The situation of the Deng family in Nanyang is rather strange. It belongs to a very large wealthy family. It is completely different from the languishing situation of the descendants of other founding princes in the Eastern Han Dynasty. This family is integrated under the branches of more than a dozen princes, forming an extremely large pedigree.
Although during the Eastern Han Dynasty, they were also liquidated due to the regency issue of their relatives, which led to the mass suicide of Deng Zhao, the Marquis of Shangcai, after the death of Queen Mother Hexi and Deng.
The problem is that although the lineage of the Marquis of Shangcai is considered large and has the size of a large family of princes, the lineage of the Marquis of Shangcai Deng Zhao is only one of the grandsons of the thirteen sons of the founding lord Deng Yu...
As a super family with five founding princes during the founding of the country and 29 princes in the past generations, on the premise of being extremely fertile, the size of the Nanyang Deng family has reached a quite outrageous level.
Of course, too large a body will inevitably lead to problems that are difficult to manage, leading to the corruption of some members' family traditions. This is also the reason why Li You took the edict to cleanse the pulse when he went north.
However, this kind of loss, which can be called annihilation for other families, is a bit painful for the Nanyang Deng family. Even Deng Tong, the theoretical head of the family at the time, even scolded Li You for not being a son of man, and so on. After all, Deng Tong's own family knew about his family's affairs. As the theoretical head of the family, he still knew what was going on in their family.
As a super wealthy family, the Nanyang Deng family wants money and people. In addition, when they left, they took away all the people named Deng in Nanyang. After all, theoretically, these people named Deng are all related to their family. , so if we want to build a country, we have a foundation.
But a big problem with the Deng family in Nanyang is that the dozen or so branches of their family cannot be integrated together. They lack a powerful person and a leader, and there are always problems internally. This is why Deng Tong gritted his teeth. Jiang Gui doesn't know if he is a branch of his family, but in theory, everyone with the surname Deng in Nanyang is related to his family, and Deng Ai is included in his direct lineage.
In this situation, the Deng family is useless if they don’t have a leader. Looking around at his own family, Deng Tong can’t find a next generation who can take the stage. For a cub with internal energy found before the migration, at least he can It’s an inner energy separated from the body!
Based on the fact that the other party's surname was Deng, and tracing their ancestry was also the logic of their Deng family, Deng Tong accepted Deng Ai as his direct descendant and intensified efforts to cultivate him. Deng Ai did not live up to Deng Tong's expectations, and his physical aptitude was nothing more than heaven-defying. , also has extremely high qualifications in military and government affairs.
As for how this qualification is determined, the hardworking prince will have to lie down for another three months...
That's pretty much it. What does a super wealthy family mean? This is it.
However, Deng Ai was too young after all. He was only eleven years old in the ninth year of Yuanfeng. Even if he was gifted, there was little hope at that time. Therefore, the Yuan family in Runan sincerely invited the Nanyang Deng family, and Deng Tong sent someone to take the test again.
After the inspection, he allowed some family members to make their own choices, and then led 80% of the Deng family to the Yuan family.
At that time, the prices offered by the Yuan family in Runan were mutually exclusive. Deng Tong felt that the Yuan family was a good person, but his own super wealthy family really had no backbone, so he went there. After he went there, he obediently helped the Yuan family stabilize the internal affairs. .
The Deng family does not have top talents, but ethnic studies and education are there, and the talents for governing the local area are still very sufficient. It can be said that the Deng family has helped the Yuan family lay a solid foundation.
In addition, Deng Tong really has no ambitions. The Deng family has been at it for another hundred and eighty years. The dozen or so large branches have no motivation to fight. And being able to pass the appraisal of Li You's butcher knife is enough to prove that these large branches are The family tradition is also pretty good.
Therefore, the Nanyang Deng family lived a very low-key life in Sizhao City, with almost no sense of existence. Except for attending court meetings and the like, the Deng family was as if they were offline.
All year round, she is either having children or marrying off daughters. She has no resistance at all to the targets issued by Chen Xi that are positive and overfulfilled - there is no one to marry anyway, and Eastern Europe seems to be a more suitable place for a centurion from the Han family. , that’s it.
With this idea in mind, the Nanyang Deng family kept marrying their daughters to centurions of the Yuan family, and the Yuan family didn't care much. After all, who would notice such a thing before Cao Cao stepped into his trap? Besides, if they don't marry a centurion, these people will have to marry someone else, and there is no difference in the Yuan family's opinion.
However, after Cao's thunderstorm this time...
"So do you think Deng made it unintentionally? Or did he do it intentionally?" Chen Xi was so confused by Li You's words that he didn't know how to answer. After a while, he asked.
To be honest, Chen Xi really has never thought about this situation. In Chen Xi's opinion, it is powerful enough for major aristocratic families to be able to marry more than a hundred people like the Zhang family and the Gan family. Chen Xi has never considered the Deng family's situation. , can it still be like this?
"You have to ask the head of the Deng family about this. It happens that the head of the Deng family is in Chang'an." Zhuge Liang replied with a calm expression. In his opinion, whether it was an honest mistake or intentional, there was actually no difference.
Now that we've reached this point, it really doesn't matter.
In Chang'an, Deng Tong, who has always been very low-key, looked at the statistics and fell into deep thought. To be honest, his family head is the result of being taller among the short ones. The head of the family for so many years is He Xini, who has nothing to offer at all. As a result, marrying a daughter to a centurion was just because she had too many daughters, and she also followed Chen Xi's request.
But there is one thing to say. The good thing about Deng Tong, the head of the family, is that he recognizes the strength of others and understands his own shortcomings. This is also the reason why Deng Tong, who has been incompetent for so many years, has not let the Deng family decline. Of course, the Deng family is successful if it does not decline.
Precisely because he knew that he had no ability, Deng Tong was able to listen to Jin's advice and choose Deng Ai's stepson to be the next generation head of the family. It was because his father told him when he died that apart from being the eldest son and being kind, you had no ability. , your son is no good, but your advantage is that you don't mess around. Before you die, you can find an outstanding step-son for our family from among the branches to ensure that the family does not fall down.
As for the reason for marrying a daughter, in addition to having more daughters, Deng Tong also felt that Chen Xi was really ridiculously strong. As a sign of respect for the strong, what Chen Xi, a violent and saintly person, said could be accomplished at home. Of course, it must be carried out unconditionally. Isn't it just to marry a daughter? No problem. Listen to me, marry a daughter. Do you understand?
If a mediocre family member wants to engage in big things, the main line of the Deng family will definitely oppose it.
After all, although you are the head of the family and the Marquis of Gaomi, among us who are in charge of the lineage, who is not a prince? You can just take it back. But if the head of the family ordered the centurion to marry daughters, and marry more daughters, then It falls within the scope that needs to be obeyed. After all, it does not affect core interests.
For such a wealthy family, except for the legitimate daughters and a very small number of concubines who have special value, the other daughters are just a make-up. Therefore, when Deng Tong ordered all the main lineages to marry their daughters to the centurion, all the main lines were taken down. The KPI is the same. I pulled an indicator and started working on it.
Then in the past eight years, we have compiled data on 1,000+ marriages. The so-called 797 people are not the number of marriages. They are the data of centurions who have not yet retired and are still in the military camp.
Therefore, after Cao Cao's incident happened, the main lineages of the Deng family in Nanyang looked at the head of the family in a different way.
With respect, there is no other way. What the big family fears most is this kind of person who has great righteousness and does big things quietly, and this self-proclaimed loser has really done big things.
"So now they think that I have a family ancestor who is just like the wind of stupidity?" Deng Tong sat on a chair and looked at the various private rumors collected by his intelligence personnel, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought. I thought back then Today?
Think about it, I'm a loser, who cares, keep marrying your daughter.
On the second day of the first lunar month of the ninth year of Yuanfeng, due to the follow-up problems caused by Cao Cao's thunderstorm, major aristocratic families turned their attention to the Deng family and discovered that the Deng family had married two more daughters to centurions of the Yuan family. I don’t know the mentality of the Yuan family in Chang’an. Anyway, the other families were really stunned—did the Deng family really not pay attention to the impact at all?
"Be careful about the impact?" Deng Tong was stopped by his old brother Geng Ji when he was retreating from the court, and then he had an honest and puzzled expression on his face. We, a super wealthy family like the Deng family, don't care if we marry two daughters to a centurion. Are you? Isn't it because there is nothing to do and the control is too broad?
"Why don't you pay more attention, haven't you noticed that the Yuan family always looks at you?" Geng Ji said to Deng Tong with a little envy on his face.
The Geng family are also descendants of the founding princes, but there is still a gap between the Geng family and Deng Tong, a family that doesn't stand out and makes people feel what it means to be a super wealthy family. There is no way. Giving birth to a child still requires talent.
"I go
Communicate with him. Deng Tong scratched his head and walked directly in front of Geng Ji towards Yuan Sui who came to attend the court meeting. When the group of people around Yuan Sui saw Deng Tong coming, they all consciously gave way to Deng Tong. There is no way that Deng Tong's tricks make everyone respect him very much.
"Mr. Yuan." Deng Tong handed over his hands to Yuan Suiyi, who was about to be eighty, showing the respect of the younger generation for the elders. "I heard that you are dissatisfied with the behavior of our Deng family."
Deng Tong was a pure mediocre family head, and he rarely communicated with this group of people before, so he didn't want to go around and over, and just handed over to Yuan Suiyi in front of a group of aristocratic families, that's all.
At the scene, the surrounding aristocratic families had a vague feeling of something bad. Are they planning to show off their plans and prepare for a showdown with the Yuan family?
But it’s right to think about it. Cao Cao’s big chess game has been exposed because of Cao Cao’s thunder. Currently, the middle and lower-level bureaucrats of the Yuan family, the Deng family, account for half, and the elite Deng family of the Han army account for more than half. Compared with playing a three-way concession, Having discovered this, Yuan relied on his righteousness to suppress it, so he might as well spread it out on the table!
There are many smart people in the aristocratic families in this circle. After thinking about it for a while, they understood it, and then after talking to each other, they understood it - he is worthy of being the head of the super wealthy Deng family. He doesn't show off his appearance and just does business. It's a bit interesting!
Suddenly, the major families who were preparing to leave after retiring from the imperial court also stopped leaving. They liked to watch the super wealthy families fight each other. In the past, the Deng family in Nanyang looked like they couldn't fight, but they didn't expect that this generation of family heads are still a figure without showing off their integrity. , integrated all the dozens of veins into one big one, and the target was the Yuan family in Runan, so I was very happy!
Our aristocratic family likes to watch this kind of big shots fight each other. Come on, let us see who is more powerful, the first wealthy family in the lineage of the founding princes, or the newly emerging family clan, the Runan Yuan family, come on!
Yuan Sui looked unhappy when he heard this. What happened to Cao Cao recently was like eating a melon for Yuan Sui. It was already bad enough that it ended up being eaten by himself. When he looked back, he found that the melon was so big that it was fatal. Deng Sui You actually don’t know how to restrain yourself!
In fact, most of the information collected by Deng Tong's own intelligence system was released by the Yuan family, because the Yuan family also realized that something was wrong, and the information was more to create treacherous moral pressure on Deng.
"Is the Deng family still an ally of my Yuan family?" Yuan Sui asked calmly.
"It's written in black and white on it. You can even compare it one by one. Which one of our Deng family has passed the line?" Deng Tong discussed the matter. He signed the alliance letter. He knew the content inside. The Deng family really didn't have it. Cross the line.
"Then what we did before was an ally's duty?" Yuan Sui asked calmly.
Deng Tong didn't hear the trap in this sentence, but Deng Tong's answer directly shocked the Runan family, "It's not enough to directly compare the contents in black and white. You, the Runan family, can't stand marrying two daughters. Then just go to Chen Hou. The orders he gave are only fulfilled by our family in excess of the quota. You can’t blame my family just because we have many daughters.”
Yuan Sui went numb immediately, and turned to look at Chen Xi, who was sitting not far away and looking at a mystical mirror, not knowing what to say.
As for the surrounding aristocratic families, they looked at Deng Tong with admiration. This set of words was so perfect that it even knocked down the Yuan family's righteousness. Now it really depends on the ability of the two families. I don't know if Yuan Tan can withstand the Deng family. Such a creation!
However, the major aristocratic families still looked at Chen Xi unconsciously. Today's meeting was mainly Zhuge Liang's report, and Chen Xi felt a little absent-minded.
"What are you looking at?" After Chen Xi was noticed by a group of people, he slowly raised his head and asked strangely, "Do you need me to host something?"
"No, Marquis Chen doesn't seem to be in good condition today?" Deng Tong answered in a normal tone.
"The public platform gave me a secret magic mirror. I have been thinking about whether to open it or not. I have been thinking about it all morning." Chen Xi said with a very complicated mood.
After Chen Gong signed the signature the day before yesterday, the three miracle doctors had a busy day yesterday. Today, Cao Cao had a craniotomy, and Chen Gong gave him a secret mirror. Chen Xi knew what the secret mirror was with his feet, but Chen Xi was afraid to look at it alone. .
"What secret mirror?" Deng Tong asked without knowing why.
"Ah, Cao Sikong's secret mirror for craniotomy?" Chen Xi said with some guesswork.
"Craniotomy? What kind of punishment is this?" Deng Tong asked without knowing why.
"Forget it, the description is not clear, I will open it for you to see." Chen Xi was silent for a while, thinking that a person like Cao Sikong would not care about being broadcast live. When he opened the secret mirror, he saw Hua Tuo sawing Cao Cao's head.
