Marriage has always been a means for the aristocratic families to consolidate their status, especially the seven clans who are known as the five surnames and Qiwang, which are at the top.

As women of the five surnames, they basically lose their freedom when they are born: they start to receive training when they are young, with the best bookish education and the best etiquette while also receiving various brainwashing. Therefore, most women of the five surnames have the same characteristics of knowledge and etiquette, being generous, playing the piano and embroidery, and being omnipotent. They also have the pride and loyalty of the family. After receiving rigorous training, they can go to the hall and go to the kitchen; they can play the guqin and play the flute; they can grind and write good words, and can write a good poem with a pen. They can be regarded as a model among women and can almost be described as perfect.

But they have only two futures. One is to intermarry with other aristocratic races, which can ensure the purity of their own bloodlines, and also intertwin the seven prominent clans, forming a situation where their lips and teeth are cold. In addition, it is to allow powerful and potential people to take them for themselves and increase their momentum.

However, because most of the five surnames are digested internally, only a small number of them are left outside for others to make a choice. Therefore, everyone in the world is proud to marry women from five surnames and proud to have a wife with almost perfect character. Because of this, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, aristocratic women were a symbol of status and status. So, Xue Yuanchao, the prime minister of Emperor Gaozong, was very talented and enjoyed all his glory and wealth throughout his life, but he always felt regretful that he had not been able to marry women from five surnames.

In fact, the seven super wealthy families, including the five surnames, Cui, Lu, Li, Zheng, and Wang, have their own difficulties behind their backs.

The aristocratic families were prosperous during the Jin Dynasty. The facts were that the aristocratic families, Cui Lu, Wang Xie, and other aristocratic families were all in the temples in the court. They even had the situation of holding the emperor to command the princes.

Since the Sui Dynasty, the wise and powerful Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian became afraid of the seven super wealthy families, Cui, Lu, Li, Zheng, and Wang, and intended to weaken the popularity of the five surnames and seven hopes. Promote culture and education and create the imperial examination. His original intention was to allow all the poor people in the world to learn knowledge, use the imperial examination system to obtain fame and honor, enter the court as an official, and interrupt the monopoly of the super wealthy families on the cultural level and small and medium-sized officials.

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The imperfection of the imperial examination system and the promotion of culture and education were not satisfactory. Instead, the five surnames and seven peoples gained more foreign aid through marriage, and the popularity became greater. It also directly led to the wise and powerful Yang Jian doing the biggest stupid thing in his later years, ordering the abolition of the school, the Imperial College, the Imperial College, and the prefectures and counties, and the people were not allowed to study.

The Tang Dynasty was newly established. Although Li Yuan did not clearly express the meaning of rejecting the five surnames and seven hopes. There is no doubt that no core members of the Li Tang Dynasty are members of the five surnames and seven hopes. Li Tang relied on talents from the five surnames and families, but was of little use, making the five surnames and seven hopes far less politically influential than before.

While the seven families rely on each other, they also have the intention of competing and fighting each other.

Who doesn’t want their family to become the number one? The Cui family has dominated the first place for many years and is now in a weak period. As long as one or two people leading the court appear in the family, I will advance and retreat and take a step further. It is not impossible.

Luo Shixin is young, but his military achievements are comparable to those of skilled veterans and famous generals like Li Ji and Li Jing. The future is limitless and he is a rare talent. He can become a powerful foreign aid. Using Zheng Liwan to win over Luo Shixin immediately became the key to being imperative.

After much consideration, the old lady Zheng planned to attack Zheng Liwan and specially called her to Xingyang, hoping that she could focus on the Zheng family in everything.

When he first met, the old lady Zheng discovered that Zheng Liwan's every move was not inferior to the ladies they trained, and she could be far behind several streets than her appearance. He had been in the Zheng family for 89 years and had never seen a daughter in the Zheng family who could surpass Zheng Liwan in appearance.

Mrs. Zheng has lived for 89 years and has eaten more salt than ordinary people. He has his own unique means to win over people's hearts. He is not self-righteous and suppressed by the old man. He is the most incompetent and technically incapable of his ability. He wants to find the other party's weaknesses through conversation and contact, conquer it, and make the other party convinced to serve the Zheng family.

Just as he came into contact, the old lady Zheng immediately realized that Zheng Liwan was better and smarter than all the women he had ever seen, and acted completely beyond her expectations.

"I've lived a long time ago and I can see everything very well. What's so angry about it?" Old Mrs. Zheng said with a smile, putting the tea made by Zheng Liwan in front of his nose and sniffing it gently, whispering slowly, and snorting. It's mellow and mesmerizing. As a good player who has been invading tea ceremony for eighty years, it can be seen that Zheng Liwan's tea ceremony skills are remarkable and cannot be said to be very clever, but he has fully demonstrated the combination of tea. According to common sense, he should have six or seven years of skills, but it should not be a lie to be accurate to 86 days.

"It's a good tea!"

With eighty years of experience in tea ceremony, it is already quite difficult to give this evaluation.

Zheng Liwan smiled and said, "On one night twenty-one days ago, three people sneaked into the Zheng Mansion to assassinate me." She said softly, and took out the map and portrait from her long sleeves. "I can only say that people with good painters are not suitable for this kind of thing. Or, as I said, the net of heaven is vast and sparse. He drew all the hair accessories I brought three months ago. During these three months, I was confined to home and saw fifty-one people, all of whom came to the mansion to find my father. There are all kinds of people. Apart from these fifty-one, thirty-six old friends, there are only fifteen suspects left. Among the fifteen suspects, nine of whom have poor painting skills, there are only six people who choose, and only one of them can draw a detailed layout of the Zheng Mansion. His name is Zheng Guichao. I wonder what the old lady has?"

Old Lady Zheng was old and her eyes were condensed when she heard this. She had thought of the problem in an instant, and her expression was heavy.

Zheng Liwan continued: "As one of the six major managers of the Zheng family, Zheng Guichao has no grudges and grudges with me, why should he attack me, a weak woman? I have no contact with him, and the only possibility is my father. One of him and one of them is in charge of finance and the other of his family's livelihood, so it should be mutual cooperation. But he attacked me, what is the purpose? What does he want to hide? In the past twenty days, I secretly checked the Zheng family's account books and found some interesting things. Many Zheng family talents and Zheng family branches died unexpectedly or disappeared. Should the old lady be in charge?

Zheng Guichao is in charge of the livelihood of the inner family. The Zheng family has a thousand years of history, just like a deep-rooted tree in the sky, and then it separates countless branches. Some of these branches are prosperous, while others cannot eat.

Even if the Zheng family is defeated, they will not starve to death. Zheng Guichao is responsible for the livelihood of these people. Every month he will receive a large amount of living expenses from the finance department to those Zheng family who cannot support themselves, so that they can survive if they escape. At the same time, if these Zheng family have men, men must enter the clan school to study culture forcibly, and all expenses will be paid by the Zheng family, which is also under the jurisdiction of Zheng Guichao.

This is also the reason why the aristocratic races can last forever. As long as the Zheng family is poor and in a downturn, they can get the opportunity to learn and receive the best education. Compared with ordinary people, they have too many advantages. Among them, those with excellent academic performance and those with the best rank can focus on cultivating and give more money and goods rewards.

This is the key to maintaining the prosperity of the Zheng family, but the problem arises. There are so many branches of the Zheng family’s thousand-year history. In addition to the genealogy in the hands of Mrs. Zheng, only Zheng Guichao knows in detail. How much does it need to be obtained? Those children are better and more are handled by Zheng Guichao. If the finance department is in conjunction with Zheng Guichao, they can obtain large profits every month. Similarly, if the accounts do not cooperate and doubt, confidence investigation can still be found.

"He thought he could hide his eyes and eyes, but he didn't know that he had exposed his identity early, and all his purpose was revealed at the moment." Zheng Liwan said as she took out a list from the sleeve of her left hand and said: "This is the extra benefit I have obtained in a year. If I checked it, the amount was only high or not. It was because of such a ridiculous thing that I was threatened with my life. Please ask Mrs. Zheng to seek justice for me, a weak woman."

Old Mrs. Zheng looked at the amount on the list and a hint of anger flashed in her eyes. The amount of corruption was so huge that it exceeded his imagination.

"Wmble woman?" He raised his eyelids and said lightly: "You are better than thousands of men. At least in my Zheng family, no one of them can compare with you at the same age." He did not suspect that the list in his hand was fake. Zheng Liwan was so powerful that she was disdainful and had no choice but to fool people with fake things. Everything is a real thing that makes people irrefutable.

Zheng Liwan smiled indifferently and couldn't respond.

Old Mrs. Zheng threw the list in her hand into the brazier and said, "What do you want?"

"Turn Zheng Guichao and Zheng Yuanbi out of the Zheng family's house, and no return to the wall within the three generations." Zheng Liwan replied without hesitation.

The old lady Zheng's hand trembled slightly and said, "It's too cruel. I have no objection to expel Zheng Yuanbi from the Zheng family. Zheng Guichao has been in charge of my Zheng family for nearly ten years. He will be expelled as soon as he says it. What do people think about it?"

Zheng Liwan nodded and said, "Of course, I praise the old lady for her decisiveness and decisiveness, using thunder means to eliminate the borer in the clan, and not to reduce her heroism back then. I also set an example for my Zheng family, so that the Zheng family can know that the rules of the Zheng family are like laws and regulations, and they will correct their mistakes and punish them. Let them be the chicken that kills the chicken to warn the monkey. No matter how good this is, it will be gone. Of course, if the old lady is not afraid of the world saying that the Zheng family does not distinguish between rewards and punishments, she can also choose to cover up Zheng Guichao."
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