Young Master Cen Qi suddenly came to Siming Mansion. This news not only baffled Gao Jingshi, but also confused Huang Zhiting.
At that time, she did say that she would invite Mr. Cen Qi to come to Siming Mansion as a guest, but that was more of a provocation than an invitation, because in Huang Zhiting's view, Mr. Cen Qi was very troublesome just to deal with the troubles within Sicheng. I have a headache, how can I come to Siming Mansion for leisure?
Although as an outsider, Huang Zhiting didn't know what the power structure inside Sicheng was now, she was absolutely certain that the Cen family in Sicheng was not monolithic.
You must know that although the housework in Siming Mansion is also very messy, no matter how messy it is, Huang Chengzu takes the initiative to stay out of things, and he does not come out to interfere with Huang Zhiting. As for the younger brother Huang Yinglei, although he is dissatisfied with his sister for "usurping power", he cannot get the support of the local officials in the government because of his previous mistakes. Therefore, overall, the Huang family's political orders are still smooth. , the powers are still intact.
But the situation in Sicheng Prefecture is much more complicated.
The Cen family's main house was Si'en Mansion at first. Because Cen Jun, the former local magistrate of Si'en Mansion, was evil, the imperial court mobilized a large army to defeat Si'en, converted Si'en Mansion into a local government, and set up a Liuguan magistrate. Later, Tianzhou Cen Meng rose up and forcibly took over the position of the head of the Cen family. However, Cen Meng showed signs of unifying the Cen family in the name of falsely avenging past grievances. The imperial court once again mobilized an army to annihilate Cen Meng. This time, the Tianzhou Cen family also declined. [Wufeng’s Note: See Chapter 073 of this volume: Unity brings strength]
Sicheng Prefecture was Cen Jun's accomplice at first, but was later attacked by Cen Meng with all his strength. Even the head of the family, Cen Jie, died in this rebellion. However, in the end Sicheng Prefecture still held on until the court took action and killed Cen Meng. Now the Cen family When all the branches were combined, Sicheng Prefecture was the most powerful, and Sicheng became the main branch of the Cen family.
However, does the status of the Cen family in Sicheng become as stable as Mount Tai? No, not at all.
At this time, the Cen family was in chaos: Although there were originally a number of chieftains in the Cen family, the three strongest families were Sien Prefecture, Tianzhou Prefecture and Sicheng Prefecture.
After this rebellion, Si'en Mansion was reassigned to the prefect of Liuguan Prefecture. However, due to the unstable rule, the imperial court had to "relocate" chieftain Zhao's family to serve as co-prefect of Si'en Mansion. However, the eight inspection departments under Si'en Mansion were It was still the old department of the Cen family. The Zhao family had spent decades working hard and tried every possible means, but they could only obtain three inspection divisions.
So now Sien Mansion is actually divided into three forces:
The Zhao family controls Fucheng, as well as the three local inspection departments of Nama, Xinglong, and Guling. They usually have about 4,000 troops and occupy the central area of Si'en Prefecture;
Although the Liuguan prefects stationed by the imperial court are in the city, the territory they can rely on is in Wuyuan County in the south. This county was assigned to Sien from Nanning Prefecture. Although it is a large county, it has only one Wuyuan Shouyu Qian. There are thousands of people in each household;
The five soil inspection departments in the north are still occupied by the old Cen clan. They are currently obeying the orders of the Cen family in Sicheng Prefecture, but in reality, no one knows, and maybe even they themselves don’t know. , I’m afraid it’s more appropriate to think of each as doing its own thing.
This is actually an important reason why the Zhao family would rather give up the old land of Longzhou, which was "surrounded" by Huang's forces, and take over the Bazhai area, because the Bazhai area is just east of the central part of Sien Mansion, close to the area controlled by the Zhao family. Gulingtu Inspection Department. Once the Bazhai territory is captured and managed properly, within ten or twenty years, the Zhao family will have the strength to subdue the five Cen family's former soil inspection departments in the north, and then the Sien Mansion will be basically unified.
The situation in Tianzhou Prefecture is a little simpler. Since it was conquered by the imperial court and the situation could not be stabilized after the reform of the local government, Wang Shouren adopted a compromise method, abolishing the reform of the local government and returning to local rule, and still "using barbarians to control barbarians", but Tianzhou was partially dismembered and then demoted from a government to a state. Later, Mrs. Wa's wife "forgave her husband" and led the army to participate in the anti-Japanese war and made great contributions, and the situation in Tianzhou stabilized. However, due to the losses in various aspects, it has not recovered even after decades.
What about Sicheng Prefecture? As the head of the Cen family, he has a lot of troubles of his own. First of all, there is a problem with the name. After all, the "level" of Sicheng Prefecture is only "state", and the Cen family still has a local prefect - the local prefect of Zhen'an Prefecture belongs to the Cen family.
Fortunately, although Zhen'an Mansion is known as a first-class mansion, its strength is not as strong as Sicheng Prefecture, and the family heads for several generations have been people who have no ambitions and are just getting by, so this did not lead to further civil strife in the Cen family.
In addition to the name, Sicheng Prefecture also has a big problem, that is, one power is divided into two: the current head of the family, Cen Shaoxun, inexplicably gave up power and went to live the hermit life he longed for. As a result, there are now two powerful people in Sicheng, one is Cen Shaoxun. Huang Ma, a close confidant, and the seventh son of Cen Lingcen who visited Siming Mansion today.
There are many rumors about Cen Shaoxun's actions, but none of them have been proven to be true. The only thing everyone is sure of is that one of Huang Ma and Cen Ling must be a "rebellious traitor" because Cen Shaoxun is only four years old. The only son, Cen Yunhan, was actually sent to Guilin to "study".
Guilin is governed by Guangxi Province and is the core of the imperial court's rule in Guangxi. Cen Shaoxun's only son was sent to Guilin. What is the difference between that and sending a proton?
This is not the normal operation of a chieftain family!
Therefore, this series of "magic operations" in Sicheng Prefecture has made people in all walks of life in Guangxi confused. They don't know what is going on in their family. The only one who is happier is probably the court - no matter what the hell you are doing, it is anyway If you take the initiative to send protons, there is nothing to say, we will definitely accept it.
In such a chaotic and strange situation, it is naturally even more puzzling that Master Cen Qi did not stay in Sicheng Prefecture to fight for power with Huang Ma, but instead came to Siming Mansion. If Huang Zhiting had not met Mr. Cen Qi several times and could see that he was not an idiot, she would have thought that this guy failed in his struggle for power and came to Siming Mansion to seek asylum.
However, when Huang Zhiting and Gao Pangshi rushed to the main hall to meet Mr. Cen Qi, they knew with just one glance that this guy would definitely not fail in his fight for power, because he still looked like a handsome, handsome young man in white clothes. Snow, the gold-painted black bone fan in her hand was gently shaking, with an inexplicable smile on her face.
"Miss Huang, Mr. Zhang, although we have only seen each other for a few days, I really miss you so much. Fortunately, I suddenly remembered that I have an appointment with Miss Huang, so I just took the opportunity to come and disturb you, haha..."
Cen Qi Gongshi was smiling when he said this, but Huang Zhiting became nervous for some reason. She quickly glanced at Gao Jingshi and saw that although Gao Jingshi was smiling, he seemed to be thoughtful, so she couldn't help but said quickly: "Seventh Young Master, If you want to come, come, but don't use my cover." Then the conversation suddenly changed: "What do you think the Seventh Young Master has learned from this visit?"
Gao Yingshi and Cen Ling were both startled by what he said. Gao Pingshi thought to himself: After all, Mr. Cen Qi is also the son of the Cen family, one of the powerful people in Sicheng Prefecture. Why did Miss Huang suddenly treat him so openly?
Young Master Cen Qi secretly thought: Huang Zhiting, this girl took the wrong medicine? I didn't argue with her about the ownership of the Bazhai land last time, and I didn't hold her accountable this time for kidnapping the high patrol officer in the white dragon fish suit to Siming Mansion. Why did she treat me like this? Could it be that...she also guessed Gao Jingshi's identity, and was afraid that I would get close to Gao Jingshi and disturb her follow-up arrangements for Bazhai?
This is a bit troublesome. Although the incident in Bazhai is not insignificant, it is nothing compared to what I want to ask the high patrol to help me with? If the incident in Bazhai prevents me from approaching Gao Xunjing and gaining his trust and help, when will the trouble in Sicheng Prefecture be solved?
No, I have to find a way to get close to him, and I have to avoid this girl Huang Zhiting.
