Zheng Jibo, was the prefect of Yingchuan. Because he believed in Buddhism, Zheng was named Guanyin.

In the Daye Dynasty, there is still a family with the title of duke, which is definitely very influential, not to mention that the Zheng family is one of the five surnames. That debilitating downward trend.

Du Ruhui reminded Luo Cheng.

"Ms. Zheng sent her daughter-in-law here in public, and wrote to you saying that she would send her to you as a concubine. On the surface, this seems to be an apology to you. After all, Mrs. Zheng was at fault for what happened back then. Now that you are the emperor's favored minister, I will not make any grudges with you, but resolve it with you. But this matter will not be so simple!"

Fang Xuanling also nodded.

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

Why don't the Zheng family apologize to Luo Cheng first, and then propose marriage to Luo Cheng.But now it's delivered directly to the door like this, without giving Luo Cheng any time to prepare, let alone doing it in public on purpose.

"The Zheng family is showing weakness, pretending to be pitiful, and gaining everyone's sympathy. It is intentional. Today's news will soon spread throughout Luoyang and even the world. At that time, the wind direction of public opinion will no longer be that of the Zheng family. How did your daughter bully you, and how you were insulted, but you, Luo Cheng, are now in power and merciless, forcing the Zheng family to give you a concubine from a famous family. to your opposite."

After all, as soon as this happened.

It's not just Zheng's who is ashamed.

But all the gentry.

The gentry has a good face, and now that the Zheng family, the leader of the gentry, is being persecuted by a warrior like Luo Cheng, they will share their hatred.

Maybe the emperor would be very unhappy with Luo Cheng, thinking that he was too domineering.

"These so-called famous nobles really like to play with this kind of twisted things. Soft knives kill without blood!" Luo Cheng said with a smile.

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui had no choice but to smile wryly, they were also from famous families.Jingzhao Wei's family is a first-class noble family. Although the Fang family of Qi County is not close, it is also a high-ranking noble family.

"Shicheng, you have to be careful. There are 30 to 20 officials in the Zheng family now, including two Jiuqings, three eunuchs, and [-] other high-ranking officials. You have to be careful."

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

Luo Cheng laughed out loud.

"Originally, the incident back then is almost over. But since the Zheng family wants to play, I am not afraid of them. Didn't he send people here and say that I can handle them?"

He snorted coldly, that's good, I'll accept her, but I won't let her be a concubine, and I won't let her be a slave, so I'll let her have no name or role in this mansion! "

Fang Xuanling shook his head helplessly.

Luo Cheng really fell in love with the Zheng family.

A daughter from a famous family, if she is a concubine in the Duke of Chu's mansion, although it is a bit 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 make the daughter of the Zheng family nameless. Staying in the Duke of Chu's mansion is surprising.

"Aren't they trying to pretend to be pitiful and gain sympathy? Then I have to cooperate."

"Shicheng, don't be an enemy of the wealthy family." Du Ruhui reminded Luo Cheng that although the Zheng family does not have top officials in the court, it is also not weak, especially their five surnames know marriage best. This marriage is full of power and influence. .

Even the emperor's pillow has a woman from their family.

"It's okay, I, Luo Cheng, will be a lone minister at worst."

Fang Xuanling understood Luo Cheng's thoughts at once, the Zheng family created momentum, pretended to be pitiful and sympathetic, and wanted to use this to pull the entire gentry to isolate Luo Cheng, and even made everyone in the world think that Luo Cheng was so arrogant and domineering.

But Luo Cheng, taking advantage of the trend, is going to join the Zheng family and other gentry just now, and the purpose is to let the emperor see that he doesn't flirt with the gentry.

What is Luo Cheng to the emperor?
He is a favorite and the most capable general, but if this capable general forms alliances and marriages everywhere, the emperor will be afraid.

But now that Luo Cheng has accepted Zheng's daughter, but doesn't give her a title, and even fell out with the Zheng family, the emperor probably won't think Luo Cheng is domineering, and will only sleep peacefully at night.

From different angles, the direction of considering the problem is different.

Luo Cheng smiled and said to his teacher Zhang Xutuo, "The Zheng family is the head snake in Xingyang. The teacher is now serving as a conciliator in Henan and governing Xingyang. I guess they will make trouble for the teacher in the future, but they will implicate the teacher."

Zhang Xutuo laughed out loud.

"Although Mrs. Zheng is the leader of Xingyang, but now I am the appeasement envoy of Henan. It's too late for them to curry favor with me. How dare they come to trouble me? The world is not peaceful now, and there are bandits everywhere. If they really dare to play tricks on me, Then I won't be polite to them."

This time, setting up the way and setting up envoys also adjusted many officials along the way.

Because of Zhang Xutuo's meritorious service in suppressing bandits and quelling chaos in Henan, he directly took the position of Henan appeasement envoy this time, and Fan Zigai was also given the important post of "Dong Du Shou" because he killed many thieves in quelling chaos.

Li Jing, another teacher of Luo Cheng, was awarded the post of comfort envoy in Hebei, and his old friend Xue Shixiong was awarded the post of Fan Yang Yin.

Lai Nuer was awarded the governor and prefect of Donglai.

Fang Xuanling was appointed the prefect of Xincheng County, and Du Ruhui was appointed the prefect of Liaoxi County.

Luo Cheng is now the Jiedu envoy of Andong Road and the prefect of Liaodong. His deputy Jiedu envoy is Duan Da, his appeasement envoy is Feng Deyi, and his observation envoy is Li Baiyao.

The governor of Jiedushi's mansion is Hou Mo Chenyi, Sima is Wei Zheng, and Wang Ziming is the recorder and joins the army.

The old brothers of this team are the main ones, but they are still mixed with a lot of sand.

(End of this chapter)