As everyone expected, after Liu Ziyi was conferred the title of Duke Hui and the position of editor of the Imperial Academy, soon there was an intention to marry her, and the object of marriage was indeed Princess Chang Ruichang.

From then on, Liu Ziyi's heart was truly relieved.

It's just that even though he meant marriage, Shui Jing still wanted to make things difficult for Liu Ziyi, and was not happy to let Shui Jue and Liu Ziyi meet, and even sent a lot of things to Liu Ziyi to do, making Liu Ziyi busy around.Shui Jing euphemistically called it training Liu Ziyi. Although Liu Ziyi was married, he always wanted to help Shui Jue with housekeeping.

Shui Jue glanced at her elder brother, but they were already married, so Shui Jue didn't care about her elder brother's slight embarrassment, and Liu Ziyi would always appear in court, and many of Shui Jue's secret behaviors after that There is no need to always play the name of Prince Zhongshun—Prince Zhongshun is really lazy. When he was young, he really didn't learn anything in order to pretend to be dull, and he felt a headache when he looked at those political affairs.Although Shui Jue did things in his name and it was Shui Jue who made the decisions, he still needed to socialize, which caused him a lot of headaches.Now Liu Ziyi took the place of Prince Zhongshun and became Shui Jue's "puppet", Prince Zhongshun happily invited Liu Ziyi to drink and watch a play, making Liu Ziyi dumbfounded.

Prince Zhongshun can be regarded as one of the truly wonderful ones in the royal family.

Liu Ziyi is very popular now, covering up the glory of the other two first-class Jinshi.But these two were not idle.Liu Ziyi had already been wooed by the royal family, and it was obviously on the emperor's side. Others could only make friends with him, and it was impossible to carry out the wooing.So Liu Ziyi looked the most beautiful, but in fact those officials and nobles didn't pay much attention to Liu Ziyi.And Ding Pengyun and Deng Mengming, who were under Liu Ziyi's glory, were the ones they really wooed.However, the marriage between the Ding family and the Kong family has always been a problem, and many people have tried to win them over, but they have not been successful.Now that Ding Pengyun is from the Ding family, and there is also a young lady from the Kong family who is a childhood sweetheart, except for some people who don't know the reputation of the Ding family, everyone else has calmed down and stopped thinking about Ding Pengyun.

Anyone with a little knowledge knows that if the Ding family enters the court as an official, they will only be loyal to the current emperor, and they will only appear when the emperor's rule is stable. center core.Although this kind of approach will not have the unprecedented wealth of Conglong Zhigong, and even some emperors will be slightly ignored because of the Ding family's ignorance, but at least it will allow the Ding family to continue for so long without disaster. In the dynasties, it gradually became a local wealthy family in Luzhou.

This makes people can't help but sigh, the Ding family deserves to be friends with the Confucian family, and they are well versed in the Confucian doctrine of the mean.

Prince Zhongyong originally used the name of recruiting Ding Pengyun as a son-in-law - Ding Pengyu's appearance is better than Deng Mengming, and his family is rich and powerful. Compared with Deng Mengming, who came from a poor family, he is naturally more suitable for Prince Zhongyong.However, after learning that Ding Pengyun's fiancée was Miss Kong's family, Prince Zhongyong could only hold back his thoughts.Although he doesn't mind using power to oppress others, in his opinion, after a man has money and power, it is only natural for a man to kick out a scum that has not yet entered the door and marry a wife who is beneficial to his future.If a man is more affectionate, it would be fine to bring that dross back and treat him as an aunt.Anyway, the main wife is only used to put on a facade and expand her influence.

But the status of the Kong family is aloof. Let alone Ding Pengyun's impossibility to give up the marriage contract. A young lady of the Kong family is harder to marry than a princess. Even the emperor would not issue an order to force the Kong family into the palace.It is said that if he robs the husband-in-law of the Kong family, he will be scolded to death by scholars all over the world.Although he thinks that a scholar is useless, he doesn't want to be a scholar, so he scolds himself every day.If he is the emperor, he is not afraid, just cut it off.Now he is not the emperor, his younger brother, I am afraid that he can't wait for him to be scolded to death.

If the Supreme Emperor knew what Prince Zhongyong was thinking, he would definitely want to beat him to death with a shoehorn.The princes received the same education, and I really don't know how to develop the appearance of a loyal and brave prince who thinks highly of himself, is narrow-minded, likes to play tricks, and is actually brave and foolish.This must be his mother's problem, definitely not my problem.

At best, Ding Pengyun just wins over, and he may fail to win over, so Deng Mengming, who has no backing, becomes the biggest sweetie.It's just that although Deng Mengming came from a poor family, he is a very smooth person, and he doesn't have the usual lofty and ignorant attitude of scholars.He had spread the story of his already having a wife in the streets and alleys early on. After Prince Zhongyong still ignored his express hints and insisted on proposing to him, he talked about how hard his past was. How much help he got from his wife and Yue family, how much wind and rain he and his wife have experienced, and how deep their relationship is, while secretly looking for someone to write a playbook, playing around in the capital like Chen Shimei, who abandoned his wife and married a princess. story.

Deng Mengming's difficulties, his two friends will naturally help.Ding Pengyun happened to have a hobby of writing opera scripts, so he came up with this trick.He also personally wrote about the wife who married a princess and abandoned the chaff and was beheaded; The injustice of his wife is killing her... There are many ways to play, but it doesn't end well anyway.And Ding Pengyun's skill in writing playbooks is much better than his strategy theory, and these playbooks were spread from the capital to various places along the official road in an instant.

And the one who contributed the money was naturally Liu Ziyi.His family has been in business for many years, and it has flourished in his hands, so there is no shortage of money.When Ding Pengyun came out with a new playbook, he would pay a lot of money for the most popular troupe to rehearse it, and show it to the audience for free in the most luxurious restaurant.After the playbook became popular in the capital, he asked his caravan to spread the playbook to various places.Regardless of his large investment in the early stage, he bought out all the scripts of this play, and finally earned three or four times the investment.

Therefore, businessmen will not do things that lose money.

Shui Jing has been watching Prince Zhongyong's every move, and he can't help but sigh, Prince Zhongyong is getting more and more out of his mind.Even if you want to marry, it depends on the person.Those who want to climb up will climb up the pole as long as they hand over a branch; as for Deng Mengming, who is obviously smooth on the outside, stubborn on the inside, and has a very deep relationship with his wife, Yue's family, this is not a marriage, but a marriage. start a feud.In addition, Prince Zhongyong did not cover the sky with one hand, even if he wanted to suppress him, there would always be someone who opposed Prince Zhongyong to help Deng Mengming.

Moreover, even if Deng Mengming was the kind of villain who followed suit, he would not be blind enough to take refuge in a loser who was obviously on the opposite side of the emperor and whose real power had been almost swayed.Do you think you died too late?

It's just that Prince Zhongyong suffered a lot from this setback, not only did he not go dormant because of it, but his temper became more and more strange.After seeing that it was impossible to marry Deng Mengming through normal means, he was not obsessed with whether to marry Deng Mengming at first——Deng Mengming's poor family status still made him somewhat look down upon, but now he has become very obsessed.Prince Zhongyong thought that even a poor student could embarrass him and fight against him, so he refused to let Deng Mengming get his wish.

Didn't Deng Mengming say that he and his wife are deeply in love?If his wife is dead, there is no reason to refuse the dignified prince's marriage request, right?Therefore, Deng Mengming, who did not expect Prince Zhongyong to be so maddened and unreasonable, got the news that his father-in-law's family was completely burned down.

Deng Mengming's Yue's family is a fairly well-to-do landlord in the local area - a typical poor student who was recognized by the rich local people as Bole, and promised a daughter and sponsorship.And dozens of people in that family, big and small, were all buried in the sea of ​​flames.When the local officers and soldiers arrived late, the house had been burnt to ashes, and no one survived except those who came out to buy.

Deng Mengming's family is in the south of the Yangtze River, and the remaining forces of Prince Zhongyong are still very powerful in the south of the Yangtze River, at least there is a very arrogant Li family.So the small landlords in small counties were killed as soon as they were killed, and they were not worried at all.In order to seize other people's wealth, the Li family killed few people?

However, since the Li family didn't have many contacts in the capital, it all depended on Prince Zhongyong to deliver the news.And although they knew that there was a No. [-] student surnamed Deng who was born in the south of the Yangtze River, but because they had always regarded themselves highly and looked down on those poor students who had passed the imperial examination, they didn't ask where Deng No. [-], who was not a wealthy family, came from. Naturally, he didn't know that he had burned the second-best Yue family.When they got Prince Zhongyong's request, they only thought about whether the family was doing something trivial - such as having relatives doing business that hindered the business of Prince Zhongyong's Zhuangzi.When they killed the family, they also sent people to inquire a little bit, and learned that no one in the family was an official in the court, so they were so rampant.

Although that family had a marriage contract with Deng Mengming, they were not married after all.Therefore, for the sake of her daughter's reputation, it is naturally impossible to publicize the marriage contract everywhere.And Deng Changming has been studying abroad for several years, and the information in this era is not smooth. Even if the villagers know that the landlord's daughter has a fiancé, they only know that the fiancé seems to be a scholar, and they don't know anything else.Although the landlord's family received the letter early, they thought that Deng Mengming would welcome the family to Beijing with drums and gongs when the house was arranged, so the landlord thought not to make it public, and waited for Deng Mengming to send someone back.

Who knew that the whole family would die unexpectedly.

With Liu Ziyi and Ding Pengyun as two good friends, Deng Mengming is not a hypocritical person, and a first-class Jinshi has a mansion rewarded by the emperor. Deng Mengming's residence will be arranged soon, and the person sent to greet him is already there. on the way.Who knows that when the people arrived, they got the news that the place had been burned down a few days ago, and the county magistrate got a bribe from the Li family, and only said that it was a fire, so he closed the case hastily—obviously the county magistrate didn't know about the house. And the news of the second place in the current dynasty.Maybe if you know it, you won't care too much.The fire is all gone, no one has any evidence and no physical evidence, but he is a humble Jinshi, with the support of the prince and the Li family, what can he do?

Local officials who have no influence in the court will not know that Prince Zhongyong has no status in the court, let alone Prince Zhongyong and the Li family and the Zhen family who have been entrenched in Jiangnan for a long time.

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